Paul Crampton: 2 books

Taking you through the year day by day, The Canterbury Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing, or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of England as a whole. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive...

Jessie Vine’s memoir begins in the last few days of peace in 1939. As the Morrison shelter is installed in the back garden of their Rochester home, Jessie, with her young daughter Joy, eagerly awaits her husband Tom’s homecoming, as his ship returns to Chatham Dockyard. And then, when war seems...