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The Tigers of the Kumgang Mountains | |||
| A Korean Folktale | Miscellaneous | |||
| Kim So-un | ||||
| Tuttle 2005 33 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0804836531 280x220mm | ||||
| Published Price £10.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
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The Great Shakespeare Fraud | |||
| The Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland | Miscellaneous | |||
| Patricia Pierce | ||||
| Sutton 2004 274 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750933933 | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
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Lions Down Under 1950 | |||
| Tour to New Zealand, Australia and Ceylon | Miscellaneous | |||
| Alan Evans | ||||
| Stadia 2006 192 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752440217 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| This account of the six-month tour in 1950 by the British and Irish Lions to the great rugby strongholds of the Southern hemisphere, New Zealand, Australia and Ceylon, draws on the survivors’ reminiscences, players’ diaries and a collection of action photographs and memorabilia of the first post-war Lions. | ||||
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Injustice | |||
| State Trials from Socrates to Nuremberg | Miscellaneous | |||
| Brian Harris | ||||
| Sutton 2006 242 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750940212 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £7.90 | |||
| A survey of state trials from Socrates and Joan of Arc to Nuremberg and Sacco and Vanzetti, exploring the human stories behind the trials and the issues they have raised, such as how far society should go in tolerating dissent and whether terrorism can be justified by a strong enough belief in social justice. | ||||
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The Masters of Mystery | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Martin Radcliffe (Compiled by) | ||||
| Do-Not 2004 560 | ||||
| Hardback 1904316220 | ||||
| Published Price £15.00 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| In this collection Martin Radcliffe presents 27 of the best and most influential short stories of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, with less familiar names such as Israel Zangwill and Baroness Orczy alongside Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain and Dickens. With an introduction, authors' biographies and Ronald Knox's Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction (1929). | ||||
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The Christmas Letters | |||
| The Ultimate Collection of Round Robin Letters | Miscellaneous | |||
| Simon Hoggart | ||||
| Atlantic 2007 288 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1843546671 | ||||
| Published Price £7.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| For years, readers of Simon Hoggart's Guardian column have been sending him examples of the dreaded Christmas round robin. Edited (with names changed to protect the perpetrators) by Hoggart, these catalogues of domestic triumphs (Tamsin's Grade V piano) and tragedies (locked out of the camper van) are robbed of their power to infuriate - they are simply hilarious. This book comprises the two previous collections: The Cat that Could Open the Fridge and The Hamster that Loved Puccini. | ||||
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Supper with the Crippens | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| David James Smith | ||||
| Orion 2005 344 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752867423 | ||||
| Published Price £18.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
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How They Met: Fateful Ecounters of Famous Lovers, Rivals, | |||
| Partners in Crime, and Other Strange Bedfellows | Miscellaneous | |||
| Joey Green | ||||
| Black Dog & Leventhal 2003 320 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1579123279 | ||||
| Published Price £9.95 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| The stories of 150 celebrity couples and double acts from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, with a picture of each pair, a short passage detailing what brought them together and a few pieces of trivia about their personal histories. 8”x8”, b&w throughout | ||||
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The Forbes Book of Business Quotations | |||
| 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life | Miscellaneous | |||
| Ted Goodman (Edited by) | ||||
| BD&L 1997 704 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1579127088 | ||||
| Published Price £12.95 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| A reference work of business wit and wisdom for speakers, writers, CEOs, managers and employees, covering a range of subjects from advertising and leadership to prudence and respect, with contributors including John D Rockefeller, Winston Churchill, Bob Dylan and CS Lewis. 8”x7” | ||||
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One-Hundred-And-One Read-Aloud Celtic Myths and Legends | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Joan C Verniero | ||||
| BD&L 2000 384 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1579120989 240x205mm | ||||
| Published Price £8.95 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| A collection of 101 Celtic myths and legends from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, and other parts of England, retold in shorter form so that they can be read aloud in ten minutes or less, in the spirit of the Celtic literary tradition. 10”x9” | ||||
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Tickets to Ride | |||
| An Alphabetic Amusement | Miscellaneous | |||
| Mark Rogalski | ||||
| Running Press 2006 64 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0762427825 255x252mm | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you've ever seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular - and always breathtaking to look at. | ||||
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Donnie Brasco | |||
| Unfinished Business | Miscellaneous | |||
| Joseph D Pistone; Charles Brandt | ||||
| Running Press 2007 336 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0762427078 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| FBI agent Joe Pistone's account of his six-year operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family under the guise of jewel thief Donnie Brasco, with full accounts of the brutality carried out by the family and a timeline of the convictions that crippled the Mafia from the top down. | ||||
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The Scotland Yard Files | |||
| Milestones in Crime Detection | Miscellaneous | |||
| Alan Moss; Keith Skinner | ||||
| National Archives 2006 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1903365880 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| The 12 cases discussed in this book (often drawing on previously unpublished archives) show how, during the past 150 years, Scotland Yard has earned its world-wide reputation by using the latest scientific techniques, managing the media and learning from criticism and mistakes. As well as famous cases, such as Dr Crippen and Jack the Ripper, these stories record the deeds of less familiar heroes and villains who played their various parts in developing the modus operandi of today's Metropolitan Police. | ||||
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Murderers' Row | |||
| An International Murderers' Who's Who | Miscellaneous | |||
| Robin Odell; Wilfred Gregg | ||||
| Sutton 2006 506 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750944048 | ||||
| Published Price £8.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| This A-Z of murderers, unsolved murders and serial killings presents a brief account of over 500 cases, from Burton Abbott, gassed at San Quentin in 1957 after a stay of execution was phoned through too late, to the unsolved Zodiac Murders of 1969 - up to 40 killings forming a huge 'Z' when plotted on the map of California. | ||||
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Jack the Ripper | |||
| Scotland Yard Investigates | Miscellaneous | |||
| Stewart P Evans; Donald Rumbelow | ||||
| Sutton 2006 304 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750942282 263x190mm | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Slightly off-mint | Our Price £6.99 | ||
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