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The Tent, the Bucket and Me
by Emma Kennedy
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In the 1970s, family holidays for Emma Kennedy weren’t about sunshine and easy living, but being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading for a windswept coast. In this very funny account of camping holidays of yesteryear, she recalls....
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The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars by Patrick Hennessey
What is life really like for a young officer in the British Army today? Patrick Hennessey served....
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Theodor SEUSS Geisel by Donald E Pease
Theodor Geisel began his career when an editor bet him he couldn’t produce a book for children....
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No Place to Hide by Errol Christie
This isn’t a book that romanticises the life of a boxer: it’s a book about fighting.....
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
This is the remarkable memoir of William Kamkwamba, a teenager from a poverty-stricken village....
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Class Actor by Phil Daniels
From early appearances in Quadrophenia through collaborations with Blur to his recent role....
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Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon
Despite having only published a handful of poems during her lifetime, after her death in 1886....
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