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Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff
24.95 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. His digs are with an old couple in Bow where he has to share a single bed (head to toe) with their mentally retarded son.Life in the foundry ...Show more
Nab End and Beyond: An Extraordinary Northern Childhood - The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff
35.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn - a treat was sh ...Show more
Shadows of Glory by William Woodruff
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
1938: the Arnold College crew are a varied bunch, united only by the love of their sport and a sense that theirs is a generation which may have to fight for king and country. There's Charley Bradbury, a Scottish Communist and pacifist; David Evans, a chorister and super- boffin; Roger Blundell a witty d ...Show more
Vessel of Sadness by William Woodruff
27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Italy, 1944 - this is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been written. Here, (distilled from the experiences and observations of one who fought with them in the British infantry unit) is the mood of those who fought and died at Anzio ...Show more
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