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    • T.E. Brown - His Life and Legacy

      T.E. Brown - His Life and Legacy

      £9.99 - 95 in stock

      T.E. Brown was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1830, the son of the curate in charge of Old St. Matthew's Church. The family soon moved to Old Kirk Braddan, where the young Brown ..

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    • Wave to Your Daddy

      Wave to Your Daddy

      £9.99 - 64 in stock

      A four-year old child waits on the quayside for her father to come home from the war in Burma. The newly reunited family strive to adjust to their post-war life in a wartime Nissen..

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    • A Harvest of Memories

      A Harvest of Memories

      £8.99 - 98 in stock

      Harvey Briggs was born in Shropshire in 1920 and went to live in the Isle of Man when he was six. Since then, he has lived on two Manx farms and made a career as a farmer and agric..

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    • Foxgloves

      Foxgloves

      £7.99 - 1332 in stock

      THIS collection of short stories is set in the Isle of Man. Though they are different in time and place, they are linked in themes and concerns, all dealing with Island life...

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    • High-Bailiff Laughton’s Reminiscences

      High-Bailiff Laughton’s Reminiscences

      £7.99 - 597 in stock

      ALFRED NELSON LAUGHTON, author of the following reminiscences, was not Manx either by blood or birth, yet practically the whole of his long life was associated intimately with the ..

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    • Alice's Story

      Alice's Story

      £4.99 - 239 in stock

      Travel back in time and visit Old Douglas, from the bustling Quayside with its Coffee Palace to the green fields near Alexander Drive. Meet the characters who were part of Alice's ..

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    • Me & Ellan Vannin

      Me & Ellan Vannin

      £8.99 £4.00 - 1312 in stock

      This is the story of how one child adapted to the enormous changes that war brought, and how a rural life a world away from anything familiar eventually became the very epitome of ..

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    • Travels of Yesteryear

      Travels of Yesteryear

      £3.99 £0.50 - 1264 in stock

      Author Frieda Standen has written four books for The Manx Experience. In "Travels of Yesteryear" she relates some of the amusing and curious incidents which have occurred when she ..

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