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  • Common People

    The History of An English Family

    by Alison Light ...
    Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize'A remarkable achievement...should become a classic.' - Margaret Drabble'Light writes beautifully...Common People is part memoir, part thrilling social history of the England of the Industrial Revolution, but above all a work of quiet poetry and insight into human behaviour. It is full of wisdom.' - The Times Book of... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Radical Romance

    A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation

    by Alison Light ...
    WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art' GuardianAlison Light met the charismatic social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would be dead.Theirs was an attraction of opposites - he, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Mrs Woolf and the Servants

    by Alison Light ...
    Loathing, anger, shame – and deep affection: Virginia Woolf’s relationship with her servants was central to her life. Like thousands of her fellow Britons she relied on live-in domestics for the most intimate of daily tasks. Her cook and parlour maid relieved her of the burden of housework and without them she might never have become a writer. But unlike many of her contemporaries Virginia Woolf ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Forever England

    Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars

    by Alison Light ...
    Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognise the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars.From the ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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    Common People

    The History of An English Family

    by Alison Light ...
    Narrated by Caroline Laskowska ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Common People: The History of An English Family by Alison Light, read by Caroline Laskowska.Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Lost World of British Communism

    by Raphael Samuel, Alison Light ...
    A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great BritainThe Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Agent Twister

    John Stonehouse and the Scandal that Gripped the Nation – A True Story

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    Joining the Dots

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    Brought to you by Penguin.Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...'Feb 26, White House briefing room:The coronavirus feels like it is changing everything ... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign...'Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel, presents a diary of an election like we've never quite seen ... Read more

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