From the Library With Love Podcast
1) ‘I escaped the Nazis then fixed Lancaster Bombers for the RAF.'
Send us a text During the Second World War, Ruth Brook escaped Nazi persecution in Germany and followed her wartime sweetheart, a Lancaster Bomber into the RAF. As a WAAF, she quickly found a sense ...Show More
2) Jean Fullerton, policewoman and district nurse turned novelist on why there is no such thing as an ordinary life.
Send us a textFormer policewoman and district nurse turned novelist, Jean Fullerton has written over 20 novels but recently published something a bit closer to home, her memoir, A Child of the East En...Show More
3) Author Louisa Treger investigates the audacious woman who tricked her way into a brutal insane asylum to expose the truth
Send us a textIn the 19th century it was surprisingly easy for a woman to be consigned to the misery of an asylum. Many in fact weren't actually mentally ill. Husband tired of his wife? A woman who b...Show More
4) British booksellers in the Blitz
Send us a textHistorical fiction author Kristy Cambron wears a lot of hats. She's a Christy Award-winning author of historical fiction, including her bestselling novels, THE BUTTERFLY AND THE VIOLIN a...Show More
5) What it's like to be a prison librarian? Neil Barclay invites us into HMP Thameside library in London.
Send us a textNeil Barclay is an award-winning civilian librarian at HMP Thameside. Nominated by prisoners, and described by his colleagues as “our library superstar”, Neil has been praised for the ou...Show More
6) The mysterious photo that inspired a tale of secrets, loss and betrayal in wartime Cornwall.
Send us a textRachel Hore is the multi-million selling Sunday Times author of thirteen novels with her fourteenth, Secrets of Dragonfly Lodge, coming out next year.Rachel is an avid reader. 'My readin...Show More
7) Shattered cities. Donna Jones Alward on uncovering the WW1 explosion which devastated Nova Scotia
Send us a textDonna Jones Alward is prolific author, writing over sixty novels. Here she explains why her first historical fiction novel, When the World Fell Silent, challenged her to grapple with a d...Show More
8) "I wrote 100 letters to my friend with cancer. It transformed our lives."
Send us a textWhen Brian was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2010, his friend Alison offered to write letters to cheer him up. Over the next two years, as Brian’s cancer moved from stage III to IV, Ali...Show More
9) What happened after the Nazis left? New York Times bestselling author Jenny Le Coat on why liberation didn't equal freedom for Jersey islanders after WW2.
Send us a textWhat happens when ordinary people are faced with extraordinary choices?In her second blistering novel set on the Channel Island of Jersey, Beyond Summerland, author Jenny Le Coat turns h...Show More
10) Meet the formidable, feisty, factory sisterhood who went on strike and made history.
Send us a Text Message.This July marks the 136th anniversary of the matchwomens strike at Bryant & May match factory in London's East End in 1888.Exposing the truth of the ‘poor waif matchgirl’ histor...Show More
Meet the formidable, feisty, factory sisterhood who went on strike and made history.
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