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A heart-warming memoir of moving country, making a new life and coming home, 'Todo in Tuscany' is the story of a couple who fell in love with a dream house in Tuscany and a scuffy dog with a huge grin.

This title tells how Sgt Bill Bailey arrived in Cairo in 1942 as a new recruit to the RAF. Within hours of his arrival he was sent on his first bombing mission as second pilot in a 104 Squadron Wellington. The aircraft was hit by enemy gunfire and eventually crashed, leaving Bill to fend for hims...

Bethnal Green is at the heart of London's East End, infamous as the stamping ground of gangland bosses, the Kray Twins. In this text the world of Bethnal Green's back streets in the 1920s, 1930s and during the Second World War is vividly recalled.

History is replete with unanswered questions regarding our own past & that of the world in which we live. Some of these questions are mere curiosities; others are of the profoundest importance to our cultural identity & have a serious bearing on our future. Each self-contained chapter in this boo...

'Walking Home' is a celebration of Britain and a revealing memoir as Clare Balding recalls her charming adventures and experiences with the landscape, weather and people.

On her 21st birthday Monica Baldwin - daughter of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the oldest and most strictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. Twenty-eight years later, having realized she did not have a true vocation for the life of a nun, she obtained...

'What I Love About Cricket' is the story of a summer when a master cricket obsessive teaches his novice pupil the wisdom of the game. Sandy Balfour is cast as the supposed master and his 16-year-old daughter's new boyfriend is the reluctant pupil.

Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about intimate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of soc...

This selection of ten true accounts of unusual happenings and incidents involving Bomber Command aircrew during World War 2 covers operations of varying natures, all of which depict the immense courage shown by the RAF bomber aircrew.

Using interviews with those who have been part of Rossi's story from start to finish, critically-acclaimed and bestselling motorsport author Stuart Barker has produced an in-depth book about the Italian superstar - a tale of speed, love and loss, told with adrenalin-charged, high-octane glory.