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Madresfield: the real Brideshead
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2009
Large print ed
Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home surrounded by a perfect medieval moat, in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously...
Over to Candleford
Hardback. English.
Published
Bath: Chivers, 2008
Large print ed
Laura is growing up and the family's boundaries extent beyond Lark Rise to include Candleford, a fantastic metropolis to children from a small village
Wicksy and the king's shilling
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2011
Peter Wicks dedicates the third instalment of his memoirs to his father Frank Wicks who fought in the trenches of the First World War. Now in his teens...
The scent of the countryside
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2010
Doris Gawrys has such fond memories of her childhood home that she dedicates this memoir to the house 'Pengelly' in Rayleigh, Essex. With its white roses...
To the edge of the sea: schooldays of a crofter's child
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2007
Large print ed
This text is a memoir of the author's childhood in the 1940s and 1950s on South Uist. It analyses the hardships of her life up to the end of secondary...
Growing up in Fulham
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2005
Large print ed
Harry Turner chronicles his early life in Fulham up to his leaving home at 18 to do his National Service. In a series of vivid portraits of post-war London...
We died with our boots clean
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2011
This work proves that the truest records of the Second World War lie in the memories of the ordinary soldiers who fought on the ground
Spitfire pilot
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2009
Large print ed
The memoir of D.M. Crook, an airman in the legendary 609 Squadron - one of the most successful RAF units in the Battle of Britain. Beginning with his...
Bitter fruit
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2010
Here, Rod Broome describes his early days in teaching; a head teacher who died in post, his first position as head teacher in a new open-plan primary...
Came the day
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: ISIS, 2008
Large print ed
Grenville J. Davies was taken prisoner at the beginning of WWII. Held in Stalag XXA and XXB POW Forced Labour Camps in Poland and Germany, he was able...
