Now & Then Rutland is Zodiac's first UK-based release in the best-selling "Now & Then" series. The Nowell family have always considered Rutland to be their home so John and Chris have returned to complete this beautiful 128 page depiction of England's smallest county.

Many photographers from different walks of life, in Rutland for different reasons, contributed to the 'then' aspect of the book. Fortunately, most people kept a record of where and when the photographs were taken. This allowed us to piece together most of the pictorial history of Rutland. In some places we relied on photographers' memories, this only added to the interest of the book. The 'now' part was far easier, weather permitting, of course. The result is this stunning coffee-table book, Now & Then Rutland.

About the Author

Christine Carol Nowell is the daughter of a Royal Air Force family. Her father, Frank, was an air gunner in the later part of World War II and his only daughter was born shortly after the war ended. Her father continued his career with the RAF and Christine, with her mother, Marjorie, led the life of a typical military family around the world. She completed her education in Singapore and became a photographic model. There she met her future husband, John, and ironically, introduced him into the world of photography.

After school, she joined British Airways and saw yet more of the world as a stewardess on the De Havilland Comet 4Bs in the days when stopovers were more generous. She & John were married at RAF Thorney Island in 1969 and their first son, Marc, arrived in 1971 followed by daughter, Kerri, in 1972; Robert in 1974; Simone in 1978; Nicholas in 1980 and finally William in 1987. Today, with the family almost grown, she is continues research into her next book Now & Then - Egypt.

About the Photographer

Yorkshire-born John Nowell completed his first wing over at the age of fourteen as a member of the Air Training Corps, in a De Havilland Chipmunk. He decided then and there that flying was to be his career. After leaving school, he joined the Royal Air Force but was too late to achieve his ambition of flying Sunderland flying boats. He did serve on some of the great flying boat squadrons, numbers 206, 205 and 230, where in addition to his flying duties he was responsible for the squadron records, including the photo albums and the RAF Form 540s - the monthly operational record of the squadron. It was here that John first saw the amazing records of the exploration flights, made in the 1930s, by the flying boat crews who crossed half the world to Australia and the Far East. The original photographs taken by the RAF aircrews of the coast of what was to become the United Arab Emirates were the seeds that became this book.

John was made a Licenciate of The Royal Photographic Society in 1990 on the basis of the photographs in his first book, A Day Above Oman. His photographic interest in history and archaeology was also instrumental in the location of four-thousand-year-old tombs on a remote plateau in Oman. His second book, A Day Above The Emirates, was the culmination of work undertaken since he moved to Dubai. He is working on further books in the A Day Above and Now & Then series.