A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history.Right from the very start, when George Stephenson's famous Rocket knocked over and …
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes …
An extraordinary memoir from a man in his nineties who remembers everyday life in a North London now long gone: the hardships and deprivations of a life of poverty but also the …
London's Royal Palaces are still some of the most visited places in England. A great deal of their official histories are well known. But London's Strangest Tales: Historic Royal …
This is Lilian's story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly …
A complete natural history and the first large-scale survey of this unique part of the country.The borderland between England and Wales has long been a region of contention. Its …
A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before.In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly …
A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.George Stephenson's Liverpool & Manchester Railway was the first in the world …
The Smell of Summer Grass is based partly on the long out of print 'Perch Hill'. It is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal Arcadia, sometimes a dream, …
