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by Martin Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012

1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the deployment of British troops and a shortlived, uneasy truce. The British army soon found itself engaged in an undercover war against the Provisional IRA, which was to last...
by Bertie Ahern
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

Bertie Ahern, three times Irish Taoiseach, is often described as an enigma. The Old IRA man's son who delivered peace in Northern Ireland. A working class boy responsible for the Celtic Tiger. The man of faith who ushered in progressive, cosmopolitan secular Ireland. An ardent nationalist admired...
by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015

Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the French are still in denial. If...

Merde in Europe

A Brit goes undercover in Brussels

by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

THE POST-BREXIT EDITION - brand new chapters with extra EU chaos for Englishman Paul West. An Englishman, Paul West, goes to Brussels to work for a French MEP. There he gets an insider's view of what really goes on in the massive madhouse that is the EU Parliament. With the referendum on the...

More Time for Politics

Diaries 2001-2007

by Tony Benn
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010

When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years of this century he has helped reinvigorate national debate through public meetings, mass campaigns and appearances in...

Sisters

Heroic true-life stories from the nurses of World War Two

by Barbara Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013

On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses. Sisters features over 150 previously...
by Maggie Holt
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012

Orphan Mabel Court's dreams come true when she enters the Booth Street Poor Law Infirmary as a probationer nurse. But it is August 1914, and her world is about to be turned upside down. She soon meets Norah McLoughlin, another probationer, and the two girls - together with Mabel's childhood...
by Lily Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012

When her home is destroyed in a bombing raid over London, Miranda Beddoes is forced to take refuge with her grandparents down on the Dorset coast. With both her parents doing their duty for king and country, Miranda longs to do the same. She joins the WAAF and is soon working hard to help win the...

The Nurses of Steeple Street

(Steeple Street 1)

by Donna Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHTINGALE SERIES COMES THE FIRST BOOK IN DONNA DOUGLAS' NEW NURSES OF STEEPLE STREET SERIES. Welcome to the district nurses’ home on Steeple Street, where everyone has a secret… Ambitious young nurse Agnes Sheridan had a promising...
by Donna Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015

Christmas 1941 and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet. With shortages everywhere, and every news bulletin announcing more defeats and losses, the British people are weary and demoralised and The Nightingale Hospital is suffering too. Millie is recently...

District Nurse on Call

(Steeple Street 2)

by Donna Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017

THE BRAND NEW BOOK BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DONNA DOUGLAS Her second book in The Nurses of Steeple Street series The Nightingale Christmas Show is available to PRE-ORDER NOW! ***** West Yorkshire, 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street, Agnes Sheridan is looking forward...
by Lily Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

August 1939: Thirteen-year-old Poppy Brown is evacuated to a village in Dorset. Tired and frightened, she arrives with nothing but her gas mask and a change of clothes to her name. Billeted at a grand country house, Poppy is received with cold indifference above stairs and gets little better treatment...
by Susan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

This special 2-for-1 edition features Missing and The Mill House - two powerful and emotionally engaging novels from the Sunday Times bestseller. Missing It's an early autumn day like any other as Miles Avery drives his wife, Jacqueline, to the station. Nothing remarkable crops up in...

The Pocket Enquire Within

A guide to the niceties and necessities of Victorian domestic life

by George Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011

What is the correct way to carve a partridge? How should leeches be applied? How can egg whites be used to repair broken china? First published in 1856, Enquire Within rapidly became the indispensable guide to Victorian domestic life. Packed with words of wisdom and pithy advice,...
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