Midwife’s mainstream deal
... time as a midwife in the East End of London in the 19505. Call the Midwife will appear in July 2007, with Shadows of the Workhouse to follow. Weidenfeld has UK and Commonwealth rights. ...
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... history of recent years. Jennifer Worth’s latest title, Shadows of the Workhouse, is a reminder that within living memory and experience, the Victorian austerity of the workhouse was a real option for many of the most destitute in London’s East End and ...
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... and an account of his travels with Tony Blair in 2007, all around the theme of terrorism. Jennifer Worth Shadows of the Workhouse Phoenix, £6.99, 22nd, 9780753825853 Following on from Call the Midwife, more stories from her 1950 s East End. Errol Morris ...
CITY CLEANS UP
... non-fiction chart. Also new in the top 10 is former midwife Jennifer Worth’s second slice of social history, Shadows of the Workhouse. The follow-up to Call the Midwife again deals with the lives of the poor in 1950 s London. Worth’s earlier work has sold ...
Orphan who inspired Dickens
... book also provides a sense of what working-class life was like in that period.” Icon Books is to launch the biography of a workhouse orphan billed as “the real Oliver Twist”, coinciding with a new Roman Polanski film of the novel by Charles Dickens. John ...
Hodder, 7th, p/b, £12.99, 9780340954676
... new collection. Book Scan HH peter Higginbotham The Workhouse Cookbook The History Press, p/b, £12.99, 9780752447308 A facsimile of the 1901 Manual of Workhouse Cookery, the recipe book every workhouse chef turned to when cooking up a cauldron of gruel ...
Children’s previews
... Annie flee from the brutish farmer to whom they have been apprenticed, after their mother reluctantly abandoned them in the workhouse. Their journey over the moorland road moves from danger to near disaster. Hard choices have to be made, and the momentum ...
novel, Songs of Blue and Gold, will come from Arrow in 2008. A third trend, and one that may seem
... Hidden Cause—My Story. Merton published Call the Midwife in 2002, and a second memoir, Shadows of the Workhouse, in 2005. A copy of Shadows of the Workhouse arrived in the hands of Matthew Parris, who wrote about it in the Spectator. “Worth’s book made me ...
Midwifery Worth £sook
... and its followup, from Merton Books, which originally published Call the Midwife in 2002. The followup, Shadows of the Workhouse, will be re-released later this month. Parris received a copy of Shadows . . . some time ago. “Worth’s book made me cry in ...
TOP 20 hardback nOn-ficTiOn Pos Last Title author Publisher iSbn Pub date rrP aSP Units 1 1 Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy
... £12.51 1,884 7 6 Jamie at Home Oliver, Jamie Michael Joseph 9780718152437 Sep 07 £25.00 £17.39 1,865 8 10 Shadows of the Workhouse Worth, Jennifer Weidenfeld 9780297853268 Jun 08 £12.99 £10.50 1,804 9 11 I Used to Know That Taggart, Caroline Michael O’Mara ...
TOP 20 hardback nOn-ficTiOn Pos Last Title author Publisher iSbn Pub date rrP aSP Units 1 1 Chinese Food Made
... £25.00 £18.15 1,643 9 8 Cityboy Anderson, Geraint Headline 9780755346165 Jun 08 £17.99 £13.56 1,566 10 10 Shadows of the Workhouse Worth, Jennifer Weidenfeld 9780297853268 Jun 08 £12.99 £9.04 1,532 11 11 I Used to Know That Taggart, Caroline Michael O’Mara ...
TOP 20 hardback nOn-ficTiOn Pos Last Title author Publisher iSbn Pub date rrP aSP Units 1 1 Chinese Food made
... 2,081 7 8 Jordan: Pushed to the limit Price, Katie Century 9781846052392 Feb 08 £18.99 £11.89 1,702 8 10 shadows of the Workhouse Worth, Jennifer Weidenfeld 9780297853268 Jun 08 £12.99 £9.17 1,558 9 14 Cut Glass, Cathy Harper element 9780007280971 aug ...