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Biography
Paperback. As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and more. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WNCB; WSXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099575450
- ISBN
- 9780099575450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.51
€ 14.99
€ 11.51
Hardcover. Folio. Very good copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Wordwell
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- KEX0284648
- ISBN
- 9781869857868
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Hardcover. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 168 x 39. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848404571
- ISBN
- 9781848404571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 22.81
€ 32.99
€ 22.81
Paperback. Rubina is a one-in-a-million-star. After being plucked from among the five-hundred slum children who auditioned for Danny Boyle's multi-Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire", she saw her fairytale dream of stardom come true. But what does the future hold for a little girl now trapped between Hollywood glamour and the poverty of her Mumbai slum? Num Pages: 192 pages, 8-page full colour photos. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144. 8vo.Some minor wear otherwise a good copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KEX0264201
- ISBN
- 9780552776370
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Jamie, I'm 19-years-old. I make videos on the Internet, and enough people watched them that they let me write a book. I know. What is life?" WELCOME TO JAMIE'S WORLD Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 col plates, (2x8pp plates). BIC Classification: BJ; YNM; YNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 218 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- SKU
- KAK0007292
- ISBN
- 9780008159412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The first ever intimate portrait of Britain's best-loved, but little known, comedy entertainer. Fully authorised, and written by Cooper's friend and colleague John Fisher. Num Pages: 496 pages, 20 b/w, 20 col plates (24pp), Index. BIC Classification: APB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 492. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KAK0010825
- ISBN
- 9780007215119
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.Signed and inscribed by the author
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- SKU
- KEX0280943
- ISBN
- 9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780853239475
- ISBN
- 9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This anthology of Irish diaries features an eclectic selection from diarists known and unknown, including poets, farmers and politicians. The anthology covers diary excerpts from the 17th to the 20th century. Diarists include Richard Boyle, John Wesley, Thomas Carlyle, and Richard Murphy. Editor(s): Lenox-Conyngham, Melosina. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st. Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874675785
- ISBN
- 9781874675785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.69
€ 14.99
€ 13.69
Paperback. Features an American memoir of growing up in New York with eccentric uncles. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KNW0008264
- ISBN
- 9780747579328
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. The king of the exasperated quip discovers that: Bombing North Carolina is bad for Yorkshire; we can look forward to exploding at the age of 62; Russians look bad in Speedos. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 252. Used paperback in good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KNW0015534
- ISBN
- 9780141028606
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the Taliban. In order to prepare for this ordeal, Ross Kemp trains with the First Battalion Royal Anglians in England's subzero temperatures. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; BTM; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS4; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260. Clean copy with some reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KTM0000760
- ISBN
- 9780141040882
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12ill. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BT; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . 263pp
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KCBJ000142
- ISBN
- 9780863223167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12ill. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BT; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KEX0220221
- ISBN
- 9780863223167
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Monday Books
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- KNW0008964
- ISBN
- 9780955285479
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardback. This lively account uncovers for the first time how great love songs came to be, and explains who the 'Galway Girl' was, or if there was a real-life 'Nancy Spain'. Learn the often surprising, sometimes bittersweet but always absorbing stories of the real women who inspired some of the world's finest love songs. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVG; AVH; BGF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848892873
- ISBN
- 9781848892873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.44
€ 19.99
€ 16.44
mass_market. Num Pages: 272 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 116 x 27. Weight in Grams: 191.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553562835
- ISBN
- 9780553562835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.29
€ 11.29
Hardback. Fine in fine dustjacket. Dj has a few light nicks
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCD0028244
- ISBN
- 9780340961667
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Brilliant, insightful and exciting, Redmond: A Life Undone charts the change in nationalist politics over the course of seven pivotal years in Irish history, from 1910 to 1917, providing a new and much-needed perspective on the events beyond the Easter Rising. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 235 x 35. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780717165827
- ISBN
- 9780717165827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.62
€ 27.99
€ 21.62
Paperback. The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A" remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists Editor(s): Greacen, Lavinia. Num Pages: 478 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press Cork
- Number of pages
- 478
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859184769
- ISBN
- 9781859184769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.71
€ 21.99
€ 17.71
Paperback. It comes in all forms, all shapes and sizes, from the unconditional love of a parent to a child, to the passionate, all-embracing love felt for a partner. The rich, famous and the funny have joined together to create this treasury of tales about the things they have done for love. Num Pages: 255 pages, cartoons. BIC Classification: BT; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 120 x 20. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Blake Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KLN0014040
- ISBN
- 9781857825329
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds, he rose to celebrity: author of "The Dictionary", a friend to the king, companion of Reynolds, Goldsmith and Garrick. This title presents a portrait of Johnson, and his life. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 31. Weight in Grams: 365.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571226368
- ISBN
- 9780571226368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.08
€ 14.99
€ 12.08
Hardcover. George. Library markings to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains in a good to very good condition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Harpercollins/STL
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KST0024787
- ISBN
- 9780551027046
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Previous owner's signature on first page
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- First Penguin edition.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- SKU
- KON0835878
- ISBN
- 9780140113495
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95