THE AMBASSADOR BOOKLIST
1998 BOOKS-ACROSS-THE-SEA SELECTION FOR
THE RUDOMINO LIBRARY FOR FOREIGN LITERATURE, MOSCOW
The Books-Across-the-Sea exchange programme has been in existence since 1941, when it was initiated by a group of Americans who had remained in England (against their government's advice) after the outbreak of war in 1939, and who formed the scheme as a response to the transatlantic book famine caused by the war. At first this was difficult, with books often making the journey in the suitcases of those few people with reason to travel between the two countries - and having to compete for luggage space with many other items in short supply. The scheme was very popular, and developed after the war into a programme of exhibitions and bulk exchanges of books which were distributed via the headquarters of the English-Speaking Union in the respective countries to a network of schools, public libraries and ESU branches throughout the country. The poet and publisher T S Eliot was the scheme's first president in Britain, and its chairman was the typographer Beatrice Warde of Monotype.
The scheme has adapted to reflect changes in publishing, and operates on a smaller scale with just one annual selection each year.
The program coordinator in London: Andrea Wathern
The program coordinator in Moscow: Evelina Melenevskaia
CATEGORIES
1. HISTORY
2. "BELLE LETTRES" BRITISH LITERATURE
fiction/poetry/literary criticism/literary biography
3. POLITICS & ECONOMICS
4. CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LIFE
H I S T O R Y
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Arnold-Baker, Charles |
The Companion to British History.
Longcross, 1997, 1386pp. [£48] |
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Bruning, Ted |
Historic pubs of London.
Prion, 1998, 256pp. [£14.99]. |
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Borrow, George |
Wild Wales.
John Jones Publishing Ltd. [£9.99]. 544pp |
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Bowen, H.V. |
War and British Society 1688-1815.
Cambridge University Press. 1998, 101pp. [£19.95 – hardback.]. |
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Coombs, Katherine |
The Portrait Miniature in England
Victoria & Albert Museum, 1998, 128pp |
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Davies, Stevie |
Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution: 1640 – 1660.
Women's Press, 1998, 355pp. [£17.99]. |
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Delderfield, Eric R. |
Kings and Queens of England and Great Britain
David & Charles, 1998, 192pp. [£14.99]. |
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Dodd, A.H. |
A short history of Wales.
John Jones Publishing Ltd. 1998, 173pp. [£7.99] |
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Evans, Martin Marix |
The Military Heritage of Britain & Ireland
Andre Deutsch, 1998, 246pp. [£16.99] |
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Finlayson ,Bill. |
Wild Harvesters: the First People in Scotland
Canongate Books, Historic Scotland series Barclay, Gordon series editor, 1998, 64pp. [£5.99] |
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Green, Jeffrey |
Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain 1901-1914
Frank Cass, 1998, 279pp. [ ] |
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Gwynn, Robin. |
The Huguenots of London
Alpha Press, 1998, [£6.95 – paperback] |
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Hibbert, Christopher |
Arnhem
Windrush, 1998, 207pp [£10.99] |
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Howard, Phyllis |
Ordinary English Folk.
Pentland Press, 1998, 92pp. [£6.50]. |
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May, Trevor |
The Victorian Domestic Servant.
Shire 1998. 32pp. [£2.95] |
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Millar, John |
The Lithuanians of Scotland.
House of Lochar, 1998, 166pp. [£12.99] |
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Miller, John |
The Restoration and England of Charles II.
Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, 134pp. [£6.99] |
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More, Charles |
The Industrial Age: Economy and Society in Britain, 1750 – 1995.
Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. 440pp. |
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Pakenham, Thomas |
Meetings with Remarkable Trees. Oct 97.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, 191pp. [£14.99] |
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Rees, David |
The Son of Prophecy.
John Jones Publishing Ltd, 171pp. [£6.99]. |
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Robbins, Keith |
Great Britain: identities, institutions and the idea of Britishness.
Addison Wesley Longman. 1998, 377pp. [£18.99] |
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Smith, Malcolm. |
Democracy in a Depression: Britain in the 1920s and 1930s.
University of Wales Press. 1998, 118pp. [£7.95 – paperback] Past in Perspective series. |
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Morten, Andrew |
Tree Heritage of Britain and Ireland.
Airlife, 1998, 208pp. [£19.95] |
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Starkey, D. J. & Jamieson, A.G. (eds). |
Exploiting the Sea, Aspects of Britain's Maritime Economy since 1870.
University of Exeter Press, 1997, 220pp. [£12.99]. |
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Thomas, Donald |
The Victorian Underworld.
John Murray, 1998, 346pp. [£25] |
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Treneer, Anne |
School House in the Wind
University of Exeter Press, 1998, 620pp. [£12.99] |
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Young, John W |
Britain and World in the 20th Century
Arnold, 1997, 250pp. [] |
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Williams, Sian Rhiannon and
White, Carole |
Struggle or Starve: Women's Lives in the South Wales Valleys Between the Two World Wars.
Honno, 1998, 275pp. [£9.95] |
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Zaczek, Iain |
Ancient Scotland
Collins & Brown, 1998, 160pp. [£14.99] |
H I S T O R Y B I O G R A P H Y
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Ackerman, John |
Up the Lamb
Seren, 1997, 125pp. [£8.95] |
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Blake, Robert |
Disraeli.
Prion. 1998. [£16] |
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Harris, John |
No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper
John Murray. 1998 [£17.99] |
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McAlpine, J. |
The Lady of Claremont House. Isabella Elder, pioneer and philanthropist.
Argyll, 1997. 206pp. [£15.99] |
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MacLean, Rory |
The Oatmeal Ark: From the Western Isles to a Promised Sea
Flamingo, March 98 £7.99 |
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Pottle, Mark |
Champion Dedoubtable:The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham-Carter 1914-1944
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, 418pp. [£25] |
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Preston, Diana |
A First Rate Tragedy: Captain Scott’s Antartic Expedition.
Constable, 1997, 269pp [£16.95] |
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Weir, Alison |
Elizabeth the Queen
Cape, 1998, 532pp. [£18.99] |
L I T E R A T U R E
F I C T I O N
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Amis, Martin |
Heavy Water and other stories.
Cape, 1998, 132pp. |
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Bainbridge, beryl |
Master Georgie
Gerald Duckworth, 1998, 190pp. [£14.99] |
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Brookmyre, Christopher |
Country of the Blind
Abacus, 1998, 404pp. [£5.99] |
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Brookfield, Amanda |
Marriage of Games
Sceptre, 1998, 296pp. [£16.99] |
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Beaty, David |
The Ghost of Eighth Attack.
Souvenir Press, 1998, 263pp. [£16.99] |
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Chissick, Rosalyn |
Catching Shellfish between the Tides.
Sceptre, 1998, 165pp. [£12.99] |
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Corlett, William |
Two Gentleman Sharing
Abacus, 1998, 391pp. [£6.99] |
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Critchley, L. & Windrath, H. (eds). |
Feast! Women Write About Food.
London: The Women's Press, 1997. 151pp. [£6.99] |
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Flamingo |
The Flamingo Book of Scottish Writing.
Flamingo, 1998, 180pp. [£6.99] |
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Hird, Laura |
Nail and other stories
Canongate, 1997, 190pp. [£8.99] |
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Hurd, Douglas |
The Shape of Ice
Little, Brown, 1998, 270pp. [£15.99] |
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Saunders, Kate |
Lily Josephine
Century, 1998, 467pp. [£5.99] |
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Seymour, Miranda |
The Telling
John Murray, 1998, 230pp. [£15.99] |
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Love, Alison |
Mallingford
Black Swan/Transworld, 1997, 333pp. [£6.99] |
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Halliwell, Anthea |
The Cuckoo’s Parting Cry
Black Swan, Transworld, 1998, 304pp [£5.99] |
P O E T R Y
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Abse, Dannie |
Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry.
1998, 273pp, [£9.95] |
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Benson, G, Chernark, J and
Herbert, C |
Poems on the Underground
Cassell, 1998, 271pp. [£4.99] |
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Bentley, Paul |
The Poetry of Ted Hughes.
Addison, Wesley, Longman, 1998, 129pp. [£11.99] |
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Fell, Alison |
Dreams Like Heretics
Serpent’s Tail, October 1997, 135pp. [£8.99] |
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Beer, Patricia |
Autumn
Carcanet, 1997, 54pp. [£6.95] |
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Clarke, Gillian |
Collected Poems
Carcanet, 1997. 191pp. [£9.95] |
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D’Aguiar, Fred |
Bill of Rights
Chatto & Windus, 1998, 133pp. [£7.99] |
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Forward |
Poems for a Princess: In Memory of Diana, Princess of Wales
Forward Press, 1998, 479pp. [£19.95] |
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McMillan, Ian |
I found this Shirt
Carcanet, 1998 [£5.95] |
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Padel, Ruth |
Rembrandt would have loved you.
Chatto & Windus, 70pp, [£7.99] |
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Powell, Neil |
Selected Poems
Carcanet, 1998, 123pp. [£8.95] |
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Warner, Val |
Tooting Idyll
Carcanet, 1997, 146pp. [£9.95] |
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Heath-Stubbs, John |
The Literary Essays.
Carcanet, 1998, 214pp. [£14.95] |
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Reilly, Kathleen |
Women’s War Poetry and Verse
Virago, 1998, 309pp. [£10.99] |
LITERARY CRITICISM, ANTHLOGIES AND GRAMMAR
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Barratt, Alexandra |
Women’s Writing in Middle English.
Addion, Wesley, Longman, 1998, 328pp. [£] |
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Brewer, Derek (editor) |
A new introduction to Chaucer.
Longman, 1998 [£17.99] |
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Burgess, Moira
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Imagine a city: Glasgow in Fiction.
Argyll, 1998. [£12.99] |
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Fergusson, Rosalind and Manser, Martin |
The Macmillan Guide to English Grammar.
Macmillan, 1998, 240pp. [£6.99] |
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Howard, Godfrey |
The Macmillan Good English Handbook.
Macmillan, 1997, 376pp. [£9.99] |
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Gaskell, Philip |
Landmarks in English Literature
Edinburgh University Press, 1998, 173pp. [ ] |
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Greenoak, Francesca |
British Birds, Folklore, Names and Literature
A&C Black, 1997, 239pp. [£14.99] |
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Ingman, Heather |
Women’s Fiction Between the Wars.
Edinburgh University Press, 1998, 180pp. [ ] |
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Trodd, Anthea |
Women’s writing in English: Britian 1900 – 1945.
Addison Wesley Longman. 1998, £14.99 |
LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
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Cole, Charlotte
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Between you and me: real life, diaries and letters by women writers.
Women's Press, 1998, 145pp. [£4.99] |
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Fido, Martin |
The World of Sherlock Holmes
Carlton Books, 1998, 145pp. [£14.99] |
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Firbank, Thomas |
I bought a Mountain.
John Jones Publishing Ltd, 255p. [£6.99] |
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Moorcroft Wilson, Jean |
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet: a Biography, 1886-1918
Gerald Duckworth, 1998, 600pp. [£25] |
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Morris, Sally and Hallwood, Jan. |
Living with Eagles: Marcus Morris, Priest and Publisher:
Lutterworth Press, 1998, 305pp. [£17.50] |
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Roberts, Kate |
Tea in the Heather
John Jones Publishing Ltd, 79pp. [£4.99] |
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Roberts, Kate |
Feet in Chains
John Jones Publishing Ltd, 133pp. [£4.99] |
BAS POLITICS SELECTION 1998
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Budge, T , Crewe, I and McKay, D |
The New British Politics
Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, 716pp. [£17.99] |
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Davidson, Andrew |
Bloodlines: Life in a Great Britain Hospital
Little, Brown, 1998, 307pp. [£16.99] |
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Freedland, Jonathan |
Bring Home the Revolution: How Britain can Live the American Dream
Fourth Estate, 1998, 246pp. [£14.99] |
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Gilmour, Ian |
Whatever happened to the Tories: the Conservative Party Since 1945
Fourth Estate, 1998, 440pp. [£8.99] |
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Gray, John |
False Dawn: the Delusions Of Global Capitalism
Granta, 1998, 234pp. [£17.99] |
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McLaren, D |
Tomorrow’s World.
Friends of the Earth & Earthscan, 1998, 382pp. [£12.95] |
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More, Charles |
The Industrial Age: economics and Society in Britain Since 1750.
Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, 440pp. [£18.99] |
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Pope, Rex |
The British Economy Since 1914
Addison Wesley Longman
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Routledge, P |
Gordon Brown: the Biography
Simon and Schuster, 1998, 359pp. [£17.99] |
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Silk, Paul & Walters, Rhodri |
How Parliament Works
Addison & Wesley Longman |
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Watkins, Alan |
The Road to Number 10: from Bonar Law to Tony Blair
Gerlad Duckworth, 1998, 314pp. [£25] |
CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN
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AA |
Illustrated Guide to Britain.
AA, 1998, 256pp. [£12.99] |
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Asher, Jane |
The Best of Good Living With Jane Asher.
BBC, 1998, 191pp. [£16.99] |
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Baxter, C & Goddier, R |
The Cairngorms: the Nature of Land
Colin Baxter, 1998, 83pp. [£8] |
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Bracewell, Michael |
English is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie.
Flamingo, 1998, 246pp. [£7.99] |
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Bradley-Hole, Kathryn |
BBC Gardener’s World: The garden Lovers Guide to Britain.
BBC, 1998, 431pp [£12.99] |
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Briggs, Adam and Cobley, P |
The Media: an Introduction
Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, 449pp. [£16.99] |
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Croall, H |
Crime and Society in Britain
Addison Wesley Longman. 1998, 359pp. £17.99 |
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Day, Barry |
This Wooden ‘O’: Shakespeare’s Globe Reborn.
Oberon Books, 1996, 328pp [£19.99] |
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Fishlock, T |
Wild Tracks
Seren, 1998, 154pp. [£9.95] |
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Graham, Tim and Blanchard, Tamsin |
Dressing Diana
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998, 208pp. [£20] |
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Harding, Colin and Popple, Simon |
In the Kingdom of the Shadows: a Companion to early cinema.
Cygnus Arts, 1998, 271pp. [£39.50] |
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Heiny, Paul |
Home Farm: A Practical Guide to the Good Life.
Dorling Kindersley, 1998, 192pp. [£16.99] |
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Hunkin, James F |
Changing Faces: A Decade at the Royal National Theatre.
Oberon Books, 1997, 133pp. [£25] |
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Hunt, Shally |
The Sea of Our Left
Summersdale, 1998, 313pp. [£7.99] |
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MacDonald, Claire
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Claire MacDonald Cookbook
Transworld, 1997, 427pp. [£25] |
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Magnusson, Magnus, White Graham |
The Nature of Scotland: landscape, wildlife people
Canongate Press, 1997. 248pp. [£14.99] |
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Morten, Andrew |
Tree Heritage of Britain and Ireland.
Swanhill, 1998, 208pp. |
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Reid, Alan |
Castles of Wales.
John Jones Publishing Ltd, 1998, 140pp. [£7.99] |
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Shallcross, Martyn |
Daphne Du Maurier Country
Bossiney Books, March 98 [£9.99] |
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Sinfield, Alan |
Literature, Politics and culture in Postwar Britain
Athlone, 1997, 347pp. [£14.95] |
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Street-Porter, Janet |
Coast to Coast with Janet Street-Porter
BBC, 1998, 224pp [£18.99] |
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Summersdale |
The Great British Festival
Summersdale, 1998, 317pp [£9.99] |
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Talbot, R and Whiteman, R |
Yorkshire Landscapes
Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1998, 160pp. [£25] |
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Williams, Kevin |
Get Me a Murder a Day: a History of Mass Communications in Britain.
Arnold, 1998, 288pp. [£] |
CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY
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Betts, Paul & Janet |
Party’s Over: Life without Leah
Robson Books, 1997, 228pp. [£8.99] |
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Blundy, Anna |
Everytime We Say Goodbye: the story of a Father and Daughter
Century, 1998. [£12.99] |
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Boyd, Andrew |
Baronees Cox: a Voice for the Voiceless
Lion Press, 1998, 448pp. [£20] |
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Crewe, Bel and Butler, Daniel |
Urban Dreams and Rural Realities
Simon and Schuster, 1998, 308pp. [£16.99] |
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Jackson, Laura |
Heart of Stone: the Unauthorised Life of Mick Jagger.
1998, 278pp. [£7.99] |
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Lea, Tony Clayton |
Elvis Costello: a Biography
Andre Deutsch, 1998, 243pp. [£12.99] |
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Miles, Barry |
Paul McCartney: Years from Now.
Secker & Warburg, 1997. 664pp. [£17.99] |
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