Tom Farndon: The Greatest Speedway Rider of Them All
John Chaplin and Norman Jacobs
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Tom Farndon, a shy young man from Coventry, set out on the road to speedway stardom in 1929. Within...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia
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Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s...
Roth Unbound
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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation - hardly needs introduction. From...
Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
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"Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the...
Sam and Me & the Hard Pear Tree
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Jami Yeats-Kastner's story is both a personal account of a mother's ultimate loss and a universal...
Saving the Army: The Life of Sir John Pringle
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Sir John Pringle was born in 1707 in the Scottish Borders, where his ancestors had held land since...
Silences of Hammerstein: A German Story
Martin Chalmers and Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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The Silences of Hammerstein, the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary...
Stretcher Bearer: Fighting for Life in the Trenches
Charles Horton and Dale Le Vack
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Among the thousands of men who shivered and suffered in the trenches during the First World War,...
The Boy on the Shed
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Today was his first climb to the top. He knew if he was there, watching, then she would never leave...
The Foremost Man of the Kingdom: John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442-1513)
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Earl of Oxford for fifty years, and subject of six kings of England during the political strife of...