The Co-Op's Got Bananas by Davies, Hunter - 2016

Simon & Schuster, Limited. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardback. Very Good.

Simon & Schuster, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Simon and Schuster, 2016 9781471153402. Fine. A fine book in a fine DW,. DW is not price-clipped. This is a first edition/ first impression of the author's autobiography. Complete numberline. No inscriptions or annotations. 392 pages. Size: 5 1/2" x 9" illustrated with b/w photos. The author who is a well known and much respected biographer turns the spotlight onto his own life which includes a long and very happy marriage to the novelist Margaret Forster, Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio. Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, Hunter… Read More

Simon & Schuster UK, 2016-05-19. Hardcover. Acceptable. 3.3974 in x 21.3837 in x 14.3891 in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age.

Simon & Schuster UK, 2016-05-19. Hardcover. Good. 3.3974 in x 21.3837 in x 14.3891 in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean text, sound binding.

London: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio. Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, Hunter Davies captures this period beautifully. His memoir of growing up in post-war North of England from 1945 onwards, amid the immense damage wrought by the Second World War, and the dreariness of life on rationing, very little luxuries and an archaic educational system, should be one that will resonate with thousands of readers across Britain. In the same vein as… Read More