Royal Air Force

Sillitoe had been invalided out of the RAF with tuberculosis and had a small disability pension, but still when the young couple left England they had to borrow money for the journey south and the...

The story is set in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where a young couple, Isabel and Philip Carey, are living in the harsh winter and austerity conditions of 1952, coping with the newness of...

MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...

After her return to England, LB bought herself a country home: the manor house at Hemingford Grey in Huntingdonshire, twenty yards from the towpath of the Great Ouse, which dates back to...

Back at home in Cheltenham, Mary finds the stagnation was worse than anything that I had pictured. Her mother (much younger than her father) died early; her stepmother was formerly her father's landlady...

From the ages of nine to fifteen DA was chastely in love with a boy of her own age, kind, gentle, brave, honest and reliable: the most rational love of my life. After that...

In this book she both re-introduced Albert Campion to his many fans, and tried to picture the coming post-war England. The cast of upper-middle-class characters are transformed by their entry into war service in...