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When Jon Katz takes in a young troubled Border Collie, his calm, sedate life will never be the same again. Jon and his wife live in a New Jersey suburb with two perfectly behaved Labradors. Then into the mix comes Devon, who creates havoc.

Anna is loosening the reins on her London PR company to spend more time in Mallorca with her family, cattery, chickens & goats, & insists their menagerie will only be complete with two donkeys. She attempts almond harvesting in the countryside, & attends a traditional wedding & the spectacular Sa...

Harry Leslie Smith is a British stalwart; he is a survivor of the Great Depression, a World War Two RAF veteran and now, aged 92, he is a social activist for the poor and preservation of social democracy. Following the overwhelming success of 'Harry's Last Stand', this memoir, 'Don't Let My Past ...

During her childhood, Sally East's need to be told that she was loved by her father came at a price that no child should have to pay. In this book Sally describes a shocking story of a mother's neglect and a father's betrayal.

D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force.

Showing how much our culture has changed with the passing years, Peggy E. Ellard describes her early memories - such as the outbreak of war - through to her later years as a proud great-grandmother.

In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of her life and times. Her name was Mrs Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate ...

This is the untold story of our most iconic fashion magazine in its most formative years, in the Second World War. It was an era when wartime exigencies gave its editor, Audrey Withers, the chance to forge an identity for it that went far beyond stylish clothes. In doing so, she set herself again...

At the height of the Holocaust, 25 young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were selected to design, cut and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop - cal...

At age 17, Chris Stewart retired as the drummer of Genesis, his schoolboy band, and launched a new career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. This book describes his idyllic life on a remote mountain farm in Andalucia.