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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
‘There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream’
In these beautifully nostalgic memoirs, eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she gr...
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War in Val D'Orcia is a classic of the Second World War, a first-hand account of daily life in Tuscany in the final years of the conflict, years which were, in Italy, blighted by German occupation, Allied invasion and civil war. Iris Origo kept her diary even with German troops occupying h...
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