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The times newspaper dated 13 maygenuine newspaper read moregreat birthday present
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Kings of leon - because of the times ()dispatched with royal mail 1st class large lettercondition is like new
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Oxfam shop colne road bob dylan ?- the times they are a-changin' label:columbia ?- cd format:cd, album, reissue country:europereleased: genre:rock style:folk rock see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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It would be ideal for a railway enthusiastplease note the book is brand new & not been read, although the price has been cut off the inside of the dust coverit is full of maps, photo's both colour & black & white, also plenty of facts about the lost linesthis book is about britain's lost railways, it takes you on a nostalgic journey along 50 long lost railway linesroutes include - alton to fareham - sudbury to bury st edmonds - hull to withernsea & many morecollect from margate or i can post but will need to charge postal costs
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Even its name is deceptive it is not an it, a single entity, but many walls (hence the uncertain length), built at different timesfor this riveting account, john man travelled the wall from the far western deserts to the pacific, exploring the grandest sections and many wild onesbut we are wrongestimates of its length vary from to mileswe all feel we know the wallmyths surround itmany believe that the stone barrier marches across all china, that it has been in existence for over years, and that it is the only man-made structure visible from the moonthe many walls are united by two ideas self-protection and unity which go back to the first emperor, who founded the nation in 221 bcfor years, the wall marked the border between china and nomadic peoples to the north and westit is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a few images or a day-tripmutual hostility inspired centuries of attacks, counter-attacks and wall-building, until the northward spread of china in the 20th century made the wall redundanthe covers two millennia of history, from the countrys first unification to the present day, when the great wall, built and rebuilt over centuries of war, has become a symbol of tranquillityyet behind the confusion are great simplicitiesmillions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountainssee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe is the first writer to describe two unknown walls in mongoliaoxfam bookshop cheltenham chinas great wall north of beijing is one of the worlds most famous sightsit cannot even be seen from earth orbit, let alone the moonin fact, most of it is made of earth, and much of it is not there at all
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Condition: goodauthors: holland, juliandust jacket: falsefirst edition: falseproduct category: bookspublication date
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Vividly exploring the grammar of the psyche, we are urged to constantly kindle and rekindle our engagement with languageoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells at home in the language of the soul exploring jungian discourse and psyche's grammar of transformation language has a primary importance in jungian psychology and its practiceeven the "worker" words in language, like prepositions or conjunctions, carry particular archetypal energies, working dynamically and daimonically in the conduct of transformational narrative and realizing both personal and collective purposesthis book aims to deepen our consciousness of psyche's speech as it occurs in our professional discourses, in the psychoanalytic encounter, in dreams, fairy tales, myths, and poetrysee oxfam website for delivery information read morejung saw every act of speech as a psychic event
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Your skills as an investigative sleuth will be tested as you attempt to uncover the truth behind the mystery, exploring the many rooms of a large victorian mansion, solving the many puzzles and riddles that you will encounter
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Isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk exploring the place of dance in modernity, mccaren (french, tulane udancing machines: choreographies of the age of mechanical reproduction, hardcover by mccarren, felicia mannotation (c) book news, incshe finds early the 20th-century versions of the double-edged image as american imported ideas and exiled american art in europe; and in dance forms that both incorporated and resisted american, african, and asian influences) looks at dancing machines epitomized by automobiles that are imagined dancing and dancers imagining themselves as automobilesportland, or ()
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Richly illustrated with maps, engineering drawings, newspaper engravings, and architectural photographs, this book suggests new ways of understanding london's sewers and makes visible these vital, yet hidden spaces of the cityoxfam books & music lichfield in this fascinating and innovative look at how the underbelly of victorian london, paul dobraszczyk offers a new account of how the city's sanitation was revolutionised in the s and s by means of gigantic new sewers and magnificent pumping stationshe focuses on the question of how these new spaces were understood and represented - by both those who planned and promoted them (reformers and engineers) and also by those whom they impacted, namely london's populacesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Your skills as an investigative sleuth will be tested as you attempt to uncover the truth behind the mystery, exploring the many rooms rooms of a large victorian mansion, solving the many puzzles and riddles that you will encounter
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' the times literary supplement 'i despised men who accepted their fatei shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands' it is and, after five years imprisonment and exile far from his homeland, francis crawford of lymond - scholar, soldier, rebel, nobleman, outlaw - has at last come back to edinburghoxfam bookshop brigg voted one of britain's favourite historical novels before george rbut for many in an already divided scotland, where conspiracies swarm around the infant queen mary like clouds of midges, he is not welcomeperfect for fans of a game of throneslymond is wanted for treason and murder, and he is accompanied by a band of killers and ruffians who will only bring further violence and strife'she is a brilliant story teller, the lymond chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come to care deeply aboutis he back to foment rebellion? does he seek revenge on those who banished him? or has he returned to clear his name? no one but the enigmatic lymond himself knows the truth - and no one will discover it until he is readymartin there was dorothy dunnett'a storyteller who could teach scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention'new york times'melodrama of the most magnificent kind' the guardian see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The new york times crossword puzzle is known for its wit and wordplayyou better be on your game to solve this collection of some of the most fun, punny out-there puzzles ever printed in the timesfeatures: - 75 times crossword puzzles - portable format is perfect for travel or solving at home - edited by the biggest name in crosswords, will shortz
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A poignant, compelling family saga' the sunday times the no1 sunday times bestseller from the million-copy best-selling author of the island, the thread, and the return'fascinating and moving' the times 'an imaginative tour de force, and a great read' daily mail 'an absorbing tale about family, friendship, loyalty and betrayal' good housekeeping 'heartbreaking' essentials 'vibrantan ambitious couple are about to open the island's most spectacular hotel, where greek and turkish cypriots work in harmonybut beneath the city's façade of glamour and success, tension is buildingturkey invades to protect the turkish cypriot minority, and famagusta is shelledin the summer of , famagusta in cyprus is the most desirable resort in the mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortuneoxfam shop dumfries 'intelligent and immersivein the deserted city, just two families remainpraise for the sunrisehislop brings history to life in this compelling tale' tatler 'fascinating' sunday mirror see oxfam website for delivery information read moretwo neighbouring families, the georgious and the özkans, are among many who moved to famagusta to escape the years of unrest and ethnic violence elsewhere on the islandforty thousand people seize their most precious possessions and flee from the advancing soldierswhen a greek coup plunges the island into chaos, cyprus faces a disastrous conflictthis is their story
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At times there is an elegiac strain not dissimilar to edward thomasadrian bell () was an english ruralist journalist and farmer, and the first compiler of the times crosswordwhen the times began to lose circulation to the daily telegraph because the latter was running a daily crossword, bell's father suggested him to the editor as the first "setter" even though he had never even solved onebell had just 10 days' notice before his first puzzle was published, in the weekly edition on 2 januarythe tone is affectionate, humourous and not in the least patronizinghaving set around puzzles between and , bell is credited with helping to establish its distinctive cryptic clue styleour book is in good general condition, its light blue-green cloth covers showing wear consistent with age - general grubbiness, some rubbing of edges & angles, light shelf wear to top & tail of spine, slight dulling of gilt title etc on the spine, some bumping of corners, and darkened page tops - but no frank damageoxfam books & music islington written by a keen ruralist, journalist and farmer, the book "corduroy" () was an immediate best-seller, and was followed by two more books on the countryside, "silver ley" () and "the cherry tree" (), the three books forming a ruralist farm trilogythe three books constitute a threnody for, what was then, a vanishing, pre-mechanized way, of farming and rural lifeslight foxing on fore-edge, but none seen withininside, the binding is firm with no loose pages; all pages clean and bright; previous owner's name neatly inscribed on front fep; bookseller's label on rear pastedownmassingham, alfred munnings, john nash and henry williamsonsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe was friendly with many literary and cultural figures, including edmund blunden, fhe wrote the "countryman's notebook" column in the eastern daily press from , and produced over twenty other books on the countryside in corduroy the author's experiences as a farm apprentice in suffolk are described
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Oxfam books & music perth journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parishe hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late showever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selectivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moresally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societywithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonyhis newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr in
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More twists and turns than the tiber itself' - rory clements 'absorbing, rich in detail and brilliant' - the times 'grabbed me from the startoxfam bookshop royal exchange square a ragtag group of elite roman soldiers are sent on a suicide mission in this epic historical thriller from sunday times bestseller and leading ancient rome expert, harry sidebottomfrom the bestselling author of the last hour, the lost ten is a breathless historical thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - for fans of bernard cornwell, ben kane, simon scarrow and conn igguldenas they journey deeper into enemy territory, the ten begin to die or disappear, one by oneand with the rescue fast becoming a suicide mission, valens must marshal this disparate group of men - or suffer the same fate as all those who have made the journey before himi loved it' - donna leon *** get ready for the return in - harry sidebottom's breakout historical thriller is now available to pre-order in hardback, ebook & audiobook *** see oxfam website for delivery information read moretasked with rescuing the young prince sasan, valens leads a small, elite squad of soldiers across mesopotamia and into the mountains south of the caspian seapraise for harry sidebottom 'relentless, brutal, brilliant, this is jack reacher in ancient rome' - ben kane 'a cracking talea remote fortress prison set high in the mountains, escape is impossible - and to break someone out, unthinkablebut this is exactly what roman officer marcus aelius valens must dono man who enters the castle of silence ever walks out alive
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Publisher: the london times, undated,circaused very good conditionpictorial frontboards and backboards, stained, rubbed, bumped, shelf-wornspine, stained, rubbed, bumped, shelf-wornblue cloth spine, paper on boardsin arranging the plan of this handbook on the art of driving a car the writer has been largely guided by correspondence on motoring matters received during a numbers of years from readers requests for information from readers of the times, and generally containing requests for information on certain definite points about driving in relation to car maintenancesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreall edges have handling marks paste-downs have motoring adverts, hinge between pastedown and endpapers, cracked near the bottom all pages clean and completeoxfam shop darlington hardback, quarter bound
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen signed first edition february hardback book with dust jacket, unclipped published in the gripping new sunday times top 5 bestseller from the bestselling author of out of the dark and orphan x'an immensely entertaining adventure' the times evan smoak lives by his own code max merriweather hasn't got much left to losebut all good things must come to an endwhich is exactly why his cousin gave him an envelope with the instruction: 'if anything ever happens to me, call the number insideclean, neat and tidy, just the way he likes itpraise for orphan x'outstanding in every way' lee child'weapons-grade thriller writing' guardian see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe'll take on one last mission then go out on a high note' now his cousin is dead and max's own chances of survival look bleakhe'll be lucky just to get through it alivewith max now under his protection, evan realizes that the forces against them pose as daunting a threat as he has ever facedhe's the man you want in your corner when justice is needed' daily mailas a boy he was taken from a foster home to be raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin codevnamed orphan xthen he broke free to live in the shadows as the nowhere man, using his unique skills to help those in desperate needand then he meets max merriweather'a stellar series, the stories get better with each instalmentbad luck and trouble have seen off his marriage, his home and his careerthrowing the main character literally into the fire showcases how truly heroic evan smoak ispacked with edge-of-your-seat suspense, explosive action and razor-sharp plotting, into the fire confirms gregg hurwitz as a rival to lee child, david baldacci, james patterson and harlan coben as a master of the modern thrilleron the run and stalked by death, he meets the one man who might save him: evan smoakon the face of it he's the last guy you'd expect to be trusted with a deadly secret
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Praise for philippa gregory:  'meticulously researched and deeply entertaining, this story of betrayal and divided loyalties is gregory on top form' good housekeeping  'gregory has popularised tudor history perhaps more than any other living fiction writer all of her books feature strong, complex women, doing their best to improve their lives in worlds dominated by men' sunday times  'engrossing' sunday express  'popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told' the times  see oxfam website for delivery information read more' jane grey was queen of england for nine daysshe intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and find love 'learn you to die' is the advice that jane gives in a letter to her younger sister katherine, who has no intention of dyingafter watching her sisters defy the queen, mary is aware of her own perilous position as a possible heir to the throne'not long,' he says very quietly we don't have long at allwhen jane refused to betray her protestant faith, mary sent her to the executioner's blockbut she is determined to command her own destiny and be the last tudor to risk her life in matching wits with her ruthless and unforgiving cousin elizabeth 'farewell, my sister,' writes katherine to the youngest grey sister, mary'they have confirmed your sentence of deathusing her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king's half-sister mary, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her crown and locked jane in the towerthere jane turned her father's greedy, failed grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdombut her lineage makes her a threat to the insecure and infertile queen mary and, when mary dies, to her sister queen elizabeth, who will never allow katherine to marry and produce a potential royal heir before she doesa beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, mary finds it easy to keep secrets, especially her own, while avoiding elizabeth's suspicious glareoxfam shop colne road 'how long do i have?' i force a laugh so when katherine's secret marriage is revealed by her pregnancy, she too must go to the tower you are to be beheaded tomorrow
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This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' the timesoxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the costa book of the year winner of the slightly foxed best first biography prize a sunday times paperback of the year 'a masterpiece of history and memoir' evening standard'superbmuch later, she fell out with her foster family, and bart van es - the grandson of lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out whyhis account of tracing lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two familieslittle lien wasn't taken from her jewish parents in the hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be savedit is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefinedhidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not'luminous, elegant, haunting - i read it straight through' philippe sands, author of east west street'deeply movingshedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time' judges of the costa book of the year see oxfam website for delivery information read morewrites with an almost sebaldian simplicity and understatement' guardian'sensational and gripping
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Oxfam shop dumfries sunday times bestseller prayer for the dead is the fifth novel in the bestselling inspector mclean series by author james oswaldjames' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of e l james and her fifty shades of grey series' daily mail 'fifty shades of hay' the times 'oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent scottish crime writers' daily mail 'the new ian rankin' daily record 'an excellent start to what promises to be a fine series' guardian 'classy, occasionally brutal, and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural, this will doubtless be another deserved hit'the hallmarks of val mcdermid or ian rankin: it's dark, violent, noirish' the herald***'are you ready to be reborn?' the search for a missing journalist is called off as a body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murderbut it is not the only thing about this case that mclean will find beyond belief'are you ready for the mysteries to be revealed?' praise for james oswald: 'a star of scotland's burgeoning crime fiction scene' daily record 'crime fiction's next big thing' the sunday telegraph 'literary sensationthe baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossibleinspector tony mclean knew the dead man, and can't shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eyein a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of gilmerton cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath edinburgh, the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purificationteamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, he must track down a killer driven by the darkest compulsions, who will answer only to a higher poweroswald's writing is in a class above most in this genre' daily express see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Will this close-knit unit who have come to depend on each other still be together next christmas? and what will they have learnt about having somewhere you truly belong?praise for marcia willett:'a genuine voice of our times' the times'riveting, moving and utterly feel-good' daily mail see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut things are going to be different for jakey this yearthe cornish home which he has known all his life is in danger of being sold up, and everything is changingjakey calls her auntie gabriel, and she holds a big red satin hearthe hates seeing them disappear back into their boxes, especially the big, homemade angel, which has put in an appearance at family christmases for many years'it's just after christmas, and four-year-old jakey is helping to put away the decorationsoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'he feels restless; sad that the tiny, sparkling lights and the pretty tree will no longer be there to brighten the short, dark winter days
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A times bestsellermytting's book is as much a romantic historical thriller as it is a book of promise, a page-turner as it is a reflective journey into selfhood, history, life's meaning and individual moral responsibility - mika provata-carlone, bookanistatranslated from the norwegian by paul russell garrett see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe death of his parents, when he was three years old, has always been shrouded in mystery - he has never been told how or where it took place and has only a distant memory of his motherone day a coffin is delivered for his grandfather long before his death - a meticulous, beautiful piece of craftsmanshipedvard's desperate quest to unlock the family's tragic secrets takes him on a long journey - from norway to the shetlands, and to the battlefields of france - to the discovery of a very unusual inheritancethe sixteen trees of the somme is about the love of wood and finding your own self, a beautifully intricate and moving tale that spans an entire century"an intricate story about war, family, secrets and,yes, woodan engaging, satisfying read" the times"so cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion" scotsmanedvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in norway with his taciturn grandfather, sverreoxfam shop clitheroe a family story of epic scale, by the author of norwegian wood and the bell in the lakeperhaps einar is not dead after allbut he knows that the fate of his grandfather's brother, einar, is somehow bound up with this mystery
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1 sunday times bestselling memoir of nursing todayoxfam bookshop cheltenham read costa award-winning author christie watson's incredible noshe is a guide, mentor and friendit made me laugh' adam kay, author of this is going to hurt and twas the nightshift before christmas christie watson was a nurse for twenty years'it made me cry'a powerful insight into the life of nurses' the times, books of the year'a remarkable book about life and death and so brilliantly written it makes you hold your breath' ruby wax see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a handwe watch christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side during her patient's agonising heart-lung transplant, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arriveit made me thinkin our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, christie is with ustaking us from birth to death and from a&e to the mortuary, the language of kindness is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness
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The book contains original headlines, pictures and articles from newspapers of the timesit has a unique perspective to manchester united's colourful history, seen through the eyes of some of the nations leading sports reporters of the timesthis book commemorates those manchester united footballing moments dated from , to up to near present daythe measurements of the book are:- 38 cms x 31cms x 2cms local pickup only (if the advert shows the item is still for sale) read more
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Oxfam shop colne road discover the entertaining, uplifting and intriguing tale of finding true happiness in unexpected places from the nowas meeting mr range rover destiny or karma?should she be grateful or just hopping mad?and can stella grab a chance at real, honest-to-goodness happiness now it finally seems within her reach? keyes can deftly mix dark and light, tragic and comic in a way that only a handful of writers can' irish times'one of our finest writers' jojo moyespraise for marian keyes:'comic, convincing and true' guardian'mercilessly funny' the times'funny, tender and completely absorbing!' graham norton see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the result is a terrible car accident, she meets a handsome with a range rover who wants her number - no, for insurance purposes - and in this meeting a seed is born which will change stella's life forever1 bestselling author of grown ups'a total triumph' daily mail ever wished you could trade your life in for a better one?one day, sitting in traffic, married dublin mum stella sweeney attempts a simple good deedwhat happens next will take stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar and, along the way, wrenching her whole family apart
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Emotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the 'war-guilt paragraph' of the treaty of versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposed there a sticky label on the backcover over the barcode that has been mostly removed the book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the warwere they really justified? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreannika mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth centurysimilarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were sufferedoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the origins of the first world war annika mombauer very good condition paperbacktext is unmarkedthe seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the first world war have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversy
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