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The Victoria Wood Song Book - Revised & Expanded Edition

This biography is a frank account of Charles Kennedy's political career that began in triumph and ended in tragedy.

Six playscripts

G K Chesterton - A Reappraisal

This work traces the trajectory of socialism from its early idealism, through the horror of Stalinism to its demise in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.

Contains key historical documents on the subject of Cabinet Government together with expert analysis.

Sparrow's account of over three centuries of Parliamentary reporting brings in literary giants such as Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens (who worked as a reported in Parliament in the 1830s) as well as covering major developments in how reporting was carried out - and press coverage.

This wonderfully illustrated book brings to life the historic and the contemporary and will most certainly grace the bookshelves of cricket lovers around the world.

Here are the complete texts of Ripping Yarns which set British television back fifty years, illustrated with copious stirring photographs from the BBC films themselves.

Michael Palin's hilarious novel, a "New York Times" Notable Book, is a tale of a man learning to stand up for what he believes in--just like Ernest Hemingway.

Re-issue of a classic book on a fascinating but often overlooked period in the history of the Second World War.

In his classic book on London, H. V. Morton turns his traveller's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail on the city that fascinated him since childhood.

Another great actor explores himself and his profession in this terrifically scathing parody of the theatrical memoir. Hilarious, vindictive and very accurate.

Pelham Warner's "How We Recovered the Ashes" is an account of his captaincy of the England side during their tour of Australia of the 22nd Ashes series. This is also a collectors edition re-publication of an out-of-print cricket classic to celebrate the centenary of the first MCC tour.

Tales of plasters and other aspects of the fabric of life feature in this collection of poetry, which includes documentation of the quest for the holy glasses. There are also investigations into the author's relationship with art, his father, football, spuds, railways and sack racing.

The biography of Thomas Argyll Robertson who played a key role in Operation Mincemeat and masterminded the 1944 Operation Fortitude

A Beat Memoir. Astonishing insider account of the Beat generation by Jack Kerouacs lover and probably the best book ever written about the Beats.

The NHS in Peril

Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women vividly portrays the lot of the poor in mid-nineteenth century London and some of the people who were moved to help. Whatever his motives Charles Dickens was one of them.

Anthony Sampson was one of the greatest journalists and writers on contemporary affairs of the 20th century - most famous for his "Anatomy of Britain", for his official and magnificent biography of Mandela, and for his life-time commitment to the ending of apartheid in South Africa.

Looks at the politics, the mayoral election of 2008, the candidates, and the results and what they mean for Londoners.

Captures the different faces of London in all seasons, from Bow Street to Chinatown, from Buckingham Palace to Smithfield Market, from the Tate Modern to Trafalgar Square.

Captures some of the famous scenes of London from St Pancras Station to the Barbican, from the Thames Barrier to parliament Square.

Includes the favourite bits from the vast Python oeuvre, which include: Why accountancy is not boring, Spamalot, The Piranha Brothers, The Lumberjack Song, The Larch, Every sperm is sacred, The Ministry of Silly Walks, Always look on the Bright Side of Life, Rat Recipes, Albatross, Constitutional Peasants, Spam and many more.

After England's cricketers famously lost to Australia at the Oval in August 1882 a mock obituary notice was published in the "Sporting Times", announcing that 'the body [of English cricket] would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia'. It was this announcement that brought 'the Ashes' into existence.