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The Ford of Heaven: A Cosmopolitan Childhood in Tientsin, China

The Ford of Heaven: A Cosmopolitan Childhood in Tientsin, China

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Tientsin in north-eastern China was known as 'The Ford of Heaven' as it gave travellers access to the Celestial City of Peking and the Emperor of Heaven eighty miles to...
Leave To Remain: A Memoir

Leave To Remain: A Memoir

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'This important back is written in many tones - lyrical, sardonic, angry, heartbroken.' Raimond Gaita, author of Romulus, My Father In Leave to Remain- A Memoir, Abbas El-Zein tells his...
Daughter of Empire: A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's

Daughter of Empire: A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's

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A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's House Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis...
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

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Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the Twenties into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was...
Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan

Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan

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British soldiers never fought against the Soviet army, right? Wrong! In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets has invaded...
Slum Boy: 'One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever

Slum Boy: 'One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever

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'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING 'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN 'If you like Shuggie Bain , then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN...
Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West

Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West

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At the age of 17, Shusha Guppy left Iran and her family to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Diving into the unknown - a world of unimagined freedoms and...
A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood

A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood

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Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon and grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this beautiful and evocative memoir, she recounts her...
Heart of Fire: Missing - From Child Soldier to Soul Singer

Heart of Fire: Missing - From Child Soldier to Soul Singer

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Born in 1974 to an Ethiopian mother and an Eritrean father, Senait was abandoned by her parents as a baby and spent her early years in a state orphanage before...
Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper,

Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper,

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Tells the story, via the letters they wrote to each other, of the relationship between Evelyn Waugh, author of "Brideshead Revisited", and Lady Diana Cooper, actress and hostess. The two...
About Time Too: 1940-78

About Time Too: 1940-78

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With this second volume of autobiography Penelope Mortimer covers the three decades, from the acceptance of her first novel in 1945 ("intended as an immense historical saga about the collapse...
The Light of Common Day

The Light of Common Day

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The second volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of a bygone age. Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE...
A Posy of Wild Flowers: A Gypsy Girl at Heart

A Posy of Wild Flowers: A Gypsy Girl at Heart

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Rosemary Penfold's A FIELD FULL OF BUTTERFLIES was a beautiful and evocative memoir of her life growing up in the fields of the English countryside. A moving testament to a...
Agent Undercover

Agent Undercover

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

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Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...