Guinness, Alec.
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
(Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9009
Keywords: 0241136679, actors, acor, Alec Guiness, autobiography, life, life history, lives, life histories, theatre, stage, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English
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Lamont, Thomas W.
My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century
(Heinemann, 1945).
Illustrated. Hardback. Bright green cloth, good. xviii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A2597
Keywords: B000HC0KBU, childhood, autobiography, parsonage, United States, America, Methodism, Catskill Mountains, presidential campaigns
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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Watson, Mrs Sydney.
A Village Maiden's Career: Life Story of Mrs Sydney Watson
(S. W. Partridge, second edit. n.d).
Authoress of 'Old Home on the Hill', 'Hubert Grantham's Atonement,' 'Kenneth St Clair,' etc., etc. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, blue cloth rubbed along edges, gilt titles, pages browned, otherwise a good working copy. 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C7509
Keywords: Mrs Sydney Watson, nineteenth century, 19th, woman writer, women writers, Britain, British, England, English, history, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life history, life histories, memoirs, novelists, literature, novels, fiction, Wiltshire, religion, religious
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Nolan, Christopher.
Under the Eye of the Clock:
(Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1987).
Preface by John Carey. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 163pp. Order No. NSBK-A5070
Keywords: 0297790927, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, Christopher Nolan spastic, Dam-Burst of Dreams, brain damage
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Baker, Kenneth.
The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics
(Faber and Faber, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly creased dw. xiii + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A6031
Keywords: 0571170773, Kenneth Baker, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, memoir, politics, political, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Tory Party, Tories, Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher, Party Chairman, Cabinet, Poll tax, Education, British Telecom, ILEA, GLC
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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Devas, Nicolette.
Susannah's Nightingales:
(Readers Union, Rpt 1979).
A Companion Piece to Two Flamboyant Fathers. Hardback. Light moulding to boards, otherwise good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 184pp. Order No. NSBK-C4577
Keywords: 0002627582, autobiography, autobiographies, Two Flamboyant Fathers, Nicolette Devas, Augustus John, painter, painting, Caitlin Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Devas, Majoliers, Bel Ombre, Provence, Quakers, France, French, family history, genealogy, Europe, European, women's history
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Lewis, Jon E.
True World War I Stories: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War
(Robinson, rpt, 1999).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+. 425pp. Order No. NSBK-A14176
Keywords: 1841190950, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, autobiographies, autobiography, memories, Somme, Loos, Ypres, Western Front
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Kingsley, Charles.
Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life
(Macmillan and Co, 1908).
Edited by his Wife. Hardback. Light edge wear, otherwise very good. xv + 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A11306
Keywords: B000HC5HIQ, Charles Kingsley, letters, memories, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, children's literature
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