Black Boy
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Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and...
The Collected Poetry of W.B. Yeats
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A new annotated edition of Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the...
Cutty Sark: A Souvenir Guide to the Story of the Last of the Tea Clippers
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It is amazing that Cutty Sark has survived. Many of the clipper ships that sailed the China Seas...
Dancing in the Ring
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Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many – including Catherine McIntosh...
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The Woman on the Bridge
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Dublin. The 1920s. As war tears Ireland apart, two young people are caught up in events that will...
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The Secrets We Keep
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June, 1943 Betty Ahern isn’t a novice PI anymore. After solving several dangerous cases, she is...
Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life
Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine
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Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an...
Having - inadvertently - previously saved the life of Prince Khoosie of the state of Jhamjarh, this novel starts with Bandy travelling to that continent to help them set up their own air force: an air force that is viewed with some misgivings by the (British) powers-that-be, who are convinced that it will be used against them and who refuse to heed any warnings about an uprising that is planned by another Indian state, even going so far as to take their side against Jhamjarh.
As things turn out, of course, the British government have it all backwards …
As I've said before, I found the quality of these novels to have declined in direct proportion to their settings: for my money, the earlier books (set during and just after WW1) are far superior to these later instalments. Having said that, I did find this one to be more enjoyable than its immediate predecessor, with a few laugh-out-loud moments and a further insight into just how Bandy's First World War experiences have affected him
Dad's War
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This book is the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Chris Tarrant and his father Basil were very...
Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe
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Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander,...