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Great Meadow: An evocation
- £20.00
- 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
- £16.00
- 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
- £9.00
- 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
- £12.00
- 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)
- £15.00
- 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)
- £25.00
- 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
- £30.00
- 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
- £15.00
- 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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Great Meadow: An evocation
- £20.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
- £16.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
-
I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
- £9.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
- £12.00
- 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."
- Add to basket
-
Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £15.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
- Add to basket
-
Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
- Add to basket
-
It ends with Magic: a Milligan Family Story
- £30.00
- 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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
John Mason Neale, Priest Extraordinary
- £15.00
- 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.
- Add to basket