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John Henry Newman Fighter, Convert and Cardinal
ISBN: PB: 9781904955788, Signal Books, February 2017
208 pp., 19.9x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! John Henry Newman was in many ways the Catholic Church's Duke of Wellington in Victorian times-except that he fought his campaigns and won his battles with his pen rather than the sword. Similar in appearance, both were very gr...
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£9,99
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Bob Marley
ISBN: PB: 9781904955412, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 18.1x12.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! One of the twentieth century's most iconic cultural figures, Bob Marley was responsible for popularising reggae music throughout the world. His unique blend of politically conscious lyrics and melody won him legions of fans far...
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£7,99
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Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
ISBN: PB: 9781902669700, Signal Books, February 2017
192 pp., 20.3x12.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Austin Clarke's memoir of adolescence in 1940s Barbados has become a Caribbean classic since first appearing in 1980. Telling of a traditional Public School-style education in the colony nicknamed "Little England", it takes a w...
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Shackleton A Life in Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781909930100, Signal Books, October 2014
176 pp., 21.3x13.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. "Poetry was his other world and he explored it as eagerly as he did the great Antarctic spaces",...
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Smoking Kills The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll
ISBN: PB: 9781909930049, Signal Books, July 2014
351 pp., 21.5x14.3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis – and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young phys...
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Peter Levi Oxford Romantic
ISBN: HB: 9781908493989, Signal Books, July 2014
452 pp., 22.3x14.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Peter Levi (1931-2000) was one of the most romantic and complicated of twentieth-century Oxford characters. Although descended on his father's side from Jewish carpet-merchants in Constantinople, he was brought up a Catholic an...
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£19,99
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Man with His Head in Clouds James Sadler: The First Englishman to Fly
ISBN: HB: 9781909930018, Signal Books, April 2014
288 pp., 22.4x14.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sadler was the first Englishman to fly. I was the first Englishman to be diagnosed with both acute acrophobia (height anxiety) and bathmophobia (an irrational fear of stairs). This explains why I have never been a high-flyer, h...
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Miss Lou Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781908493972, Signal Books, April 2014
144 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The career of Louise Bennett ("Miss Lou") is an essential component in any reckoning of Jamaican culture. This book offers a brief account of her life (1919-2006): a story of challenges and blessings, of a journey towards natio...
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Keeping the Barbarians at Bay The Last Years of Kenneth Allsop, Green Pioneer
ISBN: PB: 9781908493842, Signal Books, September 2013
208 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Kenneth Allsop was a writer, journalist and broadcaster who in the 1960s and early 70s became one of Britain's first television celebrities. Voted the "fifth most handsome man in the world", he enjoyed the high life of fast car...
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Brian Lara An Unauthorised Biography
ISBN: PB: 9781908493620, Signal Books, May 2013
208 pp., 18.3x12.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The most thrilling and controversial cricketer of his generation, Brian Lara is a hero to millions worldwide. A naturally attacking style and limitless scoring arc, allied to phenomenal mental and physical stamina, proved a rec...
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