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October non-fiction round-up
Posted On: October 21, 2009Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Truth can be stranger than fiction: whether it’s the science of the universe, the lives of real people as told to their diaries, or the secret history of Britain, there’s something in our non-fiction round-up for everyone this month.
Read More...Beatrix Potter’s Perthshire
Posted On: October 9, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Beatrix Potter needs no introduction – her art and life have been extensively examined in books and film. Potter spent time in Perthshire with her family in 1892, where she met and befriended naturalist Charles McIntosh; The Tale of Peter Rabbit was written in Dunkeld the next year.
Read More...Simon Garfield on Mass Observation
Posted On: September 10, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Simon Garfield, author of many books including Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles: How the War Defeated Us – all written in collaboration with Mass Observation – here reveals how every visit to the MO Archive at Sussex University meant the discovery of more new treasures.
Read More...Those Who Marched Away
Posted On: September 9, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
War infects everything it touches. For everyone, whether combatant or not, it is the most testing of times, when the old certainties and moral imperatives cannot be guaranteed. Life hangs by a gossamer thread and many people who would otherwise not keep diaries are moved to record what they see, feel and do.
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