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Life for Lucy

By: Jenny Ashmole

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It’s 1970, and Lucy is lonely. Stuck in a boring job, at 23 she’s never had a boyfriend and is beginning to despair of ever finding the husband she so yearns for. A story about love, life, relationships and forging your own path in a society that’s so set in its ways.

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131

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Book Guild Publishing

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1915122244

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9781915122247

James VI and I

Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald

By: Jenny Wormald

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James VI and I

Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald

By: Jenny Wormald

The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately, Jenny never got round to producing a similar monograph on a monarch she was infinitely more fond of, King James VI and I, before her untimely death in 2015. In the absence of such a book, this volume brings together all the major essays by Jenny on James. She wrote on almost every aspect and every major event of James' reign, from the famous Gunpowder Plot, the Plantation of Ulster, the Gowrie Conspiracy, to the witchcraft panics, as well as James' extensive writings. She wrote extensively on James' Scottish rule, but she was also keenly interested in James as the first king of all of Britain, and many of her essays unpick the issues surrounding the Union of the Crowns and James' rule over all three of his kingdoms. This book is an invaluable resource for any scholar on this crucial time in the history of the British Isles.

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716

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788854799

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9781788854795

A Little History of British Gardening

By: Jenny Uglow

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A Little History of British Gardening

By: Jenny Uglow

Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges. Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores? Drawn from Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, this lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for ornamental grasses and 'outdoor rooms' today. Tracking down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - from weeding women to florists - as well as aristocrats and grand designers and famous plant-hunters, A Little History of British Gardening is brought to life by gorgeously vivid illustrations and Uglow's insightful wisdom. Not only dealing with flowery meads, grottoes and vistas, landscapes and ha-has, parks and allotments, Uglow explains, for example, how the Tudors made their curious knots; how housewives used herbs to stop freckles; how the suburbs dug for victory in World War II. With a brief guide to particular historic or evocative gardens open to the public, this is a book to put in your pocket when planning a crisp, winter's day out - but also to read in your armchair with a well-earned glass of red, after a hard day's graft in your own garden. 'Enchanting, stirringly evocative and fascinating' Daily Mail 'This book will be a joy for any gardener' Independent

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378

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Random House

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1448104963

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9781448104963

A Gambling Man

Charles II's Restoration Game

By: Jenny Uglow

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A Gambling Man

Charles II's Restoration Game

By: Jenny Uglow

The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness of the court to failed attempts at religious tolerance. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the "slippery sovereign," laid odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers. The theaters may have been restored, but the king himself was the supreme actor. Yet while his grandeur, his court, and his colorful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden. Charles II was thirty when he crossed the English Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, as spring after the long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no way to turn back, no way he could "restore" the old dispensation. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship had ended with his father's beheading. "Honor" was now a word tossed around in duels. "Providence" could no longer be trusted. As the country was rocked by plague, fire, and war, people searched for new ideas by which to live. And exactly ten years after he arrived, Charles would again stand on the shore at Dover, this time placing the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV of France. Jenny Uglow's previous biographies have won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and International PEN's Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. A Gambling Man is Uglow at her best: both a vivid portrait of Charles II that explores his elusive nature and a spirited evocation of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world on the brink of modernity.

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855

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429964227

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9781429964227

Jojo's Dream

By: Jenny Alexander

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Jojo's Dream

By: Jenny Alexander

Jojo's Dream is a story for Reception and Year 1/P1-2 for guided and independant reading. This book is part of Story Street. RRNN Book Band.

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Longman

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0582557747

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9780582557741

Jo-Jo and Mike

By: Jenny Wagner,Ann James

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Jo-Jo and Mike

By: Jenny Wagner,Ann James

SUMMARY: Mike paints signs for the Council. Jo-Jo is Mike's dog and goes to work with Mike every day. One day a man from the Council tells Mike to paint more signs, then more signs, until there is no time left for Mike and Jo-Jo to go to the beach.

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0170061329

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Book's by Jenny Ashmole

Life for Lucy

Life for Lucy

James VI and I

James VI and I

A Little History of British Gardening

A Little History of British Gardening

A Gambling Man

A Gambling Man

Jojo's Dream

Jojo's Dream

Jo-Jo and Mike

Jo-Jo and Mike

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