If These Stones Could TalkThe UK's parish churches, chapels, cathedrals, convents, abbeys and monasteries, spanning 1600 years, are a spectacularly rich but often overlooked heritage. Many are visited for their architectural and aesthetic qualities they make up 45% of all Grade 1 listed buildings in the country but rarely is the deeper historical story that they tell explored and joined up into a single narrative in our sceptical, secular times. This book tells that story the

A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco

becoming a lifelong devotee of Du Maurier's fiction

Tyen has cast off his old identity

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This is a book about meeting those neighbours

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who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had

It is for dipping into and reflecting upon

All Anna can do is keep her mother alive

politicians and private corporations that own England

It isn't a compliment

They move through the corridors like sharks