The Railways: Nation, Network and People
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In 1934, JB Priestley published an account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, to Lincoln, Norfolk and Norwich. In capturing and describing an English landscape and people hitherto unconsidered, he influenced thinking and attitudes...
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| ISBN | 1872730159 |
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| ISBN | 0140063315 |
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in...
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| ISBN | 1845966066 |
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| ISBN | 1599900432 |
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| ISBN | 1888173890 |
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| ISBN | 0618002014 |
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| ISBN | 0140149708 |
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| ISBN | 0811209989 |
Here, too, are stories originally written for radio and television and, in a short appendix, the schoolboy pieces first published in the Swansea Grammar School Magazine. A highpoint of the collection is Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, a vivid collage of memories from his Swansea childhood...
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| ISBN | 1857886097 |
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| ISBN | 1846684773 |
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| ISBN | 0747579857 |
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| ISBN | 0688143849 |
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| Author | Dick Francis |
| ISBN | 0445402067 |
Dick Francis... those who know him and love him are aware that he likes to write crime novels with horse racing as a theme.
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