Books from Eye Books (US&CA)
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Accidental Optimist's Guide to Life
By Emily JoyISBN: 1903070 392 Lost Lands Forgotten Stories - Alexandra Pratt Inspired by Mina Hubbard who made an astonishing 600 mile river journey in 1905 to restore the reputation of her late husband who had died on the same route, ...
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Walking Back to Happiness
By Christine PalmerNevertheless, it was fabulous, worth every penny to see him continuing to strut his stuff. I'm not sure whether I would still enjoy Glastonbury, but the ageing trendy in me might be tempted to give it another go. Le.
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Riding the Outlaw Trail: An Eye Classic
By Simon Casson, Richard Adamson, Sir Ranulph FiennesHis grandparents homesteaded the famous ranch over a century ago – great grandfather was Charlie Gibbons, friend and employer of Butch Cassidy, who hid out at the Roost and did business with Gibbons at his store in Hanksville.
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A Right Royal Face-Off: A Georgian Comedy Featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter
By Simon EdgeThese apartments were laid out by Charles the Second – the carving is all by Grinling Gibbons, do you see, hey? – and he made a capital job of it, 'pon my soul. Sadly none of his successors cared for the place, certainly not my ...
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The Boy Who Biked the World: The Complete Collection
By Alastair HumphreysThe fastest one took just 46 days to do it: much, much less time than it was going to take Tom on his bicycle. Tom called up to the albatross. “Good morning, Mr Albatross, Mr Albert Ross.
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We Need to Talk
By Jonathan CraneBarbara sounded exasperated. 'How am I supposed to make people eat here? I'm not a miracle worker.' Heather scanned the small blackboard hanging on the wall. Bacon rolls; ham, egg and chips; it was hardly haute cuisine.
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News of the World?: Fake Shiekhs and Royal Trappings
By Peter Burden, Julia Dillon... Coulson once again came back from the London Press Club Awards clutching prizes, for - among other things - the exposé of the former Home Secretary, David Blunkett's affair with Spectator publisher, Kimberly Quinn.
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Marrow Jam
By Susan A. KingAnd what does all of this have to do with Doug Sparrow's prize marrows?Marrow Jam is a comedy crime caper in the spirit of Agatha Raisin. It will have you chuckling all the way through many a cup of tea.
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Green Oranges on Lion Mountain
By Emily JoyWe even raved about the cabbage. Ecstasies over cabbage? The High Commissioner and his wife looked on, smiling with a mixture of indulgent patronage and disgust as their buffet table was reduced to crumbs and their drinks cabinet ...
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Walks on the Wild Side: Exploring an Unforgiving Land
By John PakenhamI certainly did have a trip to talk to him about: my intended walk from Loyangalani to the Ethiopian border along the east side of Lake Turkana, an area under constant attack by the Shangalla tribe from Ethiopia.
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Discovery Road
By Andy Brown, Tim GarrattTim and I sat and chatted for a while. The lights dimmed and Pathe News came onto the screen. Pictures of a very youthful Queen of England came up, followed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson greeting President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
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The End of the World is Flat
By Simon EdgeUsing his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be much more relevant than you think.
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Mission Possible: A Decade of Living Dangerously
By Ash DykesTwo years later he spent more than five months traversing the length of Madagascar, another world first. In Mission Possible, Ash reveals the spirit, planning, and sheer determination that went into these two record-breaking feats.
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An Isolated Incident
By Emily MaguireWhen 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends.
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Good Life Gets Better: Panning for Gold
By Dorian AmosISBN: 1903070309 Baghdad Business School - Heyrick Bond Gunning The realities of a business start-up in a war zone. ISBN: 1903070 333 The Accidental Optimist's Guide to Life - Emily Joy Having just returned from Sierra Leone, ...
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Siberian Dreams
By Andy HomeISBN: 1903070 333 The Accidental Optimist's Guide to Life — Emily Joy Having just returned from Sierra Leone, a busy GP with a growing family ponders the meaning of life. ISBN: 1903070 430 The Con Artist Handbook — Joel Levy Get wise as ...
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The Prison Minyan
By Jonathan StoneWill they now step up to save her? Jonathan Stone brings the sensibility of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth to the post-truth era in a sharply comic novel that is also wise, profound, and deeply moral.
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Wolf Country
By Tunde FarrandHer search for him uncovers some horrifying truths about the fate of her own family and the reality behind the new social order. Wolf Country is a powerful dystopian vision in the spirit of Black Mirror and Never Let Me Go.
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Beneath the Streets
By Adam Macqueen... dying days of Harold Wilson's administration in three out of the four non-fiction books I've had published so far (Private Eye: The First 50 Years, The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets and The Lies of the Land) ...
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Appius and Virginia
By G.E. TrevelyanVirginia Hutton embarks upon an experiment.