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Biography
Paperback. The reason for the decline of Orson Welles' career is a hotly debated issue. When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the audacious filmmaker alive. In 1947, Welles left America for Europe and lived for the best part of twenty years in self-imposed exile. This biography tells the story of this man. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099462613
- ISBN
- 9780099462613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.97
€ 27.99
€ 20.97
Paperback. The story of three generations of Iranian women - Kamin, her mother and her grandmother - which portrays the history of twentieth century Iran Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JMC; BGHA; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 238. 288 pages, map. The story of three generations of Iranian women - Kamin, her mother and her grandmother - which portrays the history of twentieth century Iran. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JMC; BGHA; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight: 200.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408822333
- ISBN
- 9781408822333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. A genre with a proven track-record, Catching Babies promises all the nostalgic charm of Twelve Babies on a Bike mixed with the gritty realism of Nurse on Call. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; MQD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755362721
- ISBN
- 9780755362721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. An autobiography that tells Groucho Marx's rags-to-riches story with a difference. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 pages printed with text = 272pp total. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Virgin Books
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753519509
- ISBN
- 9780753519509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
€ 19.99
€ 14.72
Paperback. An evocative and emotionally powerful debut novel of life, death and learning to breathe in between. Sophie is an emerging Australian writer who is already receiving critical acclaim. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 138 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Import Aus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780733634857
- ISBN
- 9780733634857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.96
€ 18.99
€ 13.96
Hardback. A memoir of Andrew Motion's growing up in post-war England - an evocation of family life, school life and country life. Written from a teenage child's point of view, without the benefit of adult hindsight, this work captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464. Very fine copy in crisp dustwrapper. Ex-libris with plates, no stamps. Contents appear unread. Signed by the author
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KRA0007544
- ISBN
- 9780571228034
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Paperback. Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983. Earmarked as an England captain in the making, Paul became a target for top clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool, but he always stayed loyal to his beloved club. But then, in September 1990, disaster struck. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 200 x 27. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099553250
- ISBN
- 9780099553250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women - and avidly read by generations of readers. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- New ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099287476
- ISBN
- 9780099287476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 39 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGX; HRLP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 177 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Fons Vitae,US
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781891785290
- ISBN
- 9781891785290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.81
€ 29.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her at a reading, the author energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us today. She tells the story of a country where the villains are conformity, and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099558934
- ISBN
- 9780099558934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. The thrilling true story of how a Second World War hero became Britain's greatest traitor. Num Pages: 384 pages, 16-page b/w plates section. BIC Classification: BGH; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Aurum Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- PB Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781311639
- ISBN
- 9781781311639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.19
€ 18.99
€ 14.19
Paperback. Presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, and world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. This title tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster. Num Pages: 272 pages, full colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: BGT; FXL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781596438279
- ISBN
- 9781596438279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.18
€ 25.99
€ 19.18
Paperback. The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit, Michael Holding. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409121169
- ISBN
- 9781409121169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.58
€ 13.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300224283
- ISBN
- 9780300224283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16pp b&w illustratio. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; BGA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- W&N
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857990614
- ISBN
- 9781857990614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.31
€ 17.99
€ 13.31
Paperback. A first-person account of the violent downfall of the traditional American Mafia in the final heyday of the 1980s. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Running Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762454310
- ISBN
- 9780762454310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.23
€ 16.99
€ 16.23
Paperback. * A vivid and charming memoir of Gypsy life in the 1950s Num Pages: 352 pages, Integrated: 16, b/w drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPG; BGA; HBJD1; HBTB; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349000039
- ISBN
- 9780349000039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas .. what could possibly go wrong? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472223494
- ISBN
- 9781472223494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
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€ 11.73
Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing minor shelf wear and with small nicks to top edges, remains a fine copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Univ Of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- SKU
- KSG0015932
- ISBN
- 9780802018021
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. The Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist. Soon to be a major motion picture starring BRYAN CRANSTON (Breaking Bad), DIANE LANE (Under The Tuscan Sun), ELLE FANNING (Maleficent), JOHN GOODMAN (Argo), LOUIS C.K. (Louie) and Academy Award winner HELEN MIRREN. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APF; BGF; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Film tie-in ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473624696
- ISBN
- 9781473624696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.20
€ 17.99
€ 13.20
Hardcover. Diaries and Letters, 1913-1918. Translated for the first time in English with annotations by a leading expert, the Romanov family's final years through the writings of the second oldest daughter. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS. BIC Classification: BG. .
- Publisher
- PEN & SWORD BOOKS
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594162367
- ISBN
- 9781594162367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.95
€ 30.99
€ 27.95
Paperback. The biography of a White Russian emigree trapped with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of World War II. Living among the ruins of Berlin during Allied bombing raids, she grew up to be a strong-minded, committed and courageous woman. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712665803
- ISBN
- 9780712665803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.82
€ 25.99
€ 17.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 356. Very good copy in bright dustwrapper . First edition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KEX0303122
- ISBN
- 9781408837191
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, 'Titanic Lives' is a fresh investigation of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSAN; 3JJC; BT; HBLW; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007321667
- ISBN
- 9780007321667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.11
€ 17.99
€ 14.11