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Family of the Raj -John Morton £29

Victoria Wood, Comedy Genius – Her Life and Work by her brother Chris Foote Wood - £12.00

ABC of Immigration by Simon Sherbrooke - £20.00

At Your Service – A belated autobiography of Lieutenant General Sir Brian Kimmins KBE CB DL by Malcolm Kimmins – foreword by Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE DL Softback £10.00 Hardback   £15.00

Use It Or Lose It - How to live longer and happier – Brian Greenwood - foreword by Lord Tebbit £7.95

I Remember It Well, The Diaries, recollections and art of Three Generations over Three Centuries £20.00

Recollections of an Irish born doctor in nineteenth century Argentina by Susan Wilkinson  £20.00

The Education Roundabout by Professor Anne Jones £15.00

Academic

·         Professor Basil Mitchell: Looking Back; On Faith, Philosophy and Friends in Oxford

·         Dr Edward Hulmes: The Spalding Trust and the Union for the Study of the Great Religions

·         Professor G C Cook: The tropical disease that never existed

·         Christopher Rundle: From Colwyn Bay To Kabul

·         Professor Anne Jones: The Education Roundabout

·         Professor Peter Richards: The Harvest of a Quiet Eye

·         Professor John Walker-Smith: Enduring Memories

·         Professor Gordon Cook: Victorian Incurables

·         Professor George Wedell: A Post-War Half Century

·         Professor Edmund Critchley: A Neurologist's Tale

·         Professor Dubowitz, Victor: Ramblings of a Peripatetic Paediatrician

·         Professor Galletly, Gerard: An Impact Under Pressure

·         Professor Howe, Geoffrey L: Reflections of a Fortunate Fellow

·         Professor William Johnson: Record And Services Satisfactory

·         Professor Michael Lee: Stood on the Shoulders of Giants

·         Professor Preiskel, Harold: Wings of Youth

·         Professor Rawson, Kenneth: Ever the Apprentice

·         Professor John Richmond: Life's Jigsaw: A Medical Man Finds the Pieces

·         Professor Symington, Thomas: A Chance to Remember

·         Professor Wilson, Peter: Tale of two trusts

·         Professor Young, Anthony: Thin on the Ground

·         Prof John Robson: We Were Paid As Well

General

·         R Derek Finlay: Ten to Take Her Home

·         David Hutchinson: Through A Looking Glass

·         John C. Foster: Looking at Durham Stage and Screen

·         Eberhard George Wedell: A Post-War Half Century Christmas Letters 1962-2011

Medical

·         Dr Michael Partington: Barts and Beyond

·         Dr Jean McMillan: Lucky Genes

·         Dr Hywel Davies: Uncle Ebe and Other Stories

·         Dr Satya Chatterjee: All My Yesterdays

·         Dr Tony Cole: Looking for Answers

·         Dr Oscar Craig: Medical Memoirs

·         John Hofmeyr: Anecdotes of a Life of Contrasts

Neurosurgeons

·         Phillip Harris: To Be A Neurosurgeon, a Memoir

·         John Shaw: A Fortunate Apprentice

·         Bryan Ashworth: Striving towards Elegance

·         Edmond Critchley: A Neurologists Tale

·         Richard Godwin-Austen: Seizing Opportunities The Reminiscences of a Physician

Surgeons

·         Alan Lettin: Was It Something I Said

·         Ian Burn: Journey of a Cancer Surgeon

·         Ronald Wilson: A Mother's Medical Man

Paediatricians

·         Colin H M Walker: I Also Ran

Military

·         Major Freddie Rawding: Life as a Curious Traveler

·         Major Lawless: From Miner to Major

·         Major Peter Horsfall: Hard Too Believe Too Old At Sixteen

·         Lieutenant Colonel Tony Mains: Sandhurst To The Khyber with a foreword written by General Sir Sam Cowan, KCB, CBE Colonel Commandant the Brigade of Gurkhas.

·         Brigadier Neville Pughe: Elusive Glory with a foreword written by General Sir Michael Wilkes KCB CBE.

·         Harry Moses: For Your Tomorrow A History of the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry with a foreword written by Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DL

·         Harry Moses: The Faithful Sixth - A History of the Sixth Battalion Durham Light Infantry

·         Brigadier Richard Mountford: A Life in the Day of a CRA, the story of a Cold War Soldier with a foreword written by General Sir Edward Burgess, KBE, OBE.

Diplomatic

·         Sir Bernard Burrows: Diplomat In A Changing World

·         Sir Francis Kennedy: Dust Suspended with a foreword written by Jackie Stewart

·         Sir Nicholas Bayne: Economic Diplomat with a foreword written by Robert D.Putnam Harvard

·         Sir David Aubrey Scott: Window Into Downing Street

·         Sir Wynn Hugh-Jones: Diplomacy to Politics by way of the Jungle

·         Thomas Russell: I Have The Honour To Be

·         Geoffrey R Price: Building A Life

·         Dr J.D Macgregor: Colonial Window

·         Kenneth W Kelly OBE: Working Class Diplomat

·         Julian Walker: Tyro On The Trucial Coast

·         Richard Wilding: Civil Servant

·         James Rooke: Trade And The Diplomat

·         John Stacpool: Recollections Of A Sit Sit Man

·         Richard Tallboys: Encounters of a Diplomatic Kind

Politicians

·         Sir David Mitchell: From House To House, The Endless Adventure of Politics and Wine

·         Sir Albert McQuarrie: A Lifetime of Memories

·         Sir Giles Shaw: In The Long Run

·         Sir David Trippier: Lend Me Your Ears with a foreword written by Ken Clarke

·         Major General Sir Brian Wyldebore-Smith: March Past with a foreword written by Baroness Thatcher

House of Lords

·         Baron Graham of Edmonton: From Tyne to Thames

·         Baron Thomas of Macclesfield: An Inclusive Community with Integrity

·         Baron Mackie of Benshie: Flying Farming and Politics

·         Lord Nickson: Two At A Time

·         Baron Islwyn of Casnewydd: Seek Fairer Skies

Police

·         Ray Gibbon: The Way it Was

·         Brian Mackenzie, Baron Mackenzie of Framwellgate: Two Lives of Brian From Policing to Politics

·         Mike Chandler: And Nothing But The Truth

·         Ralph Petit: A Plod Round Brum

Religious

·         Bishop Bill Down: Down To The Sea with a foreword written by H.R.H., The Princess Royal.

·         John Peart Binns: The Improbable Bishop Ian Ramsey Of Durham

·         John Peart Binns: Gordon Fallows of Sheffield

·         Olga Rutherford Abraham's: A Geordie in Japan

·         Richard Ferguson: Listen to the Gospels

·         Stephen Carr: Surprised By Laughter

·         Revd A.H. Dammers: Thank You, Holy Spirit with a foreword written by George Carey, Lord Carey of Clifton Archbishop of Canterbury (1991-2002)

·         Sister Giles: Circle Completed & The End and The Beginning

·         Brian W J G: Lost Certainties

Female Authors

·         Joan Bright Astley OBE: The Inner Circle

·         Dame Sheila Quinn: A Dame Abroad

·         Norinka Ford: The Flowing Line

·         Audrey B Insley: The Resisted Exercise A Physio's Story

·         Isobel Bradley: Smiling in the Darkness

·         Cindy Coster: Where Am I From Where are YOU From?

·         Mary Burkett: I Felt Like An Adventure foreword by Melvyn Bragg

·         Lady Patricia Maddocks: So Many Worlds with a foreword by Anthony Kirk-Greene CMG MBE Emeritus Fellow, St Anthony s College Oxford.

·         Suzanne Kyrle-Pope: The Same Wife In Every Port with a foreword written by Sir Reginald Hibbert GCMG.

·         Audrey Deacon: Diary of a Wren 1940-1945 War Years in the Women's Royal Naval Service

·         Jenny Pierson: A Teatasters Dog

·         Rosella Bartelot: What Made Grandma Tick

·         Jenny Pierson: Travels of a Tea-Taster's Dog

Business

·         Esmond Bulmer: Cider and more Besides Esmond Bulmer

·         Robin Salvesen: Ships Husband

·         Professor Raymond Miquel: Business As Usual...The Miquel Way

·         John Young: Acting Up

·         Roger A Owen: From Bricks To Beans Surveyor to Grocer

·         Sir Norman Wooding: Recollections

·         Sir Paul Nicholson: Brewer At Bay

·         Peter Bowring: A Thicket Of Business

·         Sir Desmond Pitcher: Water Under The Bridge

·         Sir Michael Parsons: Room To Swing a Cat

·         Harry Simpson: Land Sea and Air

Professionals

·         Peter Ackers: My World The Life and Times of a Civil Engineer

·         Rafe Clutton: Take One Surveyor

·         Judge Richard Cole: An Oxford Man

·         John Craven: Understood Backwards

·         Gerard Galletly: An Impact Under Pressure with a foreword written by Dr Diana Galletly Cambridge.

·         Tony Downing: Water on the Brain with a foreword written by Professor Peter Wolf, Emeritus Professor of the City University, London.

·         John Duckworth: Weighty Matters: Worthy People

·         Michael Elton: Memories of Many Winds

·         Lord Mackie: Flying, Farming and Politics

·         R. Derek Finlay: Ten to Take Her Home

·         Derek Edwards: Puddings On Friday

·         Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington: Those Blue Remembered Hills

·         Brian Greenwood, ex-Chairman of Greenwoods Menswear: Shop; or clogs to clogs in three generations whose foreword was written by The Right Honourable Norman Tebbit.

·         Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones: The Coati Sable

·         Brian Lingard: Special Houses for Special People & Thrifty Homes for Thrifty People

·         Harry Simpson: Land, Sea and Air

·         Jim Davis CBE: You And Your Ships

·         David C. Fanthorpe: Little Tyke

·         Guy De Moubray: City Of Human Memories

·         Professor Kenneth Rawson: Ever the Apprentice

·         Brian Rofe: Blue Patches and Clear Water

·         Sir Conrad Swan: A King From Canada

Education

·         Peter. R Shuker: Half A Century of Further Education in England

·         Jennifer Trusted: When I Was Young, A Fortunate life in the mid-twentieth century

·         Sue Davies-Jenkins: Hang On Tight

·         Sir John Horlock: An Open Book

·         Patrick Tobin: Portrait of a Putney Pud

·         Brian W J G Wilson: Experience Is An Arc

·         John Young: Acting Up

·         Roger Griffiths: A Life At The Chalkface

·         Arnold Hendry: A Career In Ivory Towers

·         John Mann: To Gladly Learn And Gladly Teach

·         John J. Sparkes: Understanding Learning

Dentists

·         Dame Margaret Seward: Open Wide, Memoir of the Dental Dame Chief Dental Officer (England)

·         Harold Preiskel: Wings Of Youth

Naval

·         Richard Hill: A Light on Shore

·         Francis Major: Liverpool Ports

·         Captain Sam Fry: Fruitful Rewarding Years

·         Rear Admiral Richard Hill: A Light On Shore

·         Norman Goodwin: Midshipman-Royal Naval Reserve

·         Rear Admiral Geoffrey Hall: Sailors Luck

·         Patrick Martin: Fifty Years a Shipbuilder

·         Bryan Smalley: Aft Through The Hawsepipe

Nuclear/Environment

·         Joan Pye: Atoms for Peace

·         Sir Martin Holdgate: Penguins and Mandarins

·         Christopher Audland: Right Place - Right Time with a foreword written by Sir Frank Berman KCMG QC

·         Lord Roger Nathan: The Spice Of Life

Travel

·         Carole Bell: Baltics To Beirut

·         Jean McMillan: Itchy Feet

·         Tony Goddard: My African Stories

·         Wendy Brice Thompson: Down And Almost Under

·         Rosemary Wedell: Halfway Round The World

Historical

·         Norval Mitchell: The Quiet People Of India

·         Joan Bright Astley OBE: The Inner Circle A View Of War at The Top

·         Tony Hare: Spanning The Century

·         Henry Keown-Boyd: The Lion and The Sphinx: The Rise and Fall Of The British In Egypt 1882-1956

·         Jeremy Mitchell: Shrapnel and Whizzbangs

Charities/Trust

·         Jean Hole: Life Saver – Life Changer, a history of the Taunton Women's Refuge 1977–2007

Engineers/Scientists

·         Alex Smith (engineer): Lock Up The swings n Sundays

·         Professor John Sparkes: Understanding Learning

·         Sir Thomas Symington: A Chance To Remember

·         Mr Chris Thornburn: No Messing: The Story Of An Essex Man

·         George Tolley: We, Of Our Bounty

·         David Tonge: Whither Thou Goest