House By The Thames - And The People Who Lived There (Tindall Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

House By The Thames - And The People Who Lived There (Tindall Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

they have seen the countrified lanes of London's marshy south bank give way to a network of wharves, workshops and tenements - and then seen these, too, become dust and empty air. Rich with anecdote and colour, this fascinating book breathes life into the forgotten inhabitants of the house - the

Big House - The Story of a Country House and its Family (Sykes Christopher Simon)(Paperback / softback)

The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250

Forgotten Country House - The Rise and Fall of Roundway Park (Baynes Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The story of Roundway's rise and fall, the people who built and owned it, lived and worked there, and the house's eventual partial demolition in

Tunnel Through Time - A New Route for an Old London Journey (Tindall Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, Gillian Tindall traces the course of many of these historical journeys across time as well as space. The Tunnel Through Time uncovers the lives of those who walked where many of our streets still

Tales from Riding House Street - A faded London house and the Cypriots who lived in it (Evangelou Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Man Who Drew London (Tindall Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington live on for us in his etchings. Drawing on numerous sources, Gillian Tindall creates a montage of Hollar's life and times and of the

Comanches - The History of a People (Fehrenbach T R)(Paperback / softback)

Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of arrows. While they destroyed the Spanish dream of colonizing North America and blocked the French advance into the Southwest, the Comanches ultimately

24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (Ryan Donald P.)(Paperback)

'Lively and amusing [...] an engaging read. Ryan successfully makes this ancient civilisation more immediate and accessible.' - Current World Archaeology _____________________ '[Donald] Ryan - who has worked in and on Egypt for decades, as an archaeologist, historian and popular writer - has

Imagine You Were There... Walking on the Moon (Jenner Caryn)(Paperback / softback)

Discover how the Moon landing changed the world and learn about the fascinating people who made it

Pulse Glass - And the beat of other hearts (Tindall Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

*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 a huge amount' Sunday TelegraphA toy

A Year in the Life of Ancient Greece: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There (Matyszak Philip)(Pevná vazba)

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Greeks during a historic and triumphant Olympic year, and experience the drama and excitement that swept through the city-states as they put aside their political differences to prepare for victory in Olympia. The year is 248 BC, the year of the 133rd

Imagine You Were There... Winning the Vote for Women (Jenner Caryn)(Paperback / softback)

Learn how the women's suffrage movement changed the world and about the people who made it

24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (Matyszak Philip)(Paperback)

What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities--one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to 24 characters who lived and worked there. In

Outsiders (Hinton S.E.)(Paperback / softback)

In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of

24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (Matyszak Philip)(Paperback)

'Accessible, informative, enjoyable' - All About History _____________________ Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age. Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political

Lanny (Porter Max (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. To families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his

The Amazing History of Castles & Knights: Enter a World of Romance and Adventure, with Over 350 Exciting Pictures (Taylor Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

Life in ancient castles and the people who lived there, with practical projects to

Tree House (Cross Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

William and his brother are desperate to have a tree house in the grand old tree. Their father goes away, but is determined that the tree house should be built. So every month he sends a parcel containing things they'll need for the tree house. But will their father be home in time for

Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (Suskind Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

In eighteenth-century France there lived a man Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable

Gone Girl (Flynn Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal

We Are the Romans - Meet the People Behind the History (Long David)(Pevná vazba)

Step back in time to Ancient Rome and meet some of the many people who lived, worked, and played during that time. From a young slave boy to a fierce gladiator, a washerwoman to a wealthy lady, and a mosaic artist to the emperor himself - each one will share with you the story of their own daily

Boy Who Lived with Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 2) (Shepherd Andy)(Paperback / softback)

The second book in a wonderfully funny and sparky series illustrated by award-winning artist Sara Ogilvie'My favourite sort of book - warm, funny, full of heart' Polly FaberTomas has a secret - a big

Mermaid (Henry Christina)(Paperback / softback)

Once there was a fisherman, a lonely man who lived on a cold and rocky coast and was never able to convince any woman to come away and live in that forbidding place with him. He loved the sea more than any person and so was never able to take a wife, for women see what is in men's hearts more

House of Windows (Casale Alexia)(Paperback / softback)

'The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.' Robert Louis Stevenson Nick hates it when people call him a genius. And, secretly, he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic father. Not