Local and family history, nostalgia Books
Faber & Faber The Remains of the Day
Book Synopsis*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEA contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro''s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past. ''A triumph . . . This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive and absorbing, by turns funny, absurd and ultimately very moving.'' Sunday Times''A dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture.'' New York TImes Book Review
£9.49
Orion Publishing Co The Most Fun We Ever Had
Book SynopsisAPRIL 2024 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER''A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler . . . outstanding and highly enjoyable'' Observer''The Most Fun We Ever Had is as good as books come'' Telegraph''I loved this book'' Bryony Gordon''The perfect, engrossing holiday read'' RED''A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory'' Madeline Miller''A moving, immersive, often very funny study of family and sisterhood'' Sunday Times''Like Meg Wolitzer. A forensic dissection of family past and present, I loved it. If you like reading about relationships, this one is for you.'' Pandora SykesMEET THE SORENSON FAMILY.MARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spTrade ReviewLombardo's impressive debut is a gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory. She juggles a huge cast of characters with seeming effortlessness, bringing each to life with humour, vividness and acute psychological insight. -- Madeline Miller, author of CIRCEIf ever there were to be a literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler, then Claire Lombardo's outstanding debut, which ranges from ebullience to despair by way of caustic but intense familial bonds, would be a worthy offspring...This is a novel epic in scope-emotionally, psychologically and narratively. Combining a broad thematic canvas with impressive emotional nuance, it's an assured and highly enjoyable debut. -- Hannah Beckerman * GUARDIAN *Beware this book, that will enmesh you in the psychic DNA of this utterly convincingly imagined family. You will encounter characters whose stories you're compelled to follow, you will recognise the bitterest and sweetest tastes of life, you will laugh, and you will want to discuss it with other people. (Possibly not your own family). John Irving has a literary daughter, and her name is Claire Lombardo. -- Laline Paull, author of THE BEESI adored The Most Fun We Ever Had. It is such a shockingly tender and uncannily knowing novel about the reality of long term love and affection, and the sweetness and claustrophobia of relationships between sisters. Lombardo's writing is so elegant - she makes our most complex and fragmented feelings tangible, which is a very rare skill. This book will stay with me forever. -- Daisy Buchanan, author of HOW TO BE A GROWN UPRemarkably alive and wise, Claire Lombardo's story of the Sorensons is a stunning vision - not just of family or love, but the funny, tender mystery of human connection itself, with all its intensity, charm, and wonder. -- Affinity Konar, author of MISCHLINGClaire Lombardo has created a wonderful, subtle and sophisticated portrait of a family. The nuances, the secrets, the triumphs and tragedies light up this narrative with the many ways we love and the unremitting clarity with which we are known by our siblings. Epic and intimate, funny and delicate, this is a best friend of a book: curl up with it and lose yourself in the easy intimacy of the magnetic, loveable and flawed family of Sorensons. -- Raffaella Barker, author of SPRINGTIMEI cancelled appointments to keep reading this totally gripping portrait of a marriage and the four daughters that it has produced. It is excellent on sisterhood, motherhood, marriage - in fact on all human relationships. Highly, highly recommended. -- Clover Stroud, author of THE WILD OTHERIn The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo has given us a truly unforgettable American family. The book bristles on every page with intelligence and fierce wit. What a debut! -- Richard Russo, Author of EVERYBODY'S FOOLThis amazing, sexy, moving, transfixing novel sweeps you up into the epic range of human emotion, from tenderness to exasperation, bafflement to pride, anger to unconditional love that is intrinsic to family life. And how those oh-so-familiar hairpin bends of parenthood and of marriage are so beautifully juxtaposed with the infinite complexities and blind corners of being a daughter, a sister, a friend, a lover! I couldn't quite think of what to do with myself when I came to the last page except read it all over again. -- Juliet Nicolson, author of A HOUSE FULL OF DAUGHTERSA novel to make a note to pack for summer travels ahead -- Laura Bailey * VOGUE *A rich, engrossing family saga, spiked with sisterly malice...[rendered] with such skill and finely tuned interest that it feels like a quiet subversion of the traditional family saga. * The New York Times Book Review *Ambitious and brilliantly written -- Jane Smiley * The Washington Post *A wonderfully immersive read that packs more heart and heft than most first novels...A deliciously absorbing novel with-brace yourself-a tender and satisfyingly positive take on family. * NPR *The big family saga of the summer * EW *You'll be glad this loopy family isn't yours, but reading about them is a treat. * People magazine *A sharp, sly family story of feminine guile and guilt...A fun and brimming tale...Divine * Kirkus *An expansive U.S. family saga, expertly rendered * Daily Mail *Lombardo has a wry, often spiky humour and tightly written style that should appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Emma Straub and Jennifer Egan ... A moving, immersive, often very funny study of family and sisterhood. * Sunday Times *A spry, sly and funny read * Sunday Express *A funny, complex, tragic and immersive family sage which spans forty years. This is the perfect, engrossing holiday read * Red *An exploration of the complex tapestry that is family life, full of delights and difficulties * Cosmopolitan *I love this book, and the Sorensons, so much * Bryony Gordon *
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Slater N Toast
Book SynopsisNow with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.Whether relating his mother's ritual burning of the toast, his father's dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton), this incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening vividly recreates daily life in sixties and seventies suburban England.Wonderful, precise, extraordinary'GuardianToast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius'Sunday TimesYou read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slater's hallucinogenic retrieval of times past. He is the Proust of the Nesquik era' IndependentAcutely observed, poignant and beautifully written Slater tells his heartbreaking story with great subtlety' Daily TelegraphTrade Review Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year ‘Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written . . . Slater tells his heart breaking story with great subtlety' Daily Telegraph ‘Toast connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius’ Sunday Times ‘An ingenious and touching treat’ TLS ‘Exquisitely written . . . You read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slater’s hallucinogenic retrieval of times past. He is the Proust of the Nesquik era’ Independent ‘Wonderful, precise, extraordinary’ Matthew Fort
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Book Synopsis ‘Remarkable' Observer 'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written' Daily Telegraph ‘My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance across her forehead. This is not an occasional occurrence. My mother burns the toast as surely as the sun rises each morning.’ Toast is Nigel Slater’s award-winning biography of a childhood remembered through food. Whether recalling his mother’s surprisingly good rice pudding, his father’s bold foray into spaghetti and his dreaded Boxing Day stew, or such culinary highlights as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton), this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in 1960s suburban England. Likes and dislikes, aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating backdrop to Nigel Slater’s incredibly moving and deliciously evocative portrait of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening.Trade Review'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written…Slater tells his heartbreaking story with great subtlety. The theme of food and love is a fascinating one and I have never seen it better handled.' Daily Telegraph 'He recreates with moving honesty and laugh-out-loud comedy the hopes and fears of boyhood. Remarkable.' Observer '”Toast” connects emotions, memory and taste buds. Genius.' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times 'A talent for prose as simple and pleasurable as his recipes.’ Sunday Telegraph 'Exquisitely written…You read this remarkable memoir partly cringing, partly marvelling at Slater’s hallucinogenic retrieval of times past. He is the Proust of the Nesquik era.' Independent 'It achieves a remarkable freshness…[and] reveals a gift for doleful, Alan Bennett-like comedy.' Guardian ‘This touching memoir proves [Slater] is more than a cookery writer. Its emotional impact will touch a chord with many.’ Sunday Mirror ‘Wonderful, precise…extraordinary.’ Matthew Fort ‘It’s bitter-sweet, it’s a book to be consumed in a single sitting, a book that slips down really nicely. However you want to put it, “Toast” is delicious.’ The Oldie
£10.44
Editions Flammarion Timeless Paris: Ateliers • Emporiums • Savoir
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£25.50
Fircone Books Ltd Merrily's Border: The Mysterious World of Merrily
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£15.19
Amberley Publishing Churches of Cornwall
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of Cornwallâs historic churches that will be of interest to residents and visitors alike.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Yorkshire in Photographs
Book SynopsisA stunning collection of images showcasing the county of Yorkshire in all its glory.Trade Review‘Yorkshire’s countryside has everything: from the awesome limestone Dales to the rugged cliffs of Flamborough, there’s no county quite like it. Dave’s photography captures the incredible scenery, beauty and vivid colour like no other.’ * Paul Hudson, BBC Yorkshire’s weather presenter *
£16.19
Amberley Publishing Leicester History Tour
Book SynopsisA guided tour of Leicester, showing how the city has changed over the past century and more.
£8.54
Faber & Faber If Walls Could Talk An intimate history of the
Book SynopsisWhy did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two ''dirty centuries''? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit?All these questions - and more - are answered in this juicy, truly intimate history of the home.Through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove. From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding, teeth-cleaning to masturbation, getting dressed to getting married, this book will make you see your home with new eyes.
£11.69
Amberley Publishing Scotland in Photographs
Book SynopsisA stunning collection of images showcasing Scotland in all its glory.Trade Review‘This fine collection of photographs from Shahbaz captures perfectly the unique visual gifts of my homeland, and makes my heart ache to return home and reacquaint myself with these special places.’ -- Brian Cox
£16.19
Amberley Publishing Cornwall in Photographs
Book SynopsisIn this book, photographer Gabriel Fuchs takes the reader on a journey around one of the most beautiful regions of the UK â Cornwall.Trade Review'Breathtaking photographs illustrating the emerald landscapes of Cornwall have been released just as the fourth series of hit period drama Poldark begins filming across the county.' -- Mail Online by Sadie Whitelocks"Spectacular scenes from around county" -- Cornish Times Article
£16.19
Amberley Publishing Ludlow History Tour
Book SynopsisA pocket-sized, illustrated history tour around the Shropshire market town of Ludlow showing how it has changed across the centuries.
£8.54
Amberley Publishing AZ of Halifax
Book SynopsisA fascinating journey through this West Yorkshire town of Halifax highlighting its people, places and heritage across the centuries.
£14.39
Bedford Square Publishers Named
Book SynopsisA fascinating and beautiful mix of memoir, global naming trends and reclaiming who we are.
£17.09
Troubador Publishing Ltd When Kitty Came To London
Book SynopsisIn 1952, Teresa Pyott's father received an inheritance, including a London house, from a woman to whom he was not related. Teresa's parents, hardworking but modestly paid actors, found their lives transformed by this change in their fortunes. Teresa had grown up with stories of Aunt Catherine' Linklater, as she was known in the family, but it was only much later, after her father's death, that she asked herself how this inheritance came about. Was there a long-buried family secret to unravel? What was the connection between the Linklaters and the Pyotts? Did it all begin when Kitty came to London, a little girl,' and, if so, when was that? The search for the truth led Teresa to Orkney, Essex, London, an asylum, elementary schools, and seafarers who voyaged to the Moravian mission settlements in Labrador and across all the world's great oceans. In her quest, she found tragedy and triumph against the odds in family stories spanning a century and found the answer to the question she began with. When Kitty Came to London is a captivating story about family secrets concealed in the past.
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inventory of a Life Mislaid An Unreliable Memoir
Book SynopsisA luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.Wonderful a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOWInventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smith's. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean.Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculativTrade Review‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination, shimmering with images, sounds and scents, conjuring a clash of lives, worlds and words’Jenny Uglow ‘A captivating re-creation of her childhood in a lost Cairo, so incomparably louche, sensuous and fragrant, and of her parents’ improbable marriage’Ferdinand Mount ‘An entrancing weave of memoir, history, autobiography and fiction, this adventurous book voyages through time and space to re-discover, re-imagine and reinvent a lost world. One of Marina Warner's most beautiful works’Michèle Roberts ‘Moving and original … Warner’s view of the past is always precise, at once generous and exacting. She has a gift for using objects to conjure up characters, feelings and atmospheres … Poignant and exquisitely crafted, Inventory of a Life Mislaid is bound to become a classic’Catriona Seth ‘A poignant and imaginatively transgressive exploration of her parents’ marriage, a war time love match between Southern Italy and upper class England … Evocative’Margaret Drabble ‘High-risk and multidimensional … Warner brings to these pages a lifetime of thinking about stories and the ways in which they shape our lives’Literary Review ‘This is a wonderful rich, partly mythical memoir that sifts through the past to connect a family’s secrets to the deep-rooted colonial assumptions that still resonate in a post-Brexit Britain … never dull … Eloquent and heartbreaking’TLS ‘Poignant and mythical’New Statesman ‘The most intriguing memoir … Marina Warner’s subtle, exotic and angry account of her parents’ marriage’Roy Foster, TLS, Books of the Year ‘Warner is such a skilful and imaginative writer that much of …the book reads like lived experience … the happiest of concoctions, a mix of fiction and fact, observation and speculation …This brave, painful, dazzling memoir is riveting’Spectator
£10.44
Vintage Publishing On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing
Book Synopsis**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.'A modern masterpiece' GuardianAutumn 1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village. The child remembers nothing of these events and at home, nobody ever speaks of them again.Decades later, Laura Cumming delves into the mystery surrounding her mother's disappearance. Examining everything from old family photos to letters, tickets and recipes, she uncovers a series of secrets and lies perpetuated not just by her family but by the whole community and in doing so unlocks a mystery almost a century old.'A moving, many-sided human story of great depth and tenderness, and a revelation of how art enriches life' Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeLonglisted for the RSL Ondaatje PrizeTrade Review*Memoir of the Year* How we see -- and who see and what secrets they choose to share -- is at the heart of this exquisitely composed memoir... A peerless detective story that keeps you guessing to the end * The Sunday Times *On Chapel Sands is much more than a search for truth. It is a moving, many-sided human story of great depth and tenderness, and a revelation of how art enriches life. In short, a masterpiece -- John Carey * Sunday Times *Cumming skilfully withholds key twists in the tale, revealing them at just the right moment. There are surprises, but no shocks. Her prose is too elegant for such gaudiness – composed and restrained but empathetic -- Leaf Arbuthnot * The Times *Brilliant... This book is a love letter to her [Cumming's] mother, whose warmth, articulacy and survival instincts shine though. It's also an intimate portrait of a village community, with its storybook characters (butcher, baker, dairyman, bell-ringer, gravedigger) and their wonderful old-fashioned names -- Blake Morrison * Guardian *By turns beautiful, wistful, and ominous… the reasons behind the kidnap, and the repurcussions, are every bit as complex as any served up by fiction, and, oddly enough, the dénouement -- or succession of dénouements -- is just as satisfying, perhaps more so... a meditation on the way some people disappear, and time erases memory... so familiar as to be universal, and will probably ring bells with all but the sunniest reader (***** Five Stars) -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inventory of a Life Mislaid An Unreliable Memoir
Book SynopsisA luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.Wonderful a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOWInventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smith's. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean.Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculativTrade Review‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination, shimmering with images, sounds and scents, conjuring a clash of lives, worlds and words’Jenny Uglow ‘A captivating re-creation of her childhood in a lost Cairo, so incomparably louche, sensuous and fragrant, and of her parents’ improbable marriage’Ferdinand Mount ‘An entrancing weave of memoir, history, autobiography and fiction, this adventurous book voyages through time and space to re-discover, re-imagine and reinvent a lost world. One of Marina Warner's most beautiful works’Michèle Roberts ‘Moving and original … Warner’s view of the past is always precise, at once generous and exacting. She has a gift for using objects to conjure up characters, feelings and atmospheres … Poignant and exquisitely crafted, Inventory of a Life Mislaid is bound to become a classic’Catriona Seth ‘A poignant and imaginatively transgressive exploration of her parents’ marriage, a war time love match between Southern Italy and upper class England … Evocative’Margaret Drabble ‘High-risk and multidimensional … Warner brings to these pages a lifetime of thinking about stories and the ways in which they shape our lives’Literary Review ‘This is a wonderful rich, partly mythical memoir that sifts through the past to connect a family’s secrets to the deep-rooted colonial assumptions that still resonate in a post-Brexit Britain … never dull … Eloquent and heartbreaking’TLS ‘Poignant and mythical’New Statesman ‘The most intriguing memoir … Marina Warner’s subtle, exotic and angry account of her parents’ marriage’Roy Foster, TLS, Books of the Year ‘Warner is such a skilful and imaginative writer that much of …the book reads like lived experience … the happiest of concoctions, a mix of fiction and fact, observation and speculation …This brave, painful, dazzling memoir is riveting’Spectator
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Little Women
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
£8.54
HarperCollins Publishers The Songs That Saved Us
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£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Astor
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£27.74
Ebury Publishing Dear Francesca
Book SynopsisAddressing her daughter Francesca as she embarks on independent life, this is a compelling, often moving, family history in which Contini describes her ancestors' loves and lives in their adopted homeland where traditions were kept alive around the dinner table.Trade Reviewpart cookery, part storytelling - and wholly beguiling...don't miss it: there won't be a better cookbook published this decade * Elisabeth Luard, Daily Mail *a charming story...she unravels the family history like a precious thread...Contini's writing has a naturalness and honesty about it that brings a lump to the throat on occasion. It is full of warmth, love and respect for traditional Italian attitudes to food as the cornerstone of a nurturing family life. A lovely unmissable book. * Sunday Herald *a really heartwarming book of recollections and recipes, recounted with love and gusto * Sainsbury's Magazine *a remarkable book...a pleasure to read as well as to cook from * Homes & Gardens *From the barren mountains of Southern Italy to the chilly streets of Edinburgh, this is a joy - both in and out of the kitchen * Choice Magazine *
£13.49
The University of Chicago Press Cartography
Book SynopsisRather than treating maps as a single, unified group, Edney argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption.
£24.70
McGill-Queen's University Press Suspended Conversations
Book SynopsisExhibiting a collection of photographic travelogues, memoirs, thematic collections, and family sagas compiled between 1860 and 1960 and held by the McCord Museum of Canadian History, this second edition includes a revised and expanded preface along with new photographs of the Notman albums.Trade Review"Langford's book joins those few exceptional works, by scholars and writers from Roland Bathes to Pierre Bourdieu to Susan Sontag, which move these meaningful documents into the forefront of communication and cultural studies. Her thesis that these albums contain fundamentally oral mnemonic and symbolic structures is both innovative and insightful." Pauline Greenhill, co-editor of Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada"Rich and informative, theoretically fluent and emotionally involving ... Langford's original achievement in Suspended Conversations is to show how even photographs whose stories have been almost forgotten can act as prompts or notations for a performance that needs to be enacted to be kept alive, not in an original state that never existed, but in a constant process of translation, according to clues found not between the lines of texts but between the photographs on the pages of albums." History of Photography
£35.10
Gill Pocket Irish Wit Wisdom
Book SynopsisThe Irish famously have a way with words and thisbeautifully illustrated selection includes the best of Irish witand wisdom to amuse and entertain on any occasion.Enjoy the stunning wit of some of Ireland''s finestwriters, as well as words of unparalleled wisdom that are woven into the fabric of the language of this island.
£6.99
The History Press Ltd Canton and Pontcanna
Book SynopsisCandid street photography that catches the essence of life and culture in Canton and Pontcanna
£16.20
The History Press Ltd Southampton
Book SynopsisCandid street photography that catches the essence of life and culture in Southampton
£16.20
Little, Brown Book Group Is the Vicar in Pet From the Pit to the Pulpit
Book SynopsisIn the heart of Ashington - a bustling Geordie mining town - a handsome red-brick vicarage, surrounded by rambling gardens, stands proudly among the rows of terraced houses. It is the perfect place for playing games, keeping secrets and chasing the ghosts of previous occupants, and it will be nine-year-old Barbara''s new home now that her father is to be vicar in this strange new place. In this charming memoir, Barbara Fox recalls a childhood where parishioners knocked on the door at all hours of the day and night, and where no one batted an eye at the collection of waifs and strays who regularly joined the family at the kitchen table. This is a warm-hearted, classic tale of family, community and the unforgettable thrill of childhood adventure.Trade Review[A] gentle story of a cosy, secure childhood among a communtiy whose hearts were as warm as the coal fires that burned in thier hearths * Daily Mail *
£9.49
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Our Family Christmas Memories
Book SynopsisWith dozens of thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts, Our Family Christmas Memories creates a fully realized record of the holidays for you and your family to cherish for generations to come.
£12.47
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology
Book SynopsisA genealogical chart of virtually all named figures of Greek mythology that can be shown to be related. The text includes a 72-page chart that links 3673 named figures into a single ""family tree"", and an 80-page index that provides a citation to an ancient source for each relationship.Trade Review"A major contribution to our understanding of how ancient Greeks organized the vast corpus of figures constituting what we call Greek mythology." - Timothy Gantz, from the Foreword
£88.40
Colourpoint Creative Ltd Marthas Girls
Book SynopsisBelfast, 1939, and Martha's daughters are beginning to make their way in the world.Irene, the eldest, is on the lookout for a new job and romance. She is torn between Sean O'Hara wanted by the police for something he didn't do and RAF radio engineer Sandy, serving in India.Pat is sensitive and thoughtful, and dreams of life beyond the Ulster Linen Works. When she is introduced to a dashing tenor, the possibility of a new life seems ever more real . . .Peggy, hot-headed and glamorous, loves her job in Mr Goldstein's music shop on Royal Avenue, where she catches the eye of a Humphrey Bogart lookalike, but he isn't all he appears . . .Sheila, the youngest, wants to stay on at school, but her family desperately need another wage. Above all, she longs to be treated like a grown up.Although they lead very different lives, the sisters share a passion for singing and when they are asked to join a new troupe of entertainers, Martha fears this will put theTrade Reviewa heart-warming novel of family bondsa nostalgic and heartwarming story of family bonds
£8.99
Halsgrove The Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path
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£14.24
Halsgrove Shropshire Unusual Quirky
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£17.99
Halsgrove Thomas Hardys Women In Life and Literature
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£14.24
PiXZ Books A Guide to Dorset Shipwrecks from the South West
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£9.49
PiXZ Books Windsor and the Great Park
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£9.49
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Morning Light Wildflowers Night Skies and Other
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£16.11
Alison Hodge Cornish Feasts and Festivals Pocket Cornwall
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£7.67
Bill Andrews The Walks Near Farnham 45 Short Walks 46 Miles
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£9.70
Flatfish Books Hey Roberto Hu Travels in Venezuela and other
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£11.55
John Wiley & Sons Circling Back Home A Plainswomans Journey
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£14.20
Amberley Publishing Celebrating Brighton Hove
Book SynopsisA celebration of Brighton & Hoveâs rich heritage, culture and identity â its people, significant events and achievements across the centuries.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Celebrating Eastbourne
Book SynopsisA celebration of Eastbourneâs rich heritage and identity â its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing AZ of Poole
Book SynopsisExplore the Dorset town of Poole in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Bridlington History Tour
Book SynopsisA pocket-sized, illustrated history tour of Bridlington showing how the Yorkshire coastal town has changed across the decades.
£8.54
Amberley Publishing Illustrated Tales of Suffolk
Book SynopsisThe beautiful county of Suffolk is one of the most visited of English counties. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Barnstaple History Tour
Book SynopsisA guided tour of the historic town of Barnstaple, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.
£8.54
