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Marriage A Sonnet Sequence
ISBN: PB: 9781909930698, Signal Books, October 2018
152 pp., 21.4x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The poems range across a number of topics related to marriage: parenthood, family, friendship, intimacy, divorce and bereavement, and refer from time to time to marriages in literature, operas, and the Old Testament. The verse...
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£7,99
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Meet You in Atlantic City Travels in Springsteen's New Jersey
ISBN: PB: 9781909930704, ISBN: HB: 9781909930711, Signal Books, October 2018
320 pp., 21.6x14.1 cm
For sale in CIS only! Bruce Springsteen – "The Boss" – has towered over the rock world since he shot to international fame with 'Born to Run' and other classics in the early 1970s. He has always been an outspoken advocate of his home state of New Je...
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£12,99
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£25,00
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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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£14,99
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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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£9,99
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Miami A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493743, Signal Books, July 2013
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Miami, or "Sweet Water" in the Creek Indian language, is one of the newest cities in the United States. While northern Florida was fought over by European powers and finally taken by the Americans as part of the slave-worked pl...
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£12,00
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My Formative Years
ISBN: PB: 9781908493668, Signal Books, November 2012
256 pp., 21.5x14.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Joaquim Nabuco, for more than three decades a dominant figure in the literary, intellectual and political life of Brazil, was born in Recife in the country's Northeast in 1849 and died in Washington in 1910. He was what we woul...
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£12,99
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Marseille
ISBN: PB: 9781908493118, Signal Books, October 2012
224 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! The reality of Marseille, with its secret life and scarred beauty, has little in common with its sulphurous reputation. Its inhabitants, who like to keep themselves and their city's true character to themselves, prefer it that...
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£9,99
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Malta A Traveller's Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781904955702, Signal Books, July 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Few countries are as marked by their history as the Maltese islands of Malta and Gozo. At least five centuries before St. Paul was shipwrecked on Malta's northern shore on his way to Rome and martyrdom, what are perhaps the old...
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£12,99
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Moscow A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955221, Signal Books, August 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From its origins as a twelfth-century hilltop fortress or kremlin at the confluence of two rivers, Moscow has grown to become a vast city of over eleven million inhabitants. After suffering the ignominy of losing its capital ci...
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£12,00
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Madrid A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669274, Signal Books, March 2001
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Planted by royal whim in a harsh, sun-drenched tableland, Madrid flaunts its distinctive Spanish identity as the most vibrant of Europe's capitals. An imperial court, remote from external influences, produced durable curiositie...
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£12,00
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