One
Monday in November
and Beyond
- the story of the Selborne and Headley Workhouse Riots during the Swing
Riots of 1830
and their aftermath - John
Owen Smith
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All
Tanked Up - the
story of the benign 'invasion' of a Hampshire village by Canadian tank
regiments during the Second World War - John
Owen Smith
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Liphook,
Bramshott and the Canadians - the story of Canadian troops in
Liphook and Bramshott during two World Wars - Laurence
Giles
Published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society
Price: UK £3.40
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The Southern
Wey, a guide - Geology,
history and natural history of the Southern River Wey Valley between
Hindhead and Tilford
Published by the River Wey Trust
Now out of
stock as a paper version - PDF of scanned image available on request
A
Balance of Trust
- the railway arrives in a Surrey village , and nothing is the
same again - is Hindhead Common safe? We meet the founder of The National
Trust, and cover 50 years of history in and around Haslemere and Hindhead,
Surrey from the arrival of the railway to the arrival of the motor car
- John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £7.00 / Europe £8.50 / O/seas £10.00
The
Hilltop Writers
- a Victorian Colony among the Surrey Hills - a
new illustrated edition , in which we meet Tennyson, Conan
Doyle, Bernard Shaw and the many other writers who populated the hilltops
around Haslemere and Hindhead at the end of the 1890s - W
R Trotter
Price:
UK £9.90 / Europe £12.15 / O/seas £14.90
Literary
Surrey - a lively
exploration of the time spent and work written in Surrey by authors
from John Evelyn and Fanny Burney to H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster. Special
chapters on Country Writers, Box Hill and the River Mole, Children's
Writers (up to Jacqueline Wilson) and "The Quill and the Sword"
(Surrey writers in times of war).
Contains suggestions for further reading and details about places to
visit - Jacqueline
Banerjee
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UK £9.70 / Europe £11.65 / O/seas £14.00
Shottermill,
its Farms, Families and Mills
- Part 1: Early Times to the 1700s - illustrated
with photographs and maps - Greta
A Turner
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Shottermill,
its Farms, Families and Mills - Part
2: 1730 to the Early Twentieth Century
- illustrated with photographs and maps - Greta
A Turner
Price: UK £14.90 / Europe £17.70 / O/seas £22.00
A
History of the Eade Family of
Surrey, Sussex & Hampshire 12501990
- illustrated with photographs and maps - Robyn
Lane and Andrew Eade
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The
Restless Miller -
Scenes from rural life in bygone Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire
- illustrated - David
Johnston
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An
Edwardian Childhood
- the making of a naturalist - the family lived a life of self-sufficiency
where the only machine on the farm was the children's toy steam engine
- a new extended illustrated edition
- Margaret
Hutchinson
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UK £8.65 / Europe £10.45 / O/seas £12.45
I'Anson's
Chalet on Headley Hill
- a hidden
house, a hidden history - Hidden among the
pine trees on Headley Hill there is a Swiss-style chalet. Who built
it and why? -
Judith
Kinghorn
Price: UK £4.85
/ Europe £6.00 / O/seas £7.20
Walks
around Headley
and
over the borders - A
dozen circular walks around Headley - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £6.85 / Europe £8.00 / O/seas £9.20
Walks
through History
at
the West of the Weald - A
dozen circular walks with an historical theme - John
Owen Smith
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UK £6.85 / Europe £8.00 / O/seas £9.20
Walks
from the Railway
Guildford
to Portsmouth - Circular
walks from stations, and linear walks to connect them - John
Owen Smith
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Walks
around Liphook - 20 circular walks around Liphook
Published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society
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Headley's
Past in Pictures
- an illustrated tour of the parish of Headley , Hampshire in
the first half of the 20th century - old postcards and photographs of
Headley parish with historical commentary - John
Owen Smith
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Grayshott
- the story of a Hampshire village , on the border with Surrey
and once part of Headley parish - Written in 1978 to celebrate the 75th
anniversary of Grayshott Civil Parish, this book tells the history of
the village from its earliest beginnings as a minor hamlet of Headley
to its status as a fully independent parish flourishing on (and across)
the borders of Hampshire and Surrey. It was republished to celebrate
the centenary of the parish in 2002 - J
H (Jack) Smith
Price:
UK £7.65 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £11.00
On
the Trail of Flora Thompson
- The author of Lark Rise lived for nearly 30 years in Hampshire.
This book tells of the difficult period during which she 'won the fight
to write' and includes local comment and some of her previously unpublished
work - we turn detective to discover the true identity of the people
and places Flora Thompson encountered while she lived in east Hampshire
- John
Owen Smith
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Heatherley
- the 'lost' sequel to 'Lark Rise to Candleford' - Flora Thompson's
time in east Hampshire at the turn of the 19th century - edition including
map and notes on people & places she encountered in east Hampshire
- Flora
Thompson
Price:
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The Peverel Papers
- Nature notes written in Liphook, 1921-27 - Flora
Thompson
Price:
UK £20.40 / Europe £23.25 / O/seas £28.00
Flora Thompson
- Biography - the story of the 'Lark Rise' writer - Gillian
Lindsay
Price:
UK £9.70 / Europe £11.65 / O/seas £14.00
The
World of Flora Thompson Revisited
- Biography , giving particular emphasis to Flora Thompson's roots
in the Oxfordshire countryside - Christine
Bloxham -
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Without
Education or Encouragement , by Ruth Collette Hoffman -
The Literary Legacy of Flora Thompson
Guide
to Liphook, Bramshott and Neighbourhood - a 1925 guidebook to
the village of Liphook in Hampshire and its surroundings, largely written
by Flora Thompson
Reprinted by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society in 1995
Price: UK £3.40
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Growing
up in Griggs Green - recollections of life in Liphook at the
time of the First World War, by a neighbour of Flora Thompson
- Joe
Leggett
Published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society
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No Toys
for the Boys - further recollections of growing up in Liphook,
Longmoor and Griggs Green - Joe
Leggett
Published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society
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Ancient
Churches in North East Hampshire
- an illustrated guide to twelve local mediaeval Hampshire churches:
Alton, Bentley, Binsted, Froyle, Holybourne, East Worldham, West Worldham,
Kingsley, Hartley Mauditt, Selborne, Headley and Bramshott - Woolmer
Forest Archaeological and Historical Society
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A
Parcel of Gold for Edith
- letters from Australia to Headley 1853-1875 - Joyce
Stevens
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To the
Ar and Back -
an historical stroll around Headley and Arford - Joyce
Stevens
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The
River Running By
- the story of Standford hamlet and its church - John
Warren
Now out of print,
but there is a possibility of an updated version in the future
Headley
Miscellany - Volume 1
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
Price: UK £3.40
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Headley
Miscellany - Volume 2
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
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Headley
Miscellany - Volume 3
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
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Headley
Miscellany - Volume 4
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
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Headley
Miscellany - Volume 5
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
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Headley
Miscellany - Volume 6
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - includes Index -
The Headley
Society
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Echoes
of a Trumpet -
the great-granddaughter of the legendary 'Trumpeter' of Selborne serves
us fact laced with supposition - Jean
Newland
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Echoes
of Home - the
story of Ellen, the transported daughter of the 'Trumpeter' of Selborne,
Hampshire - Jean
Newland
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Jessica's
People - a story
from quieter times in Ireland, leading through to the author's arrival
in Headley - Jessie
Woodger
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Churt:
a Medieval Landscape
- peasant life in medieval Churt - Philip
B rooks
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Churt,
an Oasis through Time
- a short history of the village - Olivia
Cotton
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Churt Remembered
- photographic memories of Churt, Surrey - Olivia
Cotton
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Further
Reflections on Churt
- more photographic memories of Churt, Surrey - Olivia
Cotton
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A Time
of Change - A
short history of Churt, Surrey: the period between 1840 and 1880
- Gillian
Devine
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My
Ockenden Adventure
- Life in a home in Haslemere
for refugee children from the displaced persons’ camps in Germany
- Elsie
Broughton -
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Wanborough
Manor - School
for Secret Agents - Patrick
Yarnold -
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St
Bartholomew's Parish Church Haslemere
- Katherine
Jessel -
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One
Hundred Years of Liphook Bonfire & Carnival
- Brian
North -
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A
Century Not Out
- One hundred years of the I'Anson Cup
- Graham
Collyer -
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Hampshire
Place Names -
Provides an interesting
insight into some of the county's more unusual place names
- Anthony
Poulton-Smith -
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Compton
Pottery
- A richly illustrated book which traces the history of this village
industry and is the first account of the diversity and heritage of this
unusual pottery
- Hilary
Calvert -
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Alton
Papers, No.5 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.6 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.7 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.8 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.9 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.10
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.11
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.12
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.13
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Jane
Austen and Alton
- a walk round Jane Austen's
Alton - Jane
Hurst -
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Jane
Austen and Chawton
- a walk round Jane Austen's
Chawton - Jane
Hurst -
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Miss
Bell's Fountains
- a history of "The Munificent
Gifts" in Alton - Jane
Hurst -
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Alton's
Inns - "in
all our inns we have plenty of ale, beer and sundry kinds of wine"
- Jane
Hurst -
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Alton's
Pubs - Alehouses,
beerhouses and public houses in Alton, up to the First World War
- Jane
Hurst -
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Alton's
Motor Traders - part 1
- A century of service
- Norman
Pointing -
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Alton's
Motor Traders - part 2
- A century of service
- Norman
Pointing -
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The
Battle of Alton
- an account of the famous Civil War battle of 1643 in Alton, Hampshire
- Peter
Cansfield
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via author
Sweet
FA - the true
story of Fanny Adams in Alton - Peter
Cansfield
- Order
via author
Audio book of Gilbert White's
Natual Histroy of Selborne
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The Hastings Press
For books on Sussex history
and on Women's history
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Never
Ripe
- Short
Stories & Rhythmic Writings
- even
a local historian can write fiction! - John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £4.85
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The Nemesis
File - Fourteen
days will change Steve's life. This tense mystery-thriller moves swiftly
from Sussex to Copenhagen with interludes in Portsmouth, Italy and Scotland,
and ends with a sea chase in a gale -
James
Morley
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Rocastle's
Vengeance -
When Peter Wilson takes a job as harbour master in the Dorset yacht
harbour of Old Duddlestone, he is surprised to learn that his own father
was the harbour's wartime commander and is forced into a situation
that nearly brings his own destruction - James
Morley
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Magdalena's
Redemption - If
an eight-year-old boy commits murder is he irredeemably evil? Can he
ever be rehabilitated or will he kill again to preserve his secret?
Hampshire farmer, Tom O'Malley, finds the dead body of a young journalist.
Not satisfied that she is a suicide he makes his own investigation -
James
Morley
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Emily's
Hour - Everything
changes for the Simpson family when the dead body of an internet millionaire
is found in Branham Lake and a close friend is falsely accused of murder
- James
Morley
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Olympic
Nemesis - Emily
Simpson's Olympic dream is threatened by an internet gambling syndicate.
Her father, Steve, is sailing in the Paralympics. Speculation about
a father/daughter double gold puts both under threat - James
Morley
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Circles
of Light - A
series of six books telling the tale of Tika, a runanway slave who becomes
bonded to Dragons in a turbulent world -
EM Sinclair
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The
Happy Reader -
An
anthology of short stories and verse by local writers in support of
Sue Ryder Care charity -
The Petersfield
Writers' Circle
- Order via publisher
Till
All the Seas Run Dry
- a sequel to 'The Secret Garden' - for those who have read and enjoyed
The Secret Garden, this sequel will have a special appeal, in which
Mary, Colin and Dickon meet again at Misselthwaite ten years later -
it will warm the heart and stir the memory - Susan
Webb
Price: UK £7.90
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Come
Home Kathleen
- When Kate Linnet visits relatives in Southern Ireland she finds herself
in familiar surroundings, despite the fact that she has never been there
before, and soon she is inexplicably drawn first to a folly on an island,
then to a house near the harbour that belongs to a fisherman. What echoes
from the past have attracted her to these places, and to the tall dark
stranger she meets on a cliff path, who carries her home after a fall?
And what are the dark secrets surrounding Kilmannock House and its irascible
owner, William de Clare? But most intriguing of all, what really happened
to the tragic girl, Kathleen...? - Susan
Webb
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via publisher
Solace
- offers a taste of the world into which Jesus was born, seen through
the eyes of six-year old Yedidyah - Anandi
Saraph
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Me Too,
Baba - offers
a small glimpse of the author's relationship with the mystery which
is a Guru a teacher who has the ability to take a seeker from
the darkness (Gu) to the light (Ru) - Anandi
Saraph
Price: UK £4.35
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A Year
Out of Time -
the story of one twelve year old girl from a 'nice' middle-class background,
and a 'nice' private school (where her mother hoped she might learn
to be a lady) who, in the Autumn of 1940, finds herself pitched into
the totally foreign environment of a small Worcestershire hamlet - Eve
Phillips -
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And All
Shall be Well
- follows
Francis Lindsey's journey from a suddenly orphaned ten-year-old to an
established artist. Taken on by his Aunt Emily, a sixty-something spinster,
aided and abetted by the somewhat anarchic old priest, Father Con, Francis
receives an unconventional and frequently exhilarating upbringing. One
which helps prepare and support him in his wartime role of interpreter
in a recently liberated German Work Camp, and his ultimately tragic
first love affair with an Austrian survivor.
- Eve
Phillips -
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Matthew's
Daughter - we
follow Caroline Penrose after her return from the war to Trewlyns, her
father’s flower farm in Cornwall, where she hopes to find the peace
and quiet to rebuild her life after the death of her Polish airman lover.
But shortly after her arrival home she becomes aware of an atmosphere
of secrecy and intrigue between her father Matthew, Grace Brendon his
housekeeper, and Caroline’s best friend Jennie, daughter of the rector
Paul Tremaine. - Eve
Phillips -
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The
Changing Day
- the final book in the
Cornish Trilogy, begins in 1940, when a meeting between WREN Joanna
Dunne and Navy Lieutenant Mark Eden is the start of a love affair that
at first seems unlikely to stand the test of time. She is 22, single
and an Oxford graduate; he is 36, married and in civilian life a country
vet. She is attracted but not looking for romance, he is attracted but
not looking for commitment and, as Joanna soon discovers, he is the
black sheep of his family and has a very murky past. - Eve
Phillips -
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A Very
Private Affair
- In
the spring of 1934 fourteen year old orphan Anna Farrell is transported
from a life of drab, penny-pinching, genteel poverty with her cousin
Ruth, to the elegant, affluent Bloomsbury household of distant cousin
Patrick Farrell, owner of a successful antique gallery, and his manservant,
Charlie Caulter. Naïve and young for her years, Anna is at first blissfully
unaware of the well-hidden secret kept by the two men, until a meeting
with the quasi-charming Madame Gallimard and her sons becomes the catalyst
that threatens to tear her world apart.
- Eve
Phillips -
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Return
to Falcon Field
- Following
the death of his wife, Ryan Petersen, a professor of European Literature
at a New England University, is offered a year's exchange lectureship
with London University. Accompanied by his matriarchal mother Hannah,
who is hell-bent on finding him a new and more suitable wife, and his
difficult young son, Joel, he arrives in swinging sixties London. But
in exchanging his native land for England the reserved, cynical, woman-wary
Ryan has one even more compelling reason for crossing the pond - to
find the woman with whom he had a passionate wartime love affair over
twenty years before…
- Eve
Phillips -
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A Very
Artistic Affair
- When
Olivia Ryder’s faithless husband, Giles, actually falls in love with
his latest conquest, the young actress Zoë Ormonde, Olivia leaves
their home, returns to her roots on the Devon coast and resumes her
earlier artistic career.
But while Giles woos the nubile Zoë in Hampshire and Olivia pursues
the heady path of independence in Devon, nothing is quite as idyllic
as it seems and there are pitfalls ahead for all…
- Eve
Phillips -
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Foundation
Stone - the
influence and shaping of Brian Jones, founder of the Rolling Stones
- Graham
Ride -
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The
Old Time - growing
up in the Chiltern Hills in the 1950s - John
Comer -
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The
Connollys - we
follow Rosie Connolly and her family in County Cavan through bad times
and good - Jessie
Woodger
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Anthology
of the Phoenix Poets
- commemorative edition featuring many prize-winning authors
Price: UK £4.60
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