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.Cool Camping: England (Cool Camping)
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by: Jonathan Knight, Paul Marsden, Andy Stothert

April 28, 2008

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.Wainwright Anniversary Boxed Set Pictorial Guides to the Fells 1-7 (Wainwright 50th Anniversary ed)
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by: A. Wainwright

March 05, 2008
This is a brilliant boxed set, i managed to get this for under £45 which is incredible given the books individually are priced at £13 each !!

The attention to detail in these books are second to none - buy it now before the price goes back up !!
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.Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
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by: Lisa Jardine

April 01, 2008
This is a brilliant boxed set, i managed to get this for under £45 which is incredible given the books individually are priced at £13 each !!

The attention to detail in these books are second to none - buy it now before the price goes back up !!
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.Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius
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by: Richard Holmes

May 06, 2008
This is a brilliant boxed set, i managed to get this for under £45 which is incredible given the books individually are priced at £13 each !!

The attention to detail in these books are second to none - buy it now before the price goes back up !!
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.Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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by: Kate Fox

April 11, 2005
This can be a helpful book for foreigners living in the UK who struggle with simple things like getting served in pubs because the etiquette here is often subtly different. Kate Fox does a good job at explaining the how and why of all that.

In places Watching the English is brilliantly insightful, but most of the points are laboured. I feel the book ought to have been about 1/3 as long.

It is very funny in places, but by far the funniest is that the author was 'Margaret Mead'-ed by the goths she spoke to. They cleverly told her hilarious rubbish ("You have to grow your hair long when you're a goth - people know you haven't been a goth very long if you have short hair"!), she believed it was an accurate portrayal of the ... Read More:
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.Go Slow England
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by: Alastair Sawday

March 06, 2008
First impression is what a lovely book this is - physically - an alluring photograph of an old-fashioned bicycle in a summer meadow, framed in subdued olive tones, positively exuding Slow and green. Pick it up, feel its weight and connect with its seriousness; hold and turn the pages gently as all good book-lovers do. Then see that this is not mere presentation but the paper and printer are FSC/ISO 14001 certified for low ecological impact. You are in familiar Alastair Sawday territory; principles worn on the sleeve, backed up with real commitment and action.

Inside, we are invited to Go Slow too. After a concise and beautifully illustrated introduction to Slow values and a few of the well-known names of English Slow such as Riverford ... Read More:
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.Muscle
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by: Carlton Leach

March 14, 2003
Let's start off with Mr Leach is not a man to mess with he looks the part and that's just on the cover of the book. You would certainly want him on your side if you where in a spot of bother and not knocking on your front door looking for you. In all this was a very good account of the underworld which you can believe or not it's up to you. I enjoyed this book and it will certainly be staying in my book collection.
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.Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
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by: Nigel Slater

October 01, 2007
Most of you, if you're cookbook collectors, know by now that you rarely get a straight-through cookbook. Rather, it's usually a melange of "where this recipe came from" coupled with some history and/or the author's comments. Such, even more so, is the case with EATING FOR ENGLAND.

This is really not so much a cookbook as a reminiscence and "thoughts" about cooking and England. I was immediately reminded of the novel "Barring Some Unforeseen Accident" in that the author incorporates an actual cookbook within the novel (not anything you're going to want to make, by the way). The way that author pokes fun at cookbooks and their "makers" is very funny, and if you've read enough of these, you'll see what I mean.

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.The Verneys: Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-century England
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by: Adrian Tinniswood

April 03, 2008
This is history at its best - it's readable, compelling and thoroughly enjoyable. Tinniswood's book achieves many goals in one - a fascinating social history, meticulous biography, powerful family saga, and not least it is a really good and engaging read.

The tale begins with Sir Francis Verney who ran away from his teenage wife in 1608, sold off much of the Verney property, converted to Islam and became one of the most feared pirates on the Barbary Coast. Carry on to read about Bess, who ran off with a clergyman; Cary, a heavy gambler, and Henry who was obsessed with horse racing; not to mention those involved in the English Civil War; Mall, who became pregnant out of marriage, or one of the later relatives who was hanged at Tyburn. A really good ... Read More:
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.Trust Nobody
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by: June Hampson

February 01, 2007
NOT ALTOGETHER UNLIKE MARTINA COLE WHEN SHE WAS GOOD BUT LESS BAD LANGUAGE!!!! WELL WRITTEN AND IF I HAD THE TIME WOULD HAVE READ IT IN ONE SITTING.. HOOKED FROM THE 1ST PAGE TO THE LAST.. THE END WAS UNPREDICTABLE AND I AM NOW READING THE SEQUIL TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO DAISY NEXT. EXCELLENT BOOK.
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