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Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes

Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes

Author: Anthony Nott
ISBN: 9781473898912
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Having spent most of his service as a detective, Tony nott documents here his experiences and investigations.  Read More >>

Lincolnshire Air War

Lincolnshire Air War

Author: Martin King Lear
ISBN: 9781911596233
Format: Paperback
$20.67

The story of a 12 Squadron Lancaster Bomber during Operation Gisela.  Read More >>

Fearful Asymmetry: Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the Localization of Language, Paris, 1825-1879

Fearful Asymmetry: Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the Localization...

Author: Richard Leblanc ,  Richard Leblanc
ISBN: 9780773551329
Format: Hardback
$85.39

The history of research into the function of the brain and language in nineteenth-century France.  Read More >>

Documents That Changed the Way We Live

Documents That Changed the Way We Live

Author: Joseph Janes
ISBN: 9781538100332
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Documents that Changed the Way We Live looks at fifty stories, each of which describes a document, its creation...  Read More >>

Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography

Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically...

Author: Robert Macklin
ISBN: 9780733638794
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The stirring untold story of a true Australian hero who opened up the nation.  Read More >>

Arabia Felix

Arabia Felix

Author: Colin Thubron ,  James McFarlane
ISBN: 9781681370729
Format: Paperback
$32.99

On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea: a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor,...  Read More >>

Dead White Men

Dead White Men

Author: Shane Rhodes
ISBN: 9781552453452
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A culturally vital collection that interrogates the dead white men whose names litter our maps and monuments.  Read More >>

Forgotten Places

Forgotten Places

Author: Johanna Craven
ISBN: 9780994536495
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Van Diemen's Land, Australia, 1833. Eleven years ago, he cheated death. But will a woman on the run bring his...  Read More >>

Shackleton (A Ladybird Expert Book)

Shackleton (A Ladybird Expert Book)

Author: Ben Saunders
ISBN: 9780718187279
Format: Hardback
$19.99

An accessible, authoritative introduction for adult readers Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Shackleton...  Read More >>

The Green Bicycle Mystery: The Curious Death of Bella Wright

The Green Bicycle Mystery: The Curious Death of Bella...

Author: Antony M. Brown
ISBN: 9781907324697
Format: Paperback
$20.67

In 1919, the body of Bella Wright lies in a lonely lane in rural Leicestershire, after she was seen with a man on...  Read More >>

Not Your Average Nurse: From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career

Not Your Average Nurse: From 1970s London to Outback...

Author: Maggie Groff
ISBN: 9780143785347
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Not your Average Nurse: The Entertaining True Story of a Student Nurse in 1970s London

Not your Average Nurse: The Entertaining True Story...

Author: Maggie Groff
ISBN: 9780552174145
Format: Paperback
$43.96

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Walking With Houyhnhnms

Walking With Houyhnhnms

Author: D. A. Murray
ISBN: 9780995582408
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A true adventure story along the Roman Military Way, in the shadow of the Wall, told by three ponies - Roamer, Thorn...  Read More >>

The Man Who Would Be Jack: The Hunt for the Real Ripper

The Man Who Would Be Jack: The Hunt for the Real Ripper...

Author: David Bullock
ISBN: 9781786080219
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A STARTLING NEW BOOK THAT REVEALS THE IDENTITY OF THE REAL JACK THE RIPPER `Suspenseful prose, as good as any...  Read More >>

My Conflict with a Soviet Spy: The Story of the Ron Evans Spy Case

My Conflict with a Soviet Spy: The Story of the Ron...

Author: Robert Corfe
ISBN: 9781909421967
Format: Paperback
$33.61

An account of one of the most notorious Soviet spy episodes during the Cold War period of the mid-1960s that took...  Read More >>

The Book Nobody Read

The Book Nobody Read

Author: Owen Gingerich
ISBN: 9781784757601
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and bibliophilic quest, Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read...  Read More >>

Stories of the Great Turning

Stories of the Great Turning

Author: Peter Reason ,  Melanie Newman
ISBN: 9781785921957
Format: Paperback
$48.99

A collection of inspirational stories depicting issues of sustainability, community activism, and the environment....  Read More >>

Scenes from a Concsientious Objector's War: A Docu-Drama of the First World War

Scenes from a Concsientious Objector's War: A Docu-Drama...

Author: Dianne Pane
ISBN: 9781909421974
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A fictionalised account of Sgt. Hurcom's war in Mesopotamia in 1917 as medical orderly and conscientious objector....  Read More >>

A Victorian Lady in the Himalayas

A Victorian Lady in the Himalayas

Author: Jean Burnett
ISBN: 9781785451546
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Crossing the high Himalayan passes in the middle of winter on horseback is not for the faint-hearted. The Victorian...  Read More >>

Ice with Everything: In Climbing Mountains or Sailing the Seas One Often Has to Settle for Less Than One Hoped

Ice with Everything: In Climbing Mountains or Sailing...

Author: H.W. Tilman ,  Trevor Robertson
ISBN: 9781909461406
Format: Paperback
$31.05

H.W. Tilman's book Ice with Everything describes three voyages that attempt to reach East Greenland's Scoresby Sound,...  Read More >>

Nepal Himalaya: The Most Mountainous of a Singularly Mountainous Country

Nepal Himalaya: The Most Mountainous of a Singularly...

Author: H. W. Tilman ,  Ed Douglas
ISBN: 9781909461383
Format: Paperback
$31.05

During 1949 and 1950 H.W. Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal's Himalaya. He explored the Ganesh Himal,...  Read More >>

The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780008190057
Format: Paperback
$5.99

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

Death in Riyadh: Dark Secrets in Hidden Arabia

Death in Riyadh: Dark Secrets in Hidden Arabia

Author: Robert Corfe
ISBN: 9781909421950
Format: Paperback
$33.61

The true story of a public execution in Saudi Arabia interspaced with a businessman's observations on the culture...  Read More >>

In Mischief's Wake Paperback: In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.

In Mischief's Wake Paperback: In the joy of the actors...

Author: Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar ,  Bob Shepton
ISBN: 9781909461369
Format: Paperback
$31.05

In Mischief’s Wake gives H.W. Tilman’s account of the loss of Mischief, the pilot cutter in which he had sailed...  Read More >>

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