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Melanie

Yesterday and today I have bought 2 Mary E Pearce omnibuses, and I cant wait for them to get delivered.

They are

Cast A Long Shadow/Two Farms/Polsinney Harbour (omnibus volume 1)

Apple Tree Lean Down/Jack Mercybright/The Sorrowing Wind (omnibus volume 2)

I have heard a lot of praise for Mary E Pearce, she writes about the countryside, so I am looking forward to reading them.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/mary-e-pearce/

Melanie · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:07 am Post subject:

Yesterday, I purchased the remaining Mary E Pearce books from Amazon.

One is an omnibus containing 'The Land Endures' and 'Seedtime and Harvest' and the other book is called 'The Old House At Railes', cant wait for them to arrive.

Melanie · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:01 am Post subject:

Yesterday I bought 3 Billy Hopkin books
Our Kid
High Hopes, which are both semi-autobiographical books about the authors life, growing up in the Manchester slums, then going to London to train as a teacher, and
Kates Life, which again is a semi-autobiographical account of his mothers life, been taking into the workhouse as a child, then going into service.

They are set out like a novel, but are accounts of the authors and his mothers life. I have read lots of excellent reviews on these books, so they should be wonderful reads, of a bygone era.

http://www.billysbooks.info/