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Biography

Paperback. Notorious, the author was the feared gangster in 1960s London. Boss of the Richardson Gang and rival of the Krays, to cross him would result in repercussions. Famously arrested on the day England won the World Cup in 1966, his trial heard he allegedly used iron bars, bolt cutters and electric shocks on his enemies. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099580867
ISBN
9780099580867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.64

paperback.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KLN0017049
ISBN
9780751532234
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

Hardback. The ground-breaking Voices From the Past series tells the stories of the great conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from the Battle of Waterloo to the fall of Hitler's Germany, through the words of the politicians, the press, the generals, and the ordinary soldier and civilian that lived and fought through those momentous times. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 pages of b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKX; 3JJH; BK; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473851597
ISBN
9781473851597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.69

Hardback. Alexander the Great is one of the most famous leaders of all time.This controversial reassessment concludes that Alexander's claim to the status of military genius is not supported by evidence. The author contests he was clearly a misfit and increasingly traumatized, showing all the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8pp plate section, or none, approx 6 b/w maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783461974
ISBN
9781783461974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.39

Paperback. In December 1884, Austin was terrorised by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life. Num Pages: 37 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; BTC; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 14. .
Publisher
St Martin´s Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781250118493
ISBN
9781250118493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.37

Hardcover. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; BGH; HBJK; HBLX; JPA; JPHC; JPHF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 39. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781510726925
ISBN
9781510726925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 32 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; BGR; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 275 x 5. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841653747
ISBN
9781841653747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.03

Paperback. A story of Irfan Orga's family's survival. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJ; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 404. 332 pages. A story of Irfan Orga's family's survival. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJ; BGHA. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 22. Weight: 406.
Publisher
Eland Books
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907871828
ISBN
9780907871828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. Looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of elders - once wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940s - tell readers what it was really like to grow up in an orphanage. Num Pages: 256 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; BG; HBTB; JKSB1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372. Large format paperback. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press Alabama
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KEX0211642
ISBN
9780817307813
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. The bookies always win. But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades. In the summer of 1975 Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time with a racehorse called Yellow Sam. It cost the bookmakers millions of pounds. They said that it could never happen again. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BGS; WDP; WSNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9780099576587
ISBN
9780099576587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

Hardcover. This biography of writer, translator, teacher, and feminist Ada Gobetti, the first in English or Italian, frames her activism in the Resistenza as a chapter in a lifetime of resistance. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465724
ISBN
9781580465724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.96

Hardcover.
Publisher
Loose Chippings Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907991004
ISBN
9781907991004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.89

Paperback. Editor(s): O'Steen, Bobbie. Num Pages: 249 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: AJRD; APF; BGFA; UYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 180 x 17. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Michael Wiese Productions United States
Number of pages
249
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780941188371
ISBN
9780941188371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.76

Hardcover. Num Pages: 392 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: BM; WDMG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 182 x 21. Weight in Grams: 784.
Publisher
Quality Chess
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907982514
ISBN
9781907982514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 27.83

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
€ 13.31

Paperback. When Bridget Harrison arrived in Manhattan to work for America's most famous tabloid, the New York Post, she was in at the deep end from day one. Dispatched by day to cover murders and muggings in the roughest corners of New York, by night she began to write a column about her search for love in a dating shark tank. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: BG; VFVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 300. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KTJ0007434
ISBN
9780552153713
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; BM; JKVP1; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 138 x 35. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Number of pages
436
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956240170
ISBN
9780956240170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.61

Paperback. An extraordinary first-person account of a childhood spent in the jungle Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMT; 3JJPN; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844088874
ISBN
9781844088874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AVGP; AVH; AVX; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781613738375
ISBN
9781613738375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.90

Paperback. From the time he was three or four years old, the author realized that he was different from other people. This book tells about his story of growing up with Asperger's syndrome - a form of autism - at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. It is a rare fusion of inspiration, dark comedy and insight into the workings of the human mind. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; MJNA; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091926335
ISBN
9780091926335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

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