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1) The pictures
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Detective Craine volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
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Murder is his business. An exhilarating new talent, Guy Bolton's unforgettable 1930s Hollywood fixer moves within the dark recesses of the film business to electrifying effect.
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Pub. Date
2016
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It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister, Connie, marry the man of her dreams, Carrie longs to find a love of her own. Having lost their mother at an early age, the girls were brought up by their maiden aunts and, with Connie leaving home, Carrie is desperate to spread her wings. Using her skills as a bookkeeper, Carrie gets an exciting new job but her stunning beauty soon attracts the wrong kind of attention. And romance is the last...
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I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
2016
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After the roaring 20's, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression seemed to spell disaster for New York. Yet, in this era, it underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of the charismatic mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction...
6) Summertime
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Florida, 1935: In the small segregated town of Heron Key, where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp, everyone is preparing for the Fourth of July barbecue - unaware that their world is about to change for ever. Missy, maid to the Kincaid family, feels she has wasted her life pining for Henry, a black veteran who has returned from the battlefields of France along with a group of other desperate, destitute ex-soldiers:...
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Summer 1936. With the mill towns of Yorkshire still in the grip of the Great Depression, newly trained midwife Hazel Price returns to the streets of her childhood only to find that her modern methods and supposedly 'stuck-up' ways bring her into conflict with her mother, other family members and residents of Raglan Road. Determined Hazel battles on. She knows that all eyes are on her as she assists in home deliveries and supports the local GP. The...
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HarperPress
Pub. Date
2010
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J.B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s; old England, 19th-century England and the new, post-war England. In this book Juliet Gardiner provides a fresh perspective on that restless, uncertain, ambitious decade, bringing the complex experience of 1930s Britain alive.
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2009
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It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over London. At the lodging-house at 10 Dulcimer Street, Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents include flashy young mechanic Percy Boon, whose foray into stolen cars descends into something much, much worse.
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Metro Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
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The Mass Observation Archive's first project was embedded field work in Bolton and as part of this, a project was undertaken with a group of 41 girls at Pikes Lane Elementary School. In 'The Class of '37', accomplished contemporary historians Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer rediscover the words, personalities and worlds of these 12-14-year-olds, the last generation to leave school before the Second World War, and to finish school at the age of...
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Sceptre
Pub. Date
2012
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In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew. By the end of the year she'd learned - how to launch a paper airplane high over Park Avenue, how to live like a redhead, and how to insist upon the very best.