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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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Golding / The Made History MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 57377H The Worlds Worst Atrocities MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 47370H,47529H The Worlds Most Infamous Murders MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR8807H The Worlds Greatest Trials MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR28862H Dermot Healy / The Bend For Home A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past burst in... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG75 Owen Dudley Edwards - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes HB - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle A hardcover first Irish edition, Dolmen Press, of Owen Dudley Edwards biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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Quick view Details sku: 63311H Rosalind Miles / The Women's History of the World MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR30409H Claude (ed.) Golding / The Made History MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 57377H The Worlds Worst Atrocities MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 47370H,47529H The Worlds Most Infamous Murders MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR8807H The Worlds Greatest Trials MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR28862H Dermot Healy / The Bend For Home A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past burst in... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG75 Owen Dudley Edwards - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes HB - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle A hardcover first Irish edition, Dolmen Press, of Owen Dudley Edwards biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. Hardcover, first Irish edition 1983, a simultaneous UK edition was... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED159 Geoffrey Trease - D.H Lawrence - The Phoenix & the Flame , A Biography - HB 1st Ed 1973 A hardcover first edition, Macmillan 1973 , of Geoffrey Tease's biography of D.H Lawrence, The Phoenix and the Flame. D.H Lawrence was one of the major english language novelists of the 20th century, and the first novelist to break through the confined... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15829H Margot Lee Shetterly / Hidden Figures The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10335H Peter Popham / The Lady And The Peacock : The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) 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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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Quick view Details sku: 57377H The Worlds Worst Atrocities MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 47370H,47529H The Worlds Most Infamous Murders MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR8807H The Worlds Greatest Trials MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR28862H Dermot Healy / The Bend For Home A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past burst in... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG75 Owen Dudley Edwards - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes HB - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle A hardcover first Irish edition, Dolmen Press, of Owen Dudley Edwards biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. Hardcover, first Irish edition 1983, a simultaneous UK edition was... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED159 Geoffrey Trease - D.H Lawrence - The Phoenix & the Flame , A Biography - HB 1st Ed 1973 A hardcover first edition, Macmillan 1973 , of Geoffrey Tease's biography of D.H Lawrence, The Phoenix and the Flame. D.H Lawrence was one of the major english language novelists of the 20th century, and the first novelist to break through the confined... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15829H Margot Lee Shetterly / Hidden Figures The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10335H Peter Popham / The Lady And The Peacock : The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) 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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. 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Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. 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Quick view sku: BIG75 Owen Dudley Edwards - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes HB - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle A hardcover first Irish edition, Dolmen Press, of Owen Dudley Edwards biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. Hardcover, first Irish edition 1983, a simultaneous UK edition was... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED159 Geoffrey Trease - D.H Lawrence - The Phoenix & the Flame , A Biography - HB 1st Ed 1973 A hardcover first edition, Macmillan 1973 , of Geoffrey Tease's biography of D.H Lawrence, The Phoenix and the Flame. D.H Lawrence was one of the major english language novelists of the 20th century, and the first novelist to break through the confined... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15829H Margot Lee Shetterly / Hidden Figures The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10335H Peter Popham / The Lady And The Peacock : The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED159 Geoffrey Trease - D.H Lawrence - The Phoenix & the Flame , A Biography - HB 1st Ed 1973 A hardcover first edition, Macmillan 1973 , of Geoffrey Tease's biography of D.H Lawrence, The Phoenix and the Flame. D.H Lawrence was one of the major english language novelists of the 20th century, and the first novelist to break through the confined... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15829H Margot Lee Shetterly / Hidden Figures The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10335H Peter Popham / The Lady And The Peacock : The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) 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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. 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Quick view sku: rR15829H Margot Lee Shetterly / Hidden Figures The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10335H Peter Popham / The Lady And The Peacock : The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) 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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR10335H Peter Popham / The Lady And The Peacock : The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) 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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) 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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... 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Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.All of our books are second hand, and... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart
Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30752H Anhua Gao / To the Edge of the Sky Anhua Gao's parents were hailed as revolutionary heroes. In her early years she knew love and support and grew up in a privileged world. But when they both tragically died, all she was left with was her parent's fading reputation to guide her through the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30107H John Pilger / Freedom Next Time John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: wW16354H,wW16371H,wW19866H Thomas Maier / The Kennedys (Hardback) Meticulously researched both here and abroad, THE KENNEDYS examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR24893H Aminatta Forna / The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood - of an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30230H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR31612H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR18671H Richard A. Clarke / Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror When Richard Clarke's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES vaulted in to the public arena, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and media sensation, it changed the debate about the war on terror. his revelations about the Bush administration's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30347H Giles Milton / Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: rR30969H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR27937H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR15692H John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (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 price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... 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An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR31946H David Beresford / Ten Men Dead: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An excellent history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the broad cast of characters with insight and care". -- from the New York Times Book Review's "best Books of 1989"In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15253H Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30261H David Starkey / Elizabeth A woman in a man's world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England's most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR31348H Winifred Foley / Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR31691H Bella Bathurst / The Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30338H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30541H Thomas Pakenham / The Scramble for Africa In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR27373H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR16176H,rR21341H John B. Keane / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... MSRP: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR31334H Judith Herrin / Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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