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- At the age of 45, Bill Drummond is less concerned with setting the record straight as making sure it revolves at the correct speed. Whether he's recording 'Justified and Ancient' with Tammy Wynette; contemplating the dull lunacy of the Turner prize; resisting the urge to paint landscapes; or glorying in…
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A Better Class Of Person: Autobiography 1929-1956 (SIGNED)
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- This is the first instalment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger". 'It's a classic' Melvyn Bragg
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A Dog’s Life (SIGNED)
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- In the spring of 1985, the novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome…
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A Late Beginner
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- Priscilla Napier (1908-1998) was an English author, specializing in biography. Her brother was British Ambassador to the USSR and then Warden of New College Oxford, while her sister Alethea was a literary biographer. Her husband of 10 years, was killed on active service in 1940, after which she brought up…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
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- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
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- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
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- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Rumour of War
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- In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A…
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A Sailor Hat In The House Of The Lord: The Autobiography Of A Rebellious Victorian
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- Therese la Chard was a Victorian cageling par excellence, the motherless child of a wealthy Anglo-German family living on the rural fringe of London, a home in which 'system' was the only ogre, involving obsessions with health and music which became a tyranny and caused her to revolt. Midway through…
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A Short Walk from Harrods
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- 6th volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, set in the South of France where he lived for a number of years. The book concludes in Britain, taking its title from the location of his London residence.
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A Sort of Life
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- Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only "a sort of life" - it may contain less errors of fact that a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, an conclusion…
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A Sparrow’s Flight – Memoirs (SIGNED)
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- Lord Hailsham is best known for his long service as Lord Chancellor. In his memoir, he reflects on the nature of that office and on what he achieved during his tenure of it. He also discusses his parallel career at the Bar and his activities in both Houses of Parliament.…
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A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl (SIGNED)
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- Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world. The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in the nation's hearts on ITV's I'm…
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A Tourist in Africa
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- The book is in the form of a diary, describing a tour of East Africa from January to April 1959. Events and sights are described with perception and clarity, and the history associated with a particular place is often discussed.
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A Writer’s Notebook
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- Powell's notebook, which he kept for 40 years, gives an insight into the workings of a writer's mind as he recorded observations, opinions and aphorisms, as well as ideas for books and book titles.
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
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- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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African Nights (SIGNED)
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- Kuki Gallmann, whose bestseller "I Dreamed of Africa" captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven episodes the magic that touches all African life. Whether the adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island, or the pleasure of building a unique…
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Alone Together
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- The author has become almost as well known as her husband, Andrei Sakharov. In her memoir she relates "what has happened in the last three years" to the two of them. The book is mostly about Bonner. It tells of her trials at the hands of the KGB (she must…
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An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson (Folio Society)
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- Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master
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An Egyptian Journal
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- Golding's account of his journey down the Nile. Colour & monochrome photo illustrations, map.
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An Orderly Man
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- 3rd volume of the best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
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- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
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- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and…
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Backcloth (SIGNED)
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- 4th Volume of his autobiography Filling in the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. It is based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, covering many aspects of a celebrated…
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Bitter Lemons
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- Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years (1953–1956) he spent on the island of Cyprus. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957, the second year the prize was awarded. It is a wonderful study of moods and atmospheres; the house-buying…
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Bring on the Empty Horses
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- From the Hollywood's first-ever million-copy bestseller, another riotous look at the golden age of Hollywood from a quintessential English gentleman. 'Might easily be the best book ever written about Hollywood.' New York Times Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest memoirists of all time, David Niven's eye for an anecdote…
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Calendar Girl, in which a Lady of Rylstone Reveals All (SIGNED)
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- When John Baker died of cancer, many of his friends in the small Yorkshire village of Cracoe were devastated. During his illness Tricia Stewart had joked with him about creating an 'alternative' W.I. calendar - she and his wife Angela were members - and after his death they were determined…
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Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics (SIGNED)
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- In this surprising and eccentric autobiography from a former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris writes of his personal and political life with equal candour. With a First from Cambridge and the possibility of working for the Foreign Office, he decided instead to apply to be an apprentice diesel-fitter with London Transport.…
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Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir
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- "Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it."ÑTimes Literary Supplement How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the…
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Cleared for Take-Off
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- On his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also had, like countless others, a feeling of utter hopelessness at the…
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Crow Steered Bergs Appeared: a memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (SIGNED)
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- Ted Hughes and Lucas Myers met at Cambridge University in January 1955. They maintained a close friendship until Hughes' death on 22 October 1988. Myers was also a friend of Sylvia Plath and various other family members. His memoir draws on his forty-year correspondence with Hughes and discusses Birthday Letters,…
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Cupid and the Jacaranda
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- This is another book by Sacheverell Sitwell belonging to the series which began with his Dance of the Ouick and the Dead in 1936. It is, in fact, the fifth volume of this series Cupid and the Jacaranda, like its predecessors, ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly,…
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Dear Bill: W. F. Deedes reports (SIGNED)
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- A collection of memoirs written by W.F. Deedes, the journalist and politician who is most well known as the recipient of fictional letters from Dennis Thatcher, printed in Private Eye. The author covered the 1930s Abyssinian war and was a cabinet minister during the 1950s and 60s.
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Diaries 1924-1932
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- Picking up from earlier diaries, this volume begins with the formation of the first Labour Government and ends after the Labour debacles of 1931 and the Webbs' departure for their Russian tour.
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Faces in my Time (Vol 3 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
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- The third volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1934-1951
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Faces in my Time (Vol 3 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
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- The third volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1934-1951
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Fighting Mad: One Man’s Guerrilla War
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- Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits…
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Footfalls in Memory : Reflections from Solitude (SIGNED)
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- For the first year of his solitary confinement in Beirut, Terry Waite was given nothing to read. During those days, not only did he write his autobiography in his head, but he also attempted to remember all the books, poems and prayers he had read during his life. Eventually his…
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For Love and Money: Writing Reading Travelling 1969-1987 (SIGNED)
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- For Love and Money is the 'part case history, part memoir' of a modern man of letters: a selection of Jonathan Raban's very best essays, reportage, travel writings and literary criticism, linked with a narrative thread that bravely attempts the agonizing and revelatory question 'Why do you write?' 'His writing…
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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- A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant…
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Getting to Know The General: the story of an involvement
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- In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir.…
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Good Pop Bad Pop: an inventory (SIGNED)
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- What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts…
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Goodbye to all that (Folio)
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- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
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Goon for Lunch (SIGNED)
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- An hilarious autobiographical collection of stories from Harry Secombe's life covering the whole period from his childhood in Wales to the 1970s
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Grace before Ploughing: Fragments of Autobiography
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- Written the year before his death and subtitled 'Fragments of Autobiography', the book contains memories of Masefield's early years in Herefordshire, as well as some other key moments of his life.
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Great Meadow: An evocation
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- Sequel to the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography "A Postillion Struck by Lightning". Seen through the eyes of a 10-year old in the late 1930s, this novel recaptures an idyllic childhood, a time of love and gentleness with its sounds and scents intact, whilst the world beyond went to…
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Great Morning: Being The Third Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand! (St Martin’s Library)
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- The third volume of the author's 4-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume covers the period between 1911 and the First World War, beginning with the author at 18.
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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 The Film Years
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- The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning…
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Hatchet Job: love movies, hate critics (SIGNED)
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- The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen FryFor decades, the backbone of film criticism has been the hatchet job - the entertaining trashing of a film by professional reviewers, seen by many as cynical snobs. But with the arrival of the internet, have…
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Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth (SIGNED)
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- Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has…
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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
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- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
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I Remember (SIGNED)
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- Memoirs of a chartered accountant who worked for the British Empire Cancer Campign, but who had been in the British army, and most interestingly, in China around the time of the fall of the Chinese Monarchy. 6 b/w plates.
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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
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- I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in…
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If Prison Walls Could Speak (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- In If Prison Walls Could Speak, Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond - and remaining unbroken. D.L. Moody stated that the Christian on his…
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In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
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- Previously unpublished journals recording his African travels to the Belgian Congo in 1959 and an earlier wartime convoy to West Africa in 1941. Some of the raw material wound up in "A Burnt-Out Case" and "The Heart of the Matter."
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
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- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
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- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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It ends with Magic: a Milligan Family Story
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- The story is based on the lives of Spike Milligan's own parents and of other members of his family. Set in the late Victorian era and illustrated with photographs from the family albums, it describes their life in India.
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Italian Journeys
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- This personal travel book about Italy is written by the author of the prize-winning "Allegro Postillions" and "The Strangers' Gallery". The author's travels take him to an Italy of neglected grandeur, hidden beauty and preposterous paradox - where the past lies in wait for the present and where history is…
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John Mason Neale, Priest Extraordinary
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- Lough notes Neale's accomplishments, which included being a key figure in the Oxford Movement as an ordained Anglican, cofounding the Sisterhood of Saint Margaret, and the writing of many hymns.
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Journals (Vol. I): 1982-1986
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- "Stuck" on a novel in the mid-80s, Anthony Powell kept a journal. It gives an insight into the life of a respected writer and contains portraits of luminaries from the literary world, including Osbert Lancaster, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Lord Longford and others.
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Journals (Vol. II): 1987-1989
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- ese journals, started in 1982 when Powell had become 'stuck' on a novel, became the place where he could most happily exercise his extraordinarily acute and often witty powers of observation and record his memories of times and writers past. This, the second volume of the journals sees the writer…
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Journals (Vol. III): 1990-1992
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- A third volume of Powell's journals which contains his observations, and his accounts of family occasions and famous visitors.
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Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
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- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
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Kathleen and Frank
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- This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father’s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well…
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King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
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- An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself - was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene…
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Laughter in the Next Room (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 4)
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- Vol IV of Sitwell's five-volume autobiography. There can be little doubt that Osbert Sitwell's finest achievement was his five-volume autobiography published by Macmillan between 1945-50. Vol I' Left Hand, Right Hand! ' Vol II 'The Scarlet Tree' Vol III 'Great Morning' Vol IV 'Laughter in the Next Room' Vol V'…
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Laughter In The Next Room: Being The Fourth Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand!
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- Final and 4th volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography
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Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt (SIGNED)
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- The prize-winning memoir: Òan enlightening walk through a life that encompasses West AfricaÉrent strikes, the divided self and the question of graceÓ (Scotland on Sunday, UK). An international bestseller and winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize, Ricard HollowayÕs candid memoir Òis many things. It is a compelling account of a journey…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
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- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
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- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
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Lip Reading (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The popular comedy actress and raconteuse Maureen Lipman reveals how she found herself trussed up backstage in Birmingham, ponders the more peculiar aspects of cricket terminology and explores the miracle of plastic tablecloths.
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Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat
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- The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He saw unification as the…
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Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
- £350.00
- Churchill's popular memoir of his experiences in the first 5 months of the 2nd Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the…
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Long Life, Memoirs
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- Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots.
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Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
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- Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to…
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Mature Reflections and Devotions of the Rev. Rowland Hill in his old age
- £100.00
- Rowland Hill (1744-1833) was a celebrated evangelical non-conformist preacher, who built Surrey Chapel in London, with an inheritance from his welathy father. He was an associate of the Countess of Huntingdon, but Surrey Chapel was not part of the Connexion. Sidney had published his biography of Hill in 1834 with…
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Memoir of Henry Venn
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- Henry Venn was the grandson of the Henry Venn of Clapham Sect fame and a follower in his footsteps; a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society. First published in 1880 without the appendix, this memoir includes selections from Venn's letters and journal.
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £250.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £60.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Messengers of Day (Vol 2 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
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- The second volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1926-1934, includes pen portraits of several friends, including George Orwell.
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MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
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- A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carr world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carr's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5. Much to…
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
- £300.00
- "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" (DNB). Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a missionary in Africa and linguist. One of Moffat's greatest achievements was the translation and printing of the New Testament into Tswana, for the use of…
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Mother Land (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish island, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian,…
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My Apprenticeship
- £100.00
- My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an…
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My Life and Times: Octave Three 1900-1907
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- Volume Three out of Ten of Compton Mackenzie's memoirs. "With its bravura, high spirits and zest for life, its dolce ardor, Octave Three is lyrical, comic and elegaic in turn. Each chapter contains a world of evocation and the pages dance with a life of their own."
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My Lives (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891Ð1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press. From a famous literary family (his mother was the poet Alice), he was a conscientious objector in 1WW, went on hunger strike, was a communist for a time, and even big business entrepreneur. He…
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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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My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend
- £15.00
- Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti. A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was…
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 1819-1822
- £25.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic
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Near East
- £15.00
- Beaton's account of his 3 months in the Near East taking photographs and collecting material for the British Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. Includes many b/w photographs
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No Picnic on Mt Kenya
- £25.00
- No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. It was first published in 1946 in English and 1947 in Italian. The 1994 film The…
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No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel
- £20.00
- In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.…
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Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 5)
- £20.00
- Full title: Noble essences, or, courteous revelations: Being a book of characters and the fifth and last volume of "Left hand, right hand" The 5th and final volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography.
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Not That Kind of Girl: a young woman tells you what she’s ‘learned’ (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham Ð the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBOÕs ÔGirlsÕ Ð as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. ÒIf I could take what…
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O Rare Hoffnung: a memorial garland
- £40.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. This compilation of reflections and memories by some of his many friends and admirers was published the following year, with a foreward by his widow, Annetta, including several colour plates and of course b/w…
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Our Daily War (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÒNo-one with the slightest interest in this war, or the nation on which it is being waged, should fail to read Andrey Kurkov,Ó Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail ÒFor centuries, attempts have been made to force Ukrainians to forget their native language, to stop singing Ukrainian songs and to abandon their…
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Our Partnership
- £50.00
- The Sequel to Webb's 'My Apprenticeship', 'Our Partnership' contains details on the wealth of topics that Beatrice and her husband, Sidney, worked on together. She was born in Gloucester in 1858, educated at home by a governess, she also travelled widely and, due to this, gained a keen interest in…
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Palimpsest (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various domestic situations of his complicated…
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Park Top: A romance of the turf
- £50.00
- Park Top, who raced between 1967 and 1970, was conveiably the best English-bred race mare of this century. 'The best of her sex I've ever ridden,' was Lester Piggott's opinion in a letter reproduced in this book. É no one reading this fascinating book, with its 12 pages of photographs,…
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Present Indicative
- £8.00
- "I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and…
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Prisoners of Hope
- £40.00
- In this classic WWII memoir, a British commando recounts how the legendary Chindits invented modern guerilla warfare through operations in Burma. In 1942, British Army Colonel Orde Wingate was sent to Burma to organize guerilla units against the invading Japanese forces. Drawing on locally available troops, Wingate turned English and…
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Rain Upon Godshill (More Chapters of Autobiography)
- £9.00
- John Boynton Priestley OM (1894Ð1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in The Good Companions (1929), which first brought him to wide public notice. Many of his plays are structured around a time slip, and…
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Rum ‘Uns to Follow. Memories of Seventy years in the Shires
- £25.00
- Memories of 70 years with the Leicestershire Hunts (Quorn, Pytchey, Fernie) by A Melton Roughrider (ie Dick Heathen) With illustrations and foreword by Guy Paget, drawn from The Tatler, Vanity Fair etc.
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Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
- £20.00
- After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a…
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Searching for Schindler
- £25.00
- The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker…
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Sentenced to Life
- £20.00
- In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what…
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Slow on the Feather: Further Autobiography, 1938-59
- £40.00
- Wilfrid Blunt, was an art teacher, writer, artist and a curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, from 1959 until 1983. He was a prolific writer and also the art master at Hailebury and Eton, and instrumental in reforming British children's handwriting. He was one of the brothers of…
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Snapshots: Encounters with Twentieth-Century Legends (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Perhaps best known today for his English lyrics for the first West End Production of Les Miserables, but he was a prolific writer. In his diverse career as a journalist and wordsmith, Herbert Kretzmer has interviewed and profiled some of the twentieth century's greatest figures in theatre, literature, show business…
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Soldier’s Heart: reading literature through peace and war at West Point
- £10.00
- A West Point English professor offers an intimate portrait of teaching literature to young men and women preparing for war and assesses the various ways in warfare has transformed her relationship with literature, describing the changes that have occurred since September 11, what it means to be a civilian teaching…
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Something to Fall Back On (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- A humorous look at life as it really is, by the actress and comedian, Maureen Lipman. This book is a follow-up to her previous book "How Was It For You?"
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Something to Hold Onto: Autobiographical Sketches
- £20.00
- The third volume of Cobb's memoirs, this describes the various familiar and particular places that brought reassurance and safety.
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South from Grenada: seven years in an Andalusian village
- £100.00
- Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada has been hailed as a classic. Between 1920 and 1934, he lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the…
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Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda
- £75.00
- The autobiography of Yoweni Kaguta Museveni. Museveni led a guerilla war to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda, has established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African leaders of his generation.
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Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood
- £15.00
- Won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Literary Biography in that year. It is a classic among middle-class memoirs. In twenty-one short chapters the town is vividly anatomized. And so are its residents: meet Dr Ranking and, best of all, meet the Limbury-Buses living a life of contented ossification. 'Cobb remembers,…
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Tales my Father Taught Me: an Evocation of Extravagant Episodes
- £20.00
- SIR OSBERT SITWELL's five-volume autobiography, Left Hand, Right Hand! is accepted as one of the great literary accomplishments of our time; the work of an artist, polished, witty, brilliant; a piece of social history, full of vivid characterization of people, above and below stairs, with their graces and oddities. From…
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Testament of Youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 (SIGNED)
- £275.00
- In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of…
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The Blast of War (1939-45) (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- The second volume of Macmillan's autobiography, covering the years of the Second World War, in which he participated as a senioar member of Churchill's War Cabinet. With multiple b/w photos and 4 maps (incl on endpapers)
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The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! A memoir of growing up in the Post-War North
- £25.00
- Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend,…
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The Colditz Story
- £80.00
- Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war in the Second World War. It was to this impregnable fortress that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in escaping from other camps, such as Stalag Luft III (of THE GREAT ESCAPE FAME). Once within the walls of Colditz,…
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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
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The Confessions of St Augustine (vol XIV in Complete Works)
- £40.00
- The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting world-views. The Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recounts how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become one of…
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The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse: a book for creators
- £10.00
- In The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse, Michael Gungor takes an uncompromising - and humorous - look at our creative selves and the world that we have fashioned around us. Through story and reflection, Gungor shows how our deepest beliefs and assumptions about the universe affect how we order…
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The Diary of a Country Parson
- £12.00
- Parson Woodforde's diary provides an unrivalled portrayal of traditional rural life in Georgian England, but it is the diarist's humour and unpretentiousness which ensure its continuing place among the classics of English literature.
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The Diary of Fanny Burney – a selection
- £13.00
- Everyman's Library #890. Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters' starting the diary at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and…
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The Edge of Day: a boyhood in the West of England
- £35.00
- The American edition of Laurie Lee's much loved memoir, Cider with Rosie. A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie…
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The Eighth Army: El Alamein to the River Sangro
- £65.00
- Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army from 13th August 1942 until the 31st December 1943, and the 21st Army Group from 1st January 1944 until the German surrender on 5th May, 1945. These 2 accounts (concerned with the victorious campaigns of both Armies during the periods they were under his command)…
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The End of the Line – a memoir
- £35.00
- Cobb's final memoir, drawn from his whole life from pre-war Vienna, fifties Paris, and communist Bulgaria. The final entry was written just two days before his death.
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The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes
- £25.00
- Reflections and engagements with the legacy of Ted Hughes. Contributors to this volume: A. Alvarez - Simon Armitage - Martin Booth - Melvyn Bragg - Charles Causley - Gillian Clarke - Barrie Cooke - Wendy Cope - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill - Ruth Fainlight - John Fowles - Terry Gifford -…
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The Essays of Elia
- £25.00
- Part of the Temple Classics series (ed. Israel Gollancz), originally published the previous year in 1897.
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The Eye of the Wind: an autobiography (SIGNED)
- £1,000.00
- Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 Ð 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding.…
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The Fry Chronicles: an autobiography
- £15.00
- Welcome to Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles, one of the boldest, bravest, most revealing and heartfelt accounts of a man's formative years that you will ever have the exquisite pleasure of reading. Stephen Fry's film, stage, radio and television credits are so numerous and wide-ranging that there is not space…
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The Golden Sovereign. A Conclusion to “Over The Bridge”
- £20.00
- The Golden Sovereign, first published in 1957, concludes Mr. Church's autobiographical record, begun with Over the Bridge, that magical re-creation of an Edwardian childhood. The new volume exactly covers the second decade of the century: opening with the death of the author's mother when he was still a boy and…
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Haienda: How Not To Run A Club (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's…
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The Hiding Place
- £8.00
- As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Christ. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Then…
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The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
- £5.00
- In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall…
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The Irish Sketch Book
- £25.00
- Primarily a travel diary, the author had a keen eye for humour and a turn of phrase that will attract many. Travelling from Dublin through Kildare, Wicklow, Cork, Galway, Killarney and many more locations, and back once more to Dublin, this book paints a portrait of Ireland, in the 1840's…
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The Last Years [The First English Translation Of The Kierkegaard Journals, 1853-1855]
- £22.00
- One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. His private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and personality with a freedom not seen in works he published during his lifetime. A combination of theoretical argument, vivid natural…
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The Marble Foot, an Autobiography (1905-1938)
- £20.00
- Sir Peter Quennell CBE (1905Ð1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. This is the first of 2 volumes in his autobiography.
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The Music Room (Uncorrected Proof)
- £12.00
- ÔFiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memoryÕ Sunday Telegraph William FiennesÕ childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from the roof-tiles of his ancient family home. His older brother…
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The New Russia
- £20.00
- After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. PutinÕs motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, RussiaÕs elder statesman…
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The Opium Eater and Essays by Robert de Quincey
- £15.00
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..." First published anonymously in September and…
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (with a memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes)
- £35.00
- A new edition after the original in 1854, with the memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes
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The Point of Departure (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Robin Cook's unvarnished account of the build-up to and the consequences of the second gulf war, as well as a broader look at the Blair government since its re-election in 2001: its increased alliance to right-wing figures such as George W Bush; its erosion of Cabinet government; its failure to…
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The Power of Music (SIGNED)
- Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason knows and feels the transformative power of music as much as any musician alive. From winning the prestigious BBC Young Musician Award to performing at Harry and MeghanÕs wedding; from BachÕs solo suites to Bob MarleyÕs reggae; his ferocious passion shines through in every single performance, whether…
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The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath (SIGNED)
- £38.00
- Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives…
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The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813 (Folio Society)
- £16.00
- Folio edition. n June 1812, NapoleonÕs 680,000 strong Grande Arme crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien BourgogneÕs Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic…
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The Road Past Mandalay: A personal narrative
- £25.00
- This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally…
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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
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The Singing Swan: A Yachtsman’s Yarn
- £35.00
- Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH (1890-1971), was an English humorist, novelist, playwright, law reformist, and, from 1935 to 1950, an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a seaman in the First World War, becoming an officer in the Royal Naval Division.…
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The Solitary Spy: A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
- £13.00
- Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West.…
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The Strangers All Are Gone (Vol 4 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £30.00
- The fourth and final volume of Powell's memoirs opens in 1952 and includes his term as Literary Editor of "Punch," completion of the monumental "A Dance to the Music of Time," and a gallery of pointed, perceptive portraits of Powell's contemporaries.
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The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
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The Treacherous Path: An Insider’s Account of Modern Russia
- £18.00
- Tackling topics as diverse as terrorism, government intrigue and the reality of doing business in Russia, and offering unparalleled insights into the post-Soviet mindset, this is the first time that a figure with Yakunin's background has talked so openly and frankly about his country.
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The Tunnel
- £15.00
- This book traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, interrogation and first two POW camps. It gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes…
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The Weald of Youth
- £12.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
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The Whispering Gallery, Autobiography I
- £30.00
- Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (1907-1987) was an English poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. A member of the Bloomsbury set, Born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and…
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The White Road: a piligrimage of sorts (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain Ð translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins…
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The Wooden Horse
- £15.00
- It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the…
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They Have Their Exits
- £30.00
- The author of Saturday at M.I.9 and former British soldier recounts his escape from Nazi captivity during World War II in this military memoir. Wounded and captured at Calais in May 1940, Second Lieutenant Airey Neave wasted little time before attempting to escape. Always a thorn in his captorsÕ sides,…
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This Ever Diverse Pair
- £18.00
- Intro by Walter de la Mare. First publ. in 1950, when Barfield was as a solicitor in London. A humorous portrayal of everyday life in a lawyer's office, the novel's true subject is what C.S. Lewis described as "the rift in every life between the human person and his public…
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Time to be in Earnest (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of the 12 months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays. In writing it she simultaneously remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author.
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- £15.00
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one…
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
- £14.00
- Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A…
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Twice Brightly (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- I was shaken with spasms of helpless mirth at frequent intervals...Harry Secombe brings untold pleasure and laughter into the lives of those who pick up this most entertaining book PRINCE CHARLES Sir Harry's classic story of a young comic's very first week in variety draws strongly on his own experiences.…
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Two against the Amazon
- £10.00
- An account of the trip by two inexperienced amateurs to the Amazon (John Brown with Sebastian Snow (1929-2001) in 1951) to prove that the Ninococha glacier lake flowed into the Maranon, the Amazon's most voluminous tributory. Includes Index.
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Untold Stories
- £12.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Untold Stories
- £15.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Us Four
- £40.00
- The story of Cyril and his 3 brothers, growing up on a large estate in Edwardian England. It is a world in itself, with its large house, outdoor and indoor staffs, forestry, gardens and animals. But the Great War breaks across this carefree life.
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We’ve been thinking
- £20.00
- Reminiscences of English Hunts, published after the author's death but edited by Robert Colville, with contributions by Major Guy Paget, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, Brigadier Sir Percy Laurie, Phyllis Hinton, Colonel Charles Rich.
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Where Love and Friendship Dwelt
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- Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was writer and one-time MP Hilaire Belloc's sister. She wrote from 1898 until her death, and had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Four of her works were adapted for the screen: The Chink in the Armour (1912; adapted 1922), The Lodger…
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Who thought this was a good idea?
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- If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . . Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days…
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45′
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- At the age of 45, Bill Drummond is less concerned with setting the record straight as making sure it revolves at the correct speed. Whether he's recording 'Justified and Ancient' with Tammy Wynette; contemplating the dull lunacy of the Turner prize; resisting the urge to paint landscapes; or glorying in…
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A Better Class Of Person: Autobiography 1929-1956 (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This is the first instalment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger". 'It's a classic' Melvyn Bragg
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A Dog’s Life (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In the spring of 1985, the novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome…
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A Late Beginner
- £35.00
- Priscilla Napier (1908-1998) was an English author, specializing in biography. Her brother was British Ambassador to the USSR and then Warden of New College Oxford, while her sister Alethea was a literary biographer. Her husband of 10 years, was killed on active service in 1940, after which she brought up…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £25.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Rumour of War
- £85.00
- In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A…
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A Sailor Hat In The House Of The Lord: The Autobiography Of A Rebellious Victorian
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- Therese la Chard was a Victorian cageling par excellence, the motherless child of a wealthy Anglo-German family living on the rural fringe of London, a home in which 'system' was the only ogre, involving obsessions with health and music which became a tyranny and caused her to revolt. Midway through…
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A Short Walk from Harrods
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- 6th volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, set in the South of France where he lived for a number of years. The book concludes in Britain, taking its title from the location of his London residence.
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A Sort of Life
- £15.00
- Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only "a sort of life" - it may contain less errors of fact that a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, an conclusion…
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A Sparrow’s Flight – Memoirs (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Lord Hailsham is best known for his long service as Lord Chancellor. In his memoir, he reflects on the nature of that office and on what he achieved during his tenure of it. He also discusses his parallel career at the Bar and his activities in both Houses of Parliament.…
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A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world. The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in the nation's hearts on ITV's I'm…
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A Tourist in Africa
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- The book is in the form of a diary, describing a tour of East Africa from January to April 1959. Events and sights are described with perception and clarity, and the history associated with a particular place is often discussed.
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A Writer’s Notebook
- £50.00
- Powell's notebook, which he kept for 40 years, gives an insight into the workings of a writer's mind as he recorded observations, opinions and aphorisms, as well as ideas for books and book titles.
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
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- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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African Nights (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Kuki Gallmann, whose bestseller "I Dreamed of Africa" captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven episodes the magic that touches all African life. Whether the adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island, or the pleasure of building a unique…
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Alone Together
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- The author has become almost as well known as her husband, Andrei Sakharov. In her memoir she relates "what has happened in the last three years" to the two of them. The book is mostly about Bonner. It tells of her trials at the hands of the KGB (she must…
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An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson (Folio Society)
- £12.00
- Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master
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An Egyptian Journal
- £10.00
- Golding's account of his journey down the Nile. Colour & monochrome photo illustrations, map.
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An Orderly Man
- £25.00
- 3rd volume of the best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
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- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
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- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and…
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Backcloth (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 4th Volume of his autobiography Filling in the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. It is based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, covering many aspects of a celebrated…
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Bitter Lemons
- £100.00
- Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years (1953–1956) he spent on the island of Cyprus. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957, the second year the prize was awarded. It is a wonderful study of moods and atmospheres; the house-buying…
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Bring on the Empty Horses
- £40.00
- From the Hollywood's first-ever million-copy bestseller, another riotous look at the golden age of Hollywood from a quintessential English gentleman. 'Might easily be the best book ever written about Hollywood.' New York Times Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest memoirists of all time, David Niven's eye for an anecdote…
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Calendar Girl, in which a Lady of Rylstone Reveals All (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- When John Baker died of cancer, many of his friends in the small Yorkshire village of Cracoe were devastated. During his illness Tricia Stewart had joked with him about creating an 'alternative' W.I. calendar - she and his wife Angela were members - and after his death they were determined…
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Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In this surprising and eccentric autobiography from a former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris writes of his personal and political life with equal candour. With a First from Cambridge and the possibility of working for the Foreign Office, he decided instead to apply to be an apprentice diesel-fitter with London Transport.…
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Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir
- £18.00
- "Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it."ÑTimes Literary Supplement How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the…
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Cleared for Take-Off
- £15.00
- On his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also had, like countless others, a feeling of utter hopelessness at the…
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Crow Steered Bergs Appeared: a memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Ted Hughes and Lucas Myers met at Cambridge University in January 1955. They maintained a close friendship until Hughes' death on 22 October 1988. Myers was also a friend of Sylvia Plath and various other family members. His memoir draws on his forty-year correspondence with Hughes and discusses Birthday Letters,…
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Cupid and the Jacaranda
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- This is another book by Sacheverell Sitwell belonging to the series which began with his Dance of the Ouick and the Dead in 1936. It is, in fact, the fifth volume of this series Cupid and the Jacaranda, like its predecessors, ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly,…
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Dear Bill: W. F. Deedes reports (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A collection of memoirs written by W.F. Deedes, the journalist and politician who is most well known as the recipient of fictional letters from Dennis Thatcher, printed in Private Eye. The author covered the 1930s Abyssinian war and was a cabinet minister during the 1950s and 60s.
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Diaries 1924-1932
- £25.00
- Picking up from earlier diaries, this volume begins with the formation of the first Labour Government and ends after the Labour debacles of 1931 and the Webbs' departure for their Russian tour.
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Faces in my Time (Vol 3 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £8.00
- The third volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1934-1951
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Faces in my Time (Vol 3 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The third volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1934-1951
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Fighting Mad: One Man’s Guerrilla War
- £30.00
- Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits…
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Footfalls in Memory : Reflections from Solitude (SIGNED)
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- For the first year of his solitary confinement in Beirut, Terry Waite was given nothing to read. During those days, not only did he write his autobiography in his head, but he also attempted to remember all the books, poems and prayers he had read during his life. Eventually his…
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For Love and Money: Writing Reading Travelling 1969-1987 (SIGNED)
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- For Love and Money is the 'part case history, part memoir' of a modern man of letters: a selection of Jonathan Raban's very best essays, reportage, travel writings and literary criticism, linked with a narrative thread that bravely attempts the agonizing and revelatory question 'Why do you write?' 'His writing…
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
- £11.00
- A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant…
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Getting to Know The General: the story of an involvement
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- In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir.…
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Good Pop Bad Pop: an inventory (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts…
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Goodbye to all that (Folio)
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- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
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Goon for Lunch (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An hilarious autobiographical collection of stories from Harry Secombe's life covering the whole period from his childhood in Wales to the 1970s
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Grace before Ploughing: Fragments of Autobiography
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- Written the year before his death and subtitled 'Fragments of Autobiography', the book contains memories of Masefield's early years in Herefordshire, as well as some other key moments of his life.
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Great Meadow: An evocation
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- Sequel to the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography "A Postillion Struck by Lightning". Seen through the eyes of a 10-year old in the late 1930s, this novel recaptures an idyllic childhood, a time of love and gentleness with its sounds and scents intact, whilst the world beyond went to…
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Great Morning: Being The Third Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand! (St Martin’s Library)
- £25.00
- The third volume of the author's 4-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume covers the period between 1911 and the First World War, beginning with the author at 18.
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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 The Film Years
- £60.00
- The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning…
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Hatchet Job: love movies, hate critics (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen FryFor decades, the backbone of film criticism has been the hatchet job - the entertaining trashing of a film by professional reviewers, seen by many as cynical snobs. But with the arrival of the internet, have…
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Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has…
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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
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- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
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I Remember (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Memoirs of a chartered accountant who worked for the British Empire Cancer Campign, but who had been in the British army, and most interestingly, in China around the time of the fall of the Chinese Monarchy. 6 b/w plates.
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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
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- I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in…
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If Prison Walls Could Speak (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- In If Prison Walls Could Speak, Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond - and remaining unbroken. D.L. Moody stated that the Christian on his…
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In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
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- Previously unpublished journals recording his African travels to the Belgian Congo in 1959 and an earlier wartime convoy to West Africa in 1941. Some of the raw material wound up in "A Burnt-Out Case" and "The Heart of the Matter."
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
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- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
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- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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It ends with Magic: a Milligan Family Story
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- The story is based on the lives of Spike Milligan's own parents and of other members of his family. Set in the late Victorian era and illustrated with photographs from the family albums, it describes their life in India.
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Italian Journeys
- £25.00
- This personal travel book about Italy is written by the author of the prize-winning "Allegro Postillions" and "The Strangers' Gallery". The author's travels take him to an Italy of neglected grandeur, hidden beauty and preposterous paradox - where the past lies in wait for the present and where history is…
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John Mason Neale, Priest Extraordinary
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- Lough notes Neale's accomplishments, which included being a key figure in the Oxford Movement as an ordained Anglican, cofounding the Sisterhood of Saint Margaret, and the writing of many hymns.
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Journals (Vol. I): 1982-1986
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- "Stuck" on a novel in the mid-80s, Anthony Powell kept a journal. It gives an insight into the life of a respected writer and contains portraits of luminaries from the literary world, including Osbert Lancaster, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Lord Longford and others.
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Journals (Vol. II): 1987-1989
- £25.00
- ese journals, started in 1982 when Powell had become 'stuck' on a novel, became the place where he could most happily exercise his extraordinarily acute and often witty powers of observation and record his memories of times and writers past. This, the second volume of the journals sees the writer…
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Journals (Vol. III): 1990-1992
- £20.00
- A third volume of Powell's journals which contains his observations, and his accounts of family occasions and famous visitors.
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Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
- £30.00
- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
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Kathleen and Frank
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- This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father’s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well…
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King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
- £25.00
- An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself - was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene…
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Laughter in the Next Room (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 4)
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- Vol IV of Sitwell's five-volume autobiography. There can be little doubt that Osbert Sitwell's finest achievement was his five-volume autobiography published by Macmillan between 1945-50. Vol I' Left Hand, Right Hand! ' Vol II 'The Scarlet Tree' Vol III 'Great Morning' Vol IV 'Laughter in the Next Room' Vol V'…
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Laughter In The Next Room: Being The Fourth Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand!
- £12.00
- Final and 4th volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography
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Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The prize-winning memoir: Òan enlightening walk through a life that encompasses West AfricaÉrent strikes, the divided self and the question of graceÓ (Scotland on Sunday, UK). An international bestseller and winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize, Ricard HollowayÕs candid memoir Òis many things. It is a compelling account of a journey…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
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Lip Reading (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The popular comedy actress and raconteuse Maureen Lipman reveals how she found herself trussed up backstage in Birmingham, ponders the more peculiar aspects of cricket terminology and explores the miracle of plastic tablecloths.
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Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat
- £18.00
- The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He saw unification as the…
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Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
- £350.00
- Churchill's popular memoir of his experiences in the first 5 months of the 2nd Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the…
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Long Life, Memoirs
- £20.00
- Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots.
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Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
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- Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to…
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Mature Reflections and Devotions of the Rev. Rowland Hill in his old age
- £100.00
- Rowland Hill (1744-1833) was a celebrated evangelical non-conformist preacher, who built Surrey Chapel in London, with an inheritance from his welathy father. He was an associate of the Countess of Huntingdon, but Surrey Chapel was not part of the Connexion. Sidney had published his biography of Hill in 1834 with…
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Memoir of Henry Venn
- £15.00
- Henry Venn was the grandson of the Henry Venn of Clapham Sect fame and a follower in his footsteps; a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society. First published in 1880 without the appendix, this memoir includes selections from Venn's letters and journal.
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £250.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £60.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Messengers of Day (Vol 2 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £18.00
- The second volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1926-1934, includes pen portraits of several friends, including George Orwell.
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MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
- £10.00
- A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carr world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carr's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5. Much to…
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
- £300.00
- "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" (DNB). Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a missionary in Africa and linguist. One of Moffat's greatest achievements was the translation and printing of the New Testament into Tswana, for the use of…
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Mother Land (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish island, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian,…
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My Apprenticeship
- £100.00
- My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an…
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My Life and Times: Octave Three 1900-1907
- £30.00
- Volume Three out of Ten of Compton Mackenzie's memoirs. "With its bravura, high spirits and zest for life, its dolce ardor, Octave Three is lyrical, comic and elegaic in turn. Each chapter contains a world of evocation and the pages dance with a life of their own."
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My Lives (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891Ð1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press. From a famous literary family (his mother was the poet Alice), he was a conscientious objector in 1WW, went on hunger strike, was a communist for a time, and even big business entrepreneur. He…
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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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My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend
- £15.00
- Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti. A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was…
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 1819-1822
- £25.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic
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Near East
- £15.00
- Beaton's account of his 3 months in the Near East taking photographs and collecting material for the British Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. Includes many b/w photographs
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No Picnic on Mt Kenya
- £25.00
- No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. It was first published in 1946 in English and 1947 in Italian. The 1994 film The…
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No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel
- £20.00
- In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.…
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Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 5)
- £20.00
- Full title: Noble essences, or, courteous revelations: Being a book of characters and the fifth and last volume of "Left hand, right hand" The 5th and final volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography.
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Not That Kind of Girl: a young woman tells you what she’s ‘learned’ (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham Ð the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBOÕs ÔGirlsÕ Ð as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. ÒIf I could take what…
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O Rare Hoffnung: a memorial garland
- £40.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. This compilation of reflections and memories by some of his many friends and admirers was published the following year, with a foreward by his widow, Annetta, including several colour plates and of course b/w…
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Our Daily War (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÒNo-one with the slightest interest in this war, or the nation on which it is being waged, should fail to read Andrey Kurkov,Ó Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail ÒFor centuries, attempts have been made to force Ukrainians to forget their native language, to stop singing Ukrainian songs and to abandon their…
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Our Partnership
- £50.00
- The Sequel to Webb's 'My Apprenticeship', 'Our Partnership' contains details on the wealth of topics that Beatrice and her husband, Sidney, worked on together. She was born in Gloucester in 1858, educated at home by a governess, she also travelled widely and, due to this, gained a keen interest in…
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Palimpsest (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various domestic situations of his complicated…
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Park Top: A romance of the turf
- £50.00
- Park Top, who raced between 1967 and 1970, was conveiably the best English-bred race mare of this century. 'The best of her sex I've ever ridden,' was Lester Piggott's opinion in a letter reproduced in this book. É no one reading this fascinating book, with its 12 pages of photographs,…
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Present Indicative
- £8.00
- "I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and…
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Prisoners of Hope
- £40.00
- In this classic WWII memoir, a British commando recounts how the legendary Chindits invented modern guerilla warfare through operations in Burma. In 1942, British Army Colonel Orde Wingate was sent to Burma to organize guerilla units against the invading Japanese forces. Drawing on locally available troops, Wingate turned English and…
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Rain Upon Godshill (More Chapters of Autobiography)
- £9.00
- John Boynton Priestley OM (1894Ð1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in The Good Companions (1929), which first brought him to wide public notice. Many of his plays are structured around a time slip, and…
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Rum ‘Uns to Follow. Memories of Seventy years in the Shires
- £25.00
- Memories of 70 years with the Leicestershire Hunts (Quorn, Pytchey, Fernie) by A Melton Roughrider (ie Dick Heathen) With illustrations and foreword by Guy Paget, drawn from The Tatler, Vanity Fair etc.
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Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
- £20.00
- After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a…
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Searching for Schindler
- £25.00
- The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker…
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Sentenced to Life
- £20.00
- In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what…
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Slow on the Feather: Further Autobiography, 1938-59
- £40.00
- Wilfrid Blunt, was an art teacher, writer, artist and a curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, from 1959 until 1983. He was a prolific writer and also the art master at Hailebury and Eton, and instrumental in reforming British children's handwriting. He was one of the brothers of…
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Snapshots: Encounters with Twentieth-Century Legends (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Perhaps best known today for his English lyrics for the first West End Production of Les Miserables, but he was a prolific writer. In his diverse career as a journalist and wordsmith, Herbert Kretzmer has interviewed and profiled some of the twentieth century's greatest figures in theatre, literature, show business…
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Soldier’s Heart: reading literature through peace and war at West Point
- £10.00
- A West Point English professor offers an intimate portrait of teaching literature to young men and women preparing for war and assesses the various ways in warfare has transformed her relationship with literature, describing the changes that have occurred since September 11, what it means to be a civilian teaching…
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Something to Fall Back On (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- A humorous look at life as it really is, by the actress and comedian, Maureen Lipman. This book is a follow-up to her previous book "How Was It For You?"
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Something to Hold Onto: Autobiographical Sketches
- £20.00
- The third volume of Cobb's memoirs, this describes the various familiar and particular places that brought reassurance and safety.
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South from Grenada: seven years in an Andalusian village
- £100.00
- Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada has been hailed as a classic. Between 1920 and 1934, he lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the…
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Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda
- £75.00
- The autobiography of Yoweni Kaguta Museveni. Museveni led a guerilla war to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda, has established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African leaders of his generation.
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Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood
- £15.00
- Won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Literary Biography in that year. It is a classic among middle-class memoirs. In twenty-one short chapters the town is vividly anatomized. And so are its residents: meet Dr Ranking and, best of all, meet the Limbury-Buses living a life of contented ossification. 'Cobb remembers,…
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Tales my Father Taught Me: an Evocation of Extravagant Episodes
- £20.00
- SIR OSBERT SITWELL's five-volume autobiography, Left Hand, Right Hand! is accepted as one of the great literary accomplishments of our time; the work of an artist, polished, witty, brilliant; a piece of social history, full of vivid characterization of people, above and below stairs, with their graces and oddities. From…
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Testament of Youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 (SIGNED)
- £275.00
- In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of…
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The Blast of War (1939-45) (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- The second volume of Macmillan's autobiography, covering the years of the Second World War, in which he participated as a senioar member of Churchill's War Cabinet. With multiple b/w photos and 4 maps (incl on endpapers)
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The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! A memoir of growing up in the Post-War North
- £25.00
- Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend,…
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The Colditz Story
- £80.00
- Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war in the Second World War. It was to this impregnable fortress that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in escaping from other camps, such as Stalag Luft III (of THE GREAT ESCAPE FAME). Once within the walls of Colditz,…
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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
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The Confessions of St Augustine (vol XIV in Complete Works)
- £40.00
- The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting world-views. The Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recounts how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become one of…
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The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse: a book for creators
- £10.00
- In The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse, Michael Gungor takes an uncompromising - and humorous - look at our creative selves and the world that we have fashioned around us. Through story and reflection, Gungor shows how our deepest beliefs and assumptions about the universe affect how we order…
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The Diary of a Country Parson
- £12.00
- Parson Woodforde's diary provides an unrivalled portrayal of traditional rural life in Georgian England, but it is the diarist's humour and unpretentiousness which ensure its continuing place among the classics of English literature.
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The Diary of Fanny Burney – a selection
- £13.00
- Everyman's Library #890. Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters' starting the diary at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and…
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The Edge of Day: a boyhood in the West of England
- £35.00
- The American edition of Laurie Lee's much loved memoir, Cider with Rosie. A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie…
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The Eighth Army: El Alamein to the River Sangro
- £65.00
- Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army from 13th August 1942 until the 31st December 1943, and the 21st Army Group from 1st January 1944 until the German surrender on 5th May, 1945. These 2 accounts (concerned with the victorious campaigns of both Armies during the periods they were under his command)…
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The End of the Line – a memoir
- £35.00
- Cobb's final memoir, drawn from his whole life from pre-war Vienna, fifties Paris, and communist Bulgaria. The final entry was written just two days before his death.
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The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes
- £25.00
- Reflections and engagements with the legacy of Ted Hughes. Contributors to this volume: A. Alvarez - Simon Armitage - Martin Booth - Melvyn Bragg - Charles Causley - Gillian Clarke - Barrie Cooke - Wendy Cope - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill - Ruth Fainlight - John Fowles - Terry Gifford -…
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The Essays of Elia
- £25.00
- Part of the Temple Classics series (ed. Israel Gollancz), originally published the previous year in 1897.
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The Eye of the Wind: an autobiography (SIGNED)
- £1,000.00
- Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 Ð 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding.…
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The Fry Chronicles: an autobiography
- £15.00
- Welcome to Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles, one of the boldest, bravest, most revealing and heartfelt accounts of a man's formative years that you will ever have the exquisite pleasure of reading. Stephen Fry's film, stage, radio and television credits are so numerous and wide-ranging that there is not space…
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The Golden Sovereign. A Conclusion to “Over The Bridge”
- £20.00
- The Golden Sovereign, first published in 1957, concludes Mr. Church's autobiographical record, begun with Over the Bridge, that magical re-creation of an Edwardian childhood. The new volume exactly covers the second decade of the century: opening with the death of the author's mother when he was still a boy and…
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Haienda: How Not To Run A Club (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's…
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The Hiding Place
- £8.00
- As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Christ. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Then…
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The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
- £5.00
- In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall…
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The Irish Sketch Book
- £25.00
- Primarily a travel diary, the author had a keen eye for humour and a turn of phrase that will attract many. Travelling from Dublin through Kildare, Wicklow, Cork, Galway, Killarney and many more locations, and back once more to Dublin, this book paints a portrait of Ireland, in the 1840's…
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The Last Years [The First English Translation Of The Kierkegaard Journals, 1853-1855]
- £22.00
- One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. His private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and personality with a freedom not seen in works he published during his lifetime. A combination of theoretical argument, vivid natural…
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The Marble Foot, an Autobiography (1905-1938)
- £20.00
- Sir Peter Quennell CBE (1905Ð1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. This is the first of 2 volumes in his autobiography.
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The Music Room (Uncorrected Proof)
- £12.00
- ÔFiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memoryÕ Sunday Telegraph William FiennesÕ childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from the roof-tiles of his ancient family home. His older brother…
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The New Russia
- £20.00
- After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. PutinÕs motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, RussiaÕs elder statesman…
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The Opium Eater and Essays by Robert de Quincey
- £15.00
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..." First published anonymously in September and…
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (with a memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes)
- £35.00
- A new edition after the original in 1854, with the memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes
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The Point of Departure (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Robin Cook's unvarnished account of the build-up to and the consequences of the second gulf war, as well as a broader look at the Blair government since its re-election in 2001: its increased alliance to right-wing figures such as George W Bush; its erosion of Cabinet government; its failure to…
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The Power of Music (SIGNED)
- Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason knows and feels the transformative power of music as much as any musician alive. From winning the prestigious BBC Young Musician Award to performing at Harry and MeghanÕs wedding; from BachÕs solo suites to Bob MarleyÕs reggae; his ferocious passion shines through in every single performance, whether…
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The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath (SIGNED)
- £38.00
- Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives…
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The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813 (Folio Society)
- £16.00
- Folio edition. n June 1812, NapoleonÕs 680,000 strong Grande Arme crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien BourgogneÕs Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic…
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The Road Past Mandalay: A personal narrative
- £25.00
- This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally…
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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
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The Singing Swan: A Yachtsman’s Yarn
- £35.00
- Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH (1890-1971), was an English humorist, novelist, playwright, law reformist, and, from 1935 to 1950, an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a seaman in the First World War, becoming an officer in the Royal Naval Division.…
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The Solitary Spy: A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
- £13.00
- Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West.…
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The Strangers All Are Gone (Vol 4 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £30.00
- The fourth and final volume of Powell's memoirs opens in 1952 and includes his term as Literary Editor of "Punch," completion of the monumental "A Dance to the Music of Time," and a gallery of pointed, perceptive portraits of Powell's contemporaries.
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The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
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The Treacherous Path: An Insider’s Account of Modern Russia
- £18.00
- Tackling topics as diverse as terrorism, government intrigue and the reality of doing business in Russia, and offering unparalleled insights into the post-Soviet mindset, this is the first time that a figure with Yakunin's background has talked so openly and frankly about his country.
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The Tunnel
- £15.00
- This book traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, interrogation and first two POW camps. It gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes…
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The Weald of Youth
- £12.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
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The Whispering Gallery, Autobiography I
- £30.00
- Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (1907-1987) was an English poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. A member of the Bloomsbury set, Born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and…
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The White Road: a piligrimage of sorts (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain Ð translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins…
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The Wooden Horse
- £15.00
- It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the…
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They Have Their Exits
- £30.00
- The author of Saturday at M.I.9 and former British soldier recounts his escape from Nazi captivity during World War II in this military memoir. Wounded and captured at Calais in May 1940, Second Lieutenant Airey Neave wasted little time before attempting to escape. Always a thorn in his captorsÕ sides,…
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This Ever Diverse Pair
- £18.00
- Intro by Walter de la Mare. First publ. in 1950, when Barfield was as a solicitor in London. A humorous portrayal of everyday life in a lawyer's office, the novel's true subject is what C.S. Lewis described as "the rift in every life between the human person and his public…
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Time to be in Earnest (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of the 12 months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays. In writing it she simultaneously remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author.
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- £15.00
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one…
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
- £14.00
- Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A…
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Twice Brightly (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- I was shaken with spasms of helpless mirth at frequent intervals...Harry Secombe brings untold pleasure and laughter into the lives of those who pick up this most entertaining book PRINCE CHARLES Sir Harry's classic story of a young comic's very first week in variety draws strongly on his own experiences.…
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Two against the Amazon
- £10.00
- An account of the trip by two inexperienced amateurs to the Amazon (John Brown with Sebastian Snow (1929-2001) in 1951) to prove that the Ninococha glacier lake flowed into the Maranon, the Amazon's most voluminous tributory. Includes Index.
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Untold Stories
- £12.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Untold Stories
- £15.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Us Four
- £40.00
- The story of Cyril and his 3 brothers, growing up on a large estate in Edwardian England. It is a world in itself, with its large house, outdoor and indoor staffs, forestry, gardens and animals. But the Great War breaks across this carefree life.
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We’ve been thinking
- £20.00
- Reminiscences of English Hunts, published after the author's death but edited by Robert Colville, with contributions by Major Guy Paget, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, Brigadier Sir Percy Laurie, Phyllis Hinton, Colonel Charles Rich.
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Where Love and Friendship Dwelt
- £20.00
- Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was writer and one-time MP Hilaire Belloc's sister. She wrote from 1898 until her death, and had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Four of her works were adapted for the screen: The Chink in the Armour (1912; adapted 1922), The Lodger…
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Who thought this was a good idea?
- £6.00
- If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . . Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days…
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