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Drink, Smoke, Pass Out: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey

Drink, Smoke, Pass Out: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Judith Lucy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey takes...
Ordinary Heroes: Personal Recollections of Australians at War

Ordinary Heroes: Personal Recollections of Australians at War

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Barry Dickins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 299
Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-king

Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-king

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Christine El Mahdy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Three and a half...
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine

Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine

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Author: Dale Maharidge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. For a long time, the only evidence that remained of...
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis

King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis

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Author: Sir Alan Lascelles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The diaries of 'Tommy' Lascelles - as featured in the Netflix hit THE CROWN 'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator...
A-Z of the 80s

A-Z of the 80s

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Author: Ally Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Return to the glamorous decade that brought us Footloose and The Breakfast Club, where leg warmers and shoulder pads were all...
Nobody's Child: Against All the Odds, He Managed to Escape the Horrors of a Stolen Childhood

Nobody's Child: Against All the Odds, He Managed to Escape the Horrors of a Stolen Childhood

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Author: Michael Seed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Abused by those who were supposed to love and cherish him, Michael Seed had to fight for survival against his violent...
Retreat from Mons 1914: Casteau to Le Cateau (Battle Lines Series)

Retreat from Mons 1914: Casteau to Le Cateau (Battle Lines Series)

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Author: Jon Cooksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The Retreat from Mons' the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to...
The Hidden Lives of London Streets: A Walking Guide to Soho, Holborn and Beyond

The Hidden Lives of London Streets: A Walking Guide to Soho, Holborn and Beyond

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Author: James Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 London's streets have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the diverse crowds who live and work on them. Take a...
Let Love Rule

Let Love Rule

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Author: Lenny Kravitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I...
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy

Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy

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Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change...
The Drowned And The Saved

The Drowned And The Saved

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...
The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

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Author: Karl Marx, Friedrech Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working...
Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The Way of the Samurai

The Way of the Samurai

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Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge...
The Art of Rhetoric

The Art of Rhetoric

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Author: Aristotle Format: Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384Ð322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was a critical skill...
Meditations

Meditations

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Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121Ð180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...
The Queen

The Queen

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana,...
The Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt

The Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt

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Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...
After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

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Author: Tripp Mickle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own...
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire

Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire

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Author: Sujit Sivasundaram Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED...
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

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Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A biographical orrery - intricate, complex and fascinating' The Observer 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
The President Will See You Now: My Stories and Lessons from Ronald Reagan's Final Years

The President Will See You Now: My Stories and Lessons from Ronald Reagan's Final Years

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Author: Peggy Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Peggy Grande's memoir is the book to read on Ronald Reagan's post-presidential years . . . Among the most unique and...
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

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Author: Laura Jane Grace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would...
The End of an Earring

The End of an Earring

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Author: Pam St Clement Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 2012, one of EastEnders' longest-serving and best-loved characters breathed her last when Pat Butcher succumbed to...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History

Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique...
The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir

The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir

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Author: Rosie Mercado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Latina superstar and daytime television host, Rosie Mercado, tells the story of her incredible life. When Rosie Mercado was only nineteen,...
Messi

Messi

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Author: Guillem Balague Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Lionel Messi's career has been a stellar ascent, and shows no signs as yet of slowing down. Born in Rosario in...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin

Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin

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Author: Randal Keynes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child s writing case, which had...
Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

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Author: Daniel Raeburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 When Dan, a writer, met Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, they swiftly fell in love. 'Of all the...
Gandhi: Naked Ambition

Gandhi: Naked Ambition

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Author: Jad Adams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil...
The Reason I Run: How Two Men Transformed Tragedy into the Greatest Race of Their Lives

The Reason I Run: How Two Men Transformed Tragedy into the Greatest Race of Their Lives

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Author: Christopher Spriggs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How do people come together when tragedy tries to tear them apart? When 39-time marathon runner Andrew Spriggs was...
Till We Have Faces

Till We Have Faces

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Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into...
Open: The Story Of Human Progress

Open: The Story Of Human Progress

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Author: Johan Norberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas...
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World

On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World

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Author: Colonel John Hughes-Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

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Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall

See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall

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Author: Arron Crascall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Arron Crascall is one of the UK's leading social media stars. Millions watch his videos online and he's guaranteed...
Raphael: v. 2: The Prince of Painters

Raphael: v. 2: The Prince of Painters

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Author: David Thompson Format: Video Number of Pages: The second in a two-part study of Raphael, this film opens with the artist's arrival in Rome at the age of twenty-five...
Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

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Author: Roger Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'I think prison has done me very little harm and some good. I am now far better read, far less smug...
Mercenaries to Conquerors

Mercenaries to Conquerors

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Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
Raphael: v. 1: The Apprentice Years

Raphael: v. 1: The Apprentice Years

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Author: David Thompson Format: Video Number of Pages: The Spanish painter Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the major figures of twentieth-century art. He belonged to the generation of avant-garde...