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List view record 1: The Holy Bible : Old and New Testaments in the King James version : translated out of the original tongues and with previous translations diligently compared and revised : self-pronouncing : words of Christ in redList view anchor tag for record 1: The Holy Bible : Old and New Testaments in the King James version : translated out of the original tongues and with previous translations diligently compared and revised : self-pronouncing : words of Christ in red
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List view record 2: Stranger than fiction : Denise Robins, her life storyList view anchor tag for record 2: Stranger than fiction : Denise Robins, her life story
List view record 3: Bad bloodList view anchor tag for record 3: Bad blood
List view record 4: GallipoliList view anchor tag for record 4: Gallipoli
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Gallipoli

Masefield, John, 1878-19672002
Moving account of the Allied efforts in Dardanelles after the defeat.
List view record 5: The little princessesList view anchor tag for record 5: The little princesses
List view record 6: The snow geeseList view anchor tag for record 6: The snow geese
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The snow geese

Fiennes, William2003
Author's experience following these birds on their annual migration across the American continent.
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Best foot forward

Kelly, Susie2004
Why would an unfit, fifty-something Englishwoman embark on a solo walk across France from La Rochelle on the west coast to Lake Geneva over the Swiss border? With no experience of hiking or camping, Susie Kelly found out the hard way that it is possible to be overloaded and ill-prepared at the sa...
List view record 8: One dog and his man : notes from an all-weather walkerList view anchor tag for record 8: One dog and his man : notes from an all-weather walker
List view record 9: The colonel and Little Missie : Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the beginnings of superstardom in AmericaList view anchor tag for record 9: The colonel and Little Missie : Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the beginnings of superstardom in America
List view record 10: A country wifeList view anchor tag for record 10: A country wife
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A country wife

Pinney, Lucy, 1952-2005
Inspired by Lucy Pinney's popular column for THE TIMES, this is an affectionate romp through the highs and lows of country living. A funny, honest and affectionate memoir of a life spent learning to know and love the countryside and those who live off its land. From the opening account of her rio...
List view record 11: Journey to the south : a Calabrian homecomingList view anchor tag for record 11: Journey to the south : a Calabrian homecoming
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Journey to the south : a Calabrian homecoming

Hawes, Annie2005
Ever since Annie Hawes got together with Ciccio de Gilio, his Calabrian family have spoken of their homeland as an earthly paradise, of wild nights dancing the tarantella, of almond milk, of honey cakes and amaro. Now, at last, Annie and Ciccio are travelling down to see the ancestral home for th...
List view record 12: In action with the SAS : a soldier's odyssey from Dunkirk to BerlinList view anchor tag for record 12: In action with the SAS : a soldier's odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin
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In action with the SAS : a soldier's odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin

Close, Roy2006
Already a member of the Territorial Army, Roy was mobilised in 1939 and joined the British Expeditionary Force in France. After three days and two nights on the Dunkirk beaches he was evacuated back to England.He was then sent to North Africa and a chance meeting resulted in his transferring to t...
List view record 13: Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and warList view anchor tag for record 13: Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war
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Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war

Philbrick, Nathaniel2006
This is the story of the Pilgrim fathers who set sail on the Mayflower and the bloody battle they ultimately waged against the Native Americans. Behind the quaint and pious version of the Mayflower story usually taught in American primary schools is a tumultuous tale of violence, subterfuge and e...
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A private viewing

Garrett, W.R. (William R.), 1920-2006
Barely out of his teens, W. R. Garrett found himself in North Africa on his way to join the Eighth Army. The former country boy, with idealistic views of why he was fighting, couldn't possibly have known the implications. He was to learn - quickly. He and his comrades didn't understand, until it ...
List view record 15: Tales from the country matchmakerList view anchor tag for record 15: Tales from the country matchmaker
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Tales from the country matchmaker

Warren, Patricia, 1946-2006
Since she founded the Farmers' and Country Bureau from her farmhouse in the Peak District more than twenty years ago, Patricia Warren has been helping love to blossom the length and breadth of rural England. A born matchmaker, here she brings us the stories of love and romance that she has helped...
List view record 16: Bermondsey boy : memories of a forgotten worldList view anchor tag for record 16: Bermondsey boy : memories of a forgotten world
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Bermondsey boy : memories of a forgotten world

Steele, Tommy2007
Bermondsey was a thriving place. And it was here that Thomas Hicks, later to be known as Tommy Steele, was born to Darbo and Betty. Tommy brings to life with extraordinary vividness his Bermondsey childhood, and also what it was like to live through the devastation of the Blitz, The Hicks househo...
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Bomber boys

Rolfe, Mel2008
Lancaster pilot Victor Wood's aircraft arrived too early over Gelsenkirchen when the target was shrouded in darkness and the Main Force miles behind. His bomber was suddenly struck with terrifying force by flak and turned upside down. An engine was on fire, the unconscious mid-upper gunner, slump...
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Over to Candleford

Thompson, Flora, 1876-19472008
In Over to Candleford, the second part of the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Laura's family begins to spend part of each summer with cousins in the nearby town of Candleford, which seems to her a very large and grand place. As her schooldays come to an end young Laura becomes a regular bookworm...
List view record 19: The private world of Georgette HeyerList view anchor tag for record 19: The private world of Georgette Heyer
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The private world of Georgette Heyer

Hodge, Jane Aiken, 1917-2008
Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time, yet her private life was inaccessible to any but her nearest friends and relatives. This biography opens a window into Georgette Heyer's world.
List view record 20: Willie Nelson : an epic lifeList view anchor tag for record 20: Willie Nelson : an epic life
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Willie Nelson : an epic life

Patoski, Joe Nick, 1951-2008
General Adult. Draws on more than one hundred interviews with the iconic country-music artist and his intimates to trace his rise from humble Depression-era roots to one of the genres most famous figures, in a profile that covers such topics as his first performance at age four, his education in...
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Dambusters : a landmark oral history

Arthur, Max, 1939-2009
On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered in the dark at a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of extraordinary daring - a night raid on three crucial dams deep in the heart of Germany. To have any chance of success, the raiders would have to fly across occupied Europe...
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My life, my way

Richard, Cliff2009
It was a few bars of Heartbreak Hotel, heard briefly through the open window of a car, that captured his imagination. The young Cliff Richard and his friends were desperate to find out whose voice they had found so exciting. Once he discovered Elvis Presley, Cliff knew what he wanted to do with h...
List view record 23: Not dead yet : a manifesto for old ageList view anchor tag for record 23: Not dead yet : a manifesto for old age
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Not dead yet : a manifesto for old age

Neuberger, Julia2009
Parachuting, running internet businesses, singing in rock groups at the age of 101 - some older people have never been so active. So why are others being so badly treated? Now Julia Neuberger asks why older people are increasingly marginalised, mistreated and patronised; allowed to die in hospita...
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And furthermore

Dench, Judi, 1934-2010
From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career, and it was her performance in Franco Zeffirelli's Old Vic production of Romeo and Juliet that turned her into a star. Judi first became a household name on television in A Fin...
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The great escape

Brickhill, Paul2010
The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic filmOne of the most famous true stories from the last war, The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night...
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Impossible

Steel, Danielle, 1948-2010
Sasha is a traditionalist - now widowed, she knows she was married to the most wonderful man in the world. Liam is an artist, half-in and half-out of a marriage that his own impossibly impulsive behaviour has helped tear apart. While Sasha has been methodically building her father's Parisian art ...
List view record 27: The man who mistook his wife for a hatList view anchor tag for record 27: The man who mistook his wife for a hat
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The man who mistook his wife for a hat

Sacks, Oliver W.2010
He reached out his hand, and took hold of his wife's head, tried to lift it off, to put it on ... His wife looked as if she was used to such things. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological dis...
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Paw tracks in the moonlight

O'Connor, Denis, 1934-2010
The story of Toby Jug, a very fine cat...When Denis O'Connor rescues a three-week-old kitten from certain death during a snowstorm, little does he know how this tiny creature will change his life for ever. Against all odds the kitten - whom he names Toby Jug - survives and forms an unusually stro...
List view record 29: Seaworthy : a swordboat captain returns to the seaList view anchor tag for record 29: Seaworthy : a swordboat captain returns to the sea
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Seaworthy : a swordboat captain returns to the sea

Greenlaw, Linda, 1960-2010
Linda Greenlaw hadn't been bluewater fishing for ten years - not since the events chronicled in The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean - when she decided to captain a friend's boat for a season of swordfishing. Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey Greenlaw tells a story about hum...
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Teatime tales from Dundee

Reynolds, Maureen, 1938-2010
Maureen Reynolds was born and brought up in Dundee, a city with no shortage of intriguing characters, extraordinary events and fascinating memories. In this brand new collection of tales, Maureen looks back to a time of youth and innocence and brings it all vividly back to life once again. There ...
List view record 1: The Holy Bible : Old and New Testaments in the King James version : translated out of the original tongues and with previous translations diligently compared and revised : self-pronouncing : words of Christ in red
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