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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop wolverhampton fans of the twilight saga will be enthralled by the riveting story of bree tanner, a character introduced in eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabitshowever, the story grew longer than i anticipated, until it was too long to fit into the guide'when i began working on it in , it was simply an exercise to help me examine the other side of eclipse, which i was editing at the timein another irresistible combination of danger, mystery and romance, stephenie meyer tells the devastating story of bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on bella swan and the cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusionthen, when work started on the twilight saga: the official guide, i thought the guide would be a good fit for my bree storyi thought it might end up as a short story that i could include on my website'i'm as surprised as anyone about this novella,' said stephenie meyer
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road joe root is undoubtedly cricket's next superstar, adored by fans and the press alike for his incredible talent and his cheeky personalitybringing home the ashes is the inside story of one of the finest young talents in world cricket, told with the intelligence, personality and determination that characterise root's performances at the creasethis is joe's personal account of his speedy climb to stardom, from schoolboy cricket to early days with yorkshire, culminating with exclusive behind-the-scenes access to an england team at the top of their gameat just 24 years old he has already scored nearly test runs, taken 12 test wicketsjoe was the star of england's incredible ashes campaign - his knock of 130 at trent bridge secured the series victory and saw him named by the icc as the best batsman in the world
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham harry turtledove hailed island in the sea of time as "one of the best time travel/alternative history stories i've ever read," and jane lindskold called against the tide of years "another exciting and explosive talenow the official battle lines have been drawnten years ago, the twentieth century and the bronze age were tossed together by a mysterious eventin the decade since, the republic of nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know-how retained from modern times to explore and improve conditions for the inhabitants of the pastand only one side can emerge the victorand for ten years, the two sides have tested each other, feinting and parrying, to decide who will be the ones to lead this brave new world into the futuresome have turned instead to the renegade coast guard officer william walker" now the adventures of the nantucket islanders lost in the time of the bronze age continues with on the oceans of eternitysome of these peoples have become allies
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam music shop byres road  digitally remastered doctor who classics the ark! the tardis arrives some ten million years in the future on a giant spaceship carrying all the earth's surviving plant, animal and human life (much of it miniaturised and in suspended animation) on a 700 year voyage to a new home on the planet refusis iidodo is suffering from a cold - an unknown affliction in this era - and as the human guardians of the ship and their servant race the monoids have no resistance, a plague breaks outthe tardis leaves the spaceship, which dodo has nicknamed the ark, only to arrive back there as it is approaching the end of its voyagepartly as a result of the earlier plague, the monoids have now grown strong and enslaved the humansfortunately, the doctor finds a curethe guardians place the travellers on trial and steven is forced to defend them against allegations that they spread the disease deliberately
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop swanage the complete tv mini-series that dramatises the life of the bronte sisters, authors of some of the most memorable novels in the literary canonthe episodes are: 'the little king', 'home and abroad', 'delusion's song', 'rewarding destiny' and 'silent is the house'written by christopher fry, the series explores the everyday lives of the sisters in their home in the small yorkshire village of haworthcharlotte (vickery turner), the author of 'jane eyre', is the most ambitious of the girls, with emily (rosemary mchale), the writer of 'wuthering heights', the most poetic and intense
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hampstead the law of compulsory purchase by guy roots being spread across several statutes of varying antiquity and many judicial decisions, the law relating to compulsory purchase and compensation can appear dauntingwritten in convenient narrative form, it contains full cross-referencing to the relevant cases, statutory provision and policy circularsit both simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity the difficult areasthe practical structure, style and indexing ensures that the relevant statutory provisions and cases to the matters in issue are easy to findthis is a first edition in a very good conditionthe law of compulsory purchase sets out the practice, procedure, policy and valuation of a compulsory purchasethere is some little shelf wear and a few marks to the page edge on the bottomit also includes a full explanation of the scope of powers to acquire land compulsorily and the exercise of the powers and principles of compensationit provides a summarised statement of the law, complete with footnotes to enable you to access further informationthis book should be on the desk of every practitioner who has to advise upon this branch of law and every advocate who has to present a case in which it arisesthis authoritative new book is your single accessible volume to this complex and wide-ranging area of the lawfind the answers you need quickly and easily
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop dumfries as a train speeds over the sankey viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal belowas the case takes on an international dimension, problems accumulateinspector robert colbeck and sergeant victor leeming take charge of their most complex and difficult case yethampered by the fact that the corpse has nothing on him to indicate his identity, they are baffled until a young woman comes forward to explain that the murder victim, gaston chabal, is an engineer, working on a major rail link in francecolbeck and leeming have to survive personal danger, resistance from the french government, broadsides from their superintendent, and many other setbacks before they solve the crimethe detectives wonder if the murder is connected to a series of vicious attacks on the rail link that is being built by british navvies under the direction of a british construction engineer
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road all 25 episodes from the fifth season of the us drama based on the novels by sara shepardthe series follows four friends in the fictional town of rosewood, pennsylvania, who, after the leader of their group goes missing, start receiving mysterious messages which threaten to reveal their darkest secretsthe episodes are: 'escape from new york', 'whirly girlie', 'surfing the aftershocks', 'thrown from the ride', 'miss me x100', 'run, ali, run', 'the silence of elamb', 'scream for me', 'march of crimes', 'a dark ali', 'no one here can love or understand me', 'taking this one to the grave', 'how the 'a' stole christmas', 'through the glass, darkly', 'fresh meat', 'over a barrel', 'the bin of sin', 'oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me', 'out, damned spot', 'pretty isn't the point', 'bloody hell', 'to plea or not to plea', 'the melody lingers on', 'i'm a good girl, i am' and 'welcome to the dollhouse'
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans the entire second series of stories from a small blue planetthe clangers have more encounters with the froglets and the soup dragon in the following episodes: 'tablecloth'; 'rock collector'; 'glow honey'; 'the teapot'; 'the cloud'; 'the egg (2)'; 'noise machine'; 'the seed'; 'pride'; 'the bags'; 'the blow fruit'; 'the pipe organ'; and 'the music of the sphere'
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop rosemount viaduct the complete fourth season of the hbo medieval fantasy drama based on the bestselling novel series 'a song of ice and fire' by george rthe episodes are: 'two swords', 'the lion and the rose', 'breaker of chains', 'oathkeeper', 'first of his name', 'the laws of gods and men', 'mockingbird', 'the mountain and the viper', 'the watchers on the wall' and 'the children'elsewhere, jon snow (kit harington) and the brothers of the night's watch defend the wall when the wildlings launch an attackin this season, tyrion lannister (peter dinklage) finds his life is in danger when he is accused and put on trial for murderthe programme follows the battle between the starks and the other noble families of the seven kingdoms of westeros to gain control of the iron throne
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the cwa john creasey new blood dagger for best debut crime novel of the yearbut michael has a grave secret, and if he doesn't get himself on the right track fast, it could be exposedobsessed with sherlock holmes and dreaming of a better life, ida stumbles across a clue which lures her and her musician friend, louis armstrong, to the case - and into terrible dangeras michael, luca and ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of new orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victimnow a newly freed man, luca is back working with the mafia, whose need to solve the mystery of the axeman is every bit as urgent as that of the authoritiesas a dark serial killer - the axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask himmeanwhile, ida is a secretary at the pinkerton detective agencythough every citizen of the 'big easy' thinks they know who could be behind the terrifying murders, detective lieutenant michael talbot, heading up the official investigation, is struggling to find leadsshortlisted for the theakston's crime novel of the year awardas recommended on the radio 2 arts show with claudia winklemaninspired by a true story, set against the heady backdrop of jazz-filled, mob-ruled new orleans, the axeman's jazz by ray celestin is an ambitious, gripping thriller from a major talent in historical crime fictionformer detective luca d'andrea has spent the last six years in angola state penitentiary, after michael, his protégée, blew the whistle on his corrupt behaviourand as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom over the city
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hampstead the soul of remedies by rajan sankaran the author's idea of understanding a remedy is to grasp the connection that ties together its myriad symptoms: the basic delusion, its source (kingdom), the miasm to which it belongs, its symptoms - all must be understood as aspects of a single whole if we are to even begin to truly understand a remedyhe has not included remedies of which he has little experience or knowledgein good conditionit is the author's attempt to trace out these connections that distinguishes this work from other materia medicasthe inside pages are clean and unmarked and relatively bright considering the age of the bookthe material presented here has been observed and confirmed in drthe rubrics and physical symptoms cited are ones which he has repeatedly observed and often used to confirm the remedy prescribedsankaran's own practice, it is a material of which he is surethere are several scuffs to the dust jacket especially on the backsankaran has attempted to convey the innermost feeling or the basic delusion of the remedy while connecting the situation, source, miasm and kingdomthe bottom jacket corners are bruised
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop glossop road some shelf wear to boxgood condition overallit includes volumes 4-6: temple of the winds, soul of the fire, and faith of the fallenbook 5: soul of the fire richard rahl has traveled far from his roots as a simple woods guidenow a deadly power pours forth that threatens to turn the world into a lifeless wasteemperor of the d'haran empire, war wizard, the seeker of truth--none of these roles mean as much to him as his newest: husband to his beloved kahlan amnell, mother confessor of the midlandsunwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the midlandsthis is a boxed set of 3 booksbut their wedding day is the key that unlocks a spell sealed away long ago in a faraway countryrichard heads into the old world with cara, the mord-sith, while his beloved kahlan remains behindthis mass market boxed set is the second bundle in the bestselling the sword of truth series by terry goodkindbook covers creased, slight yellowing to pages, spines creased and bridgedbook 4: temple of the winds wielding the sword of truth, richard rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the d'haran peoplebook 6: faith of the fallen emperor jagang is rising once again in the old world and richard must face him, on his own turfbut now the power-mad emperor jagang confronts richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victimsseparated and fighting for their lives, richard and kahlan will be tested to the utmost
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hampstead a field guide to the neogene sedimentary basins of the almerĂa province, se spain the almeria province of se spain, a semi-arid, tectonically active region, has formed the focus of a wide range of scientific teaching and research in the earth sciences by universities and associated bodies from all over the worldthis field guide provides an up-to-date and integrated approach to the geology and geomorphology of almeria province, compiled by active scientific researchers in the regionthere is slight shelf wear to the coverin very good condition with clean and unmarked inside pagesthe guide assumes a basic knowledge of geology and geomorphology and will be of interest to earth scientists at all levels from the keen amateur through to undergraduate/postgraduate students and academics visiting the regionthis field guide provides the first widely published field guide on the almeria province and is unique in both its coverage and integrated earth science approach, providing a valuable support for both teaching and research in the regionthe emphasis of the guide is initially to provide a general background to the area followed by a selection of more specialist trips which progressively explore the structure and development of the basins, the shallow marine sedimentation, the continental sedimentation and finally the uplift, dissection and geomorphic evolution of the sedimentary basins
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oxfam bookshop altrincham dave bassett is one of football's colourful characterspaperback with signed dedication on the title page first edition minor creasing and handling wear on the cover see oxfam website for delivery information read morein his autobiography he reveals the stories that have been the hallmark of his amazing careerhis talents are renowned throughout the football leaguehe also explains his philosophy of football which has led to his success and made him one of the personalities in the history of the gamehe is the man who led wimbledon to their fa cup triumph inhe reveals the truth behind his four days in charge of crystal palace, his fiery relationship with elton john at watford, the boardroom battles during his time at sheffield united and also the chain of events that led to his rejection of manchester city
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop dumfries the art of looking sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imaginationdescribing himself as a visual jackdaw, master designer alan fletcher has distilled a lifetime of experience and reflection into a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration of such subjects as perception, colour, pattern, proportion, paradox, illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture, style, aesthetics and valueloosely arranged in 72 chapters, all this material is presented in a wonderfully inventive series of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the expressive use of type, space, colour and imagerythe art of looking sideways is the ultimate guide to visual awareness, a magical compilation that will entertain and inspire all those who enjoy the interplay between word and image, and who relish the odd and the unexpectedit is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mindthis book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the world
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop evesham this is the first account of russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economyin the final stage of the book, freeland chronicles the end of the first wave of russia's capitalist revolution, detailing the economic crisis currently rumbling through the countrythis was the height of market euphoria when, despite the chaos of everyday life, a prosperous future seemed within easy reachwoven through the book are remarkable stories - of yeltsin's use of popular psychics, of the might of the 'robber barons' who form alliances with criminal mafia gangs, of machiavellian politicians who 'have dealt with the devil and believe they have made a good bargain'beginning with a sharp portrayal of the dismal living conditions in the soviet union, she moves on to the romantic early days of the capitalist transformationwritten by one of the finest writers on contemporary russia, it is told by interweaving high politics with glimpses of the revolution's impact on the lives of ordinary people
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road all 12 episodes of the classic british sitcom written by and starring john cleese and connie boothseries 1 episodes are: 'a touch of class', 'the builders', 'the wedding party', 'the hotel inspectors', 'gourmet night' and 'the germans'the show follows hotel manager basil fawlty (cleese) as he runs the torquay hotel 'fawlty towers' with the help of his wife sibyl (prunella scales), chambermaid polly (booth) and spanish waiter manuel (andrew sachs)series 2 episodes are: 'communication problems', 'the psychiatrist', 'waldorf salad', 'the kipper and the corpse', 'the anniversary' and 'basil the rat'
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" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop keynsham the book is in good condition though the front board is bowedthe front paste down end paper has a book plate glued to it"a christian theological bookit uses the experience sayers had of literary creativity to illuminate christian doctrine about the nature of the doctrine of the trinitythe corners are bumpedthe top edge is marked with a small stain, all edges are brownedthe binding is soundthe back free end paper show slight marksthe top and bottom of the spine show signs of wear
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle for centuries, the disappearance of the cybermen from the universe has been a mystery with the doctor's help, the archaeological party discover the last of the cybermen, frozen and entombed in a vast underground cavernall around them, the cybermen begin to rise from the deadthe doctor, jamie and victoria arrive on telos - once the cyber home world - just as an earth expedition uncovers the entrance to a long-lost control centre filled with baffling technologybut by entering the tombs, the humans have sprung a fiendish trap
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop gillingham chris pratt, elizabeth banks, will arnett and morgan freeman lend their voices to this cgi-animated comedy based on the line of toys made by legothe wicked lord business (will ferrell) is determined to destroy the lego universe and rebuild it using glue - which goes against the very nature of legomistaken as the 'special', the only surviving master builder, the rather ordinary emmet (pratt) is selected to lead a group of figures on a mission to put a stop to lord business's evil planemmet is helped by wise wizard vitruvius (freeman), tough girl wyldstyle (banks) and dc superhero batman (arnett), but can he find something extraordinary within himself in order to save the world? the film also features the voices of channing tatum, liam neeson, nick offerman, alison brie and jonah hillthe film won a bafta for best animated film and was nominated for best original song at the oscars
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston how can the baffling problems of phenomenal experience be accounted for? in this discourse fred dretske argues that to achieve an understanding of the mind it is not enough to understand the biological machinery by means of which the mind does its jobthe theory establishes a framework within which subjectivity can be studied objectively, explains the peculiar authority we enjoy about our own mental states, and provides a biologically plausible answer to questions about the function or purpose of consciousnessone must understand what the mind's job is and how this task can be performed by a physical system - the nervous systemcombined with an evolutionary account of sensory representation, the result is a completely naturalistic account of phenomenal consciousness"naturalizing the mind" skilfully a representational theory of the qualitative, the phenomenal, the what-it-is-like aspects of the mind that have defied traditional forms of naturalismcentral to dretske's approach is the claim that the phenomenal aspects of perceptual experiences are one and the same as external, real world properties that experience represents objects as havingchapter five addresses anticipated philosophical objections to the theorydretske's theory of naturalistic representationalism is an approach to the study of consciousness that can pin down the slippery first-person aspect of our sensory and affective lifein the first four chapters (the original jean nicod lectures), dretske focuses on what naturalistic representationalism reveals about introspective knowledge, intentionality, qualia, inverted spectra, the biological function of conscious experience, and the possibility of knowing what alien experiences are likeit distinguishes, in wholly naturalistic terms, between what we experience (reality) and how we experience it (appearance)
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the new worldit spans oceans and ideologies and encompasses personal tragedies and triumphs, the death of kings and the birth of nationsin their efforts to build a paradise on earth, the rainborowes and their friends encounter pirates and witches, prophets and princes, muslem militants and mohican indiansthe rainborowes explains america and mourns england's failed revolutionthey are ordinary men and women, and they do an extraordinary thingthey change the worldstarting with william rainborowe, a prominent merchant-mariner and shipmaster, and his equally formidable sons and daughters between and , we follow their astonishing story through the civil war, the putney debates, and settling in americausing rare printed material from the period and unpublished manuscripts from collections in britain and america the rainborowes recreates day-to-day life on both sides of the atlantic during one of the most tumultuous periods in western historythey build new societies
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop fulwood road from the nosince his murder, she has vanished, and all the evidence points to her as the killerif he makes a mistake, it could threaten not only the government but the king himselfin the court of charles ii, it's a dangerous time to be alive - a wrong move may lead to disgrace, exile or deathsigned by the author on the title page, with a label to that effect on the front1 bestselling author of 'the ashes of london' and 'the fire court' comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following james marwoodbut time is running out for everyonea royal scandal that could change the face of england forever  james marwood, a traitor's son, is ordered to cover up the murderbut the dead man is edward alderley, the cousin of one of marwood's acquaintancesthe discovery of a body at clarendon house, the palatial home of one of the highest courtiers in the land, could therefore have catastrophic consequencescat lovett had every reason to want her cousin dead marwood is determined to clear cat's name and discover who really killed alderley
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop bishop's stortford this book introduces students to the best recent writings on the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriescovers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemyrepresents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovativeintroduces students to the best recent writings on the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriespresents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of reinterpreting the scientific revolution great condition copy of a excellent book for students and historians of the period
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music islington francis ledwidge was ireland's major war poet, sometimes called "the poet of the blackbirds"the book itself, bound in black cloth, is in good condition, the exterior showing only pale patches at the tops of the covers and some minor bumping of corners with no frank damageedward john moreton drax plunkett, 18th baron of dunsany (), was an anglo-irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name lord dunsanyb/w frontispiece portrait of the poetduring the s he was considered one of the greatest living writers of the english-speaking worldfrancis edward ledwidge () was an irish war poet and soldier from county meathsometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was killed in action at the battle of passchendaele during world war ititle etc in rather faded gilt lettering on the spinea keen trade unionist with connections to sinn fein, he joined the irish army in lord dunsany's regiment, saw action in italy and serbia, was sent to the front, and was killed near ypres, aged just 30the jacket is rather age-worn, with rubbing of angles and folds, some chips and tears to edges, and general grubbiness, but is intactinside, the endpapers are very lightly browned, but clean; binding firm with no loose pages; pages clean and brighthowever, his passion was poetry, and he self-educated in the hope of eventually achieving a white-collar job which might allow him to write with greater freedomour book is in good general condition and, unusually, retains its dust jacket (unclipped)born to a poverty-stricken family, his education was minimal, and once old enough, he began to work at whatever job might be availablehis poetry shows his deep love of nature and wild-life, and he perhaps foreshadows the modern titan, seamus heaney
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans anyone who has seen the lion in winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the plantagenets and readers of the romance of robin hood will be familiar with the typecasting of good king richard, defending christendom in the holy land, and bad king john who usurps the kingdom in his absencebut do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality? in this sweeping narrative, celebrated historian frank mclynn turns the tables on modern revisionist historians and shows these larger-than-life characters as they really were - crusading, fighting vicious wars in france, negotiating with the papacy, engaging in ruthless dynastic intrigue, often against each other: in richard's case, even holding the kingdom together when fighting in the holy land; and in john's, losing normandy, catastrophically agonising the barons over magna carta and losing the crown jewels in the wash
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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-avonin recognition of the beauty of this quintessentially english countryside, the area covering 790 square miles was designated an area of outstanding natural beauty indespite its popularity with tourists, the cotswolds remains tranquil and serenethis area is a perfect blend of gentle rolling hills, plentiful archaeological sites and charming villages built from a local honey coloured limestonethe 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 visitbeata moore's glorious photographs show the charm of the cotswolds through the seasonstraditional 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 hidcotemost of the villages and smaller towns have survived unspoiltthe perfect, traditional cotswolds villages offer historic places, friendly pubs and craft shops
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Without doubt one of the finest novels i have read for years' the times see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hertford twenty-fifth anniversary edition of kate atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the whitbread (now costa) book of the year prize'little short of a masterpiecebunty had never wanted to marry george, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath york minster, with sensible and sardonic patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch gillian who refused to be ignored, and rubywill dazzle readers for years to come' - hilary mantel, author of the mirror and the lightruby lennox was conceived grudgingly by bunty and born while her father, george, was in the dog and hare in doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a d-cup that he wasn't marriedruby tells the story of the family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling french photographer catches frail beautiful alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of ruby's own lifefizzing with wit and energy, kate atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' daily mail'an astounding book'delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as dickensoutrageously funny
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beaconsfield what we believe to be a first edition of an antiquarian school storythere is a bookseller's sticker inside the front cover and an annotation datedthe endpapers are yellowed apart from spotting the pages are in good clean condition, including the illustrationsunfortunately the one on the spine is damagedotherwise it is in good condition for the agethere is an annotation inside the front coverthe binding is soundthe binding is mainly sound although loose between pages 288 and 289 and before the advertisements at the backthe hardback cover has a picture on the frontthe cover is worn and has damage which appears to be from having been tied in a bundleit includes colour illustrationsthe publication date on the title page is
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