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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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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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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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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 [Ebook, Adobe epub 2004] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! 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: Hardbound 2001 Paperback 2009 Hardcover 2009 Paperback 1991 Hardcover 2009 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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The Rise and Fall of Communism
By Archie Brown [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! 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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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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In the City
By Paul Du Noyer [Ebook, Adobe epub 2009] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! 'A dense and colourful account of one of the most vibrant musical centres in the world, In the City almost puts you on that train to London' Guardian In this fascinating history of London's music, which was the 2009 Sunday Times 'Music Book of the Year', Paul Du Noyer, critically-acclaimed... moreOther Editions: Hardcover 2010 -
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Justinians Flea
By William Rosen [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Description: The epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them.... more -
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By Permission of Heaven
By Adrian Tinniswood [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Magnificent new account of the Great Fire of London, piecing together the untold human story of the fire and its aftermath. There had been other fires, of course. Four hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. The citizens still called it the Great Fire.... more -
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Anne of Green Gables
By Lucy Maud Montgomery [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and... more
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