| What On Earth Happened? |
 What On Earth Happened? - The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People From the Big Bang to the Present Day
Author: Christopher Lloyd
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Tells our story from the very beginning of time, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. This book explains how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella, how the Earth's collision with another young planet caused the moon, and how dragonflies the size of seagulls emerged out of the prehistoric waters.
About the author:
Christopher Lloyd graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1991 with two scholarships and a double first-class degree in History. He then became a graduate trainee journalist on The Sunday Times newspaper and was trained at the City University where he gained a diploma in newspaper journalism. In 1993, Lloyd was appointed The Sunday Times Innovation Editor and won the 1994 Texaco award for Science Journalist of the Year. In 1997 Lloyd co-founded LineOne, a joint venture Internet Service business owned by BT and News International and later became a director of News Internationals' Internet activities. He qualified in direct marketing with a Cert DM from the Institute of Direct Marketing. In January 2001 Lloyd was recruited to become chief executive of Immersive Education, an education software publishing company based in Oxford. In 2006 he left Immersive Education to spend time travelling across Europe with his wife and two children, both of whom were home-educated. The time spent on the road travelling around Europe inspired him to come up with the concept of What on Earth Happened?
"Every home need this book - What On Earth Happened? - the ultimate, essential, up-to-date, narrative history guide book explodes with over 200 colour photographs and illustrations. The perfect present for children, parents, grandparents and more, What on Earth Happened? appeals to everyone from nine to ninety!!"
ISBN 13: 9780747594598 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R515.00 (incl.)
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| Lost Cities of the Ancient World |
 Lost Cities of the Ancient World
Author: Joel Levy
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Surveys 28 fossil cities: abandoned and ruined but able to invoke the grandeur of past ages. Illustrated with full colour and black-and-white archival photos, this book reveals the stories behind great metropolises such as Petra, the rock-carved rose city of Jordan; Great Zimbabwe; and Mohenjo-Daro, world's earliest civilization.
About the author:
Joel Levy is a writer specialising in ancient history and anthropology. He is the author of several books, including The Atlas of Atlantis and Other Lost Continents (Hamlyn, 2007), Lost Histories (Vision, 2006), The Doomsday Book: Scenarios for the End of the World (Vision, 2005) and Secret History: Hidden Forces that Shaped the Past (Vision, 2004). Joel lives in London.
ISBN 13: 9781845379421 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: SEPT 2008 | PUBLISHER: NEW HOLLAND PUBLISHERS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R515.00 (incl.)
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| It's All Greek to Me |
 It's All Greek to Me - Everything You Want to Know About the Greatest Civilization the World Has Known
Author: Charlotte Higgins
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Why are some laws draconian? What is an Achilles heel? Why were the Spartans spartan? Author Charlotte Higgins answers all these questions in this indispensable guide which aims to unlock the richness of Greek culture and place it where it should be, in the mainstream of life. Readers will be astounded by how much the Greek world informs our own!
ISBN 13: 9781906021436 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: SHORT BOOKS LTD | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R294.00 (incl.)
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| Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers |
 Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Author: Thomas Graham
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A biography of Woodes Rogers (c.1679-1732), an adventurer, explorer, pirate hunter, the governor of the Bahamas and the man who rescued the real Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk.
ISBN 13: 9781844158089 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R421.00 (incl.)Click here to order now. |
| Storm & Conquest |
 Storm & Conquest
Author: Stephen Taylor
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A gripping account of the infamous Battle for Mauritius, between Nelson's Navy and the French fleet.
By 1809 the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. In bringing home saltpetre for the Peninsular campaign, Britain lost 14 of her great Indiamen, either sunk or taken by enemy frigates. Many hundreds of lives were lost, and the East India Company was shaken to its foundations. The focus of these disasters was a tiny French outpost in mid-ocean - the island now known as Mauritius.
Storm and Conquest tells the story of that season. It brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to drive the French from the Eastern Seas.
About the author:
Stephen Taylor grew up in South Africa, and now works for The Times. He is the author of several celebrated books on Africa, most recently The Caliban Shore.
ISBN 13: 9780571224678 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: SEPT 2008 | PUBLISHER: FABER & FABER | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R239.00 (incl.)Click here to order now. |
| The Wizard of the Nile |
 The Wizard of the Nile
Author: Matthew Green
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Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a rebel-leader: he is said to take his orders direct from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalised child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Intrigued by the myths, Matthew green heads off into the war zone.
ISBN 13: 9781846271298 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: JAN 2009 | PUBLISHER: PORTOBELLO BOOKS LTD | DELIVERY TIME: 1-2 WEEKS | PRICE: R220.00 (incl.)Click here to order now. |
| Rhodesian War: A Military History |
 Rhodesian War: A Military History
Authors: Paul Moorcraft & Peter McLaughlin
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This classic account of the Rhodesian war has been revised and updated 25 years after it was originally published. Widely praised by military experts worldwide, it has become a standard text for the study of counter-insurgency, especially its application to the current 'war on terror' in Iraq and Afghanistan. It covers the three main stages of the war. First from 1965 when the security forces were winning, to a 'no-win' war from 1972-1976 and, finally, the intense period from 1976-1979 when white Rhodesians, led by Ian Smith, were saved from defeat by the Lancaster House talks in London. The military structure, strategy and tactics of both sides are analysed with graphic details of individual contacts in the bush to the daring raids into neighboring states. The title also considers the international pressures on the rebel state and the social effects of the war inside the country on both blacks and whites. The immediate aftermath of the war is examined, in particular Zimbabwe's continuing conflict with South Africa pre-Nelson Mandela. The final chapter looks at the war from the perspective of the last three decades, especially in the light of Robert Mugabe's destruction of a once prosperous land. Fresh information on intelligence dirty tricks, scandals, and political back-stabbing will generate further debate about this erstwhile British colony transformed into a rogue pariah state which, once more, threatens the stability of the whole southern African region.
ISBN 13: 9781868423309 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: JONATHAN BALL PUBLISHERS | DELIVERY TIME: 1-2 WEEKS | PRICE:
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| From Fledgling to Eagle |
 From Fledgling to Eagle: The South African Air Force in the South African Border War
Author: Brigadier-General Dick Lord
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This book chronicles the evolution of the SAAF in the 'Border War' that raged in Angola and South West Africa (Namibia) from 1966 to 1989, covering all the major South African Defence Force (SADF) operations from Omgulumbashe to the 'April Fool's Day war' in 1989. Dick Lord, who writes in a 'from the cockpit' style, has drawn on his own first-hand operational reports and diaries, incorporating anecdotes from dozens of aviators from a wide variety of squadrons-Buccaneers, Canberras, Mirages, Bosboks, C-160s and130s and helicopters. He also expands on the close relationship the SAAF had with the ground troops in a variety of operations- such units as the Parabats, Recces and Koevoet.
Table of contents:Setting the scene; 1966/74 Provocation evolves into incursion; 1975/77 Aftermath of Savannah; 1978 Cassinga; 1979 Learning the ropes; 1980 Establishing a pattern; 1981 Taking the war to the host nation; 1982 Cross-border operations; 1983 Anti-insurgency campaign; 1984 Uneasy peace; 1985 Internationalization; 1986 Taking a breather; 1987 Conventional warfare; 1988 Negotiated settlement; 1989 Breach of promise. ISBN 13: 9781920143305 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: 30 DEGREES SOUTH PUBLISHERS | DELIVERY TIME: 1-2 WEEKS | PRICE: R295.00 (incl.)Click here to order now. |
| The Soldier's War |
 The Soldier's War: The Great War Through Tommies' Eyes
Author: Richard Van Emden
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Traces The Great War chronologically, taking stories from each year of the fighting and following the British Tommy through devastating battles and trench warfare to the armistice in 1918. This book also reflects on other lesser-known and more personal aspects of the war, such as the work of stretcher-bearers, army chaplains, and burial parties.
About the author:
Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written ten books on the Great War including The Trench, and The Last Fighting Tommy (both top ten bestsellers), Boy Soldiers of the Great War, and Prisoners of the Kaiser. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the Great War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser, Veterans, Britain's Last Tommies, and the award winning Roses of No Man's Land and Britain's Boy Soldiers.
ISBN 13: 9780747597803 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R449.95 (incl.)
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| McKie's Gazetteer: A Local History of Britain |
 McKie's Gazetteer: A Local History of Britain
Author: David McKie
What the publisher says:
Takes readers on a journey through the hidden history of Great Britain. From Castle Dangerous in South Lanarkshire to Defiance Platform in Cornwall, this book relates the anecdotes and arguments, heroes and villains that comprise Britain's rich local history.
About the author:
David McKie was deputy editor of the Guardian from 1975 to 1984 and wrote both its 'Smallweed' and 'Elsewhere' columns. His book Jabez: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Rogue (Atlantic Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award and the Saga Award for Wit. Great British Bus Journeys: Travels through Unfamous Places was published by Atlantic Books in 2006.
ISBN 13: 9781843546542 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: SEPT 2008 | PUBLISHER: ATLANTIC BOOKS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R599.00 (incl.)
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| Prison |
Prison: Five Hundred Years of Life Behind Bars
Author: Edward Marston
What the publisher says:
A popular and accessible history of life behind bars, from medieval times to the end of corporal and capital punishment in the 1960s. It tells the dark history of notorious prisons that overshadowed the lives of those who encountered them - Dartmoor and Pentonville, Marshalsea and the Fleet, Holloway and Reading, rotting hulks and the Tower of London itself. The stories of real prisoners are revealed including the unknown, the notorious and the celebrated. Features dramatic and previously unseen material from the National Archives: photographs, plans, case notes, letters and reports.
ISBN 13: 9781905615339 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: SEPT 2008 | PUBLISHER: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE:
R385.00 (incl.)
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| Imperial Capitals of China |
 Imperial Capitals of China - An Inside View of the Celestial Empire
Author: Arthur Cotterell
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A unique history and exploration of China through its imperial capital cities over two millennia.
Presents an inside view of the rich array of characters, political and ideological tensions, and technological genius that defined the imperial cities of China. This book covers the First Emperor's obsessive - and fatal - attempts to engage the Immortals in 219-210 BC, to the creativity that produced the golden age of literature and art.
About the author:
Arthur Cotterell was principal of Kingston College. His previous books include The Minoan World, The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Ancient Civilizations, The Pimlico Dictionary of Classical Mythologies: Greece, Rome, Persia, India and China, China: A Cultural History and Chariot: The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine.
ISBN 13: 9781845950101 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: SEPT 2008 | PUBLISHER: VINTAGE | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R330.00 (incl.)
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| 2066 and All That |
 2066 and All That: Memorable Modern History from the Suffragettes to Saddam (via the Coronation Chicken)
Author: Ben Yarde-Buller, Sophie Duncan
What the publisher says:
Memorable Modern History from the Suffragettes to Saddam and Beyond (via The Coronation Chicken). The hilarious update of the classic '1066 and All That', this book covers the period from the end of WWI to the rise and fall of Tony Blah and the Blah era. Gentle rather than satirical in tone, this sequel is very much in the spirit of the original to which it pays homage.
ISBN 13: 9781905847570 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: SEPT 2008 | PUBLISHER: OLD STREET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE:
R185.00 (incl.)
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| No cloak, no dagger |
 No cloak, no dagger
Author: Grace Stoddard
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As an agent of the British government, Keith Armstrong endured danger, betrayal, imprisonment, and torture ... but he could tell no one of his experiences. He was not merely forbidden to disclose the particulars of a given assignment; nobody close to him - his parents, wife, children, or friends - had any clue as to what kind of work he did, or why he would sometimes disappear for months at a time. People in his hometown believed him to be a coward while he was parachuting into occupied Europe. His family became deeply troubled by his seemingly erratic behavior.
No Cloak No Dagger is the fascinating account of one man's life in the world of espionage. Taking us from Armstrong's intense training at Camp X to his undercover work fighting the Nazis, then the Communists, to his efforts to amend the rules which forced him to lie to everyone who cared about him, his story will grip you until the very last page.
ISBN 13: 9781604941449 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: WHEATMARK INC | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R294.00 (incl.)
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| Putin and the Rise of Russia |
 Putin and the Rise of Russia: The Country That Came in from the Cold
Author: Michael Sturmer
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Brilliant analysis of Putin and the key role a resurgent Russia has to play in world affairs. Sturmer is an expert on authoritarian governments and elegantly articulates the conflict between democracy and autocracy in Russia. Insightful biographical analysis of a truly global figure, Vladimir Putin.
About the author:
Michael Sturmer held a professorship from 1973 to 2003 at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, the Sorbonne, the University of Toronto and the Institute for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has written and edited books on various subjects, including The German Empire 1870-1918 and The German Century. He is chief correspondent for the newspaper Die Welt.
ISBN 13: 9780297855095 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: NOVEMBER 2008 | PUBLISHER: ORION PUBLISHING CO | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE:
R421.00 (incl.)
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| Launch Pad UK: Britain and the Cuban Missile Crisis |
 Launch Pad UK: Britain and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Author: Jim Wilson
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Britain and the Cuban Missile Crisis. For most British people, the weekend of 27/28 October 1962 could so very easily have been their last weekend on earth, yet astonishingly the fact that Britain's nuclear deterrent forces went to an unprecedented level of readiness was kept secret from the public. Thor nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles stood on a round-the-clock wartime state of alert ready to be fired, these were the 'other' missiles of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which made Britain, in effect, America's launch pad. Explains the complete workings of the RAF's Thor missile squadrons.
ISBN 13: 9781844157990 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: PEN & SWORD | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R421.00 (incl.)
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| Arsenals of Folly |
 Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
Author: Richard Rhodes
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From the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb comes this story of the postwar superpower arms race, which peaked during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war. Illustrated.
ISBN 13: 9780375414138 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: KNOPF PUBLISHING GROUP | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R437.00 (incl.)
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| Great Rivals in History: When Politics Gets Personal |
 Great Rivals in History: When Politics Gets Personal
Author: Joseph Cummins
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Recreates the rivalries that have sparked some of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the world, among them the dynastic and religious clash of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots; and the bitter antagonism of John F Kennedy and Richard, estranged friends wrenched apart by ambition and party loyalties.
About the author:
Joseph Cummins is the author of History's Great Untold Stories, History's Greatest Hits and Turn Around and Run Like Hell (Murdoch Books), as well as Anything for a Vote: A History of Dirty Tricks and October Surprises in America's Presidential Elections (Quirk). He has also edited two anthologies for Lyon's Press, Cannibals: Shocking True Stories of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea (2002) and The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told (2001), and written a novel called The Snow Train (Akashic Books, 2001). He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.
ISBN 13: 9781741960426 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: AUG 2008 | PUBLISHER: MURDOCH BOOKS | DELIVERY TIME: 1-2 WEEKS | PRICE: R299.00 (incl.)
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| Gandhi and Churchill |
 Gandhi and Churchill - The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Author: Arthur Herman
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Here is a sweeping epic with a fascinating supporting cast, and a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure - and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.
ISBN 13: 9780091921323 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: JUL 2008 | PUBLISHER: ARROW BOOKS LTD | DELIVERY TIME: 1-2 WEEKS | PRICE: R240.00 (incl.)
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| Speeches That Changed the World |
 Speeches That Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Includes over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and nations. This book provides the biographies of various speakers, the history of why each speech was significant and what happened as a result.
Table of ContentsMoses, Jesus, Mohammed, St Francis of Assisi, Elizabeth I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, Clarence Darrow, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler(2), Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill(3), Vyacheslav Molotov, Franklin D. Roosevelt(2), Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, Emperor Hirohito, Jawaharlal Nehru, J Robert Oppenheimer, General Douglas McArthur, Nelson Mandela(2), Eamon de Valera, John F. Kennedy(2), Martin Luther King(2), Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Pierre Trudeau, Golda Meir, Richard M Nixon, Indira Gandhi, Chaim Herzog, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Ronald Regan, Mikhail Gorbachev, F. W. de Klerk, Vaclav Havel, Elie Wiesel, George W. Bush About the author: Simon Sebag Montefiore is the award-winning author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. The Cambridge Editorial Partnership has produced a multitude of academic and educational titles in their ten-year history. Their reference team has researched and transcribed these speeches from original source material. ISBN 13: 9781847246059 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: AUG 2008 | PUBLISHER: QUERCUS PUBLISHING PLC | DELIVERY TIME: 1-2 WEEKS | PRICE: R224.95 (incl.)
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| Days That Changed the World |
 Days That Changed the World - The Defining Moments in World History
Author: Hywel Williams
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Describes 50 days, which marked the end of an era; or the start of something new. This book Charts 50 such defining moments, concluding with 11 September 2001 and the destruction of New York's Twin Towers.
About the author:
Hywel Williams is a renowned historian, newspaper columnist, political advisor and TV presenter. He is the author of the famous political expose Guilty Men, Cassell's Chronology of World History and Britain's Power Elites.
ISBN 13: 9781847245533 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: SEPT 2008 | PUBLISHER: QUERCUS | DELIVERY TIME: 1-2 WEEKS | PRICE: R219.95 (incl.)
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| The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher |
 The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House
Author: Kate Summerscale
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In 1860, the Kent family wakes to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects.
Kate Summerscale was born in 1965. She is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in London with her five-year-old son.
The Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008.
Reviews:
'Nothing less than a masterpiece My shelves are stacked with books about crime, but none more satisfying than this' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
'A page-turning merging of scrupulous research with vivid storytelling. Full of atmosphere and striking detail, it is a triumph' Observer
'Gripping, unputdownable' Daily Telegraph
'Absolutely riveting' Sarah Waters
ISBN 13: 9780747596486 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | PUBLICATION DATE: JAN 2009 | PUBLISHER: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC | DELIVERY TIME: 3-4 WEEKS | PRICE: R200.00 (incl.)Click here to order now. | |
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