Three Houses, Many Lives, Paperback - Gillian Tindall

'A major achievement' Ronald Blythe, author of AkenfieldA Cotswold vicarage. A former girls' boarding school in Surrey. A Jacobean house now buried...

When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family'...

A masterpiece of miniaturist, social history. By closely examining the history of one house, Gillian Tindall tells the story of Southwark and the s...

Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meado...

*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates ...

People wonder if Tucker McBride has many lives. But Tucker says, he just completely lives the one he has. He helps everyone who needs him, and stil...

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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Author Angela Thirkell recalls the three houses in which she grew up. First 'The Grange', where her grandfather, Si...

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A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marque...

Publisher: Princeton University PressIllustration(s): 47 b/w illus.Number of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 200 x 135 x 23Cover type: ...

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Publisher: Vendome PressAuthor(s): Rose TarlowIllustration(s): 200 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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Autobiography of John Altman, film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, conductor and saxophonist.Publisher: Equinox Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Jo...

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A life-affirming adventure story - three centuries in the making.

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A fascinating insight into the realities of wartime life, and a valuable oral history of a unique moment in British history.Publisher: Pen & Sword ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ferdinand MountNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23Cover type: Paper...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Bob BlaunerNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 30Cover type: Pape...

A life-affirming adventure story - three centuries in the making.

The Many Lives of Andy Warhol is more than a biography: it's a look into Warhol's greatest creation: himself. Warhol was known as the king of pop a...

Publisher: Astra Publishing HouseAuthor(s): Maya MacGregorNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 34Cover type: HardbackR...

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DescriptionWhen Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his persona...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on math...