 | Peter Clarke - Authors, English - 2013 - 370 pages
In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and ... | |
 | Herbert Kohl - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 180 pages
Describes the author's experiences with a group of young children as they shared a class in Chinese landscape painting, discussing what he learned from the youngsters and the ... | |
 | Gavin Mortimer - History - 2010 - 204 pages
The winter of 1940-41 was the season of the Blitz. From St Paul's Cathedral to the East End, from the very heart of the capital to the cities of the midlands, throughout the ... | |
 | Janet Smith, Simon Inglis - Architecture - 2005 - 200 pages
In this volume, Smith traces the development of Britain's suprisingly rich stock of lidos, starting with their muddy beginnings in London's parks, through their fashionable ... | |
 | Penelope Mortimer - Fiction - 1974 - 224 pages
Uncharted then, at a long distance from the past or from the world once known (it is all a question of beginning again) Penelope Mortimer's novel, insidious at the outset, is ... | |
 | Nancy Barr Mavity - English Fiction - 1929 - 350 pages
A woman found dead in the kitchen of her ranch house in the village of Medbury, a short distance from the city, draws Herald reporter Peter Piper into the strange circumstances ... | |
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