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A Selection of items recently added to the Library’s catalogue, June 2025

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Félix Benoist (1818-1896), Baie de St Brelade.

Books

  • Fennell, Mike, Navigating a passage through life: the Frank ‘Hurricane’ Lawrence story. Channel Island Features Ltd, 2025.
  • Ord, Douglas, Guernsey Occupation diaries 1940-1945. Blue Ormer Publishing, 2021.
  • Byrne, Penny, Voices from the Occupation: recollections of Channel Islanders’ daily life under the Reich. Independent Publishing Network, 2025.
  • A Souvenir album of quotations, recipes and household hints. St James’ Church, 1913.
  • A Collection of quotations, practical recipes and household hints. St Paul’s Church, 1912.
  • King, Jacqueline, Lobster blues. Zun Told, 2025. Fiction.
  • Noël, Daff, Poor shall inherit: a family saga: Westaway. Seaflower Books, 2006. Fiction.

Periodicals

  • Vernacular Architecture, volume 55, 2024.
  • Antiquity: a quarterly review of world archaeology, volume 99, number 404, April 2025.
  • Revue de l’Avranchin et du Pays de Granville, tome 102, année 2025, fasc. 482 (mars).
  • La Revue de la Manche, tome 67, fascicules 267, janvier-février-mars 2025.
  • Archaeology international, volume 26, 2023.
  • Archaeology international, volume 27, 2024.
  • Post-medieval archaeology, volume 58, part 2-3, 2024.
  • Jersey Bird Report 2024.
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Félix Benoist (1818-1896) was a French painter and lithographer who visited Jersey and made a number of detailed drawings of local views, which was published as a book of lithographs in 1870, Album de l’Ile de Jersey avec coup-d’oeil sur Guernesey et les côtes de la Manche de Cherbourg au Cap Fréhel : dessins d’après nature.

Book and prints from the Lord Coutanche Library’s collection.

Port de St Aubin
Saint Helier
Baie de St Brelade

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