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| Postscript is a long-established mail order company specialising in good quality publishers' overstocks and remainder books at discounts of up to 80% off the published price. Please browse and order online here. | ||
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The Nature of Britain | |||
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British Isles |
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| Alan Titchmarsh | ||||
| Random House 2007 336 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0563493984 281x222mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| For its size, Britain boasts an extraordinarily diverse range of natural environments: mountains, forests, innumerable rivers and streams, 10,000 miles of coastline and even urban settings in which wildlife thrives. Illustrated with over 900 colour photographs, this volume accompanies a major BBC television series in which Alan Titchmarsh turned wildlife detective to explore the habitats of the British Isles. For each type of environment there is an engaging historical introduction, plus detailed field notes on the flora and fauna it supports | ||||
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The Industrial Revolutionaries | |||
| The Making of the Modern World, 1776-1914 |
Social & Industrial History |
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| Gavin Weightman | ||||
| Grove 2007 422 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0802118992 | ||||
| Published Price $27.50 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| Gavin Weightman presents an engrossing account of the creation and spread of industrial societies since the late 18th century, giving equal prominence to innovation, entrepreneurs and the transmission of technologies between countries. From 'Iron Mad' Wilkinson, who supplied Paris with water pipes in 1781, to the British khaki dye crisis on the eve of the First World War, the book offers stories of individuals, technologies, industries and espionage in countries as far flung as Russia, America and Japan.Slightly off-mint. | ||||
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Collins Flower Guide | |||
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Gardening |
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| David Streeter | ||||
| Collins 2009 704 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0007106211 203x140mm | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| Designed as an authoritative field guide to plants growing wild in the British Isles and neighbouring parts of northwest Europe, the Flower Guide covers all flowering plants, including trees, shrubs, grasses and sedges, conifers and ferns. It comprises accounts of over 1,900 species (with English and Latin names), botanical illustrations on facing pages, and 'keys' for each genera that use alternative descriptions to whittle down the possible options until the plant is identified. Plus a glossary and index. | ||||
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MC Escher | |||
| 29 Master Prints |
Art |
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| MC Escher | ||||
| Abradale 1981 64 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 143512488X 378x274mm | ||||
| Published Price | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| Maurits Cornelius Escher's unique and extraordinary talent for twisting space and perspective to render images of the impossible has made his work a familiar part of the world's visual language. Here, accompanied by Escher's own thoughts and reflections as well as those of his contemporaries, are reproductions of 29 masterworks, including the geometric precision of Smaller and Smaller, the endless staircase-limbo of Ascending and Descending and baffling landscape of Belvedere. | ||||
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An Encyclopedia of North-East England | |||
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British Isles Reference |
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| Richard Lomas | ||||
| Birlinn 2009 532 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1841588040 | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| The North East of England - the ancient counties of Durham and Northumberland - is a very distinctive region of the UK, markedly different in history, tradition and culture from neighbouring Yorkshire, Cumbria and Scotland. That distinctive quality justifies this encyclopedia covering its history, people and places, industries and institutions. The substantial entries are arranged alphabetically, from Acca (?-740), Bishop of Hexham, to the Russian novelist Zamyatin (1884-1937), who was much influenced by his stay in Jesmond, Newcastle from 1916-17. Indexed. | ||||
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Edward Ardizzone's World | |||
| The Etchings and Lithographs: An Introduction and Catalogue Raisonn‚ |
Art Biography |
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| Nicholas Ardizzone | ||||
| Unicorn 2000 144 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0906290570 276x223mm | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) was one of Britain's best loved illustrators and watercolourists, but little attention has been paid to his output as a printmaker. Compiled by his son, this first catalogue of Ardizzone's etchings and lithographs reproduces almost 100 charming, idiosyncratic, quietly humorous and often touching glimpses of English life in war and peace, at work and at play, on beaches and in pubs. A fascinating introduction explains the techniques of etching and lithography. | ||||
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Telling Tales | |||
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Literary Criticism Biography |
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| Alan Bennett | ||||
| BBC 2000 142 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1846072603 | ||||
| Published Price £7.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| 'To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere...' In this collection of ten reminiscences, by turns moving and hilarious, Alan Bennett reflects on a childhood and youth that was relentlessly ordinary, in which even the Second World War 'turns out to be quite dull'. | ||||
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The Pursuit of Laughter | |||
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Biography |
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| Diana Mosley | ||||
| Gibson Square 2008 474 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1906142106 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| Glamorous, witty and well connected, Diana Mitford courted controversy when she left her husband Bryan Guinness for the fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Her wide circle of friends and acquaintance ranged from Aldous Huxley to John Betjeman, Winston Churchill to Adolf Hitler. Her published and unpublished writings, collected here for the first time, include essays on France and Germany, love and sex, alongside book reviews, principally of biographies of people she knew, packed with humorous reminiscences that merge seamlessly with her often hilariously indiscreet diaries. | ||||
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Elizabeth's Spymaster | |||
| Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England |
Modern History |
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| Robert Hutchinson | ||||
| Thomas Dunne 2006 400 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0312368224 | ||||
| Published Price $27.95 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| As the Spanish invasion of the Netherlands sent tremors through the fledgling Protestant regime of Queen Elizabeth I, the defence of the realm was entrusted to Francis Walsingham, a ruthless and shadowy figure who ran a network of spies, informers and code-breakers, with agents in high places throughout Europe. Drawing on unparalleled access to state and private papers, this gripping biography paints a compelling picture of the eminence grise behind Queen Elizabeth, and the overweening pride that led to his eventual downfall. | ||||
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