Time period: 20th century

Simon Armitage's humorous account of the North steers clear of the picturesque Lake District and the big cities of Manchester and Newcastle. Instead he focuses on the area of West Yorkshire, the land of Jarvis Cocker, Geoffrey Boycott and Bernard Ingham.

Annie is the eldest daughter of a laundress in Acton, London, raised to keep the rich families of Kensington spick and span. As she grows up in poverty in the 1920s and 1930s, her life centres on the family business, working long hours of hard physical labour. When she's not in the laundry she's ...

Annie is the eldest daughter of a laundress in Acton, London, raised to keep the rich families of Kensington spick and span. As she grows up in poverty in the 1920s and 1930s, her life centres on the family business, working long hours of hard physical labour. When she's not in the laundry she's ...

In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in 'This Is Not About Me' evolved during her teenage years.

Julie and Dicky Otterman are the latest arrivals at Grundys fair with an extraordinary new act: the motorcycle extravaganza, the wall of death. But all is not as it seems beneath the surface, and Dickys dark and violent nature means Julie lives in constant fear.Gemma still knows Velda's secret. R...

Julie and Dicky Otterman are the latest arrivals at Grundys fair with an extraordinary new act: the motorcycle extravaganza, the wall of death. But all is not as it seems beneath the surface, and Dickys dark and violent nature means Julie lives in constant fear.Gemma still knows Velda's secret. R...

The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember. In the fields and villages around her beloved Wych Farm, however, the Great War still casts a shadow over a community impoverished by economic depression and threatened by change. Change, too, is coming to Edie, who at fourteen mu...

The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember. In the fields and villages around her beloved Wych Farm, however, the Great War still casts a shadow over a community impoverished by economic depression and threatened by change. Change, too, is coming to Edie, who at fourteen mu...

The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember. In the fields and villages around her beloved Wych Farm, however, the Great War still casts a shadow over a community impoverished by economic depression and threatened by change. Change, too, is coming to Edie, who at fourteen mu...

Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into her remaining years. From this vantage poin...

Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into her remaining years. From this vantage poin...

Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into her remaining years. From this vantage poin...

For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America.

The welcome given to refugees from fascist Europe is part of our fond nostalgia for Britain's role in the Second World War, nestling in our imagination next to images of evacuees clutching teddy bears, and milkmen picking their way through bomb rubble during the Blitz. But there is a darker side ...

It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures for Katie, Emma and Molly.

The dazzling, powerful story of a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas - finding unexpected fortune, friendship, and love.

This title tells the dazzling, powerful story of a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas - finding unexpected fortune, friendship, and love.

Cabramatta, Sydney, 1996. 'Just let him go'. Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the ...

Moira and Jack Taylor own a thriving rag-and-bone business and have six children. Their contented family life is upset when their eldest daughter, Nora, steals 18-year-old Maggie's fiance, Robert, a widower with a young son. Maggie, heartbroken, swears that she will never forgive her sister's bet...

This story is told by a young soldier in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see the realities of war. Incidents are vividly described, but there is no sense of adventure, only the feeling of youth betrayed.