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The dinner menu at the Aspara had the usual interesting items such as 'Soap' and 'A Fried Monk' not to mention 'Chicken Amok'. The waiter couldn't tell me what amok...

Lydia Laube returns to Saudi Arabia, collects her pay and decides to take 'the long way home' through Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and India. Our Good Little Woman is as eccentric...

People changed; they were no longer recognisable as Australians. Frustrations and misfortunes festered into wounds here, deranged the mind and poisoned the blood. Suicide, or murder? Newly arrived in Papua,...

When Catherine II died in St Petersburg in 1796 the world sensed the loss of the most celebrated monarch of Europe - something no one would have predicted at the...

Under Any Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest computer chipmaker, the 5th most admired company in America, and the 7th most profitable company among the Fortune 500.Few CEOs...

Olive: A Global History is one of the first books to delve deeply into one of the world's most mythical foods. It's also an everyday food: the oil from the...

A portrait of Moscow, a city that has undergone momentous change yet is still impregnated with the European Middle Ages. Karl Schloegel provides a new and fascinating form of city...

This compelling book by award-winning author Greg Tobin uncovers the mysteries of papal elections. Selecting the Pope examines each rule of the papal election, an incredibly secretive process which still...

Whitehall Palace in central London, at one time Europe's largest royal residence, has been at the centre of some of the most momentous events in England's history, from the execution...

'Crackles and sparks with life like an exploding box of Diwali fireworks' -William Dalrymple ' One can only envy Monisha Rajesh as she embarks on this epic journey' -Tim Parks...

The book titled The Lighting Book by the author Deyan Sudjic. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This literary debut is the story of a young man's twin obsessions - adoration for a girl met on a trip to Australia seven years earlier, and grief over the...

The book titled Martin Luther: Hero of the Reformation by the author Cyril J. Davey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"SAVE Britain's Heritage" was founded in 1975 to campaign publicly for the protection of threatened historic buildings. This book explains how the organization goes about its campaigns and looks at...

In this guide, the reader will find Glasgow's buildings grouped geographically. Five areas have been determined which show the town's development from medieval cathedral town to the New Town expansion...

A handbook on preserving, caring for and enhancing hair, which contains information on the different hair types, basic care, hair problems, and includes a section on baldness and its treatment.

Ian Norrie graphically depicts some of the little known places of interest in Provence concentrating primarily on the Vaucluse and the Bouches-du-Rhone.

The book titled Pub Signs by the author Paul Corballis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Britain's history has been and still is a history of its transport. The Industrial Revolution, which made Britain the Workshop of the World and underpinned its empire, was made possible...

The book titled Furnishing the World: East London Furniture Trade, 1830-1980 by the author Pat Kirkham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Drawing on the latest scholarship, Jankowski provides a unique insight into the economic, political, and social history of Egypt. He focuses particularly on the last two centuries, and on the...

Big Biba, the final flowering of Barbara Hulanicki's legendary Biba store in London, was a shop like no other, before or since. It was a fabulous fantasy palace that brought...

The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C. S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford...

The book titled Glorious Gardens: A Portfolio of Ideas for Planting and Design by the author Francesca Greenoak. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Poems to celebrate summer. Pour out a long drink, take a seat under a shady tree, and lose yourself in this sublime collection of nature poems for summer. From William...

Combining comforting recipes, local ingredients and a bit of baking magic, Mat Follas presents an irresistible collection of scrumptious tea time treats. Let yourself be transported to a table adorned...

'Coastal Living' offers abundant inspiration for anyone lucky enough to live by the ocean, as well as those who can only dream of it. Divided into four chapters - classic,...

Re-release of the mass market edition of the first novel in the best selling Horus Heresy series Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor the Imperium of Man has...

As actress, activist, businesswoman, wife, and mother, Jane Fonda has pushed herself to the limit, attempting to please all, excel in every arena, be everything. We've read her version of...

Fifty-five piers. Two weeks. One eccentric road trip. Before the seaside of their youth disappears forever, two friends from the landlocked Midlands embark on a peculiar journey to see all...

After six years in the idyllic Loire Valley, comedian Ian Moore, his family and his ever-expanding menagerie are beginning to feel like they re on the cusp of the peace...

Did you hear about the teacher who was cross-eyed? He couldn't control his pupils. Why did the duck cross the road? Because the chicken needed a day off. Prepare to...

'Brussels and all those Eurocrats on the gravy train? It's just so boring. Why, you can't even name ten famous Belgians!' Until 1993, Alec had never been to Belgium, so...

Travelling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times - but in a dilapidated VDub! that's got to be plain daft...hasn't it? I was in...

L'appetito vien mangiando! - Appetite comes while you are eating. Vicky arrives in Tuscany to study the language and culture of Italy, but soon falls in love with charismatic chef...

1 continent, 6000 kilometres, 10 countries, 9 weeks, 4 pannier bags, 1 man, no detailed plan... and a bike called Reggie. Secondary school teacher Andrew Sykes moves out of the...

As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder,...

The Rough Guide to India is the essential travel guide to this fascinating country. It covers all the major areas, from Delhi's Paharganj to Havelock Island in the Andamans, with...

John Vandeleur's letters home to his parents are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everything from day-to-day life on campaign to the experience...

Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, using her expert eye to unearth unexpected gems, glittering fragments and...

The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Chris Alexander chose to live there. Immersing himself in the language and rich...

This book provides an overview of the extent to which the 18th-century English Landscape Garden spread through Europe and Russia. While this type of garden acted widely as an inspiration,...

The secret history of London, as told by some of its less familiar sights- from Aeroville, Hendon to the zodiacal clock of Bracken House, and from Alexander Pope's grotto to...

Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and...

A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong...