| Anthology |
GELLER (MARLENE W.) Once Again to Zelda: Fifty great Dedications The stories behind the dedications to 50 iconic novels (2009 £9.99) [ref: 10417]
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NORWICH (JOHN JULIUS) Christmas Cracker 2009 Wonderful selections from the author’s commonplace book - eagerly awaited each year (2009 £6) [ref: 10408]
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PENGUIN Postcards from Penguin Collection of 100 iconic Penguin covers - an excellent present (2009 £14.99) [ref: 10420]
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| Architecture |
DAVIES (PHIL) Lost London Fascinating photographs from the archives of English Heritage. (2009 £29.99) [ref: 10424]
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DUNCAN (ALISTAIR) Art Deco Complete Magnificent volume bound in the style of Paul Bonnet (2009 £50) [ref: 10428]
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RUTLAND (THE DUCHESS OF) Belvoir Castle Beautiful images of one of England’s most romantic houses (2009 £30) [ref: 10435]
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STEPHENSON (DAVID) Heavenly Vaults Vaulted ceilings from Romanesque to Gothic in European Architecture (2009 £40) [ref: 10426]
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| Art |
BOWN (JANE) Exposures Stunning black & white portraits, including many previously unseen (2009 £30) [ref: 10432]
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CLERIZO (MICHAEL) Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking Lavishly illustrated [also Van Cleef Arpels: the Poetry of Time £50] (2009 £55) [ref: 10434]
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GASCHKE (JENNY) Edward Lear Egyptian Sketches Reproduction of Edward Lear’s Egyptian sketchbook (2009 £9.99) [ref: 10430]
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GULER (ARA) Istanbul A photographic record of life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s (2009 £32) [ref: 10431]
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ORMOND (ROCHARD) Landseer: Private Drawings Drawings published for the first time, with a history of the artist’s life & times (2009 £20) [ref: 10429]
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| Biography |
ATHILL (DIANA) Life Class Selected memoirs of one of our favourite authors. (£25) [ref: 10368]
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BUNTING (MADELEINE) The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre The author sought to learn something of her father by writing about his land. (£18.99) [ref: 10363]
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CARVER (TOM) Where the Hell have you Been? Account of Monty’s stepson who escaped from a POW camp in Northern Italy. (£16.99) [ref: 10374]
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DEL CONTE (ANNA) Risotto with Nettles Charming autobiography by the doyenne of Italian cooking, interspersed with recipes (2009 £0) [ref: 10410]
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DILLNER (LOUISA) The Complete Book of Sisters From the Brontes to the Mitfords [companion to ’...Book of Aunts’] (2009 £12.99) [ref: 10416]
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EVANS (HAROLD) My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanishing Times Moving memoir by the former editor of The Sunday Times (£25) [ref: 10373]
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EVANS (JOHN, EDITOR) Journeying Boy The diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. (£25) [ref: 10365]
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HASLAM (NICKY) Redeeming Features A most entertaining memoir - a pleasure to read. (£25) [ref: 10361]
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HILL (SUSAN) Howard’s End is on the Landing A glorious bookish memoire and a glimpse of what sits on one author’s bookshelves (2009 £12.99) [ref: 10411]
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KAKMI (DMETRI) Mother Land Memoir of a Greek boy growing up on a Turkish island in the Aegean. (£16.99) [ref: 10369]
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KERMODE (FRANK) Concerning E. M. Forster A reassessment of one of England’s great novelists. (£14.99) [ref: 10371]
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MORRIS (JAN) Contact! A Book of Glimpses Brief encounters and chance meetings from a life of travel. (£14.99) [ref: 10362]
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SCHEIJEN (SJENG) Diaghilev A major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes. (£25) [ref: 10364]
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VIDAL (GORE) Gore Vidal: A Visual Memoir A well-lived life, illustrated with letters, photographs and ephemera. (£24.99) [ref: 10370]
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WILMERS (MARY-KAY) The Eitingons: A Twentieth Century Love Story A family which included a KGB agent and the world’s largest fur trader. (£20) [ref: 10366]
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| Cookery |
BROWN (LAVINIA) Cracking the Wine Code Short, practical introduction to wine (2009 £8.99) [ref: 10404]
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SLATER (NIGEL) Tender: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch As much a gardener’s book as a cook’s. A treasury of knowledge. (2009 £30) [ref: 10406]
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TEBBIT (NORMAN) The Game Cookbook Delicious recipes, simply presented - perfect for Winter warming (2009 £14.99) [ref: 10407]
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| Diaries |
ARCHER (JEREMY) (ED.) Away at Christmas... ‘From the Journals of History’s Greatest Adventurers’ (2009 £9.99) [ref: 10413]
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BRANDRETH (GYLES) Something Sensational to Read on the Train Diaries full of the famous from the 1960s to the present day. (£25) [ref: 10372]
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LEWIS (ROGER) Seasonal Suicide Notes A collection of round-robin letters to make one howl - perfect present for anyone (2009 £12.99) [ref: 10409]
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| Fiction |
AUSTER (PAUL) Invisible Passionate coming of age novel from the author of ‘The New York Trilogy’. (£16.99) [ref: 10400]
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DAVIES (J.D.) Gentleman Captain In the style of Patrick O’Brian. (£12.99) [ref: 10405]
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DUFFY (CAROL ANN) Mrs Scrooge Hilarious reinterpretation of the Dickens classic, perfectly illustrated by Posy Simmonds (2009 £4.99) [ref: 10415]
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GOLDSMITH (ANNABEL) No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years Intimate pen portraits of her family and friends. (£16.99) [ref: 10360]
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MALOUF (DAVID) Ransom Lyrical reworking of ‘The Iliad’. (£14) [ref: 10401]
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MILLER (ARTHUR) Presence - the Collected Stories Eighteen short stories published in one volume for the first time. (£25) [ref: 10387]
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NEMIROVSKY (IRENE) The Dogs and the Wolves A story which travels from the Ukraine to Paris - from the author of ‘Suite Francaise’. (£16.99) [ref: 10393]
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PAMUK (ORHAN) The Museum of Innocence Set in Istanbul between 1975 and the present day. (£18.99) [ref: 10395]
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TAHER (BAHAA) Sunset Oasis Politics and passion in the remote Egyptian oasis of Siwa in the late 1890s. (£18.99) [ref: 10397]
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| History |
BAKER (KENNETH) George Washington’s War in Caricature and Print A collection of over 200 images documenting the American War of Independence (2009 £25) [ref: 10433]
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BARKER (JULIET) Conquest: The English Kingdom of France Dramatic story of the period from 1417 to 1450 when the English occupied much of France. (£20) [ref: 10381]
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CARROLL (STUART) Martyrs and Murderers ‘The Guise Family and the Making of Modern Europe’. (£18.99) [ref: 10379]
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DUCKERS (ROB) The Hours of Catherine of Cleves Devotion, Demons and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century. (£48) [ref: 10385]
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GLIN (THE KNIGHT OF) The Knights of Glin: Seven Centuries of Change History of Glin Castle and the FitzGerald family (2009 £50) [ref: 10425]
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HORSLER (VAL, EDITOR) Cavalry and Guards: A London Home A richly illustrated history of the two guards. (£39.5) [ref: 10377]
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MORTIMER (IAN) 1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory A day-by-day account of this pivotal year in Henry V’s reign. (£20) [ref: 10380]
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MUSSON (JEREMY) Up and Down Stairs The history of the country house servant. (£25) [ref: 10375]
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ROGAN (EUGENE) The Arabs: A History Charts the evolution of Arab identity from the Ottomans to the present day. (£25) [ref: 10384]
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SHIELDS (NANCY K.) Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive in South India The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive’s journey through Southern India between 1798-1800. (£16.99) [ref: 10378]
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WALMER (CHRISTIAN) Blood, Iron & Gold How the railways transformed the world. (£25) [ref: 10386]
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| Humour |
BOOTH (LAWRENCE) (ED.) What are the Butchers for? ‘And other Splendid cricket Quotations’ from Wisden (2009 £9.99) [ref: 10414]
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DOUGLAS (NORMAN) Some Limericks Once more in print (2009 £10) [ref: 10421]
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FREUD (CLEMENT) A Feast of Freud The best of Clement Freud’s writing (2009 £12.99) [ref: 10423]
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| Letters |
ELIOT (VALERIE, EDITOR) The Letters of T.S. Eliot, volume II Covering the period 1922-1925 (£35) [ref: 10367]
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| Philosophy |
DE BOTTON (ALAIN) A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary Journey through the days and nights of London’s biggest airport (2009 £8.99) [ref: 10422]
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| Poetry |
BUNTING (BASIL) The Poems Collection of the published work of Basil Bunting. (£30) [ref: 10403]
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| Politics |
MEYER (CHRISTOPHER) Getting Our Own Way Britain and diplomacy through the ages. (£18.99) [ref: 10383]
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| Reference |
ROGERS (ROBERT) Order! Order! A Parliamentary Miscellany The first miscellany of the Houses of Parliament (2009 £12.99) [ref: 10419]
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