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Publisher
BBC Books
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Allow yourself to be cast away in eight glorious decades of the most iconic show on radio. To mark this momentous occasion, 'The Definitive Desert Island Discs' focuses on 80 of the most powerful and unforgettable interviews, revisiting every era of Desert Island Disc's storied history. Reflecting on how times have changed, the book will feature brand new material as castaways are interviewed about their experiences - did the conversation go how they...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Ever wondered what goes down at a Tar Barrel Festival? Don't know your wassailing from your wife carrying? Well buckle up, because Kaleb Cooper - star of hit TV show Clarkson's Farm and Sunday Times bestselling author - is here to take you on a guided tour of some of the UK's most eccentric rural traditions.
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2021
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One part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir, this is the definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive your family holiday, by Jack Whitehall, with a little bit of help from Michael and Hilary Whitehall. No one family has more experience of travelling together than the Whitehalls. Indeed they've been allowing us a window to their escapades for the past five years in the hit Netflix show 'Travels with my Father' and in this hilarious...
Author
Publisher
Seven Dials
Pub. Date
2021
Description
In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East London for a derelict chateau with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley. Where 'A Year At The Chateau' told the entertaining and heartwarming beginning of the family's French adventure, as they found their forever home and began to restore and renovate the dilapidated castle, 'Living The Chateau Dream' is about the...
Author
Publisher
Seven Dials
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Picking up from where 'Living the Chateau Dream' ended, Dick and Angel recount the newest and biggest challenges they faced on the journey to transforming their once derelict and abandoned chateau in France's Pays de la Loire into a thriving family home and sustainable business. When the COVID-19 pandemic engulfs the world, the chateau faces a new challenge and must find ways to adapt in order to keep the Strawbridge's dream life in France alive....
Author
Publisher
BBC Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
The ghosts of today live not in castles or stately homes, but in ordinary houses and offices, and they're witnessed by ordinary people like you and me. We just need to figure out what the hell they are - the dead returning from the 'undiscovered country' of death? Or the product of that equally mysterious and ancient location, the human mind? This book is the story of these ordinary people who have experienced extraordinary things and want to make...