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To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes
**A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller** An inspiring collection of recipes preserved on gravestones, with fascinating interviews from the families, celebrating the beloved food legacies of their dearly...
The Songs That Saved Us: My Dad, Dementia and Me
An unforgettable tribute to the unbreakable bond between a father and son When Simon McDermott first noticed his dad Ted's sudden flares of temper and fits of forgetfulness, he couldn't...
Operation Pimento: My Great-Grandfather's Great Escape - a gripping
On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart's great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE 'Special Duties' airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret...
The Fields Beneath
A masterpiece of local history, by the Queen of the genre. Gillian Tindall has acquired a devoted readership through her lovingly researched works, such as the prize-winning The House by...
Royal Edinburgh
$12.00 AUD
The book titled Royal Edinburgh by the author Margaret Oliphant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to
The head of the Guinness family tells the true story of how his ancestors created the largest brewery in the world. In this narrative non-fiction book, Arthur Edward Guinness, the...
The Closet
Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him. From the blue princess dress he coveted...
Goldfields of Otago: An Illustrated History
$12.00 AUD
Illustrated history of the discovery of the Goldfields of Otago when in 1861 Gabriel Read discovered rich gold in Gabriels Gully triggering of the great gold rush to Otago.
Wollongong
The book titled Wollongong by the author Alison Gibbs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Ludlow Castle: Its History and Buildings
$15.00 AUD
With 24 chapters by a variety of authors, many of them experts in their subject, this books looks at Ludlow Castle from its inception to the current day. The chapters...
Wessex
$12.00 AUD
The book titled Wessex by the author Patrick Allen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Ross-on-Wye
$10.00 AUD
The book titled Ross-on-Wye by the author Tom Rigby. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Remember When...: Snapshots of Australia from the '50s to the 90s
Take a trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne ... Remember loading up the back of the car and heading away with the family over the summer holidays? Being part...
The Women's Land Army in Old Photographs
This text collects black-and-white photographs which together record not only the operations of the WLA, but also scenes of the countryside between 1939 and 1950. The collection, drawn from the...
The Audacious Adventures of Dr Louis Lawrence Smith
$80.00 AUD
L. L. Smith, medico, writer, publisher, politician, litigant, showman, speculator, collector, vigneron, farmer, breeder and rider of racehorses, guiding hand for thirty years of Melbourne's great exhibition complex...The Audacious Adventures...
Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories
'Us firefighters do more than fight fires. We also assist those who have just gone through what's probably the worst experience of their lives.' The devastating 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires...
Little Dick the Smuggler: And Other East Anglian Eccentrics
$12.00 AUD
A collection of true stories about larger-than-life characters from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. It includes smugglers, highwaymen, heroines, misers and vagrants.
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes s personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne himself a direct ancestor of the author to the count who very nearly persuaded...
Buckinghamshire within Living Memory
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The book titled Buckinghamshire within Living Memory by the author Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.
'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes 'This book made me cry' Sara Cox After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her...
Melbourne City of Charm
$10.00 AUD
The book titled Melbourne City of Charm by the author Trevor Klein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Lighthouse Stevensons
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water,...
A History of Leeds
One of the fastest growing cities in Europe, Leeds has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a hamlet of thatched buildings at a crossing point of the...
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" ( New York Times Book Review ) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom...
The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book Legends and Landmarks: Pit your wits
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING PUZZLE SERIES Come on a puzzle adventure and meet iconic figures from British history. The bestselling series returns with over 300 new puzzles to test the...
Ingram's Saxon Chronicle
The book titled Ingram's Saxon Chronicle by the author Translated by Reverend J Ingram. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats: More Unusual Stories from South
$12.00 AUD
This title is a collection of more colourful, fascinating - and mostly unknown - characters, spanning more than three hundred years of South African history. There are stories of slaves,...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the
The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in...
Tintern Abbey
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The book titled Tintern Abbey by the author David M. Robinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2024 Tim Hannigan undertakes an epic east-west journey on foot through his own homeland, from the woodlands of the...
DNA: A Guide for Family Historians
DNA research is one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas in modern science and the practical use of DNA testing in genealogy is one of its most exciting...
Caradon and Looe: The Canal, Railways and Mines
$50.00 AUD
Some of the richest copper mines in the United Kingdom, a rare Cornish canal and a railway uniquely engineered to convey the minerals by gravity combine to make a fascinating...
The Cotswolds
$10.00 AUD
The book titled The Cotswolds by the author Paul Felix. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Aberdeenshire Folk Tales
Western Isles Folk Tales is a representative collection of stories from the geographical span of the long chain of islands known as the Outer Hebrides. Some are well-known tales and...
The Lines We Draw: The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument About
'What makes this brilliant, considered book worthwhile is not its breadth but how thoughtful it is.' Financial Times 'The book is stunning. He is an extraordinary writer. Such erudition. Wisdom....
No Other Home: An Anglo-Jewish Story 1833-1987
$12.00 AUD
The book titled No Other Home: An Anglo-Jewish Story 1833-1987 by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Central Park: An Anthology
A wild night outdoors with Bill Buford. A football tradition with Nathaniel Rich. A jog around the reservoir with Mark Helprin as he "protects" Jacqueline Onassis from imagined harm. The...
A Grandfather's Life: I Want to Know Everything About You
Your grandfather's life story is like no other. This beautiful keepsake journal helps him to preserve it for future generations. With over 100 prompts that guide his memories, this is...
Ancestors: The story of China told through the lives of an
A living history of China told through the story of one remarkable family Frank Ching brings to life 900 years of Chinese history through his own fascinating family tree. Beginning...
The Great Wall of China
Recent discoveries suggest that construction of defensive walls in northern China began about 688 BC. Today, the dragon-like walls that follow the mountain ridges and valleys north of Beijing were...
The Void, Grid & Sign
What Barry Lopez did in expanding our vision of the frozen North in Arctic Dreams, William Fox has done in broadening our perceptions of the desert expanses of the West's...