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(Paperback)
By: Tom Quinn
ISBN: 9781444735895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A revealing memoir of life below stairs
(Paperback)
By: Susan Stachler
ISBN: 9781492637837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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(Paperback, Main)
By: PATRICK BISHOP
ISBN: 9781782390251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The true wartime story of William Ash - the inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in The Great Escape. A thrilling tale of incredible courage and resilience, from one of Britain's bestselling military historians.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Marina Carr
ISBN: 9780571242627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Inspired by King Lear, it follows two rivals who come together to discuss what has fuelled them to try and outdo each other.
(Paperback)
By: J. D. Daniels
ISBN: 9781910702369
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Can civilization save us from ourselves In this book, that is the question the author asks in a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul.
(Paperback)
By: Bruce Feiler
ISBN: 9780751545746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An inspirational memoir in the vein of Mitch Albom.
(Paperback)
By: Raymond Williams
ISBN: 9781784870829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our societys changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.
Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Alan Taylor
ISBN: 9781847673268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2010
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A fascinating portrait of country life across the centuries, as told by the nation's greatest diarists.
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By: Andrew Leland
ISBN: 9781984881441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Penguin Adult
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(Hardback)
By: Andrew Leland
ISBN: 9781984881427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2023
Publisher: Penguin Adult
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: William Wycherley
ISBN: 9781408179895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Country Wife is a satirical comedy, which exposes the immorality of Restoration society in a way that has been both condemned and admired since it was written.
(Hardback)
By: Beth Lynch
ISBN: 9781474606936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A stunning literary memoir about the author's relationship with a cove in Cornwall
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By: Ji Xianlin
ISBN: 9781681376578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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(Paperback)
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781847497185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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An entertaining and eclectic miscellany that sheds light on the author and his times, The Crack-Up is an invaluable companion to such well-known works as The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.
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By: Dave Bassett
ISBN: 9780857503251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Promoted to the Football League in 1977, Wimbledon FC was a small team from south London that against the odds went all the way to the top of the First Division, then to win the FA Cup, in only just over a decade. With no money, scant resources and a blend of youth players and offcuts from other clubs, they were christened 'Rag-Arse Rovers'.
(Hardback)
By: Prasanta Chakravarty
ISBN: 9789354351242
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury India
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(Paperback)
By: David Price
ISBN: 9781789542714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The intimate telling of the life of an Avro Lancaster crew during World War Two, bringing together the story of this iconic RAF bomber and its service with the lives of those who flew her.
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By: Dorothy Hoobler
ISBN: 9780316017909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A chronicle of crimes in Belle Epoque Paris - including the Mona Lisa's theft - and the detective who used science to solve them.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Duncan Harding
ISBN: 9780241446836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kathy McCoy
ISBN: 9781098328153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: John McPhee
ISBN: 9781907970917
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2017
Publisher: Daunt Books
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McPhee gives readers a deep and rich portrait of the terrain, the history, the legends, and the people of this fragment of the Hebrides.
(Hardback)
By: Louise Steinman
ISBN: 9780807050552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9781845952082
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel Kant
Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defence of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality.
(Paperback)
By: Samar Yazbek
ISBN: 9781846044885
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of her homeland.
From the first peaceful protests for democracy to the arrival of ISIS, she bears witness to those struggling to survive, to the humanity that can flower amidst annihilation, and why so many are now desperate to flee.
