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Long Rider to Rome 1400 Miles by Pilgrim Horse from Canterbury
ISBN: PB: 9781909930674, Signal Books, August 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Still hooked on adventure after their long pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a few years later Mefo Phillips and her spotted horse Leo set off again from Canterbury, this time heading for Rome, with Mefo's husband Peter onc...
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£12,99
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Eleanor Crosses The Story of King Edward I's Lost Queen and her Architectural Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9781909930650, Signal Books, May 2018
196 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Eleanor Crosses" begins in November 1290 with the untimely death in a Lincolnshire village of Queen Eleanor of Castile, beloved consort of King Edward I of England. A sombre journey of more than 200 miles must follow, to t...
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£12,99
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Diary of a Bipolar Explorer
ISBN: PB: 9781909930636, Signal Books, February 2018
232 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 2002 Lucy Newlyn found herself incarcerated in a mental hospital in Leeds. She had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act as a danger to herself and others during a psychotic episode after several nights without sleep. T...
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£9,99
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Fraud A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781909930612, Signal Books, February 2018
256 pp., 21.8x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! It starts with a mishap, then a cover-up. Before he knows it, Dominic Seeley, an editor in a London publishing house, is caught in an ever-widening spiral of deception – and falling for a girl way out of his league. Actress Nic...
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£9,99
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Oxford Boy A Post-War Townie Childhood
ISBN: PB: 9781909930643, Signal Books, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is one boy's tale of growing up in Oxford in the forties and fifties. It is a foreign land of being caned on hand and bottom, of teachers washing out a child's mouth with soap as punishment for swearing. It was a time of c...
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£12,99
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Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club And Other Unlikely Travel Tales
ISBN: PB: 9781909930544, Signal Books, October 2017
154 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! In "Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club" one of the UK's best-known travel writers shares his life on the road in 26 A-Z stories recording his very particular engagement with some highly eccentric characters. An eclectic range of destin...
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£9,99
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As I Walked Out Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall
ISBN: PB: 9781909930537, Signal Books, October 2017
426 pp., 21.8x14.1 cm
For sale in CIS only! Shortly before his death, the Devonshire-born cleric, writer and antiquarian, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote: "To this day I consider that the recovery of our West Country melodies has been the principal achievement of m...
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£16,99
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St Petersburg
ISBN: PB: 9781909930490, Signal Books, May 2017
256 pp., 20.2x13.5 cm, colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! St Petersburg is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Most of its baroque and neoclassical palaces and churches are modelled on those of Italy and France, in turn inspired by the temples of classical Greek and Rome. Yet it...
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£9,99
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Four Roads to Heaven France and the Santiago Pilgrimage
ISBN: PB: 9781909930506, Signal Books, April 2017
256 pp., 20.2x13.5 cm, 24 colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! "There are four roads leading to Santiago, which combine to form a single road". So begins "The Pilgrim's Guide", the world's first guidebook. Written early in the twelfth century by Benedictine monks, it served travellers tak...
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£14,99
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Poetry and Thinking of the Chagga Contributions to East African Ethnology
ISBN: HB: 9781909930445, Signal Books, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Bruno Gutmann (1876-1966) was a German Lutheran missionary. In 1902 he went to Chaggaland on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Deutsch-Ostafrika (now Tanzania) and stayed with brief interruptions for 36 years. Owing to his "inte...
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£15,99
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