books by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

books by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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Michael Palin

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2000

Palin's new trip
Michael Palin once more takes us on a great trip into the New Europe. His travel books always make you feel your along for the ride. The best part of his travel books are you get a chance to meet the locals and see and feel how they live and they always make you smile. ...

According to the Rolling Stones

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003

Buy it for the photos only
If you want this beautifully laid out coffee table book for its many excellent and in some cases previously unpublished photos, you will not be disappointed. There's a wealth of great shots here, though the emphasis is predictably on Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie, ...

A Foreign Country. by Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008

Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern - his fortune in excess of 500 million and who should inherit it on his death. PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time ...

The New Anti-Semitism: The Globalisation of the Oldest Hatred. Denis MacShane
Denis MacShane

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008

This book argues that what the 21st century now faces is an ideological assault based on hatred of Jews which is as serious as any major threat to universal values as the world has faced. Anti-semitism is the visible language and action of a deeper threat to world peace, to the achievements of the human spirit we call the Enlightenment, and ...

Pilgrimage: A Chronicle of Christianity Through the Churches of Rome

June Hager

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1999

A pleasure for mind and heart and eyes
All of you, whether you can get to Rome for the Giubileo next year or not, should have this book. Everyone who can come to Rome in 2000 should get a copy now and start studying it. I read through "Pilgrimage" immediately on its delivery and started my second ...

Preferred Lies: A Journey to the Heart of Scottish Golf

Andrew Greig

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2006

spiritual view of golf - it's not about the score
We went to Gleneagles this year for 10 days holiday staying in a house on the estate which we rented. Lots of emotion driving through Milnathort passing a house of oldest friend and remembering aged 10 playing golf at Milnathort and not finding the ball because the ...

Instructions for Living Someone Else's Life

Mil Millington

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008

Millington's Instructions For Living Someone Else's Life
Mil Millington's latest book is about time traveling. Not of the strict science fiction type, but of the type that occurs normally to every one of us without noticing. Chris Mortimer is a 25 year old guy in the 80's who wakes up one day and all of a sudden realizes ...

I Found My Horn: An Instrumental Journey
Jasper Rees

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008

Most people who take up a musical instrument have dropped it by the time they leave school. With the onset of maturity they start to regret giving it up. But still they do nothing about it. At the age of 39 and three quarters, Jasper Rees did do something about it. He fished his French horn out of the attic, where it had lain silent for 22 ...

What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live
A. C. Grayling

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003

In his major new book A.C. Grayling examines the different ways to live a good life, as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present. Grayling focuses on the two very different conceptions of what a good life should be: one is a broadly secular view rooted in attitudes about human nature and the human condition; the other is a broadly ...

Grey Souls
Philippe Claudel

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005

This is ostensibly a detective story, about a crime that is committed in 1917, and solved 20 years later. The location is a small town in Northern France, near V., in the dead of the freezing winter. The war is still being fought in the trenches, within sight and sound of the town, but the men of the town have been spared the slaughter because ...

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation (UNIVERSAL HISTORY)
R. W. Johnson

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004

The country now known as South Africa is one of the places on the earth with the oldest continuous human habitation. But these earliest inhabitants have had to suffer wave after wave of inward migration. What is clear is that by the end of the seventeenth century, all of the groups that are major actors in the contemporary drama of South Africa ...

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire
Hugh Thomas

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003

"To carry out the conquest of so many countries, to cross so many seas and rivers, valleys, forests and mountains, and to take on the Aztecs and the Mayans in their own territory, some great idea was needed as well as human will." (Americo Castro) When, in 1492, Christopher Columbus finally stood ready to set sail across the 'Ocean Sea' for what ...

Mistress of the House: Great Ladies and Grand Houses, 1670-1830

Rosemary Baird

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003

Strong Women Beautiful Houses
I liked this book. It shows how women were able to accomplish more than we thought they could. The women had more control over how their households were run than I believe Victorian women had.One of my favorites is Caroline Lennox, Baroness Holland. She eloped with a ...

English Cottage Interiors (Country Series)

Hugh Lander, Peter Rauter

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996

Highly recommended.
This is one of my favorite (non-fiction) books of all time. It is not your garden variety decorating book, and doesn't pretend to be. In subject matter it is a bit more about architecture rather than interior decoration, with an emphasis on traditional. I think the ...

Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia

Stephen Oppenheimer

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Ltd., 1999

Ground-breaking book
Stephen Oppenheimer is the first author to treat this subject in an extensive manner using both scientific evidence and comparative mythology. He brings together a wide range of complimentary fields to support his theory on the rise of Southeast Asian during the ...