ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

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Bernard Miall Author & Translator

Tolstoy

Romain Rolland - Paperback

£6.00

Cleopatra cover

Cleopatra

Emil Ludwig - Paperback

£17.86

Revival: Conquests and Discoveries of Henry the Navigator: Being the Chronicles of Azurara (1936) cover

Revival: Conquests and Discoveries of Henry the Navigator: Being the Chronicles of Azurara (1936)

2 contributors - Hardback

£190.00

The Wonders of Instinct; Chapters in the Psychology of Insects (Dodo Press) cover

The Wonders of Instinct; Chapters in the Psychology of Insects (Dodo Press)

2 authors - Paperback

£9.99

Pelle the Conqueror cover

Pelle the Conqueror

Martin Andersen Nexo - Paperback

£27.85

Revival: Conquests and Discoveries of Henry the Navigator: Being the Chronicles of Azurara (1936) cover

Revival: Conquests and Discoveries of Henry the Navigator: Being the Chronicles of Azurara (1936)

2 contributors - Paperback

£51.99

The Life Of Jean Henri Fabre, The Entomologist, 1823-1910 cover

The Life Of Jean Henri Fabre, The Entomologist, 1823-1910

Bernard Miall - Paperback

£20.99

The Real Stalin cover

The Real Stalin

Yves Delbars - Paperback

£33.99

The Real Stalin cover

The Real Stalin

Yves Delbars - Hardback

£145.00

The kingdom of the Barotsi, Upper Zambezia cover

The kingdom of the Barotsi, Upper Zambezia

2 authors - Paperback

£30.90

Social Life in the Insect World (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) cover

Social Life in the Insect World (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

2 authors - Paperback

£11.99