Growing up on a farm in the north of Scotland could be both rewarding and challenging. Now bestselli..

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The wonderfully evocative memoir of life in an all-girls boarding school in Suffolk in the early 196..

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It is 1945 and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends happy that at long..

Tommy Hopkins' early years aren't very promising. Born at the end of the 19th century in a slum dist..

On 3 May 1961 after a trial conducted largely in secret a man named George Blake was sentenced to an..