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Diaries, letters & journals
Brand: Sandstone Press Ltd
Anne Scott has never housed her books in order of theme or author yet she knows where each of them is and the kind of life it has led. Some have been gifts but most have been chosen in bookshops unique in their style and possibilities. They have bee..
11.04£
Brand: Random House
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic-inspired by her wildly popular..
26.14£
Brand: Alma Books COMMIS
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, su..
14.39£
Brand: Batsford Books
A cloudspotter's interactive journal.Our interest in clouds is more profound than we ever thought. Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and author of A Cloud A Day has been spreading the word via social media and hugely pop..
20.18£
The Eastern Front, 1941\. Operation Barbarossa. HitlerÃs armies advance into the Soviet Union to conquer Lebensraum in the East. Among the corps commanders is General Gotthard Heinrici, a career soldier, a highly decorated First World War veteran, ..
17.94£
'A Hilltop on the Marne' is a collection of letters written by Mildred Aldrich, an American expatriate who had bought a country farmhouse near Paris in the spring of 1914. Writing to her friends back home, she describes her idyllic life in Huiry, th..
15.11£
'A Jolly Life' is the biography of an Anglican priest who served in Africa in the early 20th century. Written by the subject's great nephew, he offers a vivid portrait of several African countries before, during and after the First World War. ISBN: ..
22.21£
Brand: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781662851728Publisher: Xulon PressImprint: Xulon PressPublished date: 31 Jul 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 694gHeight: 254mmWidth: 178mmSpine width: 16mm..
29.46£
From 1917-19, the Tharaud brothers immersed themselves in Morocco while observing the determined imposition of the French Protectorate at first hand. With unique access to both colonial manoeuvres and a now-vanished Moroccan way of life, they settle..
21.30£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Arthur Hopkins arrived in the Lincolnshire town of Boston in November 1942 to take up the post of Vicar of St Thomas's Church in the working-class parish of Skirbeck Quarter. He was already writing almost daily instalments of a diary for the social ..
55.88£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
John le Carré was a defining writer of his time. From The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which changed our understanding of the secret agent from guns and Martinis to shadows and moral ambiguity, to Agent Running in the Field, in which modern Britai..
37.44£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Kathleen Hey's diary provides an insider's view of an industrial city in wartime Yorkshire. As a shop assistant in a working class district of Dewsbury, she documented the stresses and complex exchanges in a grocery - from both sides of the counter...
66.95£
_A Spitfire Named Connie_ is an exciting rollercoaster of a story. 'Robbie' Robertson begins his RAF training during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. As he learns his trade, he is soon rubbing shoulders with Fighter Command heroes, amongst them ..
28.81£
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams's funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady. But her life and influence merited this extraordinary tribute. She had been first the daughter-in-law and then the wife..
36.37£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
War had an impact on even genteel civilians in unraided cities like Oxford (though safety was never assured), among them Madge Martin (born 1899), wife of the vicar of St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. Her pre-war life, full of travel, theatre v..
35.43£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Based on a timeless Bible verse, this simple journal features inspirational quotes and other popular Scriptures on each lightly lined spread. Use it for reflecting on the day's events, journalling Bible study notes, or to fortify your quiet time.Ell..
14.77£
'"Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus and I still would have come out better than this.'..
24.03£
Brand: Random House
'IB was one of the great affirmers of our time.' John Banville, New York Review of BooksThe title of this final volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters is echoed by John Banville's verdict in his review of its predecessor, Building: Letters 1960-75, which..
26.63£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused id..
22.55£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
How do you start a new life when the person you love is about to die? At the age of thirty-six, Gordon Darroch's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a devastating blow just as he, and their two children with autism, were preparing to move ..
15.44£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book presents the writings of Hugh S. Gibson, who served from 1919 to 1924 as the first US Minister to the new Second Polish Republic. Crucially involved with world-shaping events, Gibson faithfully recorded his eyewitness impressions and inter..
59.48£
Brand: Octopus
Nurture self-expression and discovery with this beautiful guided journal, one day at a time.Journaling is one of the best self-care practices - writing things down relieves stress, helps to process emotions and express feelings, clears the mind and ..
15.07£
Anne Braden was raised to be a southern belle. Instead, she became a revolutionary who helped to shape the self-understanding of the entire civil rights movement. From her earliest days as a trade unionist in the radical wing of the Congress of Indu..
73.92£
Are you ready to go deeper on your spiritual journey and breathe new life into your faith? Love, joy, wisdom, and hope--these are just a few of the things we all want more of in our lives. Anne Neilson's Angels Guided Journal will give you a chance ..
24.19£