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Paperback. Anne McEntegart wanted to support the War Effort so she left London, and her life as the wife of an officer, to work on the land and deliver milk in the New Forest. In doing so, she kept a Wartime diary full of evocative descriptions of her work alongside the Land Girls. Illustrator(s): Cocker, Paul. Editor(s): Robson, Emma; Edwards, Martin. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESH; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 195 x 12. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Regional Magazine Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907998065
ISBN
9781907998065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.71

Paperback. In this unique study, the authors go deep into the world of the Palestinian group Hamas, in an effort to understand what motivates the young men of the movement to lay down their lives in suicidal act of murder. Num Pages: 304 pages, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; HRA; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 434. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0016655
ISBN
9780195305593
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 8vo.Good copy a little dusty.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0297359
ISBN
9780946640119
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.00

Paperback. The diary of a remarkable woman who lived life on her terms in Regency Yorkshire. Anne Lister was a wealthy landowner, industrialist - and lesbian. Editor(s): Whitbread, Helena. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JF; BGH; BJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087198
ISBN
9781844087198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Almost every woman worries about her weight. For the author, it became unavoidable - by the age of seventeen she weighed over twenty stone and had tried everything, from dieting to fat camp to wearing big t-shirts. This is a memoir of one woman's quest to accept her own body image - to feel normal. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustration (black and white). BIC Classification: BG; VFMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 348. Almost every woman worries about her weight. For the author, it became unavoidable - by the age of seventeen she weighed over twenty stone and had tried everything, from dieting to fat camp to wearing big t-shirts. This is a memoir of one woman's quest to accept her own body image - to feel normal. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustration (black and white). BIC Classification: BG; VFMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 348. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KHN0001661
ISBN
9780571284443
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

paperback. Good copy showing light shelf wear and signs of age. Light foxing inside front and back cover, to preliminary and final pages. Remains good reading copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Colin Smythe Ltd U.K.
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0024929
ISBN
9780861400102
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 19.99
€ 12.82

Paperback. The author and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two years with another family and a German dentist. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, she kept a diary. Editor(s): Pressler, Mirjam; Frank, Otto. Num Pages: 368 pages, 22 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780241952443
ISBN
9780241952443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.15

Paperback. Aged thirteen when Anne Frank went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 24. Weight in Grams: 212.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241952436
ISBN
9780241952436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.80

Hardcover. Presents the author as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also veered between being a carefree child and an aware adult. This title is a true story to be rediscovered by each generation. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JJH; BGA; BJ; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 223 x 33. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780670919796
ISBN
9780670919796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. Presents a funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, the author has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. She also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFXB; VFXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 1. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099437628
ISBN
9780099437628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages, 78 black & white halftones, 1 maps, 1 charts. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint Edition of the Classic
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442236554
ISBN
9781442236554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.93

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781630761288
ISBN
9781630761288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.07

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781630762650
ISBN
9781630762650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.46

Paperback. The Grimaldis of Monaco tells the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty. Against all odds, they have proved themselves masterful survivors, still in possession of their lands and titles despite the upheavals of the French Revolution and the First and Second World Wars. Num Pages: 392 pages, 49 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; BGR; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493029211
ISBN
9781493029211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

paperback. Born in 1910, Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom she had two sons. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley - a course of action that horrified her family. This title offers her portrait. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099470274
ISBN
9780099470274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. When Anne Darwin faced the world and said that her husband had disappeared while canoeing in the North Sea, her life changed forever. She had just lied to the police, the press, her friends, insurance companies and her sons. Anne opens up about her husband's hideaway scheme and the runaway train of deceit and guilt that followed. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Mirror Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910335468
ISBN
9781910335468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

paperback. Very good clean copy. Covers showing light age and shelf wear, lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Wolfhound Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031468
ISBN
9780863270079
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Paperback. Biography...Eleanor, Countess of Desmond. 232pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
9780717148288
ISBN
9780717148288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. Anne's sister Becky was born in 1958, before most people had even heard of autism. Diagnosed with "emotional disturbance," Becky was subjected to well-meaning but futile efforts at "rehabilitation" or "cure," as well as prolonged spells in institutions. This bittersweet memoir will resonate with everyone interested in autism spectrum conditions. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BG; MJNA; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002911
ISBN
9781843108597
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Virgin Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KTM0006723
ISBN
9780753500941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

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