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Beginnings of Travelling Life. Wartime child becomes Traveller.Book InformationISBN 9780955983214Author Dominic ReeveFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Lamorna PublicationsPublisher Lamorna PublicationsWeight(grams) 282g

France is a Feast documents, through intimate and compelling photographs, Julia Child discovering French cooking and the French way of life. It all began under the guidance of her husband Paul, a passionate photographer. Paul and Julia Child moved to...

What makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as the Gobi desert?Welcome to the restaurant business, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889633343Author Stuart Alve OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Valley Spirit Arts LLCPublisher Valley Spirit Arts LLCWeight(grams)...

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of 'liquid modernity', Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714510996Author Samuel B. ChartersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910162217Author Kevin KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Paperbooks Publishing LtdPublisher Paperbooks Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 285g

Detective Sergeant Gurpal Singh Virdi's exemplary career in the Metropolitan Police Service ended when he spoke out against racism within it: an issue it has long paid lip service to tackling. What came after is simply shocking. On Wednesday 15 April...

Accessible and original analysis of all Jean Renoir's sound films, including those he made in Hollywood - this is the first major study to appear for a number of years and brings new light on some of the director's most celebrated films.. Illuminating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184226Author Bill RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm * 13mm

Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals, she traveled by any means...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062517180Author Kurt WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

For four decades Archie Macpherson has been one of Britain's finest football commentators. Instantly recognisable, he's never been short of an opinion or far from controversy. After joining the BBC full-time in 1969, he established himself not only as...

There are only three things a cat needs for a fine life - good food, a comfortable bed, and universal praise and love. Luckily - after converting his human, Peter, from cat hater to cat lover - Norton has plenty of all three. And they're about to get...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971078697Author Jerry WennstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 472g

Acting wasn't a long-held childhood dream for Larry Lamb, instead his childhood memories are filled with recollections of his parents continuously fighting. His mother and father were totally mismatched, the only thing they shared in common was their...

Acting wasn't a long-held childhood dream for Larry Lamb, instead his childhood memories are filled with recollections of his parents continuously fighting. His mother and father were totally mismatched, the only thing they shared in common was their...

A stolen past, a search for the truth, two lives changed forever Born out of wedlock in Dublin in 1937, Phyllis grew up in a tough, church run orphanage. She thought by fulfilling her dream to become a nurse in England, her life might change, but her...

Martin Clunes is happy to admit that with Mary, it was love at first sight; her soft, brown eyes, her perfect figure and that unstoppable wagging tail. As cocker spaniels go, she was perfect.Mary was soon joined in the Clunes' household by Tina, another...

Martin Clunes is happy to admit that with Mary, it was love at first sight; her soft, brown eyes, her perfect figure and that unstoppable wagging tail. As cocker spaniels go, she was perfect.Mary was soon joined in the Clunes' household by Tina, another...

Sara finally found strength to confide in her mother about the terrible things she had been forced to endure. Despite her father being arrested and imprisoned, it would take much more than his punishment for Sara to free herself from the demons that...

This volume presents Einstein's writings from the final period of his work in Switzerland. Most of the material in Volume 4 documents Einstein's search for a relativistic theory of gravitation, a search that ended in Berlin in the fall of 1915 with the...

A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952130864Author A.J MARRIOTFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint A.J.MarriotPublisher Marriot PublishingWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425772826Author Jim SandersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 290g

'They have made an Irishwoman of you now, and may they know the value of the daughter they adopted into their country.' Elizabeth Grant's sisterThe early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady...

While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the...

Growing up in rural Yorkshire in the 1940s and 50s, Terry Wilson spent his school days hunting down Just William books, cutting up apples to help with fractions and staring out the window dreaming up new schemes. But it was on the Dales themselves that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385132206Author Fulton J. SheenFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

This is a tale about a boy from the back streets of Glasgow who rose from being a fanatical Celtic fan to leading Scotland's World Cup attack with Kenny Dalglish. It is also the tale of a bon viveur, a 'champagne charlie' who lives life to the full. With...

Volume 1 presents important new material on the young Einstein. Over half the documents made available here were discovered by the editors, including a significant group of over fifty letters that Einstein exchanged with Mileva Maric, his fellow student...

'Adds enormously to our understanding of the man' Evening Standard George Orwell was one of the greatest writers England produced in the last century. He left an enduring mark on our language and culture, with concepts such as 'Big Brother' and 'Room...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760853Author Toby FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063311060Author Johnny MarrFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 2041gDimensions(mm) 315mm *...

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. Denis Johnson travels between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060570057Author Eric BrendeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: 'Hell is other people'. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War, and...

"In 2011, Annick Cojean, senior reporter at Le Monde and special correspondent for Tripoli, wrote a shock article titled "Gaddafi's sexual slave", which told the story of Soraya, a twenty-two-year old Libyan woman who had been kidnapped and held captive...

This book is the second in a series that will delve in to the inner workings of Germany's most fearsome panzers of the Second World War, the Tiger and Tiger II. There are many books already in publication that deal with various aspects of the Tiger...

A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering...