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Paperback. This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five years after being found guilty of a lesbian relationship with another nun. Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Dimension: 203 x 134. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195042252
ISBN
9780195042252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.31

Paperback. The most sought-after sports book of all time Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 x 8pp colour photos. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publication date
2008
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Headline
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
SKU
V9780755316205
ISBN
9780755316205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Chronicle of the Celtic Tiger by the founder of The Dubliner Magazine Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BM; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843511809
ISBN
9781843511809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.30

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Lee, Joe. Series: For Beginners. Num Pages: 128 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
For Beginners United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
Updated ed.
SKU
V9781934389447
ISBN
9781934389447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.53

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
For Beginners United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934389812
ISBN
9781934389812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.09

Paperback. Describes a Negro tramp, a drowned child, a lunatic and other casualties of life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099437833
ISBN
9780099437833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.85

Paperback. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, celebrated Italian goldsmith (1500-1571), in which Cellini tells the story of his life and art and also depicts the manners and morals of both the rulers and their subjects in 16th Century Italy. This new edition includes new notes on the text and a chronology. Editor(s): Bull, George. Translator(s): Bull, George. Num Pages: 496 pages, facsim. BIC Classification: 1DST; AFKB; AGB; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 124 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447187
ISBN
9780140447187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.69

Paperback. Presents a selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology. Editor(s): Eisen, Professor Cliff. Translator(s): Spencer, Mr. Stewart. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF; BGH; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
F First Edition Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441467
ISBN
9780141441467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.19

Paperback. Henri de Monfried is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. This book is an account of how de Monfried becomes a collector and merchant of the fabled Gulf pearls, and is drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QSL; BG; BTC; HBTM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141442105
ISBN
9780141442105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. In the early 50s, Maria Grammatico and her sister were sent by their impoverished mother to live in a convent in Erice, on the western coast of Sicily. Leaving at 22, Maria had nothing to show for her hard life there except the ability to make the cakes and delicacies she has made her life's work. Num Pages: 240 pages, line drawings, photos. BIC Classification: 1DSTC; BG; WBVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bantam
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553814651
ISBN
9780553814651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.87

Paperback. Alex Horne is not a birdwatcher. But his dad is, so with the prospect of fatherhood looming on his own horizon, Alex decided there was no better time to really get to know both his father and his father's favourite hobby. So he challenged his dad to a Big Year: from 1 January to 31 December they would each try to spot as many birds as possible. Num Pages: 384 pages, Integrated line drawings. BIC Classification: BM; WH; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ebury Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753515761
ISBN
9780753515761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.54

Paperback. Sophie Morgan is a submissive. An ordinary, successful young woman who in private surrenders her body and mind to a dominant man. Some of these relationships have been loving, others casual, one just cruel. But what happens when she meets the dominant man of her dreams? When they move in together? When life, love and play collide? Series: Diary of a Submissive. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BM; BTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781405912822
ISBN
9781405912822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.77

Paperback. 8vo..
Good clean former library copy with neat labels inside front cover.North of Ireland.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
White Row Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0294322
ISBN
9781870132558
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Slipknot are a notoriously controversial band who combine a talent for outrage with their music. Incredibly, their apparel of masks and boiler suits, which they refuse to remove, means that their fans still do not know what they look like. This title includes interviews and information on the mysterious nine masked men of the band. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8. BIC Classification: AVGT; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091879334
ISBN
9780091879334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. Offers a sophisticated political analysis that is based in the essentially peasant values of storytelling, and the purposefully unsystematic supervisions of laughter. Translator(s): Israel, Abigail. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16ill. BIC Classification: APFB; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099301837
ISBN
9780099301837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 281 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 20. Weight in Grams: 159.
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780345345134
ISBN
9780345345134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.14

Paperback. * An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of a forgotten way of life Num Pages: 320 pages, Integrated: 34, Int b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349123615
ISBN
9780349123615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

paperback. Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initiative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era's most symbolic events, the demolition on the Berlin Wall; his reforms that set in train events leading to the fall of Communism. This book tells the human story. Num Pages: 1056 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 61. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Doubleday
Number of pages
1056
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385613293
ISBN
9780385613293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.22

Paperback. Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. This book tells the story of a collection of fascinating characters whose influence changed the landscape of Britain for ever. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780593076019
ISBN
9780593076019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.60

paperback. Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch family, at great risk to their own lives, in a house a stone's throw from a German military police billet. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DDN; BGA; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712665629
ISBN
9780712665629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.78

paperback. Focusing on the 1960s, this work addresses the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive? Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 35. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pimlico
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712666657
ISBN
9780712666657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.66

Paperback. A classic rock autobiography of Meat Loaf's bizarre life. After surviving an abusive childhood, during which he was almost murdered by his alcoholic father, he starred in one of the biggest stage and film musicals ever, then went on to record the third best-selling album of all time. This book shows the ups and downs of his life. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1x8 b/w + 1x8 colour illustration sections. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Virgin Books
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753504437
ISBN
9780753504437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. 8 August 1963; a railway track in Buckinghamshire. The Great Train Robbery has entered British folklore as one of the most audacious and extraordinary crimes of the twentieth century. This title features a story that is brought to include the return of Ronnis Biggs to the UK, the deaths of Buster Edwards, Roy James and Taters Chatham. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 32. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Virgin Publishing
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753539170
ISBN
9780753539170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages, 1 16-page B&W insert 1 16-page 4-color insert. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 41. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608197132
ISBN
9781608197132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.55

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