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William J. Mann / How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, 1941-1981

Elizabeth Taylor's worldwide fame owed much to her glamorous public image and scandalous private life, but as William Mann points out in this analysis of her stunningly successful Hollywood career, she understood that the headlines were never 'for...

Matthew Hunter / Schiller

The new era of glasnost is wearing thin for the KGB. Especially when it encourages the sort of friendship between Ed Schiller, Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post, and the Barsovs. For the drunken, womanising dissident Alexei Sergevich, his...

Gordon Banks / Banksy: My Autobiography

For ten years Gordon Banks was not only England's number one, but was also acknowledged to be the best goalkeeper in the world. This book is about more than football. It tells the story of the man who represents all that was admirable about the...

Reginald H. Adams / The College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge

The custom of formal dining at Oxford and Cambridge dates back to the earliest days of college life. Before each dinner, according to ancient statutes, grace must be said in Latin, and, although the text and nature of grace for each college has changed...

Hugh Miller / Borrowed Time ( Alistair MacLean's UNAC Series)

Militant religious extremists are taking over the peaceful Vale of Kashmir, dealing in drugs and guns to fund their war.The Vale of Kashmir in India, precariously caught between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China, is one of the most serenely beautiful...

Tom Marcus / Target and Destroy

Former MI5 Officer Tom Marcus Returns With a Pulse-Pounding Espionage Thriller     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers...

Stuart Woods / Shoot Him If He Runs (Stone Barrington #14)

Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise that’s getting hotter by the minute…Teddy Fay, the rogue agent last seen escaping from an imploding building in Iron Orchid, has been considered...

Kate Rhodes / Ruin Beach

DI Ben Kitto has become the Scilly Islands’ Deputy Chief of Police. As the island’s lazy summer takes hold, he finds himself missing the excitement of the murder squad in London. But when a body is found anchored to the rocks of a...

Chris Stewart / Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia

Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a second-hand...

Kate Rhodes / Burnt Island

INTRUDERS HERE ARE BOUND TO DIEAs the sun sets on St Agnes on bonfire night, a man’s charred body is found on Burnt Island, surrounded by threats in the old Cornish language.Deputy Chief of Police Ben Kitto has no choice but to ban all travel...

Robert Reed / The Hormone Jungle

Recounts the futuristic story of Steward, a warrior and troubleshooter for hire, who inadvertently becomes the protector of a beautiful android girl with mysterious abilities         All of our books are second hand, and while...

Alison Sherlock / Desperate Bride's Diet Club

Violet Saunders is astounded when her boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes. But at size 18-20, the thought of finding a wedding dress fills her with horror. What she needs is a miracle wedding day diet.So when a leaflet advertising a new diet...