Country old men paperback

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days In "No Country for Old Men," Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning¿s headlines. Features Summary In "No Country for Old Men," Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines.. Author Cormac McCarthy Publisher Random House Release date 20071009 Pages 309 ISBN 0-307-38713-5 ISBN 13 978-0-307-38713-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Features Summary Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old Yeller" is a timeless coming-of-age tale. Travis is left to care for the farm when his father leaves on a cattle drive... Author Fred Gipson Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20010426 Pages 132 ISBN 0-06-093547-2 ISBN 13 978-0-06-093547-4

Old England's worthies: a gallery of portraits  RARE ANTIQUARIAN FIND Old England's worthies: a gallery of portraits, from authentic copies, of the most eminent statesmen, lawyers, warriors, men of letters and science, and artists of our country. Accompanied by full   and original biographies, with illustrative woodcuts, and twelve splendid illuminated engravings. Published by Charles Cox London 1847. 272p. Original edition.30x26cm Condition: Brown covers with gilt engraving. Spine missing, loose front pages and binding stitches degraded but rest in fair condition. Paper yellowed and some edges frayed. Illuminated engravings protected with tissue paper. Marks and foxing on frontispage. Postage: to be negotiated 

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Incontinent old ladies, men with eagle tattoos, traumatised widowers - Dr Iwan James's patients cause him both to feel both sympathy and dismay, further complicated by his feelings for his practice partners: unrequited longing for Dr Lois Pritchard, and frustration at the antics of Dr Robert Smith, who will use any means to make Iwan look bad in her presence. Iwan's cycling trips with his friend and mentor, Arthur, provide some welcome relief, but as we explore the phantoms from his past, we ask what is the dividing line between patient and provider? Wry, comic, graphic, often quotidian and sometimes tragic, his patients' stories are the spokes that make Iwan's wheels go round. In this moving, funny and eloquent graphic novel of the life of a country doctor, Ian Williams has created a graphic Dr Finlay's Casebook for the 21st century. Features Summary If you've ever wondered what happens behind the doctor's desk, then The Bad Doctor is for you. Cartoonist and doctor Ian Williams takes a stethoscope to Dr Iwan James... Author Ian Williams Publisher Myriad Editions Release date 20140626 Pages 220 ISBN 1-908434-28-7 ISBN 13 978-1-908434-28-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days In Argentina, there is a group of men who live a unique life; the life of a gaucho. This special type of cowboy has been continuing the old traditions for centuries. What type of lifestyle do these men have and what does it mean to be a gaucho? Features Summary In Argentina, there is a group of men who live a unique life; the life of a gaucho. This special type of cowboy has been continuing the old traditions for centuries... Author Rob Waring (Author), National Geographic (Author) Publisher Cengage Learning Release date 20081205 Pages 32 ISBN 1-4240-1106-X ISBN 13 978-1-4240-1106-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realises the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery - that only by his doing so will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a story of memory, intrigue and the need to return; of a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood, indelibly shaping and distorting a person's life. If you enjoyed When We Were Orphans, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics. Features Summary In 1930s England, Christopher Banks has become one of the country's most celebrated detectives, his cases are the talk of London society. Yet one crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai... Author Kazuo Ishiguro Publisher Faber and Faber Release date 20001002 Pages 368 ISBN 0-571-20562-3 ISBN 13 978-0-571-20562-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Set against the grimness of the lives of mill workers in Bingley, West Yorkshire, the second book in the Hudson and Lawes trilogy opens in 1839 almost exactly a year after the affair at Seddon workhouse in Suffolk where the two men first met. Characters now familiar from the first in the trilogy, On the House reappear and play integral roles in the story. Increasingly recognised as a successful investigative journalist, Ambrose Hudson is canvassed by an overseer in a woollen mill to follow up his suspicions of illegal child labour in the North-East. The man is also concerned that the heinous practice of baby farming is operating in the same area. A four-handed investigation is needed and Ambrose persuades his friend Edgar Lawes to accompany him to Bingley where the two men are quickly embroiled in undercover work and surveillance of the perpetrators of both crimes. The farming of babies for hard cash is something new to both men, and the viciousness of the criminals involved is shocking. During the investigation the friends meet an old adversary and Ambrose sets out on the beginnings of a tragic love affair. Features Summary 1838, a year after the Seddon union affair, Hudson and Lawes are on the case of illegal child labour and, even worse, baby-farming, among the mills and moorland of Bingley... Author Helen Maskew Publisher Unbound Digital Release date 20181212 ISBN 1-912618-78-8 ISBN 13 978-1-912618-78-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days After years of thinking about it, Jane Webster finally bought a dilapidated chateau in France. She and her husband had decided they didn't want to die wondering what it would be like to live in the country they both loved so much, so they sold their house in Melbourne, took their four young children out of school and moved the whole family to a tiny village in Normandy. This is the magical story of their first year in France: with a new language to learn, new friends to make, and a whole new region - from Deauville to Rouen - to discover. It is also the story of Chateau de Bosgouet and how Jane lovingly brought this grand but neglected old house back to life. At My French Table is an ode to a beautiful country and the French way of life. Features Summary After years of thinking about it, Jane Webster finally bought a dilapidated chateau in France. She and her husband had decided they didn't want to die wondering what it would be like to live in the country they both loved so much... Author Jane Webster Publisher Viking Australia Release date 20150105 Pages 311 ISBN 0-670-07824-7 ISBN 13 978-0-670-07824-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 'We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the Bomb, for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.' R. V. Jones, head of wartime British Scientific Intelligence Marcial Echenique, a Cambridge professor, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall. The manor had an astonishing past as an MI6 staging post for some of the most secret operations of the Second World War. But in April 1945, Farm Hall was to play an even more astounding role, housing ten of Germany's top nuclear physicists captured in daring raids. Amid the chaos of the disintegrating Third Reich they were flown to England covertly in a mission code-named Operation Big. Every word they uttered was bugged by MI6 eavesdroppers using the wires found by the professor. After the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, these men would claim they could have developed A-bombs for the Third Reich, but did not 'for the greater good of mankind'. Most believe this to have been a lie. But was there an even greater deception? Were they captured not to stop Hitler, but to stop Stalin? Did the US drop the Bomb as a show of power not to the Japanese, but to the Soviets? Colin Brown guides us through a world of espionage, scientific discovery and questions of morality as he reveals the extraordinary truth surrounding Hitler's atomic bomb. Features Summary The Cambridgeshire country house at the centre of a secret mission to stop Hitler's A-Bomb Author Colin Brown Publisher Amberley Publishing Release date 20161109 Pages 304 ISBN 1-4456-6467-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4456-6467-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days A story that details the effects of the infamous Mau Mau war, the African nationalist revolt against colonial oppression in Kenya, on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a rubbish heap and look into their futures. Njoroge is excited; his family has decided that he will attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. Together they will serve their country - the teacher and the craftsman. But this is Kenya and the times are against them. In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up. Features Summary A story that details the effects of the infamous Mau Mau war, the African nationalist revolt against colonial oppression in Kenya, on the lives of ordinary men and women... Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Publisher The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) Ltd Release date 20090730 Pages 149 ISBN 0-14-302624-0 ISBN 13 978-0-14-302624-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Four young men from the Stockholm suburbs plan an audacious heist. The theft of hundreds of millions of pounds from the largest cash facility in the country. But can everyone involved in the scheme's meticulous planning be trusted? And can they really hope to get away with such an enormous crime? Features Summary A gripping thriller perfect for fans of Lee Child and Harlan Coben, and based on an incredible true story *Soon to be a major Netflix feature starring Jake Gyllenhaal* Four men gather in Stockholm. Author Jonas Bonnier Publisher Zaffre Publishing Release date 20180628 Pages 512 ISBN 1-78576-427-6 ISBN 13 978-1-78576-427-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years... The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times `A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation's massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century's gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists' public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E. Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom - a looming civil war in Ireland. He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day - including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw - creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges. `A devastating critique of prewar Britain... disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.' Gerard DeGroot, The Times `You won't put it down... A really riveting read.' Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Features Summary `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years... The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times `A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch... Author Simon Heffer Publisher Windmill Books Release date 20181030 Pages 912 ISBN 0-09-959224-X ISBN 13 978-0-09-959224-2

2012 paperback brand new with 380 pages. R46 postage in SA. Anglo-Boer War, Anglo-Boereoorlog. Deneys Reitz, who is now one of General Smuts's political lieutenants and a warm supporter of the British Commonwealth, fought through the South African War as our enemy. He enlisted on the outbreak of the war as a boy of seventeen and went through it to the bitter end. His father was President of the Orange Free State, and after peace was concluded he and his family went into exile. Later he returned to his own country; and later still fought in the Great War on the side of the Allies, first in West and South Africa, and then in France, where he was severely wounded, and where he came to command the First Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Commando abounds in interesting sidelights and portraits-Kruger, De Wet, Smuts, Kitchener. One of the most remarkable passages gives us a glimpse of the young Winston Churchill as prisoner of war in Pretoria. It is difficult to speak of this book in anything short of a string of superlatives. The spirit of it is magnificent; the uncomplaining courage of the boy-fighter rouses memories of all the stories down the ages about devotion to an ideal. And not one of them is a finer one than this

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like `The Weight', `The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' and `Up on Cripple Creek', he and his partners in the Band fashioned a music that has endured for decades, influencing countless musicians. In this captivating memoir, written over five years of reflection, Robbie employs his unique storyteller's voice to weave together the journey that led him to some of the most pivotal events in music history. He recounts the adventures of his half-Jewish, half-Mohawk upbringing on the Six Nations Indian Reserve and on the gritty streets of Toronto; his odyssey at sixteen to the Mississippi Delta, the fountainhead of American music; the wild, early years on the road with rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks; his unexpected ties to the Cosa Nostra underworld; the gripping trial-by-fire of 'going electric' with Bob Dylan on his 1966 world tour and their ensuing celebrated collaborations; the formation of the Band and the forging of their unique sound, culminating with history's most famous farewell concert, brought to life for all time in Martin Scorsese's great movie The Last Waltz. This is the story of a time and place - the moment when rock 'n' roll became life, when legends like Buddy Holly and Bo Diddley crisscrossed the circuit of clubs and roadhouses from Texas to Toronto, when the Beatles, Hendrix, the Stones and Warhol moved through the same streets and hotel rooms. It's the story of exciting change as the world tumbled through the '60s and early '70s and a generation came of age, built on music, love and freedom. Above all, it's the moving story of the profound friendship among five young men who together created a new kind of popular music. Testimony is Robbie Robertson's story, lyrical and true, as only he could tell it. Features Summary Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. Above all, it's the moving story of the profound friendship among five young men who together created a new kind of popular music. Author Robbie Robertson Publisher Windmill Books Release date 20170731 Pages 500 ISBN 0-09-951095-2 ISBN 13 978-0-09-951095-6

Book still in a great condition.  >>>   When Dennis Milne--now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines--hears that his old friend and colleague Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home and bring the murderer to justice. Milne arrives in a pre-Christmas London that is cold and hostile. But he is no longer a policeman; no longer charged with keeping the peace and upholding the law. Although his old friends at the King's Cross station do not know that Milne is back in town, it soon becomes clear that his arrival has been expected by men who are after his blood. Hungry for revenge and determined to uphold his own very rough brand of justice, Milne searches for the person behind his friend's demise--and leaves a trail of death and destruction more wide-reaching than even he could have expected. *N.B.*   If you buy more than one book from me on the same day you only pay R 6 extra postage for each of the additional books - See what else I have to offer, it might just be worth your while.