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Sonia Kurta presents a humorous account of a farming life that starts in the late 1930s and ends in the early 1950s. Bringing to life the varied characters with whom Sonia has worked, both people and animals, this text gives a detailed view of what life was like for a farm worker in the last days...

Claire Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius.

Simon Callow offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language, bringing to life Dickens the man. He reveals an original genius, and offers an insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literary endeavour.

He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the...

Picking up from where 'Living the Chateau Dream' ended, Dick and Angel recount the newest and biggest challenges they faced on the journey to transforming their once derelict and abandoned chateau in France's Pays de la Loire into a thriving family home and sustainable business. When the COVID-19...

This title presents a first-hand account of evacuation during World War II from the point of view of a young child.

Welcome to the East End. Life in Cockney London was tough in the post-war years. The government's broken promises had led to a chronic housing shortage, rampant crime and families living in squalor. But one thing prevailed - the unbeatable spirit of the East End, a tight-knit community who pulled...

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.

Dot May Dunn grew up in Derbyshire, the daughter of a miner, during the wartime years. In 1951 she joined the NHS as an early recruit and went on to train as a nurse. Dot's books are full of wonderful anecdotal insight into the life that she has experienced, written with warmth, humour, and vivid...

From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. A kind of memoir that is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire - for men and women - and the exhilaration of swimming, 'The Chronology of Water' lays a life bare.