Lemon Sherbet And Dolly Blue
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Lemon Sherbet And Dolly Blue
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Author : Lynn Knight
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-08-01
Lemon Sherbet And Dolly Blue written by Lynn Knight and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 SPEAR'S BEST FAMILY HISTORY AWARD 150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill - a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire - was home to the Nash family and their corner shop, serving a small mining community with everything from Brasso to Dolly Blue, from cheap dress rings to Lemon Sherbets. However, this was no ordinary home and no ordinary family. Three generations were adopted - Lynn Knight's great grandfather, a fairground boy given away when his parents left for America in 1865, her great aunt, rescued from an Industrial School in 1909, and her mother, adopted in London as a baby and brought north in 1930. Their story spans centuries and the changing society of twentieth century Britain. But more than that it is a story of community and of love. Full of colour, light and life, Lemon Sherbet & Dolly Blue is a story of what it really means to be family.
The Button Box
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Author : Lynn Knight
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Books
Release Date : 2017-03-09
The Button Box written by Lynn Knight and has been published by Vintage Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-09 with Buttons categories.
An inlaid wooden chest the size of a shoe box holds Lynn Knight's button collection. A collection that has been passed down through three generations of women: a chunky sixties-era toggle from a favourite coat, three tiny pearl buttons from her mother's first dress after she was adopted as a baby, a jet button from a time of Victorian mourning. Each button tells a story. 'The Button Box' traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity, through the first clerical girls in silk blouses, to the delights of beading and glamour in the thirties to short skirts and sexual liberation in the sixties.
The Button Box
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Author : Lynn Knight
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-02-18
The Button Box written by Lynn Knight and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-18 with History categories.
A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight’s family – each one with its own tale to tell... Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in suffragettes, bachelor girls, little dressmakers, Biba and the hankering for vintage, The Button Box lifts the lid on women’s lives and their clothes with elegance and wit.
Clarice Cliff
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Author : Lynn Knight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-01-05
Clarice Cliff written by Lynn Knight and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-05 with categories.
Miss Burnham And The Loose Thread
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Author : Lynn Knight
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2025-03-20
Miss Burnham And The Loose Thread written by Lynn Knight and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-20 with Fiction categories.
Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel. South-east London, 1925. Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room’s closed doors. So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor. Rose is determined to bring the swindler to justice. To begin with, playing the detective is a grand adventure, but as pressures mount and an old friend receives a troubling string of poison-pen letters, Rose discovers there is more to investigating – and these investigations – than she’d bargained for.
Clarice Cliff
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Author : Lynn Knight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11-17
Clarice Cliff written by Lynn Knight and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with categories.
Clarice Cliff was one of the most prominent ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Born in 1899 in the Staffordshire Potteries, she started work as just another factory girl, but by 1928 had launched her own range of pottery, 'Bizarre'. A 'gargantuan feast of colour', it blazed a trail through the homes of inter-war Britain. But if Clarice Cliff's rise from apprentice gilder to art director was remarkable - and all the more so for her being a woman - it was not without its tensions; for years she conducted a secret relationship with her married boss. Fusing art, design and industry and vividly conveying the texture of women's lives between the wars, this is a compelling study of the complex, talented woman whose work is for many the epitome of art deco.
Growing Up In A Welsh Valley Beneath A Valley Sky
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Author : Bronwen Hosie
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Growing Up In A Welsh Valley Beneath A Valley Sky written by Bronwen Hosie and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This collection of nostalgic, humorous and moving tales follows Rhymney-born Dai Morrissey as he leaves the Valley aged eighteen. Dai travels to England where he works for Hudson and Terraplane, fitting radios into their luxury cars. Through this work he meets a few celebrities and also his future wife, whom he takes home to meet his family in Wales. The story continues through the Second World War, with Dai witnessing some tragic events. However, he survives the war and goes on to have five children, including Bronwen, the author of this book. This sequel to Sunshine on the Mayfield captures wonderful memories about family life and, although Dai spends some time in England, it describes the typical experience of many young Welshmen. Throughout his time in England, Dai always remembers his roots, and soon returns to the Valleys.
The Times Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Times Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Times (London, England) categories.
Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
Catherine Called Birdy
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Author : Karen Cushman
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-12-04
Catherine Called Birdy written by Karen Cushman and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Shaggy Beard wishes to take me to wife! What a monstrous joke. That dog assassin whose breath smells like the mouth of Hell, who makes wind like others make music, who is so ugly and old! Catherine's in trouble. Caught between a mother who is determined to turn her into the perfect medieval lady and a father who wants her to marry her off to much older and utterly repulsive suitor. Luckily, Catherine has a plan. She has experience outwitting suitors and is ready to take matters into her own hands. A fun and vibrant coming-of-age novel about a 14-year-old girl's fight for freedom and right to self-determination.
The Cut Out Girl
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Author : Bart van Es
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-08-02
The Cut Out Girl written by Bart van Es and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Luminous, elegant, haunting, - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, Author of East West Street The enthralling story of a man's search for the truth about his family's past The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart van Es's life and Lien's. Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship. The Cut Out Girl braids together a powerful recreation of Lien's intensely harrowing childhood story with the present-day account of Bart's efforts to piece that story together. And it embraces the wider picture, too, for Holland was more cooperative in rounding up its Jews for the Nazis than any other Western European country; that is part of Lien's story too. This is an astonishing, moving reckoning with a young girl's struggle for survival during war. It is a story about the powerful love and challenges of foster families, and about the ways our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined. 'Remarkable, deeply moving' Penelope Lively 'An awe-inspiring account of the tragedies and triumphs within the world of the Holocaust's "hide-away" children, and of the families who sheltered them' Georgia Hunter 'A complex and uplifting tale' Kirkus