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This book is a collection of exceptional writings by Dirk Bogarde with pieces on fellow actors and directors, like Charlotte Rampling and Joseph Losey, reminiscences of the French Riviera and so on, resulting in a very entertaining book.

Just Around the Corner records the sadness and the gaiety, the gravity and the humour of village life at the end of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of a mischievous, observant and essentially human small boy.

Angela's Ashes is the memoir of retired schoolteacher Frank McCourt. McCourt grew up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s, in a large family, and with an alcoholic father.

When Doreen Tovey's beloved sealpoint cat Saphra dies, she refuses to get a new kitten unless it is a sealpoint boy, one of the Killdown strain - and related to the champion stud cat who was grandfather to Saphra.

Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of her life, written between her 77th and 78th birthdays. It remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author.

This final book from Fred Archer recreates the hard times and the joys of the year 1924 on Bredon Hill where he farmed. Alongside the text are his own interesting recollections of how he first came to writing.

The first geological map of anywhere in the world was made by William Smith. It was not until 1829 that his genius was realised. Written by the author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne, this is an extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology.

Seabiscuit is the true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse. These dreams symbolised a pivotal moment in American history when the 20th century's greatest nation found the courage to bet on itself to win against the odds.