This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared.

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

History

BLYTHE, Ronald

Europe

Akadine Pr

Come, Tell Me How You Live

Biographies & Memoirs

Mallowan, Agatha Christie

Arts & Literature

Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name

Have you ever watched a horse flick her tail or had a dog greet you at your door and known in your heart that the animal was exhibiting something more than simple instinctual responses? If so, you must read this book. In it Vicki Hearne asserts that animals that interact with humans are more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capable of developing an understanding of âthe good,â a moral code that influences their motives and actions. Hearneâs thorough studies led her to adopt a new system of animal training that contradicts modern animal behavioral research, butâas her examples showâis astonishingly effective. Hearneâs theories will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.

Science & Math

Hearne, Vicki

Biological Sciences

Playing for Time

The humour of self-deprecation is peculiarly English. Few people do it better than Jeremy Lewis. His first two autobiographical volumes - Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits - are being reissued in Faber Finds to coincide happily with his third volume - Grub Street Irregular - being published by HarperCollins. With a sharp eye for the absurd and a fond sympathy for life's eccentrics, in Playing for Time, Jeremy Lewis treats us to uproarious tales from his time in Dublin in the 1960s, mad escapades in Europe and America, life amidst the snares and delusions involved in growing up in middle-class England in the 1950s, and of his ever unrequited passion for the ever unattainable ffenella. Richard Cobb enjoyed this book so much he managed to review it twice, a quote from one will do.'I like books that make me laugh, and Jeremy Lewis's Playing for Time kept me laughing every night in my local for a week'.

Lewis, Jeremy

A splendidly engrossing account of one of the Second World War's most dramatic confrontations. With a new preface by John Lukacs.

Invasion 1940

FLEMING, PETER

Shakespeare's in love, perchance, in this rollicking send-up of the Age of Elizabeth. 
With an Introduction by Ned Sherrin.

No Bed for Bacon

Literature & Fiction

Brahms, Caryl

Simon, S.J.

Humor & Satire

Dream Days

From the imaginative author of "The Wind in the Willows," an enchanting pair of books that map the imaginative landscape of childhood.

Children's Books

grahame,kenneth

A gripping account of one of the most unsettling disappearances to have ever engaged America's attention.

The Search for Michael Rockefeller

MACHLIN, Milt

Leaders & Notable People

A young boy's discovery of twelve wooden soldiers that once belonged to the Brontë children leads to an exciting adventure. Awarded the 1962 Carnegie Medal for the outstanding children's book by an English author.

The Return of the Twelves

Clarke, Pauline

An Australian army doctor, returning home after World War I, narrates his journey on a troop-carry vessel that includes families, murderers, dope fiends, thieves, a female impersonator, and a padre among its passengers.

Trooper to the Southern Cross

Thirkell, Angela Mackail

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