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Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories
'Us firefighters do more than fight fires. We also assist those who have just gone through what's probably the worst experience of their lives.' The devastating 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires...
The Book of Sea Shanties
An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and seven seas From the international bestselling singer comes The Book of Sea Shanties . The world sang in harmony with Nathan...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its
Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. In the closing third of the twentieth century, Wales experienced the...
The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened
An intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. 'A fantastic journey through an overlooked archive bursting with humanity and real life...
Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire - Shortlisted
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES DEBUT NON-FICTION PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING 2026 'A different level of insight to...
Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire - Shortlisted
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES DEBUT NON-FICTION PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING 2026 'A different level of insight to...
Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza
Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEUMANN PRIZE 2025 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES...
What Have You Left Behind?
In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni civil war, which has killed over 200,000 people according to the...
Hollywood: The Oral History
Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history...
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including...
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
The distinguished author of Working explores the theme of hope in the midst of challenging times in a collection of oral histories that links hope with a spirit of activism,...
The Memorial Feast for Koekoetoey Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the
An ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords 'Manas the brave is arriving! One flash of rage by...
Hollywood: The Oral History
'Essential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' - Irish Times 'Absorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' - Sight & Sound 'Hollywood's ultimate oral history.' -...
1857 the Oral Tradition
1857: The Oral Tradition is a unique work, largely using the sources of oral history in various parts of the country to reconstruct aspects of the great uprising of 1857....
How Did We End Up Here?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph:
In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once...
D-DAY The Oral History: The Turning Point of WWII By the People Who
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A LANDMARK NEW ACCOUNT OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF WW2, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IT **** 'Comprehensive... from a...
Irish Days: Oral Histories of the Twentieth Century
This work is a record of Ireland's culture and traditions. It details the reminiscences of great lives and provides a fascinating insight into memories of evictions, the Black and Tans,...
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for
'One of the most immersive novels I've ever read . . . a thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES 'Lovely and lyrical; a warm and wonderful intersection between journalism and fiction. This...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the
The definitive oral history of the most infamous and bloody conflict of the Great War 1916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of...
Forgotten Voices of the Somme
1916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle fo the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later,...
Voices Against War
On 15 February 2003, an estimated two million Britons took to the streets of London to protest against the war in Iraq. Since the outbreak of that tragic conflict, the...
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men...
The Times Sir: The year in letters (2024)
The perfect gift for anyone with a shrewd sense of humour. Decidedly absurd, and always entertaining, revel in the very best letters published in The Times . From tinned prime...
The Time of their Lives
In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...
The Unwomanly Face of War
The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Why, having stood up for and held their...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 | LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' KILEY REIDA queen...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation song.' - Jason ReynoldsRemember that moment when you first encountered...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Author: Mr Richard KingFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 445g, 544 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a...
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Here We Go Again...: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph
Author: Kate Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news...