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  • Disgraceful Archaeology

    Or Things You Shouldn't Know About the History of Mankind

    by Bill Tidy, Paul Bahn, Paul G. Bahn ...
    The book that all archaeology buffs have secretly been yearning for! This unique blend of text, anecdote and cartoon reveals, and revels in, those aspects of the past that have been ignored, glossed over or even suppressed — the bawdy, the scatological and the downright bizarre. Our ancestors were not always serious, downtrodden and fearful creatures. They were human like ourselves and shared our ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bedside Book of Final Words

    by Eric Grounds ...
    What would you like your last words to be? For some people, the last thing they ever say turns out to be their most memorable line, while for others, their last utterance is disappointingly (often hilariously) mundane. This book takes a look at the final quotes from famous figures, as well as the stories behind them – poignant, funny, modest, deluded or philosophical, planned or unplanned. ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

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    The Fosdyke Saga

    A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama

    by Bill Tidy, John Junkin ...
    Narrated by John Junkin, Miriam Margolyes, Christian Rodska, Stephanie Turner, Colin Douglas, David Threlfall, Philip Lowrie, Larry Lamb, Trevor Cooper0, Full Cast1 ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 40 min

    Miriam Margolyes leads a comedy spoof version of John Galsworthy's classic 'The Forsyte Saga' novelsFollow the uproarious antics of the Edwardian Fosdyke family as they work their way out of the mining pits of Lancashire to become rulers of a global tripe empire. An empire that the villainous Roger Ditchely will stop at nothing to try and bring down...A classic tale of struggle, power, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The News Quiz: Vintage Treasures

    Classic highlights from the topical BBC Radio 4 panel show

    by BBC Radio Comedy ...
    Narrated by Sandi Toksvig, Barry Took, Bill Tidy, Simon Hoggart, Ian Hislop, Sarah Millican, Miles Jupp, Susan Calman ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - The News Quiz

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    Almost as breathtaking as the treasures from Sutton Hoo, 14 archive episodes of the long-running topical Radio 4 panel show, chaired by Barry Took, Bill Tidy, Simon Hoggart and Sandi Toksvig.Now on display for the first time, these valuable editions can be dated to between 1980 and 2012 and tell us much about the headline-grabbing issues, incidents and individuals of yesteryear.Joining regular ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Making of a Writer, Volume 2

    Journals, 1963-1969

    by Gail Godwin ...
    Series Book 2 - Making of a Writer
    “True, time is the villain and we are trapped in him. True, love is sometimes not returned. True, friends are sometimes false. But to be aware of this—all of it—and still want to go on living, that is the triumph. It is the reward.”As a young woman and aspiring author, Gail Godwin kept a detailed journal of her hopes and dreams, her love affairs, daily struggles, and small triumphs as she yearned ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • This Day in the Life

    Diaries from Women Across America

    by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, B.K. Rakhra ...
    Did You Ever Want to Read a Friend’s Diary?In suburban neighborhoods and on family farms, in uptown lofts and homeless shelters, women across America chronicled their lives on the same day—June 29, 2004. This Day in the Life shares more than thirty complete diaries and hundreds of additional candid moments.Full of intimate details and laugh-out-loud truths, and drawing on the experiences of women ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose

    Volume One 1944-1979

    by Kenneth Rose ...
    'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over seventy years. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Bright Squadrons

    A True Story of Love and War

    by Barbara Harper-Nelson, Genevieve Monneris ...
    Barbara Harper-Nelson was once the 19-year-old girlfriend, living in Liverpool, of 22-year-old French airman Francis Usai, who was in the RAF Bomber Command. Amazingly, she kept the letters (over 2,000 pages of correspondence) from this witty and amusing young French airman, exiled from his conquered country and based near York, from where he undertook nightly missions into the horrendous ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Once I Too Had Wings

    The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918

    by Emma Bell Miles ...
    Series series Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
    Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden’s Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between 1908 and 1918, Miles kept a series of journals in which she recorded in beautiful and haunting prose the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • 1944 Diary

    by Hans Keilson ...
    [ 1944 Diary] is a deeply personal account, made even more remarkable that it was written during World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust . . . A moving and fascinating read." — Library JournalIn 2010, FSG published two novels by the German- Jewish writer Hans Keilson: Comedy in a Minor Key—written in 1944 while Keilson was in hiding in the Netherlands, first published in German in 1947, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus