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Born in the red half of Bristol, Chris supported Bristol City from a very early age. Like a lot of youngsters, he enjoyed watching his heroes train and play, particularly his hero John Atyeo, and would often hang around the ground to get the players’ auto
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‘Every divorcing woman should read this book’
In this fourth book of the author, the talented heroine of the ‘Shades’ trilogy, jilted by the man she is devoted to, marries the wrong one on the rebound. A dramatic tale of Sixties changing societ
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Jane, the beautiful daughter of the heroine, Anne, of the previous four books, sets off with Germano to fulfil his boyhood dream of having a restaurant in the ecological paradise of Costa Rica. After many setbacks the two young lovers build their restaura
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A Story of Refugees from the former Czechoslovakia who survived the Holocaust - As told to Elisabeth Winkler.
In 1937 Sigo Weber was in the final stages of his studies as a medical student in Brno and his future wife Leah was training to be a c
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In the summer of 2007, Lin Sheffrin was diagnosed with a cancer which quickly invaded her liver. "Fifty/50 – A Memoir" is her brave story.
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With the recession biting and green issues constantly in the news, publication of this entertaining but always practical guide to sensible living could not be more timely.
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John Barry, far and away Britain’s best-known film and popular composer, has made not one but four outstanding contributions to the international music scene.
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A biography of Joseph Cottle of Bristol, best known as the publisher of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Publisher, editor and author, he was, effectively, the first to publish the work of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Southey and Charles Lamb.
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A Memoir and Selected Essays on Education and Spiritual Valuesby a leading educationalist.
In this book, the late Professor Roy Niblett CBE, chronicles his exceptional career from early days in a village near Bristol before the First World War.
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Brian Milton, a Bedminster boy born in 1927, recalls life as a young lad in Bristol in the 1930s and remembers during the war living through the destruction of much of the old city.
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A memoir by the former manager
of the UK’s only fully-restored Grade I listed Victorian Pier in Clevedon, Somerset.
Featuring ‘Cheers for the Pier’
by scientist and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis.
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Compiled by Dave Hibberd, this is a reprint and update of the 2000 edition.
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The Industrial and Social Revolutions reached their peak in the United Kingdom in the second half of the Nineteenth Century. There was no better time for men and women of all classes to seek their fortunes by initiative and hard work. New technologies spa
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Anne, returns to ‘Swinging’ London and Bristol, to await the escape of Jack, her artist lover from the USA, where the Internal Revenue is seeking his arrest for art fraud. Her life is filled with colourful characters and friends as she enjoys the delights
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Anne, waiting three years for her Immigrant’s Visa, sails on the ‘Queen Elizabeth’ to New York with Jack, her artist lover. He had returned from America to recover the paintings of famous artists from the Paris bank vault, where Anne deposited them, prior
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Anne, a Nurse from Bristol, sacrifices a secure profession to follow her childhood dreams to become an artist. Travelling to Fifties Paris she escapes a domineering mother and an arduous nursing career, to find a world filled with romance and rich hum
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Charles Benjamin Redrup, the engineer and inventor, was born in Newport, South Wales in 1878. Raised in Barry, he designed and manufactured the unusual “Barry” motor cycle and went on to design a prodigious range of engines for First World War aircraft,
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Mike Manson's extremely witty and beautifully written first novel is set against the background of dole culture in Bristol during the long, hot summer of 1976.
"The Office meets Life on Mars" -Wessex Muse Magazine.
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"Surviving Changi - A Memoir"
by Peter Gordon Kendall.
A personal memoir by a former POW recalling experiences in Changi Gaol in 1942, and harrowing conditions on the infamous Burma-Siam railway. With illustrations by kind courtesy of Ronald Searl
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