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The book titled Noel Coward: Autobiography by the author Noel Coward. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Since his retirement in 1979 after successive spells as British Ambassador to Warsaw, Bonn and Paris, the author has been prevented by the Foreign Office from publishing these revealing diaries....

"School", wrote Henry Green, "is no odder than the world outside, only more concentrated." It is also an experience that everyone has to undergo, and many people have left accounts...

Can you destroy your best friend's life in time to save your own? An unputdownable, twisty thriller unlike anything else you've read. Welcome to The Shame Game. Are you ready...

As one of the world's premier electric bass players, Mo Foster has played his guitar with the greats, and with their backing, contributions and memories has written an insightful, passionate...

This book tells the stories of forty heroes, all awarded bravery medals for their conduct during Special Forces missions over the last 150 years. Often covert hit-and-run operations involving very...

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian...

Thirty-five papers selected from the 1998 conference analyze and re-explore communities of which Virginia Woolf was a part -- for example, Female Modernists, artists, lesbian and gay, communities formed by...

In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of...

More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. Antonia Fraser's classic biography won her the...

In 1979 Rees helped Andrew Boyle unmask Anthony Blunt, the fourth man, but by then Rees himself was dying of cancer. Was Rees himself actually a spy? The recent opening...

The book titled The Second World War Diary, 1940-45 by the author Hugh Dalton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Lilliput Goes to War by the author Kaye Webb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

These days horses are mainly used for leisure activities the non-rider knows little about them in a modern context, let alone a historical one. For those who would like to...

Examining the writings and life of Virginia Woolf, In the Hollow of the Wave looks at how Woolf treated ""nature"" as a deliberate discourse that shaped her way of thinking...

An autobiography of Britain's foremost politician who, in his range of interests, in the brilliance of his mind, and in his ability to write is probably unique among figures in...

In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once...

This criss-cross study, the first of its kind, arranges a shotgun wedding between cliches and coinages - the old (that refuses to die), and new (that often quickly fades). Not...

Three stories in one volume from one of Britain's most admired authors and playwrights. "The Laying On Of Hands" is Bennett at his inimitable best in this funny, and mischievous...

This selection, both verse and prose, represents all aspects of Clare's genius - bird poems, observations on nature, songs and ballads, social satire, and intense expressions of Clare's search for...

The continuing predominance of Oxford and Cambridge graduates in all walks of British life has a major impact on British society and its ability to function in an international world,...

Ancient trees, some over a thousand years old, are dotted around the British Isles, the last survivors of a lost world. Now, new scientific studies of these trees and of...

A critical biography of the poet explores the Spanish Civil War, the rise and fall of Marxism and Nazism, World War II, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, and modern figures such...

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were...

The book titled Companion to Women Composers: Britain and the United States 1630 to by the author Dr. Sophie Fuller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Britannia traces Britain's history - from Roman province to global superpower to post imperial 21st-century European nation state - through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to...

With a foreword by the Rt Hon Sir John Major, The Queen: The Diamond Jubilee is a beautifully illustrated commemoration of the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, from...

Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen...

The book titled Elizabeth II: Portrait of a Monarch by the author Douglas Keay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The often-misleading ways in which radio, newspapers and television report poverty, homelessness, education, health and disability are of crucial and growing concern to those studying social policy and media studies....

Class is an emotive subject, and never more so than today. It is part of the very fabric of our contemporary society and Professor Marwick's major historical study of the...

The 10 British film directors included in this collection of interviews and essays demonstrate the diversity of the British industry. Complete with filmographies, bibliographies, stills and production shots, this study...

A humorous journey around Britain discovering the history of the eccentrics, crackpots and visionaries who have tried to measure and predict the weather, meeting people obsessed with the weather today...

A Waterstones Best History Book 2024 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian...

This book reveals the fascinating stories, dramatic events and colourful characters that make up the Tower of London s remarkably long and varied history. Written from a social perspective, it...

A beautiful gift for fans of the BBC Hidden Treasures of the National Trust. Go behind the scenes with the National Trust as they uncover extraordinary stories and save our...

THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE, ENDORSED BY THE MAYNE FAMILY Summer 1944: the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the...

A Collection of Les Murray's poetry that reveals the variety, intensity, and generosity of this great Australian poet's work. I starred last night, I shone: I was footwork and firework...

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. "An impressive work...deeply, rightly passionate about the great...

Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse presents an extraordinary and motley collection of literary and real life characters sharing a common role and a common status, yet capable of every...

In 2006, the "Guardian's" much-loved Country Diary column is a hundred years old, and to commemorate the anniversary Martin Wainwright has compiled a collection of the best of a century's...

Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials....

This study examines the different ways in which needs are assessed and health care is organized and delivered. These matters are considered in the light of rapid change in patterns...

The book titled The Pendulum Years by the author Bernard Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The essential Irish guide to Brexit Brexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area...

The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to stop a ruthless satanic group...

From Zawn Organ, Cornwall to Zoar in Shetland via Zion Place in Somerset and Zulu Farm, Oxfordshire, The Z to Z of Great Britain is, arguably, the definitive work on...