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1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year by Nick Rennison
Category: History
1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later.Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British Empire had reached its greatest extent but its heyday wa ...Show more
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year by Nick Rennison
Category: History
1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later.Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British Empire had reached its greatest extent but its heyday wa ...Show more
1974 - Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison
Category: Non Fiction
From the Watergate scandal, deposition of Haile Selassie and the expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet Union, to ABBA's landmark victory at the Eurovision Song Contest and the production of the very first Volkswagen Golf--a concise, entertaining survey of an important year in 20th-century history, p ...Show more
1974 Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison
Category: History
From the Watergate scandal, deposition of Haile Selassie and the expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet Union, to ABBA's landmark victory at the Eurovision Song Contest and the production of the very first Volkswagen Golf--a concise, entertaining survey of an important year in 20th-century history, p ...Show more
A Traveller's Year by Travis Elborough (Compiled by); Nick Rennison (Compiled by)
Category: Travel
A Traveller's Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for each day of the year, on the subject of travel and exploration. The extracts convey men and women's experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, with an emph ...Show more
American Sherlocks by Nick Rennison
Category: Crime Fiction
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American writers created dozens and dozens of crime-solvers. This thrilling, unusual anthology features stories about 15 of them, including Professor Augustus SFX Van D ...Show more
Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide ( 6th Edition ) by Nick Rennison
Category: Reference
What to Read and What to Read Next Any avid reader will understand the joy of finding an 'unputdownable' book, and will have asked themselves the question 'What next?' With 100,000 new books published each year - in addition to the enormous wealth of literature already in print - this can be a d ...Show more
Carver's Quest by Nick Rennison
Category: Fiction
It is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Street by an attractive young woman, their landlady is not pleased. The visitor's arrival pitches Carver and Quint headlong into an elaborate mystery which comes ...Show more
Carver's Quest by Nick Rennison
Category: Fiction
It is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Street by an attractive young woman, their landlady is not pleased. The visitor's arrival pitches Carver and Quint headlong into an elaborate mystery which comes ...Show more
Peter Mark RogetThe Man who Became a Book by Nick Rennison
Category: Biography & Memoir
Every day thousands of people worldwide consult Roget's Thesaurus--yet Peter Mark Roget, one of the most remarkable men of the 19th century, did not even begin the great work of classification which bears his name until he was 70. Before that, Roget had already made his own contributions to knowledge in ...Show more