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  • The Complete Dangerous Davies

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and outwitting of villainy ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Last Detective

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    Series Book 1 - Dangerous Davies
    A northwest London detective tackles a twenty-five-year-old missing persons case in this comic crime novel.Dangerous Davies, you understand, earned his nickname in the same way that fat men nicknamed "Tiny" earn theirs. But while he may not inspire dread in the hearts of London's bad guys, he is nevertheless on the side of right and good, and has a copper's badge to prove it. True, he is known as ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Virgin Soldiers

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    'It rained a lot and steamed when the sun shone. It was always hot. But it was safe...'One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 1952. They were the virgin soldiers. Idle, homesick, afraid, bored, oversexed and unsatisfied.A young virgin like Brigg had to grab his fun while and where he could - in the Liberty Club, in Juicy Lucy's ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Dearest And The Best

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    In the spring of 1940, the spectre of war turned into grim reality.And on the English home front, men, women and children found themselves swept into a maelstrom of fear and uncertainty while events abroad led inexorably from the debacles of Norway and Dunkirk to the horror and glory of the Battle of Britain.For the Lovatt family - James, seconded on a hush-hush assignment to work with Churchill, ... Read more

    $9.29 USD

  • Germany Player M.P. in Munich

    by Thomas Leslie Donnell ...
    When I got out of Military Police School, I had orders to go to Korea and Vietnam. Just before boarding the ship for Korea they changed my orders and sent me to Germany. I wasn't mad at them. I was a young man and a "player". I am sure almost any young man who was in the server will see some of themselves in this book. I started it in Germany in 1966 and didn't complete it until Jan of 2014. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • In My Wildest Dreams

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist...At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie Thomas's story is straight out of fiction. As an orphan, he picked his way through the rubble of post-war Britain and was sent on national service to the Far East. Later he became a Fleet Street ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Tropic Of Ruislip

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    TROPIC OF RUISLIP is a sage for life on a modern executive housing estate, seething with the fears, snobbereis, frustrations and lusts of well-heeled young couples trundling uneasily towards middle age. ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Dover Beach

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    Summer 1940. The evacuation of Dunkirk proves that the British can rise to a challenge, even against seemingly insurmountable odds. But now the soldiers walk the streets of Dover, even wandering through Woolworths store, and take weary turns on the town's skating rink.Life, despite the threat of invasion and the reality of bombing, must go on and people must take comfort where they find it. Toby ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • My World Of Islands

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    Leslie Thomas's odyssey is a vivid, personal account of the most fascinating islands at the furthest reaches of the globe: to islands as distant and diverse as Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland and Great Barrier Island off New Zealand, and to places more familiar by name, including Nantucket, Fair Isle, Tahiti, and Capri, this journey voyages to the world's smaller places.Descriptive, ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • Running Away

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    Written with the characteristic wit and good humour, Leslie Thomas's novel tells the story of a grown man who runs away from home, and the adventures that befall him in his quest for a new lease of life. His latest love affair discovered (thanks to an observant fifteen-year-old daughter who points out the still-wet suds of expensive soap lingering in his ear), bestselling author Nicholas Boulting ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • Arrivals & Departures

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    Fresh from Los Angeles, Mrs Pearl Collingwood and her daughter Rona arrive in the frenzied no-man's-land of Heathrow airport: from the nearby village of Bedmansworth, Edward Richardson jets in and out of it faster than his marriage can tolerate. Yet precisely where village and airport overlap, there exists a world bubbling with intrigues and assignations, with wit, pathos and excitement, that all ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects

    by Jason Alread, Thomas Leslie, Rob Whitehead ...
    The third edition of Design-Tech provides an indispensable, holistic resource for integrating building technologies into critically designed, performance-based architectural projects. The book’s format follows the developmental stages of a typical architectural project; it provides a step-by-step process for addressing and integrating building sciences from first principles of human comfort, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD