Last Landlady. An English Memoir, Paperback - Laura Thompson

Award-winning biographer Laura Thompson pays homage to the English pub through the remarkable story of her grandmother, the first woman in England ...

Laura Thompson explores the importance of pubs in British culture through the lens of her grandmother Violet's life story as the first woman in Eng...

Looks at the contrasting lives of the six Mitford sisters, and holds up a mirror to upper-class life before and after WWII. Born into country-house...

Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters, both hanged for murder in 1923, are given further exploration in this re-evaluation of whether or ...

A biography of the most brilliant of the Mitford sisters, who dazzled and scandalised interwar high society with their wit and sometimes controvers...

A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress - glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating - from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries...

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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Laurie BauerIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 192Collection: Edin...

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A linguistic introduction to the structures and meanings of English wordsPublisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Laurie BauerIllustration(s...

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A courageous memoir for our uncertain times: Earthed is a story of the power of place to transform us, of dreams and nightmares on the land and of ...

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Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Meryl Streep, Emily Watson... Actors, charity workers, singers and refugees share their m...

Companion to Chapter One of English is Stupid, a revolutionary pronunciation manual for both teachers and students of English as a second language....

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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The Sunday Times bestseller: how the Strauss family took Europe by storm during the nineteenth century

Pattern is sent off to serve as lady's maid to the recently orphaned, Grand Duchess. But it isn't long before they form an unlikely friendship, whi...

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"An insightful memoir that uncovers unique stories about matters of the heart." --Essence The inspiring New York Times bestseller from Common--the ...

DescriptionGenerally considered something of a departure for Dostoyevsky, The Landlady was first published in 1847, when most of the author's class...

Publisher: Elliott & Thompson LimitedAuthor(s): Huma QureshiNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 184 x 338 x 25Cover type: Paperba...

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