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Mrs Murata
It’s taken me a very long time and such a lot of work, but I have delighted in this so much. – Where we live in the far north of Honshu, so many people have left. Off, to Tokyo! Off, to find their fortunes abroad! That sort of thing. They used to come back. It was always accepted, the younger genera …
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Hana
When a typhoid epidemic tears through the small town of Meziříčíin in 1953, nine-year-old Mira is orphaned and forced to turn to her aunt Hana. A woman who has barely spoken to her during family gatherings, she is strange, austere, nervous and looks much older than her thirty-something years. She ha …
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The Tiger Girl and the Rain Stag: An Interview with Pascale Petit
YR: You describe your grandmother as a really important presence in your childhood, and she’s the central (human) character in Tiger Girl. Can you tell me more about her and her family? Pascale Petit 2018 credit Brian Fraser PP: My great-grandfather was from a white Irish family, and he lived …
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Winner of the Royal Mint Museum Remembering Decimalisation Competition
The Life of an Old Shilling I may be old but I have my own story to tell and this is it. I used to be so helpful but now I am lost. Once bright and shiny. A lovely silver one shilling coin. Made in 1935 with King George V’s head looking back at everyone whose hands I went through. I used to pass fro …
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Battle Ready: Eliminate Doubt, Embrace Courage, Transform Your Life
Battle Ready by Ollie Ollerton is as much a storytelling piece as it is a blueprint to overcoming those little demons that we all have within us, that hold us back whichever way they can. Covering four main sections – the call to change, the barriers to change, how to change, and sustaining change – …
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