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Biography
Paperback. Simon Forman was one of the extraordinary personalities of Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Like most doctors, he was also an astrologer, reading the stars for all and sundry. This book uncovers Forman's private world, that of a compulsive womaniser who kept a coded diary, a record of promiscuity as colourful as the journals of Pepys and Boswell. Num Pages: 240 pages, facsimiles, , portraits. BIC Classification: BGH; MBX; VXFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. Light shelf wear, else as new.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KTG0021070
- ISBN
- 9780099289623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Approaching his middle forties, Gavin Boyter wondered what his life was all about. An ordinary runner, he came to wonder if an ordinary runner might be capable of John O'Groats to Land's End, the longest linear run in Britain. Gavin was neither the first nor the quickest but Downhill from Here is his real triumph. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WSKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Publisher
- Sandstone Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910985625
- ISBN
- 9781910985625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.74
€ 13.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. This book gives an account of the streets and those who have no choice but to live on them. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DDF; 3JJG; BM; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 117 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141042701
- ISBN
- 9780141042701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.44
€ 11.99
€ 9.44
Paperback. Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this is a memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DDF; 3JJG; BM; DNF; HBTB; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 113 x 14. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141393032
- ISBN
- 9780141393032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Written when George Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this is a memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGL; DNF; HBTB; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184388
- ISBN
- 9780141184388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Hardcover. Keywords: Biography, the Barthelme brothers, Gambling. 198pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KNW0010005
- ISBN
- 9780395954294
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Series: Vintage Classics. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 204 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- RANDOM HOUSE INTERNATIONAL
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375719011
- ISBN
- 9780375719011
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.03
€ 19.99
€ 16.03
Hardcover. Corners bumped
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Roy Publishers New York
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1951
- SKU
- KLN0005554
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, this title illuminates the author's works from his first novel "Poor Folk" to "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" by setting them in their personal, historical, and ideological context. Num Pages: 984 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1418.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 984
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- With a New preface by the author
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155999
- ISBN
- 9780691155999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.66
€ 40.99
€ 35.66
Paperback. Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. Num Pages: 560 pages, 128 black-and-white photos. BIC Classification: AJB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393339055
- ISBN
- 9780393339055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.45
€ 26.99
€ 25.45
Paperback. This heart-wrenching memoir from Toni Maguire tells the deeply moving story of an idyllic childhood that masked a terrible truth. Underneath her mother's gentility and her father's roguish charm lay horrifying secrets, which eventually led to their only child's near destruction. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFE1; JFFE2; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0010549
- ISBN
- 9780007223763
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, had an idea that became "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Num Pages: 288 pages, 5pp b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216. Celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, had an idea that became "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Num Pages: 288 pages, 5pp b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd edition
- SKU
- 9781848564961
- ISBN
- 9781848564961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.86
€ 14.99
€ 12.86
Paperback. With an introduction by Anne Enright. Series: Picador Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJPL; BGA; HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447275084
- ISBN
- 9781447275084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.08
€ 15.99
€ 13.08
Paperback. Kathy suffered in silence as she was battered by her father and molested by local boys. When she was sent to a psychiatric unit, she suffered terrifying electric-shock therapy and further cruelty at the hands of her supposed carers. This book presents the author's harrowing account of her ruined childhood and of her subsequent fight for justice. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: BG; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 20. Weight in Grams: 160. Well read, but remains good
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KST0004061
- ISBN
- 9781845961466
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Kathy suffered in silence as she was battered by her father and molested by local boys. When she was sent to a psychiatric unit, she suffered terrifying electric-shock therapy and further cruelty at the hands of her supposed carers. This book presents the author's harrowing account of her ruined childhood and of her subsequent fight for justice. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: BG; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 20. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KNW0007913
- ISBN
- 9781845961466
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The incredible true story of the FBI's most successful undercover agent now reissued as a Great Read Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BTC; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340922651
- ISBN
- 9780340922651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Series: Squint. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; 3JMG; BGH; HBJK; HBLX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Eyewear Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908998934
- ISBN
- 9781908998934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
€ 13.99
€ 11.68
Paperback. Generations are familiar with the haunting black and white television footage of Donald Campbell somersaulting to his death in his famous Bluebird boat on Coniston water in January, 1967. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGS; WSSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553815115
- ISBN
- 9780553815115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.40
€ 17.99
€ 13.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HRCC2; HRCX1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- GILL & MAC MILLAN
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782181781
- ISBN
- 9781782181781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.32
€ 23.99
€ 20.32
Paperback. The author was no ordinary genius. He upset those in authority, gave captivating lectures, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints and touched countless lives everywhere. This title collects letters of Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: PDZ; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141021133
- ISBN
- 9780141021133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06