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A Harvest Of Sunflowers
Price: £6.99E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback
Twenty years after first setting eyes on Bel-Air de Grezelongue, her dream house in the sunflowers in south-west France, Ruth Silvestre brings us the long-awaited sequel to the adventures. Loca...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
A House In The Sunflowers
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A reissue of a much-loved A&B classic. A delightful read for anyone who dreams of another life abroad… This is the story of a dream come true. In 1976, in the Lot-et-Garonne region of south...Buy Now From Amazon UK -
Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography
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In this authorised biography, Derek Jarman’s story stretches from the bleakness of post-war Britain and his RAF childhood to studenthood at the Slade and work as a designer for such figures as John ...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Fair Girls and Grey Horses
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‘Are your twins normal?’ Mrs Pullein-Thompson was asked. ‘Good God, I hope not,’ she retorted. The twins were Diana and Christine who, with their elder sister, Josephine, wrote more...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Freya Stark
Price: £6.99 – £8.99E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback
Born in Paris 1893, a precocious and tough Freya Stark spent her childhood wondering across Europe, speaking three languages by the time she was five. She became one of the twentieth-century’s mos...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
I’ll Take That One: An Evacuee’s Childhood
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A UNIQUE, PERSONAL AND UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR OF A FAMILY THAT WAS CHANGED FOREVER BY THE SECOND WORLD WAR Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930, the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D’Orcia
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Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century’s most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remains widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy with h...Buy Now -
Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
Price: £6.99E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback
Friday, 8th April 1994. Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered in a room above a garage in Seattle. For the attending authorities, it was an open-and-shut case of suicide. What no one knew was Cobain had...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Pepys: A Biography
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Samuel Pepys is unique: the scope and candour of his Diary makes it one of the greatest books ever written and one of the most important historical documents in English. He lived through the Civil War...Buy Now -
The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene: Actress, Writer, and Rebel Victorian
E-book, Paperback
‘I rode on the stage in such style, that the men in front forgot I was a girl, and also forgot to laugh.’ Emily Soldene’s life spanned the entire Victorian era. As both leading...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
The Jane Austen Remedy
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‘Essential reading for anyone who wants to experience and understand the unique comfort that Austen’s works universally provide.’ NATALIE JENNER Ruth Wilson first encountered Pride and Preju...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
The True History Of The Elephant Man
Price: £6.99 – £8.99E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback
Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1862, is better known as The Elephant Man. Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Three Houses
Price: £6.99 – £8.99E-book, E-Book (USA), Paperback
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 nostalgi...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming
Price: £8.99E-book, E-Book (USA), Hardback, Paperback
Lenka Janiurek first encounters tragedy with the death of her mother when she is just nine. Involving a chaotic family, early success as a playwright, disastrous relationships, motherhood, and brushe...Buy Now This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
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