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My Vue: Modern French Cookery
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Shannon Bennett, the chef and owner of Melbourne's renowned French Restaurant, Vue de monde, takes readers on a tour of exquisite French cuisine. Sharing his passion and obsession with classical...
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
The book centres around the Sun King and his relationship with numerous and fascinating women. Naturally dividing into five parts it will concentrate on the King's mother, Anne of Austria...
Lambeth Palace: A History of the Archbishops of Canterbury and Their
Lambeth Palace has been the London home of the Archbishops of Canterbury for almost one thousand years. Archaeologist Timothy Tatton-Brown has a particular interest in ecclesiastical buildings. This work examines...
The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and
Late in 1664, the musketeer DArtagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man...
How to be French: Eat, drink, dress, travel and love la vie francaise
What does it mean to be French? Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? A flaneur down laneways steeped in history? Knowing...
The Eternal City: Recipes + stories from Rome
Discover Rome's incredible food through the city's stories and its people. The Eternal City is a maze of winding cobblestone streets, where ancient history waits at every turn. Within these...
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook...
Letters to Camondo: 'Immerses you in another age' Financial Times
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son...
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
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From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless...
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark,...
Foundation: A History of England Volume I
Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time...
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History
A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...
Children Of The Ghetto (SIGNED)
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Author: Sheva Glas-Wiener; translated from the Yiddish by the author and Shirley YoungBinding: HardbackPublished: Globe Press, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis poignant narrative transports readers...
Greek Tragedy
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Author: Gilbert NorwoodBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen & Company, 1948Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book examines the profound and enduring impact of Greek tragedy on Western literature and thought. It...
Guide To League Of Nations Publications
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Author: Hans AufrichtBinding: HardbackPublished: Columbia University Press, 1951Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a bibliographical survey of the League of Nation's work from...
The Victoria History of the County of York. The City of York.
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Author: R.B. PughBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, London, 1961Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed historical overview of York, specifically focusing on the City...
Europe Divided: 1559-1598
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Author: J.H. ElliottBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsEurope underwent significant transformations during the period of 1559-1598. Religious conflicts and political rivalries shaped the continent....
For Want Of The Golden City
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Author: Sacheverell SitwellBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, London, 1973Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsAutobiographical self-portrait that roams freely between his own life and Western culture.
Lady Blessington At Naples
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Author: Edith ClayBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis narrative recounts the life of Lady Blessington while she resided in Naples. Society regarded her...
To the Beach!: Seaside Posters
From De Panne to Knokke, nothing beats a holiday by the North Sea. People have been flocking to the coast for more than a century, and this richly illustrated book...
Ve Day - a Day to Remember
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Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women
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Our Hidden Lives
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Essays In The Conciliar Epoch
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Author: E. F. JacobBinding: HardbackPublished: Manchester University Press, 1963Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book examines the Conciliar Epoch. Jacob's work provides insights into the...
The Morning Star: Wycliffe And The Dawn Of The Reformation
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Author: G.H.W.ParkerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Paternoster Press, 1965Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume examines Wycliffe and the Dawn of the Reformation. The book details Wycliffe's life and...
The Dollar Princesse's: The American Invasion Of The European Aristocracy 1870-1914
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Author: Ruth BrandonBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book tells the story of wealthy American heiresses who married into the European aristocracy...
JOAN THE MAID: Deliverer of England and France: A Story of the Fifteenth Century Done into Modern English
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Author: Elizabeth CharlesBinding: HardbackPublished: T. Nelson and Sons, 1886Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis narrative recounts the life of a historical figure. It details her...
The Course of Empire: The Arabs and Their Successors
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Author: John Bagot GlubbBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book delves into the history and legacy of the Arab civilization, tracing its...
England Without Richard 1189-1199
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Author: John T. ApplebyBinding: HardbackPublished: History Book Club, 1967Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account delves into the period of English history between 1189 and 1199,...
A Family Of Kings: The Descendants Of Christian Ix Of Denmark
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Author: Theo AronsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell London, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the fascinating history of the descendants of Christian IX of...
A Nest Of The Gentry
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Author: Ivan Turgenev; Colour illustrations by Konstantin RudakovBinding: HardbackPublished: Foreign Languages Publishing, 1951Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerSet in the Russian countryside, the story revolves around the...
Voices In The Silence
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Author: S.Z. SonnenfeldBinding: HardbackPublished: Feldheim, 1992Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book tells a stirring saga of faith and devotion under the oppressive Communist regime. It explores themes of...
Pushkin Poet And Lover
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Author: Lydia LambertBinding: HardbackPublished: Francis Aldor Publisher London, 1947Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography delves into the life of Alexander Pushkin, Russia's most celebrated poet. It...
My Spain: a Storyteller's Year of Collecting
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Author: Ruth SawyerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Viking Press, New York, 1967Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis narrative invites readers to traverse the landscapes and immerse themselves in the...
The Veil Of Liberty: A Tale Of The Girondins
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Author: PéronneBinding: HardbackPublished: Adam and Charles Black, 1895Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsSet against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this historical fiction delves into...
The Structure Of The Terror The Example Of Javogues And The Loire
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Author: Colin LucasBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford Historical Monographs, 1973Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the intricate dynamics of the Reign of Terror during the French...
The Birth Of An Ideology Myths And Symbols Of Nation In Late-Medieval France
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Author: Colette BeauneBinding: HardbackPublished: University of California Press,, Berkeley:, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the myths and symbols of nationhood in late-Medieval France,...
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle
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Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration
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Happy and Glorious!
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#recharge: The Ultimate EV Travel Guide for Europe
Open the car door, get in, drive off. And drive on. And on, and explore the world. Who doesn't dream of such an adventure? Mr & Mrs T have lived...
Bride Price (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 24)
Every relationship comes at a cost in this tense and gripping Turkish mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel and featuring Ikmen - 'one of modern crime fiction's true heroes...
In Society: The Brideshead Years
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Duke Hamilton is Dead: A Story of Aristocratic Life and Death in Stuart Britain
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