9 Best memoir books like Pie 'n' Mash & Prefabs: My 1950s Childhood by Norman Jacobs

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Pie 'n' Mash & Prefabs: My 1950s Childhood

By: Norman Jacobs

3.89

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect pref…

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1. Nurse On Call: The True Story of a 1950s District Nurse

By: Edith Cotterill

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Never had I seen so many fleas! Startled by the daylight, they leapt in all directions, particular… read more

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2. Hidden Treasures

By: Fern Britton

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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3. The Throwaway Children: A gripping and emotional historical novel by bestselling author Diney Costleoe

By: Diney Costeloe

4.23

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable – the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an… read more

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4. The War on Our Doorstep: London's East End and How the Blitz Changed it Forever

By: Harriet Salisbury , Museum of London

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. In the early 20th centur… read more

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5. Four Meals for Fourpence

By: Grace Foakes

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

A heartwarming memoir of working-class life in the East End in the early 1900s I was born in a tene… read more

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6. The View From the Corner Shop: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime

By: Robert Malcolmson , Patricia Malcolmson , Kathleen Hey

3.67

Format: None pages,

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7. The Cook's Tale

By: Tom Quinn , Nancy Jackman

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Told in the first person by a woman who lived the hard life as a cook in a number of England's coun… read more

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8. The Unmarried Mother

By: Sheila Tofield

3.64

Format: 221 pages, ebook

Sheila Tofield tells her moving true story about being a single mother in 1950s Britain, in The Unm… read more

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9. We Ain't Go No Drink, Pa

By: Hilda Kemp , Cathryn Kemp

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Too many children. Too little money. An abusive father too drunk to notice his family is starving. … read more

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10. A Nurse In Time

By: Evelyn Prentis

3.79

Format: None pages,

Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her li… read more

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11. 1963: A Slice of Bread and Jam: One boy’s year of adventure, crippling poverty, abuse and an encounter with The Moors Murderers

By: Tommy Rhattigan

2.76

Format: 320 pages,

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12. Dead Man Talking

By: Roddy Doyle

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pat had been best friends with Joe Murphy since they were kids. But years ago they had a fight. A b… read more

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13. The Sound of Laughter

By: Peter Kay

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earne… read more

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14. A Winter Grave

By: Peter May

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more

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15. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

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"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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16. A Winter Baby for Gin Barrel Lane

By: Lindsey Hutchinson

4.51

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Perkins and Jack Larkin have grown up in the notorious gin palaces of Birmingham. It’s a w… read more

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17. The Dock Girl's Shame (The Waterfront Women #2)

By: AnneMarie Brear

4.62

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A broken heart, a shameful secret… Wakefield, Yorkshire 1871 Loretta Chambers has spent her l… read more

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18. The Bad Penny

By: Lindsey Hutchinson

4.33

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

When Jared Johnson first meets Clarice Connaught he saves her from the hands of her father, who is … read more

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19. The Ragged Orphan

By: Lindsey Hutchinson

4.46

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

When 12 year-old Jared Johnson’s little sister dies, just hours after his mother breathes her last … read more

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20. The Hat Girl's Heartbreak

By: Lindsey Hutchinson

4.51

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Will it be tears or triumph for the Hat Girl from Silver Street? It’s been five years since Ella… read more

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21. My Thoughts Exactly

By: Lily Allen

3.97

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I … read more

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22. The Highland Girls at War

By: Helen Yendall

4.36

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Can the Highland girls prove everyone wrong? Don’t miss this poignant and heartwarming WW2 novel fo… read more

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23. The Hat Girl From Silver Street

By: Lindsey Hutchinson

4.38

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is tough for Ella Bancroft. After her father, Thomas, is wheelchair-bound by an accident at th… read more

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24. A Ration Book Daughter (Ration Book #5)

By: Jean Fullerton

4.62

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Cathy was a happy, blushing bride when Britain went to war with Germany three years ago. But her yo… read more

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25. The Girl From the Workhouse (Potteries Girls, #1)

By: Lynn Johnson

4.39

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Even in the darkest of times, she never gave up hopeStaffordshire, 1911. Ginnie Jones’s childhood i… read more

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26. Minnie's Orphans

By: Lindsey Hutchinson

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Let bestselling author Lindsey Hutchinson transport you back in time to Marshall’s Children’s Home,… read more

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27. The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers

By: Angela Patrick

4.20

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

The tragic but ultimately uplifting story of a young woman who was sent to a 'baby laundry' for unm… read more

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28. A 1960s Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania

By: Paul Feeney

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you remember Beatlemania? Radio Caroline? Mods and Rockers? The very first miniskirts? Then the … read more

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Cover of Pie 'n' Mash & Prefabs: My 1950s Childhood by Norman Jacobs

29. Pie 'n' Mash & Prefabs: My 1950s Childhood

By: Norman Jacobs

3.89

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect pref… read more

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Cover of A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams by Jeff   Pearce

30. A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams

By: Jeff Pearce

4.41

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

The poor boy who made his fortune . . . not just once but twice.Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a pos… read more

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31. The Five Shilling Children

By: Lindsey Hutchinson

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Tears and tribulations, laughs and heartbreak, from the queen of Black Country sagas. Adam and Poll… read more

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3.72

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Paul O'Grady

4.22

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

3.84

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