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Camden Market
Caitlin DaviesStruggling stallholders have built up fashion empires. Caitlin Davies tells all these stories and more in an illustrated history full of personal memories and previously unpublished archive images.
Downstream: A History and Celebration of Swimming the River ...
Caitlin DaviesNow Caitlin Davies recounts the history of swimmers and the Thames, telling the stories of legends like Annette Kellerman and Matthew Webb, forgotten champions such as Agnes Beckwith and Lily Smith, as well as modern day charity swimmers ...
The Ghost of Lily Painter
Caitlin DaviesAnd until she solves the mystery at the heart of the scandal, the ghost of Lily Painter will never be able to rest. Based on true events, Caitlin Davies skilfully blends fact and fiction to bring to life part of our sinister past.
Family Likeness
Caitlin DaviesIn a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up.
The Return of El Negro
Caitlin DaviesEl Negro was the name given to a southern African man whose body was stolen from his grave and taken to Europe to entertain the public.
Taking the Waters: A Swim Around Hampstead Heath
Caitlin DaviesHow and why did they come to be and what stories do they have to tell? This book is an illustrated history full of personal memories, archive images and stunning modern photography.
Friends Like Us
Caitlin Davies1989. At the end of an idyllic summer holiday, four teenage girls swear to be 'blood sisters', sticking with one another through thick and thin, sharing their secrets come what may. 2005.
Strong Justice: A Caitlin Strong Novel
Jon LandHer grandfather's past collides violently with Caitlin's present as she fights to save her world in the same border town where he fought to save his. Caitlin will learn, just as he did, that only strong justice can save the day.
Bad Girls: Socialites, Suffragettes and Spies: a Century of ...
Caitlin DaviesBad Girls is the story of a century of women, punishment and crime, based on the true stories of those who have been locked within Holloway's walls.
Moranifesto
Caitlin MoranTurns out, it’s the same old problems and the same old ass-hats. Then she thought of the word ‘Moranifesto’, and she knew what she had to do... This is Caitlin’s engaging and amusing rallying call for our times.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin DoughtyNow a licensed mortician with an alternative funeral practice, Caitlin argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead).
Moranthology
Caitlin MoranIn MORANTHOLOGY Caitlin 'gets quite chatty’ about many subjects, including cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag.
The Magical TV
Stephen SwannCaitlin's birthday turns out to be quite memorable as she is given her dream present but it turns out to have some features she wasn't expecting.Join Caitlin and Patch on an adventure involving Vampires, Monsters and Coca-Cola!Can she ...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium
Caitlin DoughtyTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death' Gavin Francis, Guardian From her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin ...
How To Be a Woman
Caitlin MoranPart memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking. 'This might just be the funniest intelligent book ever written' - Stylist 'Engaging, brave and consistently, cleverly, naughtily funny' -Independent
Singing the Soul Back Home: Shamanism in Daily Life
Caitlin MatthewsIn this volume, Caitlin Matthews shows the reader how to harness creative imagination and innate healing powers whilst exploring inner space, and the journey between the everyday world and the spiritual realm of the shaman.
The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year
Caitlin MatthewsNow, with this inspiring book of day-by-day mediations, renowned Celtic scholar CaitlÍn Matthews shows you how to reawaken the power of this age-old spiritual inheritance.
Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...
Davies Owen3 For a thorough account of cunning-folk in this period see Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (London, 2003); Owen Davies, Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Manchester, 1999), pp. 214–29; Owen Davies, ...
The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook
Caitlin MatthewsIn this stunning gift edition, Celtic experts Caitlin and John Matthews present inspirational primary material, rich in ancient wisdom, lore, and mythology.
The Real World of Fairies: A First-Person Account
Dora van Gelder KunzThis new edition features a foreword by Celtic folk expert Caitlin Matthews. Caitlin's personal experiences and deep knowledge of the fairy world resonate brilliantly with Dora's, adding a fresh perspective for contemporary readers.
How to Build a Girl
Caitlin MoranA Number One Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback, from Caitlin Moran, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman. (Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club ‘Our ...
A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist
Robertson DaviesWe would like to thank our readers, Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey, James Neufeld, Judith Skelton Grant and John Grant, and to acknowledge the support and enthusiasm from our publisher, Doug Pepper, and our editor, Jenny Bradshaw, ...
Are Men Obsolete?
Caitlin MoranAre men obsolete? No! I won’t let you be you f*****s!’ Caitlin Moran Are Men Obsolete is an essential and entertaining read for anyone interested in what happens next in the great gender discussion.
Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences
PreviewImpacts and Consequences Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland. Contributors. John Rallingall: New Zealand Institute of Economic ... Gloria Davies: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University gloria. davies ...
Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...
ReadCHAPTER I. MR. OWEN'S EARLY HISTORY. THE REv. GRIFFITH DAVIES Owen was the second surviving son of the late Thomas and Benedicta Davies Owen, and born on Sunday the 24th day of January, 1790, at Llanrwst, in Denbighshire.
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies
Carl SpadoniUsing Davies' archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history ...
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else
Thomas M. KittsBased on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date.
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...
PreviewDavies, Owen. A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in NineteenthCentury Somerset. Bruton, 1999. Davies,Owen. Witchcraft, Magicand Culture, 1736–1951 . Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1999. Davies, Owen. CunningFolk: ...
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