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'It's Belfast, 1982, and a seventeen-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has an appointment with destiny. He is a real man now, so he is, and shaving twice a week. To follow...
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Fully revised edition of the best-selling classic book that documented Donald Campbell's attempts to raise the world water-speed record in his 'Bluebird' jet-propelled boat to...
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The classic story of Robert Blair Mayne, late commanding officer of the first Special Air Service Regiment, and legend in his own lifetime. This, the original biography of Lieutenant...
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Setting off with just a small bag and a walking stick, Matt Hopwood determined to walk many hundreds of miles across the length and bredth of the country. He relied entirely on...
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The British Isles are an Archipelago made up of two large islands and some 6289 smaller ones. While some islands, such as the Isle of Man, are almost miniature nations with their...
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A lively, at time hilarious, first-hand account of a lighthouse keeper's life in the last traditional years before the introduction of helicopter reliefs and automation.Arthur...
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John de Courcy personified the classic image of the Anglo-Norman Knight. This tall, fair man with a strong physique and bold temperament led his men from the front and skilfully...
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In 1985, I went to live on the other side of the peace line. Everyone said my head was cut. It was the summer of Live Aid and Bob Geldof pledged to save Africa from hunger. My...
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Thomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford's life soared...
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Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers...
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Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974. Starting as a Junior Deck Officer he worked for The Falkland Islands...
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Written with complete access to the Queen Mothers personal letters and diaries, William Shawcross's riveting biography is the truly definitive account of this remarkable woman...
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The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new forword by Hugo Vickers. Queen Mary's life, contrary to popular...
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Mike Edwards journeys across America to each of the five settlements which bear the name 'Inverness' in this reflection and comparison of both America and Scotland. In this entertaining...
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The Wild Places' is both an intellectual and a physical journey, and Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and...
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We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet for much of her early life the young princess did not know...
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