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Orders To Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
- £10.00
- Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign that…
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Orwell: the Authorised Biography
- £15.00
- This biography draws on a range of new sources, from a very candid letter giving evidence of Orwell's romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, to records in the India Office Library which alter the conventional view of his service in Burma.
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Orwell: the New Life
- £30.00
- Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our…
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Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed The World
- £12.00
- With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote…
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Palmer’s Treatise on the Church (2 vols)
- £60.00
- A Treatise on the Church of Christ: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Students in Theology, in 2 volumes
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
- £20.00
- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Parson Austen’s Daughter
- £10.00
- Helen Ashton (1891-1958) was a respected novelist, literary biographer and physician, known for writing about Dorothy Wordsworth or Caroline Herschel. This biography of Jane Austen was first published in 1949.
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Ponsonby Remembers
- £15.00
- Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, 1st Baronet DL (2 September 1879 - 28 January 1976), was a British conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1935 to 1950. He was veteran of the First World War, and member of the War Cabinet during the Second.
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Portrait of a Village
- £20.00
- Illustrated with maps (on endpapers) and woodcuts by Joan Hassall.
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Portraits in Miniature and other Essays
- £15.00
- An anthology of Lytton Strachey's famous pen-portraits of various figures, in this case the likes of John Aubrey, James Boswell and six historians.
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation Lost
- £15.00
- The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918. The war consumed about a fifth of all the public schoolboys who fought, while the survivors were scarred by the loss of so many…
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Orders To Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
- £10.00
- Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign that…
- Add to basket
-
Orwell: the Authorised Biography
- £15.00
- This biography draws on a range of new sources, from a very candid letter giving evidence of Orwell's romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, to records in the India Office Library which alter the conventional view of his service in Burma.
- Add to basket
-
Orwell: the New Life
- £30.00
- Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our…
- Add to basket
-
Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed The World
- £12.00
- With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote…
- Add to basket
-
Palmer’s Treatise on the Church (2 vols)
- £60.00
- A Treatise on the Church of Christ: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Students in Theology, in 2 volumes
- Add to basket
-
Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
- £20.00
- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
- Add to basket
-
Parson Austen’s Daughter
- £10.00
- Helen Ashton (1891-1958) was a respected novelist, literary biographer and physician, known for writing about Dorothy Wordsworth or Caroline Herschel. This biography of Jane Austen was first published in 1949.
- Add to basket
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
- Add to basket
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
- Add to basket
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Ponsonby Remembers
- £15.00
- Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, 1st Baronet DL (2 September 1879 - 28 January 1976), was a British conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1935 to 1950. He was veteran of the First World War, and member of the War Cabinet during the Second.
- Add to basket
-
Portrait of a Village
- £20.00
- Illustrated with maps (on endpapers) and woodcuts by Joan Hassall.
- Add to basket
-
Portraits in Miniature and other Essays
- £15.00
- An anthology of Lytton Strachey's famous pen-portraits of various figures, in this case the likes of John Aubrey, James Boswell and six historians.
- Add to basket
-
Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
- Add to basket
-
Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
- Add to basket
-
Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation Lost
- £15.00
- The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918. The war consumed about a fifth of all the public schoolboys who fought, while the survivors were scarred by the loss of so many…
- Add to basket