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In 1982 the Griffins left the security of suburbia to grow garlic in West Wales. From the struggle with rurality that ensued grew (organically) the very amusing, and informative, warts-and-all account Scenes From a Smallholding . Now in this sometimes...

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We've all seen the Johnny Depp and Bill Murray versions of Hunter S. Thompson - a larger-than-life madman, swilling booze with one hand and piloting classic cars with the other. But while Hunter's legendary exploits in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870352314Author Jenny WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint LibrisPublisher Libris

More than to any other musician, the credit for the birth of modern jazz belongs to Charles "Yardbird" Parker--known to his friends and fans simply as "Bird." Parker's virtuoso technique, melodic genius, and inspired improvisations...

Not Great Hopes is a personal account of episodes from the author's childhood and a vivid evocation of life during the 1950s and 1960s. The chapters range from everyday life in the Birmingham suburb of Northfield, to school life, sport, television,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244273415Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903087732Author Stuart BurgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Day One PublicationsPublisher Day One Publications

When Jon took on a troublesome two-year-old Border Collie in A Dog Year, it turned his sedate life upside down and culminated in a move from suburbia to a rural farm.But the contrary Collie - incredibly loyal but incredibly misbehaved - never settles...

Charles Westover grew up in a small midwestern town,learning guitar at an early age. After graduating high school, he joined the Army, married and shipped off to Europe where he honed his singing and guitar skills. Back home, Westover joined a local band...

A rich reconsideration of a short-lived but visionary voice in twentieth-century American painting and his enduring relevance Bob Thompson (1937-1966) came to critical acclaim in the late 1950s for paintings of unparalleled figurative complexity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews'immaculate editing' Notes and Queries'A wealth of biographical information is digested into footnotes and supports the particularity of the journals. Moreover, the text...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578971049Author Larry PerkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Petrapetra PublicationsPublisher Petrapetra PublicationsWeight(grams) 748g

'Astonishing... In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBASTIAN FAULKS, Sunday Times'[A] thrilling book, as edge-of-your-seat gripping as any heist movie'Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Book of the Day'A gripping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434305251Author John LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434305251Author John LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486201Author Graham HyslopFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

"During my years as a patient, I felt a guilty and unshakeable conviction that I was completely sane. Of course, my notion that patients were expected to be crazy was a naive one, but I had swallowed whole the ideology that connects madness to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955958298Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2008 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2007. Short-listed for National Book Awards 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400034307Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034160908Author Asser Bishop of SherborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578631209Author Lon Milo DuQuetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244608569Author Martin WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

'I always wanted everything so frantically, and I'm just the person that can't have them.' Based on family papers and memories, this picture of middle class life at the end of the nineteenth century tells the poignant story of Winnie Seebohm, Victoria...

'I always wanted everything so frantically, and I'm just the person that can't have them.' Based on family papers and memories, this picture of middle class life at the end of the nineteenth century tells the poignant story of Winnie Seebohm, Victoria...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244271572Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes during the Second World War.About the AuthorPeter J Conradi is...

As charismatic and gifted as he was volatile, Jimmy Martin recorded dozens of bluegrass classics and co-invented the high lonesome sound. Barbara Martin Stephens became involved with the King of Bluegrass at age seventeen. Don't Give your Heart to a...

As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observation with moments of delight and enthusiasm. On his way to the launchpad, he literally jumped for joy in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777930Author Steve CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled 'what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men'.The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The...

When the Hon. Gavin Henderson was made the 2nd Lord Faringdon in 1934, he became one of the wealthiest men in Britain. By the time he passed away in 1977 he had given away most of his inheritance to what he considered to be good causes. However, his...

Guy Debord (1931-94) was one of the most important and intriguing intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Filmmaker and poet, urban critic and political theorist, adventurer and activist extraordinaire during Paris' May 1968 uprisings, Debord was...

When Bruce, an abandoned collie-cross puppy, is adopted by a lively family, he encounters more affection than ever before in his short life.With humour and a unique charm, he describes his life with his loving but troubled owners, and offers a sometimes...

When Bruce, an abandoned collie-cross puppy, is adopted by a lively family, he encounters more affection than ever before in his short life.With humour and a unique charm, he describes his life with his loving but troubled owners, and offers a sometimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060988272Author Patrick McGilliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788481823Author John LunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

William Wilberforce is best remembered as the parliamentary leader for the British campaign to abolish the slave trade. He took on the financial system of his day and fought an incredible twenty-year battle in order to bring about justice and freedom for...

'Today as I was leaving home, I saw a guy in the street. Just by exchanging glances, we decided to make love.' Valerie Tasso is an unashamedly promiscuous French woman who becomes a high-class prostitute in Madrid. This is her story, told in riveting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398424678Author Frank McGurkFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers