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Summoned by Bells
- £60.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail his formative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of…
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Summoned by Bells
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- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
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Summoned by Bells
- £15.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life
- £10.00
- For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.ÒIn the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God É perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in…
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life
- £18.00
- For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.ÒIn the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God É perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in…
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Testament of Youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 (SIGNED)
- £275.00
- In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of…
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The Blast of War (1939-45) (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- The second volume of Macmillan's autobiography, covering the years of the Second World War, in which he participated as a senioar member of Churchill's War Cabinet. With multiple b/w photos and 4 maps (incl on endpapers)
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The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! A memoir of growing up in the Post-War North
- £25.00
- Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend,…
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The Edge of Day: a boyhood in the West of England
- £35.00
- The American edition of Laurie Lee's much loved memoir, Cider with Rosie. A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie…
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The End of the Line – a memoir
- £35.00
- Cobb's final memoir, drawn from his whole life from pre-war Vienna, fifties Paris, and communist Bulgaria. The final entry was written just two days before his death.
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The Eye of the Wind: an autobiography (SIGNED)
- £1,000.00
- Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 Ð 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding.…
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The Fry Chronicles: an autobiography
- £15.00
- Welcome to Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles, one of the boldest, bravest, most revealing and heartfelt accounts of a man's formative years that you will ever have the exquisite pleasure of reading. Stephen Fry's film, stage, radio and television credits are so numerous and wide-ranging that there is not space…
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The Golden Sovereign. A Conclusion to “Over The Bridge”
- £20.00
- The Golden Sovereign, first published in 1957, concludes Mr. Church's autobiographical record, begun with Over the Bridge, that magical re-creation of an Edwardian childhood. The new volume exactly covers the second decade of the century: opening with the death of the author's mother when he was still a boy and…
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The Hiding Place
- £8.00
- As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Christ. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Then…
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The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army
- £25.00
- A former high-ranking Soviet Army officer who has defected to the West delineates Soviet tactical policy, armaments, and military technology, and esses army personnel and their training
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Summoned by Bells
- £60.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail his formative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of…
- Add to basket
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Summoned by Bells
- £15.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
- Add to basket
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Summoned by Bells
- £15.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
- Add to basket
-
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life
- £10.00
- For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.ÒIn the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God É perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in…
- Add to basket
-
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life
- £18.00
- For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.ÒIn the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God É perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in…
- Add to basket
-
Testament of Youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 (SIGNED)
- £275.00
- In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of…
- Add to basket
-
The Blast of War (1939-45) (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- The second volume of Macmillan's autobiography, covering the years of the Second World War, in which he participated as a senioar member of Churchill's War Cabinet. With multiple b/w photos and 4 maps (incl on endpapers)
- Add to basket
-
The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! A memoir of growing up in the Post-War North
- £25.00
- Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend,…
- Add to basket
-
The Edge of Day: a boyhood in the West of England
- £35.00
- The American edition of Laurie Lee's much loved memoir, Cider with Rosie. A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie…
- Add to basket
-
The End of the Line – a memoir
- £35.00
- Cobb's final memoir, drawn from his whole life from pre-war Vienna, fifties Paris, and communist Bulgaria. The final entry was written just two days before his death.
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-
The Eye of the Wind: an autobiography (SIGNED)
- £1,000.00
- Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 Ð 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding.…
- Add to basket
-
The Fry Chronicles: an autobiography
- £15.00
- Welcome to Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles, one of the boldest, bravest, most revealing and heartfelt accounts of a man's formative years that you will ever have the exquisite pleasure of reading. Stephen Fry's film, stage, radio and television credits are so numerous and wide-ranging that there is not space…
- Add to basket
-
The Golden Sovereign. A Conclusion to “Over The Bridge”
- £20.00
- The Golden Sovereign, first published in 1957, concludes Mr. Church's autobiographical record, begun with Over the Bridge, that magical re-creation of an Edwardian childhood. The new volume exactly covers the second decade of the century: opening with the death of the author's mother when he was still a boy and…
- Add to basket
-
The Hiding Place
- £8.00
- As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Christ. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Then…
- Add to basket
-
The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army
- £25.00
- A former high-ranking Soviet Army officer who has defected to the West delineates Soviet tactical policy, armaments, and military technology, and esses army personnel and their training
- Add to basket