Signed books

Many admired authors, photographers and journalists visit Stanfords to sign their latest books, which means we always have an exciting collection of autographed copies available - from big names such as Colin Thubron and John Simpson, to up-and-coming new writers like Charlie Connelly and Jason Webster. So if you’re looking for books with that extra special touch, hurry as these sell fast, and keep an eye on this page for the update on signed copies…

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Race to the Pole by James Cracknell and Ben Fogle is the story of a very British adventure: the first race to the South Pole since Scott and Amundsen, 100 years ago. Race to the Pole is a rip-roaring 'boy's own' adventure packed with excitement, humour and even a few tears. But with just a few months to learn to cross-country ski before the start, and with national pride at stake, can Ben and James re-write history and beat the Norwegians?

Race to the Pole
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Underground England by Stephen Smith takes an extraordinary and original look at our island nation - from below. Smith quite literally delves into the unknown country underneath ploughed fields, cliff tops and market towns. Underground London explores rudimentary earth dwellings and hidden Cold War cities; sulphurous natural springs and manmade underground waterways; priest holes and subterranean nooks created with more sinister purposes in mind.

Underground England
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Michael Moran gives an insider's view of what was once the largest country in Europe; one that evolved under a succession of brutal invasions, which suffered through the Holocaust and was plunged into communism. This entertaining memoir and meticulously researched cultural journey is a timely celebration of a valiant and richly cultured people, only now returning to the European fold.

A Country in the Moon
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Shah Jahan by Fergus Nicoll is the story of an enlightened despot, a king who dispensed largesse to favoured courtiers but ignored plague in the countryside. Khurram Shah Jahan, a title meaning 'King of the World', ruled the Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1659. His reign marked the cultural zenith of the Mughal dynasty.

Shah Jahan
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Footprints in Paris is a unique and intensely involving book evokes the texture and atmosphere of a hidden Paris which has survived against all the odds of time and chance. Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked this earth before us. Here, using a handful of lives and a specific location to exemplify 200 years of history, she focuses on a few of the oldest streets in Paris’s Latin Quarter.

Footprints in Paris
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Based on his own visits to Syria, in The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool, Marius Kociejowski presents a completely fresh and unexpected face to this mysterious country. The ancient land of Syria remains for many a sinister and forbidding destination, only recently opening up to foreign travellers, and Kociejowski describes a journey that brings him into contact with a host of colourful and unusual characters, each of whom is an outsider of sorts.

The Street Philosopher and The Holy Fool
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This is a romantic, utterly alluring leap into Spanish sunshine, remote mountains and rural life. Jason Webster had lived in Spain for several years before he and his partner, the flamenco dancer Salud, decided to buy a deserted farmhouse clinging to the side of a steep valley in the eastern province of Castellón, near the sacred peak of Penaglosa. With help from local farmers - and from a 12th-century Moorish book on gardening - Jason set about creating his dream.

Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain
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Tequila Oil is an account of Hugh Thomson's first wild adventure in Mexico, which ignited his love for Latin America, and of his subsequent exploration of the country, its people and its history. Tequila Oil reveals a much more dangerous side of Mexico than that seen by the package holiday-makers, taking the reader from the badlands of Chihuahua to the forests of the Yucatan.

Tequila Oil
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Richard Bryant’s London is a fitting tribute to a city with an unparalleled history and capacity to amaze. Boxed, with a signed numbered print and limited edition of 5,000 copies worldwide, containing six amazing gatefolds extending to five feet in length and a foreword by Peter Ackroyd, this is the ultimate love letter to one of the oldest and most magnificent cities in the western world.

London Deluxe
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