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Pure
Andrew Miller

9781444724288

The winner of the Costa Award 2012. A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death.
Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived.

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason.
But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.

Farm Boy
Michael Morpurgo

9780007450657

The magical sequel to 'War Horse', soon to be a major motion picture. Joey was the last working horse on the farm, and the apple of Grandpa's eye. In War Horse, Joey was sent away from the farm to be a warhorse in WWI.

Grandpa had joined the cavalry in order to find, and fight, with Joey. Farm Boy brings us forward fifty years with Grandpa not only telling his grandson, Joey's story but also a 'shameful secret' which he has held for years! The story is set in Iddesleigh in Devon and lovingly evokes the bonds between farm and farmer; grandson and grandfather. The spirit of rural life is superbly captured in both Michael Morpurgo's writing and Michael Foreman's illustrations.

An irresistible title from acclaimed author-illustrator partnership.

Call the Midwife : A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
Jennifer Worth

978075382383

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour.

She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction. Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s, Jennifer tells the story not only of the women she treated, but also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) and the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained. Funny, disturbing and incredibly moving, Jennifer's stories bring to life the colourful world of the East End in the 1950s

Bradshaw's Handbook
George Bradshaw

9781908402028

Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Produced as the British railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious pastime for the better off, it was the first national tourist guide specifically organized around railway journeys, and to this day offers a glimpse through the carriage window at a Britain long past. This is a facsimile of the actual book - often referred to as 'Bradshaw's Guide' - used in the 'Great British Railway Journeys' television series, possibly the only surviving example of the 1863 edition.

Bradshaw's Handbook was regularly updated, with the journeys featured, and the remarks made, differing between editions. This is the only available version of the 1863 edition.

Sealed Letter
Emma Donoghue

9781447205982

After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has become a successful woman of business and a pioneer in the British Women's Movement. But, for all her independence of mind, Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion and finds herself drawn into aiding Helen's obsessive affair with a young army officer.

Then, when the Vice-Admiral seizes the children and sues for divorce, the women's friendship unravels amid accusations of adultery and counter-accusations of cruelty and attempted rape, as well as a mysterious 'sealed letter' that could destroy more than one life ...

The Diamond Queen
Elizabeth II and Her People
Andrew Marr

£25, our price £20

A masterful account of the Queen’s extraordinary reign by one of our most popular authors and TV personalities. Published in advance of a new BBC series.

The Walmington-On-Sea
Home Guard Training Manual
Captain George Mainwaring

£9.99, our price £7.99

Recently discovered in an attic amongst a pile of Hotspur comics, the Manual belonged to Private Pike and features his handwritten notes on the text plus his personal jottings on matters of rather less importance than the defence of the realm: films he saw, girls he dated and the progress of Aston Villa FC.

The Railwayman’s Pocket Book
Introduction by R H N Hardy

£7.99, our price £6.99

This fascinating pocket book draws on numerous primary sources from the early days of the rail network through to the Big Four and British Railways to present a unique guide to the knowledge and skills required for locomotive drivers, engineers and fireman that will appeal to all railway enthusiasts.

Again!
Emily Gravett

£10.99, our price £8.99

A stubborn little dragon with a favourite book – and a fiery temper!

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Illustrated by Joe Berger

£10.99, our price £8.99s

The first ever sequel to Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang endorsed by the Fleming family. When the Tooting family find a vast abandoned engine and fit it to their camper van, they have no idea of the adventure that lies ahead.

Gangsta Granny
David Walliams

£12.99, our price £10.99

Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma’s house until he discovers she was once an international jewel thief. All her life, she has been plotting to steal the crown jewels and now she needs Ben’s help!

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We are always on the look-out for good books at RICKARO

The Matthew Hervey novels of Allan Mallinson.
At Rickaro Books we have a interest in military writing, this includes non-fiction accounts and manuals, but we also have a liking for good accurate fiction such as the writings of Patrick O'Brien and Allan Mallinson. In particular we like to have in stock titles of the acclaimed series of Mallinson works featuring Matthew Hervey of the Light Dragoons. There are now eight in the series: A CLOSE RUN THING, THE NIZAM'S DAUGHTER, A REGIMENTAL AFFAIR, A CALL TO ARMS, THE SABRE'S EDGE, RUMOURS OF WAR, AN ACT OF COURAGE and the latest COMPANY OF SPEARS. These are becoming harder to find in good hardcover first editions but we have the paperbacks if you just want a good read.

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