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Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
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Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
£12.95Unable to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Londoner Michael Roberts tries to find comfort in memories of another time and another place when he was in love for the first time. But that first time was as a schoolboy in Belfast, at the start of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and in […]
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My Life: A Memoir
My Life: A Memoir
£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 ‘Excellency’ which I am not (yet) used to. I have a chauffeur outside, in a British racing green Jaguar which flies the Union Jack, waiting to drive me to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior where I shall lay a wreath. Is this really me? How on earth did all this happen? I was just an ordinary boy from South London with no expectations of anything as a child or even a young adult. What happened? It is a curious tale: of bad judgements, good timing and luck. Here is my story.
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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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The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
£12.95WRY TALES FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train. The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind […]
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The Lost Woman
The Lost Woman
£14.95When the Nazis arrest Nicole Cassin’s parents and seize their art gallery in Paris in 1941, Nicole vows revenge and joins the Resistance. Years later, living in New York, she is haunted by her losses and hires an art historian to find her family’s stolen paintings, among which is a portrait of her mother by […]
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The Train House on Lobengula Street
The Train House on Lobengula Street
£15.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys? The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values. […]
