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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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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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HENRY WILLIAMSON, The Man, The Writings.  A Sympos
ISBN No:
0907018009
HENRY WILLIAMSON, The Man, The Writings. A Sympos

£ 12.95
Author: BROCARD SEWELL, Editor   Published: 1980
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 192
Book size: Width: 135 mm Height: 215 mm
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Introduction by RONALD DUNCAN

Henry Williamson is the author of Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon (many people know him for the film of Tarka) amongst his nature writing, besides many intensely felt novels including some of the best writing of the First World War. Ted Hughes, Diana Mosley and others deal with aspects of all the writing of this prolific author.    

 
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Excellent brief studies - Sunday Telegraph
Comprehensive guide to Williamson; a mine of information - Literary Review

 


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I WOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN: The Life and Work of Rob
ISBN No:
1873951485
I WOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN: The Life and Work of Rob

£ 14.95
Author: PATRICK HUTTON   Published:
Book Cover: Paperback  Pages: 264
Book size: Width: 214 mm Height: 134 mm
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Hardback: £20                    

 

Hawker, his life, work and poetry are fully revealed here. Relations with his two wives and neighbours, his beliefs, and the isolation he felt through living in ‘far Cornwall’ are described with sympathy and humour.
 
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A marvellous, beautifully produced work - Jane Annable

 


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THE CORNISH JOURNAL OF CHARLES LEE
ISBN No:
1873951094
New ISBN No:
9781873951095
THE CORNISH JOURNAL OF CHARLES LEE

£ 6.95
Author: CHARLES LEE   Published: 1995
Book Cover: Paperback  Pages: 128
Book size: Width: 130 mm Height: 198 mm
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Edited by K. C. PHILLIPPS

Hardback: £11.95

  

Charles Lee’s Cornish diaries, from the 1890s to 1900s, record notable anecdotes about,

and from, the lives of people from Newlyn, St Mawgan and others, capturing their

humour, wit and graphic turn of phrase.              

      

 
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All the authenticity of a vanished way of life ... vivacity, folkfore and fun - A L Rowse
Acute observations of the Cornish character - Western Morning News

 


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THE COUNTRYMAN'S EAR and Other Essays on Thomas Ha
ISBN No:
0907018106
THE COUNTRYMAN'S EAR and Other Essays on Thomas Ha

£ 9.95
Author: EVELYN HARDY   Published: 1982
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 112
Book size: Width: 135 mm Height: 215 mm
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From the Foreword by ROBERT GITTINGS

‘Hardy’s sense of place, & the emotions aroused by places, his active eye & ear, his uncanny portrayal of women, his concrete command of imagery, all are represented in this eminently satisfying volume.’              

 
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Sensitivity and scholarship - SWR
The voice of authority on Thomas Hardy - T. H. Soc. Newsletter

 


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THE HABIT OF A LIFETIME
ISBN No:
0907018920
New ISBN No:
9780907018926
THE HABIT OF A LIFETIME

£ 18.95
Author: BROCARD SEWELL   Published: 1992
Book Cover: Hardback  Pages: 196
Book size: Width: 140 mm Height: 220 mm
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Brocard Sewell reveals here his different worlds: childhood at Launceston, journalism, printing, publishing; the priesthood, from 1965 editing the Aylesford Review, religious controversy leading to  exile to Canada, & a final return to monastic life.   

 
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Autobiography with a sparkle in its prose - Sunday Telegraph
Wonderfully funny - Evening Standard

 


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