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Biography
Paperback. John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. In 1923 he started making paintings of the sea, boats and the coastline seen from the sea, and later, when he was too ill to stand and paint, he turned to embroidery, which he could do lying in bed. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 163. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099582199
- ISBN
- 9780099582199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 26.85
€ 40.99
€ 26.85
Paperback. In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. The author follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. He writes of the elderly painter with the intimacy of an old friend, seeing through his eyes and sharing the silence in his head. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; ACV; AFC; AGB; BGH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437253
- ISBN
- 9780099437253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.85
€ 14.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Tells the story of three people: the author, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099507048
- ISBN
- 9780099507048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.79
€ 20.99
€ 16.79
Paperback. An extraordinarily moving and honest memoir by John Lennon's sister revealing for the first time the often painful and lonely childhood that was to have such reverberations for his and her own life. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 x b&w photos. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340839256
- ISBN
- 9780340839256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
€ 17.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. 'A stunning achievement ..Neither sanitized nor mythologizing, Victoria: The Queen is a remarkably lucid, endlessly engaging account of Queen Victoria's life and rule' Amanda Foreman Num Pages: 752 pages, Integrated b/w photos; family tree; maps. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; BGH; BGR; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 49. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349134505
- ISBN
- 9780349134505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.17
€ 25.99
€ 18.17
Paperback. A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian. Num Pages: 448 pages, 32, 2 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842127407
- ISBN
- 9781842127407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.61
€ 23.99
€ 16.61
Hardcover. A century ago, hereditary rulers governed the great world powers. Today, just ten monarchs still reign in Europe, their powers significantly curbed. Where have all the royals gone? These regal portraits hint at the values of another era and capture something of the essence of the long-vanished world of international royalty. Series: Postcards from.. Num Pages: 112 pages, 88 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AKL; BGR; HBLW; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 184 x 16. Weight in Grams: 252. Series: Postcards from. 112 pages, 88 colour illustrations. A century ago, hereditary rulers governed the great world powers. Today, just ten monarchs still reign in Europe, their powers significantly curbed. Where have all the royals gone? These regal portraits hint at the values of another era and capture something of the essence of the long-vanished world of international royalty. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AKL; BGR; HBLW; WCS. Dimension: 135 x 184 x 16. Weight: 252.
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243327
- ISBN
- 9781851243327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.95
€ 11.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782194637
- ISBN
- 9781782194637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.33
€ 10.99
€ 9.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Eye Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785635014
- ISBN
- 9781785635014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Keywords: "Biography - Poetry, Drama & Criticism"
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Citadel Press New York
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0190575
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on 'Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living wild on the streets. An incredible, heart-wrenching story of a child who refused to give up. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BTP; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230. Good, clean copy. Showing minor shelfwear to covers and some stains on page edges
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KSG0007641
- ISBN
- 9780007222018
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Waterside Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909976245
- ISBN
- 9781909976245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.08
€ 30.99
€ 28.08
Paperback. Fearless memoir of a forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases that shaped her as both a physician and mother. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; MMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781476727264
- ISBN
- 9781476727264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.48
€ 14.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. The contributors to this text who talk about their lives represent late-20th-century Ireland's creative substratum. They are artists, writers, map-makers, weavers, dreamers, water-diviners, environmentalists, wood-cutters, gardeners, travellers and urban independents. Num Pages: 176 pages, 16 colour illustrations & 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
- Publisher
- Lilliput Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901866223
- ISBN
- 9781901866223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.09
€ 19.99
€ 17.09
Paperback. An anthology of Scotland's worst and most infamous murders. It contains 22 stories from Scotland's bloodstained past that date back to the fifteenth century. Series: Waverley Scottish Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Waverley Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902407838
- ISBN
- 9781902407838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.99
€ 6.99
Paperback. William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter? Judy Golding recalls growing up with a brilliant, loving, sometimes difficult parent. The years of her childhood and adolescence saw her father change from an impecunious schoolteacher to a famous novelist. This title is her memoir. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571273423
- ISBN
- 9780571273423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.49
€ 14.99
€ 11.49
Paperback. A memoir of a woman's life on a remote Scottish island - from 19-year-old girl to wife of one to mother of five, hotelier, domestic miracle worker, to empty nester to writer. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHL; 3JJP; 3JM; BGA; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444759600
- ISBN
- 9781444759600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. In September 2011 Judith Tebbutt and her husband David set out on an adventurous holiday to Kenya. A couple for thirty-three years, they had first met in Zambia: Africa had played a major part in their life together. After a joyous week on safari in the Masai Mara, they flew on to a beach resort forty kilometres south of Somalia. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571303069
- ISBN
- 9780571303069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.52
€ 14.99
€ 11.52
Paperback. Suitable for those who want to put "do unto others" in the centre of their lives and reap the unexpected benefits of happiness and health, this book inspires the reader with the day-to-day journey of meaning, gratification and joy that comes from contributing to the lives of others in so many creative ways. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KOC0022169
- ISBN
- 9780670921133
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. How far would you go to be the perfect mother? In this title, the author recounts one woman's attempt to move her family and her life from cosmopolitan London to rural Northumberland. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KNW0010502
- ISBN
- 9780141033433
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. A history of American women activists. It features biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a chapter on women environmental activists. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520229655
- ISBN
- 9780520229655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. The story of the splendidly unpredictable Russian dancer who ruffled the feathers of the Bloomsbury set and became the wife of John Maynard Keynes Num Pages: 496 pages, 50. BIC Classification: ASDL; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- W&N
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753825785
- ISBN
- 9780753825785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Hardcover. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; ACX; AMKH; BGF; BK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500518663
- ISBN
- 9780500518663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.27
€ 26.99
€ 20.27
Paperback. Mary Tudor is often written off as a twisted queen who tried desperately to pull England back to the Catholic Church that was so dear to her mother, and sent many to burn at the stake in the process. This biography argues that Mary, neither boring nor basically bloody, was a hard-working, 'hands on', and decisive queen than is commonly recognized. Series: Routledge Historical Biographies. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415327213
- ISBN
- 9780415327213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 48.50
€ 49.99
€ 48.50