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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters

By Simon Garfield (editor)

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Paperback:

9781782115670 | Canongate Books Ltd, October 1, 2015, cover price $16.95

To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9781592408351 | Gotham Books, November 14, 2013, cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9781592408825 | Reprint edition (Avery Pub Group, November 4, 2014), cover price $18.00

Life Goes on: The Exceptional Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

By Simon Garfield (editor)

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Paperback:

9781781251232 | Profile Books Ltd, March 18, 2014, cover price $15.95

On the Map: A Mind-expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9781592407798 | Gotham Books, December 27, 2012, cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9781592407804 | Avery Pub Group, November 5, 2013, cover price $17.00

To the Letter: A Journey Through a Vanishing World

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9780857868589 | Canongate Books Ltd, October 24, 2013, cover price $28.75

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9781592406524 | Gotham Books, September 1, 2011, cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9781592407460 | Reprint edition (Avery Pub Group, September 4, 2012), cover price $17.00

The Error World: An Affair With Stamps

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9780151013968 | Houghton Mifflin, January 20, 2009, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9780547247908 | Mariner Books, June 30, 2012, cover price $14.95

Just My Type Exclusive

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9781781250747 | Profile Books Ltd, October 21, 2010, cover price $84.15

Mini: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car

Product Description: In 1959, the first Mini was produced on an assembly line at Cowley, near Oxford. It would take a team of supremely talented designers, engineers and production-line workers to build a car that was unique in appearance and construction...read more

By Simon Garfield

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9780571248117 | Faber & Faber, July 1, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In 1959, the first Mini was produced on an assembly line at Cowley, near Oxford.

Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

Product Description: Born of a laboratory accident, this odd shade of purple revolutionized fashion, industry, and the practice of science. Before 1856, the color in our lives--the reds, blues, and blacks of clothing, paint, and print--came from insects or mollusks, roots or leaves; and dyeing was painstaking and expensive...read more

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9780393020052 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Relates how English chemist William Perkin's accidental discovery of the color mauve--and a method to mass-produce it--created new interest in the industrial applications of chemistry research.

Paperback:

9780393323139 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2002), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Relates how English chemist William Perkin's accidental discovery of the color mauve--and a method to mass-produce it--created new interest in the industrial applications of chemistry research.

Prebinding:

9781435296695 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 1, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Born of a laboratory accident, this odd shade of purple revolutionized fashion, industry, and the practice of science.

Private Battles: How The War Almost Defeated Us

Combines the diaries of four ordinary people - Maggie Joy Blunt, Pam Ashford, Edward Stebbing, and Ernest Van Someren - as they struggle to cope with the day-to-day reality of life during the Second World War. This is the true story of how the ordinary people of Britain won the Second World War.

By Simon Garfield

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9780091910778 | Ebury Pr, September 6, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Combines the diaries of four ordinary people - Maggie Joy Blunt, Pam Ashford, Edward Stebbing, and Ernest Van Someren - as they struggle to cope with the day-to-day reality of life during the Second World War.

We Are at War: The Remarkable Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

Interweaves five ordinary lives to give an account about the Second World War. These personal diaries, composed by those who lived through it, gives an account from beginning in the weeks before the war, and ending a year later with the Battle of Britain, and tells the story of the 'phoney war' on the home front.

By Simon Garfield

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9780091903862 | Ebury Pr, April 1, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Interweaves five ordinary lives to give an account about the Second World War.

We Are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

Presents the personal diaries composed by those who lived through it. Beginning in the weeks before the war, and ending a year later with the Battle of Britain, this book tells the story of the 'phoney war' on the home front. The five ordinary diarists are: Pam Ashford, Tilly Rice, Eileen Potter, Christopher Tomlin, and Maggie Joy Blunt.

By Simon Garfield

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9780091903879 | Ebury Pr, April 1, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presents the personal diaries composed by those who lived through it.

Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries Of Post-War Britain

By Simon Garfield

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9780091897338 | Ebury Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $18.95

Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries Of A Forgotten Britain 1945-1948

Product Description: In 1936, anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives...read more

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9780091896959 | Ebury Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In 1936, anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781856869331 | Gardners Books, September 2, 2004, cover price $19.30 | About this edition: In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project.

Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain

In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives.

By Simon Garfield

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781856869348 | Abridged edition (Gardners Books, September 2, 2004), cover price $23.50 | About this edition: In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project.

The Last Journey of William Huskisson: How a Day of Triumph Became a Day of Despair at the Turn of a Wheel

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the greatest engineering feat of its age. George and Robert Stephenson's 'Rocket' was to become the most famous locomotive in history. William Huskisson was one of the greatest statesmen of his generation. On 15th September 1830, the three met.

By Simon Garfield

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Paperback:

9780571216086 | New edition (Gardners Books, May 19, 2003), cover price $18.80 | About this edition: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the greatest engineering feat of its age.

Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World

Product Description: Mauve is the beguiling story of a man who invented a colour, and in the process transformed the world around him. Before 1856, artificial colour was derived with difficulty and at enormous expense from animals, minerals or plants...read more

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9780756750251 | Reprint edition (Diane Pub Co, September 1, 2001), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Mauve is the beguiling story of a man who invented a colour, and in the process transformed the world around him.

The Nation's Favourite: the True Adventures of Radio 1: The Screamingly Funny Story of How Radio 1 Got from Dave Lee Travis to Zoe Ball

This is an account of a year in the life of BBC Radio 1 during a period when attempts were being made to reverse a trend which had seen the loss of millions of listeners and the departure of leading disc jockeys. The author was allowed behind-the-scenes access, including management meetings.

By Simon Garfield

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Paperback:

9780571197354 | New edition (Gardners Books, July 5, 1999), cover price $9.85 | About this edition: This is an account of a year in the life of BBC Radio 1 during a period when attempts were being made to reverse a trend which had seen the loss of millions of listeners and the departure of leading disc jockeys.

The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1

Product Description: Five years ago, BBC Radio 1 gained a new controller. Matthew Bannister said he was going to reinvent the station, the most popular in Europe. But things didn't go exactly to plan. The station lost millions of listeners. Its most famous DJs left, and their replacements proved to be disasters...read more

By Simon Garfield

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9780571194353 | Faber & Faber, February 1, 1999, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Five years ago, BBC Radio 1 gained a new controller.

Money for Nothing: Greed and Exploitation in the Music Industry

Product Description: Book by Garfield, Simon

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9780571129720 | Faber & Faber, September 1, 1986, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by Garfield, Simon

Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Music Industry

By Simon Garfield

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Hardcover:

9780571137206 | Faber & Faber, June 1, 1986, cover price $12.95

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