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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
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My Old Man: a Personal History of Music Hall
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the…
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Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Finest Speeches (SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 'This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by…
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New York Yacht Club 1844-1994 (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- A history of the prestigious New York Yacht Club covering its 'first century and a half' in what Walter Cronkite described as 'a dramatic story of winners and losers, gallant gentlemen and an occasional spoilsport, great yachts and real adventurers united by their relentless quest for speed under sail. Its…
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No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845
- £15.00
- Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward Ð and some of them, in the authorÕs…
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No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- £15.00
- The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict…
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Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
- £6.00
- Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator…
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Old Touraine: The Life And History Of The Chateaux Of The Loire (2 vols)
- £45.00
- Theodore Cook's legacy from his artist mother was an early introduction to the world of paintings, sculpture and architecture. This inspired him to travel particularly in Europe and to publish authoritarian works on Old Provence, Twenty-five Great Houses of France, Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture among many others, some of…
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Oliver Cromwell
- £30.00
- From the series: Twelve English Statsmen. Frederic Harrison (1831–1923) was a lawyer and teacher, later positivist and author, who dabbled extensively in politics, education, philosophy and history. Harrison's judgements and reminiscences of other writers are found in The Choice of Books(1886), Studies in Early Victorian Literature (1895), and Tennyson, Ruskin,…
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
- £11.00
- As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff. 'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the…
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
- £25.00
- We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - enslaved…
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One Minute to Ten: Cameron, Miliband and Clegg. Three Men, One Ambition and the Price of Power
- £8.00
- 10 PM, on the 7 May. The exit poll predicting the result of the 2015 General Election is announced. In that instant three lives are changed for ever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were three very different men, from very different backgrounds. But they shared one ambition. To…
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Operation Big Ben: The Anti-V2 Spitfire Missions 1944-45 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Through Squadron histories, log books, official reports and interviews with the people who flew clipped winged Mark XVI Spitfires to dive-bomb V1 and V2 rocket sites at night in 1944; a story as fascinating as the Dam Busters raid or the Battle of Britain is at last fully told, the…
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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- From a political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment Ð the bizarre and untold story of how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of US military deserters during the Cold War. Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in…
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
- Add to basket
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My Old Man: a Personal History of Music Hall
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the…
- Add to basket
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Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Finest Speeches (SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 'This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by…
- Add to basket
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New York Yacht Club 1844-1994 (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- A history of the prestigious New York Yacht Club covering its 'first century and a half' in what Walter Cronkite described as 'a dramatic story of winners and losers, gallant gentlemen and an occasional spoilsport, great yachts and real adventurers united by their relentless quest for speed under sail. Its…
- Add to basket
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No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845
- £15.00
- Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward Ð and some of them, in the authorÕs…
- Add to basket
-
No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- £15.00
- The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict…
- Add to basket
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Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
- Add to basket
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
- £6.00
- Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator…
- Add to basket
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Old Touraine: The Life And History Of The Chateaux Of The Loire (2 vols)
- £45.00
- Theodore Cook's legacy from his artist mother was an early introduction to the world of paintings, sculpture and architecture. This inspired him to travel particularly in Europe and to publish authoritarian works on Old Provence, Twenty-five Great Houses of France, Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture among many others, some of…
- Add to basket
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Oliver Cromwell
- £30.00
- From the series: Twelve English Statsmen. Frederic Harrison (1831–1923) was a lawyer and teacher, later positivist and author, who dabbled extensively in politics, education, philosophy and history. Harrison's judgements and reminiscences of other writers are found in The Choice of Books(1886), Studies in Early Victorian Literature (1895), and Tennyson, Ruskin,…
- Add to basket
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
- £11.00
- As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff. 'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the…
- Add to basket
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
- £25.00
- We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - enslaved…
- Add to basket
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One Minute to Ten: Cameron, Miliband and Clegg. Three Men, One Ambition and the Price of Power
- £8.00
- 10 PM, on the 7 May. The exit poll predicting the result of the 2015 General Election is announced. In that instant three lives are changed for ever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were three very different men, from very different backgrounds. But they shared one ambition. To…
- Add to basket
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Operation Big Ben: The Anti-V2 Spitfire Missions 1944-45 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Through Squadron histories, log books, official reports and interviews with the people who flew clipped winged Mark XVI Spitfires to dive-bomb V1 and V2 rocket sites at night in 1944; a story as fascinating as the Dam Busters raid or the Battle of Britain is at last fully told, the…
- Add to basket
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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- From a political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment Ð the bizarre and untold story of how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of US military deserters during the Cold War. Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in…
- Add to basket