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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. At the age of eleven, Helena Frith Powell's mother gave her a letter after school. It was from her real father her mother told her, not the abusive and moody man Helena had always assumed was the one. This new father was glamorous, an Italian film maker, and he would like her to meet his family on a grand tour of Italy. The moving discovery of Italy and the many relatives Helena never knew she had is wittily described in Ciao Bella, the memoir of her trip through Italy with her father. In a new twist, her father receives a prestigious literary prize in 2008 at the age of 80 and is reunited with her mother after 25 years - will it last? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It is 11 January 2012. Before being able to deliver a speech that celebrates the 100th anniversary of Scott's expedition to the South Pole, Verney - Chief of Defence Intelligence - is found dead due to a heart attack. Or so it seems. Celia Nevinson, the head of MI5 is suspicious and asks Daniel Jacot - a colonel on the staff of the Joint Intelligence Committee - to go on a secret mission. He must dig through the secretive world of the intelligence forces, as well as the painful realm of his past as officer in the Falklands War, to discover the clandestine truth. Set against Britain's Special Relationship and its growing cooperation with the French Surete, the reader heads deep into the entrails of the Whitehall spy industry and its Byzantine functioning. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This thought-provoking new study gathers for the first time the confessions of people who have had, or are having, or are looking to have affairs through the secretive chat rooms dedicated to extra marital affairs. The book reaches the surprising conclusion that the internet is changing the nature of marriage. Extra-marital affairs set up through the internet are often beneficial discrete 'holidays' from a loving long-term relationship - though there are some horror stories, too. Interestingly, the book finds that, more than ever, women are holding the power in these dalliances. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Like many people Carla McKay thought that yoga was for health nuts only. Things changed, however, when a friend persuaded her to give it try for a laugh. She did laugh - throughout the class. But the practice was also different from what she had expected. In The Reluctant Yogi she describes how she got hooked over time, and asks experts what yoga does for us. She discovered that research shows yoga has something for everyone of every shape and size, young to old: it will tone your body, calm your mind, make you sleep better, strengthen your bones, boost your immune system and even make you lose weight. Learning her asanas from her pranayama, Carla finds along the way how you, too, can change your life with yoga. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Like many people Carla McKay thought that yoga was for health nuts only. Things changed, however, when a friend persuaded her to give it try for a laugh. She did laugh - throughout the class. But the practice was also different from what she had expected. In The Reluctant Yogi she describes how she got hooked over time, and asks experts what yoga does for us. She discovered that research shows yoga has something for everyone of every shape and size, young to old: it will tone your body, calm your mind, make you sleep better, strengthen your bones, boost your immune system and even make you lose weight. Learning her asanas from her pranayama, Carla finds along the way how you, too, can change your life with yoga. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Like Winston Churchill ("Great Contemporaries"), John F. Kennedy ("Profiles in Courage") and recently Gordon Brown ("Courage"), McCain asks the quintessential question any contender for world leadership must answer. What is most fundamental about human character that leads to the right decisions under stress and while alone at the top? How do men and women not buckle under the enormous pressure when they have to make difficult decisions on their own. How do they choose the right thing against the odds when easier and far less dangerous alternatives are open to them? Why is it that some people have the courage to dare?In "Hard Call", John McCain chooses outstanding twentieth-century figures who had the character and courage required to take responsibility for their decisions. He recounts key episodes in the lives of everyone from Winston Churchill to Anwar Sadat, Ma Ellen in Liberia to Olympic swimmer Gertrude Ederle, examining the virtues they embodied, whether foresight, confidence or inspiration. It is an inspiring book that will help many understand John McCain better as well as allow them to make better leadership decisions in their own lives. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 2004. Near Fine hardback book. Fine dust jacket. Copy is like new except for tiny bump to top of spine. 385pp. 8vo. (J).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Contrary to today's news headlines, there always was a detailed plan for what would happen to postwar Iraq. But it had little do with the banners under which the American and British governments cynically marketed their invasion of Iraq - democracy, freedom and fighting terrorism. As if in a giant hostile takeover, the real intentions of the Iraqi invasion were dishonestly disguised: the wiping out of an entire culture in as short a time as possible. Within days of the occupation of Iraq began a firesale of its national assets. Everything was engineered to indenture for generations to come an already impoverished population to foreign investors, while teaching the new belief that greed is good. This scathing J'Accuse tears the veil off the hypocrisy of the actions of Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Seeing the horrific scars inflicted on a country under stress, and the deeply shocking motives for it, no reader will be able to look at the Iraqi Invasion with same eyes as before. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When MI5 receives a first-ever invitation to monitor turbulence in China's restive New Silk Road region, Tony Underwood is dispatched as part of a gesture of goodwill. He has no special knowledge of the part of China that touches the stans, or of China full stop; but MI5 is not about to be misled by Bejing's suppression of the area's Muslim Uighur majority as a religious insurgence. Alarm bells start ringing, however, while Tony's plane is still in the air. The Guoanbua - the Chinese secret service - capture a young British backpacker on suspicion of gun-running across the border. Press drums start beating and the fate of a British citizen expiring in a grim Chinese cell lies on Tony's less than experienced shoulders.MI5 isn't the only one with their eyes on the young Brit, however. American, Russian and Chinese agents seek to get whatever they can out of the backpacker, at whatever cost. Tony soon has to navigate a labyrinth of lies, history and twisting motives. As he walks a razor-sharp line between protecting a potential terrorist and condemning a British citizen, he finds that the rising flames of riots in China are driven by a plot with ever-growing consequences. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. What do older women want? And older than what, anyway? Love, flattery, an end to baby-sitting, a night out without falling asleep in the soup? Or the very last chance of gratifying desire, of finding a soul-mate, even if it means paying over the odds.? It's awful, really to admit to some of the stupid things we do."Confessions of a Sugar Mummy" provides the (frequently hilarious) answer to the most pressing questions for women who have reached A Certain Age: Am I past it? Am I invisible, and if so what can I do about it? And why is the pursuit of happiness an acceptable goal for all members of the human race except Old Bags? Money, as so often, turns out to be the solution. And when a sixty-something with frankly limited prospects, finds her London flat is worth a fortune, she jumps at the chance of entering the world of property with the glamorous younger Frenchman, Alain. Until, to her horror, she realises she can't turn back, until the final question is answered: Can Money Buy Me Love? "Confessions of a Sugar Mummy" provides laughs and a few tears - all the way to the Bank. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Diaries of Nansen's lunatic three-year long expedition to the North Pole, which made him the John Krakauer of his age. In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and so drift North. Experts said that such a mission was tantamount to suicide. This is the stirring first-person account of this historic voyage. Nansen tells of his expedition's struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger, and the seemingly endless polar night that transformed the Fram into a "cold prison of loneliness." Setting out in the end on a harrowing fifteen-month sledge journey to reach his destination by foot, he was required them to share a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones. Given up for dead, he traveled 146 miles farther north than anyone else in the past four hundred years. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Through riveting inside accounts how Britain's maverick politicians exploit the behind-the-scenes struggles in the major parties, Newark takes us through the triumphs and tribulations of the UKIP, the Lib Dems and anyone from Boris Johnson to Nadine Dorries. With entertaining portraits of the main players he exposes the astonishing feuds and raging rows. Tim Newark has talked to everyone who has counted since the fall of Labour. It is a brilliant account and a sheer delight for anyone interested in the opportunism and cut-throat side of those who rule us. Almost every page provides a fresh insight or piece of information not previously in the public domain. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. After being innocently embroiled in a school scandal, teacher Judith Hay decides there is only one thing she can do and that is leave Britain. The small village of Vevey in the Languedoc near Montpellier seems the perfect answer. Life is cheap and the views are pretty. Vevey, however, may well be the French answer to St Mary's Mead - an abundance of vice and intrigue hides behind its pretty facades.Soon, she meets her fellow expats and something seems odd. It appears that many escaped Britain for their own dark reasons rather than for the sunny climate. Behind their sombre faces, even the French seem furtive and some still harbour Nazi secrets. There is one local expat, in particular, Gerald, a writer of some fame, who makes her shudder. If he is really as evil as she thinks he is, his plan hatched with a local Frenchman will need to be stopped. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. What do you do if you find a bra in your husband's luggage that isn't yours? Or even his! This is the dilemma facing mother-of-three Sophie Reed, shortly after she moves to France with her family to start a new life. As they are unpacking her husband admits to having an affair with a French woman called Cecile. Sophie thinks about throwing him out with the bra. But then what? Should she move back to England? Her inner French woman tells her otherwise. She is getting to know her enigmatic, aristocratic neighbour. And then there is her old flame, the breathtakingly sexy, and now famous, Johnny Fray.French women think nothing of having several lovers, but is that the answer for an inexperienced English girl who has been married for ten years? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. You may think of the toilet book as a recent phenomenon but history tells us otherwise. In this witty and tremendously well-researched new book Phil Norman traces the origins of toilet reading to Renaissance Europe and charts its rise and fall over the centuries that followed. From Sir Thomas More to Gyles Brandreth, Samuel Pepys to Ben Schott, the greatest readers and writers of lavatory literature are all here. No toilet library should be without this essential volume. This is the loo book to beat all loo books. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What do you do if you find a bra in your husband's luggage that isn't yours? Or even his! This is the dilemma facing mother-of-three Sophie Reed, shortly after she moves to France with her family to start a new life. As they are unpacking her husband admits to having an affair with a French woman called Cecile. Sophie thinks about throwing him out with the bra. But then what? Should she move back to England? Her inner French woman tells her otherwise. She is getting to know her enigmatic, aristocratic neighbour. And then there is her old flame, the breathtakingly sexy, and now famous, Johnny Fray.French women think nothing of having several lovers, but is that the answer for an inexperienced English girl who has been married for ten years? Humorous novel by bestselling author Helena Frith Powell, about the French art of having affairs Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A greater contrast between Whistler's outrageously flamboyant life - he was famously a friend of Oscar Wilde and Dante Gabriel Rossetti - and the subdued, touchingly melancholic style of the painting of his Puritan mother is hard to imagine. Painted in 1871, at the height of the Victorian age of family values, Whistler gave the painting the provocative modernist title "Arrangement in Grey and Black". While restoring the painting for the Louvre, Sarah Walden was intrigued by its extraordinary and complex history which has hitherto never been fully uncovered. Delving deep in sources not available in the UK, she wrote this book of its complex birth which reads like a detective story. Her view of restoration (for which she received the support of Ernst Gombrich) is that it is more than a technical job, involving an aesthetic and historical approach. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. to hear their stories about him. From the author of 'Two Lipsticks'. Covers the journey around Italy taken by the author, in pursuit of her Italian-Lothario father. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Jacket. Octavo paperback, 224pp. In Very Good+ condition. No inscriptions. No dust jacket.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. (2003), 242pp, illus., ding to bottom edge of front cover, slight edgewear to dj.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Fourth Printing, September 2004. Volume itself has black covers with sharp gilt lettering on the spine. 355 pages, including an index. Book is clean, fresh, tight and bright. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. Dj is not price-clipped. A quite nice copy; available for immediate shipment.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist, was lured into the Saudi diplomatic mission in Istanbul, dismembered in fifteen parts and packed into five suitcases. Astonishingly, a forensic UN report concluded nine months later there was 'credible evidence' that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was responsible for the killing. Earlier, Donald Trump issued a shocking statement that 'It could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this'. It followed the CIA's assessment of Saudi Arabia's de-facto ruler that, 'there is no way this happened without him being aware or involved.' Crime writer Owen Wilson has forensically gathered all the known facts about the slaughter and the reasons so that the reader can make up their own mind. A meticulous reconstruction of the context and facts surrounding the chilling assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi state officials at their Istanbul consulate. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A primer on modern China by a leading expert. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. On a whim he decided to staple some together and offer them at a market in his home town of Cambridge when not writing plays. Readers would go away chuckling to themselves and the booklets flew away. Their chuckling response led to A Lion Was Learning to Ski. When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. Their chuckling response led to A Lion Was Learning to Ski. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.