People often say 'Feet are Funny' and the author sets out to prove how right they are. Our overworked 'plates of meat' have led him into many quite hilarious situations and reading this book will not only do your feet some good, for it contains some useful advice, but it will also do your spirits good. The book traces the early career of the author from the training school to his first appointment as assistant to a chiropodist cum poultry farmer in the Rossendale Valley; then on to early days as an N.H.S. chiropodist. It is anecdotal in style and tells of the many colourful and amusing characters the author has met; and the adventures in which he has become involved. Chesterton said that any man who can't laugh at his feet has no sense of humour, the same can be said of anyone who does not have a hearty chuckle over the escapades of the chiropodist who was always putting his foot in it.

Your feet are killing me!

John D. Vose

Biographies & Memoirs

United Writers Publications Ltd

This is the story of a unique mode of existence; an account of a way of life once commonplace, when 'Gentlemen of the Road' roamed Britain in their thousands, almost as familiar a sight as motor cars are today. Joseph Stacey was a tramp of the old school, a professional, totally independent, self-sufficient, turning living off the land and the general public into a fine art. John Vose met him in the early 'sixties when Stacey thumbed a lift in the North of England; he was fascinated and intrigued by this amazing raconteur of the world of trampdom; he made notes, meeting Stacey on many occasions. Mr Vose tells Staceys' story in the first person, the way it was told to him, for greater impact. Diary is a vastly entertaining account of one tramps life and his strange, bizarre travelling companions. Often sad, nostalgically evocative of life between the two Great Wars often hilarious and, above all else, completely foreign to 'respectable' society in this day and age. Regimented to the modern 'rat race' as we are one can almost grow to envy him! To parody the popular song 'Stacey did it his way'. . . Why not join him on the open road?

Diary of a tramp

Escape and Evasion

Penna, Cyril

A Cornish childhood, 1935-1947

Anne Burley

An evacuee

Leslie Scrase

<p>Set in the south Wales village of Skewen and its surrounds in the turbulent third and fourth decades of the 19th century, this novel provides a fascinating glimpse of the social upheaval of those times.</p>

A ha'porth of God help

Literature & Fiction

Bill Bailey

Genre Fiction

<p>Having become displaced from home as an evacuee in 1942, the idea of boarding school is exciting to young Roger Wallace. The brutal reality of war hits him hard with the death of a brother which, in turn, becomes a milestone in his own coming of age.</p>

A prized pupil!: Of a boys' boarding school in the 1940s

The 'brave little Dutch girl' was Wilhelmina Harris's sister Dicky, who rode off on her bicycle and braved the bitterly cold weather to bring back what little food could be gleaned in the dark days of hunger, which were intentionally inflicted by the occupying German forces in Holland during the Second World War.Through the eyes of Wilhelmina, the youngest daughter, we follow the lives of the van der Hoek family in Maassluis, a strategically placed town. The Dutch despised the Germans for their cruelty and arrogance, and three of her uncles who were sailors made for England to join the allied forces. Her father listened to news broadcasts from the BBC, which broadcast the Dutch Radio Oranje during the war, although all radios were strictly forbidden. This meant they could keep up with progress during the war and secretly inform others about it too.Woven within the account the author relates details of what was happening throughout Holland and the terrible persecution of the Jews. There were also the many cases of bravery where the Dutch people, particularly farmers, would hide Jews and allied pilots.The worst period was when operation Market Garden (A Bridge Too Far) failed and the people were deliberately starved by the Germans. They had no coal or wood, no electricity, water was rationed and there was no food. Thousands starved to death, and the first ever food-drops took place by the RAF and USA in 1945.This account is not sad, but in its honesty it displays the resilience of the Dutch and the way they coped with terrible hardships.

Brave Little Dutch Girl

Wilhelmina Harris

Wendy and Her Year of Wonders

Lake, Carol

Literary

Those Summers at Moon Farm

Lake

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