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ISBN: 9780099287476 - Wilkie Collins Bestseller Wilkie Collins
Peter Ackroyd

ISBN10: 0099287471  ISBN13: 9780099287476
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Mar 2013
Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children... More

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ISBN: 9780141044675 - Thomas Becket Bestseller Thomas Becket
John Guy

ISBN10: 0141044675  ISBN13: 9780141044675
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a draper's merchant, he was befriended and favoured by Henry II and quickly ascended the rungs of power and privilege. He led 700 knights into battle, brokered peace between warring... More

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ISBN: 9780857860743 - Leaving Alexandria Bestseller Leaving Alexandria
Richard Holloway

ISBN10: 0857860747  ISBN13: 9780857860743
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2013
At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been... More

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ISBN: 9780099575139 - The Black Count The Black Count
Tom Reiss

ISBN10: 0099575132  ISBN13: 9780099575139
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
Shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Alex Dumas' own father, Alex - the son of a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private in the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had... More

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ISBN: 9780857204899 - What the Grown-ups Were Doing Bestseller What the Grown-ups Were Doing
Michele Hanson

ISBN10: 0857204890  ISBN13: 9780857204899
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Apr 2013
A hilarious memoir of growing up in 1950s suburbia by one of the UK's best-loved columnists. Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns... More

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ISBN: 9780393346527 - Finding Camlann Finding Camlann
Sean Pidgeon

ISBN10: 0393346528  ISBN13: 9780393346527
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Feb 2013
Not since A. S. Byatt's Possession has there been a novel so perfectly attuned to readers who love the history and mythology of the British Isles. Not since A.S. Byatt's Possession has there been a novel so perfectly attuned to readers who love... More

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ISBN: 9780393073775 - The Bonobo and the Atheist The Bonobo and the Atheist
Frans De Waal

ISBN10: 0393073777  ISBN13: 9780393073775
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2013
In this engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de Waal offers an illuminating new perspective on human nature. Bringing together his pioneering research on primate behaviour, the latest findings in evolutionary biology and insights... More

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ISBN: 9781780225111 - Shadows of the Workhouse Bestseller Shadows of the Workhouse
Jennifer Worth

ISBN10: 1780225113  ISBN13: 9781780225111
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jan 2013
In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House ... More

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ISBN: 9780141034669 - The Crocodile by the Door The Crocodile by the Door
Selina Guinness

ISBN10: 0141034661  ISBN13: 9780141034669
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
When the author and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with her uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor, they had no idea what the coming years held for them: a crash course in farming, tense discussions with helicopter-borne property... More

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ISBN: 9780593069646 - This Boy Bestseller This Boy
Alan Johnson

ISBN10: 0593069641  ISBN13: 9780593069646
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd Bantam Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. This book tells the story of Alan's mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, and domestic violence... More