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The Home Front Diaries of Gabrielle West 1914–1917

by Avalon Weston, Anthony Richards ...

The humorous—and historically important—home front adventures of a young British woman finding her place during the First World War.When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much-missed favorite brother in India, she had no idea that a hundred years later they would be of interest to anyone.Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Vicar's daughter Gabrielle joined the ... Read more

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The humorous—and historically important—home front adventures of a young British woman finding her place during the First World War.When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much-missed favorite brother in India, she had no idea that a hundred years later they would be of interest to anyone.Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Vicar's daughter Gabrielle joined the
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All the Sky

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A story for those of perhaps nine years and olderToo many foxes they said.The Hunters were coming.It was time for the Running.The Foxlings must fleeBlackberry leads the escape of his band of urban Foxlings from London to a New World in deepest Devon. There is adventure, rescue and friendship. The cooperation of all the creatures of the city, the cats, the rats and the squirrels and even a parakeet ... Read more

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A story for those of perhaps nine years and olderToo many foxes they said.The Hunters were coming.It was time for the Running.The Foxlings must fleeBlackberry leads the escape of his band of urban Foxlings from London to a New World in deepest Devon. There is adventure, rescue and friendship. The cooperation of all the creatures of the city, the cats, the rats and the squirrels and even a parakeet
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A Midwife Abroad

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An adventure that began at night, in an English country lane beside a red phone box, leads Annie the midwife to her dream job in Southern Africa.She loves this new life and writes to her Australian sister of births and elephants, malaria and sunshine. She tells of the children, her new colleagues, her delight at getting an ambulance for her community.Gradually though, she realises something is ... Read more

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An adventure that began at night, in an English country lane beside a red phone box, leads Annie the midwife to her dream job in Southern Africa.She loves this new life and writes to her Australian sister of births and elephants, malaria and sunshine. She tells of the children, her new colleagues, her delight at getting an ambulance for her community.Gradually though, she realises something is
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Sian and the Winterwife, a Fairytale

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A Short FairytaleA Welsh grandmother tells her grand daughter the storyof Sian who long ago, with great bravery, saved her villagefrom the Grey Man by journeying to find the Winterwife andasking for her help. ... Read more

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A Short FairytaleA Welsh grandmother tells her grand daughter the storyof Sian who long ago, with great bravery, saved her villagefrom the Grey Man by journeying to find the Winterwife andasking for her help.
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My Part in his Downfall

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Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs
Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian______________'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a trav... ... Read more

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Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian______________'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a trav...
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Horrible Histories: Vile Victorians

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Queen Victoria was the ultimate Victorian, and she was not amused. Luckily YOU will be splitting your sides - because the prim and proper Victorians were actually a jolly naughty bunch! ... Read more

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Queen Victoria was the ultimate Victorian, and she was not amused. Luckily YOU will be splitting your sides - because the prim and proper Victorians were actually a jolly naughty bunch!
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Villainous Victorians

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Readers can discover all the foul facts about the VILLAINOUS VICTORIANS, including Why burglars were scared of bogies, which poet said he ate an ape and how a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ... Read more

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Readers can discover all the foul facts about the VILLAINOUS VICTORIANS, including Why burglars were scared of bogies, which poet said he ate an ape and how a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
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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

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'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
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A Notable Woman

The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

by Jean Lucey Pratt ...

A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean's diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess" ( The Pool ).In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, sp ... Read more

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A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean's diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess" ( The Pool ).In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, sp
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Rescue Me

An uplifting romantic comedy perfect for dog-lovers

by Sarra Manning ...

Margot doesn't have time for love.Will is afraid to love.And neither of them are expecting to fall in love with Blossom: a gentle Staffy with a tragic past, a belly made for rubbing and a head the size of a football.After their first meeting at the rescue centre, both Margot and Will want to adopt Blossom so reluctantly agree to share custody. But Will's obsession for micro-managing and clear-cut ... Read more

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Margot doesn't have time for love.Will is afraid to love.And neither of them are expecting to fall in love with Blossom: a gentle Staffy with a tragic past, a belly made for rubbing and a head the size of a football.After their first meeting at the rescue centre, both Margot and Will want to adopt Blossom so reluctantly agree to share custody. But Will's obsession for micro-managing and clear-cut
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My Dear Bessie

A Love Story in Letters

by Chris Barker, Bessie Moore ...

AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.In September 1943, ... Read more

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AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.In September 1943,
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Pamela's War

A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands during the Second World War

by Cherryl Vines ...

It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to ... Read more

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It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to
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