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| Dorothy Hodgkin; A life [h] by Georgina Ferry | Richard Feynman. A life in Science [h] by John and Mary Gibbin (the picture is different) | Feynman lectures on computation [h] Ed. by Anthony Hey and Robin Allen | |
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| Proving Einstein right. The daring expeditions that changed how we look at the universe [h] by James Gates and Cathie Pelletier | The dark side of Isaac Newton. Science's greatest fraud? [h] by Nick Kollerstrom | On a grander scale. The outstanding life of Sir Christopher Wren [h] by Lisa Jardine | Ingenious Pursuits. Building the scientific revolution [h] by Lisa Jardine |
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| How to build a universe [p] by Brian Cox and Robin Ince | How the World works. Chemistry [p] by Anne Rooney | On the origin of evolution. Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA [h] by John and Mary Gibbin | Metazoa. Animal minds and the birth of consciousness [h] by Peter Godfrey-Smith |
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| The Messier album. An observer's handbook. [h] by John H Masslas and Evered Kreimer | Science for life. A manual for better living [p] by Brian Clegg | The Oxford book of modern science writing [h] by Richard Dawkins | Mapping Mars [h] by Oliver Morton |
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| Flights of fancy. Defying gravity by design and evolution [h] by Richard Dawkins. illustrated by Jana Lenzova | Otherlands. A world in the making [h] by Thomas Halliday | The space book. From the begining to the end of time. 250 milestones in the history of space and astronomy [h] by Jim Bell | Universe. A journey to the edge of the cosmos [h]. by Nicolas Cheetham |
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| The man who knew too much; the strange and inventive life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703 [h] by Stephen Inwood | The greatest show on earth. The evidence for evolution [h] by Richard Dawkins
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The ancestor's tale. A pilgrimage to the dawn of life [h] by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong
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The god delusion [h] by Richard Dawkins (my dust jacket is red
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| How zoologists organize things [h] by David Bainbridge | Life changing [h] by Helen Pilcher | Science in the soul [p] by Richard Dawkins | A comprehensive guide to INSECTS of Britain and Ireland [hp] by Paul D Brock |
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The backyard astronomer's guide [h] by Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer |
Eye of the Shoal [p] by Helen Scales | Collins Stars and Planets [p] by Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion | Audubon's Elephant [h] by Duff Hart-Davis |
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| Isambard Kingdom Brunel; the life of an engineering genius [p] by Colin Maggs | The Aeroplane in Romance of reality series [p] by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper | The Fellowship and the stor of a scientific revolution [h] by John Gribbin | Horizon [H] by Barry Lopez |
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| Mind in Science; a history of explanations in psychology and physics (H) by Richard L Grefory | Wild shots; a new look at photographing the wildlife of Britain [H] by Chris Packham | The Great Builder [H] by Kenneth Powell | The aircraft book; the definitive visual history [H] Dorling Kindersley |
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| The hunt for vulcan; how einstein destroyed a planet and deciphered the universe (P) by Thomas Levenson | No need for geniuses; revolutionary science in the age of the guillotine [p] by Steve Jones | Pebbles on the beach; a spotter's guide [p] by Clarence Ellis | Out of the dhadow of a giant; Hooke, Halley and the birth of british science [h] by John and Mary Gribbin |
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| The invention of nature: the adventures of Humboldt [H] By Andrea Wulf | Weeds [h] by Richard Mabey
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Insects of Britain and Europe. Collins Field Guide by M. Chinery [P] | The invertebrata 2nd and 4th editions [H]by Borradaile etc (BEPS) |
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| The oxford book of flowerless plants (1966) [H] By Brightman and Nicholson | A sting in the tale (p) by Dave Goulson | A buzz in the meadow (h) by Dave Goulson | The Cabaret of Plants: botany and the imagination [H] By Richard Mabey |
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| SAGE A life of J.D. Bernal [H] by Maurice Goldsmith | Microbes and Man by John Postgate [H] | The outer reaches of life by John Postgate [P] | To explain the world:the discovery of modern science [H] |
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| The Charm of Birds (1927) [H] by Lord Grey of Falloden | Gilbert White; a biography of the author of The Natural History of Selbourne [H] by Richard Mabey | Life unfolding; how the human body creates itself [H]. by Davies, Jamie A. | The Geek Manifesto; why science matters [P] by Mark Henderson |
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| Drug Discovery and Development: Technology in Transition [P] By Humphrey P. Rang | Rang and Dale's Pharmacology (7th, P]. H.P. Rang | Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine [P] By Dr Paul Offit |
How Science Works [h] by Judith Hann |
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| Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare By Imogen Evans etc P 2011 | Three Miles Down [H] By James Hamilton-Paterson | Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients [P] By Ben Goldacre |
Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants [H] by Nicholas Harberd |
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| Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life [H] by
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Wonders of the Solar System [H] by Brian Cox and Cohen |
The Great Naturalists [H] Ed by Robert Huxley | Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life[P] by Richard Cohen |
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History [H 1989] Stephen Jay Gould |
How to Know the Protozoa (Pictured Key Nature) [Spiral-bound 2nd. 1979]. Jahn, T.L. |
Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind: Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn (H 2003) by John Prebble and Bruce Weber | The Biology of Protozoa [P 1973/1981] |
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Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England (H, 2009) |
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (H, 2007) |
Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore (P) | Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren and Richard Mabey (H) |
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| Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial (P) by Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst. 2009.*** | The Oxford Companion to the Mind (H) by Richard L. Gregory (Editor) | The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (H) by Richard Dawkins*** | Bad Science (P) by Ben Goldacre*** |
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Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind (P) by V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee. 2005. |
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (H) by Richard Dawkins***
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (P)by Oliver Morton***
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| The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (H) by Richard Holmes | WHITE, Gilbert: The Natural History of Selborne. The Cresset Press, 1947. Ed. by James Fisher. Illus by Claire Oldham. (H). | Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees (Hardcover) by Richard Mabey |
Birds Britannica (Hardcover) by Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey |
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| Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (P) by Richard Mabey |
Weeds [H] by Richard Mabey | The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (Hardcover) by Richard Dawkin |
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (H) by Richard Dawkins |
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| Audubon's Birds of America John James Audubon | A Brief History of Time (Illustrated) (H) by S.W. Hawking | Eight Little Piggies 1ST Edition (H) by StephenJay Gould. Picture is of paperback edition |
The Universe: A Biography (P) by John Gribbin |
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| Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time (P) by Kitty Ferguson |
The Nature of Britain (H) by Alan Titchmarsh |
The Earth: An Intimate History (P) by Richard Fortey |
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity (P) by James Lovelock |
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| The Oxford Companion to the Mind (H) by Richard L. Gregory (Editor) | Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind (P) by V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee |
The Emerging Mind: The BBC Reith Lectures 2003 (P) by Vilayanur Ramachandran |
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Before the Fall-out: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (P) |
Medicine Balls: Consultations with the World's Greatest TV Doctor (P) by Phil Hammond |
Feynman Lectures on Computation |
AN ENGLISH FOREST Richard Kraus. 1982 |
Celestial objects for common telescopes |
Lectures on Biostatistics: Introduction to Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine (P) by D. Colquhoun. 1971 | Microbe Hunters |
A Green History of the World (Paperback) by Clive Ponting |
| The origin of species, by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Darwin, Charles. Murray 1902. |
Elementary Treatise on the Wave Theory of Light
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Popular lectures on scientific subjects by Hermann von Helmholtz. Translated by Atkinson. Longmans 1873.
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Microbes, Ferments And Moulds. (Hardcover) by E L. Trouessart. 1886. 1st Edition. |
| MANUEL D HISTOIRE NATURELLE MÉDICALE.LANESSAN, J. L. de. Ist part, Botanique generale. 1879. | Evolution of Man and Society by Cyril Dean Darlington. (H). 1969. | Microbes, Ferments and Moulds. (H).
(vol. 57 of the International Scientific Series) Trouessart, E L.1886. 1st Ed. |
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| There and back? A celebration of bird migration [h] Ed. by Andy Brown and Michael Warren | |||
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| British birds in their habitats [H] by Ron Freethy | Audubon's elephant [h] by Duff Hart-Davis | Birds. The art of ornithology [h] by Jonathan Elphick | Winter birds [h] by Lars Jonsson |
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| Mr Lear; A life of art and nonsense H] by Jenny Uglow | The birds of Borneo [H] by Bertram E Smythies | Travel diaries of a naturalist [H] by Peter Scott | As Kingfishers catch fire [h] by Alex Preston and Neil Gower |
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| The Shell birdbook by James Fisher | The art of bird illustration by Maureen Lambourne | Fine bird books [h] by Sacheverell Sitwell | The miracle of flight [h] by Stephen Dalton (diffft cover as early edition 1977 |
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| Birds in a cage. Warburg Germany 1941 By Derek Niemann [P] | A journey through birds [H] by James Macdonald Lockhart | The new wildfowler in the 1970's [H] Ed by Noel Sedgewick et al | |
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| Roberts Birds of South Africa [H]. Rev by McLachlan & Liversidge (1963). Ill. by Lighton | British Birds in Colour Ed RSR Fitter [H]. 1951. Ill by John Gould & Eric Hosking | Field guide to birds of britain and N Europe 1988 By Detlef singer (P) | Birds In England. An Account of the State of Our Bird-life and a Criticism of Bird Protection by EM Nicholson 1926 [H] with woodcuts by Fitch Daglish |
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| Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise [H] by David Attenborough and Errol Fuller | The Charm of Birds (1927) [H] by Lord Grey of Falloden | Birds of Asia (1969 H). Text by Rutgers; Lithographs, John Gould | Birds and People [H]. Mark Cocker and David Tippling (photos) |
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| Bewick's British Birds [H] | Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds [H] Ed by Jonathan Elphick | The Birdman: memories of birds [H] By Henry Douglas-Home | Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick [H]] By Jenny Uglow |
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| Collins New Naturalist Library (113) - Bird Migration by Ian Newton (H) 2010. | The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee (P) | While Flocks Last by Charlie Elder (P) | The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2010 Hilary and David Cromack. Buckingham Press |
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| Crow Country (H) by Mark Cocker | The birds of the British Isles and their eggs (Wayside and woodland series) Series I [H] by TA Coward |
The birds of the British Isles and their eggs (Wayside and woodland series) Series II [H] by TA Coward 1923 2nd ed. | The birds of the British Isles Migration and habits (Wayside and woodland series) Series III [H] by TA Coward 1926 1st ed. |
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| Thorburn's Birds (Hardcover) by Archibald Thorburn |
Birds Britannica (Hardcover) by Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey |
Collins Pocket Guide to British Birds (H)1952 by R. S. R. Fitter & R. A. Richardson |
Birds of Europe: With North Africa and the Middle East (Helm Field Guides) (P) by Lars Jonsson |
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Audubon's Birds of America John James Audubon |
THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON FOR THE BIRDS OF AMERICA (H). 2 Vols. by John Audubon |
National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North America (Paperback, 2nd edition) |
BRITISH BIRDS (H)
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Familiar Wild Birds [4 volumes] By |
British birds and their Eggs. T.A. Coward. Illustrated Thornurn and others. vol 2. 5th edition. 1932 | ||
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| The Oberver's book pf British Birds by S.Vere Benson (H) 1952 | |||
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| Birds of India Woodcock paperback |
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Helm Identification Guides) (Hardcover) by Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp |
Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Helm Field Guides) (Paperback) by Carol Inskipp, Richard Grimmett, Tim Inskipp |
How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher: To the Greater Glory of Life (Paperback) by Simon Barnes |
A Natural History of British Birds |
The Charm of Birds (Hardcover) |
A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Collins Field Guide) (Hardcover, 1980) by Roger Tory Peterson (Author), Guy Mountfort (Author), P. A. D. Hollom |
Birds & Men |
A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan (Hardcover) |
The Birds of China (Hardcover) |
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| Audubon: a biography (Hardcover) by John Chancellor |
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS (East of the Rockies) |
The World of Roger Tory Peterson: An Authorized Biography (Hardcover) |
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| The tiger and the ruby. A journey to the other side of British India [h] by Kief Hillsbery | |||
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| Koh-I-Noor; the history of the world's most infamous diamond [p] by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand | The British in India; three centuries of ambition and experience [h] by David Gilmour | The anarchy [h]by William Dalrymple | Viceroys. The creation of the British [h] by Christopher Lee |
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| India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy By Ramachandra Guha H 2008 | The tears of the rajahs by Ferdinand Mount (P) | Partition; the story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947 [h] by Barney White-Spunner | Inglorious Empire; what the British did to India [h] by Shashi Tharoor |
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (Hardcover) |
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity (Paperback) by Amartya Sen |
India: A History (Paperback) |
India Discovered: The Recovery of a Lost Civilization (Paperback)by John Keay |
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| The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company (Paperback) by John Keay | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple |
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India (Paperback) by William Dalrymple |
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (Paperback) by William Dalrymple |
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The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India (Paperback) |
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover) by Alex von Tunzelmann |
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Hardcover) |
India: A Million Mutinies Now (Hardcover) by V.S. Naipaul |
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| India's Unending Journey: Finding Balance in a Time of Change (Hardcover) by Mark Tully |
India in Slow Motion (Hardcover) by Mark Tully |
India Britannica (Hardcover) 1983 by Geoffrey Moorhouse Brilliant book on influence of British on India and of India on British | |
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The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi Reminiscences (Hardcover) by Lady Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, Sir Thomas Metcalfe. Ed by Kaye, M. M |
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named (Hardcover) by John Keay |
The Seige of Delhi (Hardcover) Folio society 1984by Richard Barter
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Tirumula, Tirupati |
Traveller's India An Anthology. (H) KAUL, H.K. 1979 |
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| Richard Feynman. A life in Science [h] by John and Mary Gibbin (the picture is different) | Politics on thedge; a memoir from within [h] by Rory Stewart | ||
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| Housman country. Into the heart of Englans [h] by Peter Parker | Chasing lost time. The life of C.K.Scott Moncrieff [h] by Jean Findlay | Dorothy Hodgkin; A life [h] by Georgina Ferry | On a grander scale. The outstanding life of Sir Christopher Wren [h] by Lisa Jardine |
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| The man who knew too much; the strange and inventive life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703 [h] by Stephen Inwood | Archibald wavell; the life and times of an imperial servant [h] by Sdrian Fort | Orwell; the life [h] by D J Taylor | Wingate Pasha. The life of general sir Francis Reginald Wingate 1861-1953 [h] by RJM Pugh |
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| Adventures of a young naturalist [h] by David Attenborough | Ludo and the power of the book [p] by Richard Ingrams | Lincoln [h] by David Herbert Donald | A promised land [h] by Barack Obama |
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| A schoolmaster's war [h] by Jonathan Ree; Harry Ree. British agent in the French resistance | Educator most extraordinary; The life and achievements ofHarry Ree, 1914-1991 [p] by Jonathan M. Daube | House of music. Raising the Kanneh-Masons [h] by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason | An Appetite for wonder. The making of a scientist. A memoir [h] by Richard Dawkins |
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| Educated by Tara Westover [p] | Looking back; an autobiographical excursion by Norman Douglas [h] (original cover) | The best of A.A. Gill [h] by A.A.Gill | Evelyn Waugh; a life revisited [h] by Philip Eade |
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| Quentin Blake; in the theatre of the imagination - an artist at work [h] by Ghislaine Kenyon | Fingers in the Sparkle Jar [h] by Chris Packham | Richard Nixon; the life [h] by John A. Farrell | Abinger Harvest and England's Pleasant Land [h] by E.M. Forster |
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| War and Turpentine [p] by Stefan Hertmans | The Marches [h] by Rory Stewart | Mr Lear A life of Art and nonsense [H] by Jenny Uglow | Isambard Kingdom Brunel; the life of an engineering genius [p] by Colin Maggs |
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| Victoria; a life [H] by A.N. Wilson | Citizen Clem; A biography of Attlee [H] by John Bew | Biographical memoirs of the Royal Society [h] Vol 61 2015 | Biographical memoirs of the Royal Society [h] Vol 62 2016 |
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| Party amimals (H) by David Aaronovitch | The noise of time (H) by Julian Barnes (a novel based on Shostakovich) | Barack Obama; Dreams from my father [H] By Barack Obama | Kate Adie; The kindness of strangers [P] bu Kate Adie |
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| E.M. Forster: A Life (H) Two volumes by Philip Nicholas Furbank |
Avoid Boring People ane other lessons from a life in sience [H] By James D Watson | The invention of nature: the adventures of Humboldt [H] By Andrea Wuldf | Allanbrooke P] By David Fraser |
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| AGE A life of J.D. Bernal [H] by Maurice Goldsmith | The view from here [P] by Joan Bakewell | This Boy a memoir of a childhood [P] By Alan Johnson | The unexpected professor; an oxford life in books [H] by John Carey |
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| Inside the Centre; the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer [H]. By Ray Monk | Microbes, music and me; a life in science [p] by John Postgate | Uncle tungsten memories of a chemical boyhood [h] by Oliver Sacks | |
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| Red carpets and other banana skins [P] by Rupert Everett | Vanished years [P] by Rupert Everett | The golden door; letters to America [p] by A.A. Gill | Gilbert White [H] by Richard Mabey |
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Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World [H] By James Hamilton-Paterson |
Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick [H]] By Jenny Uglow | Dispatches From the Sofa: The Collected Wisdom of Frank Skinner [Hardcover] |
Life on Air [P] by David Attenborough |
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| I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis (P) by Frank Wynne | Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind: Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn (H 2003) by John Prebble and Bruce Weber |
The Great Naturalists [H] Ed by Robert Huxley | Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia [H] by Michael Korda |
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| Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Wilson | Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: an Autobiography (Paperback) by J.G. Ballard | Nothing to be Frightened of (Paperback) by Julian Barnes | Unimagined: A Muslim Boy Meets the West (Paperback) by Imran Ahmad |
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The World Is What It Is:The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Hardcover) |
Darwin by Adrian Desmond, James R. Moore |
Indian Summer:The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover) by Alex von Tunzelmann |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Paperback) by Mohsin Hamid |
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| Force of Nature: Life of Linus Pauling (Hardcover) by Tom Hager |
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Eminent Lives) by Matt Ridley |
Double Helix: Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Hardcover) |
Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA (Hardcover) by Jan Witkowski, John Inglis, J. Sambrook |
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| Einstein: His Life and Universe (Paperback) by Walter Isaacson |
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (Paperback) by Clive James |
Untold Stories (Hardcover) by Alan Bennett |
Writing Home by Alan Bennett |
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| Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future (Paperback) by Jennifer Uglow |
Benjamin Britten: A Biography (Paperback) by Humphrey Carpenter |
A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Hardback) |
Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics (Paperback) by Matthew Parris |
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| Line of Fire (P) by Brian Paddick
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Previous Convictions: Writing with Intent (Paperback) by A.A. Gill |
Edith Sitwell: Taken Care Of, an Autobiography by Edith Sitwell (Hardcover 1965) |
Potter on Potter Ed. by Graham Fuller. 1976. |
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| Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph (Hardcover) by T.E. Lawrence | LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS (Hardcover) by ROBERT GRAVES illustrations edited by Eric Kennington. Jonathan Cape 1927 | ||
T. E. Lawrence: A New Biography (Hardcover) |
Revolt in the Desert by T E Lawrence 1927 Folio Society 1986/2007 |
The Letters of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia (Hardcover) |
Autobiography G. K. Chesterton H 1936 |
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Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton, with portraits in photogravure by G. K. Chesterton |
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (Hardcover) Folio Society 1968 2 volumes |
Looking back; An autobiographical excursion |
Paul Scott: A Life |
Pasternak: A Biography |
Beethoven and the Age of Revolution by Frida Knight |
Great Morning - Being the Third Volume of Left Hand, Right Hand! - an Autobiography |
The life and travels of General Grant (H) by Joel Tyler Headley 1979 1st edn. |
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| Mr Lear A life of Art and Nonsence [H] by Jenny Uglow | Brewer's Famous quotations [H] by Nigel Rees | Quentin Blake; in the theatre of the imagination; an artist at work [H] by Ghislaine Kenyon | 100 things that caught my eye [h] by Chris Packham |
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| I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis (P) by Frank Wynne | Just My Type: A Book About Fonts [H] By Simon Garfield *** | A History of pictures [h] by Hockney, D & Gayford, M | Orchestral performance; a guide for conductors and players [p] by Christopher Adey |
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The Oxford Companion to Art (H) by Harold Osborne (Editor) |
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble (Editor) |
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy. |
British Architects & Craftsmen; a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600-1830 by Sacheverell Sitwell |
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ARCHITECTURE IN BRITAIN TODAY (H) by Michael Webb 1969
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Stanley Spencer; a Biography
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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it (H, 2009) by Philip Ball |
Journeying Boy; the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (P) ed by John Evans |
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Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend (H) by Elizabeth Wilson |
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The Violoncello And Its History by Wasielewski W.J.V. |
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| Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865, comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England; translated by Rachel (Scott Russell) Holmes and Eleanor Holmes; annotated, and the translation revised, by Ernest Newman (H) by Hector (1803-1869) Berlioz. 1932. | |||
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold [P] by Geoffrey Robertson |
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Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World [H] By James Hamilton-Paterson |
HERO The life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda 2010 | All Hell Let Loose; The world at war 1939-1945 by Max Hastings | |
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Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 (H,2009) |
Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem) by David Kynaston (P) | The Worst Date Ever: or How It Took a Comedy Writer to Expose Africa's Secret War: War Crimes, Hollywood Heart-throbs and Other Abominations by Jane Sussmann (P 2009) |
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Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq (Paperback) by Rory Stewart |
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Hardcover) |
Vietnam: A Historyby Stanley Karnow P 1994 |
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Paperback)by Simon Schama | The Ascent of Man |
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Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon (Hardcover) by John Hemming |
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (H) by Vincent Virga Library of Congress. 2007 | The Great Explorers [H 2010] Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
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Bad news [p]. By Edward St Aubyn.No 2 in Patrick Melrose set |
Some hope [p]. By Edward St Aubyn.No 3 in Patrick Melrose set |
Mother's milk [p]. By Edward St Aubyn.No 4 in Patrick Melrose set |
At last [p]. By Edward St Aubyn.No 5 in Patrick Melrose set |
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| In one person [p] by John Irving | Peaches for monsieur le cure [p] by Joanne Harris | Sweet tooth [p] by Ian McEwan | A foreign country [p] by Charles Cumming | A tale for the time being [p] by Ruth Ozeki | |
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Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (Kurt Wallander) difft picture |
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Flight behaviour [p] by Barbara Kingsolver | Telegraph avenue [p] by Michael Chabon | |
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Alone in Berlin[P] by Hans Fallada |
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Last Night in Twisted River (P) by John Irving | A Son Of The Circus [H] by John Irving |
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The Children's Book (P) By A.S. Byatt |
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| Berlin Noir ('March Violets', 'The Pale Criminal' and 'A German Requiem') (P) by Philip Kerr | Asta's Book (Paperback) by Barbara Vine | A Male Child (P) By Paul Scott |
A Bit on the Side (P) By william Trevor |
Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories (P) By Annie Proulx |
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Day (P) by A.L. Kennedy** |
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Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories (P) by Annie Proulx |
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Zugzwang (Paperback) by Ronan Bennett |
Darkmans (Paperback) by Nicola Barker |
Vonnegut Omnibus: "Welcome to the Monkey House", "Palm Sunday" (Paperback) by Kurt Vonnegut |
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Everyman (Paperback) by Philip Roth |
Against the Day (Paperback) by Thomas Pynchon |
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback) by Alaa Al Aswany |
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Notes on a Scandal (Paperback) by Zoe Heller |
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Be Near Me (Paperback) by Andrew O'Hagan |
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Revolutionary Road (Paperback) by Richard Yates |
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When We Were Orphans (Paperback) by Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Children of Men (Paperback) by P.D. James |
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| Lenin in Zurich - Chapters. by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.Translated By H.T. Willetts)(H). 1976. | Maurice by E.M. Forster. H.1971. | Humboldt's Gift (H). by Saul Bellow 1975. | The Redundancy of CourageTimothy Mo. 1991. 1st edn. | ||
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The Kite Runner (Paperback) |
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Paperback) by Khaled Hosseini |
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback) |
The King's Last Song (Paperback) by Geoff Ryman |
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Home (Paperback) by Manju Kapur |
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| Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie(H). 1982 BCA edn. | The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (H) 1988. 1st ed. | The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (H). 1995. 1st edn. | Shame by Salman Rushdie (H). 1983. | |
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| RACKHAM, Arthur / SHAKESPEARE, William A MIDSUMMER NIGHt'S DREAM Heinemann, 1908 | Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles. RACKHAM / CARROLL (Lewis). 1907. NB Illustration is same as the English version shown here. |
RACKHAM , Arthur / IRVING, Washington RIP VAN WINKLE Heinemann, 1907 | Winnie the Pooh: Complete Collection of Stories and Poems (Hardcover) by A.A. Milne (Author), E.H. Shepard (Illustrator) |
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| Paradise Lost. By JohnMilton. Edited, with Notes and Life of Milton By Robert Vaughn. 1880. Illustrated by Gustav Dore. Elephant folio size. | |||
| FOLIO SOCIETY | History, Travel and World Affairs | India | Biography | The Arts | Natural World & Science |
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Folio 60: A Bibliography 1947 - 2006. 2007. |
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| Behind the wall by Colin Thubron | |||
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| No Cloak, No Dagger By Benjamin Cowburn |
Captain cook's voyages selected by G. Williams | The ascent of man by Jacob Bronowski | The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian |
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Crusader Castles by T. E. Lawrence |
Revolt in the Desert by TE Lawrence | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby |
Five Days in London, May 1940 John Lukacs |
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| THE SILK ROAD by FRANCES WOOD |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: 2 sets Vol. 1-4; vol. 5-8. |
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James |
The Pax Britannica Trilogy: Heaven's Command; Pax Britannica; Farewell the Trumpets [3 volumes] by James Morris |
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| A History of England 1945-2000 By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | Winston S. Churchill: The second World War. Two 3-Volume Boxed Sets |
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark 1999 |
Rights of Man Thomas Paine |
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The Victorians |
William Russell: Special Correspondent of the Times by William Howard RussellEd. by Roger Hudson. 1995 |
From Atlanta to the SeaSherman, William T. 1961 | At the Court of the Borgia.By His Master of Ceremonies Johann Burchard. Edited and Translated By Geoffrey Parker. 1963. |
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| The Twelve Caesars Translated by Robert Graves. Wood engravings by Raymond Hawthorn. 1957 |
Barrow, Sir John - The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical seizure of HMS Bounty, its causes and consequences. 1976 | Firmont Abbe De - A Journal of the Terror. 1955. | Defoe Daniel - A Journal of the Plague Year. 1960 |
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo. 1968. |
Paris in the Revolution by Reay Tannahill. 1966 | The Private the Lives of the Tudor Monarchs Falkus Christopher. 1974. |
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge Of Courage. 1964. |
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| A HISTORY OF CHINESE CIVILISATION 2 VOLUMES By JACQUES GERNET TRANSLATED BY J.R. FOSTER & CHARLES HARTMAN Folio society 2002 |
Revolt in the Desert by T E Lawrence 1927 Folio Society 1986/2007 |
The Third Crusade: An Eye Witness Account of the Campaigns of Richard Coeur-de-Lion in Cyprus and the Holy Land. Edited and Introduced By Kenneth Fenwick. 1961 |
Scott's Last Expedition. The Personal Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, on his Journey to the South Pole. Introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs.SCOTT, Captain R.F. 1964 |
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| The Raj: An Eye-Witness History of the British in India by Roger Hudson (Editor), Raleigh Trevelyan (Introduction) | Myths and Legends of India [Folio Society] (Hardcover) Selected and re-told by William Radice. Includes the Mahabharata | India: A History by John Keay. 2 vols. 2003 |
The Seige Of Delhi Mutiny Memories Of An Old Officer Richard Barter. 1984 |
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| Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems [H] by Gslileo Galilei | The age of wonder by Richard Holmes | ||
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| My Life by Thomas Bewick | A History of British Birds byy Thomas Bewick |
How the mind works by Steven Pinker | STRUCTURES or why things don't fall down by J.E. Gordon |
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| The Natural History of Selborne Gilbert White 1789/2009 | The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins |
The ten most beautiful experiments by George Johnson 2011 | The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins 2011 |
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| Life: An Unauthorised biography; A natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on earth. Richard Fortey, 2008 | The Earth - An Intimate History Richard Fortey 2004/2011 | The Voyage of HMS Beagle Charles Darwin | History of Western Science John Gribbin |
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| Relativity Albert Einstein | The Secret Life of Trees Colin Tudge | Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. 2000 |
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals |
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Colour Victoria Finlay |
The Nude Kenneth Clark 1956/2010 |
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| Michelangelo Howard Hibbard |
Leonardo da Vinci by Kenneth Clark |
The Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Paintings by Martin Bailey |
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin Introduction by Jan Morris 2001 |
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| Painter of Passion; the Journal of Eugene Delacroix Ed. by Hubert Wellington 1995 |
The Arabian Nights. Tales from the thousand and one nights Illustrated by E J DETMOLD. 1999 | The Itinerants Society for circulating art exhibitions (1870-1923)H. | Rembrandt van Rijn. Paintings, drawings and etchingsLambourne, Nigel (ed) |
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| My Life by Thomas Bewick | Joseph Banks; a life by Patrick O'Brian | John Adams by James Grant | Brief lives by John Aubrey |
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| If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf (Translator), Jane Joseph (Illustrator) |
Klemperer, Victor - The Diaries of Victor Klemperer: I Shall Bear Witness 1933-1941, To the Bitter End 1942 - 1945. 2006. | Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson |
Allingham; The diaries |
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Painter of Passion; the Journal of Eugene Delacroix. Ed. by Hubert Wellington. 1995 |
The trial and execution of Socrates by Plato. 1972 |
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey.1967 | My Life on the Plains or Personal Experiences with Indians by Custer General G A. 1963. |
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The Life of Admiral Christopher Columbus By His Son Ferdinand Translated and Annoted By Benjamin Keen. 1959 |
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Drawings by Edward Ardizzone) by Robert Louis STEVENSON. 1967.
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The Life and Death of Thomas Becket. William FitzStephen his clerk. Ed by Georg eGreenaway. 1962 |
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| A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman | Black mischief by Evelyn waugh | The diary of a nobody by G & W Grossmith | |
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| The outsider by Albert Camus | Camberwell Beauty and other stories by V.S. Pritchett | Herzog by Saul Bellow | The Warden by anthony Trollope |
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| Disgrace [2011] By J.M. Coetzee | Zuleika Dobson [2008] By Max Beerbohm | The Tempest by William Shakespeare |
The New York trilogy by Paul Auster |
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| Beyond the Pale & Other Stories [2010] By William Trevor |
On the Road [2010] By Jack Kerouac |
The jewel in the Crown [1966/2009] 4 volumes Paul Scott | The Periodic Table byPrimo Levi |
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| CATCH 22 by Joseph Heller, iLLUSTRATIONS, Neil Packer Folio Society H 2004 |
Rudyard Kipling Collected Short Stories Folio Society |
Le Grand Meaulnes |
Lark Rise to Candleford |
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo. 1975 |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Illustrated by Lambourne, Nigel - The Brothers Karamazov. 1964 |
Goodbye to Berlin Christopher Isherwood, |
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| A Passage to India (Hardcover) by E M Forster. 1983. | Arnim Elizabeth von - The Enchanted April 2002 | GODDEN, Rumer - The Greengage Summer. 2000 | MIDDLEMARCH (folio society) (Hardcover) by GEORGE ELIOT (Author), robin jacques (Illustrator). 1972 |
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| The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 2006. | Bronte, Ann - The tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1966. | Scarlet and BlackStendahl. 1965. | The Disinherited by Benito Perez Galdos. 1976. |
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| The Magic Mountain. By Thomas Mann. Illustrated by Leonard rosoman. 2000. | Slaughterhouse-Five. By Kurt Vonnegut 2006. Illustrations by john Holder | ||
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| I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Folio Society Edition (Hardcover) by Maya Angelou. 2000. | Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.1964.
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Three Stories Bartleby Benito Cereno Billy Budd by Herman Melville Garrick Palmer (Illustrator). 1967 | Les Enfants terribles by Jean Cocteau ; translated by Rosamond Lehmann ; with, Soixante dessins pour 'Les Enfants terribles' by Jean Cocteau. 1976. |
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| The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Trans. by K. R Mackenzie. Engravings by John Flaxman. 1979 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems by Samuel Taylor. Folio Poets. Engravings by Mirian Macgregor. 2003 |
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