The candid autobiography of a senior intelligence officer
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Spycatcher: the candid autobiography of a senior intelligence officer by peter wrightmi6: the history of the secret intelligence service by keith jeffreyby way of deception: the making & unmaking of a mossad officer by victor ostrovsky/claire hoywynne and penkovsky by greville wynnea history of british secret service by richard deaconpublished in by viking penguin incmi6 by nigel westpublished by oxford university presspublished by bloomsburyinside boss: south africas secret police by gordon winterpublished by penguin bookshardback (no dust jacket)published by panther books‘c’ a biography of sir maurice oldfield by richard deaconpublished by stmartins press new yorkmission to tashkent by fpublished by mcdonald & copublished by granada publishing limitedpublished by corgi books
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In very good condition certificate of authenticity read morelimited edition winnie the pooh hunny of a day music box by ardleigh elliott winnie the pooh and friends grace a "hunny of a day" ferris wheel collectible music box! a hundred acre wood exclusive first! - it's a hunny of a day whenever winnie the pooh and friends get together, and now you can join in with this first-of-a-kind musical ferris wheel collectible music box! pooh, piglet, tigger, eeyore, roo, rabbit and owl enjoy a special treat in the heart of the hundred acre wood, where every detail is sure to charm you! the "homemade" ferris wheel turns and everyone smiles as their barrel-style seats swing, while honeybees flit amongst the scenes of fun and friendship that grace the base! this exclusive, limited-edition winnie the pooh musical ferris wheel collectible music box from ardleigh elliott is crafted of triple-fired heirloom porcelain, richly accented in 22k gold, and plays the melody of "love makes the world go round" pooh fans everywhere are sure to be spinning with excitement over this very special "hunny" of a music box
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Josef mengele performed sadistic medical experiments on them until their releasesurviving the angel of death: the true story of a mengele twin in auschwitz, paperback by kor, eva mozes; buccieri, lisa rojany, isbn , isbn-13 describes the life of eva mozes and her twin sister miriam as they were interred at the auschwitz concentration camp during the holocaust, where dr
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Based on the best seller the five dysfunctions of a teamauthor of death of a meeting, a field guide for leaders, managers and facilitators
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The tragic tale of a genius 4:17the title is the tragic tale of a geniusfor this specific sale the cds sleeve condition refers only to the inner paper insert sleeve, and does not refer to the outer digipak, jewel case or cardboard outer casingthe item format is a cd
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This is the one: sir alex ferguson: the uncut story of a football genius of taylor, daniel on 25 july paperback ad id: delivery service consumer credit
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Catherine booth laying the theological foundations of a radical movement by john read (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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International delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for detailsshadows in the vineyard the true story of a plot to poison the world's greatest wine by maximillian potter (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working days
9 €
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3 million books, saving over tonnes of books a year from going straight into landfill sitesall of our paper waste is recycled and turned into corrugated cardboardeach month we recycle over 2author:van vogt, athe far-out worlds of a
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Title: coco chanel (the illustrated world of a fashion icon)catalogue number
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The autobiography of marshel arthur from cornwall who worked in the clay industry district of stoxfam bookshop truro paperback book in a very good condition with black and white photographssee oxfam website for delivery information read more  pages very good
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Although ross poldark - now something of a war hero - seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife demelzaoxfam bookshop cheltenham the four swans is the sixth novel in winston graham's sweeping series of cornwall, poldarksee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor his wife demelza, his old love elizabeth, his friend's new wife caroline and for the unhappy morwenna chynoweth these are times of stress and conflictthe four swans is followed by the seventh book in the poldark series, the angry tideall four women - the four swans - whose lives touch ross's, face a crisis in these years
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Minor foxing to edges of text block, which is otherwise lightly but evenly tannedshelf wear to top and bottom edges of spinea heart-warming and touching collection of anecdotes about life as a clippie, and how it impacted upon her life at homevarious scuffs, marks and discolourationrear free endpaper has been torn outsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport the story of a yorkshire woman who was called upon by the ministry of labour and national service to be directed to work of national importanceblue cloth covered boards with gilt text to spineendpapers discolouredgiven the choice between working in a factory or going into transport, she chose the latter and became a conductress on a tram
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Corners bumped but spine and covers brighttop edges red, front edges uncutrfep chapter numbers in redsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreclassic tale of the life of a horse as recounted by the horse itselfoxfam books & music belper junior deluxe editions, nelson doubledayhead and foot of spine rubbedcoloured frontispiece, line drawings throughouthalf-cloth binding, with green spine and decorated grey, red and black boardsclean and tightly bound copydecorated endpapers
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Blue cloth covers with pictorial representation of a dog in a field in giltoxfam bookshop thame first edition of this bookspine faded and bumped top and bottom, commensurate with agesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham this story is a rare and utterly engaging experiencea young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha housesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the land's most powerful menshe tells her story many years later from the waldorf astoria in new yorkit tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from to the post-war years of japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation
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It is a book that presents the story of our evolution, striking right at the heart of ourselves as individuals and of our sense of identitybut what made the story particularly extraordinary was that professor sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the ice man, a woman living in britain todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read moresykes has named them ursula, xenia, helena, velda, tara, katrine and jasminethe conclusions: amost everyone of native european descent, wherever they live in the world, can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women, the seven daughters of eveoxfam bookshop cheltenham in professor brian sykes, a leading world authority on dna and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern italynews of the discovery of the ice man and his age, which was put at over years old, fascinated the worldhow was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago?;in this work, sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time and spaceafter plotting thousands of dna sequences from all over the world he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groupsin europe there are only sevenin this scientific adventure story we learn exactly how our origins can be traced; how and where our ancient genetic ancestors lived; what their lives were like; and how we are each living proof of the almost miraculous strength of our dna which has survived and prospered over so many thousands of years to reach us today
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On trial is caroline sheridan, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the honourable george norton when she was just nineteenoxfam bookshop cheltenham westminster, london, 22 juneby her early twenties, caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic and outrageous flirther beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the prime minister, lord melbournecrowds are gathering at the court of common pleasit is a fine, fresh morning that will become hot as the day progressesafter years of simmering jealousy, norton accuses caroline and the prime minister of a 'criminal conversation' (adultery) precipitating 'the scandal of the century'pickwick' inthe pickwick papersnorton is a laughing stockthe criminal conversation of mrs nortonis the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywherefor the next thirty years caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated victorian society, helping to write the infant custody act (), and influenced the matrimonial causes (divorce) act () and the married women's property act (), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first timesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein westminster hall that day is a young charles dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalise the event as 'bardell vangry and humiliated he cuts caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destituteafter a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous and sensationalten years older, he is a dull, violent and controlling lawyer but caroline is determined not to be a traditional wife
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Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolutionanyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuriesoxfam bookshop newport the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude, and the unlikely triumph of an english geniuslacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of landthe scientific establishment throughout europe - from galileo to sir isaac newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answerin stark contrast, one man, john harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solutiontext block cleandust jacket unmarkedno highlighting or other notesfull of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking see oxfam website for delivery information read moreexcellent condition for its age, with little signs of usethe quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in , parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (gbp) to anyone whose method or device proved successful
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Multiple colour illustrationsoxfam bookshop bath a hardback in very good conditioncopiously illustrated throughout with images from comics, book jackets, record sleeves and other printed ephemera, the mysterious flame is a fascinating and hugely entertaining new novel from the incomparable umberto econow in a coma, his memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novelyambo promptly retreats to the sprawling attic, cluttered with boxes of newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and adolescent diariesthe dustjacket shows very minor shelf wear onlysigned by author on title pageas he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lostsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe red cloth boards with gold illustration and text are in very good conditionyambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (yambo remembers all about julius caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his childhoodhis wife, who is at his side as he slowly begins to recover, convinces him to return to his family home in the hills somewhere between milan and turinthere, he relives the story of his generation: mussolini, catholic education and guilt, josephine baker, flash gordon, cyrano de bergeracbut a relapse occursthe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadyambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife, as he struggles harder to capture her simple, innocent, real-life image - the schoolgirl he never forgot
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Soiled, with signs of wear to edgesrear cover detachedextensively foxed throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepictorial paper dust jacket over paper coversmost of spine missingthis is a traditional acting version, edited with an introduction by montagu slateroxfam bookshop newport the classic tale of a barber who murders and robs his clients, while his accomplice assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop
50 €
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5 book (hardback) bundle: diary of a wimpy kid - wrecking ball diary of a wimpy kid - the getaway diary of a wimpy kid - the meltdown diary of an awesome friendly kid timmy failure - it's the end when i say it's the end all in excellent conditionlocal collection to post is an additional £3
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The diarama is of a thonier tuna fishing boat that worked out of le rochelle, francethe frame is in a good condition with no marks or damage and is no longer requiredthis picture was brought from a dealer in dinan, france back in the 's
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At the heart of the team is the tale of a beloved and effective soldier, ashley white
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morea few pencil notes in inside coveroxfam books & music wells first editionolive green leather outer cover is generally good - some staining and curling to the corners and the top 2" of the spine are tornthe inside pages are good, with some browning to the edges, but are still totally readablethis copy is in pretty good condition
34 €
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Framed original portrait in the aieux style of a married womanthere is a crack in the glass(see pictures for condition)picture in frame measures: 19 inches high x 15 inches wide picture itself measures: 16 inches high x 13 inches wide there is an accompanying picture of her husband in uniform - see my other advert(s) collection only read moreworld war 1 the picture is in its original wooden frame with a material backing
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Artist: kspersee title of the work: moment of a dream signature: hand-signed by the artist kspersee, a contemporary french painter with good referencesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availabletechnique: mixed medium: canvas on wooden stretcher unique and original workplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitesold without framecondition: good size: 50 x 61 x 2 cm
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The second (smaller) of a pair of excellent, bespoke, hand-made sofas, covered in a high quality beige-mix woven fabric
200 €
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£10 the lot diary of a wimpy kid booksposted by danny in books, comics & magazines, books in norwich
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There is no other cabinet the same one of a kind and is solidly built and beautifulbespoke handmade commissioned cabinetperfect condition not had long partner just don't like itstunning pattern on doors photos dont do justice to the colours
300 €