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Author: Peter TonkinBinding: HardbackPublished: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Journal Of Edwin Underhill chronicles a compelling narrative, unfolding through the intimate entries of its...

She was a heroine of our time, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Then, in 2010, Burma's generals opened...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in mid-twentieth-century Britain captured the public imagination quite like Group Captain Peter Townsend — war hero, RAF ace,...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Peter Thompson Format: Paperback...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Pete Townshend Format: Hardback...

"This is a brilliant and extremely useful guide, approachable on every level. Boyd Tonkin opens up infinite worlds of the imagination." - Ian McEwan Following the great success of Robert...

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Author: Duff Hart-DavisBinding: HardbackPublished: London: Jonathan Cape, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Maroon boards in good condition. Faded Dj with some shelf wear. Light...

An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and...

Author: Duff Hart-DavisBinding: HardbackPublished: London: Jonathan Cape, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis biography delves into the life of Peter Fleming, a multifaceted individual known for his...

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An in-depth look at the ambitious career and sudden disgrace of the former New York governor With a combination of talent, hard work, connections, and family wealth, Eliot Spitzer built...

"My Lords, The several Goals and Places for the Confinement of Felons in this Kingdom being in so crouded a State ... I ... signify to your Lordships His Majesty's...

Author: Beatrix Potter Format: Kit Number of Pages: 24 0

The book titled Tomb of the Golden Bird by the author Elizabeth Peters. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans--born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere--have been...

"Delightful....[An] engrossing plot and writing of the highest caliber."-- Washington Times A globe-trotting archeologist with more grit, wit, and fortitude than Indian Jones himself, the intrepid Amelia Peabody confronts danger...

Secondhand Ed McBain 87th Precinct Bargain Book Box SP4090 Fifteen Ed McBain, fourteen of them 87th Precinct, most in the gold-banded Pan editions: Fuzz, Axe, Bread, Ghosts, Tricks, Vespers, Widows,...

Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest-serving spy for the British Secret...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj repaired with tapeStep into the breathtaking world of Tolkien's most beloved landscapes through the eyes of one of its...

One morning in 1994, two men in a stolen car skid to a halt in front of Norway s National Gallery. Minutes later, they roar off with Edvard Munch's iconic,...

Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest-serving spy for the British Secret...

'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor every horse owner, trainer, or equine enthusiast who has ever needed a reliable, authoritative reference at their fingertips, The Horse's Health From...

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the pen of the undisputed Queen of Crime comes Postern of Fate, a gripping mystery that draws its elderly protagonists — the irrepressible...

In 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter opened King Tutankhamuns tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that gave Carter international...

For the first time, the whole uncensored story of one of the financial world's most flamboyant characters. In some ways, Rene Rivkin's story was the classic tale of an immigrant...

Read the true story that inspired the major new film, The Iron Lady. John Campbell's magisterial biography is the political biography of Margaret Thatcher. 'An enormously useful achievement...every twist and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn a narrative as vast and turbulent as the conflict it chronicles, Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History stands as the...

As 1936 gave way to 1937, the people of Peking waited nervously for the axe to fall. The encirclement by the Japanese army was tightening daily and troop skirmishes were...

The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the...

Amazing photographs accompany a search-and-find story by Walter Wick, the creator of award-winning picture books, the author and photographer of The New York Times bestselling Can You See What I...

The bestselling "Penguin Companion to European Union" explains the ideas, institutions, personalities and policies that have shaped politics at European level since the Second World War. Its interlocking A to...

THE SOOKIE STACKHOUSE COMPANION is a unique guide to Sookie Stackhouse and her dark fantasy southern-Gothic world, as well as an in-depth look at the award-winning HBO series TRUE BLOOD....

Secondhand Interior Design & Houses Bargain Book Box SP4250 Eight large-format hardbacks with jackets: Houses and Gardens of Portugal, Houses and Palaces of Andalusia, New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, In...

The incredible story of China's greatest archaeological treasure - the Terracotta Army - revised and updated for 2018. The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological...

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security...

Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and...

The inside story of how the credit crunch unfolded by the first journalist to predict it. Falling house prices. Rising energy and food prices. Job losses. Paralysis over whether interest...

Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that...