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In it's all news to me, he takes a look back over his career from the very first day when he arrived at broadcasting house, (by coincidence an inauspicious news day - the fateful black monday of) jeremy explains his big break as a today programme reporter when he was fired at by a sniper during the early days of the war in bosnia; he walks us through the corridors of westminster in the s when he was a political correspondent, trying to deal with the likes of alastair campbell and peter mandelson; he reflects on the steep learning curve that was his posting as african correspondent at the turn of the millennium; and his return to the uk where he was dubbed paxman's "mini-me" on newsnightit's also about our obsession with news - just exactly how and why it happens - and the power of real life stories versus the media's desire to shape themsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe also explains what it's like presenting radio 2's lunchtime show and talking to 6 million listeners - people who, as he puts it "have better stories than we do" written in jeremy's unmistakably lively and self-deprecating voice, it's all news to mepaints a vivid picture of what it's like to be trapped inside the bbc - arguably the most interesting organisation in the country - for 25 yearsoxfam bookshop cheltenham jeremy vine is one of the most successful broadcasters of recent years and in clocks up a quarter of a century at the bbc
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But bosworth is much more than the account of the dramatic events of that fateful day in augustit would become one of the most legendary battles in english history: the only successful invasion since hastings, it was the last time a king died on the battlefieldoxfam books & music durham on the morning of 22 august , in fields several miles from bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battledrawing on eyewitness reports, newly discovered manuscripts and the latest archaeological evidence, chris skidmore vividly recreates this battle-scarred world in an epic saga of treachery and ruthlessness, death and deception and the birth of the tudor dynastyyet this was to be a fight to the death - only one man could survive; only one could claim the thronesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe might of richard iii's army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, henry tudor, a 28-year-old welshman who had just arrived back on british soil after fourteen years in exileit is a tale of brutal feuds and deadly civil wars, and the remarkable rise of the tudor family from obscure welsh gentry to the throne of england - a story that began sixty years earlier with owen tudor's affair with henry v's widow, katherine of valois
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Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woodsoxfam shop colne road when he was twelve years old, adam ryan went playing in the woods with his two best friendshe had no memory of what had happenedno one knows about his pasttheir bodies were never found, and adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with bloodthen a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and rob is drawn back into the mysteryhe's changed his namesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe never saw them againtwenty years on, rob ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the dublin police force
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Thousands of years before luke skywalker would destroy the death star in that fateful battle above yavin 4, one lone padawan would become a fugitive hunted by his own masters, charged with murdering every one of his fellow jedi-in-training! from criminals hiding out in the treacherous under-city of the planet taris, to a mysterious droid recovered from the desolate landscape of a cratered moon, padawan zayne carrick will find unexpected allies in his race to clear his name! set during the era of the smash-hit videogames, "knights of the old republic" features all-new characters and is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in exploring the universe beyond the movies! see oxfam website for delivery information read more crease on bottom right corner of cover, and original price sticker on backoxfam bookshop wanstead condition: goodpages are unblemished
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Forced to join a high stakes, super-fight-club, superman is forced to make a fateful choice, before joining wonder woman in a battle against the vandal savagea hardback edition by gene luen yang in english (aug )author: gene luen yang
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Oxfam shop nether edge on 30 january , alfred hugenberg's conservative german national people's party (dnvp) formed a coalition government with the nazi party, thus enabling hitler to accede to the chancellorshipthe author scrutinizes the revolutionary character of the nazi seizure of power, the nazis' attacks on the conservative brgertum and its values, and national socialism's co-optation of conservative symbols of state power to serve radically new goals, while addressing the issue of why the dnvp was complicit in this and paradoxically participated in eroding the foundations of its very own principles and bases of supportsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe machtergreifung is characterized here as a period of all-pervasive violence and lawlessness with incessant conflicts between nazis and german nationals and nazi attacks on the conservative brgertum, a far cry from the traditional depiction of the takeover as a relatively bloodless, virtually sterile assumption of power by one vast impersonal apparatus wresting control from anotherthis book analyzes in detail the complicated relationship between conservatives and nazis and offers a re-interpretation of the nazi seizure of power - the decisive months between 30 january and 14 july
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After your fateful investigation in union and disillusion, the state of the city continues to decaywhen enough breaches have been made a single location, an incursion occursinstead, breaches are made at various locations, marked by resource tokens
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One fateful christmas eve, scrooge is visited by the ghosts of christmas past, present, and futuredirected by jim henson's son brianacademy award(r) winner michael caine (best supporting actor, , the cider house rules; , hannah and her sisters) gives a performance that's anything but "bah, humbug!" as greedy, penny-pinching ebenezer scroogetogether with kind, humble bob cratchit (kermit the frog) and his family (miss piggy and robin), the spirits open scrooge's eyes -- and his heart -- to the true meaning of christmassee oxfam website for delivery information read morealso starring (human cast) steven mackintosh, meredith braun and robin weaveroxfam shop ulverston 'tis the season for love, laughter, and one of the most cherished stories of all time! join kermit the frog, miss piggy, and all the hilarious muppets in this merry, magical version of charles dickens' classic tale
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She 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 protectand without knowing who to trust, the truth can be far from clear cutsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop evesham twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of southeast asia, willy jane maitland was finally tracking his last moves
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William dalrymples powerful retelling of this fateful course of events is shaped from groundbreaking material: previously untranslated urdu and persian manuscripts that include indian eyewitness accounts, and the records of the delhi courts, police, and administration during the siegebut while zafars mughal ancestors had controlled most of india, the aged zafar was king in name onlythen in zafars flourishing capital became the centre of an uprising that reduced his beloved delhi to a battered, empty ruindeprived of real political power by the east india company, zafar nevertheless succeeded in creating a court of great brilliance, and presided over one of the great cultural renaissances of indian historybahadur shah zafar ii, the last mughal emperor, was a mystic, a talented poet, and a skilled calligrapheroxfam shop colne road at 4 pon a hazy november afternoon in rangoon, , a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of british soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosurethe last mughalis an extraordinary revisionist work with clear contemporary echoessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is the first account to present the indian perspective on the siege, and has at its heart the stories of the forgotten individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in historythe siege of delhi was the rajs stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreatthe last mughalis a portrait of the dazzling delhi zafar personified, the story of the last days of the great mughal capital and its final destruction in the catastrophe ofas the british commissioner in charge insisted, no vestige should remain to distinguish where the last of the great moghuls restswhen zafar gave his blessing to a rebellion among the companys own indian troops, it transformed an army mutiny into the largest uprising the british empire ever had to face
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But will his personal desire for vengeance against the young jedi who destroyed the death star distract from vader's duty to the emperor? as a fateful quest begins, the dark lord of the sith will face a fresh threat to his powerhardback panels and spine in fine conditioncollecting: darth vader 1-12 see oxfam website for delivery information read morevery good conditionlarge score on back dj coverone of the greatest antagonists in all of fiction stars in his first volume of villainy! fresh from a stinging defeat at the hands of the rebel alliance, darth vader must rise again to reassert the empire's iron grip on the galaxysome shelf-wear to djoxfam bookshop leeds 296pp
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Titanic voices - memories from the fateful voyage (hardback)a set of 4 titanic themed bookstitanic - james cameron's illustrated screenplay (softback)in very good conditiontitanic triumph & tragedy - a chronicle in words and pictures (hardback)titanic - women and children first (hardback)
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And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood dayken follett's masterful epic the pillars of the earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedralin the forest they see two men killed'follett's storytelling skills keep you compulsively turning the pages to the satisfactory ending of good triumphant over evil' daily mail see oxfam website for delivery information read moreone boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt noblemanthey are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctoras adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revengenow world without end takes readers back to medieval kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical changeone girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible lovethey will see prosperity and famine, plague and waroxfam bookshop st albans on the day after halloween, in the year , four children slip away from the cathedral city of kingsbridge
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He becomes embroiled in a corrupt presidential campaign and breaks into the american prison system before being propelled ten thousand years into the past, where he encounters the other gatekeepers and witnesses the creation of raven's gate - and the first fateful battle against the old onesfourteen-year-old twins jamie and scott tyler are performing a mind-reading act in a dingy theatreminor shelf wearoxfam bookshop harrogate nevada, usasee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut when a sinister multinational corporation, nightrise, kidnaps scott, jamie is left alone - and wanted for murdercondition-Â good
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Tenderly told, the boy between is a compelling story of family secrets, focussed on the dark happenings of a fateful summer, and the long buried-events of an even more distant pastwhen orla, a young barrister working in dublin, discovers an old family photo taken in , she is intrigued to find out the identity of the teenage boy in itbut why is it proving so difficult to discover his identity? and why, given her mother's troubled history, is this the last photograph orla knows of in which she looks truly happy? told in the alternating perspectives of orla and tim - the boy between - as the circle starts to close on a web of tragedy and deceit, lives all round will be changed in ways that could never have been guessed athe stands in between her parents, her beaming mother's arm tightly around himyet when she brings it up with her father, he won't be drawn, and pleads with her not to mention it to her motherstored in a smoke/pet free homeand so begins a journey into the past, to the summer before she was born
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Titanic voices - memories from the fateful voyage (hardback)a set of 4 titanic themed bookstitanic - james cameron's illustrated screenplay (softback)in very good conditiontitanic triumph & tragedy - a chronicle in words and pictures (hardback)can post - please enquire for costtitanic - women and children first (hardback)
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The story begins with a fateful encounter with ena, a wyverian girl who has been entrusted with an egg with the potential to hatch into a legendary rathalos which could wreak havoc if awakened to its destructive powerwe cannot show the item as a gift, as second hand or at a lower priceyou play as the grandson of red, a legendary ridermonster hunter stories 2: wings of ruin
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