In 1900 few people could have imagined that their world would change so drastically in such a short time. The shell-shocked society that emerged from the Great War was at once less unequal and more demanding, more hopeful and yet less certain, than the old. The Voice from the Garden opens a window onto these two worlds through Pamela and her families. The daughter of a doomed union between trade and title, Pamela was born into the Cobbold brewing family of Suffolk and married into the famous merchant banking dynasty, the Hambros. Wealthy the families may have been, but money is no protection against the loss caused by war or the frailties of human nature. From an extraordinary period of social and economic change, here are fascinating characters, mystery, adultery, despair and hope. It is a unique tale, at the heart of which lies the love story of Pamela and Charles. Long-listed for the 2013 New Angle Prize for Literature (www.ipswichinstitute.org.uk/NAP.html). The New Angle Prize for Literature is awarded biennially for a recently published work of literary merit associated with or inspired by East Anglia. The judges described the book as "A meticulous and captivating reconstruction of the life of Pamela Hambro - of the East Anglian Cobbold family - and the impact of the First World War on her life. At the story's heart lies her enduring love for her husband Charles, of the Hambro banking dynasty."

Voice from the Garden

Biographies & Memoirs

Jane Dismore

Professionals & Academics

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<p>This book is fiction. The story that inspired it was not.  In 1990, a box of very old documents was found on a small farm in the west of Ireland. They had been stored for well over a hundred years and told an incredible story of suffering, of love and of courage. In 1846, a young couple met during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine. The Killing Snows is a way to imagine what led to their meeting and what followed from it.</p>

The Killing Snows: The Defining Novel of the Great Irish Famine (The Irish Famine Series)

Literature & Fiction

Egan, Charles

Contemporary

In 1907 suffragette Annie Kenney brought the militants' fight for women's right to vote to Bristol. For the next few years the city rang with the cry "Votes for Women!" From colourful demonstrations on the Downs and stone-throwing in the Centre, to riot on Queen's Road and arson in the suburbs, Lucienne Boyce tells the fascinating story of Bristol's suffragette years. The book includes a short walk in the Bristol of the suffragettes.

Bristol Suffragettes

Boyce, Lucienne

Born in 1919, Cyril Handel Grant grew up in a close, loving family in Sparkbrook, Birmingham. But when a tragedy occurred at the age of eight, Cyril's life changed dramatically and he found comfort and hope in religion. As a young Free Church minister Cyril travelled to the United States shortly after the Second World War and witnessed the birth of a nation as leader of the free world. On returning to England with an American wife, Cyril and a fellow minister spent ten years in the industrial North, attempting to build up a chapel and its neglected congregation. After a world tour he returned to Bristol, where he had spent his teenage years, and set up the first branch of the Samaritans in the city. Cyril's story, covering a remarkable ten decades, is a triumph of hope and inspiration. His evident good humour and deep commitment to helping humanity shines through and today, in his mid-90s, Cyril continues to exude positivity and warmth. This is the story of a remarkable, yet modest man.

A Good Samaritan: The Autobiography of the Reverend Cyril Handel Grant MBE BD STM

Cyril Handel Grant

The Apley Legion: A Parade of Servicemen from a Shropshire Estate

Graham Jones

Girls Not Allowed

Lewis, Andy

Nurses Never Run: A Student Nurse in Cambridge 1967-1970

Beulah Bewley

Bewley, Beulah

Walk to the Water

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Graham, Daniel

Exercise & Fitness

The Forgotten Fifteen: How Bury Triumphed in British Football's Worst Year

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