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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... 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It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11654E Tobias Wolff / In Pharaoh's Army Having survived the childhood recorded in "This Boy's Life", Tobias Wolff finds himself serving in Vietnam and assigned to a unit in the Mekong Delta. Innocent, self-deluded but rapidly growing less so, he fumbles his way through close shaves... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL103 Farrington, Karen - Victory in Europe : The Allies Defeat of the Axis Forces - PB - BRAND NEW Operation Overlord was one of the greatest ever military offensives, working to free Europe from the yoke of Nazism. Starting with the landings on D-Day, Victory in Europe traces the Allied struggle to create a foothold in "Fortress... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60538H Patrick Bishop / Air Force Blue - The RAF 1939-1945 (Hardback) In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL103 Farrington, Karen - Victory in Europe : The Allies Defeat of the Axis Forces - PB - BRAND NEW Operation Overlord was one of the greatest ever military offensives, working to free Europe from the yoke of Nazism. Starting with the landings on D-Day, Victory in Europe traces the Allied struggle to create a foothold in "Fortress... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60538H Patrick Bishop / Air Force Blue - The RAF 1939-1945 (Hardback) In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory.A... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44145E John Man / The Great Wall (Large Paperback) It is a wonder of the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists journey to the Great Wall of China, and a myriad of photographs have made it familiar to millions more. Yet its story remains mysterious and steeped in myth. In this... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15927E,20871E W. Stanley Moss / Ill Met By Moonlight This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. 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Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x58477H Eric Hobsbawm / Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism (Hardback) In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us -... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11654E Tobias Wolff / In Pharaoh's Army Having survived the childhood recorded in "This Boy's Life", Tobias Wolff finds himself serving in Vietnam and assigned to a unit in the Mekong Delta. Innocent, self-deluded but rapidly growing less so, he fumbles his way through close shaves... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL103 Farrington, Karen - Victory in Europe : The Allies Defeat of the Axis Forces - PB - BRAND NEW Operation Overlord was one of the greatest ever military offensives, working to free Europe from the yoke of Nazism. Starting with the landings on D-Day, Victory in Europe traces the Allied struggle to create a foothold in "Fortress... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60538H Patrick Bishop / Air Force Blue - The RAF 1939-1945 (Hardback) In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory.A... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44145E John Man / The Great Wall (Large Paperback) It is a wonder of the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists journey to the Great Wall of China, and a myriad of photographs have made it familiar to millions more. Yet its story remains mysterious and steeped in myth. In this... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15927E,20871E W. Stanley Moss / Ill Met By Moonlight This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18606E Greg Ward / The Rough Guide to the Titanic A century after the most famous shipwreck in history, The Rough Guide to the Titanic tells the full compelling story of the supposedly unsinkable liner. A comprehensive history, it covers every moment of the journery and the Titanic's final hours,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29562H Lawrence James / Raj : The Making and Unmaking of British India This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17866E Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... 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Quick view sku: 11654E Tobias Wolff / In Pharaoh's Army Having survived the childhood recorded in "This Boy's Life", Tobias Wolff finds himself serving in Vietnam and assigned to a unit in the Mekong Delta. Innocent, self-deluded but rapidly growing less so, he fumbles his way through close shaves... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL103 Farrington, Karen - Victory in Europe : The Allies Defeat of the Axis Forces - PB - BRAND NEW Operation Overlord was one of the greatest ever military offensives, working to free Europe from the yoke of Nazism. Starting with the landings on D-Day, Victory in Europe traces the Allied struggle to create a foothold in "Fortress... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60538H Patrick Bishop / Air Force Blue - The RAF 1939-1945 (Hardback) In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. 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They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17866E Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11477M Graham Leach / South Africa All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22741H,26151H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BNL103 Farrington, Karen - Victory in Europe : The Allies Defeat of the Axis Forces - PB - BRAND NEW Operation Overlord was one of the greatest ever military offensives, working to free Europe from the yoke of Nazism. Starting with the landings on D-Day, Victory in Europe traces the Allied struggle to create a foothold in "Fortress... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60538H Patrick Bishop / Air Force Blue - The RAF 1939-1945 (Hardback) In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory.A... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44145E John Man / The Great Wall (Large Paperback) It is a wonder of the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists journey to the Great Wall of China, and a myriad of photographs have made it familiar to millions more. Yet its story remains mysterious and steeped in myth. In this... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15927E,20871E W. Stanley Moss / Ill Met By Moonlight This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18606E Greg Ward / The Rough Guide to the Titanic A century after the most famous shipwreck in history, The Rough Guide to the Titanic tells the full compelling story of the supposedly unsinkable liner. A comprehensive history, it covers every moment of the journery and the Titanic's final hours,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29562H Lawrence James / Raj : The Making and Unmaking of British India This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17866E Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11477M Graham Leach / South Africa All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22741H,26151H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x60538H Patrick Bishop / Air Force Blue - The RAF 1939-1945 (Hardback) In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory.A... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44145E John Man / The Great Wall (Large Paperback) It is a wonder of the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists journey to the Great Wall of China, and a myriad of photographs have made it familiar to millions more. Yet its story remains mysterious and steeped in myth. In this... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15927E,20871E W. Stanley Moss / Ill Met By Moonlight This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18606E Greg Ward / The Rough Guide to the Titanic A century after the most famous shipwreck in history, The Rough Guide to the Titanic tells the full compelling story of the supposedly unsinkable liner. A comprehensive history, it covers every moment of the journery and the Titanic's final hours,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29562H Lawrence James / Raj : The Making and Unmaking of British India This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17866E Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11477M Graham Leach / South Africa All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22741H,26151H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... 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The rapid growth of the internet... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11477M Graham Leach / South Africa All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22741H,26151H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15927E,20871E W. Stanley Moss / Ill Met By Moonlight This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18606E Greg Ward / The Rough Guide to the Titanic A century after the most famous shipwreck in history, The Rough Guide to the Titanic tells the full compelling story of the supposedly unsinkable liner. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11477M Graham Leach / South Africa All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22741H,26151H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 15927E,20871E W. Stanley Moss / Ill Met By Moonlight This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18606E Greg Ward / The Rough Guide to the Titanic A century after the most famous shipwreck in history, The Rough Guide to the Titanic tells the full compelling story of the supposedly unsinkable liner. A comprehensive history, it covers every moment of the journery and the Titanic's final hours,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29562H Lawrence James / Raj : The Making and Unmaking of British India This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17866E Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11477M Graham Leach / South Africa All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22741H,26151H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... 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It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 29562H Lawrence James / Raj : The Making and Unmaking of British India This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17866E Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11477M Graham Leach / South Africa All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22741H,26151H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... 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It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 17866E Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56615H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56388H Michael Quinion / Port Out, Starboard Home : and other language myths (Hardback) What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11477M Graham Leach / South Africa All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22741H,26151H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... 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It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 11354E Maurice Cranston / The Noble Savage : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-62 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... 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It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 30580H Nigel Hamilton / American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 31167H Henry Hitchings / The Language Wars The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 33461H Alistair Horne / Seven Ages of Paris : Portrait of a City In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Chadwick, Nora - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view British Royal Family Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15888E Chris Barker / My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107813c Elizabeth Hay / His Whole Life Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: x55128H Cormac Moore / The GAA v Douglas Hyde (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Macdonald, Gus - Victorian Eyewitness : Camera - HB - 1979 - 19th Century Photography Published by Batsford Uk, 1979, this is in excellent history of early photography globally, naturally full of illustrations throughout - mostly in colour but a few early colour images are also included. Gus Macdonald was a Tv producer , and this... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33079H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10779M Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.Beginning with the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X52405H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 10749F Melanie McGrath / Hopping The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys - the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, 'hopping' was the main event in the East End calendar - an annual expedition of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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