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Biography
Paperback. John Le Mesurier was one of Britain's favourite and most recognisable character actors. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. The Life of John Le Mesurier. 352 pages, black & white illustrations. John Le Mesurier was one of Britain's favourite and most recognisable character actors. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGF. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight: 258.
- Publisher
- Aurum Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845137908
- ISBN
- 9781845137908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.87
€ 19.99
€ 14.87
Paperback. Ernesto Che Guevara, an Argentinian doctor of middle-class parents, rose to fight with Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution and later tried to spread that revolution in other countries in Latin America and Africa. This is an account of a man who became a cultural icon to a generation. Translator(s): Castaneda, Marina. Num Pages: 480 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJPG; BGH; HBJK; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Edition
- New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747535201
- ISBN
- 9780747535201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.21
€ 21.99
€ 17.21
Paperback. This book both evaluates Kurosawa's films and offers a view of the man behind the camera, covering his family life and his legendary place on the global film-making stage. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 35 black and white. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780233437
- ISBN
- 9781780233437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.89
€ 16.99
€ 13.89
Hardcover. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Odhams
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1965
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0009406
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.64
€ 4.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: BM; JM; PDZ; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Current Trade
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617230158
- ISBN
- 9781617230158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.55
€ 19.99
€ 15.55
Paperback. The Lives of the Poets is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most diverting. This is the only one-volume paperback edition to make available Johnson's most substantial Lives in unabridged form. Texts are drawn from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition, and introduced by John Mullan. Editor(s): Lonsdale, Roger. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199226740
- ISBN
- 9780199226740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.89
€ 16.99
€ 13.89
Paperback. * The hilarious, heartwarming and surprisingly inspiring account of one BBC Breakfast TV presenter's secret passion for bees..! Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; TVHH; WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751544053
- ISBN
- 9780751544053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, 80 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 896.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750965996
- ISBN
- 9780750965996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 28.44
€ 28.44
Hardcover. A thrilling reconstruction of a brutal Victorian murder, in which Paul Thomas Murphy identifies, after 144 years, the killer responsible for the slaying of Jane Maria Clouson. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8pp b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 243 x 29. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784081898
- ISBN
- 9781784081898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.94
€ 21.99
€ 17.94
Paperback. The number one bestselling, heartbreaking childhood memoir of abuse and true story of the triumph of the human spirit. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJP; BG; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Hodder Paperbacks
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340837924
- ISBN
- 9780340837924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. * Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave * A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl about her two year stay in a psychiatric hospital for depression Num Pages: 192 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860497926
- ISBN
- 9781860497926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905791736
- ISBN
- 9781905791736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.25
€ 14.99
€ 13.25
Paperback. 'A stunning achievement ..Neither sanitized nor mythologizing, Victoria: The Queen is a remarkably lucid, endlessly engaging account of Queen Victoria's life and rule' Amanda Foreman Num Pages: 752 pages, Integrated b/w photos; family tree; maps. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; BGH; BGR; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 49. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349134505
- ISBN
- 9780349134505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.70
€ 24.99
€ 17.70
Paperback. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker and that of the English liberal gentleman. Num Pages: 255 pages, 16pp b&w illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGR; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750927369
- ISBN
- 9780750927369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.32
€ 18.32
Paperback. The incredible true story of Olga Trujillo, whose childhood was devastated by sexual abuse and violence. This memoir follows Olga as she splits herself into "parts" and develops dissociative identity disorder to cope with the abuse, and then struggles to merge these parts and overcome the disorder in adulthood. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- New Harbinger Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572249912
- ISBN
- 9781572249912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.70
€ 24.99
€ 17.70
Paperback. In his radically new analysis of an extraordinary life, Damian Flanagan moves away from the stereotypical depiction of Mishima as a right-wing nationalist and aesthete and presents him as a man utterly obsessed with time - time-keeping devices and symbols - arguing that this compulsion was at the heart of the author's literature and life. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 35 black & white. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 202 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780233451
- ISBN
- 9781780233451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.89
€ 16.99
€ 13.89
Hardcover. "Originally published, New York: Harpers Magazine Press, 1971. Includes index. Commissioning organisation: Cass Canfield. iii-xvi, 272, [24] p. ill., facsims., ports. 25 cm. Publishers cloth. Good copy with very clean cloth, bright gold gilt title on spine, slightly buffed dw."
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Collins
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KEX0042667
- ISBN
- 9780002118545
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.12
€ 12.12
Hardcover. When a little boy dies from Strychnine-poisoned chocolates, Brighton is thrown into panic. When more children start being poisoned by sweets they find lying about the town and strange parcels of arsenic-laced cakes are sent to prominent residents the police step up the search for the poisoner. Who is it that is set upon his revenge on the town? Num Pages: 208 pages, 30 black and white photographs and engravings. BIC Classification: 1DBKESX; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781551042
- ISBN
- 9781781551042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.34
€ 22.34
Paperback. * Poignant first-hand account of life for a young Afghani woman under the Taliban * Like Desert Flower, this simple human story is a powerful way to tell readers around the world of the plight of a people, and this book couldn't be more timely Num Pages: 192 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; BGA; HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860499616
- ISBN
- 9781860499616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. 'My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character. I'm often mistaken for one though. You might know him by another name. Johnny Vegas.' Num Pages: 384 pages, (2x8pp plates). BIC Classification: APT; ASZB; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007382712
- ISBN
- 9780007382712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.76
€ 13.99
€ 9.76