Michael Tanner was born and educated in Oxford. After attending Littlemore Grammar School, he went up to St. Edmund Hall, where in addition to taking his degree, he represented the university numerous times on the rugby field. He was a schoolmaster for eighteen years prior to becoming a critically acclaimed and award-nominated author specializing in sport. Besides contributing features across the print media, he has worked for radio and television.
27 Ebooks by Michael Tanner
Michael Tanner: Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner
Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact, …
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€10.04
Michael Tanner: The Oxford Murder
The Oxford Murder that gripped the country in 1931 would grace any episode of Inspector Morse. Yet it was horrifically real. Annie Kempson was a defenceless widow bludgeoned and stabbed to death in …
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€5.49
Michael Tanner: Red Hand
Britons watched the opening months of 1913 unfold with a sense of foreboding.
On the continent, they saw a brutal conflict in the Balkans increase the prospect of a war engulfing the whole of …
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€5.49
Michael Tanner: The Demon
The finest jockey rider on the English turf during the nineteenth century was George Fordhamlauded throughout the sport as the Demon.
Such was the judgment of his contemporaries from jockeys and …
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€5.49
Michael Tanner: From Pow Camp to Oxford University
This is the story of how a boy from a disadvantaged background on the outskirts of Oxford overcame all obstacles through an alliance of self-belief and inspirational grammar school teachers to fight …
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€5.49
Michael Tanner: Family Legacy Journal
The Family Legacy Journal is the journal that will build the family legacy parents dream of in just ten minutes each day. Most families are caught up in a whirlwind of busyness that leaves them …
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€18.70
Michael Tanner: Troubled Epic
Ryan's Daughter, winner of two Oscars, was a very successful film that lured Michael Tanner to the Dingle Peninsula. He researched this story by focusing on identifying locations and …
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€8.39
Michael Tanner: Wagner
‘A fine, intellectually sparkling and always engaging little book – a welcome addition to any Wagner library’Hans Vaget, Opera Quarterly Whilst no one would dispute Wagner’s ranking among the most …
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€7.79
Michael Tanner: Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an …
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€9.41
Bernard Williams: On Opera
Bernard Williams, who died in 2003, was one of the most influential moral philosophers of his generation. A lifelong opera lover, his articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the …
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€29.94
Michael Tanner: Black Bridge
What does it take to kill your fellow man?The horrors of World War One yield the answer for one troubled young man from Littlemore who finds himself at war on two fronts: at home and in the trenches …
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€4.52
Michael Tanner: Great Philosophers:Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860Western philosophy’s most profound and unrelenting pessimist, Schopenhauer hymned the miseries of human existence with a joylessness that was little short of lyrical. Yet he …
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€0.99
Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
‘One of the greatest books of a very great thinker’ Michael Tanner Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche’s position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects …
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€8.49
Friedrich Nietzsche: Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols is a ‘grand declaration of war’ on reason, …
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€8.49
Friedrich Nietzsche: Ecce Homo
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of …
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€8.49
Patrick Dennis: Darling!
Als sein Vater stirbt, soll der zehnjährige Patrick Dennis in die Obhut seiner Tante Mame gegeben werden. So hat der Vater es im Testament verfügt. Aber Tante Mame ist keine typische Tante. Sie ist …
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€14.99
Friedrich Nietzsche: Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche’s first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life This landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche’s enthusiasms for Greek …
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€8.49
Abed Gheith & Rashad Gheith: Orcs in Space Vol. 1
Get ready to ha-lorp! Gor, Kravis, and Mongtar are just three Orcs trying to survive while on the run from everything and everyone on their homeworld. When the naive bureaucrats from Star Bleep land …
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€20.11
Abed Gheith & Rashad Gheith: Orcs in Space Vol. 2
Mayhem ensues! Volume 2 of Justin Roiland’s hilarious series Orcs in Space finds Gor, Kravis, and Mongtar making new allies and enemies across the greater Galactigon. With the help of an increasingly …
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€20.03
Abed Gheith & Rashad Gheith: Orcs in Space
After narrowly escaping the wrath of Fuzzitron Supreme, D.O.N.A. leads the orcs to the junk-filled lair of her eccentric creator, Doctor Smedley. What was his original sinister purpose for her? And, …
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€4.96
Abed Gheith & Rashad Gheith: Orcs in Space
Holy Krumholla, Mongtar, Kravis, and Gor face-off with Dr. Smedley, now known as Smedlar the Planet-Basher, Asteroid-Kicker, and Scourge of the Cosmos! Who will come to the aid of our fugitive …
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€4.96
Abed Gheith & Rashad Gheith: Orcs in Space #9
After narrowly escaping the metal clutches of Smedlar the Planet-Basher, the orcs, Pepperfoot, and D.O.N.A. land on the orcs’ home planet, Muckball! The only thing is…no one likes them there …
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€4.98
Abed Gheith & Rashad Gheith: Orcs in Space #10
As the enemy fleet surrounds the orc homeworld, evil Lt. Rando gets a sobering reminder of his wastrel punk-rock past and how he came to be a Star Bleep drone. Meanwhile, it’s mayhem down on Muckball …
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€5.02
Michael Tanner: The Suffragette Derby
On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250, 000 people thronging Epsom Downs …
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€16.99
Michael Tanner: Orcs in Space Vol. 3
The mayhem-packed finale! The Aarken crew lands on the orc homeworld, Muckball, for the opposite of a hero’s welcome. These outcasts now must outsmart rude beasts and escape a gauntlet of foes before …
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€22.36
