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| Author: | John Simpson |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| Catalogue number: | 148361 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
SIGNED COPIES! In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood, through which he paints a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s and 50s.
'I have already touched on...
| Author: | Laurie Lee |
| Publisher: | Random House UK |
| Catalogue number: | 171547 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Cider with Rosie” is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields...
| Author: | Sarah Hartley |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Catalogue number: | 104097 |
| Availability: | Not available |
This is the story of Phyllis Pearsall, the woman who mapped London's A-Z and founded the Geographer's Map Company. Mapmaking was traditionally a man's world and she took it by storm by creating a map...
| Author: | Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 100130 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city.
For him it is a living organism, with its own laws...
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