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Military campaigns, pivotal battles and extraordinary leaders have collectively shaped the course of history and in this fascinating book, author Tom Quinn examines some of the most remarkable campaigns, incidents...

Before Elizabeth David died in 1992 she and her editor, Jill Norman, had begun work on a volume of "The Best of" but then her health deteriorated and the project...

Compiled from her own experiences, and conversations with fellow members of the "Cancer Club", Deborah Hutton book is an anthology of supremely practical examples of ways in which friends and...

Elizabeth David's books belong in the libraries of everyone who loves to read and prepare food and this one is generally regarded as her best; her passion and knowledge comes...

A screen legend and one of the most beautiful women in the world, Audrey Hepburn has starred in such enduring masterpieces as 'My Fair Lady' and 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', cultivated...

Literary agent Anthea Landau, legendary resident of the Paddington Hotel, is auctioning off her personal correspondence from enigmatic writer Gulliver Fairborn. The reclusive Fairborn can't afford to outbid the collectors...

Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his...

When a woman's crumpled body is discovered in a gas-filled flat in London's Primrose Hill area, it looks like suicide. But DI Christy Kennedy isn't so sure, especially when the...

As the 1960's drew to a close, the gathering at Woodstock defined a moment in history and redefined the world of music and politics over the course of a single...

A short history of the Italian food product is followed by a detailed description of the production techniques and notes for evaluating and appreciating the regional differences. Italy has a...

With efficiency and a touch of humor, this valuable guidebook offers information on the difficult subject of planning for one's own death or organizing funerals for loved ones. Topics ranging...

Imprint. An imagined journey through the life of Frida Kahlo. We are inside her mind at 46, on her deathbed, racked withmemories and hallucinations. Frida navigates the alleys and opium...

Everyone fantasises about spending six months writing in Paris. These people lived it. - Every year Australia sends 2 people to the Cite de Internationale in Paris, to live and...

The book titled The Last Word and Other Stories by the author Graham Greene. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A powerful love story in which one woman's quest for identity and healing also becomes the single way she can honour her grandparents, whose lives were irreversibly shattered by the...

Forever Family For The Midwife - Kate Hardy Can he risk his heart... on the single mum? Midwife Nathaniel has been wary of love ever since his girlfriend walked out...

In the tradition of Don't Let Her See Me Cry and The Long Way Home, a starkly beautiful and inspirational true story of the power of love - and how...

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with...

Returning to his challenging home in the Languedoc, Patrick Moon could easily fill the days, protecting infant vines from marauding wild boar and hiding baby truffle oaks from unscrupulous neighbours....

The book titled The Serpent's Tail by the author Martin Dillon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Although best known as author of a singular masterpiece, The Leopard, the Prince of Lampedusa left a rich and varied oeuvre that repays a careful reading. The best and most...

Eight of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, including 'Romeo and Juliet', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth', are retold in this truly classic collection. Andrew Matthews' lively retellings capture all the...

A lonely woman of 53 never returns from a morning run - hidden in her cupboard is an expensive pair of cugg-links with a note- 'To You, with all possible...

Barry Norman's choice ranges from the silent greats such as "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) to the inventiveness of such films as "E.T." (1982). Amongst the best chosen from...

The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure edited by Ekow Eshun celebrates flourishing Black artists whose work illuminates the richness, beauty and complexity of Black life. "There...

More than 6000 warships are included in this comprehensive encyclopedia of the world''s navies during the Second World War. The basis of the volume was the first unc ensored edition...

The book titled Anthology of Crime Stories by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

They were some of the finest ships the Royal Navy ever built--the last of the great "floating villages" to see WWII action. Their achievements appear in dramatic photos of both...

This text is Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949. It was his responsibility to anticipate German applications of science to warfare, so that...

There is so much to look forward to in the months ahead - to lengthening evenings, bike rides past fields of sunflowers or wild meadows of bluebells and poppies (just...

As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun's morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case of the Three Epees: three women skewered by a...

The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune,...

On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript everytown. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its...

Peppered with bouncers, expletives, and even the odd diplomatic incident, this is a rip-roaring journey through over a century of Ashes history. For a list of every Ashes century and...

Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There's a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far...

A fascinating exploration of the fallibility of memory and how easily our brains can be misled. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Truly fascinating.' Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2 - Have you ever...

A gripping account of the ingenious minds who gathered together the greatest technological inventions of our species to create a machine that can see into our planet's future with astonishing...

In the sweltering summer of 1938 in Portugal, a country under the fascist shadow of Spain, a mysterious young man arrives at the doorstep of Dr Pereira. So begins an...

Estranged sisters Anne and Jess were never close as children and have drifted further apart over the years - living separate lives in different cities. But when their mother Jean...

America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of...

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future....

The hilarious survival guide to French -- from how exactly to say oh la la to ordering a steak without getting sneered at THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT FRANCE- You...

OPRAH WINFREY'S BOOK CLUB SUMMER 2018 SELECTION **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Both Nelson Mandela and Ray Hinton emerged from their incarceration with a profound capacity to forgive... The Sun...

A beautifully written evocation of lost world and a vanished childhood, by the author of Clouds of Glory. This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being...