Mavis Cheek
Yesterday's Houses

When sixteen-year-old Marianne Flowers is invited to a party in a genteel house she has no idea that the house will change her life. Not to mention Charles, the boy who introduces her to red wine, sophisticated conversation and an apparently liberated future. But marriage to Charles turns out to be far from liberating and soon Marianne finds herself living in a basement flat, with a way of life that is very far from her hopes, romantic or otherwise. When Charles' mother starts feeding her with books - classics, feminist essays, fine literature - Marianne soon realises that there is a whole bright world unfolding before her. How will this new, independently-minded, occasionally foolish, sometimes triumphant Marianne find her place in this brand new world?

Anne de Courcy
Debs At War

The young unmarried daughters of the upper classes, who were debutantes before 1939, were the most cocooned members of British society. These girls found the advent of war both a challenge and an education. Anne de Courcy has interviewed forty-seven women who were pre-war debs. Their individual stories reveal the extraordinary diversity of the work they undertook.

Andrew Smith
Moondust: In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth

Of the astronauts who walked on the moon, only nine are still alive. One day no one on earth will have known the giddy thrill of gazing back at us from another world. In Moondust, journalist Andrew Smith sets out to find and interview the remaining moonwalkers in order to learn how their lives were changed by this surreal adventure.