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It's been twenty years since montmorency crawled out of a sewer and started his new life as a gentlemanoxfam shop dumfries as the nineteenth century nears its end, the threat of war is looming and montmorency and his companions find themselves embroiled in a web of terrorists intent on spreading mayhem across europebut could his alter-ego scarper re-emerge in the hope of influencing the next generation? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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But how will they respond to a man they haven't seen in twenty years, turning up and asking if they're coming out to play? this reprint of the popular comedy book is signed by the author on the title page, and is also in good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhere are they now? who are they now? and how are they coping with this scary concept of being grown-up?and so begins a journey from a-z, tracking down and meeting his old gangoxfam shop bishop's stortford danny wallace is about to turn thirty and his life has become a clichéuntil - danny finds an old address book containing just twelve nameshe even goes to loughboroughhe meets fijian chiefsand a carvery manager who's managed to solve time travelsomething wasn't right - he was feeling way too grown-uphe travels from berlin to tokyo, from sydney to lahis best mates as a kidrecently married and living in a smart new area of town, he's swapped pints for lattes and had even contemplated buying coasters
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For twenty years writer and filmmaker kevin toolis hunted death in famine, war and plague across the world before finding the answer to his quest on the island of his forebearsthey keep vigil through the night with the corpse and share in the sorrow of the bereavedthey go in great numbers, often with young children, to wake with their deadthe living and the dead remain bound together in the irish wake - the oldest rite of humanitythe islanders have no fear of deathin this beautifully written and highly original memoir, he gives an intimate, eye-witness account of the death and wake of his father, and explores the wider history of the irish wakebut on a remote island, off the coast of county mayo, death has a louder voicealong with reports of incoming atlantic storms, the local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently departedwith an uplifting, positive message at its heart, my father's wake celebrates the spiritual depth of the irish wake and shows how we too can find a better way to deal with our mortality, by living and loving in the acceptance of deaththey bear the burden of the coffin on their shoulders and dig the grave with their own handsoxfam shop colne road death is a whisper in the anglo-saxon worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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It was reprinted several times, both in germany and in the netherlands, over the next twenty yearslicentiati parochi neoforensis, et palatinatus superioris per dioecesin aichstadianam visitatoris nunc societatis jesu, pluribus in singula evangelia argumentis instructumfestis sanctorum volume has faint rubbing mark over spine and minor loss to top of spine (0bright pages overalldarkening to spines in generalrare to find complete with all three volumes presenthe is even more a controversialist than orator in the ordinary sense of the wordbumping to cornersaestivalis volume has cracked spines but still firmly attached boardsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifaber published a three-volume collection of his sermons in , entitled the concionum opus tripartitumplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitefrontispiece present in hiemalisour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeargumentis in singula evangelia festorum, dominicarum hyemalium & aestivalium instructum, providing ten sermons for every sunday of the yearopus concionum tripartitum matthiae fabri sex-libris sticker in 1 volumesignature to title pagesthey are all written in latin, and have been published in many editionscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe goal of his preaching was, before everything, polemical, either to convert non-catholics or to safeguard catholics from the protestant reformationthe sermons which faber has left are remarkable for the clarity of their catholic doctrine and learningaccording to the custom of the times, faber made exhaustive use of scriptural texts, which overwhelm his instructive sermons and render the reading of them difficultaestivalis: , festis sanctorum: , hiemalis: pplarge folio bindings in contemporary speckled calf-leather bindings with six raised bands to spine
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Oxfam books & music winchester five parisians hop on to the romantic merry-go-round in alain resnais' first film for twenty yearsboth odile and nicolas are looking for an apartment with the same estate agents - odile's search handled by the boss marc, and nicolas by his subordinate simonresnais' tribute to dennis potter employs that writer's device of having characters lip-synch to popular songsodile renews her acquaintance with ex-lover nicolas, much to her husband claude's displeasurecamille, however, only has eyes for marcas nicolas realises he is still attracted to his ex, despite being married, simon falls for odile's sister camillesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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A previous abduction, from twenty years ago, suggests a new lead - one that only frieda, an expert on the minds of disturbed individuals, can uncovercan anyone help find their little boy before it is too late?psychotherapist frieda klein just might know somethingone of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of matthewhis face is splashed across newspaper front pagesstruggling to make sense of this terrifying investigation, frieda will face her darkest fears in the hunt for a clever and brutal killeroxfam shop pershore monday: five-year-old matthew faraday is abductedconvinced at first the police will dismiss her fears out of hand, frieda reluctantly finds herself drawn into the heart of the casehis parents and the police are desperatesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, it is a bold, original and thought-provoking workwith characteristic fearlessness, tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physicsvery good condition, apparently unreadthinking about it is to meditate on our own mortalityfor anyone who has puzzled over the nature of becoming, wondered whether time is inseparable from change, whether time is punctuate or continuous, or even whether time, itself, is real, of time and lamentation will provoke and entertainthose, like tallis himself, who seek to find a place at which the scientific and humanistic views of humanity can be reconciled, will celebrate his placing of human consciousness at the heart of time, and his showing that we are "more than cogs in the universal clock, forced to collaborate with the very progress that pushes us towards our own midnight"our temporal lives deserve a richer attention than is afforded by the equations of mathematical physicsthe passage of time, the direction of time and time travel are critically examined and the relationship between mathematics and reality, and the nature of the observer, are exploredpart 2, "human time" examines tensed time, the reality of time as it is lived: what we mean by "now", how we make sense of past and future events, and the idea of eternityquestions about "the stuff" of time  such as instants and intervals  about time and change, and the relationship between objective and subjective time, open on to wider discussions about time and causation, the irruption of subjectivity and intentionality into a material universe, and the relationship between time and freedomfor most of us, time is composed of mornings, afternoons and evenings and expressed in hurry, hope, longing, waiting, enduring, planning, joyful expectation and griefthe story told by caesium clocks, quantum theory and lorentz coordinates, tallis argues, needs to be supplemented by one of moss on rocks, tears on faces and the long narratives of our human journeythe first part of the book, "killing time" is a formidable critique of the spatialized and mathematized account of time arising from physical sciencesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein of time and lamentation, raymond tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand itwith the scientistic reduction of time set aside and lived time reaffirmed, tallis digs deeper into the nature of time itself in the final part, "finding time"£ time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopheryet, physics has little or nothing to say about this time, the time as it is livedoxfam bookshop stratford upon avon of time and lamentation by raymond tallis agenda publishing pp hardback
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Traité d'électrothérapieare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiof the many german neurologists in the late s, wilhelm heinrich erb was one of the most importantavec 39 figures dans le texteerb pioneered in the use of electricity at the diagnosis and treatment of neural afflictionscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethis work about electrotherapy contains the first descriptions of various neural afflictions and was written at the time that erb was professor in neurology at the university of heidelberg, a job that he had for approxhalf leather contemporary binding, spine with five ribs, gilded title and ornaments (small tear in the hinge)our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeparis, delahaye et lecrosnier, , xvi, 664 pphe was especially known for his advances in the identification, classification and treatment of muscle dystrophies, of which many carry his name
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John rowan has maintained an interest in the transpersonal for the past twenty years, and his many successful books reveal a transpersonal concernhis map of psychospiritual development has been very influentialoxfam shop st giles street at present there is no book that deals with the whole range of approaches to the transpersonal in counselling and psychotherapythis is the first time, however, he has devoted an entire book to the subjectthe transpersonal approach has become of much more interest recently because of the impact of ken wilber's workthe book is unique in providing the first comprehensive account of the transpersonal as it applies to psychotherapy and counsellingrowan shows where the idea comes from, how it has developed, how it can be usedat the same time it is theoretically rich and deals with some of the most contentious issues with which the transpersonal practitioner has to contendsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepsychology and spirituality are now linked in a very convincing way, where one grows out of the other, distinct but connectedthe book is intensely practical and refers back constantly to what the psychotherapist or counsellor actually does in the area of the transperson
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In , he described for the first time the method of triangulation still used today in surveying twenty years later, in , he was the first to describe how an accurate clock could be used to determine longitude frisius created or improved many instruments, including the cross-staff, the astrolabe, and the astronomical ringsgemma's rings are named after himoriginal bindingitem de orbis diuisione, & insulis, rebusque nuper inuentisfrisius was an imortant dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument makerde principiis astronomiæ & cosmographiæ, deque vsv globi ab eodem editi16 preliminary leaves, 183 leaves, 1 leaf illustrations (coat of arms) diagrams (some folded condition: fairopus nunc demum ab ibso auctore multis in locis auctum, ac sublatis omnibus erratis integritati restitutum2 books from gemma frisius in 1 bindingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki185 and [47] pp sections on america on pp pplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitebrowning and minor spottingour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storegemmae phrysii medici ac mathematici, de principiis astronomiae [&] cosmographiae, d'eq[ue] vsu globi ab eodem editiopus nunc demum ab ipso auctore multis in locis auctum, ac sublatis omnibus erratis integritati restitutumcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehis students included gerardus mercator (who became his collaborator), johannes stadius, john dee, andreas vesalius and rembert dodoens(big) wormholes in inner en outer margin from leaf 77 till the end, not affecting the textfrisius is often considered one of the founders of the netherlandish school of cartographyitem de orbis diuisione, [&] insulis, reb'usq[ue] nuper inuentis
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For the past twenty years, sheng qi has been creating remarkable works of art in diverse mediumssignature and date on the backwhen he left beijing in , he cut off the little finger from his left hand and buried it in a flower potare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeorigin: redgate gallerya prevalent theme in his work has been the study of the body, body language and its culture
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Now, twenty years later, sharon has found out the truthbut it is his last1 bestseller, martina cole, author of dangerous lady, the take, the good life and many moresharon conway and lenny scott are childhood sweetheartsget even read morebut one night lenny doesn't come homeold wounds will surfacesharon doesn't question lenny's business dealings and it isn't long before his reputation as a hard man destined for the top means they are living the good life with their sonshe is found murdered - beaten to death in an act of brutality that shocks even the policethe time has come tothe twenty-second novel from sunday times norevenge is long overdueplaying grown-ups, the future is theirs for the takingit isn't the first time he has gone awolit leaves a stain on her heart for evereveryone says they are too young, but nothing can keep them apartsuch a crime cannot go unpunishedand sharon never knows why
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He continued taking and framing photographs at 55 yorkshire street for another thirty yearspicture framer knott moved into 55 yorkshire street in c, nearly twenty years later he took a series of photographs of oldham, this series has been digitised and made into a panorama, prominently displayed in gallery oldham in greaves streetapproximate measurements photograph measures 10" x 8" frame is 16" x13" framers details still on rear of portrait as shown belowsquire knott took a series of photographs of oldham; this series has been digitised and made into a panorama, displayed in gallery oldhamwould suit collector, photographic studio or film setknott?s studio and picture framing business were taken over by his son, alfred in ca 's wedding photograph still in original frame and glass frontyou will hold a piece of history of oldham with this item
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In the space of twenty years the author printed in fermo, in a sober and elegant latin, his three most significant works (de ecclesia firmana(the two dissertations were reprinted, respectively, ten years later in the first and second tomes of antichità picene by gaeneae sylvii de piccolominibusare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiin good condition, except for a stain on the second pagecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitede vita et scriptis dominici capranicaecolucci); memorie della zecca fermana illustrate, bologna ; de ecclesia firmana eiusque episcopis et archiepiscopis commentarius, firmi ; vita di scolucci, lucca (but fermo) , under consideration herememorie istoriche di sin addition to the aforementioned works, he published: della origine dei piceni, fermo ; delle origini e antichità fermane, ibidour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeoriginal hardcover with spine covered in marbled paper and corners with decorated papervittoria vergine e martire, camerino ; and lettera critica diretta ad un cavaliere fermano sul tomo ii delle antichità picene dello abde rebus basileae gestis stante vel dissoluto concilio commentarius, )xx numbered pages, including the cover page; at the bottom of the last page, typographic data about the place, indicated as lucca, but published in fermo, and date
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6 billion years twenty years ago, when john mcphee began his journeys back and forth across the united states, he planned to describe a cross section of north america at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled withannals of the former world is the winner of the pulitzer prize for nonfictionoxfam shop ulverston the pulitzer prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4like the terrain it covers, annals of the former world tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through itas clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern non-fictionthe structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title annals of the former worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Portfolio "pk paperinik" art portfolio limited and numbered copy twenty covers… for twenty years! to celebrate pikappa's twentieth anniversary and worthily celebrate the superhero version of donald duck, the covers of the first twenty issues (starting, of course, from number 0) of the duck with shield and cape have been collected in an elegant collector's folderdesigned by artists such as marco ghiglione, claudio sciarrone, alberto lavoradori, corrado mastantuono, alessandro barbucci, paolo mottura, fabio celoni, lorenzo pastrovicchio and with the colors of max monteduroare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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Things can only get worse? twenty confusing years in the life of a labour supporter by john o'farrell (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is within 3 to 5 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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From playing on bomb sites as a boy in the east end, to skiving off school and then selling millions of records with squeeze, the first twenty years of his life were eventful, chaotic and colourfuloxfam shop colne road jools holland has had a fascinating lifeover the following three decades, jools succeeded in placing himself at the epicentre of a global community comprising just about anybody who is anybody in musicthrough later with jools holland, the longest-running music programme on television, he has given british tv debuts to countless now world famous bandspacked with hilarious anecdotes written in holland's own inimitable style and laced with quirky insights and deliciously acute detail, this autobiography by one of britain's most gifted and debonaire musicians is not just for music fans, but for anyone who is looking for something several cuts above the conventional showbiz memoirthen came the tube with paula yates, the seminal live music programme that propelled him to famesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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For twenty years mcmoneagle honed his intuitive psychic abilities and refined the scientific protocols that resulted in the most reliable method of informtion retrievaloxfam bookshop swanage in , while serving in the army, joe mcmoneagle had a near-death experience that opened him psychicallyin mind trek, which is replete with actual remotely viewed drawings, the author describes the development and application of one's natural intuition through the proper use of these protocolssome moderate wear but pages clean and brightwhen he tested out as a world-class remote viewer--able to correctly perceive and describe unknown people, places, and objects--he was recruited for a top-secret military program, code name stargatehampton roads, paperback very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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twenty years later and reeling from the end of an abusive marriage, she wonders if it has cursed her all this timeits shimmering beauty has been tainted by the actions of her husband the night beforeoxfam bookshop royal exchange square 'i see it all again: the silver moon swimming beneath the water and the golden gown billowing out about her'now she's determined to discover the history behind the beautiful golden dress : lady isabella gerard asks her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it : fenella brightwell steals a stunning gown from a stately homeas the body slowly rolls over to reveal her face, it's clear this is not his intended victimthree months later: lord eustace gerard stands beside the lake looking down at the woman in the golden gownsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Finally, he explores the life of aung san suu kyi, who for twenty years, much of that time under house arrest in rangoon, has led her country's democratic opposition to military dictatorship, and continues to do so todayand then there is the legacy of dame cicely saunders, who changed the way we care for the dying by founding and leading the hospice movementall three paid the ultimate price telling the stories of america's civil rights leader martin luther king, robert kennedy - who, after his brother's assassination, remade himself as a politician of compassion - and nelson mandela, he considers great courage over a long period against daunting oddsstarting with edith cavell, who nursed the wounded of world war i in belgium and helped allied soldiers escape back to england, he goes on to consider the protestant pastor dietrich bonhoeffer, who in returned to nazi germany from new york to lead the christian opposition against the nazi regime, and the wealthy businessman raoul wallenberg, who left neutral sweden in to go to budapest to try save the lives of hungarian jewsoxfam shop dumfries what is it that makes some men and women take difficult decisions and do the right thing against the odds when easier and far less dangerous alternatives are open to them? why is it that some people - like the undercover heroes working for soe in occupied france or the passengers of the united 93 flight on 9/11 - have the courage to dare? to answer these questions, gordon brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figuresthese eight heroes are very different people, with very different strengths and frailties, but all share an inspirational courage that gordon brown celebrates in these fascinating and moving portraitssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop evesham twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of southeast asia, willy jane maitland was finally tracking his last movesand without knowing who to trust, the truth can be far from clear cutshe recognised the dangers, but her search for the truth about that fateful flight was the only thing that matteredclosing in on the events of that night, willy realises that she is investigating secrets that people would kill to protectsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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In the space of just twenty years, from october when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of waterloo in june , napoleon transformed france and europe  see oxfam website for delivery information read more this is the definitive modern biography of napoleonnapoleon bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human livesoxfam bookshop newark  paperback
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Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet?her husband daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his ownit is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and claudette have made togetheroxfam shop evesham a top-ten bestseller, shortlisted for the costa novel award, this must be the place by maggie o'farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage'a complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' the sunday timesa reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of ireland, claudette wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgunwill their love for one another be enough to bring daniel back home? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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A lovely edition by this great french playwright and poet, of whom alain clerval, who republished these two novels in and , wrote: "over a period of about twenty years [dorat - receuil de contes et de poèmes - - volume 3 of the œuvres - mare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website] dorat has written, tirelessly, an impressive number of works, most of which have become unreadable, except for his novels, remarkable for their mastery which prefigures laclosdorat - les baisers, précédés du mois de mai - pages binding in good condition, work in its period brown half leather binding, covers and spine in good condition, rubbing from use, pigmented red edges, adorned spine, gilded titling and volume number labelsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeinterior in good condition, some soiling, charming engravings including some in the form of banners and tailpieces, old dampstain visible on the corners of the pages then it fades away and reapears again- delivery service provided by chronopost within a few days
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As he delves further into the case, he discovers it may be connected to the disappearance of his police-officer father twenty years previously
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Had no problems with the original shower mixer in twenty yearsbought as spare twenty years ago, had bathroom revamp last year, no longer requiredcan be surface mounted or recessedcomes with fixing bracket, bolts and screwsshower mixer (new) never usedthis works with combination boiler and pump shower
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A great read & it is 76 years oldthis book is the news chronicle, story of twenty five years, celebrating the royal silver jubilee, , outer cover is rough but i have not glued itthis is not just about the royal family, the book contains the great events of the years, with 300 half-tone illustrations
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John bercow is a keen tennis player, having first picked up a racket in at the age of eighthe played as a junior in north london until his late teens, and qualified as a coach in the she lives in london with his wife, sally, and their three young children
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The first eighteen years of a remarkable manhis early years were spent in america and it was not until he was six that he and his parents sailed for englandoxfam bookshop cheltenham frederic raphael shared his days at cambridge with us in his bestselling novel glittering prizes, now, in this evocative, painfully honest memoir he tells us about the first eighteen years of his lifea major scholarship to read classics at st john's cambridge where he meets the girl who will become his wife is the beginning of a happier periodit was here that he experienced the anti-semitism that coloured the rest of his lifethis is a painfully honest and revealing memoir of a sensitive, intelligent boyevacuated to devon in the war, freddie's prep school days were happyhis thirst for learning and easy intellect made him selective in his choice of friends, his embarrassment at his jewish origins made him secretivea scholarship to charterhouse followedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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