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 to up-and-coming new writers. Check out the signatures of these favourite authors - such as Michael Palin, Sara Wheeler and John Simpson, and photographer Jonathan Scott. 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…

The exceptional BBC foreign correspondent John Simpson has signed copies of his books A Mad World, My Masters, Days from a Different World, News from No Man's Land, Strange Places, Questionable People and The Wars Against Saddam.

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Michael Palin has signed a selection of his titles for use, including favourites such as Pole to Pole, and Halfway to Hollywood Diaries 1980-1988.

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In The Magnetic North Sara Wheeler documents her journeys around the Arctic regions of the globe. The book is the product of two years of smaller trips that add up to a circular, anticlockwise voyage around the top of the inhabited world: from Siberia to Alaska, to Canada, to Greenland, to Spitsbergen, to Lapland and back to Russia, to the White Sea.

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The Magnetic North
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Alexander McCall Smith has signed copies of his brilliant novels, The Ladies No.1 Detective Agency series titles 1–10, Corduroy Mansions and The Lost Art of Gratitude.

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Dan Cruickshank retells how the wages of sin (the sex trade) shaped the capital. In a wide ranging approach, Cruikshank examines the nature of the sex trade and the sort of people who became involved in it. He looks at the ways in which it shaped the building of Georgian London, both the smart new streets and the squalid alleys.

The Secret History of Georgian London
£25.00 Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days

A personal history of Germans ancient and modern, and a map of the obsession that Simon Winder has nurtured through many years of visiting the country. Winder is an enthusiastic guide to the mesmerising, hidden wonders of Germany: its cuisine, its architecture, its fairytale landscape, its history, its folklore, its monarchs and its frequently changing borders.

Germania
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The Full Montezuma follows Peter Moore’s trip around Central America with the GND (Girl Next Door). Swahili for the Broken Hearted sees Peter following the fabled Cape Town to Cairo route across Africa, after being dumped by the GND. Then a severe case of hippie envy impelled Peter to travel The Wrong Way Home from London to Sydney, without setting foot in an aeroplane.

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Renowned wildlife photographer Jonathan Scott has signed copies of Antarctica - Exploring a Fragile Eden. An awesome book reflecting the heart of one of the harshest landscapes on earth. A journey to Antarctica changes your life; it forces you to take a long hard look at the state of our planet and its last wild place.

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Antarctica - Exploring a Fragile Eden
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Andrew Lambert re-examines the life of Franklin with his customary brilliance and authority, and discovers a character far more complex, and more truly heroic, than previous histories have allowed.

Franklin
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The Middle Sea is John Julius Norwich’s bestselling, comprehensive history of the Mediterranean. While The Great Cities in History is a generously illustrated, coffee-table reference book, featuring essays by over fifty distinguished authors and edited by Norwich.

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen - An Expedition Round My Family follows Sir Ranulph Fiennes on his most personal voyage yet - a journey into the colourful characters of his family’s past. Not only have the family lived in the same building for twenty one successive generations, over six hundred years, they have often been present at decisive moments of British history.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen
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Psycho Vertical is Andy Kirkpatrick’s award-winning biography, which won him the Boardman Tasker Prize of 2008. Having already earned a reputation as an accomplished mountaineer and big-wall climber, he took on a thirteen-day ascent of Reticent Wall on California’s El Capitan (the hardest big-wall climb ever soloed by a Briton), a climb around which he has decided to frame this, his autobiography.

Psycho Vertical
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Cracking the Wine Code is a starting point for any curious but frustrated wine drinker; offering solutions to the questions you have always felt a little too abashed to admit you wanted to ask. Lavinia Brown makes a point of empowering wine lovers to stand on their own two vinous feet and ending the days of the floundering saying ‘I don’t know much about wine but I know what I like!’

Cracking the Wine Code
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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
£100.00 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Tout Sweet is Karen Wheeler’s tale of how she hung up her high heels and headed for a new life in France. In her mid-thirties Karen, fashion editor for the Mail on Sunday, seemed to have it all, but the end of a relationship was her cue for a rain check on life. She decided to wave goodbye to the glamorous city lifestyle and the array of gorgeous shoes that went with it, and to go it alone in a run-down house in rural Poitou-Charentes, in central western France.

Tout Sweet
£7.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

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