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A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
Category: Fiction
BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURN. "Skilful ...daring ...extraordinary". (The Guardian). "A fascinating fictional account of Samuel Beckett's wartime years". (IAN RANKIN). "Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good". (Daily Mail). "Marvellous, spare, moving ...Show more
A Country Road, a Tree by Jo Baker
Category: Fiction
Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of marching Nazi soldiers along the Champs-Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes a last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. As war takes hold, he will put his own life and that of ...Show more
Get Out of My Tent (Big Book Edition) by Jo Gliddon-Baker; Aleksandra Aleksandra Szmidt (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Archie loves camping, he loves the fresh air.The sounds in the night, the wind in his hair.The warmth of the fire, the lovely smoke scent.But more than all that, Archie just loves his tent.When everyone else thinks that Archie's little tent looks more inviting than their own and they begin to pile in, A ...Show more
Get out of my Tent by Jo Gliddon-Baker
Category: Picture Books
Age range 3+Archie loves camping, he loves the fresh air. The sounds in the night, the wind in his hair. The warmth of the fire, the lovely smoke scent. But more than all that, Archie just loves his tent. When everyone else thinks that Archie's little tent looks more inviting than their own and they beg ...Show more
Get out of my Tent by Jo Gliddon-Baker
Category: Picture Books
Archie loves camping, he loves the fresh air. The sounds in the night, the wind in his hair. The warmth of the fire, the lovely smoke scent. But more than all that, Archie just loves his tent. When everyone else thinks that Archie's little tent looks more inviting than their own and they begin to pile i ...Show more
Hello Sailor! The hidden history of gay life at sea by Paul Baker & Jo Stanley
Category: History
"Innovative, revealing and brave, this book peers through previously forbidden portholes and unravels a neglected strand of British history. It tells many fascinating stories of lives lived against the odds..." - Andy Medhurst, University of Sussex
Longbourn: Pride and Prejudice The Servant's Story by Jo Baker
Category: Fiction
If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to trudge through muddy fields. It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by Mrs Hill ...Show more
Longbourn: The unputdownable Richard and Judy pick by Jo Baker
Category: Fiction
"'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.'It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will b ...Show more
Surprised by motherhood by Lisa-Jo Baker
Category: Parenting
A lawyer with a well-stamped passport and a passion for human rights, Lisa-Jo Baker never wanted to be a mom. And then she had kids. Having lost her own mother to cancer as a teenager, Lisa-Jo felt lost on her journey to womanhood and wholly unprepared to raise children."Surprised by Motherhood" is Lisa ...Show more
The Body Lies by Jo Baker
Category: Fiction
A dark, thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of LONGBOURN- a work of riveting suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high. What if you realised the subject your student is studying is you? When a young writ ...Show more
The Midnight News by Jo Baker
Category: Fiction
It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information, ...Show more
The Picture Book by Jo Baker
Category: Fiction
Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is an intimate family portrait captured in snapshots. First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his son Billy, a champion cyclist who survives the D-Day Landings on ...Show more