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  • The Only Way Was Essex

    Tough Times and simple pleasures: growing up in an Essex village in the 1920s

    par Spike Mays ...
    In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by poverty, this was an England in the shadow of the Great War.In this bittersweet memoir Mays recreates ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Jessie's Journey

    The True Story of a Gypsy Childhood

    par Jess Smith ...
    A "remarkable" account of a family's years wandering Scotland and England in a bus, living the traditional life of their people ( Caledonia).From the ages of five to fifteen, Jess Smith lived with her parents and sisters and a mongrel dog in an old blue bus. They traveled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • It Won't Hurt a Bit

    Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    par Jane Yeadon ...
    When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life. It Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of Jane's journey from the farm she loved and the schoolwork she ... En savoir plus

    $8.09 CAD

  • Tears for a Tinker

    The True Story of a Gypsy Childhood

    par Jess Smith ...
    More "heartwarming reminiscences" of Scottish Traveller life from the author of Jessie's Journey and Tales from the Tent ( Sunday Post).In this book, Jess Smith concludes her riveting autobiographical trilogy, tracing her eventful life with Dave and their three children from their earliest years together. Their adventures and achievements are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhoods, ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the Tent

    Jessie's Journey Continues

    par Jess Smith ...
    From the author of Jessie's Journey, a memoir of finding her own way in the world after growing up in a family of Scottish travellers.As Tales from the Tent begins, Jess Smith has left school, and after a miserable spell working in a paper mill, she abandons the settled life and takes to the roads once more. The old bus she lived in as a child has gone, to be replaced by a caravan and campsites. ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Way of the Wanderers

    The Story of Travellers in Scotland

    par Jess Smith ...
    A "vigorous and vivid and feisty" portrait of a traditional Scottish subculture from an insider ( Dundee Courier & Advertiser).Scottish gypsies, known as travellers, have wandered Scotland's roads and byways for centuries, and their turbulent history is captured in this passionate book by Jess Smith, the bestselling author of Jessie's Journey. This is less a conventional history than a personal ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • At the Coalface

    My life as a miner's wife

    par Catherine Paton Black ...
    Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. But after struggling with terrible poverty in 1970s Scotland, Doug decided a pit job would provide his wife and young family much needed security, despite extraordinary risks to life and limb. Every day, Cath kissed her husband goodbye, not knowing if she'd see him again as he went ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • After the War is Over

    A heart-warming story from the queen of saga writing

    par Maureen Lee ...
    A heart-warming tale set in Liverpool and London during the post-war years, from bestselling author Maureen Lee'Queen of saga writing' My WeeklyLiverpool, 1945. Three women, firm friends, return home from the war and try to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war, and have shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Bundles of Joy

    Two Thousand Miracles. One Unstoppable Manchester Midwife

    par Linda Fairley ...
    The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Linda Fairley.‘No matter how many babies I deliver, each and every one is a miracle, connecting me to the world like nothing else, reminding me that we are all equal in the beginning, and in the end. It’s a great leveller, childbirth.’It’s January 1972 and times have changed since Linda first stepped onto a maternity ward four years earlier. ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bath Times and Nursery Rhymes

    The memoirs of a nursery nurse in the 1960s

    par Pam Weaver ...
    A heart-warming memoir about life as a nursery nurse and nanny in the 1960s, for fans of Call the Midwife.In 1961, sixteen year-old Pam Weaver began her training as a nursery nurse. Drawn to this profession by her caring nature and a desire to earn her own living, Pam had no idea of the road she was about to start down. At the government-run nursery, she found early mornings, endless floors to ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Caravans and Wedding Bands

    A Romany Life in the 1960s

    par Eva Petulengro ...
    For Romany Eva Petulengro, marrying outside her culture was a big step to take. And now she had to adapt to living with a gorger - and her husband had to adapt to living with her! In this charming sequel to The Girl in the Painted Caravan, she describes their first eventful years of married life in Brighton, and the birth of their four childrenShe also reveals how she became famous as a ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Please, Miss

    The true story of a trainee teacher in 1960s Liverpool

    par Bernadette Robinson ...
    Bernadette was just ten years old when her father packed her off to a convent school in Dublin. Seven gruelling years later, she returned home to Liverpool at the start of the swinging sixties. Bernadette had dreamed of being a teacher ever since she was a little girl so she promptly began a course at teacher training college, determined to give children the sort of education she wished she'd had. ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD