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Durham. Winter 1914. Following shattering news of his father’s death, naïve Oxbridge scholar Edmund Bullick returns to a wall of silence only exacerbated by the shocking revelations of Lord Cavendish, his father’s employer. In his quest for answers, Edmund blunders into a...

In 1915 Sara Winwood writes a diary. It begins as a grand adventure for Sara and five other newly enlisted sisters in the Australian Army Nursing Service heading into the unknown to do their bit in a distant war. But on board the hospital ship Gascon adventure turns to ordeal. The women face...

‘A little advice from Papa will not come amiss’   So writes ‘the Old Boy’, working in the Colonial Service in Ethiopia to his son ‘Chips’, leaving Scotland for a life in the Rhodesian police (BSAP) in March 1963.   It was certainly a life-shaping...

Miss Marple is far more than just a character invented by Agatha Christie. From her debut in the traumatic aftermath of Christie’s disappearance author and character were united in a bond that was literary and personal, public and private, open and submerged. Award-winning literary historian...

This work is a local and social history of east Hull’s Courtney Street which housed many families within a heavily industrialised area of the city. The book opens with an account of the building of the street and leads on to my birth in 1931. After this I have called on my memories and reported...

From life ploughing the fields to satisfy a greedy sulking landlord to self-made men of the industrial revolution, from scratching a living from a few scruffy acres to squandering a fortune of as many whole farms, and from the Battlefield of Marston Moor to the Battle of Berlin, this is the story...

Jake’s father Harry is missing under suspicious circumstances. Searching for him puts Jake’s life in danger.

When thirteen-year-old George finds a parcel in a disused lift he is mystified by the contents – a lift timetable, tablets to induce sickness and an invisible torch (that is clearly visible). Equipped with these three seemingly useless items, George is imprisoned and transported by the lift to Leesome...

This is the first book in a series of short stories which are easy reading, sensitive yet entertaining for all ages. They tell a story of a young boy who has Asperger’s syndrome, autistic spectrum disorder and some of the difficulties that surround him on a daily basis in particular within a school...

Interesting stuff -  Dave Pegg, veteran bass guitarist with folk-rock stalwarts Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull. "Having read a chapter or two of 'Karma', I'm now really looking forward to seeing the finished item." From Kingston-upon-Hull to Kempton Park and from Northamptonshire...

The first book in this epic series The Badgers Will Dance is the engrossing and moving story of Milo and his eye-blinkingly quick tempered friend Charley who would fight at the drop of a hat…of the good looking and peace loving Con who wouldn’t say boo to a goose…of the enchanting and...

How a simple data module underlies all our thoughts and perceptions. The biology of our brains is reasonably well understood through research and our knowledge of the laws of chemistry and ultimately physics. Our minds and our day-to-day experiences depend on the operation of the brain, yet...

"If you treat people as if they were what they might be and could be, they will become what they are capable of becoming." - [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe The 30-million word gap' Over four years in early childhood, some children hear 30 MILLION more words than others. This book explores...

While many excellent books have been published about the nineteenth century county asylums in England, comparatively little has been written about the tens of thousands of real people, mostly “pauper lunatics”, who passed through their doors. Social historians starved of material providing a deep...