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Diaries, Letters & Journals
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A Very Private Diary : A Nurse in Wartime€10.99The newly discovered diary of a wartime nurse - a fascinating, dramatic and unique insight into the experiences of a young nurse in the Second World War. 'I always seem to be saying good-bye to men whom I might have loved had there been enough time.'
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Letters to the Midwife€11.99Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world.
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Belfast Days: A 1972 Teenage DiarySpecial Price €11.99 Regular Price €17.99
'Vivid and disturbing, the terror of war invades the everyday life of a sensitive girl' Susan McKay, journalist and author
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Spike Milligan: Man of Letters€12.99Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Our last copy
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P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersSpecial Price €13.79 Regular Price €22.99
'Wodehouse said letters make "a wonderful oblique form for an autobiography," and Sophie Ratcliffe's expertly edited collection amply proves the point.' Spectator
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New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families€16.99A fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.
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The World Upturning: Elsie Henry's Irish Wartime Diaries, 1913-1919Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €24.99
The World Upturning is both a richly detailed narrative built upon a rare female perspective of this turbulent period in Irish history, and the personal work of a talented writer, containing a distinctly human account of years of intense turmoil that permanently changed the face of Ireland and the world.
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His Grace is Displeased: Selected Correspondence of John Charles McQuaidSpecial Price €14.99 Regular Price €19.99
This book exposes the venom and charity of this prelate and is the first collection of McQuaid’s correspondence, warts and all.
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The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart€13.99When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail.
