One of a series which portrays the lives of people in the past through original photographs of real objects, in close-up and in colour, bringing the period to life. This title concerns daily life in a wartime house during World War II.

Daily Life in a Wartime House

LAURA WILSON

Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.

Stoies of Survival Mayan Elders

Sharing the Dream

When Dodie Blackstock, only child of multi-millionaire Wolf Blackstock, is told that her mother’s body has been found in a housing estate in Hackney, she is shocked. When she is told that her mother, Susan, has been dead for less than 48 hours, she is devastated. For Susan was kidnapped, apparently by a politically motivated group, when Dodie was nine. Susan was never found, and she was presumed dead. Traumatised by her lonely childhood, Dodie has been estranged from her dysfunctional and complicated family for years. She returns to Camoys Hall, the Blackstock’s stately home, to talk to her step-mother Joan, who lives there by herself. But Dodie finds more than she bargained for – and then she starts to receive anonymous and threatening letters. Who it is who’s waiting in the darkness outside Camoys Hall, watching her every move…?

Dying Voices

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

ORION PAPERBACKS

A quiet Suffolk village, 1944. Fourteen-year-old Gerald Haxton is a lonely boy who regards his still-born twin brother Jack as his only real friend. His mother, a famous children's writer, guards Jack's memory jealously, claiming him as the model for the boy detective in her series of adventure stories, and Gerald, disturbed and unpopular, has no hope of ever measuring up to him. Playing in the woods near his home, Gerald discovers the body of his elder sister buried in a shallow grave. She has been beaten to death with a wooden stake and her boyfriend, a young GI, is hanged for the crime. London, 1995. As the country prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, Gerald, who remains a loner, is nearing retirement. Obsessed by routine, he still talks to his dead brother, Jack. Surrounded by nostalgic artefacts at the TV prop-hire company where he works, he is constantly reminded of the past, and with it, his sister Vera's death. Hoping to escape his lonely existence, he takes to following Mel, the twelve-year-old daughter of a colleague. A few days later Mel, who bears a striking resemblance to Vera, disappears ...

My Best Friend

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Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

A quiet Suffolk village, 1944. Fourteen-year-old Gerald Haxton is a lonely boy who regards his still-born twin brother Jack as his only real friend. His mother, a famous children's writer, guards Jack's memory jealously, and Gerald, disturbed and unpopular, has no hope of ever measuring up to him. Playing in the woods near his home, Gerald discovers the body of his elder sister buried in a shallow grave. She has been beaten to death with a wooden stake and her boyfriend, a young GI, is hanged for the crime. London, 1995. As the country prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, Gerald, who remains a loner, is nearing retirement. Obsessed by routine, he still talks to his dead brother, Jack. Surrounded by nostalgic artefacts at the TV prop-hire company where he works, he is constantly reminded of the past, and with it, his sister Vera's death. Hoping to escape his lonely existence, he takes to following Mel, the twelve-year-old daughter of a colleague. A few days later Mel, who bears a striking resemblance to Vera, disappears...

Contemporary

Seven years after the suicide of her lover, the brilliant comic Lenny Maxted, former Bunny Girl Alice Jones is leading a quiet, almost reclusive life in an Oxfordshire farmhouse. In the long hot summer of 1976, Lenny's comic partner, Jack Flowers, turns up on her doorstep out of the blue. Alice has not seen him since Lenny's funeral, but surprise and pleasure turn into an all too familiar sense of unease when she discovers that he is distressed and drinking heavily. At the same time a car containing human remains is fished out of a Wiltshire lake...

Hello Bunny Alice

Thrillers & Suspense

Stratton's War

A master of American fashion and art photography turns his artistry to capturing--in a series of photograph portraits--the cowboys, roustabouts, drifters, gamblers, bar girls, and others who characterize the modern Western experience

In the American West

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

Daily Life in a Victorian House

A fascinating book for anyone interested in the Victorian era, this book provides a unique glimpse into the Smith house and the lives of the family and servants who live there. Richly illustrated with over 100 color photographs and drawings, "Daily Life in a Victorian House" offers up a slice of history in an inviting, accessible way .

History

Europe

Preservation Pr

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Daily Life in a Wartime House

Stoies of Survival Mayan Elders

Dying Voices

My Best Friend

My Best Friend

My Best Friend

Hello Bunny Alice

Stratton's War

In the American West

Daily Life in a Victorian House