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  • Gwennie’s Diary

    A Young Kiwi in England at the Outbreak of War

    by Anthony Dodsworth ...
    In 2003, a heavy parcel posted from New Zealand arrived at a bungalow in Rawmarsh, Near Rotherham,Yorkshire. The parcel consisted of a huge, typewritten diary produced by Gwennie Peacock, a young woman from Auckland, while completing a journey around the world and visiting her family in Britain.This extraordinary account, which covers the period between February 1939 and August 1940, vividly ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secret Rotherham

    by Melvyn Jones, Anthony Dodsworth ...
    Series series Secret
    Secret Rotherham offers a unique insight into this bustling, modern South Yorkshire town through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes from its past. The town has an enviable industrial history: Nelson’s HMS Victory was armed with Walker cannons made at Masbrough, the iron plates for Isambard Brunel’s steamship the Great Eastern were manufactured at Parkgate Iron & ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • A Sleeping Life

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    The tenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small boy.There are only two things that surprise Wexford about the murder scene. One, that the only contents of the woman's handbag are some keys and a wallet containing nothing but some money. And two, how ... Read more

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  • Lanark

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    by Alasdair Gray ...
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    The cult classic novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism by the author of Poor Things: A work of "vivid imagination, yielding copious riches."— The Times Literary SupplementFrom its first publication in 1981, Alasdair Gray's Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece, inspiring Anthony Burgess to proclaim Gray the most important Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. With its echoes of Dante, ... Read more

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  • A Penny Dip

    by Meg Hutchinson ...
    One of five sisters, Margaret Rose Astbury grew up in Wednesbury during the first half of the twentieth century. Despite the constant struggle to make ends meet, and the hardship and worry of wartime, life in the Black Country was not all doom and gloom. In the crowded terraced houses and teeming communal yards, there was love and laughter aplenty.Meg was no angel, and was often up to her armpits ... Read more

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  • The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace

    Writing in War and Peace

    by Robert Malcolmson, Patricia Malcolmson ...
    Series Book 5 - The Diaries of Nella Last
    'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the basis for BAFTA ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Very Private Eye

    An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters

    by Barbara Pym ...
    ‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper‘Could one write a book based on one’s diaries over thirty years? I certainly have enough material,’ wrote Barbara Pym. This book, selected from the diaries, notebooks and letters of this much loved novelist to form a continuous narrative, is indeed a unique ... Read more

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  • The Road To Nab End

    by William Woodruff ...
    William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn -- a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup -- and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton ... Read more

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  • Nella Last in the 1950s

    Further diaries of Housewife, 49

    by Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson ...
    Series Book 3 - The Diaries of Nella Last
    'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.'So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. Sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed the first two volumes of her uniquely detailed and moving diaries, written during World War II and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project, and the basis for BAFTA ... Read more

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  • Nella Last's Peace

    The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

    by Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson ...
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    Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes of what ordinary people felt during those years of privation, hope and the re-building of Britain, providing a moving and inspiring account of ... Read more

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  • The Mersey Sound

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    by Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Roger McGough ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, The Mersey Sound was conceived and first published in 1967. An anthology which features Roger McGough's ... Read more

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