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ISBN No:
0907018262
New ISBN No:
9780907018261

A YEAR AT POLVERRAS
£ 4.95
Author: SYLVIA OUSTON		Published: 1984
Book Cover: Hardback		Pages: 168
Book size: Width: 135 mm Height: 205 mm
Hardback: £9.95 When young Winnie has a baby and her boy friend Harry Jago disappears, everyone assumes it is his . . . Tragedy, romance and humour propel the many twists and turns of this novel set in a remote Cornish village of the 1920s.

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Reviews:
Captivated me totally - Good Housekeeping
Marvellously funny and original. Deserves the widest audience - Sunday Telegraph

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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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ISBN No:
0907018793
New ISBN No:
9780907018797

FIGURES OF SPEECH
£ 9.95
Author: PHYLLIDA GARTH		Published: 1990
Book Cover: Hardback		Pages: 160
Book size: Width: 135 mm Height: 205 mm
Illustrated
Anyone who laughs at St Trinian's will enjoy Phyllida Garth’s true account of life as a teacher at private schools in the l930s, with eccentric adults and ghastly girls like ‘the gang of pampered toughs called The Daffodils’.

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Review:
Wonderful. Socio-educational history, wholly delightful. - Francis Hardy

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LOBSTER AT LITTLEHAMPTON. An Edwardian Childhood

ISBN No:
1873951175
New ISBN No:
9780907018940

LOBSTER AT LITTLEHAMPTON. An Edwardian Childhood
£ 7.95
Author: CLARE SHEPPARD		Published: 1995
Book Cover: Hardback		Pages: 180
Book size: Width: 130 mm Height: 198 mm
Illustrated
Hardback: £12.95 In this wonderfully rich and funny book Clare Sheppard’s family comes to life, particularly her redoubtable grandmother, Mrs Warre Cornish, who was a feature at Eton, and a cast of characters such as Donald Tovey and Hilaire Belloc.

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Reviews:
The book inevitably recalls Gwen Raverat's Period Piece; there is even a
similarity between the illustrations. - Frances Partridge, The Spectator

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ISBN No:
095340790X
New ISBN No:
9780953407903

MR GEORGE JONES, PRESIDENT
£ 6.95
Author: JOHN RETALLACK		Published: 1999
Book Cover: Hardback		Pages: 64
Book size: Width: 110 mm Height: 170 mm
For the second time in its long island history, Great Britain is a Republic. But Mr George Jones, the new President, is his own man, with a sense of history and a sense of humour. The results are not what the Prime Minister has anticipated . . .

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Reviews:
A real find - Peregrine Worsthorne
Extremely funny – Contemporary Review

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ISBN No:
0907018033

POLLACK AND CARNIVAL
£ 2.95
Author: WALTER WALKHAM		Published: 1980
Book Cover: Hardback		Pages: 64
Book size: Width: 145 mm Height: 210 mm
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In Cornwall and Plymouth during the 1920s and '30s the school leaving age was fourteen and boys worked for twenty-five shillings a week. But life was colourful and its enjoyment by the young is palpable in these semi-autobiographical short stories.

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Review:
A flair for characterisation and a good yarn - Sunday Independent

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ISBN No:
187395137X

ROCHE RHYMES
£ 5.99
Author: K. C. PHILLIPPS		Published: 2003
Book Cover: Paperback		Pages: 64
Book size: Width: 132 mm Height: 198 mm
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These rhymes and other poems, set mainly at Roche in mid-Cornwall, roam further afield and widely in subject. Comic verse is mainly in dialect; there is satire, and the book ends with poems with a spiritual theme.

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Review:
A fine poet, a little gem of a book. - WMN

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ISBN No:
0907018734

THE ADVENTURES OF MARMADUKE PURR-CAT
£ 3.95
Author: CELIA LUCAS		Published: 1990
Book Cover: Paperback		Pages: 144
Book size: Width: 120 mm Height: 180 mm
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For age 8 and upwards Hardback: £5.95 For humour and adventure, read about Marmaduke, who speaks human language. He takes a job as courier, to beauty spots and places of interest from Wookey Hole & Oxford to Llangollen. But Mr Archibald Sqynt wants to abduct him . . .

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Review:
I will never forget Marmaduke - Maeve Binchy

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