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Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough

by Duncan Hamilton

 

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Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fall-outs, the drink, and the crumbling of Brian Clough's years as manager of Nottingham Forest. This is a tender portrait of one of football's most colourful characters.

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The Pelican history of Canada;1969

by Kenneth William Kirkpatrick McNaught .

 

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The Occupation by Guy Walters

 

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It is February 1945.

As the Allies make great progress in France, the Channel Islands remain a bastion of Nazi-occupied territory.

On Jersey, Lieutenant-Colonel Max von Luck is in charge of liaising with the civilian population.

He has little time for his fanatical colleagues, and has earned the respect of many of the Islanders.

In his bunker in Berlin, Hitler decides to deploy the V3 a weapon so secret that even the slave labourers constructing it deep beneath the island of Alderney do not know its exact purpose.

Didn't they make a film of this Novel?

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Visibility by Boris Starling

 

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International espionage and hardcore detective work make for a dangerous combination in this dazzling novel set in 1950's London.

From the acclaimed international bestselling author of Messiah.

It’s the height of the Cold War, and as the Great Fog rolls in over London, a man meets his death in the icy shallows of the Long Water.

Some say he was just drunk, wandering through Hyde Park.

 

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1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke

 

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Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?

 

Non? William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.

 

Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?

 

Non? The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.

 

Was the guillotine a French invention?

 

Non? It was invented in Yorkshire.

 

Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066...

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Secrets Of Angels And Demons by Dan Burstein.

 

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From the team that gave you the #Secret's of the Code comes the first literary companion to Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.

 

Explore the Vatican's darkest #secret's.

Probe the little known historical mysteries of Rome and the symbolism of Bernini's architecture and sculpture.

Join the debate between religion and science that has been raging since the Church tried to silence Galileo.

 

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Pacific Beat by T. Jefferson Parker.

 

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Ex-cop Jim Weir was thinking he had seen it all during his years on the force.

That is until he saw the body of his sister Annie, brutally used by a monster in human form, then carelessly discarded.

He had never seen such grief ravage the face of his friend and brother in law Ray Cruz, a good cop on the Newport Beach Police Department.

Read this and a few others from J Parker at Canterbury Tales Bookshop....

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Scots And The Sea: A Nation's Lifeblood by James Davidson.

 

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With over six thousand miles of rugged coastline, nowhere in Scotland is more than forty five miles from tidal waters, and seven of the biggest towns and cities are seaports.

No wonder then that the sea has shaped the Scots, and in turn the Scots have helped to shape maritime history, trade and communications of the World.

 

Scots and the Sea is a unique and compelling account of a small, sparsely populated country's relationship with the most powerful force on this great earth.

It is a celebration of the courage and endurance of fishermen and their families, the selfless bravery of lifeboat volunteers and the individual brilliance of leaders like Admiral Cochrane, who helped establish free nations across the globe.

The illicit activities of scoundrels like Captain Kidd also provide a taste of the darker side of the story.

 

All Scots should read this, any in Pattaya?

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It's Not About the Bike, My Journey Back to Life

by Lance Armstrong.

 

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It is such an all American story.

A lanky kid from Plano, Texas, is raised by a feiry, single parent who sacrifices for her son, who becomes one of America's greatest athletes.

Given that background, it is understandable why Armstrong was able to channel boundless energy toward his athletic endeavors.

By his senior year in high school, he was already a professional triathlete and was training with the U.S. Olympic cycling developmental team.

 

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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare; by Philip Short.

 

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Observing Pol Pot at very close quarters during the one and only official visit he ever made abroad, to China in 1975, Philip Short was struck by the Cambodian leader at first hand with his charm and charisma.

Yet Pol Pot's Utopian experiments in social engineering would result in the death of more than one in every five Cambodians more than a million people it is thought.

 

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Dark Angel by Geoffrey Archer

 

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Tom Sedley's idyllic sunny summer vacation in a leafy post war suburb of north London came to an abrupt and shocking end on the 14th September, 1948 when his sister was brutally murdered in woodland near his house.

A tramp was arrested for the crime but for the young boy it was the end of childhood and the beginning of a lifelong search to discover what had actually happened that late summer day.

 

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

 

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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950's

 

Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century 1951, in the middle of the United States

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Fear is the Key by Alistair MacLean

 

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A Maclean classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel Jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico and on the sea bed below it.

 

A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor.

Its cargo, ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy.

 

Only as Maclean does it, read this and more of his classics at Canterbury Tales Book exchange..

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Conquest Without Victory, Memoirs of Major Bill Jordan

by William Jordan.

 

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"On December 17, 1942, a young New Zealander, Bill Jordan, parachuted into occupied Greece in search of a lost British commando unit.

It was the beginning of fifteen exhausting months of sabotage and hit and run fighting behind enemy lines.

But Conquests Without Victory is more than a thrilling war story.

It's also a chronicle of the intense political infighting between Greek Communists and Greek Nationalists which erupted into bitter civil war before his eyes.

As an intelligence officer, Jordan's reports to Churchill and his generals played a major role in determining the fate of post-war Greece.

For his courage and dedication Jordan was awarded an MBE and an MC.

His memoirs are an incredible true story of endurance and heroism by one of New Zealand's most decorated war heroes."

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The Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London

 

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Of all Jack London's books, none has been as popular as his canine stories.

In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories Bastard, Moon-Face, Brown Wolf, That Spot, and To Build a Fire.

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The Midnight Line by Lee Child.

 

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Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window, West Point 2005.

A tough year for him to graduate, Iraq, then Afghanistan.

The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside.

Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years.

He decides to find out and find the woman, and return her ring; Why not?

 

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The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

 

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The “volcanically sexy” book about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920's London.

 

London it's 1922, it is tense.

Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out of work and the hungry are demanding change.

And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs.Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.

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Ramage At Trafalgar by Dudley Pope.

 

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More sea adventures with Lord Ramage, when he returns to fight in the most famous of Britain's sea battles.

Summoned by none other than Admiral Nelson himself, Ramage is sent to join the British fleet off Cadiz where the largest bloody battle in naval history is about to take place.

Finding himself in the front line of battle, Lord Ramage must fight to save his own life as well as for his country.

The result is a thrilling, hair raising adventure from one of our best loved naval writers.

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The Mountain Shadow (Shantaram #2) by Gregory David Roberts.

 

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A long awaited sequel to Shantaram but equally a standalone novel.

The Mountain Shadow follows Lin on further adventures in shadowy worlds and cultures.

It is a novel about seeking identity, love, meaning, purpose, home, even the secret of life.

As the story begins, Lin has found happiness and love, but when he gets a call that a friend is in danger, he has no choice but to go to his aid, even though he knows that leaving this paradise puts everything at risk, including himself and his lover.

When he arrives to fulfil his obligation, he enters a room with eight men, each will play a significant role in the story that follows.

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Sycamore Row by John Grisham 

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Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. 
Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will.
 It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. 
The second will raises far more questions than it answers.
 Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid?
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Stephen Leather.

 

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We have a good selection of Stephen Leather books in stock