Biography

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the beginning, there was fire — and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg was there to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the autumn of 1975, a team of Britain's finest mountaineers set their sights on the most audacious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Gerald Durrell became the world-famous zoo founder and conservationist, he was a wide-eyed young apprentice...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when Northern Ireland was synonymous with conflict, division, and despair, Dervla Murphy did what few...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the mud-soaked trenches of the Western Front to the shattered landscapes of Gallipoli, Death's Men: Soldiers of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1942, one man was handed a mission so secret and so improbable that its success would alter the entire trajectory...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the humblest origins of charitable care to the cutting edge of modern medical education, From Charity to Teaching Hospital chronicles the remarkable transformation...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAlexandria, that most mythologized of Mediterranean cities — a place where antiquity and modernity collide in perpetual, restless conversation —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn Ways of Escape, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds turns the lens inward, offering an intimate and candid second...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the sweltering heat of early colonial Sydney, a dramatic coup shook the foundations of British authority in the fledgling settlement of New South...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the murky corridors of post-war British public life, two men — architect John Poulson and Newcastle city boss T. Dan Smith...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt once a portrait of holy rebellion and a chronicle of one of history's most captivating spiritual journeys, Anthony Mockler's Francis of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of Cold War geopolitics and postcolonial Southeast Asia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk presents...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew travel writers have ever captured a foreign land with the lyrical sensitivity of Chiang Yee, and The Silent Traveller in Japan...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA century and a half of faith, community, and identity unfolds in A Standard for the People, a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe nineteenth century was an era of towering intellects, revolutionary movements, and cultural transformations that reshaped the modern world — and Makers of Nineteenth...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodLong before the celebrity memoir was fashionable, Alice B. Toklas — secretary, companion, and lifelong partner to Gertrude Stein — conjured a world of bohemian...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of history's most celebrated intellects turns his formidable pen upon himself in Memoirs of My Life, the unfinished autobiography of Edward Gibbon, the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the sweltering summer of 1972, a remote Icelandic city became the unlikely epicentre of a Cold War clash that transcended the 64 squares of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: light stain on the dj. At the dawn of Australia's European settlement, a young naval lieutenant named Philip Gidley King sailed into...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the height of Britain's imperial zenith, the decade spanning Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees — 1887 to 1897 — stands as one...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFrom the courts of Julius Caesar to the madness of Domitian, The Twelve Caesars stands as one of antiquity's most vivid and scandalous chronicles of...

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To be born of a Black mother and a White father in apartheid South Africa was not merely scandalous — it was a criminal act, and Trevor Noah's very existence...

Five kids orphaned by a terrible accident ...a struggling family living in the most isolated spot on earth ...a single dad battling to cope in a house falling down around...

In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze , Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten...

Follow the misadventures of Ian Moore as he chronicles the charming and chaotic escapades of his family and their eccentric assembly of animals, on their continued search for serenity in...

"A magical and hugely captivating journey - filled with such beauty, wonder and surprise. A simply marvellous read, hugely recommended" - Stephen Fry A real-life journey through the fantastical world...

Critically acclaimed, candid, unsparing, surprising and darkly funny, this memoir of a 1970s upbringing by the much-loved broadcaster Justin Webb is as much a portrait of that strange decade as...