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Kate Adie, author of 'Women and War'
Kate Adie, author of 'Women and War'

People's War

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Popular Fiction

The Lover by Laura Wilson
Published by Orion ISBN: 0752859803

Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen
Published by Vintage ISBN: 0099287730

Tuppence to Tooley Street by Harry Bowling
Published by Headline ISBN: 074723194X
Also published by Magna Large Print ISBN: 1850578362

A Field of Bright Laughter by Connie Monk
Published by Fontana ISBN: 0006472435

Nellie’s War by Victor Pemberton
Published by Headline ISBN: 0755305566

The Avenue Goes to War by R F Delderfield
Published by Hodder ISBN: 0340150939

For the Love of a Soldier by June Tate
Published by Headline ISBN: 0755306570
Also published by Magna large print ISBN: 07505 1681X

Literary Fiction

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Published by Vintage ISBN: 0099276461

That’s How It Was by Maureen Duffy
Published by Virago ISBN: 0860682919

Atonement by Ian McEwan
Published by Vintage ISBN: 0099429799

The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Published by Black Swan ISBN: 0552991260

Spies by Michael Frayn
Published by Faber ISBN: 0571212964

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Published by Penguin ISBN: 0140184953

Children’s

Doodlebug Alley by Robert Swindells
Published by Mammoth ISBN: 074973860X

Non Fiction

The 1940s House by Juliet Gardiner
Published by Channel 4 ISBN: 0752272535

The Village That Died for England by Patrick Wright
Published by Faber ISBN: 057121441X

Bombers & Mash by Raynes Minns
Published by Virago ISBN: 1860497942

Betty’s Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 by Betty Armitage
Published by Thorogood ISBN: 1854182218

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