As Wartime did for the 1940s this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan & provincial letters & diaries newspapers periodicals books & the range of rich material available in the British Library. J.B. Priestley famously described the three Englands he saw in the 1930s: Old England nineteenth-century England & the new post-war Engl&. Thirties Britain was indeed a land of contrasts at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression unemployment & international tensions yet also a place of complacent suburban home-owners with a baby Austin in every garage. Now Juliet Gardiner acclaimed author of the award-winning Wartime provides a fresh perspective on that restless uncertain ambitious decade bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers magazines memoirs letters & diaries. Gardiner captures the essence of a people part-mesmerised by modernism in architecture art & the proliferation of dream palaces by the cult of fitness & fresh air the obsession with speed the growth & regimentation of leisure the democratisation of the countryside the celebration of elegance glamour & sensation. Yet at the same time this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss -- of Britains influence in the world of accepted political social & cultural signposts & finally of peace itself. ...

This work is jam-packed with carefully researched fun-to-make projects enabling you to give your doll's house a truly authentic ...

Thirty Days Has September" helps with learning all of those confusing rules of language & mathematics & those tricky facts from science history & geography. It makes a lovely gift from parent to child & a perfect learning companion to help all school children. It is a treasure trove of easy methods to take important information from the back of the mind to the tip of childrens tongues." ...

Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat & becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war & subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt he is pursued by both the police & the ruthless conspirators. The Thirty-Nine Steps is a seminal chase thriller rapid & vivid. It has been widely influential & frequently dramatised: the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock became a screen classic. This engaging novel also provides insights into the inter-action of patriotism fear & prejudice. ...

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero Richard Hannay who despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow' is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police & spy-ring alike & must outwit his intelligent & pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall & finally at the site of the mysterious thirty-nine steps. The best-known of Buchan's thrillers The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication & has been filmed three times most notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935. In this the only critical edition Christopher Harvie's introduction interweaves the writing of the tale with the equally fascinating story of how John Buchan publisher & lawyer came in from the cold & via The Thirty-Nine Steps ended the war as spy-master & propaganda chief. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

For fourteen years he has kept the demons at bay. The former SAS sergeant from Ulster has renounced the gun. With help from the bottle & a village girl he devotes his life to others in war-torn Mozambique. But as the terror spreads he must fight again. Plunged into the savage cauldron of Africas killing fields he confronts two very different but equally implacable enemies. ...

It could happen to any family... What if it happened to yours? When the Bergamots move to the city they're unsure how well they'll adapt. Soon though Richard is consumed by his new job & Liz who has given up her career is hectically playing mother to six-year-old Coco & fifteen-year-old Jake. But the day Jake unthinkingly forwards a sexually explicit email attachment sent to him by a thirteen-year-old girl is the last day of the Bergamots' comfortable middle-class existence. Within hours the video clip is not only all over Jake's school but all over the city
- & all over the internet. Faced with impossible choices what Richard & Liz do next risks destroying not only their marriage their daughter & their place in the community but also Jake
- the child they have set out to protect.

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DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife. The discovery of a body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle Ardery his temporary replacement at the Met the chance to make her mark with a high profile murder investigation. Persuading Lynley back to work seems the best way to guarantee a result: Lynley's team is fiercely loyal to him & Isabelle needs them
- & especially Barbara Havers
- on side. The Met is twitchy: a series of PR disasters has undermined its confidence. Isabelle knows that she'll be operating under the unforgiving scrutiny of the media so is quick
- perhaps too quick
- to pin the murder on a convenient suspect. The murder trail leads Lynley & Havers to the New Forest & the eventual resolution of the case. Its roots are in a long-ago act of violence that has poisoned subsequent generations & its outcome is both tragic & shocking.



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In this blistering sequel to the bestselling cult sensation John Dies at the End" our heroes find that books & movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse despite a total world absence of zombies. Hilarious terrifying engaging & wrenching this is a wild ride with two slackers from the midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent disaster." ...

Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother & then to no parents at all... This is essentially the story of two incredible women: Alan's mother Lily who battled against poor health poverty domestic violence & loneliness to try to ensure a better life for her children; & his sister Linda who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility at a very young age & who fought to keep the family together & out of care when she herself was still only a child. Played out against the background of a vanishing community living in condemned housing the story moves from post-war austerity in pre-gentrified Notting Hill through the race riots school on the Kings Road Chelsea in the Swinging 60s to the rock-&-roll years making a record in Denmark Street & becoming a husband & father whilst still in his teens. This Boy is one man's story but it is also a story of England & the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance of humour & openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries. ...