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2010/2011 – NEW RELEASES

A Farmers Boy Goes to War cover

A Farmer’s Boy Goes To War
Arthur John Callwood

The only son of a North Warwickshire farming family, Arthur Callwood was born just after the end of World War I. He was intended to follow the family tradition of farming on the estate where George Eliot had once lived. At the outbreak of World War II, however, he was called up for active service...

£14.95 PB
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Edwardian Teddington – The Journal of Nellie Stocker
Ken Howe

Reading Edwardian Teddington is like peeping through a keyhole into the beginning of the last century. It tells the story of a young girl from a working class family observing life all around her as she goes about her daily duties...

£7.95 PB
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To Hell and Back – A True Tale of heroism in World War One
Neville Barley

Shortly after the onset of the Great War Wilfrid Barley, aged 19 years, like many other young men, volunteered to ‘do his bit’ as a Private in the Worcestershire Regiment. Many years after his death a diary was discovered documenting his experiences as an ordinary ‘Tommy’...

£5.95 PB
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Planet BB – The Boys’ Brigade Around The World
Ed. David Chant

The Boys’ Brigade has just celebrated its 125th Anniversary. In 1883, Sir William Alexander Smith founded the first uniformed youth organisation in Glasgow. He would soon see his Church based movement spread to all corners of the world. This book features histories, stories, and interviews from the UK, the Caribbean, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the United States of America...

£12.95 PB
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A Pocketful of Acorns cover A Pocketful of Acorns
John Moore (Ed. Phillip Robbins)

For nearly forty years up to his death in 1967, John Moore regularly wrote articles and short stories for newspapers and magazines in addition to his output of books. Like his books these articles had a rural flavour and many appeared weekly as his Country Column in the Birmingham Evening Mail. Some in part subsequently found their way into some of his country books, but generally most have lain for many years, unread in the archives...

£14.95 PB
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The Heydays Of Selly Oak Park – 1896–1911
Ken Pugh

Join a great grandson of the first Park Keeper at Selly Oak Park, Birmingham, as he delves into the Park’s history. Discover why, when, and how the Park came to be. Re-live the days, a hundred years ago, when thousands thronged to the Park to relax, play and be entertained. The colour and excitement of the recreational events and activities are remarkable, and the images linger long...

£14.95 PB
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Coaching and the Wheatsheaf Inn
Sue Brown

Birmingham born librarian Sue Brown looks at a timber framed building in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and traces something of its fascinating history as a coaching inn. Known as the Wheatsheaf between about 1754 and 1875, it was established as one of two principal inns in the town by 1788...

£5.95 PB
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Poetic Journal of a Cameron Highlander
Poems written by a soldier during the 2nd World War
Jack Gillespie

Jack Gillespie was born in 1909 and celebrated his 100th birthday on 4th August 2009. In his youth he enjoyed sports and keenly participated in cricket, athletics and particularly boxing. Belonging to a Scottish family in Liverpool, Jack, not unexpectedly, joined the Liverpool Scottish Regiment (10th Bn. King’s Regiment)...

* As featured in The Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman *

£6.95 PB
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Czech and Mate
Margaret Austin and Fred Austin

He saw her for the first time in the queue for the Dean. The year was 1947. She had just arrived in Leicester to begin her English course at the University College (as it then was), while he was making a fresh start after the financial problems of the year before. He liked what he saw and said to his new friends, “Have you seen that zipped dress?” She saw him too and thought, “You look as though you’re used to getting your own way, but you’re not going to get me!”...

£14.95 PB
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Coronation Village
North Muskham in the 1950s

Trevor Frecknall

Take a door-to-door stroll through a typical Middle England village during the countryside’s golden decade – and discover the harsh realities and tender thoughts, not to mention the social and sports clubs, that made communities so strong in the days when rural poverty was taken for granted...

* As featured in This is nottingham.co.uk *

£10.95 PB
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The Grass was always Greener
Angela Claysmith Jenkins

In this candid account Angela Claysmith Jenkins takes us through another twenty years in the saga of her extended family. Through births and deaths, another nine house moves and twenty five more jobs, The Grass was always Greener describes the challenge of motherhood, Angela’s involvement in the Women’s Movement and dropping out in Cornwall...

£9.95 PB
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