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...but someone's got to do it. We plan a day trip here tomorrow. Being of lapsed and long dormant religious affiliation but still with that instilled sense that Good Friday is a day one should stay at home and be quiet and reflective and miserable, we plan to go out and be two out of those three here instead.
Cockayne, Emily: Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go
Sprackland, Jean: These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards
Moore, Wendy: Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital
Francesca Wade: Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
Harding, Thomas: Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World
Freeman, Hadley: House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
Anne Glenconner: Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Wrightson, Keith: Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague
Balfour, Sandy: Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose: A Memoir of Love, Exile and Crosswords
Evelyn Waugh: Officers and Gentlemen (Sword of Honour Trilogy)
C.S.Lewis : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Hill, Susan: The Comforts of Home ( Simon Serrailler Book 9)
Inez Holden: Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time
Anthony Powell: A Buyer's Market (Dance to the Music of Time Book 2)
Anthony Powell: A Question of Upbringing (Dance to the Music of Time Book 1)
Gillian Tindall: The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts
Philip Pullman: The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two.
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings, Book 1 (Audio Book)
Ben Macintyre: A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal
Anne de Courcy: The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters
Damian Le Bas: The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
Laura Cumming: On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
Loretta Bellman: Nursing Through the Years: Care and Compassion at the Royal London Hospital
Esther de Waal: Living on the Border: Reflections on the Experience of Threshold
Andy Miller: The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
Alex Woodcock: King of Dust: Adventures in forgotten sculpture
Charlie Connelly: Last Train to Hilversum: A journey in search of the magic of radio
Horatio Clare: Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach
Keren Protheroe: Petal Power: Floral Fashion and Women Designers at the Silver Studio
Lynne Roper: Wild Woman Swimming: A Journal of West Country Waters
Rachel May: An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery
Horatio Clare: A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Charlotte Peacock: Into The Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd
Susan Hill: The Soul of Discretion (Simon Serrailler Book 8)
Georges Simenon: Madame Maigret's Friend: Inspector Maigret #34
Georges Simenon: Maigret Enjoys Himself: Inspector Maigret #50
Olivia Manning: The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes"
Olivia Manning: Friends and Heroes (Vol 3 - The Balkan Trilogy)
Philip Pullman: La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
Anita Leslie: Train to Nowhere: One Woman's War, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator
Susan Hill: Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
Julie Rose: Olivia Spencer Bower: Making Her Own Discoveries
Nan Shepherd: The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Olivia Manning: The Spoilt City (The Balkan Trilogy - Book Two)
Olivia Manning: The Great Fortune (The Balkan Trilogy - Book One)
Stephen Moss: Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife
Christopher Somerville: The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
Lucy Jones: Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
John Grindrod: Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
Carol Donaldson: On the Marshes: A Journey into England's Waterlands
Matthew Kelly: Quartz and Feldspar: Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern Times
Robin Hobb: Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
Fiona Farrell: The Villa At the Edge of the Empire : One Hundred Ways to Read a City
Emma Smith: As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War
Isabel Bannerman: Landscape of Dreams: The Gardens of Isabel and Julian Bannerman
Tirzah Garwood: Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood
Jane Bradbury: American Style and Spirit: Fashion and Lives of the Roddis Family 1850-1995
John Lewis-Stempel: The Running Hare: The secret life of farmland
Dan Boothby: Island of Dreams: A Personal History of a Remarkable Place
Michael McCarthy: The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (Wainwright 2016)
Katharine Norbury: The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream (Wainwright 2016)
Alexandra Harris: Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English Skies (Wainwright 2016)
Melissa Harrison: Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (Wainwright 2016)
Anna Pavord: Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places (Wainwright 2016)
Oliver Balch: Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders
Joanna Cannon: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep (audio book)
Lynn Knight: The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley: Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
John Beatty: Wild Vision: In Celebration of the Natural World
Diana Athill: Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter
David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Unabridged Audiobook)
George R. R. Martin: A Game of Thrones: Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire (Audio book)
Quilters' Guild in Britain: Quilt Treasures The Quilters Guild Heritage Search
Mary McDonagh Murphy: Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of To Kill a Mockingbird
Charles Rangeley-Wilson: Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River
Patricia Cleveland-Peck: Auriculas Through the Ages: Bear's Ears, Ricklers and Painted Ladies
Dominick Tyler: Uncommon Ground: A word-lover's guide to the British landscape
James Rebanks: The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Nan Shepherd: The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons)
Andrew Martin: Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
John Lewis-Stempel: Meadowland: the private life of an English field
Philip Marsden: Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Rachel Trethewey: Mistress of the Arts: The Passionate Life of Georgina, Duchess of Bedford
Ted Nield: Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape
Philip Marsden: Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Ellis Peters: A Morbid Taste For Bones (The Cadfael Chronicles)
Richard Davenport-Hines: Ettie: The Intimate Life And Dauntless Spirit Of Lady Desborough
Lucinda Gosling : Knitting for Tommy: Keeping the Great War Soldier Warm
Richard Benson: The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
Louise Carpenter: An Unlikely Countess: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
May Wedderburn Cannan: The Tears of War: The Love Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero
Meg Lukens Noonan: The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat
Nicholas Mosley: Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915 (Persephone book)
Helen Rappaport: Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Judith Tebbutt: A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival
May Wedderburn Cannan: The Tears of War: The Love Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero
Catherine Reilly: Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War
Juliet Nicolson: The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911
Juliet Nicolson: The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War
Claudia Renton: Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Nicholas Mosley: Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915
Rachel Cooke: Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
Richard Mabey: Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants: A Cultural History
John Hunt : Our Everest Adventure: The pictorial history from Kathmandu to the summit
Anthony Cartwright: How I Killed Margaret Thatcher (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Lucy Caldwell: All the Beggars Riding (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Niven Govinden: Black Bread White Beer (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Susan Macqueen: The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse
Robert Macfarlane: Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination
Christopher Lloyd: In My Garden: The Garden Diaries of Great Dixter
Niall Edworthy: The Curious Gardener's Almanac: Centuries Of Practical Garden Wisdom
The Geoff Hamilton BBC Collection (40th Anniversary Gardeners World DVD Box Set)
Keith Wiley: On the Wild Side: Experiments in New Naturalism
Josie Jeffery: Seedswap: The Gardener's Guide to Saving and Swapping Seeds
Sue Minter: The Apothecaries' Garden: A History of the Chelsea Physic Garden
Philip Hensher: The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters
Miriam Darlington: Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
Hannah Rothschild: The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild
Kate Summerscale: Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Phil Dampier: What's in the Queen's Handbag: And Other Royal Secrets
Merryn Williams: Effie: A Victorian Scandal - From Ruskin's Wife to Millais's Muse
Len Chester: Bugle Boy
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