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  • Tunes of Glory

    by James Kennaway ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    The classic Scottish novel made into a movie starring Alec Guinness and John Mills. "[A] brilliant depiction of . . . the male military world" ( The List).Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair is a rough-talking, whisky-drinking soldier's soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Col. Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cost of Living Like This

    by James Kennaway, Frederic Raphael ...
    Series series Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    "Kennaway's best book. More than any of his other books, it testifies to his extraordinary poetic talent and the power of his human insight." - John le Carré"If there is any justice at all . . . Kennaway's stock will rise posthumously. He could, after all, write rings around many of his more famous contemporaries. And is it too much to hope that he will be remembered at least partly as the author ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Mind Benders

    by James Kennaway, Paul Gallagher ...
    'A fine fusion of science and imagination, this novel belongs on the same shelf as the books of William Golding and George Orwell's 1984.' - Washington Post'[E]xciting . . . provides more than a few frissons and a story of considerable sophistication and fascination.' - Kirkus Reviews'Kennaway's treatment of this nightmare and his horrifying suggestions for bending minds makes this a first-rate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being

    Edited by Penelope Gouk, James Kennaway, Jacomien Prins, Wiebke Thormahlen ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies, and researchers in fields ranging from psychology and music therapy to history and sociology have turned their attention to the question of how music ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment

    The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Edited by James Kennaway, Rina Knoeff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Bad Vibrations

    The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease

    by James Kennaway ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus

    Tunes of Glory; Household Ghosts; Silence

    by James Kennaway ...
    Series series
    Tunes of GloryHousehold GhostsSilenceThis volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car crash at the early age of forty.Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, Tunes of Glory is a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and the brutality of post-war army life as the tensions and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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    Series Book 5 - The Alice Rice Mysteries
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  • The Winter Sea

    by Susanna Kearsley ...
    Series Book 1 - The Scottish series
    A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of OutlanderA hauntingly beautiful tale of love that transcends time: an American writer travels to Scotland to craft ... Read more

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  • The Innkeeper's Daughter

    by Val Wood ...
    Holderness, 1846.For reliable, thirteen-year-old Bella, life isn't turning out quite as she'd hoped. She lives at the Woodman Inn - an ancient hostelry run by her family in the Yorkshire countryside - surrounded by two older brothers who never pull their weight and a flighty younger sister. When Bella learns not only that her father is seriously ill, but that her mother is expecting a fifth child, ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

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  • It Won't Hurt a Bit

    Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life. It Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of Jane's journey from the farm she loved and the schoolwork she ... Read more

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  • Far from the East End

    The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home

    by Iris Jones Simantel ...
    ** Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition winner**From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far From the East End.Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day and cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of ... Read more

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