Collected Biographies
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50 People Who Messed up the World
Alexander ParkerCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Who would top your list of the fifty people who have done the most to make the modern world a worse place?'I can't imagine how they whittled it do...
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Female Secret Agents
Douglas BoydCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. espionage is not just a boys game. As long as there has been conflict,...
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An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
Alison BashfordCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shi...
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Gift of Sunlight, A - The Fortune and Quest of the Davies Sisters of Llandinam
Trevor FishlockCurrent price €26.00Original price €32.50Current price €26.00Original price €32.50Save 20% -
The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee: Stories of Diabetes and the James Bay Cree: Second Edition
James Bay Cree StorytellersCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50The second edition of the groundbreaking collection The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee includes an epilogue with an update on each storyteller. Ruth...
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The Autists: women on the spectrum
Clara TörnvallCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the authors own diagnosis. Un...
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Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliaments Working Women
Dr Elizabeth Hallam SmithCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not...
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Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance
Amelia PossanzaCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50Charting the stories of Olympic athletes and lesbian memoirists, via Sappho, Lesbian Love Story is a genre-defying respository of sapphic romance l...
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Hull: 2,017 Facts About Hull and People Associated with the City: 2017
James L. OrwinCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
Wheatley Manor, its Owners and Occupants, 956-2015
David WatkinCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Current price €14.88Original price €17.50Save 15% -
Where I Eat My Bread: Stories of Immigration to the Highlands and Islands
Robert MacLeodCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Current price €13.59Original price €15.99Save 15% -
Queens Park Football Club and the Great War 1914 - 1918
Fred EllsworthCurrent price €11.05Original price €13.99Current price €11.05Original price €13.99Save 21% -
Against All Odds: The Story of 25 Remarkable Adventurers: 2019
Roger BunyanCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
Nigerians of Interest - the people you should know about
Lara PopoolaCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Current price €13.59Original price €15.99Save 15% -
Human Kindness: True Stories That Reveal the Depths of the Human Experience
Exisle PublishingCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Kindness comes in many forms and affects all of us. As Mark Twain said, ''Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.''...
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365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year): Discover LGBTQ+ history one day at a time
Lewis LaneyCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION AWARDS 2023*'A fascinating, whistle-stop tour of LGBTQIA+ icons and allies from across the ...
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The Pink House: The Legendary Residence of Edwin Bradford Hall and His Succeeding Generations in Wellsville, New York
Julian B WoelfelCurrent price €61.61Original price €78.99Current price €61.61Original price €78.99Save 22% -
When the Lights Go on Again: The Story of Cowfold in World War 2
Michael BurtCurrent price €14.62Original price €18.50This book tells the story of life during WW2 in and around Cowfold, largely through the memories of eleven children, with ages ranging from under f...
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Cult Musicians: 50 Progressive Performers You Need to Know
Robert DimeryCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50WHAT MAKES A CULT MUSICIAN? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divisive, cult musicians come in all s...
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The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
Sir Andrew MotionCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99'Families are societies in miniature.'The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fam...
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Secrets, skeletons and pedigrees: The extraordinary Satterthwaite sisters
William M. HartleyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99This intriguing book is really a detective story, revealing what turned out to be a most unusual cast of characters and some eyebrow-raising family...
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The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice
Judith MackrellCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Ven...
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Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
Laura ThompsonCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99'Wonderfully readable ... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of up...
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I remember Nelson Mandela
Jacana Media (Pty) LtdCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50I Remember Nelson Mandela is a collection of remembrances from those who worked with, for and beside Mandela. More than one hundred individuals, fr...
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
Mackenzi LeeCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99Based on Mackenzi Lees popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women...
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The Most Influential Women of Our Time
Chiara Pasqualetti JohnsonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Meet 50 women, from queens and politicians to explorers and sports figures, who changed the world. These 50 women pursued their ambitions and achie...
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The Edinburgh Seven: The Story of the First Women to Study Medicine
Janey JonesCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th cen...
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The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945: Veterans'' Stories
Archer JeremyCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945 comprises interviews with some of the very few surviving veterans of this most arduous of campaigns. In their ow...
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Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks
Caitlin DaviesCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine PeakeRobin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays All ...
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We Need To Talk
Chris SteedCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Chris and Stephen off Gogglebox are known and loved by millions of viewers for their outrageous humour, filthy language and adorable sausage dogs. ...
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She Who Dares: Ten Trailblazing Society Women
Lyndsy SpenceCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99History has seen many women make their mark by defying the limits set against them, stepping out of the boxes they had been put in and forging thei...
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Growing Up with Ireland: A Century of Memories from Our Oldest and Wisest Citizens
Valerie CoxCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were t...
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GREAT WAR BARCOMBE: News from a Sussex village 1914-1919
Ian HilderCurrent price €15.79Original price €19.99Current price €15.79Original price €19.99Save 21% -
Top Dogs: A British Love Affair
Georgina MontaguCurrent price €57.71Original price €73.99This book celebrates the special relationship between beloved British dogs and their devoted owners. Architects, fashion designers, florists, entre...
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The Gunzburgs: A Family Biography
Lorraine de MeauxCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50In 1857 the Gunzburgs arrived in Paris from Russia with their large family, a retinue of business staff and extensive domestic help: personal assis...
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Roman Holiday: The Secret Life of Hollywood in Rome
Caroline YoungCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Rome in the 1950s: following the darkness of fascism and Nazi occupation during the Second World War, the city is reinvigorated. The street cafés a...
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Mill Memories - A People''s History: Life and Times of the Witney Blanket Workers
Angela ProffittCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Current price €14.10Original price €16.99Save 17% -
Coffeeography: The Coffee Producers: 2017
Has Bean Coffee PublishingCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Current price €22.09Original price €25.99Save 15% -
A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM
Dale DeBakcsyCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research a...
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England Players'' Records 1872 - 2020 Limited Edition
Graham BettsCurrent price €67.99Original price €79.99Current price €67.99Original price €79.99Save 15% -
The Power and The Glory: Senna, Prost and F1''s Golden Era
David SedgwickCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Set amid the glamour and bravado of 1980s Formula 1, The Power and the Glory tells the story of a rivalry unsurpassed in motor-racing history. By t...
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A History of Islam in 21 Women
Hossein KamalyCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female...
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