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Pratt a Manger

(Henry Pratt)

by David Nobbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

When pretty young TV researcher Nicky Proctor visits Cafe Henry in London's Soho, Henry Pratt's life changes forever. He becomes an instant star of the TV food quiz, A Question of Salt and before long he is given his own series, Hooray, it's Henry. The book of the series reaches Number Two. He's a...

Cucumber Man

(Henry Pratt)

by David Nobbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

It is 1957. The Suez Crisis has been and gone. Henry Pratt has completed his National Service and is putting his unsuccessful career as Thurmarsh's cub journalist behind him. Leaving Yorkshire, he's taking on a new role and a new challenge - working for the Cucumber Marketing Board in Leeds. Stumbling...

The Fabled Coast

Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland

by Sophia Kingshill, Jennifer Beatrice Westwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen’s prayers and sailors’ rituals – the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions. In The Fabled Coast, renowned folklorists Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer...
by Timothy Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

Unearthly Disclosure is a story of alien bases, alien contacts and abductions, genetic mutants, animal mutilations, and government paranoia. Here, Timothy Good, one of the world's most respected authorities on the alien phenomenon, reveals for the first time sensational information provided to him...
by Dannie Abse
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

2013 marks Dannie Abse's 90th birthday. In his lifetime he has published an astonishing array of work including poetry, fiction, criticism, plays and autobiography but it is as a poet that he is best known and loved. In Speak, Old Parrot he returns to themes of loss, love, medicine and its...

Forgotten Fruits

The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables

by Christopher Stocks
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009

In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich heritage of fruit and vegetables. Take Newton Wonder apples, for instance, first discovered around 1870 allegedly growing in the thatch of a Derbyshire pub. Or the humble gooseberry...

A Broken World

Letters, diaries and memories of the Great War

by
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

Edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War. A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at...

Diaries Volume Two

Power and the People

by Alastair Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011

Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to power and settle into running the country....
by Chris Terrill
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008

Chris Terrill is a man in search of his limit. He's 55 years old. He is not a soldier. He is being trained by the Royal Marines and he is going to Afghanistan. The only difference is that instead of a gun, Chris will be holding a camera and filming the whole ordeal for a major TV series. The...
by Susan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010

Sometimes the choice is too hard to bear... Nikki Grant is only twenty-one when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her parents' disappointment and anger, she welcomes the news with joy. The baby will complete the happy home she shares with the man she adores, Spencer James. Baby Zac...
by Tony Benn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes...

Jack The Ripper

First American Serial Killer

by Stewart Evans, Paul Gainey
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013

Stewart Evans is a policeman whose hobby is collecting true crime ephemera. When a second hand bookseller rang to ask him if he would be interested in a collection of letters from the Special Branch, he had no idea of the sensational revelation they would contain. One of these letters supplied an...

Nightingales on Call

(Nightingales 4)

by Donna Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014

From the author of The Nightingale Girls, The Nightingale Sisters and The Nightingale Nurses – perfect for fans of Call the Midwife 1937 sees new challenges for the trainee nurses Dora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children’s ward for the final three months of their...
by Katie Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012

A heart-tugging read - Yours Heartwarming - My Weekly You won't be able to put this down until you have read every word - No. 1 One of the country's most popular storytellers - Scottish Daily Record
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