This Month - National Alfa Romeo Day 2009- contributed by Maria

My husband Steve (who is a bit of a petrol head) is currently restoring an Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT. He is a member of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club and each year the club have a National Alfa Day. This year we went along...

The event was held at Newby Hall, Ripon, North Yorkshire and we had booked the tickets months in advance! We spent the night at a campsite not too far away from the venue at a little village called Minskip......Read More

Featured Book - The Eagle - contributed by David

Life was different in the years immediately after World War II. Rationing was the norm, and you had to wait for everything. Although we had a daily newspaper, my brother and I were not allowed to have a regular subscription to a comic, such as 'Beano' or 'Dandy', and had to buy copies with our extremely limited pocket money, if we could not beg, borrow or....

Even so, there was a corner shop nearby by which sold old copies of comics, and it was there that I found I preferred to read titles like 'Adventure', 'Hotspur', 'Rover' and, my favourite, 'Wizard'.

So you can just imagine our amazement that we were....Read the full article

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Other titles in our Books category

Other Biography books

Price: £18.00

Other Children's Adventure stories.

1996 edition. Published by John Wiley and Sons. Wiley-Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization. Blue pictorial cardwraps. ix and 464 pages including index.
Price:£150

John Sharpe. 1823 edition. Brown leather spines and corners. Comprises Travels In Africa; South America; North America; South Europe and North Europe.

Price: £800

1st ed. 1873. A History of the Abbeys, Priories and Other Religious Houses in Ireland. Brown leather spine, gilt titles and gilt vignette of St. Patrick to base of spine. Burgundy boards.
Price: £300

1st US edition 1943. From the Walt Disney production (the film was never released). This US edition precedes the UK edition by one year. Published by Random House.

Price: £440

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Included among our most recently catalogued titles are - School History titles, Biggles books, Ronald Searle, more Kelly's Directories, Wye Valley and Forest of Dean titles and many more...

Rupert Annual Followers Meeting - Saturday 22nd of August
The main Rupert event of the year is coming up - the Followers Annual Meeting at Warwick School on August 22nd. This event is open to Rupert Followers only and is a huge Rupert-festival of talks, stalls, fun and games. The Origami Society is generally represented and the event is a unique and exciting occasion when Followers can meet, eat, drink and talk about Rupert. If you'd like to join us but are not yet a Follower - click here

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