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  • Kettles, Kisses and Curtain Calls

    by Trevor Aston ...
    1982, in the English midlands. Young engineer Travis Harrison is navigating the male-dominated management of a kettle factory with a mostly female workforce. Caught between a job he despises and his dream of becoming an actor, Travis faces a personal crisis when a rush order from America throws the factory into chaos. As he stumbles through amateur theatre rehearsals and workplace tensions, Travis ... Read more

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  • Table 52 - A Collection of Short Stories

    "You don't know what to expect""Unforgettable images""Well worth reading"The short stories from Table 52 Writers cover an eclectic mix of themes dealing with a wide range of human experience. From the tragic and moving to the uplifting and humorous, each story sprang from the vivid imagination of the storyteller. The result is a diverse and thought-provoking collection, bringing to life an ... Read more

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  • Table 52 - A Second Collection of Short Stories

    Short Story Collections, #2

    Series Book 2 - Short Story Collections
    In the spectrum of emotions, this book has more colours than the rainbow.The themes in this collection of short stories are varied and surprising. They twist and turn while swinging up and down. That's only to be expected from such an unlikely collection of writers.They met by chance at a community college. Very different people with only one thing in common - in short - they all had stories to ... Read more

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  • Crisis in Europe 1560 - 1660 (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Trevor Aston ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Past and Present began publication in 1952. It has established itself as one of the leading historical journals, publishing in lively and readable form a wide variety of scholarly and original articles.Much important work by English and foreign scholars on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries first appeared in the form of articles in the journal. Originally published in 1965, this collection ... Read more

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    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Read more

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  • The English and Their History

    by Robert Tombs ...
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    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Guy's Very Short Introduction to The Tudors is the most authoritative short introduction to this age in British history. It offers a compelling account of the political, religious and economic changes of the country under such leading monarchs as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The work has been substantially ... Read more

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