The eve of her ninth
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Oxfam shop evesham on the eve of her ninth birthday, rose edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the sliceat once profound, funny, wise and sad, this is a novel to savouranything can be revealed at any mealbut as rose grows up, she learns that there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discernall at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperationsuddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilousnow available to preorder: aimee bender's new novel, the butterfly lampshade see oxfam website for delivery information read morerose's gift forces her to confront the truth behind her family's emotions - her mother's sadness, her father's detachment and her brother's clash with the worldthe particular sadness of lemon cake is about the pain of loving those whom you know too much about, and the secrets that exist within every family
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John keats, the eve of saint agnes, published by sampson low,marston,searle and rivingtonmeasures: 37x27 read moremurray, complete, with tissue guardsgilt title is brightillustrated with 19 beautiful etchings by charles ooriginal publisher's cloth in good minus condition with some bubbles and peeling at marginsfront hinge cracked but book holdingcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare 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 storeinterior is very good, approximat 80 pages
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A woman's body is discovered on a cornish farm, battered and left for dead in a maize fieldairlifted to hospital, her life hanging in the balance, no one's sure who she ischarlotte knew her years ago, at school, when another child went missingshe knows her name - evie - but no more, until she remembers another namewhen the police search evie's home, there's no sign of angelas the police circulate evie's photo, someone recognizes herthe police remain unconvinced - unaware that on the fringes of evie's life, there's someone elseoxfam shop dumfries the death of her is a haunting psychological thriller from debbie howells, author of the bestselling richard and judy book club success the bones of youbut even from the darkest place she's ever known, evie believes her daughter is aliveleah danning, who vanished whilst in evie's careangel - her three-year-old daughtersomeone hidden, watching her every move, with their own agenda and their own twisted version of realityhaunting, compelling' daily mail see oxfam website for delivery information read moremore disturbingly, there's no evidence that she ever lived there, forcing the police to question whether evie's having some kind of breakdownthree days later she comes round, but her memory is damagedpraise for the bones of you'a dazzling debut
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Westminster abbey choir - music from the coronation of her majesty queen elizabeth ii [cd] genre: classical music westminster abbey choir - music from the coronation of her majesty queen elizabeth ii [cd]
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See my other ad for all the other shari lapena's that are also for salein perfect as new conditionretails for £ but i am selling for £6collect henley or buyer pays costs of p&pthe end of her by shari lapena is her very latest best selling thriller in hardback
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See my other ad for all the other shari lapena's that are also for salein perfect as new conditionretails for £ but i am selling for £5collect henley or buyer pays costs of p&pthe end of her by shari lapena is her very latest best selling thriller in hardback
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"sixty years a queen - the story of her majesty's reign" by sir herbert maxwell eyre & spottiswoode, london - first uk edition - 35cmx25cm, 240p - condition: half leather binding with some wear and rubbing to boards ands spine, complete internally, incl colored frontispiece a beautifully illustrated book on the life and reign of the english royal, queen victoria by sir herbert maxwellthis book features impressive illustrations and photographs throughout including a chromolithograph frontispiece portrait of the queenmaxwell wrote this work in a chronological manner giving special attention to the imperial celebrations which pay homage to the lady ruler read morecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare 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 store
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Binding: paperbacktitle: hildegard of bingen: the woman of her ageauthor(s): maddocks, fiona
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Detective constable ash henderson has a dark secret five years ago his daughter, rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthdayevery year another card: each one worse than the lasttwelve dead girlsa bloody, brilliant and brutal story of murder, kidnap and revengesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe tabloids call him 'the birthday boy'oxfam shop colne road twelve yearsbut ash hasn't told anyone what really happened to rebecca - they all think she ran away - because if anyone finds out, he'll be taken off the investigationthirteen will be unlucky for some1 bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning stuart macbridea year later the first card arrived: home-made, with a polaroid picture stuck to the front - rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrifiedhe's been snatching girls for twelve years, always just before their thirteenth birthday, killing them slowly, then torturing their families with his homemade cardsand he's sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter's murderer gets what he deserves
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The eve of the war 9:06the eve of the war r2h mix 6:19the item format is a cdthe title is the war of the worldsthe artilleryman and the fighting machinefor 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 casing
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Forty internationally renowned specialists from various countries provide a broad introduction to the study of the eve of civilizationstarting from the origins of humankind to the first societies years ago, the events, chronologically charted, present a comprehensive picture of how civilization emerged and developed over this periodsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis major undertaking required an international commission and the co-operation of some 450 distinguished specialists, in a great number of disciplines, from all over the worldafter almost fifteen years of intensive work, unesco presents an entirely revised and updated edition of this major work in seven volumesthe new edition, now called history of humanity, is a radical new work providing an account of cultural and scientific achievements in the light of new facts and methods of historiographical investigationparticular attention is given to archeological aspectsa truly interdisciplinary work, the history of humanity sheds new light on many hitherto unknown features of our common past
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Oxfam bookshop kingston upon thames this pioneering book studies the rise, heyday and demise of regionalism from the belle aepoque until the eve of the second world warlater on regionalism was used at international exhibitions by widely differing regimes, such as the primo de rivera dictatorship in spain, the popular front government in france, and the hitler-regime in germanyduring the s painters began to apply the regionalist ideology by producing images of a presumably harmonious and authentic rural societyartists, architects and international exhibitions played a highly influential role in this processsee oxfam website for delivery information read morestorm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century the culture of regionalism slowly lost the battle against its main rival: the avant-gardethis book offers new perspectives to specialists of regionalism and nationalism, but will also be of interest to students of the cultural history of france, germany and spain and to specialists from the fields of politics, ethnology, art history, cultural studies and architectural historyregional identities, like national identities, were created and sometimes even invented; and this was equally the case in france, germany and spainthey all appropriated, and in some cases perverted, the regionalist message showing that strong regional identities would ultimately reinforce national unityby using a novel comparative perspective it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalismshortly afterwards they were followed by architects, who constructed villas and garden cities inspired by vernacular cottages
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Iris origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of italian domestic life on the eve of the renaissancefrancesco di marco datini, the 14th-century tuscan merchant who forms the central subject of iris origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later middle agesthe book is rightly celebrated as one of the most engrossing of all modern books on italian life and historyin an astonishing cache, containing some letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light
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The eve of the war 9:06cd's are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, demonstration demo, not for sale, promotional promo, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versionsnew - jeff wayne - the war of the worlds - cd cdthe title is jeff wayne's musical version of the war of the worldsthe artilleryman and the fighting machine
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The eve of the war 9:06cd's are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, demonstration demo, not for sale, promotional promo, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versionsthe artilleryman and the fighting machinethe title is jeff wayne's musical version of the war of the worlds
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Two exceptionally talented, successful people brought in to dangerous conflictsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop great dunmow no 1 best selling author of "house of cards" and "to play the king" - this is a signed copy of "the touch of innocents" by michael dobbsshe is just one woman against the worldizzy cannot accept the death of her baby daughter bellathe search for her daughter will cost her everything, but as long as she believes that bella is alive she will never surrender and paul devereux must use every means in his power to make sure she is silenced for goodpaul devereux is one of the most powerful politicians in the countryit is always the innocent who suffer to make the powerful richstubborn and at times irrational, her belief that her daughter is alive leads her to the sordid truth - an international black market where babies are sold for cashbehind this horrific truth, isadora detects the sinister hand of devereuxisadora dean is the rising star of television news journalism
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Oxfam shop wolverhampton edna o'brien returns to the world of her debut novel, the country girls, in an inspired account of a dying mother and her daughterfrom her hospital bed in dublin, the elderly dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, eleanora, from londonsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunfortunately, eleanora's visit does not prove to be the glad reunion that it might have beenshe also retraces eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner, and dilly's heart-rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughterthe epochs of her life pass before her; emigrating to america in the s, a romantic liaison she had there, the destiny that brought her back to ireland, and her marriage into the stately rusheen
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Have the dead come back to life? or has susan plunged into the abyss of madness? with the help of her neurosurgeon, susan desperately clings to her sanity while fighting to uncover who or what could be stalking herand in the following four years, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity rite also died violentlyapparently involved in a fatal accident, she is suffering from amnesiaplease check shipping costs before ordering synopsis in a cavern called the house of thunder, susan thorton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazingshe doesn't remember who she is or why she is thereall she knows is that her convalescence is unfolding into a fearful nightmare - and that the faces that surround her, pretending loving care, are those of the four men involved in that murder years beforeor did they? twelve years later susan wakes in a hospital bed
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The repercussions of their crimes will change the course of her own lifeoliver bottini is a fresh and exciting voice in the world of crime fiction in translation; the rhine borderlands of the black forest are a perfect setting for his beautifully crafted mysterieswhen her own team comes under fire, the investigation takes on a terrifying dimension, uncovering a hideous ring of child traffickerstranslated from the german by jamie bulloch see oxfam website for delivery information read moredivorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the pastdreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career - to trail a japanese monk wandering through the snowy wasteland to the east of freiburg, dressed only in sandals and a cowloxfam shop dumfries the first in a gripping new crime series set in germany - the black forest investigations louise boni, maverick chief inspector with the black forest crime squad, is struggling with her demonsshe sets off reluctantly, and by the time she catches up with him, she discovers that he is injured, and fearfully fleeing some unknown evil
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Oxfam shop scarborough great condition book, with minor creases and markspages are clean dora carrington is best-known for her devotion to lytton strachey, and her association with the rest of the bloomsbury groupshe was, however, a considerable artist in her own right, and this book concentrates on her as an artist, and reveals the range of her varied and impressive achievements see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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But this shocking act is only the start a fight for survival1 internationally bestselling author karin slaughter, soon to be a netflix seriesa terrifying act of violence a woman whose life is built on a liebecause then, as the bodies fall around them, andy's mother laura takes a step forward into the line of fire now andy must embark on a desperate race against time to uncover the secrets of her mother's past before any more blood is shedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the gripping standalone thriler from no it takes a split second for your life to change forever hours later, laura is in hospital, her face splashed over the newspapers but the danger has only just begunand for andrea oliver that split second is a mass shooting in her local mall
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Condition:Â used see oxfam website for delivery information read moreleaving her homeland, ruth follows her mother in law to israel after the death of her husband to meet a man who will change her lifeoxfam bookshop ashbourne the book of ruth is a triumphant love story in the face of adversity
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Oxfam bookshop aylesbury this highly acclaimed debut feature from victor erice is set in rural spain just after franco's victory in the spanish civil warin a remote castillian village in a travelling cinema comes to town and shows the boris karloff film 'frankenstein'goaded on by her sister, who tells her the monster lives in a house on the edge of the village, she finally summons enough courage to visit the houseit offers a memorable story of a child's innocence amid post-war traumas and a haunting commentary on the new fascist rulesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe young girl, ana, starts to worry about the fate of the monstershe discovers a fugitive on the run who takes the surrogate place of the monster of her imagining, and she naively tries to protect him from the villagers and police
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Local delivery availablepostage £4 by courier to uk mainlandthe journals of sylvia plath (paperback) this is a transcription of the journals kept by sylvia plath over the last 12 years of her lifeit gives insight into her final years and the evolution of her last poemsgood condition - never read, so aside from crease on back cover (see photo) this book is unusedcollection welcomed
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop scarborough gertrude jekyll is one of the most influential 20th-century garden designersthis book shows the best of her garden designs and a wonderful collection of her planting plans, made more accessible by extensive analysis and reinterpretation of the originals, accompanied by simple watercolours of the plans and illuminating photographsthis edition is in excellent, as new condition, with no damage to the hardcover, dust cover, or any of the pageswould make the perfect gift for yourself or any gift lovers in your life
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Hilary mantel is one of britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writersin these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday façadessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether set in a claustrophobic saudi arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spiritchildhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'comma'; nurses clash in 'harley street' over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting gamedisplaying all of mantel's unmistakable style and wit, they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powersoxfam shop wolverhampton a brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double man booker prize-winning author of 'wolf hall' and 'bring up the bodies'
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" see oxfam website for delivery information read more"this book examines the origins, development and history of the cult of saint catherine of sienavery good black clothtext block is clean and binding solidgerald parsons argues that the cult of catherine of siena constitutes a remarkable example of the cult of a particular saint which, across more than six centuries, has been the vehicle for an evolving sequence of civil religious rituals and meaningshe shows how the cult of this particular saint developed, firstly, as an expression of sienese civil religion; secondly, as a focus for italian civil religion; and finally into an expression of european civil religioninstead of the predominantly devotional - and frequently essentially hagiographical - approach of much of the literature on catherine of siena, parsons examines the significance of her cult from the perspective of civil religion and the social history of religionoxfam bookshop stirling very good gloss illustrated dust jacket, crease along top edge
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morearabella is in need of rich husband, but knows that girls have been ruined by risking an affair like the one she contemplateswatching the pair with a beady eye, is an outsider, a cripple, destined to become the genius of his age - the poet alexander popeoxfam bookshop st albans what would you do if you were faced with a dangerous temptation you feared you couldn't resist? "the scandal of the season" tells the story of the real-life seduction of the beautiful, clever arabella fermor by the charming, enigmatic nobleman robert petre, seventh baron of ingatestonethe object of her desire is also flirting with a perilous jacobite plot against queen anne
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It has been in circulation; condition as per the photosthe tale of peter rabbit coin is in the second series, produced by the royal mint, to commemorate the life and works of beatrix potterthis one was produced to celebrate the first of her tales and was designed by emma noble
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Oxfam bookshop carlisle sci-fi action adventure romp, which pays homage to comics and serials such as flash gordon and supermandisc and case in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe enlists the help of her former beau, heroic flying ace joe 'sky captain' sullivan (jude law)a race against time begins as our heroes do all they can to save the planet before it is too lategwyneth paltrow stars as intrepid reporter polly perkins, who suspects a connection between the mysterious disappearance of many of the world's top scientists, and a recent attack on new york city by giant robots - and decides to investigatethe two, helped by the dextrous franky (angelina jolie) and technical whiz dex (giovanni ribisi), uncover a plot by mad scientist dr totenkopf (laurence olivier in archive footage) to create a 'world of tomorrow' - and destroy the world of today
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