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  • People - States - Territories

    The Political Geographies of British State Transformation

    by Rhys Jones ...
    Series Book 92 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term.A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical conceptAn explication of the ... Read more

    $79.00 USD

  • The Nation's Favourite

    Twentieth Century Poems

    This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth of the nation's life during the 20th century is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Man in Black

    The true story of former criminal defence lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones' experience of defending Rhyl serial killer Peter Moore, found guilty in 1996 of murdering four men and seriously assaulting many more, and referred to by the judge when sentencing as as dangerous a man as it is possible to find. ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • To the Baltic with Bob

    An Epic Misadventure

    In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them, as he knew how to mend the engine. And this is their story.Over four long months of applied bickering in a vessel no bigger than a London taxi, they visited most of the geographically interesting ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Semi-Detached

    Semi-detached Griff relives freezing bus journeys to school and the impulsive stealing of that half-a-crown from Charlie Hume’s money box; sitting outside Butlins at Clacton (longing to be inside and on the Waltzer instead of stranded on the pebbles with his dad); hazy summer afternoons spent with feral gangs in the woods, or storming the mud flats singing extracts from the Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Man in Black, The - Peter Moore - Wales' Worst Serial Killer

    The true story of former criminal defence lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones' experience of defending Rhyl serial killer Peter Moore, found guilty in 1996 of murdering four men and seriously assaulting many more, and referred to by the judge when sentencing as as dangerous a man as it is possible to find. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Road

    The gods have vanished.Foul things prowl the wilds.A war setting the world ablaze.The great kingdoms of Castan and Sora enter the fifth year of bloody strife, and pull the lands between them into uneasy alliances.The monarchs, sick of war, have tasked the emissaries to travel the long road and bring peace to the land. But their quest is fraught with danger, and dark forces are on the move. Not all ... Read more

    $7.45 USD

  • Becoming Dr Jones

    A Wild Life

    Rhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim, and the factor beckoned. As he recalls, he was born fighting and never stopped. His perspective on what life could offer him changed forever in the early 1980s when his grandfather took him to the local cinema to see Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems

    This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky' to lesser known and forgotten gems such as Gelett Burgess's 'The Purple Cow', Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a poetic tour of witty, nonsensical and plain laugh-out-loud funny poems. The selection brings together poets from every age and every ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Mountain

    Exploring Britain's High Places

    Griff Rhys Jones was a mountain virgin. So when it was suggested that he might like to go up a few of Britain’s peaks, he rightly asked: isn’t there someone better qualified?Apparently not. So Griff was duly dispatched across the rooftops of England, Scotland and Wales to explore some of the roughest, most arduous – not to mention most beautiful – terrain, and to meet those who live daily in such ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Insufficiently Welsh

    In this informal guide to Wales, Griff Rhys Jones rediscovers "the land of his aunties." Born in Cardiff but raised in Essex, Griff is returning home on a mission to explore the real Wales: the one beyond the tourist trail that exists in the deep beautiful countryside, full of hidden treasures and eccentric characters that make this country so unique. With help from a hidden hand, Griff is set a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rivers

    One man and his dog paddle into the heart of Britain

    In punts canoes and rowing boats, Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a tour of Britain's beautiful and extraordinary rivers.He battles through the gorges and waterfalls of Scotland's wild mountains, drifts across the plains of East Anglia and plunges into the Wye, exploring the legends and stories of our rivers on the way. How did man harness the power of water in feats of engineering like the ... Read more

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