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The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover

Author: Sybille Bedford ,  Thomas Grant
ISBN: 9781907970979
Format: Paperback
$14.99

The first full-scale literary trial in Britain's history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille...  Read More >>

Havera: The Story of an Island

Havera: The Story of an Island

Author: Christine De Luca ,  Pauleen Wiseman
ISBN: 9780993274053
Format: Mixed media product
$51.75

The island of Havera, one of a host of small sparsely populated islands dotted around the Shetland coast, was unique...  Read More >>

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse:...

Author: Piu Eatwell
ISBN: 9781631492310
Format: Paperback
$42.11

A Book Riot Best Book of the Year Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (History/Biography) “It’s Downton Abbey meets...  Read More >>

The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others

The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of...

Author: Prof. Angela V. John
ISBN: 9781910901687
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The town of Port Talbot has long been seen (quite literally) as synonymous with the steel industry. Yet it also...  Read More >>

JFK: The Smoking Gun

JFK: The Smoking Gun

Author: Colin McLaren
ISBN: 9780733636417
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Assassination? Conspiracy? Evidence of the shocking truth is finally revealed. 'Shocking new details' HERALD SUN...  Read More >>

The Sins of Jack Saul: The True Story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street Scandal

The Sins of Jack Saul: The True Story of Dublin Jack...

Author: Glenn Chandler
ISBN: 9781786237675
Format: Paperback
$29.76

Biography of Victorian male prostitute  Read More >>

Ghost Variations: The Strangest Detective Story In The History Of Music

Ghost Variations: The Strangest Detective Story In The...

Author: Jessica Duchen
ISBN: 9781783529827
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A world spiralling towards war. A composer descending into madness. And a devoted woman struggling to keep her faith...  Read More >>

Two Mountains and a River Paperback: I Made a Resolve Not to Begin Climbing Until Assured by a Plague of Flies That Summer Had Really Come

Two Mountains and a River Paperback: I Made a Resolve...

Author: Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar ,  Gerda Pauler
ISBN: 9781909461307
Format: Paperback
$31.05

H.W. Tilman’s Two Mountains and a River sees him trek across Nepal, China, Pakistan and other areas of Asia, including...  Read More >>

Mischief Goes South Paperback: Every herring should hang by its own tail

Mischief Goes South Paperback: Every herring should...

Author: Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar ,  Skip Novak
ISBN: 9781909461321
Format: Paperback
$31.05

Mischief goes South is H.W. Tilman's account of a voyage dogged by crew trouble. The two unsuccessful voyages regaled...  Read More >>

Tales from Tennessee Lawyers

Tales from Tennessee Lawyers

Author: William Lynwood Montell
ISBN: 9780813168289
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Far more than a collection of lawyer jokes, Tales from Tennessee Lawyers recounts the most insightful, entertaining,...  Read More >>

Tales from Kentucky Lawyers

Tales from Kentucky Lawyers

Author: William Lynwood Montell
ISBN: 9780813168241
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Lawyers have long been known as master storytellers, and those from Kentucky are certainly no exception. Oral historian...  Read More >>

Twelve Days of Terror: Inside the Shocking 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks

Twelve Days of Terror: Inside the Shocking 1916 New...

Author: Richard G. Fernicola
ISBN: 9781493023240
Format: Paperback
$40.99

Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have...  Read More >>

The Drowned Man: A True Story of Life, Death and Murder on HMAS Australia

The Drowned Man: A True Story of Life, Death and Murder...

Author: Brendan James Murray
ISBN: 9781760401207
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War?  Read More >>

Australia: A German Traveller in the Age of Gold

Australia: A German Traveller in the Age of Gold

Author: Friedrich Gerstacker ,  Peter Monteath
ISBN: 9781743054192
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Gerstacker, the most illustrious and prolific of German travel writers, set foot in Australia in 1851, having walked...  Read More >>

The Liquidation of Raoul Wallenberg

The Liquidation of Raoul Wallenberg

Author: Nigel Bance
ISBN: 9780993486203
Format: Paperback
$38.81

Nikita Khrushchev's top-secret investigation, conducted from Dec 1953 to March 1954 by the notorious Moscow security...  Read More >>

My Lute is a Time Capsule

My Lute is a Time Capsule

Author: Richard Wood
ISBN: 9781898728306
Format: Paperback
$30.92

Lutes are time-capsules - they are braced inside with odd scraps of cloth and printed paper. The author is building...  Read More >>

Death and Mr Pickwick

Death and Mr Pickwick

Author: Stephen Jarvis
ISBN: 9780099593485
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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The Hitler Trophy: Golf and the Olympic Games

The Hitler Trophy: Golf and the Olympic Games

Author: Alan Fraser
ISBN: 9780992658557
Format: Paperback
$25.85

With golf returning to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016, seasoned golf writer Alan Fraser examines the sport's...  Read More >>

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: Escaping Tyranny in North Korea

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: Escaping Tyranny...

Author: Blaine Harden
ISBN: 9781447253365
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future

The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see...

Author: Peter Moore
ISBN: 9780099581673
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and...  Read More >>

Mostly Mischief Paperback: Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level

Mostly Mischief Paperback: Including the first ascent...

Author: Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar ,  Roger D. Taylor
ISBN: 9781909461284
Format: Paperback
$31.05

Mostly Mischief’s ordinary title belies extraordinary voyages made by H.W. Tilman in both Arctic and Antarctic waters,...  Read More >>

Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought it Down

Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge...

Author: Bill Deyoung
ISBN: 9780813062976
Format: Paperback
$52.67

On the morning of May 9, 1980, during sudden violent weather, a 600-foot freighter struck a support pier of the...  Read More >>

Sailor, Sailor

Sailor, Sailor

Author: Denise Cory Blake
ISBN: 9780993394089
Format: Paperback
$23.26

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The Palestine Yearbook 2015: The Genocide the World Ignores

The Palestine Yearbook 2015: The Genocide the World...

Author: Diana Lodge
ISBN: 9781909552128
Format: Paperback
$25.98

For well over 60 years the Palestinian people, in Israel, the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza and refugee camps, have...  Read More >>

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