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Our Endless Numbered Days
£8.99Our Endless Numbered Days
1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of ‘The Railway Children’ and listening to her mother’s grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is everything. She is not seen again for another nine years.
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The River Itchen At Martyr Worthy
£35.00The River Itchen At Martyr Worthy
A ten year study of a one kilometre stretch of the River Itchen at Martyr Worthy, Hampshire – one of the finest wild brown trout rivers in the world. This highly illustrated account of the wildlife (birds, plants, insects, animals, fish, reptiles, snails) and riverkeeping and river engineering activities gives an insight into life on the river through the seasons and across the years. Underwater and night vision images reveal hidden life and features. Historical detail, combined with contemporary accounts and aerial mapping, bring the past back into focus. Conservation is discussed. ‘Art in Nature’ is featured to engage with children, artists, poets and story-tellers. Fieldcraft, equipment and techniques are also described.
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Bitter Orange
£8.99Bitter Orange
Frances Jellico is dying. A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances – tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house – first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple, Cara and Peter. She recalls the relationship they forged through sweltering days, lavish dinners, and elaborate lies, and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the couple. Were the signs there right from the beginning? Or was it impossible to avoid the crime that split their lives open like rotten fruit?
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The Legacy of Mr Jarvis
£9.99The Legacy of Mr Jarvis
It is 1966 and 12 year old Mary Foster’s narrow, prescribed world is abruptly disturbed by a sudden, unexplained move from suburban London to a neglected Victorian house on the south coast of England.
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Maud Beerbohm Tree
£9.99Maud Beerbohm Tree
Much has been written about Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his grandiose Shakespearean productions, but his equally flamboyant wife Maud, Lady Tree, has received less attention.
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The The Dragon’s Edge
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Tales From A Winchester Hill
£7.99Tales From A Winchester Hill
The story begins in Russia 1917, at the time that Czar Nicholas 2nd, his wife, Alexandra, and four children Olga, Tatiana, Anastasia, Maria and son, Alexis, are imprisoned before being assassinated. Little-known is the fact that there was a parallel or rival Czar in the far-east of Russia, recognised by the Old Believers: Czar Ussuri, who had a small son, Mikhail. Because of the prevailing unrest, Mikhail was sent to live under the guardianship of an old Russian aristocratic family, where, in time, he would be known as Peter Mikhail Czarevitch,Fast forward to 2008, where some members of a sports club are spending their summer holidays in St Helena. Sinister events are unfolding on the island at the same time. The thing that bonds the group is croquet.Would they, and the game of croquet, survive?
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Continental Riff
£8.99Continental Riff
When Stockwell Park Orchestra goes on tour to Europe, it proves a challenge for even the most efficient German logistical planner.
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The Switch
£8.99The Switch
After blowing a big presentation at work, Leena takes a two-month sabbatical and escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn eighty. She’d like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn’t offer many eligible gentlemen. A life swap seems the perfect solution. But with a rabble of unruly OAPs to contend with, as well as the distractingly handsome local schoolteacher, Leena learns that switching lives isn’t straightforward. In London, Eileen is a huge hit with her new neighbours, and with the online dating scene. But is her perfect match nearer to home than she first thought?
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Miller Street SW22
£9.99Miller Street SW22
A story of loss, love, guilt and ultimately hope and redemption, MILLER STREET SW22 follows a year in the lives of five neighbours who move into the road in the autumn of 2005, each brought to the urban south London location for a new start.
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Two Can Play
£12.99Two Can Play
Cat likes to work in the garden digging, planting seeds and growing vegetables. Puss doesn’t appear to see the point in gardening, she likes to be in the house sitting around drinking tea. But Puss really likes to eat delicious food, so when Cat makes a feast with her harvest, Puss wants to share.
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Sap in the Blood
£13.99Sap in the Blood
The affluent lifestyle of Major Giles Derryvale and his children could not be more different to that of Cliff Curtiss, his head gardener, and Cliff’s wife, Esther, but they share the same preoccupations with life and family, together with a deep abiding love for their work on the Derryvale country estate. Thomas Briswell, the proud owner of a footwear empire, enjoys that same privileged life in their small rural community. Surely, a marriage between Sonia Derryvale and George Briswell could only strengthen their status and enrich their lives? But the coming war will break apart the long-established barriers of class and wealth and forge new bonds of friendship that will undermine the power of the upper-classes and expose the weaknesses within. As Sonia and George become closer, there is a menacing undercurrent of secrecy that threatens the loving bond between Cliff, Esther and their adopted son.
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