Facing up to Father: The pleasures and pains of a Cotswold childhood, Paperback - David Worlock

'Farmers in my childhood were as anxious for a male heir as any Tudor monarch securing dynastic succession.'A small Cotswold farm is the setting fo...

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Child psychiatrist Dr Mike Shooter sheds light on the universal experience of growing up, told through the stories of his patients and their families.

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Did Myra Hindley deserve to be punished? Does any criminal? Is belief in free will an essential foundation for morality, or an excuse for unwarrant...

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Publisher: Throne ClassicsAuthor(s): Leo TolstoyNumber of pages: 320Collection: Throne ClassicsPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 139 x 217 x 17Cove...

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Fifty years before its golden age, Athens was just another city-state in Sparta's shadow. David Stuttard tells the story of the father and son who ...

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A sanity-saving guide to parenting and child developmentRaising kids is hard, and the rules, behaviors, and patterns seem to change as they get old...

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Returning to the kibbutz of his childhood to attend his father's funeral, Balaban confronts his intensely painful childhood memories. Comparing the...

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Publisher: Jessica Kingsley PublishersAuthor(s): David GumbrellNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 173 x 245 x 14Cover type: Paper...

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Presents an account of the author's life that starts in 1939, at the age of four in Berlin, when her parents sent her to Britain on the Kindertrans...

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This ever-popular diary sheds new light on the social history of early19th Century Cotswold lifePublisher: Fonthill Media LtdAuthor(s): Francis E. ...

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Hope is a determination to live for what is worth living for today, whatever tomorrow may bring. In the bleakest of times hope may seem beyond our ...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Brenna HassettNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 37Cover type: Hardba...

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The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Made into a mass...

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Eleven Christians on eleven diverse paths to faith in Jesus Christ. This book is the compilation of their answers and experiences written in respon...

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The simple but profound story of a life of detachment through wandering and prayer, and one of the most widely circulated prayer guides in the worl...

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A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.