Local & family history, nostalgia

Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin

A radical and exciting history of a city – its culture, its people and its politics – that refreshes our image of Europe’s past and of the writing of history itself.

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the story of the British music hall.

Tommy’s War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918

The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.

The Gentry: Stories of the English: Unabridged edition

Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write – the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. In this vivid, lively book, history has never been more readable.

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café.

The Lace Reader

Drawn by family. Driven by fear. Haunted by fate.

The Palace of Strange Girls

I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE

Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you’ll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea.

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