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  • The Inevitable Spring
    N P Cooper
    Archmage Heramiir’s army is on the march.Not yet ready for war, Jayden and his advanced class of apprentice magi find themselves left behind in Aramar while King Erian’s forces move to intercept.When a Gift-sensitive assassin begins hunting those magi remaining to defend the capital though, Jayden’s extraordinary power marks him out as the primary target of a violent and capric...
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    20,85 €

  • The Extraordinary Tales of Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky
    N. P. Cooper
    This book contains the first five Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky!The five stories describe how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky : - - Introduced himself with a THUD!- Harvested cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums!- Went kayaking and learnt to swim!- Enjoyed scrumping and eating apples with his chums!- Became a smuggler, learning ab...
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    25,82 €

  • Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky Goes Sailing on the Helford River!
    N.P. Cooper
    This is a series of Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky!Currently there are five tales:Volume I describes how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky introduced himself to Karen the Carer and Lauren!Volume II records when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky goes harvesting cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums from next door!In Volume III we learn...
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    16,67 €

  • Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky Goes Smuggling!
    N.P. Cooper
    This is a series of Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky!Currently there are five tales:Volume I describes how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky introduced himself to Karen the Carer and Lauren!Volume II records when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky goes harvesting cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums from next door!In Volume III we learn...
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    16,76 €

  • Rodney the Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky Goes Harvesting With His Chums
    N.P. Cooper
    This is a series of Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky!Currently there are five tales:Volume I describes how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky introduced himself to Karen the Carer and Lauren!Volume II records when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky goes harvesting cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums from next door!In Volume III we learn...
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    15,10 €

  • Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky Goes Kayaking!
    N.P. Cooper
    This is a series of Amazing Tales About Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky!Currently there are five tales:Volume I describes how Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky introduced himself to Karen the Carer and Lauren!Volume II records when Rodney The Rabbit Who Fell From The Sky goes harvesting cauliflowers and broccoli with his chums from next door!In Volume III we learn...
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    13,60 €

  • The Dark Tempest
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    In the wake of Archmage Heramiir’s treason, King Erian has little choice but to order the largest conscription in Jeranon’s history. But can he reunify his lands before the brooding nations to the west realise their internal disarray? To fail would see Jeranon’s already severed lines of defence shatter, overwhelmed by nightmarish creatures from beyond the Dark Iron Mountains, a...
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    19,45 €

  • A Cornish Almanack
    N.P. Cooper / N.PCooper
    Cornwall, the land of sandy beaches, pretty fishing coves, historic fishing ports, tin mining, mansions and gardens, quaint thatched cottages, atmospheric moors, art galleries, writers and picturesque towns?All of that is true but there is so much more to Cornwall and its influence on the rest of Britain and many parts of the world is often forgotten or unknown but yet continue...
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    21,05 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - XVI - Hetty Wesley
    N.P. Cooper / N.PCooper
    Born of a domineering but remote father, who was periodically imprisoned for debt; but an exceptional mother who devoted as much time to her daughters as to her sons; hatred of the family by the parishioners of her childhood village; intimidation by the residents of Epworth; a documented poltergeist in the rectory which was her childhood home; two homes destroyed by arson; a...
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    34,91 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - XVIII - Spies! Tales of Espionage in the Napoleonic Wars
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    Q had a fascination with the Napoleonic Wars and with adventure, escapades and escapes. This volume contains the following four tales relating to two spies of the same name and are all based on fact:- ’Two Scouts’, is written in the context of the Battles of Huerta and Sabugal and tells of a lucky escape whilst one pretended to be a surgeon-barber. ’The Cellars of Rueda’ tells ...
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    19,26 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - XIX - The Westcotes (Napoleonic Prisoners of War in Devon)
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    In this volume, Q recounts the lives and experiences of Devon and Somerset residents who were forced to accommodateFrench prisoners of war and the daily routine and behaviour of the prisoners, many of whom were used to build Dartmoorprison.This volume contains an annotated edition of The Westcotes, a tale of daily life in Devon and Somerset in the times of the Napoleonic Wars a...
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    18,71 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - XII - Pirates
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    This volume contains Q’s fictionalised accounts of :-- The 1527 wreck of the, Portuguese treasure ship, Saint Andrew and the seizure of its cargo by local gentry.- The first ruler, First White Rajah, of Sarawak who retired to Burraton on Dartmoor.- Westcountry folk who became pirates including Harry Glasbywho became an accidental pirate on account of his seizure due to both his...
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    21,35 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - XVII - Tales of the Civil War
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    Now surpassed in fame by his daughter’s best friend, Daphne Du Maurier, Arthur Quiller-Couch was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian and Edwardian times.His work is of great interest since his fiction often contains a factual, historical, basisThis volume contains five tales of adventure, romance, escapades and an occasional lucky escape:-- ’Captain Wyvern’s Adventures’...
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    21,03 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - XIV - Scilly
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter’s best friend, Daphne du Maurier,Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (’Q’) was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian literature and found of the school of English Literature at Cambridge and is of particular interest as many of histales are based on factual events which have now passed from memory.Scilly are an enchanted...
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    27,20 €

  • Q's Historical Legacy - XV - Escapades and Occasional Escapes
    N.P. Cooper
    Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier,Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q') was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian literature and found of the school of English Literature at Cambridge and is of particular interest as many of his tales are based on factual events which have now passed from memory. Q wrote a huge nu...
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    28,49 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - XIII - Love
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    This volume contains some of Q’s most enchanting tales describing peoples’ actions due to love:-- The quiet honeymoon of a young couple interrupted by anunexpected visitors (A Happy Voyage).- An unexpected visit to a lightship by a newly marriedbride (Visitors at Gunnel Rock), inspired by the originalSevenstones Lightship anchored off Scilly.- Two mens’ actions to attempt to pr...
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    13,08 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - XI - Lady Mary
    N.P. Cooper / N.PCooper
    This volume commences with Q’s ghostly ’Lady Mary’s Tale’ which is based on a traditional story of a headless carriage controlled by a headless driver careering across Dartmoor and accompanied by a wild dog. It appears that Q based his tale on Sabine Baring-Gould’s recounting of Lady Mary’s life (also included in this volume) but the facts are rather different to the Cornish an...
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    20,34 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - 6 - Tales of Ardevora I
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    This volume, the sixth in the series, contains Q’s retelling of the adventures of two St. Ives fishermen who were imprisoned by Napoleon for 10 years together with their diaries and an introduction by, the Cornish fishing magnate, Sir Edward Hain who retraced their 1200 mile march on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War. The diaries also cast a fascinating light on n...
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    17,66 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - 9 - Christmas Tales
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    Q thoroughly enjoyed his annual routines but none more than Christmas. This volume contains five stories all related to Christmas.I Saw Three Ships which tells the tale of three wrecks at Christmas and the appearance of a mysterious sailor who disrupts the routine of a coastal community. Shakespeare’s Christmas recounts the astonishing solution devised by Shakespeare to the dem...
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    18,50 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - 10 - Highwaymen
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    Tales of highway robbery terrified many of the Cornish to the extent that men travelling to London on business often wrote their wills as they believed they were unlikely to return safely.This volume contains three of Q’s tales of highway robbery. The Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman tells the tale of his trial for murder and the consequences; whilst The Two Householders r...
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    13,78 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - 1 - The arrest of Captain Bligh
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    This volume, the first in a series, contains one of his best known stories in which he recounts the arrest and detention of Captain Bligh of The Bounty. It contains a short foreword setting the scene and an afterword describing the true events as well as annotations explaining Cornish terms, identifying locations and identifying the real historical personalities.Now surpassed ...
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    7,47 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - 7 - Tales of Ardevora II
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    This volume recounts tales of St. Ives and Prussia Covesmugglers, a corrupted election (when a wealthy woman took advantage of an error to vote) and a developing friendship between a wealthy man and a fisherman due to the activities of the fisherman’s granddaughter;Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter’s bestfriend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (’Q’) ...
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    15,85 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - 5 - Tales of The Looe Diehards, The Mayor Troy
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    During Napoleonic times there was great concern thatthe French could invade England through Cornwall’sundefended coasts, rivers and harbours.Due to this apprehension many areas assembledvolunteer artillery companies to guard and protect theirimmediate environment.One of these was the East and West Looe VolunteerArtillery which existed between 1803 and 1809. In allthat time, the...
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    21,16 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - 3 - The Last Siege in England
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    This volume, the third in a series, contains Q’s retelling of the last military siege on a private home in England in 1734. It contains a short foreword setting the scene and an afterword describing the true events as well as annotations explaining Cornish terms, identifying locations and identifying the real historical personalities.Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his da...
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    12,22 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - IV - Tales of The Looe Diehards. The Short stories
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    During Napoleonic times there was great concern that the French could invade England through Cornwall’s undefended coasts, rivers and harbours.Due to this apprehension many areas assembled volunteer artillery companies to guard and protect their immediate environment.One of these was the East and West Looe Volunteer Artillery which existed between 1803 and 1809. In all that tim...
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    13,74 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy - 2 - The Roll Call of the Reef
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    This volume, the second in a series, contains Q’s best known ghost story based on the wrecking of the HMS Primrose in 1807. It contains a short foreword setting the scene and an afterword describing the true events as well as annotations explaining Cornish terms, identifying locations and identifying the real historical personalities.Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his dau...
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    9,69 €

  • Q’s Historical Legacy The Short Stories Volume 1
    N. P. Cooper / NPCooper
    Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter’s best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Arthur Quiller-Couch was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian and Edwardian times and founder of the school of English Literature at Cambridge University. He is of particular interest since his fiction was very often based on factual events which have now passed from memory.This volume, ...
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    21,24 €

  • Introduction to Nuclear Radiation Detectors
    P. N. Cooper / PNCooper
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    71,97 €