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A special welcome from Mr Darcy to the website of Darcy Press.
HISTORICAL FICTION AND NON-FICTION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY |
Titles now available in paperback with free UK delivery |
Mr Darcy likes to mix his old fashioned ways with modern technology so these titles are available both as paperbacks, which can be ordered here for delivery by post, and ebooks ready to download immediately from this site. For those who think ebooks sound a bit complicated, have a look at the Techy stuff.
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 | | | Worsted to Westminster : The Extraordinary life of the Rev Dr Charles Leach MP | | Genre: Biography | | Author: J.B. Williams |
Rev Dr Charles Leach was the only Member of Parliament who has ever lost his seat for being of 'unsound mind'. Worsted to Westminster charts how he rose from a humble birth in rural Yorkshire to become a shoemaker, prominent preacher, lecturer, traveller, writer, socialist, businessman, army chaplain, and MP. His ability to be where the action was, makes for a fascinating glimpse into the history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | | More Information > | | Paperback | RRP: £8.99 | Discount Price: £8.09 |  | | EBook | | £1.99 | |
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|  | | | Love and Hate | | Genre: Fiction | | Author: J.B. Williams |
In the late summer of 1945 in post war Amsterdam two young holocaust survivors meet. This is the story of their growing love while they try to come to terms with a past of persecution, hiding, betrayal, capture, and incarceration in extermination camps. Survival alone sets them on a new path where they are helped by many people, and in turn help them with the problems in their own lives. | | More Information > | | Paperback | RRP: £6.99 | Discount Price: £6.29 | | | EBook | | £1.99 | |
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|  | | | The Dykebreak | | Genre: Fiction | | Author: J.B. Williams |
The Dykebreak follows the lives of Mary and DD, characters already met in Love and Hate, as they grow up in the difficult 20s and 30s. Despite him having to fight and both in their own ways resisting, they survive the war years, and the 'Hunger Winter', in the occupied Netherlands but find life more difficult in the calm of the post war years. Only the flood disaster of 1953 resolves their problems and brings them together again. | | More Information > | | Paperback | RRP: £7.99 | Discount Price: £7.19 | | | EBook | | £1.99 | |
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|  | | | Airship Pilot Number 28 | | Genre: Biography | | Author: Captain T.B. Williams AFC |
Fifty years of adventures in Balloons and Airships by one of the pioneers in this field. From the dangerous occupation of fighting submarines in a hydrogen filled airship in the First World War, to the resurgence of modern Hot Air Balloons, he was there. This classic autobiography is republished after thirty years out of print. | | More Information > | | Paperback | RRP: £6.99 | Discount Price: £6.29 | | | EBook | | £1.99 | |
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|  | | | Unreasonable Men | | Genre: Fiction | | Author: J.B. Williams |
Unreasonable Men follows young Ted Cole through the traumas of redundancy, unemployment, and first loves, into the calmer waters of developing his career and success in his personal life. The unreasonable men of the title are those that shape these events, and in the end he has to ask himself - has he become one of them? | | More Information > | | Paperback | RRP: £6.99 | Discount Price: £6.29 | | | EBook | | £1.99 | |
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