Julian Grenfell - His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915(Paperback / softback)

Julian Grenfell - His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915(Paperback / softback)

Mysterium: The Wheel of Life and Death - Book 3 (Sedgwick Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Thomas Hardy - The Time-torn Man (Tomalin Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized

Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death (Everitt Anthony)(Paperback)

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. ' An] infectious sense of narrative momentum . . . Its energy is unflagging,

Death in the Family (Agee James)(Paperback / softback)

On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, who he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed

Seed of Compassion - Lessons from the Life and Teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Lama His Holiness Dalai)(Paperback / softback)

Afraid to Death (Behm Marc)(Paperback)

Insanely evocative and extremely satisfying. -- The Times (UK) Joe Egan has spent his life on the run. When he was a child, he thought he saw the angel of death. Now every time someone close to him dies, a mysterious blonde woman appears and he's forced to retreat, abandoning jobs and relationships

Athanasius of Alexandria: His Life and Impact (Barnes Peter)(Paperback)

From the foreword: Until his death in 373, Athanasius was the most formidable opponent of Arianism in the Roman Empire. Ultimately, for him, this fight was not a struggle for ecclesial power or even for the rightness of his theological position. It was a battle for the souls of men and women

The Lord (Guardini Romano)(Paperback)

The only true and unedited telling of the life of Christ--his life and times, in historical context, but not lacking the psychology behind his physical being and spirit. Unlike other books seeking to strip Jesus' story to reveal only the human being, Romano Guardini's The Lord gives the complete

Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir (Winton Tim)(Paperback / softback)

Tim Winton's homage to the ocean and his childhood is a magnificent celebration of life at its

Yorkshire Vet Through the Seasons (Norton Julian)(Paperback / softback)

In A Yorkshire Vet Through the Seasons, Julian recounts more inspirational tales from his life, the animals he has treated and the people he has met. This book is an inspiration for anyone who loves animals as well as those who dream of becoming a

Death of a Salesman - Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Miller Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations, and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard, Willy spirals into a well of regret, reminiscence,

Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet (Wassen Cecilia)(Paperback)

This book is a reconstruction of the life of Jesus from his birth to his death, with a focus on understanding him in the context of his own time and place. Wassen and H gerland consider Jesus as an apocalyptic prophetic figure within the context of first-century Judaism. They take a narrative

Prince of Darkness - (Plantagenet Saga) (Plaidy Jean (Novelist))(Paperback / softback)

The untimely death of Richard the Lionheart left his nephew Arthur and his younger brother John in contest for the throne of England. Reluctantly the barons chose John, and so began years of rule by a ruthless and greedy tyrant. Yet despite his reputation, John, still manages to seduce the young

The Drowned and the Saved (Levi Primo)(Paperback)

In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have already begun to forget

Bobby Sands - Nothing But an Unfinished Song (O'Hearn Denis)(Paperback / softback)

Published on the 35th anniversary of Sands' death, this powerful biography illuminates his life and political

Grief Observed (Lewis C.S.)(Paperback / softback)

A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of

Dreams in a Time of War (wa Thiong'o Ngugi)(Paperback / softback)

Through the story of his grandparents and parents, and his brothers' involvement in the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi deftly etches a tumultuous era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and

Noise of Time (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever

Elvis by the Presleys (The Presleys)(Paperback / softback)

The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures. Including deeply personal documents and previously unseen family photographs, this sensational book also features new interviews with family and

Civil War (Lucan)(Paperback)

Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic. This newly annotated, free verse translation conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the

Benjamin Britten - A Life in the Twentieth Century (Kildea Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Presents an account of Britten's life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. This book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Verne Jules)(Paperback)

An ancient book is opened by the eccentric Professor Lidenbrock and his life - and the life of his nephew Axel - is changed for ever. An old piece of paper has tumbled from the book, a priceless parchment that will lead them on a terrifying journey to find what lies at the centre of the Earth. A

Archimimus - The Life and Times of Lukitt Bachmann (Gray Clio)(Paperback / softback)

Lukitt Bachman is waiting in his Lanterne de Mortes, a Tower of the Dead, in the middle of a cemetery. He's had a complicated life: son of a Herrnhuter Brother thrown out of his sect; help-meet to a pastor; sailor; fisherman; boar-hunter; and student and lecturer, exploring the varied histories of