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Books Wanted by John Whitbourn

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The Masque of Capri
Edwin CERIO. Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1957.

Yesterday - A Tory Fairy Tale
Henry Norman DAVEY. 1924
in which - apparently - the Isle of Wight secedes and becomes a sovereign state! As it so often does in my own preferred 'Alternative Histories': emboldened by smuggling and offshore-banking derived wealth, wielder of a powerful navy (combating aggression wherever it wants to start it), adorned by a glittering capital at Yarmouth and populated by proud 'caulkheads' speaking Hampshire dialect as their principal tongue ...

[ Postscript 2003 - I secured a copy of 'Yesterday' to read and whilst amusing in a bright-young-things, Evelyn Waugh-ish sort of way, the Wight setting is pretty perfunctory. So, though I'd still like a copy, prices over a fiver are unlikely to secure a sale. Looking on the bright side though, the definitive Isle of Wight nationalist novel remains to be written ... ]

Bergerac's Jersey
John NETTLES ( hardback )

The Ancient World - Manners & Morals
Jack LINDSAY. Weidenfeld & N. 1968.

The Reformation & the English People
J. J. SCARISBRICK.

Autobiography or 'Memoirs of My life' or 'The Life of John Wilkes'
by ( surprise, surprise ) John WILKES ( 1727 - 1797 ).

Isle of Wight books -

The Oglander Memoirs
Ed. W. H. LONG

A Royalist's Notebook
Ed. Francis BAMFORD

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