Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children (Brinkhurst-Cuff Charlie)(Paperback)

Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children (Brinkhurst-Cuff Charlie)(Paperback)

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE*** A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair.For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was

The Real Roald Dahl (Cohen Nadia)(Paperback)

Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the hearts of generations of children, there was much more to beloved author Roald Dahl than met the eye.His fascinating life began in Norway in 1916, and he became a highly rebellious teenager who delighted in defying authority before

When the Children Came Home - Stories of Wartime Evacuees (Summers Julie)(Paperback / softback)

A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of children evacuated during the Second World War and the families they left

Among the Pond People (Yesterday's Classics) (Pierson Clara Dillingham)(Paperback)

A delightful volume of nature stories for young children. Presents the adventures of Mother Eel, the Playful Muskrat, the Snappy Snapping Turtle, and the other Pond People. These stories are full of humor, yet cleverly convey information about the frogs, minnows, and other pond residents and often

Circle of Five (Joshua Harris)(Paperback / softback)

A Circle of Five is a compilation of stories from five women of the Windrush generation. Transcribed from interviews recorded by H V Joshua, the book takes us through the memories, trials and tribulations of these women, charting their genesis in the Caribbean all the way to their new lives in the

Voices of the Windrush Generation: The Real Story Told by the People Themselves (Matthews David)(Pevná vazba)

The Turn of the Screw: And Other Stories (James Henry)(Paperback)

A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. At first Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess begins to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets hidden in the house, she is

Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht Bertolt)(Paperback)

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht s most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ( Mother Courage ), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her

Children Of The New World - Stories (Weinstein Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Gunpowder, Apples and Cement - the story of an English country home (Cook Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

A story of a real-life English country

The October Country: Stories (Bradbury Ray)(Paperback)

The October Country is Ray Bradbury's own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. Renowned for his multi-million-copy bestseller, Fahrenheit 451, and hailed by Harper's magazine as 'the finest living writer of fantastic fiction,' Ray Bradbury

Up and Down Stairs - The History of the Country House Servant (Musson Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

A history that brings to life the real country house

The Railway Children (Kenny Mike)(Paperback)

Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family - mother and three children - forced into near-penury in the rural north of England captures the anxieties and exhilarations of childhood with great tenderness and

Homecoming - Voices of the Windrush Generation (Grant Colin)(Paperback / softback)

Where's the Mother?: Stories from a Transgender Dad (MacDonald Trevor)(Paperback)

'A deeply compelling memoir from a transgender man who birthed and breastfed his children - it's informative, inspiring, and transformational.' - DIANA WEST, co-author of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 8th edition In a time when to most people 'pregnancy' automatically means 'motherhood,' what

Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago (Horn Pamela)(Paperback)

The real lives of women in Britain's country

Healing Children: A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine (Newman Kurt)(Paperback)

The Kidds of Summerhill (Murtagh Ann)(Paperback)

In the spring of 1945 a mother dies, leaving four children to fend for themselves in a Dublin tenement.Nancy, the oldest, lives in dread of the family being split up. The power to send them all to industrial schools such as Artane and Goldenbridge lies with the 'Cruelty Men.' Their spy, the Pig

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Wells H. G.)(Paperback)

The early short stories of an essential 20th century literary personage Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Dahl Roald)(Paperback)

Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection

A Day in the Country and Other Stories (Maupassant Guy De)(Paperback)

In addition to the title story, this selection of twenty-seven stories includes one of Maupassant's most famous tales, 'The Necklace,' and 'Le Horla,' a tale with strange parallels to the author's own descent into madness, as well as many other provocative and often chilling works--spanning the

The Real Mother Goose Board Book (Scholastic)(Board Books)

Fifteen of the best-loved verses and pictures from the original Mother

Stories with Grandpa: Animals (Hovind Kent E.)(Paperback)

The world needs the hearts of the fathers turned to their children. Character building stories are a great way to do that. Nearly every culture on earth passes on its collective wisdom, morals, and knowledge to the next generation via stories, parables, and fables.Come along with me and my

The Railway Children (Nesbit E.)(Paperback)

Set in and around a country railway station at the turn of the twentieth century, the plight of the railway children grappling with their new environment is imaginatively brought to life for a modern audience while losing nothing of the original spirit of humour, tension, adventure and the final