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Belle Nash and the Bath Circus
Belle Nash and the Bath Circus
£14.95An hilarious caper through Regency Bath – wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump Following Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle, this is second adventure in The Gay Street Chronicles, in which our hero returns to bath be-pained by love and confusion, only to learn how great is the suffering of others. At the end […]
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Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé
Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé
£14.95Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles! When Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the untimely death of her adored husband Hercules, the meal goes sadly awry. Enter gay hero Bellerophon “Belle” Nash: city councillor, grandson of Bath’s original Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, and bachelor extraordinaire. Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, […]
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From Bedales to the Boche: The Ironies of an Edwardian Childhood
From Bedales to the Boche: The Ironies of an Edwardian Childhood
£18.95AN ARCHIVAL RESOURCE ON EDUCATION FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s Robert Best and his younger brother Frank were brought up in prosperous middle-class Birmingham in the 1890s. Their father ran Britain’s most successful lighting factory, wanted his boys to enter the business, and sent them to the best art […]
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Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
£22.95On her deathbed, Charles Dickens’s wife asked her daughter to give his letters to the British Museum “so the world may know he loved me once”. That the world might doubt it is not a surprise. In his later years Dickens built a wall in their bedroom to keep her out, forced her to visit […]
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My Modern Movement
My Modern Movement
£14.95For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress. […]
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The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
£14.95WRY 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 Sound of the Place: How Britain’s Musical Landscapes Helped Me to Start Composing Again
The Sound of the Place: How Britain's Musical Landscapes Helped Me to Start Composing Again
£19.95Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with the Suffolk coastland; Edward Elgar with the rolling hills of Worcestershire. After composer Luke Ottevanger found that his ability to write music had deserted him, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to […]
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Why My Wife Had to Die
Why My Wife Had to Die
£13.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner Huntington’s disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with a 1 in 2 chance of inheritance that cannot be determined until the disease shows itself, often not until the sufferer is in their […]
