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  • Posy Bates and the Bag Lady

    Helen Cresswell, Kate Aldous

    Hardcover (The Bodley Head, March 15, 1993)
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  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

    Ian Mortimer

    Hardcover (Bodley Head, April 2, 2012)
    From the author of one of the biggest-selling history books of recent years, the follow-up to The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. The past is a foreign country -- this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan world unfolds around the reader. He shows a society making great discoveries and winning military victories and yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language and some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the very crucible of the modern world.
  • Myths of the Norsemen

    Roger Lancelyn Green

    Hardcover (The Bodley Head, Feb. 21, 1962)
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  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

    Ian Mortimer

    Hardcover (Bodley Head, Oct. 2, 2008)
    A time machine has just transported you back to the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? An more important, where will you stay?...
  • Spook's Sacrifice

    Joseph Delaney

    Hardcover (Bodley Head, March 15, 2009)
    As danger increases in the County, Tom is sent far north by his master to be trained by Bill Arkwright, another Spook. Arkwright lives in a haunted mill on the edge of a treacherous marsh and his training methods prove to be harsh and sometimes cruel.
  • Getting to know the General: The story of an involvement

    Graham Greene

    Hardcover (Bodley Head, March 15, 1984)
    Greene's account of a five year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu, one of the few men in the National Guard whom the General trusted completely. It is a fascinating tribute to an inspirational politician in the vital period of his country's history, and to an unusual and enduring friendship.
  • Silver Christmas Tree

    Pat Hutchins

    Hardcover (Bodley Head, May 29, 1992)
    Squirrel decorates a Christmas tree for his friends, but its true beauty only appears at night, with a silver star.
  • Cosmic Trilogy: " Out of the Silent Planet " , " Perelandra " and " That Hideous Strength "

    C. S. Lewis

    Hardcover (The Bodley Head Ltd, Jan. 1, 1990)
    Light wear to dust jacket which has a faded spine, a few marks to page edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.
  • Tales From The Storyteller's House

    Burgess

    Hardcover (The Bodley Head, March 15, 1949)
    None
  • Spook's Destiny

    Joseph Delaney

    Hardcover (Bodley Head, June 1, 2011)
    You belong to the blade now. You'll belong to it until the day you die ...' The Spook, Tom and Alice travel to Ireland, fleeing from the war in the County. There, Tom must tackle a group of evil mages who are desperate to rid their land of the Spook and his apprentice, and to increase their own dark powers. His dangerous mission against the mages leads Tom to the Destiny Blade - a sword with a dark side, and a thirst for blood ...Will this new weapon give him a fighting chance against the Fiend? If he's to survive, he'll need training, and only one person can help - Grimalkin, the witch assassin. The dark against the dark ...The eighth volume in the terrifying Wardstone Chronicles. Read on if you dare ...
  • Tom Tiddler's Ground

    Walter De La Mare (Chosen and Annotated By)

    Hardcover (The Bodley Head, )
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