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“jad adams”

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  • Cafe Europa

    by Jad Adams ...
    Sarah, Sven, Anton and Anne go to work on a Greek island looking for sun, sea and romance. They find those, but they also find the island has a hidden side as crime and corrupt politics reveal nothing is what it seems.Café Europa sees the coming together on the island of three tribes: north Europeans, Greeks and refugees, in a novel about deceit and defiance on the edge of Europe. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Choice of Darkness

    by Jad Adams ...
    Choice of Darkness is a tale of blighted love and mass murder based on the hunt for the biggest serial killer in nineteenth-century America.Jad Adams tells the story of Henry Holmes from the point of view of the detective who tracked him down, burdened by a love betrayed.Frank Geyer is a detective in Philadelphia who in 1894 is called to investigate the death of Ben Pitezel.He encounters Dr Henry ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Tony Benn

    A Biography

    by Jad Adams ...
    Jad Adams has worked as a television producer and a Fleet Street newspaper journalist. He knew Tony Benn well for the last twenty-five years of his life. He was the last researcher to have full access to the extensive Benn Archive in Benn's basement office, prior to its being given to the British Library.Jad's political books include Women and the Vote: A World History, Gandhi: Naked Ambition and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Decadent Women

    Yellow Book Lives

    by Jad Adams ...
    During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal The Yellow Book.For the first time, based on original research, Jad Adams describes the lives and work of these vibrant and passionate women, from ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Tony Benn

    A Biography

    by Jad Adams ...
    Tony Benn has been portrayed as both hero and villain, as a creative and as a destructive force. This comprehensively revised edition of Jad Adams's classic biography, is written with unparalleled access to Benn's private records, and describes the long and turbulent career of one of the most charismatic politicians of the last hundred years. The first biography to have been written with full ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and the Vote

    A World History

    by Jad Adams ...
    Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present ... Read more

    $12.49 CAD

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  • Charles Dickens

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  • One Cretan Evening and Other Stories

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  • The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

    by P. D. James ...
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  • The Prime Ministers

    The Parliamentary Book Award-winning account of Britain's leaders - a must-read for anyone interested in British politics and history

    by Iain Dale ...
    The ultimate guide to every Prime Minister there's ever been: 55 profiles by 55 different politicians, journalists and academics compiled by leading political commentator Iain DaleWinner of the 2020 Parliamentary Awards for Best Political Book by a Non-ParliamentarianA Times Political Book of the Year 2020*Featuring a foreword by Boris Johnson*-----It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert ... Read more

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  • A Very British Murder

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    This is the story of a national obsession.Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD