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A Harvest Of Sunflowers
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Twenty years after first setting eyes on Bel-Air de Grezelongue, her dream house in the sunflowers in south-west France, Ruth Silvestre brings us the long-awaited sequel to the adventures. Local frie...Buy Now -
A House In The Sunflowers
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A reissue of a much-loved A&B classic. A delightful read for anyone who dreams of another life abroad… This is the story of a dream come true. In 1976, in the Lot-et-Garonne region of south...Buy Now From Amazon UK -
Fair Girls and Grey Horses
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‘Are your twins normal?’ Mrs Pullein-Thompson was asked. ‘Good God, I hope not,’ she retorted. The twins were Diana and Christine who, with their elder sister, Josephine, wrot...Buy Now -
Freya Stark
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Born in Paris 1893, a precocious and tough Freya Stark spent her childhood wondering across Europe, speaking three languages by the time she was five. She became one of the twentieth-century’s mos...Buy Now -
Hot Sun, Cool Shadow
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An unabashed celebration of the joys of food and cooking, Hot Sun, Cool Shadow follows the story of award-winning food-writer Angela Murrills and the artist Peter Matthews, who travel together to the ...Buy Now -
I’ll Take That One: An Evacuee’s Childhood
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Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930, the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five children. War broke out just as Kitty turned nine and she became one of thousands of children evac...Buy Now -
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D’Orcia
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Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century’s most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remains widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy wi...Buy Now -
Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
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Friday, 8th April 1994. Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered in a room above a garage in Seattle. For the attending authorities, it was an open-and-shut case of suicide. What no one knew was Cobain had...Buy Now -
Over a Hot Stove: A Kitchen Maid’s Story
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A riveting first-hand account of life working in the grand country houses of the last century. At the age of sixteen, Flo Wadlow left her family to begin what would become a distinguished life ‘...Buy Now -
Pepys: A Biography
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Samuel Pepys is unique: the scope and candour of his Diary makes it one of the greatest books ever written and one of the most important historical documents in English. He lived through the Civil War...Buy Now -
The Jane Austen Remedy
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As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. And as she grappled with feelings of unfathomable sadness, she made the radical decision to ret...Buy Now -
The True History Of The Elephant Man
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Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1862, is better known as The Elephant Man. Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of...Buy Now -
Three Houses
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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ‘There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream’ In these beautifully nostalgi...Buy Now -
Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming
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Lenka Janiurek first encounters tragedy with the death of her mother when she is just nine. Involving a chaotic family, early success as a playwright, disastrous relationships, motherhood, and brushe...Buy Now