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  Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It - by Rebekah Pierre (Editor)

  £12.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781800183001 | ISBN 10: 1800183003

  A powerful anthology of stories, reflections and letters by care-experienced people, including contributions from Lemn Sissay, Sally Bayley, Kirsty Capes and many more.  This book is all about the care system, and it's written by people who h ... more

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  Under a Canvas Sky: Living Outside Gormenghast - by Clare Peake

  £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780333854 | ISBN 10: 1780333854

  A moving memoir from Mervyn Peake's daughter.   Clare Peake, daughter of the celebrated writer and artist Mervyn Peake, tells the story of her parents' romance and her own happy and bohemian childhood.  Mervyn Peake was born in Ch ... more

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  Under a Canvas Sky: Living Outside Gormenghast

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  The Reading Promise: 3,218 Nights of Reading with My Father - by Alice Ozma

  £16.99   hardback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444715248 | ISBN 10: 1444715240

  When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go ... more

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  The Reading Promise: 3,218 Nights of Reading with My Father - by Alice Ozma

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  Dreams in a Time of War - by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

  £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099548522 | ISBN 10: 0099548526

  In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngugi wa Thiong’o paints a mesmerising portrait of a young boy’s experiences in an African nation in flux.   Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi’s day-to-day life as the fift ... more

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  Rabbit Stew & a Penny or Two: A Gypsy Family's Hard Times and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s - by Maggie Smith-Bendell

  £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349123615 | ISBN 10: 0349123616

  Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community’s long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn ... more

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  The Ticking is the Bomb - by Nick Flynn

  £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571243709 | ISBN 10: 0571243703

  One day I hope to be able to tell my daughter a story about a dark time, the dark days before she was born, and how her coming was a ray of light. 'We got lost for a while', this story will begin, 'but then we found our way.'  Set just before ... more

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  Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country - by Gillian Slovo

  £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085996 | ISBN 10: 1844085996

  A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneeri ... more

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  Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India - by Madhur Jaffrey

  £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091908935 | ISBN 10: 0091908930

  'I was born in a sprawling house by the Yamuna River in Delhi. When I was a few minutes old, Grandmother welcomed me into the world by writing "Om", which means "I am" in Sanskrit, on my tongue with a little finger dipped in honey. When the family pr ... more

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