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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63956K Carol Thatcher / Below the Parapet - The Biography of Denis Thatcher When Denis and Margaret Thatcher met on a blind date in 1949, he never dreamed that he would become the consort to the first woman prime minister. He fulfilled this role with tact, humour and charm but remained a private man. This biography, written... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32840H Robert Cowley / What If? America: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63956K Carol Thatcher / Below the Parapet - The Biography of Denis Thatcher When Denis and Margaret Thatcher met on a blind date in 1949, he never dreamed that he would become the consort to the first woman prime minister. He fulfilled this role with tact, humour and charm but remained a private man. This biography, written... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32840H Robert Cowley / What If? America: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoe Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63956K Carol Thatcher / Below the Parapet - The Biography of Denis Thatcher When Denis and Margaret Thatcher met on a blind date in 1949, he never dreamed that he would become the consort to the first woman prime minister. He fulfilled this role with tact, humour and charm but remained a private man. This biography, written... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32840H Robert Cowley / What If? America: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoe Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Roberts / America and Its People (Coffee Table Book) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.47 Was: £4.47 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA12628H Dan Barry / A Nation Challenged : A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath (Coffee Table Book) The "New York Times" has opened its archives on September 11 and its consequences, including the anthrax scare, the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, the fall of the Taliban and the efforts to rebuild the nation. It also features background essays, charts... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR60964H Neil Oliver / A History of Scotland Scotland's history has been badly served over the years and here gets a rewrite by archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver. 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Roberts / America and Its People (Coffee Table Book) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.47 Was: £4.47 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA12628H Dan Barry / A Nation Challenged : A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath (Coffee Table Book) The "New York Times" has opened its archives on September 11 and its consequences, including the anthrax scare, the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, the fall of the Taliban and the efforts to rebuild the nation. It also features background essays, charts... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR60964H Neil Oliver / A History of Scotland Scotland's history has been badly served over the years and here gets a rewrite by archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver. 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoe Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63956K Carol Thatcher / Below the Parapet - The Biography of Denis Thatcher When Denis and Margaret Thatcher met on a blind date in 1949, he never dreamed that he would become the consort to the first woman prime minister. He fulfilled this role with tact, humour and charm but remained a private man. This biography, written... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32840H Robert Cowley / What If? America: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Roberts / America and Its People (Coffee Table Book) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.47 Was: £4.47 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA12628H Dan Barry / A Nation Challenged : A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath (Coffee Table Book) The "New York Times" has opened its archives on September 11 and its consequences, including the anthrax scare, the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, the fall of the Taliban and the efforts to rebuild the nation. It also features background essays, charts... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR60964H Neil Oliver / A History of Scotland Scotland's history has been badly served over the years and here gets a rewrite by archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63956K Carol Thatcher / Below the Parapet - The Biography of Denis Thatcher When Denis and Margaret Thatcher met on a blind date in 1949, he never dreamed that he would become the consort to the first woman prime minister. He fulfilled this role with tact, humour and charm but remained a private man. This biography, written... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32840H Robert Cowley / What If? America: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoe Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoe Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... 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SALE Quick view sku: nN698K James Kirby Martin , Randy W. Roberts / America and Its People (Coffee Table Book) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.47 Was: £4.47 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoe Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... 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He was in Rome in 1939 when the Second World War broke out, and when Mussolini sided with Hitler. From his safe base in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... 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The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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In 1836, the barque Stirling Castle shipwrecked on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, leaving the crew, Captain Fraser, and his wife at the mercy of cannibalistic aborigines. The captain was soon... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85053K Henry James / A Small Boy and Others (Large Paperback) Of Irish and Scottish extraction, Henry James grew up in New York when it was still dominated by Arcadian panoramas of trees and water. In this touching book, he returns to his youth to recapture the images of his Bohemian family life. In 1913,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: 60835K Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution - A Stand-Up History of teh French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25322H Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31766H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85053K Henry James / A Small Boy and Others (Large Paperback) Of Irish and Scottish extraction, Henry James grew up in New York when it was still dominated by Arcadian panoramas of trees and water. In this touching book, he returns to his youth to recapture the images of his Bohemian family life. In 1913,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: 60835K Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution - A Stand-Up History of teh French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59997H Alison Walsh / Hugh O'Flaherty : His Wartime Adventures Hugh O'Flaherty was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. A Kerryman who loved sport, he was cheerful and full of energy. He was in Rome in 1939 when the Second World War broke out, and when Mussolini sided with Hitler. From his safe base in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... 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The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. 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Quick view sku: X85053K Henry James / A Small Boy and Others (Large Paperback) Of Irish and Scottish extraction, Henry James grew up in New York when it was still dominated by Arcadian panoramas of trees and water. In this touching book, he returns to his youth to recapture the images of his Bohemian family life. In 1913,... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: 60835K Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution - A Stand-Up History of teh French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59997H Alison Walsh / Hugh O'Flaherty : His Wartime Adventures Hugh O'Flaherty was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. A Kerryman who loved sport, he was cheerful and full of energy. He was in Rome in 1939 when the Second World War broke out, and when Mussolini sided with Hitler. From his safe base in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... 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The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... 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Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... 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Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Quick view Books on France | sku: 60835K Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution - A Stand-Up History of teh French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59997H Alison Walsh / Hugh O'Flaherty : His Wartime Adventures Hugh O'Flaherty was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. A Kerryman who loved sport, he was cheerful and full of energy. He was in Rome in 1939 when the Second World War broke out, and when Mussolini sided with Hitler. From his safe base in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51993H Tim Marshall / Shadowplay : Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopoliticsThe shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Quick view sku: rR59997H Alison Walsh / Hugh O'Flaherty : His Wartime Adventures Hugh O'Flaherty was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. A Kerryman who loved sport, he was cheerful and full of energy. He was in Rome in 1939 when the Second World War broke out, and when Mussolini sided with Hitler. From his safe base in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51993H Tim Marshall / Shadowplay : Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopoliticsThe shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25322H Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... 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Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... 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The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... 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Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51993H Tim Marshall / Shadowplay : Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopoliticsThe shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25322H Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31766H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR51993H Tim Marshall / Shadowplay : Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopoliticsThe shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25322H Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31766H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25322H Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31766H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR31766H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 61384K David Torrance / EU Brexit Referendum 2016 : A Guide for Voters Should the United Kingdom remain a part of the European Union or leave the European Union?This was the question on 23 June 2016 , when UK voters headed to the ballot boxes to cast our votes in the in/out referendum on EU membership. It s a complicated... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR31690H L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR27680H Antonia Fraser / Perilous Question - The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser’s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain’s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected
SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84081K Samuel P. Huntington / Who Are We ? : America's Great Debate (Hardback) In his new book, the author of THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X83983K Gerard Lemos / The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Hardback) A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern ChinaGlossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X94280H Omid Scobie / Endgame - Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight For Survival (Hardback) On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83956K Michael D'Antonio, Peter Eisner / High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (Hardback) Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW36717H Jon Ronson / The Men Who Stare at Goats (Hardback) This story is about why happened when a small group of men -- highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services -- began believing in very strange things. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW7104H Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required : The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback) Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, with family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X83647K Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback) A startling, dramatic and sometimes humorous 1997n analysis of the crumbling of the American Dream by the BBC's chief American correspondent. Gavin Esler has lived in the USA for eight years. He finds the American people at their angriest, and most... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X83592K Steven G. Calabresi / Originalism : A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardback) What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should the US interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X83318K David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim / The Intellectual Devotional: American History: 365 Entries from Seven Fields of Knowledge (Hardback) In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history - 365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year. Modeled after those bedside... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW44185H P. Fintan Lyons / Food, Feast and Fast (Hardback) This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next Compare Selected
SALE Quick view sku: wW41594H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (Hardback) 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 from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X82709K William J. Bennett / Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals(Hardback) Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X82650K James Muirden / The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History Of The Universe (Hardback) Encapsulates and illuminates five thousand years of the greatest thoughts and thinkers - astronomers, space scientists, philosophers, alchemists, mathematicians, writers, physicists, and theologians. Illustrated with line drawings, this title offers... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X82591K Norman Lebrecht / Covent Garden : The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War - 1945-2000 (Hardback) From 1732 until World War II, London's privately owned and operated Royal Opera House (ROH) at Covent Garden was reflective of the country it served -- the rich and noble enjoyed performances in the luxury of the theater and concert hall while the rest... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X82506K Ronald Millar / A View from the Wings: Speechwriter to Three Prime Ministers (Hardback) An insight into Number 10 Downing Street during the Thatcher years from Ronald Millar, playwright and screenwriter, and the man who wrote Margaret Thatcher's speeches throughout her career as party leader. All of our books are second hand,... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW39103H David Lodge / Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 (Hardback) ‘I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW32795H Albert Jack / What Caesar Did for My Salad (Hardback) Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
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