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Biography

Hardcover. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
KEX0200154
ISBN
9780297811022
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: BM; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
RIVERHEAD
Number of pages
210
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594484858
ISBN
9781594484858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.71

Paperback. Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start. As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. This book tells the story of her early life. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 340. 477pp
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
9781845963132
ISBN
9781845963132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Uncovers the world of classical music, exposing a musical demi-monde where alcohol and drugs are ubiquitous, where musicians perform high on hungover, and where it's standard to trade sex for work. The author has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. Num Pages: 336 pages, integrated b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843544937
ISBN
9781843544937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.49

Paperback. The real Bridget Jones. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472210142
ISBN
9781472210142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.31

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
€ 35.55

Paperback. Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend. A visionary and master of his craft, his television shows from the fifties to the nineties almost single handed invented the language of travel television and earned him the status of one of the most foremost of British media icons. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; HBWQ; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0296040
ISBN
9780007205080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. This book describes how his career has somehow endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 41. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968123
ISBN
9780241968123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Beckham and Ferguson Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The History Press Ltd Gloucestershire
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st
SKU
KNW0008254
ISBN
9780750936750
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself. Num Pages: 688 pages, 17 b/w, 8 col plates (24pp), With index. BIC Classification: 3JF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 526.
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007147205
ISBN
9780007147205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.42

Paperback. 479pp
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The Mercier Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KNW0008498
ISBN
9781856356473
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Discover the true story of Richard III's mother, one of her era's great survivors Num Pages: 336 pages, 47. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGR; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445644806
ISBN
9781445644806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

paperback. Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust and was the subject of the documentary "Till The Tenth Generation", gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVKS; 3JJH; BGA; BM; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
O'Brien Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847177933
ISBN
9781847177933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. Mark Brandon Read has earned a reputation for violence and is known by friends and enemies alike as "Chopper". Here, he reveals stories from the underworld, bringing his humour and sharp eye to bear on prison life, brutality, corruption and the warped code of the values of the criminal fraternity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp photographs. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228. Clean copy, good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Blake Publishing
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KST0019094
ISBN
9781844540402
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241964439
ISBN
9780241964439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.91

hardcover. 8vo.Some minor wear otherwise a good copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First U.S. Edition
Publisher
St Martin's Press London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
SKU
KEX0264381
ISBN
9780312012663
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.44

Paperback. Tells the true story of how one man ruled his north London manor with an iron fist - and a sawn-off shotgun called Kennedy. This book features an insight into a society where the rules are made by gangland leaders and if anybody dare break them, they have to deal with the consequences. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Ebury Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091960063
ISBN
9780091960063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Learn from the master how to turn yourself into an action hero - the author of The Game turns his hand to survival Num Pages: 432 pages, integrated. BIC Classification: BM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 117 x 30. Weight in Grams: 230. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KIN0033228
ISBN
9781847677600
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's bestselling authors. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was seventeen in order to amuse her convalescent brother. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099553281
ISBN
9780099553281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. When Dan Caro was only two years old he was engulfed in a fireball during a gasoline explosion in the family garage and was left with third-degree burns over most of his body; burns so severe that doctors held out little hope he'd survive more than a few days. But Dan's spirit refused to leave this world. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGXA; VFJD; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200. As new. CARO
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Hay House UK Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KRF0027926
ISBN
9781848502895
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. This is an intimate account of the rise, fall and rise again in show business of Hollywood giant and legendary 'bad boy' Robert Evans. He spares no-one, least of all himself, in this revealing chronicle. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFB; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 43. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Robert Evans
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571219315
ISBN
9780571219315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.55

Paperback. Features British Adventures. In this book, the author shares the (mis)adventures with her family and her wayward Tibetan terrier Archie. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; BM; VFV; WSZC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241959770
ISBN
9780241959770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608197651
ISBN
9781608197651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.07

Paperback. Politics has changed. Now, with nationalism resurgent and mainstream parties in turmoil, stark new divisions define the country and the centre ground is deserted. As Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, Nick Clegg witnessed this change from the inside. In this book, he offers a frank account of his experiences. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMG; BM; JPFK; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784704162
ISBN
9781784704162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

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