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An Accidental Diplomat
An Accidental Diplomat
£7.99It is April 1998. I am in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, by now a democracy free of the Soviet Union and Communism. Moreover, I am sitting with the President of Hungary, having just presented my credentials as British Ambassador to his country. I am excited and a little overwhelmed. Everyone is calling me […]
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Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
£24.95Margaret McLaren-Reid was a society debutante and good-time girl in the 1920s, who enjoyed partying, dancing, flirting and the devotion of two husbands. Richard Cullen wades through over 700 letters to reconstruct her experience of life in the British Empire during the interwar years and subsequently as a wife on the diplomatic circuit.
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My Life: A Memoir
My Life: A Memoir
£10.00Anita Rose’s life was shaped by three transformational events in her early teens: the outbreak of war, her being sent from London to Chicago to live with an uncle and aunt and a jealous cousin, and the drowning of her father when a transatlantic ship carrying 90 child evacuees was torpedoed by a German submarine. […]
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Nell Norah Jane
Nell Norah Jane
£7.99Jane Reid spent 20 years of her life accompanying her diplomat husband on tours of duty to Burma, Guyana, Romania, Malawi, South Africa and Jamaica, continuing a pattern that had started in her childhood and emulated her parents’ postings. In this evocative memoir, she recalls life at her grandparents’ houses in the Birmingham suburbs, pre-war […]
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Sand In My Shoes
Sand In My Shoes
£7.99When Linda Lubbe is chosen as the new rector of Modimolle, she finds herself ministering to some of the least evangelised peoples of Southern Africa. She’s not alone. Her home church, at one time run by a Catholic priest, houses Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians, and operates alongside various Dutch Reformed, Afrikaans and charismatic communities. How […]
