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142 Strand
By Rosemary Ashton [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! A marvellous birds-eye view of the intellectual furore of Victorian England, combining politics, philosophy, religious controversy and sexual adventure. Subtitled, }A Radical Address In Victorian London{. A fascinating microhistory of not just an address, but a whole social circle and creative period. The home of the young publisher John Chapman,... more -
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Against the Flow: Wading Through Eastern Europe
By Tom Fort [Paperback 2011]12 new & used from sellers starting at
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Available. Ships Free to India in 15-18 days Twenty years ago, Tom Fort drove his little red car onto the ferry at Felixstowe, bound for all points east. Eastern Europe was still a faraway place, just emerging from its half-century of waking nightmare, blinking, injured, full of fears but importantly full of hope, as well. Things were different... moreOther Editions: Hardcover 2010 -
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The American Civil War
By John Keegan [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! The definitive history of the American Civil War, highlighting the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict. With maps and illustrations. The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured... more -
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Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter
By Stephen Anderton [Paperback 2011]13 new & used from sellers starting at
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Available. Ships Free to India in 15-18 days A highly enjoyable biography of the gloriously eccentric English gardener and writer, Christopher Lloyd ("Christo") who created the garden at the English house of Great Dixter in Sussex, and was regarded as the greatest "plantsman" of the 20th century. "From the Hardcover edition."... moreOther Editions: Hardcover 2010 -
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Ill Tell Me Ma
By Brian Keenan [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! The story of an ordinary boy growing up in Belfast who would go on to become world-famous as a hostage in Beirut, and author of the extraordinary testimony of imprisonment and survival that was "An Evil Cradling" In this remarkable and equally moving act of retrieval, Brian Keenan has captured... more -
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The Lady In the Tower
By Alison Weir [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII-s second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since. Anne was imprisoned in the Tower... more -
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Piccadilly Jim
By Pg Wodehouse [Paperback 2008]15 new & used from sellers starting at
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days The life of Jimmy Crocker, (a.k.a. Piccadilly Jim) has been little more than broken promises and drunken brawls. However, Jim has fallen in love and taken to reforming himself. Unfortunately, to win the heart of his intended, Jim must pretend to be someone else. When Jimmy Crocker -- a bit... moreOther Editions: Paperback 2004 Paperback 2006 Paperback 1995 Paperback 2004 Paperback 2010 Hardcover 2002 ... -
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Pistols at Dawn
By John Campbell [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Subtitled, }Two Hundred Years Of Political Rivalry From Pitt & Fox To Blair & Brown{. A fresh look at 8 pairs of political rivals that have determined the course of politics over the last 2 centuries. Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. Gordon Brown and Tony... more -
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The Royal Stuarts
By Allan Massie [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! New biography tracing the arrival of the Stuarts, their rise to the throne of England and Scotland, and the scandals. Ruling for over 300 years in Scotland, and for a century in Britain, the Stuarts were at the centre of all the political dramas of the age. Drawing on accounts... more -
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Moll
By Sian Rees [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Paperback edition of Rees's journey of literary and historical detection, across continents, cultures and centuries, to uncover the fictional personality of Defoe's Moll Flanders. Daniel Defoe's fictional heroine Moll Flanders is famous for her criminal and sexual adventures, racily portrayed on big and small screens. But who was she? And... more -
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Orpheus
By Ann Wroe [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this... more -
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Selected Poems
By William Wordsworth [Paperback 1991]82 new & used from sellers starting at
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the... moreOther Editions: Ebook, Adobe epub 2004 Hardbound 2001 Paperback 2009 Hardcover 2009 Paperback 1991 Hardcover 2009 ... -
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Bertie Ahern Autobiography
By Bertie Ahern [Ebook, Adobe epub 2009] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Working with Richard Aldous, Bertie Ahern has written a very human and compelling book which reveals what it was like to be Irish Taoiseach for more than ten tumultuous years during which the whole country and Europe was transformed. Bertie Ahern, three times Irish Taoiseach, is often described as an... more -
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Curiosities of Literature
By John Sutherland [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Subtitled, }A Book-Lover's Anthology Of Literary Erudition{. With essays on everything from illegal substances to miserable summer weather. With illustrations by Martin Rowson. How much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while... more -
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Danube
By Claudio Magris , Patrick Creagh [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! In this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, Christianity and Islam. In each town he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments, from... more -
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Deep Jungle
By Fred Pearce [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! DEEP JUNGLE is an exploration of the most alien and feared habitat on Earth. Starting with man's earliest recorded adventures, Fred Pearce journeys high into the canopy -- home to two-thirds of all the creatures on our planet, many of whom never come down to earth. During his travels he... more -
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Rise and Fall of Communism
By Archie Brown [Paperback 2010]18 new & used from sellers starting at
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 5-10 days From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism comes a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. "The Rise and Fall of Communism" explores how and why... more -
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War Without Fronts
By Bernd Greiner [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Shortly before 8 am on 16 March 1968, C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the hamlet of My Lai (4). By noon every living being the troops could find was dead -- more than 400... moreOther Editions: Paperback 2010 -
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Robert Louis Stevenson [Mass market paperbound 2005]14 new & used from sellers starting at
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days Dr. Jekyll has been experimenting with identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature, allowing him to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr. Hyde. But gradually the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult, and the risk... moreOther Editions: Hardcover 2009 Hardcover 2010 Paperback 2005 Hardcover 1976 Paperback 2008 Hardbound 2008 ... -
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Making Haste From Babylon
By Nick Bunker [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! A vivid and original account of The Mayflower Pilgrims and their first decade in the New Plymouth colony, telling their story in unrivalled depth. At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the Northern Hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Great Lakes, the... moreOther Editions: Hardbound 2010
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