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Where shall we run to?: a memoir
Paperback.
Published
London: 4th Estate, 2019
194 pages : 20 cm
In 'Where Shall We Run To?', Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as 'a sissy...
Sonic Youth slept on my floor: music, Manchester, and more: a memoir
Paperback.
Published
London: Constable, 2019
342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm
'Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor' is writer/DJ Dave Haslam's gloriously well-crafted memoir, documenting his encounters with inspiring characters including...
Cobbled streets & penny sweets: happy times and hardship in post-war Britain
Paperback.
Published
London: John Blake, 2019
279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm
Born in 1950s Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Yvonne Young's childhood was spent at the heart of the city's industry. With her grandfather working as a ship painter...
The Cuckoo child
CD.
Published
Oxford: Soundings Audio Books, 2019
11 sound discs CDs (11 hrs, 30 mins.)
When Dot McCann, playing relievio with her pals, decides to hide in Butcher Rathbone's almost empty dustbin, she overhears a conversation which could...
A sister's bond
Hardback.
Published
Long Preston: Magna, 2019
438 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
After her mother dies, Livvie Bone knows it's down to her to support her family and protect her younger siblings from their drunken father. But life in...
Pie and mash down the Roman Road: 100 years of love and life in one East End market
Paperback.
Published
London: Two Roads, 2019
246 pages ; 20 cm
This is the story of the Roman Road, an East End pie and mash shop and the lives, loves, and losses of the people who have worked and eaten there. Kelly...
Violet's children
Paperback.
Published
London: Orion, 2018
279 pages ; 20 cm
Liverpool, 1950. They say you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. Yet when Violet Duffy is asked to give a home to the orphaned...
The biscuit girls
Hardback.
Published
Long Preston: Magna, 2015
327 pages
Large print
Ivy, Dulcie, Barbara, Ann, Dorothy and Jean all had different reasons for applying to work at Carr's biscuits, but once they had put on their overalls...
Love and marriage
Paperback.
Published
Sutton: Severn House Paperbacks, 2018
240 pages ; 23 cm
1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend, the previously flighty Cissie, is expecting her second child, content...
Violet's children
Hardback.
Published
London: Orion, 2018
279 pages ; 24 cm
Liverpool, 1950. They say you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. Yet when Violet Duffy is asked to give a home to the orphaned...
