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A BOY IN HOBNAILED BOOTS (Part I, The Story of a C
ISBN No:
0907018076
New ISBN No:
9780907018070
A BOY IN HOBNAILED BOOTS (Part I, The Story of a C

£ 4.95
Author: EDWARD PRYNN   Published: 1984
Book Cover: Paperback  Pages: 1981
Book size: Width: 135 mm Height: 205 mm
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Companion volume to NO PROBLEM

 

Edward Prynn, with sight in only one eye & an aversion to learning, describes his country boyhood with flair & humour in this lively period piece of the '40s & '50s.
 
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The great fascination of his racy story - Western Morning News
Really a minor classic - Robin Price

 


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A CONFESSION IN WRITING
ISBN No:
1873951302
A CONFESSION IN WRITING

£ 16.95
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Author: ALFRED SHAUGHNESSY   Published: 1997
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 252
Book size: Width: 138 mm Height: 216 mm
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Freddy Shaughnessy reflects on fifty years spent writing & directing for film, theatre and television, training at the Ealing Studios and going on to be principal script-writer and editor of TV series such as 'Upstairs Downstairs'.

 
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Entertaining and eye-opening – American Bookseller

 


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A RADICAL ARISTOCRAT: Sir William Molesworth of Pe
ISBN No:
9781873951514
A RADICAL ARISTOCRAT: Sir William Molesworth of Pe

£ 19.95
Author: ALISON ADBURGHAM   Published: 2007
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 242
Book size: Width: 148 mm Height: 232 mm
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This elegantly and entertainingly written portrait of William Molesworth, Cornish radical politician of the 1830s and ‘40s, is spiced by an account of his wife’s brilliant social life and its baneful effect on him.
 
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Adburgham writes with humour – TLS
A sympathetic portrait of the brilliant baronet – Sunday Telegraph

 


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A STRANGER TO HELL: A Memoir of Mauthausen
ISBN No:
0907018653
A STRANGER TO HELL: A Memoir of Mauthausen

£ 9.95
Author: STEFAN BADENI   Published: 1988
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 92
Book size: Width: 138 mm Height: 216 mm
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Introduction by JAN BADENI

Stefan Badeni later realised that on first seeing Mauthausen he had not remembered Dante’s words: ‘Abandon hope, all ye who enter here’. His moving memoir describes his imprisonment there and subsequent years in hell.

 
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Exceptionally well written, it shows what are the real values of human life - Daily Telegraph
Eloquent and dignified - The Spectator

 


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ACROSS COBBLE-STONES
ISBN No:
090701819X
ACROSS COBBLE-STONES

£ 2.95
Author: DERRICK V. RUGG   Published: 1983
Book Cover: Paperback  Pages: 72
Book size: Width: 135 mm Height: 205 mm
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Derrick Rugg describes his 1930s childhood at Kentisbeare, looking for wild violets or strawberries; running errands & helping on farms; of cricket, rabbit-chasing, catching minnows, & apple scrumping - until the time comes for secondary school.                   

 
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A country idyll - Daily Telegraph
Should be on sale in every village shop - John Mole, S.W.R.

 


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AND THEN THERE WAS ONE
ISBN No:
0907018238
AND THEN THERE WAS ONE

£ 4.95
Author: JOYCE DENNYS   Published: 1981
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 104
Book size: Width: 135 mm Height: 205 mm
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Joyce spent her early years with her mother, brothers, cousins & beloved nanny; her father was absent, in India. She conveys with humour & charm the spartan yet secure world of her Edwardian childhood, by word & in her entertaining line drawings

 
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Most engaging. Warmly recommended - Evening Standard
Delightful. Significant - Catholic Herald

 


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CAUGHT FROM TIME: A Country Diary of the 1920s, Pa
ISBN No:
0907028319
CAUGHT FROM TIME: A Country Diary of the 1920s, Pa

£ 11.95
Author: ANNE GARNETT   Published: 1986
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 132
Book size: Width: 149 mm Height: 227 mm
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Anne Garnett was a schoolgirl in the Quantock & Brendon Hills country of West Somerset in the 1920s. Aged sixteen, she began to keep a diary & her pen, pencil and paintbrush give a lively impression of the people & the country round her.

 
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A joy to read - This England
Shrewd observation and joi de vivre – EDP
Magic – SCG

 


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FIELDS OF YOUNG CORN: A Country Diary of the 1920s
ISBN No:
0907018661
New ISBN No:
9780907018667
FIELDS OF YOUNG CORN: A Country Diary of the 1920s

£ 11.95
Author: ANNE GARNETT   Published: 1989
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 114
Book size: Width: 149 mm Height: 227 mm
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Sequel to CAUGHT FOR TIME

 

The author has holidays in Dorset, Brittany and London, but is always glad to get back to beloved Somerset. The end comes and ‘I shan’t write any more’, she says. (Years later she does, in diaries still to be published.)  

 
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Freshness of observation, an appreciation of quiet beauty - Somerset Express

 


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