I'm a librarian. I serve the regulars the crime enthusiasts the bookworms the homeless the eccentric..

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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

Rick Stein's childhood in Oxfordshire and Cornwall was idyllic. But ever-present was the unpredictab..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

A biography of the Duke of Edinburgh published to coincide with his 100th birthday.For decades Princ..

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely co..

For a young Mike Pannett growing up in North Yorkshire in the late 1960's and early '70's was a drea..

This delightful memoir provides a unique `Upstairs Downstairs` account of what life was really like ..

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an ..

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

The extraordinary true story of how one British woman was trapped in Eastern Europe for 50 years fir..

Brenda Ashford is 91 years old and spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny.Brenda began training a..