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Biography: general

Paperback. A beautifully weighted memoir of political success and failure, and the passing of an era. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 pp b/w plates, 8pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; BGHA; BM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472119773
ISBN
9781472119773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.94

Paperback. The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen, he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of England, where the crash of 1920 left his family in extreme poverty. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394. A Lancashire Childhood. 400 pages. The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen, he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of England, where the crash of 1920 left his family in extreme poverty. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BG. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight: 394.
Publisher
Eland
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906011260
ISBN
9781906011260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. * The sequel to the no.1 bestselling THE ROAD TO NAB END. * ANGELA'S ASHES without the constant rain. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349116228
ISBN
9780349116228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.64

Paperback. Written with elegance, warmth, and humour, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsser gives you the tools to organise and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BG; CBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781569243794
ISBN
9781569243794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.81

Paperback. The unvarnished and complete story of the life of one of America's greatest ever songwriters. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16pp colour pics. BIC Classification: AVGL; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751565478
ISBN
9780751565478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: APT; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 249.
Publisher
Howard Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476703664
ISBN
9781476703664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.03

Hardback. Attempts to map out in detail all of the known facts concerning the poet Edmund Spenser, a major canonical author whose entire literary career was spent in Ireland. The book charts Spenser's parallel vocations of Elizabethan planter and Renaissance writer Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; BG; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333537442
ISBN
9780333537442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 603 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 240 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1096.
Publisher
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789461538949
ISBN
9789461538949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 240 x 23. Weight in Grams: 810.
Publisher
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789461538932
ISBN
9789461538932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 858.
Publisher
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789461538710
ISBN
9789461538710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.64

Hardback. In this text Winifred Kay Thackrey recalls her days as a studio stenographer and crew member during Hollywood's Golden Age. Beginning with her first film as a script stenographer, she describes in vivid detail the atmosphere and the inner-workings of a sound stage. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810839403
ISBN
9780810839403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 411 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 559.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
411
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333363799
ISBN
9780333363799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.95

Paperback. * An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of growing up in the Forest of Dean in the 1920s and 1930s Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
Edition
First Thus
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349122182
ISBN
9780349122182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Fascinating memoir of the first female Chelsea Pensioner, who devoted her working life to the British Army. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 x 8pp black & white section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; BGHA; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471111259
ISBN
9781471111259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.51

Hardback. On a freezing winter's night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten. This title tells her story. Series: Modern African Writing Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; GTB; HBJH; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 463.
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821421024
ISBN
9780821421024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.85

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821421017
ISBN
9780821421017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Packed with adventure and incidents, Winston Churchill's first 25 years were spent working as a soldier and a war correspondent in India, South Africa and Cuba. Churchill evokes a so-called golden age before 1914 in his autobiography. Num Pages: 388 pages, maps, plan. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 26. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
388
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907871620
ISBN
9780907871620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Includes 200 extracts from entire oeuvre of books, articles and speeches that reflect author's life story, career and philosophy. This title tells the biography of the author as recounted in the great man's own inimitable words. Editor(s): Gilbert, Martin. Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 45. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857501462
ISBN
9780857501462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Churchill (1874-1965) was one of the 20th century's most charismatic and controversial figures. From his meetings with world leaders such as Roosevelt, de Gaulle and Stalin, his verbal engagements with Hitler and the Third Reich, to his wit and oratory on the floor of the Commons, this book explores various facets of Churchill's life and times. Editor(s): Langworth, Richard M. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 762.
Publisher
Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091933364
ISBN
9780091933364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 27.04

Paperback. John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesman in the history of England. His descendant, Sir Winston Churchill wrote this work as both an act of homage, and as an historical insight into the man behind the statesman. Num Pages: 1080 pages, 1 halftone, 103 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; BGH; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1540.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
1080
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226106359
ISBN
9780226106359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 46.16

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