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Kaplan / The Accidental President: How 413 Lawyers, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 5,963,110 Floridians (Give or Take a Few) Landed George W. Bush in the White House (Hardback) For thirty-seven days after the disputed presidential election of 2000, we watched great theater, as George W Bush and Al Gore slugged it out in the swamp. You may think you've read it all before, but now Newsweek's David A. Kaplan goes behind the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED3479 Dan Lawton - Hunted : The Kevin Barry Artt Story - His Wrongful Conviction for Murder, Daring Escape from the Maze Prison and Long Fight for Justice - PB - BRAND NEW On Sunday, 26 November 1978, two IRA gunmen kicked in the front door at 8 Evelyn Gardens in Belfast, the home of Maze prison official Albert Miles. They executed Miles in front of his family and vanished into the night. In 1983 twenty-four-year-old... 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Donovan / Henry Foxall: Methodist, Industrialist, American (Large Paperback) Henry Foxall was the quintessential catalyst for the transformation of a Spirit-filled movement into a denomination and a young nation into an economic powerhouse. This biography of Henry Foxall (1758-1823), sheds light on second-generation... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31743H Frank Welsh / The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the reader from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the age of terrorism. Using his masterly... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x52675K Parragon Publishing / History Makers (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. 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Bush in the White House (Hardback) For thirty-seven days after the disputed presidential election of 2000, we watched great theater, as George W Bush and Al Gore slugged it out in the swamp. You may think you've read it all before, but now Newsweek's David A. Kaplan goes behind the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED3479 Dan Lawton - Hunted : The Kevin Barry Artt Story - His Wrongful Conviction for Murder, Daring Escape from the Maze Prison and Long Fight for Justice - PB - BRAND NEW On Sunday, 26 November 1978, two IRA gunmen kicked in the front door at 8 Evelyn Gardens in Belfast, the home of Maze prison official Albert Miles. They executed Miles in front of his family and vanished into the night. In 1983 twenty-four-year-old... 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Molony / The Penguin History of Australia (Coffee Table Book) Historian John Molony, author of "Eureka", takes the reader through Australia's prehistory and the arrival of white settlers to the transition from the convict age to a free society, the opening of the land, federation, and the development of... MSRP: £4.47 Was: £4.47 Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: aA6752H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Speeches That Changed the World (Coffee Table Book) Complete with transcripts, biographies of each speaker and the stories of why the world changed as a result, this collection features 20 of the most significant speeches of the 20th century, from Churchill's 'Peace for our time' to Reagan's call to... MSRP: £4.47 Was: £4.47 Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x56855K David A. Kaplan / The Accidental President: How 413 Lawyers, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 5,963,110 Floridians (Give or Take a Few) Landed George W. Bush in the White House (Hardback) For thirty-seven days after the disputed presidential election of 2000, we watched great theater, as George W Bush and Al Gore slugged it out in the swamp. You may think you've read it all before, but now Newsweek's David A. Kaplan goes behind the... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED3479 Dan Lawton - Hunted : The Kevin Barry Artt Story - His Wrongful Conviction for Murder, Daring Escape from the Maze Prison and Long Fight for Justice - PB - BRAND NEW On Sunday, 26 November 1978, two IRA gunmen kicked in the front door at 8 Evelyn Gardens in Belfast, the home of Maze prison official Albert Miles. They executed Miles in front of his family and vanished into the night. In 1983 twenty-four-year-old... 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Donovan / Henry Foxall: Methodist, Industrialist, American (Large Paperback) Henry Foxall was the quintessential catalyst for the transformation of a Spirit-filled movement into a denomination and a young nation into an economic powerhouse. This biography of Henry Foxall (1758-1823), sheds light on second-generation... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31743H Frank Welsh / The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the reader from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the age of terrorism. Using his masterly... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x52675K Parragon Publishing / History Makers (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. 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Quick view sku: wW30845H Christian Wolmar / Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World (Large Paperback) The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: aA6654H John N. Molony / The Penguin History of Australia (Coffee Table Book) Historian John Molony, author of "Eureka", takes the reader through Australia's prehistory and the arrival of white settlers to the transition from the convict age to a free society, the opening of the land, federation, and the development of... 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Donovan / Henry Foxall: Methodist, Industrialist, American (Large Paperback) Henry Foxall was the quintessential catalyst for the transformation of a Spirit-filled movement into a denomination and a young nation into an economic powerhouse. This biography of Henry Foxall (1758-1823), sheds light on second-generation... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31743H Frank Welsh / The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the reader from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the age of terrorism. Using his masterly... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x52675K Parragon Publishing / History Makers (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: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30341H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37524H,rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... 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Here, Antonia Fraser recounts the stories of such diverse national heroines as Zenobia of Palmyra, Elizabeth I, Queen Jinga of Angola and Catherine the Great, right up to modern day stateswomen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1595 Andrew M Greeley - That Most Distressful Nation : The Taming of the American Irish - PB 1972 Stubborn, difficult, paradoxical, maddening, joyous, brilliant, poetic, visionary, melancholy, frustrating, bedevilling, and ingratiating - all these have been used to describe the Irish. And this unique survey of the Irish experience in America will... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27737H Richard Kostelanetz / Soho : The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony (Hardback) Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely... 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Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56222K Kathryn Spink / A Universal Heart: The Life and Vision of Brother Roger of Taizé (Large Paperback) This updated edition - with a new colour-plate section - is published to celebrate the centenary of Brother Roger's birth on 12 May 1915. In August 2005, Brother Roger, the charismatic founder and leader of the Taize community was attacked and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X70815H Simon Tierney / Stuff that Changed the World - The Extraordinary History of Ordinary Things(Large Paperback) Simon Tierney explores the hidden histories of ordinary things, from the toaster to the tooth brush and the matchstick to the mousetrap. Based on the popular weekly series on Moncrieff on Newstalk radio, Stuff that Changed the World offers an... 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Donovan / Henry Foxall: Methodist, Industrialist, American (Large Paperback) Henry Foxall was the quintessential catalyst for the transformation of a Spirit-filled movement into a denomination and a young nation into an economic powerhouse. This biography of Henry Foxall (1758-1823), sheds light on second-generation... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31743H Frank Welsh / The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the reader from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the age of terrorism. Using his masterly... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x52675K Parragon Publishing / History Makers (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. 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Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37524H,rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22051K Raimond Gaita / Romulus, My Father Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy’s life,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45189H Antonia Fraser / The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605 An erudite and dramatic recollection of the gunpowder plot behind the events of 5th November, 1605. With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters of the Gunpowder Plot to life... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19787H Antonia Fraser / The Warrior Queens, Boadicea's Chariot - Part Two Warrior Queens are found in almost every culture. Here, Antonia Fraser recounts the stories of such diverse national heroines as Zenobia of Palmyra, Elizabeth I, Queen Jinga of Angola and Catherine the Great, right up to modern day stateswomen... 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Quick view sku: rR11745H Immaculée Ilibagiza / Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994, her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56222K Kathryn Spink / A Universal Heart: The Life and Vision of Brother Roger of Taizé (Large Paperback) This updated edition - with a new colour-plate section - is published to celebrate the centenary of Brother Roger's birth on 12 May 1915. In August 2005, Brother Roger, the charismatic founder and leader of the Taize community was attacked and... 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Description Nerve agents are the world’s deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21467H Tim Severin / In Search of Genghis Khan (Hardback) Mongolia, the Dead Heart of Asia. Bleak, harsh and empty, it is in essence a cold desert, the temperature in winter falling to minus 35 degrees and remaining below freezing point until March. It is also world's second oldest communist state, and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG341 Bruce Bégout - Zeropolis - The Experience of Las Vegas - PB - BRAND NEW Las Vegas, an artificial city brought to life in the heart of the Mojave desert, is the ultimate urban temptation: its shopping malls, theme parks and casinos offer an unceasing parade of entertainments and diversions. Its architecture combines slick,... 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Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37524H,rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22051K Raimond Gaita / Romulus, My Father Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy’s life,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45189H Antonia Fraser / The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605 An erudite and dramatic recollection of the gunpowder plot behind the events of 5th November, 1605. With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters of the Gunpowder Plot to life... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19787H Antonia Fraser / The Warrior Queens, Boadicea's Chariot - Part Two Warrior Queens are found in almost every culture. Here, Antonia Fraser recounts the stories of such diverse national heroines as Zenobia of Palmyra, Elizabeth I, Queen Jinga of Angola and Catherine the Great, right up to modern day stateswomen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1595 Andrew M Greeley - That Most Distressful Nation : The Taming of the American Irish - PB 1972 Stubborn, difficult, paradoxical, maddening, joyous, brilliant, poetic, visionary, melancholy, frustrating, bedevilling, and ingratiating - all these have been used to describe the Irish. And this unique survey of the Irish experience in America will... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27737H Richard Kostelanetz / Soho : The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony (Hardback) Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5193H Bruce Palling / The Book of Modern Scandal - From Byron to the Preseent Day(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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x56222K Kathryn Spink / A Universal Heart: The Life and Vision of Brother Roger of Taizé (Large Paperback) This updated edition - with a new colour-plate section - is published to celebrate the centenary of Brother Roger's birth on 12 May 1915. In August 2005, Brother Roger, the charismatic founder and leader of the Taize community was attacked and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X70815H Simon Tierney / Stuff that Changed the World - The Extraordinary History of Ordinary Things(Large Paperback) Simon Tierney explores the hidden histories of ordinary things, from the toaster to the tooth brush and the matchstick to the mousetrap. Based on the popular weekly series on Moncrieff on Newstalk radio, Stuff that Changed the World offers an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88789H Paul Rusesabagina / An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda (Large Paperback) The remarkable life story of the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. Readers who were moved and horrified by Hotel Rwanda will respond even more intensely to Paul Rusesabagina’s unforgettable autobiography. As Rwanda was... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34903H Eddy de Wind / Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from Within the Camp (Large Paperback) Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz, they made it through the brutal selection process and were... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28778H Malcolm Gladwell / The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War (Hardback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday TimesThe international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30341H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37524H,rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... 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Description Nerve agents are the world’s deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21467H Tim Severin / In Search of Genghis Khan (Hardback) Mongolia, the Dead Heart of Asia. Bleak, harsh and empty, it is in essence a cold desert, the temperature in winter falling to minus 35 degrees and remaining below freezing point until March. It is also world's second oldest communist state, and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG341 Bruce Bégout - Zeropolis - The Experience of Las Vegas - PB - BRAND NEW Las Vegas, an artificial city brought to life in the heart of the Mojave desert, is the ultimate urban temptation: its shopping malls, theme parks and casinos offer an unceasing parade of entertainments and diversions. Its architecture combines slick,... 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Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37524H,rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22051K Raimond Gaita / Romulus, My Father Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy’s life,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45189H Antonia Fraser / The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605 An erudite and dramatic recollection of the gunpowder plot behind the events of 5th November, 1605. With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters of the Gunpowder Plot to life... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19787H Antonia Fraser / The Warrior Queens, Boadicea's Chariot - Part Two Warrior Queens are found in almost every culture. Here, Antonia Fraser recounts the stories of such diverse national heroines as Zenobia of Palmyra, Elizabeth I, Queen Jinga of Angola and Catherine the Great, right up to modern day stateswomen... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30341H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37524H,rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... 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Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37524H,rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22051K Raimond Gaita / Romulus, My Father Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. 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Quick view sku: rR45189H Antonia Fraser / The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605 An erudite and dramatic recollection of the gunpowder plot behind the events of 5th November, 1605. With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters of the Gunpowder Plot to life... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19787H Antonia Fraser / The Warrior Queens, Boadicea's Chariot - Part Two Warrior Queens are found in almost every culture. Here, Antonia Fraser recounts the stories of such diverse national heroines as Zenobia of Palmyra, Elizabeth I, Queen Jinga of Angola and Catherine the Great, right up to modern day stateswomen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1595 Andrew M Greeley - That Most Distressful Nation : The Taming of the American Irish - PB 1972 Stubborn, difficult, paradoxical, maddening, joyous, brilliant, poetic, visionary, melancholy, frustrating, bedevilling, and ingratiating - all these have been used to describe the Irish. And this unique survey of the Irish experience in America will... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27737H Richard Kostelanetz / Soho : The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony (Hardback) Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5193H Bruce Palling / The Book of Modern Scandal - From Byron to the Preseent Day(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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: MED1595 Andrew M Greeley - That Most Distressful Nation : The Taming of the American Irish - PB 1972 Stubborn, difficult, paradoxical, maddening, joyous, brilliant, poetic, visionary, melancholy, frustrating, bedevilling, and ingratiating - all these have been used to describe the Irish. And this unique survey of the Irish experience in America will... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27737H Richard Kostelanetz / Soho : The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony (Hardback) Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5193H Bruce Palling / The Book of Modern Scandal - From Byron to the Preseent Day(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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW27737H Richard Kostelanetz / Soho : The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony (Hardback) Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5193H Bruce Palling / The Book of Modern Scandal - From Byron to the Preseent Day(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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW5193H Bruce Palling / The Book of Modern Scandal - From Byron to the Preseent Day(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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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