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Killing Thatcher - The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown (Hardcover): Rory Carroll Killing Thatcher - The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown (Hardcover)
Rory Carroll
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher KILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot. In this fascinating and compelling book, veteran journalist Rory Carroll retraces the road to the infamous Brighton bombing in 1984 – an incident that shaped the political landscape in the UK for decades to come. He begins with the infamous execution of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 – for which the IRA took full responsibility – before tracing the rise of Margaret Thatcher, her response to the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland and the chain of events that culminated in the hunger strikes of 1981 and the death of 10 republican prisoners, including Bobby Sands. From that moment on Thatcher became an enemy of the IRA – and the organisation swore revenge. Opening with a brilliantly-paced prologue that introduces bomber Patrick Magee in the build up to the incident, Carroll sets out to deftly explore the intrigue before and after the assassination attempt – with the story spanning three continents, from pubs and palaces, safe houses and interrogation rooms, hotels and barracks. On one side, an elite IRA team aided by a renegade priest, US-raised funds and Libya’s Qaddafi and on the other, intelligence officers, police detectives, informers and bomb disposal officers. An exciting narrative that blends true crime with political history, this is the first major book to investigate the Brighton attack.

Collection of Marvellous Things (Paperback): Gaius Julius Solinus Collection of Marvellous Things (Paperback)
Gaius Julius Solinus
R504 R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Save R44 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Shooting an Elephant (Hardcover): George Orwell Shooting an Elephant (Hardcover)
George Orwell
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Today, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but in his own time it was his remarkable nonfiction writing which drew most attention. Kind-hearted, intelligent, often funny, occasionally indignant, always insightful: his essays are some of the best ever written. Among others, this selection includes 'Shooting an Elephant', 'Such, Such Were the Joys' and 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

The Air Raid Book Club - The most uplifting World War 2 historical fiction inspired by true events (Hardcover): Annie Lyons The Air Raid Book Club - The most uplifting World War 2 historical fiction inspired by true events (Hardcover)
Annie Lyons
R622 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R112 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'A warm and tender tale about the power and healing of friendship and community and the magic of books' - Ruth Hogan As the bombs began to fall, the book club kept their hopes alive... The most emotional, uplifting and captivating story of wartime London and the extraordinary power of books to shine a light and draw people together in the darkest of days, inspired by true events. London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up and move away when she is asked if she would be willing to take in a young Jewish refugee from Germany. Gertie is unsure and when sullen teenager Hedy Fischer arrives, Gertie fears she has nothing left to give the troubled girl. But when the German bombers come and the lights go out over London, Gertie and Hedy realise that joining forces will make them stronger, and that books have the power to bring young and old together and unite a community in need in its darkest hour... *Annie Lyons was shortlisted for the RNA Contemporary Romantic Novel of the Year Award* Readers adore The Air Raid Book Club: 'Annie Lyons has cleverly woven the horror and heartbreak of war with the resilience of human nature, the strength of love, and the importance of friends . . . perfect for fans of Lissa Evans and AJ Pearce' - Kerry Barrett 'This is a book to be read and re-read - each time there will be something new to discover . . . a triumph' - Celia Anderson 'Warm and nostalgic . . . This story of love, bravery and found family is heart-wrenching and utterly charming. I sobbed my way through the final chapters' - Fiona Lucas 'A wonderful story of strong female friendship and found family . . . I absolutely adored it' - ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Real reader review 'A gentle, heartwarming read . . . [with] two main characters who are lovely ordinary people living in remarkable times' - ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Real reader review '[A] beautiful depiction of a community striving to survive and thrive together . . . I came to love the many characters and I felt like I, too, would be welcomed into their book club' - ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Real reader review 'One of my favourite books ever . . . reading this beautiful, heartfelt, heartbreaking, but yet promising story leaves me feeling hope for the human spirit' - ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Real reader review

Fatherland - A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets (Hardcover): Burkhard Bilger Fatherland - A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets (Hardcover)
Burkhard Bilger
R657 R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Save R92 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain ‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party’s brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country’s crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out. What follows is a literary suspense story: a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in villages and dusty archives across Germany and France. Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century, tracing one family’s path through history’s wreckage. For readers of Bart van Es’s The Cut Out Girl or Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with the Amber Eyes, this is a story of middle lands, torn allegiances and loaded family inheritance.

Out to Change the World - The Evolution of the Farm Community (Paperback): Douglas Stevenson Out to Change the World - The Evolution of the Farm Community (Paperback)
Douglas Stevenson
R399 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R66 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1971, a caravan of 60 brightly painted school buses and assorted

other vehicles carrying more than 300 hippie idealists landed on an

abandoned farm in central Tennessee. They had a mission: to be a

part of something bigger than themselves, to follow a peaceful and

spiritual path, and to make a difference in the world.

Out to Change the World tells the story of how those hippies established The Farm, one of the largest and longest-lasting intentional communities in the United States. Starting with the 1960s HaightAshbury scene where it all began and continuing through the changeover from commune to collective up to the present day, this is the first complete account of The Farm's origins, inception, growth, and evolution. By turns inspiring, cautionary, triumphant, and wistful, it's a captivating narrative from start to finish.

Harold Wilson - The Winner (Paperback): Nick Thomas-Symonds Harold Wilson - The Winner (Paperback)
Nick Thomas-Symonds
R360 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Save R72 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour's greatest ever election winner. How did he do it - and at what cost? Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political calculator, even as a Soviet secret agent. In this powerful new portrait, drawing on previously unavailable sources and first-hand parliamentary insight, acclaimed biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds reveals a more complex figure. Wilson was a new kind of politician but, in his own way, this media-savvy harbinger of modernity was also a deeply traditional man, whose actions often suggest nothing less than a spiritual mission. In an intriguing paradox, Wilson, influenced by the distinctively democratic faith of his Yorkshire boyhood, united a fractured Labour Party, ushering in the cultural and social changes of the 'swinging sixties'. His was the government to decriminalise homosexuality, legalise abortion and abolish capital punishment. With a brilliant mind, sure-footed political moves and a feel for public opinion, he was a survivor who over and over again emerged from desperate crises - even, perhaps, conspiracies - to lead his party to victory. It is time at last to learn his secrets.

Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines - More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans... Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines - More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans (Paperback)
Garrett Ryan
R515 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R97 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? How did they prove their identity? And how much of the modern gold supply comes from the Romans? In a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines features more answers to questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan is frequently asked in the classroom, in online forums, and on his popular YouTube channel Told in Stone. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life. Learn the answers to: Did a tsunami inspire the Story of Atlantis? How did they send long-distance messages? What if Caesar had survived the Ides of March? How did the Romans build the aqueducts? Did they practice Buddhism? How deadly was the eruption that destroyed Pompeii? What if the Roman Empire hadn’t been ravaged by the Antonine Plague? Did they attend concerts? How did they pay taxes? Was Caligula actually insane? Did they have tattoos?

The Search - The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy (Paperback): John... The Search - The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy (Paperback)
John Henry Phillips
R337 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R62 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art (Hardcover): Diana Bullen Presciutti Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art (Hardcover)
Diana Bullen Presciutti
R3,705 R2,907 Discovery Miles 29 070 Save R798 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, Diana Bullen Presciutti explores how images of miracles performed by mendicant saints-reviving dead children, redeeming the unjustly convicted, mending broken marriages, quelling factional violence, exorcising the demonically possessed-actively shaped Renaissance Italians' perceptions of pressing social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor. She argues that depictions of these miracles by artists-both famous (Donatello, Titian) and anonymous-played a critical role in defining and conceptualizing threats to family honor and social stability. Drawing from art history, history, religious studies, gender studies, and sociology, Presciutti's interdisciplinary study reveals how miracle scenes-whether painted, sculpted, or printed-operated as active agents of 'lived religion' and social negotiation in the spaces of the Renaissance Italian city.

The Last Day - ...before the Nazi's left Heidelberg forever (Paperback): Janet Zoe Schmitt The Last Day - ...before the Nazi's left Heidelberg forever (Paperback)
Janet Zoe Schmitt; Edited by Warren R Reichel; Introduction by Warren R Reichel
R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Function of Divine Manifestations in New Testament Times (Hardcover): Leroy Hahn Stafford The Function of Divine Manifestations in New Testament Times (Hardcover)
Leroy Hahn Stafford
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The New Normal Second Reader (Hardcover): Albert Newton Raub The New Normal Second Reader (Hardcover)
Albert Newton Raub
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Oxford Local Examinations. Thomson's Spring - With a Life of the Poet, Notes (Paperback): James Thomson Oxford Local Examinations. Thomson's Spring - With a Life of the Poet, Notes (Paperback)
James Thomson
R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pencraft - A Plea for the Older Ways (Hardcover): William Watson Pencraft - A Plea for the Older Ways (Hardcover)
William Watson
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Recreation of Christopher North; Volume I (Paperback): John Wilson Recreation of Christopher North; Volume I (Paperback)
John Wilson
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Elementary Practical Building Construction Stage 1 (Hardcover): Frank William Booker Elementary Practical Building Construction Stage 1 (Hardcover)
Frank William Booker
R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sommermarchen Von Rudolf Baumbach With the Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary (Paperback): Edward Meyer Sommermarchen Von Rudolf Baumbach With the Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary (Paperback)
Edward Meyer
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
World's End; Volume I (Paperback): Richard Jefferies World's End; Volume I (Paperback)
Richard Jefferies
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Complete Ready Reckoner for the Admeasurement of Land (Hardcover): Abraham Arman A Complete Ready Reckoner for the Admeasurement of Land (Hardcover)
Abraham Arman
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Synopsis of the Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff (Hardcover): United States Dept. of the... Synopsis of the Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff (Hardcover)
United States Dept. of the Treasury
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Collectanea Latina or Select Extracts (Paperback): Thomas Quin Collectanea Latina or Select Extracts (Paperback)
Thomas Quin
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Poems (Hardcover): Jeffery Ekins Poems (Hardcover)
Jeffery Ekins
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The True Order of Studies (Paperback): Thomas Hill The True Order of Studies (Paperback)
Thomas Hill
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
South-Western Letters (Hardcover): Noble Lovely Prentis South-Western Letters (Hardcover)
Noble Lovely Prentis
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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