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Biography
Paperback. The heart-warming, true story of a young woman, her single father, and the books they shared as he read to her every night of her childhood, from Harry Potter to Alice in Wonderland. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444715262
- ISBN
- 9781444715262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. 'Bobby' Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze. This graphic novel, the first of its kind, brings Bobby Sands' story to life in a whole new way. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJP; BGH; FXZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 297 x 210. .
- Publisher
- O´Brien Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847178152
- ISBN
- 9781847178152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.21
€ 14.99
€ 13.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310274889
- ISBN
- 9780310274889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared. A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. This is his true story. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 x 8pp b/w. BIC Classification: BGS; WSKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845966065
- ISBN
- 9781845966065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007486984
- ISBN
- 9780007486984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21
Hardback. Best-selling author Pia de Jong's vivid memoir about her newborn daughter's battle with leukemia and the startling decision that led to her recovery. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFD; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393609158
- ISBN
- 9780393609158
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.74
€ 27.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. The Ernie Hunt Story Num Pages: 192 pages, 200ill. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 172 x 10. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752432717
- ISBN
- 9780752432717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.47
€ 9.47
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 204 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 201 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1522.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300109078
- ISBN
- 9780300109078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.56
€ 46.99
€ 33.56
Paperback. From the bestselling author of Black Poppies, the untold story of one of Britain's most versatile singers who thrilled audiences around the world during the 1920s and 30s. This is a celebration of an extraordinary career, and places Dove in historical context with artists of her time, such as Adelaide Hall, Dame Cleo Laine and Dame Shirley Bassey. Num Pages: 168 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; ANB; AVGJ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 167 x 9. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Jacaranda
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909762350
- ISBN
- 9781909762350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.24
€ 17.99
€ 14.24
Paperback. Biography...John Hennig. 96pp
- Publisher
- Arlen House
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781903631386
- ISBN
- 9781903631386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Paperback. Charlie Oatway was born into a family who were often in prison and always on the wrong side of the law. Unable to learn his lessons in school, Charlie was soon involved in petty crime and it seemed his life would follow that of his dad and uncles. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: BGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 88. 8vo.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Quick Reads edition
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KEX0296461
- ISBN
- 9780552161787
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Part of the Prime Ministers Series, Callaghan was the Labour Prime Minister who was defeated by Thatcher Series: 20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century. Num Pages: 168 pages, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904950707
- ISBN
- 9781904950707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. The colourful story of the four very different men who created our modern world: Henry VIII, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent: popular history at its best from John Julius Norwich Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; BGH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473632981
- ISBN
- 9781473632981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
€ 17.99
€ 13.44
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691157306
- ISBN
- 9780691157306
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.36
€ 30.99
€ 22.36
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842752364
- ISBN
- 9781842752364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.50
€ 19.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ0050437
- ISBN
- 9781853710940
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In 1992 the author embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this memoir, she charts their twenty years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of Wyoming - the new adventures, the unexplored paths, and the many signals that they missed along the way. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMZ; 1KBBWY; BM; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784700591
- ISBN
- 9781784700591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, this autobiography traces the trajectory that led Feyerabend him from an isolated, lower-middle-class childhood in Vienna to the height of international academic success as one of this century's most influential intellectuals. Num Pages: 200 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; BGA; HP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226245324
- ISBN
- 9780226245324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.17
€ 27.99
€ 23.17
Paperback. A biography of Soren Kierkegaard, it potrays him as a man whose writings came to control him. It explores the events and relationships that formed Kierkegaard including his guilt-ridden relationship with his father, his rivalry with his brother, and his tortured relationship with his fiancee Regine Olsen. Translator(s): Kirmmse, Bruce H. Num Pages: 896 pages, 32 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1246.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 896
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127880
- ISBN
- 9780691127880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.70
€ 54.99
€ 39.70
Paperback. Giving voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked with (and sometimes against) Mies van der Rohe, this comprehensive biography tells the compelling story of how Mies and his students and followers created some of the most significant buildings of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 512 pages, 145 halftones, 25 line drawings. BIC Classification: AMB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 255 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1052.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226151458
- ISBN
- 9780226151458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.46
€ 41.99
€ 32.46
Paperback. New adventures in Rock and Roll. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444775518
- ISBN
- 9781444775518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. An autobiography of John Treasure Jones who went to sea when he was 15, and worked his way up to become Captain of the most famous ocean liner afloat, Cunard's RMS Queen Mary. Editor(s): Tennant, R. J. Num Pages: 160 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGA; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 173 x 11. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752446257
- ISBN
- 9780752446257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.38
€ 36.99
€ 31.38
Paperback. A young woman's harrowing account of being stalked by the man she once loved Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447266211
- ISBN
- 9781447266211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.21
€ 11.99
€ 10.21
Hardback. Focuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them. Series: Toni Morrison Lecture Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140186
- ISBN
- 9780691140186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.98
€ 23.99
€ 17.98