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Evelyn Waugh described the Cliftons of Lytham Hall as "all tearing mad" during visits in the 1930s. Join him and Harry Clifton on a journey of love, friendship, excess and liberation as they fight to be free of the sexual, dynastic and religious expectations the world demands of them. With a mix of fact and fiction, join us for this journey to a land that might-have-been as we meet the eccentric Harry Clifton and his family, and his adventur...

Discover the life of one of Edwardian England's most celebrated and revered musical comedy stars, Lily Elsie. From her childhood days in the music-halls of Salford and her rise to fame as the child singing star 'Little Elsie' to her arrival in London and association with the most poerful theatre impressario of the time, George Edwardes. Her rise to fame as Sonia in Lehar's operetta The Merry Widow in 1907, produced by Edwardes at Daly's Theatr...

This special 4th edition in hardback has been created to include My Life an autobiography created by Novello in 1933. It charts his life from childhood and his film and theatre career including all the famous actors and actresses he worked with after WW1 and through the 1920s. Presented here unabridged. This comes after the 2016 BBC Composer of the Week series that featured Novello's music for the first time in its 70 year history when the a...

Walter Edward Reginald Pratley, known to his family as Reg, was a Berkshire farm boy with a dream. He wanted to escape the everyday and experience adventure. Hearing stories of his families lost heritage as travellers from his grandmother Lucy Clemstone Pratley awoke his dream. When the fairground came to his village of Appleton near Oxford he befriended them and decided that the fair would never leave him behind again when they packed up and ...

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This is the story of 61-year-old Mildred Aldrich and her experiences of the Great War

A gothic ghost story with a contemporary twist!