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  • Good Old World

    by V. P. Hall ...
    In this memoir of growing up the author gives his own version of the life, customs, activities and personalities of the folk around him. The story opens with a house removal by horse-drawn sleigh from a farm to a village pub.**********************'Harry Blackberry' is a nickname given to him by one of the villagers and the circumstances are explained early in the story. The entertainment in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Terry Deary ...
    Series series Horrible Histories
    Queen Victoria was the ultimate Victorian, and she was not amused. Luckily YOU will be splitting your sides - because the prim and proper Victorians were actually a jolly naughty bunch! ... Read more

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  • Murder at Deviation Junction

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 4 - Jim Stringer
    The latest in Andrew Martin"s much-loved "Jim Stringer, Steam Detective" series. "Andrew Martin has recreated an extraordinarily convincing world . . . Terrific." Daily TelegraphDecember, 1909. A train hits a snowdrift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling railway detective Jim Stringer, a case which ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pie 'n' Mash and Prefabs - My 1950s Childhood

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that young Norman Jacobs grew up through the 1950s and 1960s. In a lively, detailed and humorous picture of a postwar Hackney childhood, Norman takes us back to an age ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Road to the Dales

    The Story of a Yorkshire Lad

    by Gervase Phinn ...
    A unique look into the childhood experiences of Gervase Phinn in Road to the Dales.Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This book is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s - reminisce with Gervase, and share in his personal journey - of school days and holidays as well as his tentative steps into the ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Great Australian Outback School Stories

    by Bill Marsh ...
    Series series Great Australian Stories
    Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback.If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school.this collection of more than sixty stories, gathered by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh in his travels across Australia, perfectly captures the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nobbut a Lad

    by Alan Titchmarsh ...
    ‘Give me the boy and I will show you the man’ the saying goes. In this warm, tender, wonderfully evocative and often hilarious memoir one of the best-loved men in Britain, Alan Titchmarsh, brilliantly recalls his childhood in 1950s Yorkshire.Growing up in the beautiful landscape that surrounds Ilkley in Wharfedale inspired Alan’s early passion for nature.In a time of post-war austerity, hard work ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • In My Wildest Dreams

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist...At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie Thomas's story is straight out of fiction. As an orphan, he picked his way through the rubble of post-war Britain and was sent on national service to the Far East. Later he became a Fleet Street ... Read more

    $19.89 USD

  • Ww2 Through the Eyes of a Child

    A Little Boy’S Untold Story

    by Patrick J. Cullen ...
    This is the true story of a little child called Patrick, who was one of five little brothers that came through, what seemed like a strange world full of bombs dropping, causing big fires and total destruction on a massive scale, every morning I would wake up to see new Wendy houses to play in not realizing someone lived there the day before, and the houses were still burning it was nice and warm, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Back in the Day

    The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg

    by Melvyn Bragg ...
    Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world. 'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it' Observer 'A memoir bursting with affection' Sunday TimesIn this elegiac and heartfelt memoir, Melvyn Bragg recreates his youth in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton: a working-class boy who expected to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • A Birmingham Backstreet Boyhood

    by Graham V Twist ...
    A Brimingham Backstreet Boyhood is a fascinating, funny and poignant recollection of the experience of growing up in the slums of Nechells and Aston. All the harshness of daily life is remembered here by local author Graham Twist. Despite hard living condition and a distinct lack of money, a strong community spirit prevailed and families and neighbourhoods were close-knit. The womenfolk on ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Betty

    by Liz Smith ...
    Liz Smith, once called the nation's favourite fictional grandmother, is a familiar face to all TV and cinema viewers. She is most often recognised for her role of Nana in The Royle Family and has appeared in numerous productions over the years. OUR BETTY is Liz's life story - from her cosseted yet lonely childhood with her beloved grandparents (her mother died giving birth to Liz's stillborn ... Read more

    $9.99 USD