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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham based on robert martineau's "the office and work of a priest" which was written in the s, this guide is for those considering whether they have a call to the priesthood, and those newly ordained who are tackling a new job and want advice on how best to set about the many different aspects of parish life
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop shaftesbury this important biography of elgar draws on letters and documents which became available in the preceding twenty-five yearshis relationships with his wife and other women friends are a continuing thread in the life of a man who remained acutely conscious of his lower middle-class origins in spite of his meteoric rise to fame, honours in edward vii's reign and friendship with the kingmichael kennedy, a leading scholar of british music and a distinguished musical biographer, uses this material, which includes elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to the centre of the composer's complex personalityelgar's letters reveal his unpredictable swings of mood, from gaiety and a fondness for puns to morose self-pity and a feeling that he was 'not wanted', and although much of elgar's music sounds confident and coherent, it also has an underlying layer of unease, melancholy and insecurity
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hexham covers the career of claverhouse from the accession of king james to the battle of killicrankie, and the death of dundeethis is the third volume, published in , bound in blue boardsthere are a few white marks on the front board and signs of wear to the edges and corners and to the top and tail of the spinesome light tanning and some foxing to the text
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hexham this book covers the period between the accession of charles 1st and the advent of king williamdundee was called 'the devil dundee' but did he deserve this name? this is volume 2, published in and bound in blue boardsit exposes 'a vast amount of calumnious falsehood with which scotch fanaticism had debased the history of the country'there is some foxing and tanning and minor signs of wear to the edges and corners of the binding
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop wolverhampton set in the heart of england's countryside, the cotswolds occupies the area between gloucester, bath, oxford and stratford-upon-avonthe perfect, traditional cotswolds villages offer historic places, friendly pubs and craft shopsin recognition of the beauty of this quintessentially english countryside, the area covering 790 square miles was designated an area of outstanding natural beauty inthe countryside with its gentle hills and open spaces is ideal for a variety of outdoor activities such as horse-riding, cycling, ballooning and walking, making the cotswolds a dream place to live and visitthis area is a perfect blend of gentle rolling hills, plentiful archaeological sites and charming villages built from a local honey coloured limestonemost of the villages and smaller towns have survived unspoilttraditional museums like corinium museum in cirencester, cotswolds museum in bourton-on-the-water, gloucester cathedral, roman baths, sudeley castle or blenheim palace are complemented by fabulous gardens of westonbirt, painswick, batsford and hidcotebeata moore's glorious photographs show the charm of the cotswolds through the seasonsdespite its popularity with tourists, the cotswolds remains tranquil and serene
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham a portrait of edward vii in all his guises: as the young prince of wales, bon viveur and leader of a fashionable and scandalous set; as husband to alexandra and father to six; and as a statesman adapting the monarchy to a new role in the constitution
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Pepper's lonely hearts club band (reprise) b6 a day in the life see oxfam website for delivery information read morepepper's lonely hearts club band a2 with a little help from my friends a3 lucy in the sky with diamonds a4 getting better a5 fixing a hole a6 she's leaving home a7 being for the benefit of mrkite b1 within you without you b2 when i'm sixty-four b3 lovely rita b4 good morning good morning b5 sgt
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' the times see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hertford winner of the costa novel award: the acclaimed number one bestselling novel'there aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe life after life: dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound' hilary mantel, author of the mirror and the lightwhat if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?during a snowstorm in england in , a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breathwhat if there were second chances? and third chances? in fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? and would you even want to?life after life follows ursula todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again'a box of delightswith wit and compassion, kate atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the pastduring a snowstorm in england in , the same baby is born and lives to tell the taleingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the reader's imagination on the first page and never lets goif you wish to be moved and astonished, read itsimply put: it's one of the best novels i've read this century' gillian flynn, number 1 bestselling author of gone girl, sharp objects and dark places'merging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human levelit reminded me a bit of her first book behind the scenes at the museum, which is one of my most favourite books ever' marian keyes, author of grown ups'truly brilliantthink of audrey niffenegger's the timetraveler's wife or david nicholl's one daythis is a rare book that you want to start again the minute you have finishedwildly inventive, deeply feltor martin amis's times arrowa dizzying and dazzling tour de force' daily mail 'absolutely brillianthere she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselvesand if you want to give a dazzling present, buy it for your friends
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morein 'frozen seas' life in the arctic seas is compared with life in the antarcticoxfam shop ulverston a box set containing the complete bbc natural history series examining life beneath the world's oceansin 'tidal seas' the series examines tidal movements and their effect upon marine life'coral seas' examines the way coral reefs are formed, the life which flourishes among them, and the destruction which ultimately comes their way'open ocean' examines the stretches of deserted sea where very little life can be found, except some of the most dangerous predators of alland finally 'coasts' looks at the way underwater life uses the regions above the tide line, a habitat which holds few indigenous species but plays host to many visitorsalso included are two special episodes: 'making waves', a look at some of the characters who helped bring the series to the screen; and 'deep trouble', an investigation of man's relation to the sea'seasonal seas' looks at the way the sun effects the marine environment in the temperate seas'the deep' explores the deepest depths of the oceans and looks at the predators which live there'the blue planet' presents an overview of the programmes to come, offering a sense of the amazing variety and complexity of the underwater kingdom
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'john lewis-stempel is one of the best nature writers of his generation' country life see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road the perfect gift for nature lovers'dusk is filling the valleywe see them as wise, like athena's owl, and loyal, like harry potter's hedwigin the secret life of the owl, john lewis-stempel explores the legends and history of the owlhuman-like, in other wordsbut owls - with the sapient flatness of their faces, their big, round eyes, their paternal expressions - are also reassuringly familiarthey feature in every major culture from the stone age onwardsthey are creatures of the night, and thus of magicthey are the birds of ill-tidings, the avian messengers from the other sideit is the time of the gloaming, the owl-lightno other species has so captivated usout in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-oand in vivid, lyrical prose, he celebrates all the realities of this magnificent creature, whose natural powers are as fantastic as any myth'there is something about owls
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morelife seemed charmed, full of glamour and beautybuttercup is surrounded by people who make her life delightfully easy'buttercup redmain has a life of pampered luxury, living in beautiful charcombe parkbut behind the glittering facade lay pain, betrayal, and the truth about the woman xenia spent her life protectingoxfam bookshop cheltenham the winter secret is a thrilling mystery from lulu taylor, top ten bestselling author of the snow roseand it soon becomes clear that all the people who make buttercup's life so carefree are also watching her every movenow charcombe park is calling back people who were once part of its story, and the secrets that have stayed long hidden are bubbling inexorably to the surfaceit always has been and it always will bebut the one thing she really wants seems impossibledoes she actually live in a comfortable but inescapable cage? and what is the real story of her husband's previous marriage?in the late s, xenia arkadyoff lived in charcombe park with her father, a russian prince, and her mother, a famous film star'my dear boy, the place is cursedthere are other discomforting realities: her husband's ex-wife ingrid still lives nearby although buttercup has never met herher older husband, charles redmain, is wealthy and successful, and proud of the house he has painstakingly restored, once owned by a famous ancestor
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morelife seemed charmed, full of glamour and beautybuttercup is surrounded by people who make her life delightfully easy'buttercup redmain has a life of pampered luxury, living in beautiful charcombe parkbut behind the glittering facade lay pain, betrayal, and the truth about the woman xenia spent her life protectingoxfam bookshop hertford the winter secret is a thrilling mystery from lulu taylor, top ten bestselling author of the snow roseand it soon becomes clear that all the people who make buttercup's life so carefree are also watching her every movenow charcombe park is calling back people who were once part of its story, and the secrets that have stayed long hidden are bubbling inexorably to the surfaceit always has been and it always will bebut the one thing she really wants seems impossible'my dear boy, the place is curseddoes she actually live in a comfortable but inescapable cage? and what is the real story of her husband's previous marriage?in the late s, xenia arkadyoff lived in charcombe park with her father, a russian prince, and her mother, a famous film starthere are other discomforting realities: her husband's ex-wife ingrid still lives nearby although buttercup has never met herher older husband, charles redmain, is wealthy and successful, and proud of the house he has painstakingly restored, once owned by a famous ancestor
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston the official tie-in to the return of the king, in which actor andy serkis relates how he and the team of animators brought tolkien's character gollum to lifenow andy serkis tells his own story about how a three-week commission to provide a voiceover for gollum grew into a four-year commitment to breathe life and soul into the lord of the rings' most challenging screen performancefilm-making history was made when, in the two towers, an actor's performance and digital animation were seamlessly integrated to create the world's first totally lifelike animated characterfully illustrated with more than 100 exclusive behind-the-scenes photos and drawings from the return of the king and the two towers, and with contributions from the many designers and animators who brought gollum to life, this book examines the transition to the big screen of one of tolkien's most popular characters from the hobbit and the lord of the rings
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lichfield while the big three automobile companies came to dominate the industry, its early u"studebaker's" story is the chronicle of the life and death of an american automobile company where management's concept of "tradition" played a fundamental role in modeling corporate culture, rhetoric, and strategy"studebaker" may have failed in the long run, but its corporate life spanned more than a century, during which the company made a commitment to the community of south bend, accepted unions when other automobile manufacturers bitterly fought collective bargaining, and produced distinguished cars that still enjoy a loyal following"studebaker" explores managerial choice, corporate tradition, and the importance of ideas - not simply "market forces" - in shaping institutions in 20th-century americahistory was characterized by an array of competing companies
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see oxfam website for delivery information read more'social climbers' concerns the complexities of monkey social lifeoxfam shop hebden bridge all ten episodes from david attenborough's series looking at the most diverse group of animals ever to inhabit the earth'insect hunters' focuses on mammals who have specifically adapted to eating insects'opportunists' examines the way that mammals with variable diets are able to adapt to new environments'a winning design' highlights the differences between mammals, reptiles and birdsfinally, 'food for thought' looks at what happened when mammals developed the capability to walk upright'plant predators' examines how herbivores have adapted, while 'chisellers' concerns those mammals who feed primarily on roots and seeds'meat eaters' follows the eternal race between predators and prey, and how both individual and pack hunters have adapted'return to the water' looks at seals, dolphins, porpoises and whales'life in the trees' explores the world of tree-dwelling mammals
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop royal exchange square ' a greener life' is packed with information on how to live a more natural and self-sufficient lifeclarissa and johnny explore the relevant issues-from growing your own vegetables to using alternative energies, from keeping livestock to mending your own socks-so that you have the knowledge to start living the good life
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hertford through a life cloaked in mystery, edwardian polymath hannibal ghis life work was publically destroyed in what was to become known as the 'great foggian purge'by completing the life work of hannibal, william fogg strives to lift the veil on the supreme secret of manknowing almost nothing of his forebear, he takes possession of the single object left in the bequest - a large rusty iron keyten years in the making, it's as worldly and wise as the indefatigable hannibal foggbanished from england, he lived out his days in secrecy - before disappearing on an expedition to manchuria in the winter ofthe key to a door in marrakeshby the celebrated author of the caliph's house, a time top ten book of the yearthen, one morning william fogg receives a letter from a legal firm in london, claiming he's the sole inheritor to his great-great-grandfather's estateunable to take fogg's triumphs any longer, the british establishment sought to have him discreditedand there begins the treasure trail of mystery, danger and uproar, as william pieces together the clues left for him by hannibal foggzigzagging through five continents, the quest reveals how alexander the great was never beaten in battlealmost eight decades passedfirst in a series of ground-breaking adventure novels from master storyteller, tahir shah, hannibal fogg and the supreme secret of man is unlike anything published in recent timeshailing from a landed family, fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have livedfogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexteritybut, while such genius won him accolades and fame, it also fanned the flames of envy
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beaconsfield one of a limited edition of 500 printed privately by the author's estatethis book contains the memoirs of david chipp's life in peking together with six essays that he wrote on the history of english journalism, and a miscellany of reflections on some of the diverse aspects of his lifehe was the first non-communist western correspondent to be granted residency by the communist government and he spent 30 months in pekingabsolutely minimal shelf wear to the dust coveran excellent clean copydavid chipp had a distinguished career as a journalist which culminated in 17 years' service as editor in chief of the press association in fleet streetwith black and white and colour photographs
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop scarborough life and tradition in the yorkshire dales by marie hartley and joan ingilby this paperback edition is in excellent condition and would make the perfect gift for yourself or any local history lovers in your life
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oxfam bookshop brigg each of the 52 cards in this trumps style game of self exploration from the school of life contains information on various different professions and careers to help you try and answer the big question of 'what should i do with my life?' see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morefor those interested in marine lifeoxfam bookshop lincoln a fascinating journey into the extraordinary world of the king of fish: the salmonthe author explores the life cycle of the salmon, using his own experiences and stories of salmon fishing and spotting to create an enticing narrativethe book is in good condition, with only some minor damage done to the top and bottom of the spine of the dust jacket and along the very edgeshe also addresses the matter of conservation issues and human management, which in the past has led to fast decreasing populationsinternally the pages are clean, the binding strong and the colour photographs are clearhistory suggests it is the pressure of human development which has narrowed down the survival zone of the salmon, and the author questions whether we can go on altering natural systems and freshwater rivers in order to make space for human populations, and do so in sync with fish needsthis book explores the natural history of this mysterious fish
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moretwenty-four years later, in the summer of - the summer of nixon's visit to moscow, of the fischer-spassky chess match, of the munich olympics and their hostage crisis - the cold war is entering d?tente, and the values that shaped aleksandr's life are starting to dissolve into uncertaintywe know the horrors of the police state and the purges, but the innocent takes us on a journey into the everyday of communist russia, bringing alive the intensely personal consequences of a regime, the power of institutions and ideologies to define a life - to crush it or invest it with meaningoxfam bookshop lincoln winner of the betty trask prize from the back cover: "it is spring and aleksandr, a major in the mgb - forerunner of the kgb - is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic in the ural mountains to investigate one of the patients there, anatoly yudin, a man long presumed dead, once a famous pianist, now a severely incapacitated veteran of the second world warhaunted by the events of the past, and with his stalinist faith once more under threat, he interrogates his memories of the yudin case, and tries to trace its effects on himself, and on those he loved mostthis book is in good condition with slight discoloration of the edgesfollowing on from the success of his prize-winning debut, david szalay returns with a searing work of acute realism and bleak beauty, the breathtaking next stage of a major literary career"
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop arnold this lavish book gives the inside story on the fashion icon, ralph lauren, one of the world's greatest designerslargely ignoring the vagaries of fashion change, he has taken the best of the past and recast it for the present and in so doing has given international cachet to the weft and warp of american lifecolin mcdowell not only tells the life story of ralph lauren - his beginnings as a tie salesman to the opening of his first store in new york - but he examines the roots of lauren's americana and what has inspired himthis book is a celebration and an exploration of the themes that have inspired him and provides a deep insight into the man behind the styleralph lauren is the first designer in the history of fashion to create clothes so archetypal of their time and place that they have almost come to symbolise a nationcolin mcdowell has been given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes world of ralph lauren along with the full support of the designer, his family, friends and colleagues
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morepacked with insight, humour and fascinating detail, robert lacey brings the stories that made england brilliantly to lifethis first volume begins in bc with the life and death of cheddar man and ends in with wat tyler and the peasants' revoltoxfam bookshop victoria from ancient times to the present day, the story of england has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientistswe meet the greek navigator pytheus, whose description of the celts as prettanike (the 'painted people') yielded the latin word britanniciwe witness the roman victory celebrations of ad 43, where a squadron of elephants were paraded through colchesterin very good conditionnow, in great tales of english history, robert lacey captures one hundred of the most pivotal moments: the stories and extraordinary characters who helped shape a nationsome shelf wear to the jacketand we visit the new forest, in , and the mysterious shooting of king william rufusfrom ethelred the unready to richard the lionheart, the venerable bede to the black prince, this is, quite simply, history as history should be toldhardback signed first edition
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport first published ; this is the fifth impressionthe author's "confessed purpose is to set christ in the frame of jewish life from which he sprangd/j with only two minor (quarter inch) tears and a tiny piece missing from top and bottom of spinehe presents the story through three different narrators"no highlighting or other notes/marks
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop thame all 13 episodes from the first series of the japanese anime, following the adventures of a boy who falls in love with a homeless girl who lives beneath a city bridgefinding himself indebted to nino, kou faithfully agrees to pay her back by granting her wish that he become her boyfriend, so beginning a new life alongside the other eccentrics that live under the bridgeafter accidentally falling into the waters beneath the arakawa bridge, rich kid kou ichinomiya (voice of hiroshi kamiya)'s life is saved by eccentric local homeless girl nino (maaya sakamoto), who just happens to believe she's a venusian
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For the british there, life is orderly and genteelbut farrell manages just this here: his imaginative insight and technical virtuosity combine to produce a novel of quite outstanding quality' the times' see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe siege of krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and lifeoxfam bookshop cheltenham in the spring of , with india on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, krishnapur is a remote town on the vast north indian plainthey prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster'suspense and subtlety, humour and horror, the near-neighbourliness of heroism and insanity: it is rare to find such divergent elements being controlled in one hand and being raced, as it were, in one yokeas food and ammunition grow short, the residency, its defences battered by shot and shell and eroded by the rains, becomes ever more vulnerablethen the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the british community retreats with shock into the residency
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brigg everyone has a secretdesperate to find maria's killer, he now stands to lose not just his freedom, but ultimately his lifewhen the body of a young woman is wheeled into the hospital where leo stanhope works, his life is thrown into chaosmaria, the woman he loves, has been murdered and it is not long before the finger of suspicion is turned on him, threatening to expose his lifelong secretonly some lead to murder for leo stanhope was born charlotte, the daughter of a respectable reverend, but knowing he was meant to be a man - despite the evidence of his body - he fled his family home at just fifteen and has been living as leo ever sinceintroducing leo stanhope: a victorian transgender coroner's assistant who must uncover a killer without risking his own future
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop new milton used, good condition, hard cover with dust jacketlaurence whistler is in a matchless position to record his life, having shared so many experiences with himinternally the pages are a little tanned but there are no markingsas a man rex had charm and was outstandingly generous - liked by everyone and loved by manyrex whistler was one of the most gifted figures of the inter-war yearsbut, even though he has always had an enthusiastic public, in his lifetime he was almost disregarded by the critics as one who had no part in 'modern' artin this beautifully written and carefully researched book laurence whistler recalls his elder brother with love but with detachment, intimately and often with humourhe was still developing his own distinctive style when his career was tragically cut short - in he was killed leading his troop of tanks into action in normandy, aged 39yet he remained an enigmatic figure, apparently successful and never deeply happythe book contains 32 pages of black and white and colour images the dust jacket is rather creased along the top edge and is discoloured in placeshe was an artist in whose work the romantic and the humorous met in a unique waythe hard cover has a little bumping to all four corners and to the top and bottom of the spine
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop bloomsbury street memoirs of my dead life, by george moorevery small amount of tanning on the edges of the pagesbumping on top and bottom of spine, discolouration, and slight split from the front coverspine has title and author in gilt embossingslight tanning on front and back end pagesshelf wear on the bottom of the coversfront cover has an art deco embossingprevious owners have written their names on the front end pages in pencil and inkcondition: dark green cloth covering boards
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