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The Story of England
-Michael Wood-
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What is England and who are the English?
The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. Its history is a story of departing Romans, Saxon and Viking immigrants, and Norman conquerors; of the Great Famine and the Black Death; of religious and political conflicts, and the Industrial Revolution; of Empire and two world wars. All made their impact on this village, and its people.
Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries - a tale of Anglo-Saxon peasants, medieval reeves, Tudor vicars, Victorian framework-knitters and First World War soldiers.
The story of Kibworth is the story of England itself , adn this is the people's history of the nation. |
| What are we reading in October? |
| Good or bad, recommended or not, here is snapshot of what is currently being read by our staff this month. Some of these titles are new, some old, some not yet published... |
The Street Sweeper
Elliot Perlman
Adult Fiction
Life: An Exploded Diagram
Mal Peet
Teenage Fiction
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Adult Fiction
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Fiction
(Not yet published - due Nov 2011)
The Collector
John Fowles
Adult Fiction
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Adult Fiction
Silence
Rodney Hall
Adult Fiction
All That I Am
Anna Funder
Adult Fiction
Artocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Acheivements
Matthew White
History
Wildwood
Colin Meloy
Junior Fiction |
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