I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person leading a shut-in dull life can possibly have value. So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. Sixty years on tens of thousands of people have read & enjoyed the first two volumes of her diaries written during World War II & its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project & the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49" starring Victoria Wood. This third compelling volume sees Nella now in her sixties writing of what ordinary people felt during those years of growing prosperity in a flourishing & modernising Britain. Her diary offers a detailed moving & humorous narrative of the changing experiences of ordinary people at a time that shaped the society we live in today. It is an account thats full of surprises as we learn more about her relationship with my husband (never Will) & her fears of nuclear war. Outwardly Nellas life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a lively mind & a persistent pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4 she will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists." ...

Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind & a persistent pen
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In September 1939 housewife & mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries in their regularity length & quality have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful fascinating & unique. When war broke out Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for the ' Mass Observation' project Nella a middle-aged housewife from the bombed town of Barrow shows what people really felt during this time. This was the period in which she turned 50 saw her children leave home & reviewed her life & her marriage
- which she eventually compares to slavery. Her growing confidence as a result of her war work makes this a moving (though often comic) testimony which covering sex death & fear of invasion provides a new unglamorised female perspective on the war years. ' Next to being a mother I'd have loved to write books'
- Oct 8 1939.

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Nellys monster sitting adventures are always full of surprises. Things just seem to get stickier & stickier when she monster sits for the Ultravores but it doesnt compare to how lost for words she is at the Rimes. & with even more fighting with Asti to add to the mix her time with the Wattwatts is shocking to say the least! ...

Sugden brilliantly interweaves graphic accounts of Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the Nile Copenhagen & Trafalgar with his lesser-known yet equally gripping campaigns to liberate the Italian states from French domination & his role in the blockade of Malta often snatching remarkable triumphs from crippling reverses. But behind his military prowess was a man riven with paradoxes & schisms at the very heart of his personal life. Nelson emerges as a strong-minded but vulnerable human being in constant need of affection & reassurance whose relations with superiors colleagues & friends were intense & stormy. We meet the fighting admiral in search of ultimate military victory & the glory-hunter skillfully manipulating his public image; the national hero & patron of merit & the indigent commoner trying to secure his position in a society dominated by wealth property & land; the family man & the adulterer who scandalized society by his passion for the mercurial Lady Hamilton
- yet whose ambition for domestic tranquility was destroyed by his untimely death at Trafalgar. The triumphant & the tragic lend an epic yet human quality to the life of Nelson fully exploited here in a richly detailed narrative that teems with a glittering array of sailors & civilians heroes & villains husbands wives & lovers.
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Nelson & his stable mates are very very excited. When they spot a travel brochure in Mike the Milks kitchen they assume that theyre all going on holiday. But when Mike explains that hes the only one wholl be taking a break to Llandudno they decide to book a seaside break of their own
- to Tenby! Their landlady Ms Rhonda Sea View Pugh is less than impressed with her more unusual guests
- undeterred they set about having fun on their holiday. But when an emergency arises on the beach the gang springs into action to help the local lifeboat crew & make a few new friends along the way
- Nelson at Sea is the third in Simon Westons series of best-selling Nelson stories charting the adventures of Nelson a charming horse with a very practical & down-to-earth attitude to life


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This title offers excellent support for developing the different skills required for writing in a range of fiction & non-fiction genres. It provides child-focused stimulating & full-colour pupil material. Parallel strands follow the structure of NLS text-level objectives. ...

This title offers excellent support for developing the different skills required for writing in a range of fiction & non-fiction genres. It provides child-focused stimulating & full-colour pupil material. Parallel strands follow the structure of NLS text-level objectives. ...

This title offers excellent support for developing the different skills required for writing in a range of fiction & non-fiction genres. It provides child-focused stimulating & full-colour pupil material. Parallel strands follow the structure of NLS text-level objectives. ...

For the teaching & learning of English grammar for the international market (West Africa Middle East Indian subcontinent). To provide English-learning pupils with a sound basis of the English grammar syllabus building on pupils confidence learning a foreign language with grammatical knowledge in an easily accessible & understandable way. ...