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Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35930H,rR38948H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... 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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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... 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Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: rR3902H Lytton Strachey / Eminent Victorians MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR32638H Alison Weir / Eleanor of Aquitaine MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR19791H Antonia Fraser / Mary Queen of Scots: part one MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR33239H Margaret Powell / Below Stairs MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £4.02 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35930H,rR38948H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. 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The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: rR32638H Alison Weir / Eleanor of Aquitaine MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR19791H Antonia Fraser / Mary Queen of Scots: part one MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR33239H Margaret Powell / Below Stairs MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £4.02 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: rR19791H Antonia Fraser / Mary Queen of Scots: part one MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR33239H Margaret Powell / Below Stairs MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £4.02 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35930H,rR38948H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: rR33239H Margaret Powell / Below Stairs MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £4.02 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35930H,rR38948H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.02 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35930H,rR38948H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35930H,rR38948H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR35930H,rR38948H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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... 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But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR38593H,rR38995H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38947H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR35606H,rR36078H Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR36425H Simon Schama / Rough Crossings Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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... 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Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38828H Max Hastings / Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart 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. 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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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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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Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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: Now: £2.23 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... 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Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37368H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36930H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW26078H,wW27482H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 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: £2.64 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28348H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Hardback) There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great?s lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28744H John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback) John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes... MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. 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Quick view sku: rR38897H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38802H Suetonius / The Twelve Caesars As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Russia | sku: X86275H Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope (Hardback) The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own spontaneous and personal response to the changes taking... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW30843H Antony Beevor / Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Large Paperback) Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 55972H The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at disastersAll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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