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The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of...

Author: Jeff Maynard
ISBN: 9780008532765
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom...  Read More >>

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories of the magic of reading

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories...

Author: James Patterson
ISBN: 9781529918908
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title...  Read More >>

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement...

Author: Roland Philipps
ISBN: 9781847927088
Format: Paperback
$37.99

The extraordinary, inspiring and ultimately tragic story of Sir Roger Casement, a remarkable man who led a life...  Read More >>

The Immune Mind: The new science of health

The Immune Mind: The new science of health

Author: Monty Lyman
ISBN: 9781911709176
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Delving into the recent discovery of the brain's immune system, Dr Monty Lyman reveals the extraordinary implications...  Read More >>

The Immune Mind: The new science of health

The Immune Mind: The new science of health

Author: Monty Lyman
ISBN: 9781911709169
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Delving into the recent discovery of the brain's immune system, Dr Monty Lyman reveals the extraordinary implications...  Read More >>

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement...

Author: Roland Philipps
ISBN: 9781847927071
Format: Hardback
$69.99

The extraordinary, inspiring and ultimately tragic story of Sir Roger Casement, a remarkable man who led a life...  Read More >>

Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy...

Author: Jeff Guinn
ISBN: 9781982186111
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Investigative reporter and bestselling author Jeff Guinn draws on never-before-seen documents and interviews with...  Read More >>

Lady's Rock

Lady's Rock

Author: Sue Lawrence
ISBN: 9781915089922
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A wronged woman’s voice is reclaimed in this gripping tale of revenge and romance—a medieval Gone Girl. Highland...  Read More >>

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of...

Author: Keith Bradley
ISBN: 9781487548810
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book offers a critical appreciation of Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel Mémoires d’Hadrien as an authentic...  Read More >>

India's Historic Battles: Imphal-Kohima,1944

India's Historic Battles: Imphal-Kohima,1944

Author: Hemant Singh Katoch
ISBN: 9789354899126
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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The Yellow Joss

The Yellow Joss

Author: Ion Idriess
ISBN: 9781923024663
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Critical: Why the NHS is Being Betrayed and How We Can Fight for it

Critical: Why the NHS is Being Betrayed and How We Can...

Author: Dr Julia Grace Patterson
ISBN: 9780008603526
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it.  Read More >>

Under the Hornbeams: A true story of life in the open

Under the Hornbeams: A true story of life in the open...

Author: Emma Tarlo
ISBN: 9780571379804
Format: Hardback
$42.99

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Rose: The extraordinary story of Rose de Freycinet: wife, stowaway and the first woman to record her voyage around the world

Rose: The extraordinary story of Rose de Freycinet:...

Author: Suzanne Falkiner
ISBN: 9780733343339
Format: Paperback
$33.61

The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the...  Read More >>

Snakes, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll: My Early Years

Snakes, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll: My Early Years

Author: Romulus Earl Whitaker ,  Janaki Lenin
ISBN: 9789356997127
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Snakes, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll tells the story of a boy who would become one of the greatest conservationists of...  Read More >>

Maniac

Maniac

Author: Benjamin Labatut
ISBN: 9788433911001
Format: Paperback
$71.15

"""A triptych from the 20th century. Each of the three parts of This book stars a real character.""--"  Read More >>

Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World

Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art...

Author: Richard Dorment
ISBN: 9781529081503
Format: Paperback
$36.99

By the long-time art critic of The Daily Telegraph, Warhol After Warhol tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector...  Read More >>

Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World

Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art...

Author: Richard Dorment
ISBN: 9781529081497
Format: Hardback
$39.99

From the art critic of the Daily Telegraph, Warhol After Warhol tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector Joe...  Read More >>

Australia's Trail-Blazing First Novelist: John Lang

Australia's Trail-Blazing First Novelist: John Lang...

Author: Sean Doyle
ISBN: 9781923004382
Format: Paperback
$24.99

‘What a life! What a story! Superbly researched and wonderfully crafted …’ - Peter FitzSimons 'Writer, journalist,...  Read More >>

Crossing the Rift

Crossing the Rift

Author: Merilyn Brason
ISBN: 9781805140672
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Set against the background of World War II, this is my grandmother's true account of her perilous trek up the length...  Read More >>

Justus Samuel Scharschmid (1664-1724). Seine Autobiographien

Justus Samuel Scharschmid (1664-1724). Seine Autobiographien...

Author: Sebastian W Stork
ISBN: 9783447110822
Format: Hardback
$248.16

J.S. Scharschmid (1664-1724) schloss sich nach Abschluss seines Theologie-Studiums und der Begegnung mit Philipp...  Read More >>

Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison

Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of...

Author: James Phelps
ISBN: 9781460764138
Format: Paperback
$34.99

'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew...  Read More >>

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