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  • Dear Lupin

    by Roger Mortimer, Charlie Mortimer, Michael Simkins ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Michael Simkins' immensely charming stage adaptation of Dear Lupin, the witty and touching collection of letters from a father to his son that became a huge bestseller, winner of The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year.Roger Mortimer's hilarious, touching, and always generous letters to his son, Charlie, are packed with crisp anecdotes and sharp observations. Spanning twenty-five years, their ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detour de France

    An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education

    by Michael Simkins ...
    Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her teenage years as a nanny on a boat moored at Cannes, his utter lack of travel experience (Weymouth, Cleethorpes and a day trip to Dieppe) still has the power to shock people into leaving dinner parties ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • What's My Motivation?

    by Michael Simkins ...
    As a boy, Michael Simkins always wanted to be someone. While his friends were out getting laid and stoned, he was tucked up at home dreaming of his name in lights, of holding an audience rapt, of perhaps becoming a TV heart-throb, or having someone, anyone, ask for his autograph in the supermarket. This is the true story of an obsessive pursuit of acting fame. It is a life marked by occasional ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Last Flannelled Fool

    My small part in English cricket's demise and its large part in mine

    by Michael Simkins ...
    Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer - passionate, obsessive, technically inept, and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out of an entire season, not only might it spell the end of his long career, he is faced more immediately with a summer aimlessly wandering garden centres and listening to The Archers.He decides instead to set off on an odyssey across the counties of England ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Fatty Batter

    How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)

    by Michael Simkins ...
    A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Roman Army from Hadrian to Constantine

    by Michael Simkins ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The year AD 122 was the first time a Roman Emperor had set foot in the Province of Britannia since the invasion in AD 43.No doubt he had read many reports concerning the damage caused by marauding tribesmen crossing from what is now Scotland into the Province. Hadrian, therefore, decided - in the words of his biographer - 'to build a wall to separate the Romans from the Barbarians'.This engaging ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Mr Todd's Reckoning

    by Iain Maitland ...
    Narrated by Michael Simkins ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    Behind the normal door of a normal house, in a normal street, two men are slowly driving each other insane. One of them is a psychopath. The father: Mr Todd is at his wits end. He's been robbed of his job as a tax inspector and is now stuck at home . . . with him. Frustrated. Lonely. Angry. Really angry. The son: Adrian has no job, no friends. He is at home all day, obsessively chopping vegetables ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Dear Michael, Love Dad

    Letters, laughter and all the things we leave unsaid.

    by Iain Maitland ...
    Narrated by Michael Simkins ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    Letters, Laughter and all the things we leave unsaid...'wonderful, moving, humorous... extremely poignant' Charlie Mortimer, Dear LupinDear Michael,Moving your whatnots et al into the flat has put paid to any improvements in my back. Still, at least it's done now.Your mother is already worrying how you'll cope and is at work on reams of notes on all sorts of matters from how to tell if meat has ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The definitive history of every Roman legion

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  • De re militari

    The Art of War in Ancient Rome

    by Vegetius ...
    Translated by John Clarke ...
    In "De re militari," Vegetius offers a comprehensive examination of military strategy and tactics, presenting a detailed guide for Roman military practices that resonates through the ages. Written in a clear and systematic style, the treatise emphasizes the importance of discipline, training, and the moral character of soldiers. Vegetius deftly amalgamates historical examples with poignant ... Read more

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  • The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army

    by G. L. Cheesman ...
    A clazzic work of military history, this was the first systematic study of the auxiliary soldiers who fought alongside the Roman legions. Using evidence ranging from their gravestones to the discharge papers that eventually granted them citizenship, Cheesman traces the evolution of the “barbarian” auxiliaries, from ad-hoc local levies to highly specialized units that became a vital component of ... Read more

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  • Roman Centurions 31 BC–AD 500

    The Classical and Late Empire

    by Dr Raffaele D’Amato ...
    Series Book 479 - Men-at-Arms
    In the years between 31 BC and AD 500 the Romans carved out a mighty empire stretching from Britain to the deserts of North Africa.The men who spearheaded this expansion were the centurions, the tough, professional warriors who led from the front, exerted savage discipline and provided a role model for the legionaries under their command. This book, the second volume of a two-part study, reveals ... Read more

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