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  • Bells Across Cardigan Bay

    The Memoir of a Borth Master Mariner

    by Jan Williams ...
    In 1882 the 'Rowland Evans', owned by Captain John Evans of Borth, was abandoned in mysterious circumstances off Bardsey Island. The book describes what led the captain to leave the ship and lose his master's licence, and paints a picture of his life, his ships and the village of Borth and its heritage. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essex Folk Tales for Children

    by Jan Williams ...
    Illustrated by Simon Peecock ...
    A knight in glass armour, the basilisk of Saffron Walden, Old King Cole of Colchester – Essex is a place full of fantastical characters and mysterious tales. Storyteller Jan Williams is a familiar sight around the county, entrancing locals with her tales of ghostly Romans and vicious Vikings. These stories – specially chosen to be enjoyed by 7- to 11-year-old readers – will unlock the colourful ... Read more

    $7.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essex Folk Tales

    by Jan Williams ...
    Series series Folk Tales: United Kingdom
    The Essex coastline has endured invasion by plundering and bloodthirsty Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and this mysterious landscape is still haunted by their presence. Their spirits, and countless others, have oft been reported – not least by smugglers determined to keep intruders away from their secret hideouts. Even more dramatic stories of the supernatural lurk inland: accusations of ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler's Tractor

    by Jan William Smith ...
    If we must look for demons in our lives, we may also try to destroy them before we die. In James Twining’s life the demon of his declining memory, like Don Quixote’s windmill, is a tractor. Forged in Germany, the machine came to be known as Hitler’s tractor – it ploughed, sowed and reaped. But did Hitler’s tractor have a sinister purpose?This is a story that takes the reader through chapters in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mackie and Jack

    They married in wartime and said goodbye

    by Jan William Smith ...
    A true and moving story of love, war, courage and indomitable spirit…One day the tall, gaunt father came to the house with the new wife and called the puzzled seven-year-old to him. She had never seen him before… ‘I am your father and you will call me Father, and this is your new mother and you will call her Mother,’ he said. Then he went away again, leaving little Bell with confusion in her mind ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Glass Cricket Ball

    War. Art. Sacrifice

    by Jan William Smith ...
    The moving and evocative story of Napier Waller’s masterpiece – the Hall of Memory – the spiritual heart of the Australian War Memorial.The one-armed Melbourne artist Napier Waller OBE CMG created the great Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Waller died in 1972 without knowing that 20 years later his greatest work would be the place for a tomb that would be central to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Working with the Labyrinth

    by Ruth, Sellers, Jan, Williams, Di Sewell ...
    Around the world a growing number of people are working with the labyrinth, an ancient artefact which is fulfilling a renewed role in today's world. This book offers ideas and examples of labyrinths in use in various situations: arts, community and social settings; schools, colleges and universities; a hospice, and a secure hospital; counselling, psychotherapy and well-being; churches, retreats ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Repair Shop: Tales from the Workshop of Dreams

    by Karen Farrington ...
    We all have treasures hidden away in the attic, well-loved and well-worn belongings that have been passed down from generation to generation. They may be damaged or no longer working, but we can't bear to part with them. The expert craftspeople of hit BBC series The Repair Shop are dedicated to restoring and conserving these heirlooms. They know that the true worth of these possessions doesn't lie ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Daddy, We Hardly Knew You

    by Germaine Greer ...
    "Ferocious psychic need and volcanic energy drive this combined memoir, detective story and travelogue" from the author of The Female Eunuch ( The New Yorker) .After her father died, influential feminist writer and public intellectual Germaine Greer realizes how little she knows about him. She decides to track the life of her father, an Australian intelligence officer during World War II, to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester

    by Catherine Pearson ...
    E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life. Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry observations of wartime ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ice Station Zebra

    by Alistair MacLean ...
    A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and somehow locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.But the orders do not say what the Dolphin will find if she succeeds – that the ... Read more

    $11.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Behind Enemy Lines

    The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

    by Sir Tommy Macpherson, Richard Bath ...
    With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a L�gion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army.Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy ... Read more

    $12.79 USD