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Biographies
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Vanderbilt : The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty€15.99When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires-one in shipping and another in railroads-that would make him the richest man in America.
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Hereafter : The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara (Hardback)€23.99Hereafter is a compelling account of Ellen O'Hara, a young immigrant from Ireland, an incredible figure and a reflection on how one woman's story can speak for more than one life.
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Cleopatra : Her History, Her Myth€24.99The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth.
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Magnificent Women and Flying Machines : The First 200 Years of British Women in the Sky€18.99Full of entertaining adventure, here at last is a proper record of Britain's wonderful women of the air.
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Mathew Perry: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing (Large Paperback)Special Price €17.99 Regular Price €21.99
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening - as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety.
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Our Daily Bread : From Argos to the Altar - a Priest's Story€21.99A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners. Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche Mode.
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The Earl and the Pharaoh : From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun€24.99Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was opened.
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Brave Companions : Portraits in History€24.99Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
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And There Was Light : Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment€41.99A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022 : A celebration of her life and reign€12.99Long did she reign and peacefully may she rest: this beautiful and thoughtful tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates the life of a remarkable woman whose 70 years on the throne made her the longest-reigning monarch in British History.
