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oxfam bookshop cheltenham a darkly comic tale of exile, unrequited love and the redemptive power of booksbut the days of the bookshop and of the close community around it are numbered' karen joy fowler, bestselling author of we are all completely beside ourselves see oxfam website for delivery information read morefirmin is born in the basement of a ramshackle old bookstore'a wonderful celebration of the way reading enriches your lifebrilliantly original and richly allegorical, firmin is brimming with charm and wistful longing for a world that understands the redemptive power of literature and treasures its seedy theaters, one-of-a-kind characters, and cluttered bookshopsfirmin may be a rat - poisoned by people he thinks are his friends - but his imagination soars as high as that of any humanthe area has been marked out for 'urban regeneration' and soon the faded glory of the bookshop, the small local theatre, the unique shops and small cafes will face the bulldozers and urban plannersnot only that, but as the runt of the litter, he is forced to compete for food and ends up chewing on the books that surround him' guardian'surprising and moving meditation on the advantages (and disadvantages) of an entirely fictional lifeas firmin navigates the shadowy streets of his decaying area, looking for understanding, his excitement, loneliness, fear, and self-consciousness become remarkably human and undeniably touchingfirmin soon realizes his source of nourishment has given him the ability to read and this discovery fills him with an insatiable hunger for literature and a very unratlike sense of the world and his place in itbecause firmin is a rathe's a sensitive, creative soul but misunderstoodeloquent and witty, firmin speaks for the book-loving rodent in all of us
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham complete second series of the situation comedy based on the testing times of bernard black (dylan moran, who also co-writes), misanthropic bookshop owner extraordinairein pursuit of michelin stars, manny and bernard transform the infested bookshop into a restaurantbut how will the three of them fare when they attempt to venture abroad together? see oxfam website for delivery information read morein 'the fixer', manny uses his underworld connections to find fran mysterious employmentbut will they succeed in teaching dodgy danny to read? 'blood' sees an unemployed and restless fran taking comfort in the discovery of her exotic new found cousinsin return all bernard and he have to do is educate a psychopathmeanwhile manny is worried about the reliability of his magic hot water bottle'fever' sees fran unable to sleep in the heat, so bernard helps her by brushing up on the law and finds himself a 'summer bunny'finally, in 'a nice change', bernard and manny can't hear themselves argue because of the builders next door, so fran suggests a holidayin 'hello sun', fran tries to discover her inner karma at the advice of her disapproving friend eva, and bernard finds positive proof that manny is madin 'the entertainer', ever keen to distract herself, fran (tamsin greig) takes up the piano, ever keen to delude himself, bernard falls in love, and all manny (bill bailey) wants is a break
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oxfam bookshop carlisle match programme for this football league game at whaddon road, cheltenhamsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam bookshop truro hardback book in what appears to be a rebindingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe history of the cheltenham flyer, the fastest train at the time  with descriptions of how the locomotive works, the track, signals with a colour fold out frontispiece, black and white photographs, maps and drawings originally aimed at children but a fascinating book for any train enthusiast fair condition but showing signs of wearetc along with descriptions of the route from paddington to swindon
21 €
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the first five series of the tv show presented by michael portillo that traces historic railway journeys across britainsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreportillo travels to destinations including holyhead, newcastle, york and sheffield, stopping to visit historic landmarks and to talk to those whose lives have been changed by the railway systemin the first series portillo sets out to chart how the nation's love affair with the railways began, travelling from liverpool to scarborough, preston to kirkcaldy, swindon to penzance and buxton to london, amongst other journeysin the third, fourth and fifth series portillo traces more historic rail journeys across britain including 'great yarmouth to beccles', 'darsham to felixstowe', 'sudbury to southend', 'ballymoney to derry', 'high wycombe to stratford-upon-avon', 'woking to clapham junction', 'london victoria to abbey wood', 'stirling to invergowrie', 'manchester to birkenhead', 'southport to leyland', 'preston to rochdale', 'haworth to huddersfield', 'honley to chesterfield', 'london euston to cheddington', 'bletchley to newport pagnell', 'northampton to nuneaton', 'leicester to loughborough', 'nottingham to leeds', 'southampton to basingstoke', 'winchfield to crowthorne', 'wokingham to bradford on avon', 'chippenham to gloucester', 'cheltenham to wolverhampton', 'norwich to brandon', 'ipswich to chelmsford', 'ilford to rochester', 'faversham to dorking' and 'brighton to chichester'the second series sees the former politician take as his guide 'bradshaw's handbook', a pamphlet on the burgeoning british railway system written by 19th-century cartographer and publisher george bradshaw
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham a celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including ali smith, michael dirda, elif shafak and daniel kehlmanna dazzling collection of original essays about the bookshop by fifteen bestselling international authorsin browse, henry hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a specific time and placecontributors include alaa al aswany, stefano benni, michael dirda, daniel kehlmann, andrey kurkov, yiyun li, pankaj mishra, dorthe nors, yvonne adhiambo owuor, elif shafak, ian sansom, iain sinclair, ali smith, sasa stanisic, and juan gabriel vásqueza cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magicthese inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham bringing sixteenth-century languedoc vividly to life, kate mosse's the burning chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyaltiescarcassonne : nineteen-year-old minou joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshopmeanwhile, as a long-hidden document threatens to resurface, the mistress of puivert is obsessed with uncovering its secret and strengthening her powertoulouse: as the religious divide deepens in the midi, and old friends become enemies, minou and piet both find themselves trapped in toulouse, facing new dangers as sectarian tensions ignite across the city, the battle-lines are drawn in blood and the conspiracy darkens furtherbut before minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young huguenot convert, piet reydon, changes her destiny foreverfor piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need minou's help if he is to get out of la cité alivesealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: she knows that you live
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham complete first series of the situation comedy based on the testing times of bernard black (dylan moran, who also co-writes), misanthropic bookshop owner extraordinairesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen bernard's accountant goes on the run he is replaced by oddball accountant manny bianco (bill bailey) who saves bernard from the terrors of doing his own book-keeping, and proves a hit with the customersfurther episodes see this mismatched retail duo becoming obsessed with the sweeney, getting into hot water during some routine house-sitting, and suffer defeat at the hands of the new shop security systembernard loves books but hates customers, and his approach to capitalism is only matched by fran (tamsin greig), the owner of the 'nifty gifty' giftshop nextdoor
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham complete third series of the channel 4 sitcom based on the testing times of bohemian, heavy-drinking misanthrope and second-hand bookshop owner bernard black (dylan moran) - who loves books but hates customershelp is at hand, however, in the form of mild-mannered manny (bill bailey), who proves to be something of a star at selling books, and fran (tamsin greig), who owns the 'nifty gifty' gift shop next doorepisodes are: 'manny come home', 'elephants and hens', 'moo-ma and moo-pa', 'a little flutter', 'the travel writer' and 'party'
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visitthese are stories that make our hearts grow, stories that will restore our faith in the world and remind us that, despite what the media says, the world isn't a scary place - rather, it is filled with kind strangers just like ussomeone who could have walked past, but chose not toall royalties go directly to fund oxfam's work with refugeesthis is a collection of stories by accomplished travellers and adventurous souls like sarah outen, benedict allen, ed stafford and al humphreys, who have completed daring journeys through challenging terrain, adventuring from the calais jungle to the amazon, from land's end to the gobi desert, from new guinea to iran and many other places in betweeneach has a story to tell of a time when they were vulnerable, when they were in need and a kind stranger came to their rescuebut what happens when we arrive home? how do our experiences shape us? the kindness of strangers explores what it means to be vulnerable and to be helped by someone we've never met before
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham featuring the much loved stories in waterstone's oxfam bestseller, the invisible child and the fir tree - the moomins' gloriously funny and generous take on christmas - tales from moominvalley collects together nine delightful moomin short storiesa perfect christmas gift to complete the set of moomin classicshighlights include the spring tune (which jarvis cocker described as the best story about composing music) and the last dragon in the world, revealing the true essence of friendship
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the exquisite last novel from nobel prize-winning author yasunari kawabata ineko has lost the ability to see things'lusciously peculiar' paris review see oxfam website for delivery information read moreas ineko's mother and fianc walk along the riverbank after visiting time, they wonder: is her condition a form of madness - or an expression of love? exploring the distance between us, and what we say without words, kawabata's transcendent final novel is the last word from a master of japanese literaturethe doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recoverat first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fianc
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham from cox's "magna britannia" (), publishedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith contemporary fold-out map of the county; interior in good condition for age, bindings tightformer owners signature on front end papersbound in half-leather boards, front board virtually detached, some damage to leather spine
30 €
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the baileys women's prize for fiction shortlisted for the costa novel awardlonglisted for the man booker prizewinner of the irish novel of the year hanna, dan, constance and emmet return to the west coast of ireland for a final family christmas in the home their mother is about to sell**one of the guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century** see oxfam website for delivery information read moreas the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham par arthur mangin, quatrieme edition, published in france - all text in frenchsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreillustrated with monochrome plateshardback, some damage to green cloth boards at top of spine, bindings tight, most pages clean, minor foxing to few pages
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham this is something specialit is mcnamee's first novel' see oxfam website for delivery information read moreeoin mcnamee evokes the intimate particularity of events and topography of the city and the run-down wastelands where atrocities take placebut he goes furtherthis is an extraordinary book, illuminating not only the political map of belfast but also the dark ring-roads of collective memory and the secret blueprints inside our headshe makes belfast mythicalhe has a vision of universality
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham robert grainier is a day labourer in the american west at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary timesbuffeted by the loss of his family, grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new worldsuffused with the history and landscapes of the american west - its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge-builders - train dreams captures the disappearance of a distinctly american way of lifeas his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform america in his lifetime
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham this text is both a history of the town of newmarket and the sport that dominates itsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreits society is both feudal and democratic, as was the sport of kings, and it is one of wealth with links to royalty and the new 'kings', the arabs
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'buying & selling a home for dummies' presents property advice for the first-time buyersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit provides an independent, plain-speaking guide to every aspect of the whole process
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'visual basic for dummies' offers readers a fun and creative environment for developing programs with visual basicsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'or john wilkes seated between vice and virtue', by adrian hamiltonsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehardback, quarter cloth and decorated paper boards, some shelf wear to the board edges, and mark to the cloth spine - see photosinterior unmarkedlimited edition of copies, this copy printed as numberthis is not accompanied by contemporary the special reading copy
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham very scarce copy of this review of the tsr2 projectsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecontributors include many of the people involved in the projectcloth-bound hardback in as new condition, including dust jacket which has light rubbing marks to front and rearpublished by the royal air force historical society, the book is the result of a very ambitious seminar held at filton in april to consider the history and lessons of the tsr2 project which so dominated the military aviation scene in britain in the mid-50s and 60s
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham this edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work, into goal-setting, and a spiritual approach to coaching, together with a final section on "coaching the organizations' culture"it explores the dynamics of team development and it positions coaching as the essential team leadership skilladopted by many of the world's major corporations, this work also argues for using questions, rather than instructions and commands, and following the grow sequence - goals, reality, options, will - to generate prompt action and peak performance
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham hardbacks, in two volumes, chapters a1-f11, & g1-p4 with indexsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreboth volumes in very good condition, matching slipcase is sound, but with some wear
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the letters reprinted in this book were written by a girl to her lover between the end of and the autumn ofhardback, blue cloth boards and interior in good condition, price-clipped dust jacket is grubby, with small stainsillustrated with portraits and a facsimile of dorothy osborne's writingfirst edition , reprinted from sheets of the first edition in and
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham first edition, written by marcel ayme, translated into english, this first english edition published by the bodley headsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreextremely hard to find edition, overall good conditionhardback, blue cloth boards clean, interior unmarked, very minor foxing to page ends, dust jacket lightly scuffed on rear page
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham like asee oxfam website for delivery information read morebyatt's booker prize-winning novel, possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth centuryin morpho eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studiesin the conjugal angel, curious individuals - some fictional, others drawn from history - gather to connect with the spirit worldthroughout both, byatt examines the eccentricities of the victorian era, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance, science and faith into a sumptuous, magical tapestry
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the year is and the first plague victim has reached english shoressee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand at their heart is the strange, cold child - narigorm - who reads the runesand each in turn is driven to a cruel and unnatural deathpanic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that something far more deadly is - in fact - travelling with themthe ill-assorted company - a scarred trader in holy relics, a conjurer, two musicians, a healer and a deformed storyteller - are all concealing secrets and liesbut as law and order breaks down across the country and the battle for survival becomes ever more fierce, narigorm mercilessly compels each of her fellow travellers to reveal the truth
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the first world war, the russian revolution, and the struggle for votes for womenpresident woodrow wilson and to two orphaned russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to america fall foul of war, conscription and revolutionlady maud fitzherbert falls in love with walter von ulrich, a spy at the german embassy in londonin a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, fall of giants moves seamlessly from washington to st petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mightythe coronation day of king george vtheir destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to uthe williams, a welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham it is just months before the nazi occupation of poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, jakob beer, an orphaned jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviourbut the trauma of jakob's early life refuses to leave himliving forever in the shadow of the holocaust, although jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own historyhe is saved by the geologist and humanist athos roussos, who takes him to his greek island home where he becomes his student
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