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Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on...

Introducing the characters of Enid Blyton's much loved Secret Seven to a young audience with these fun new adventures, especially written for children beginning to read. Each story is accompanied...

In this story, Josh and Grandpa happily exchange letters and are looking forward to Grandpa visiting. Then Grandpa has to go to hospital, and Josh visits him instead... and brings...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...

With over 14,000 translations, including everyday idioms and expressions, ESSENTIAL HINDI DICTIONARY is the perfect tool to support your Hindi learning. This new edition is fully updated with a guide...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step...

If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's, Graham Greene declared, I do not believe it would be possible, with any conviction, to argue that...

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Russian spies, Spanish fascists, and Hemingway sipping mojitos in Madrid. Somewhere between the genres of biography and historical fiction lies Stephen Koch's new book, The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos,...

With over 14,000 translations, including everyday idioms and expressions, ESSENTIAL HINDI DICTIONARY is the perfect tool to support your Hindi learning. This new edition is fully updated with a guide...

The Salamander Oasis Trust was founded in 1976 from among those who served in the Middle East during the Second World War, and took part in compiling the original Oasis...

In a completely thoroughly edition of 'An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage' - an established favourite among teachers - Geoffrey leech and his colleagues provide teachers and learners of...

An impressionistic study of Bruce Chatwin's life and work by one of his friends. It is not a biography, but a collection of Clapp's own memories of Chatwin and those...

The world's leading dictionary that teaches students how to use English.

Conventionally, a cockney is anyone born 'within the sound of Bow Bells' (St Mary-le-Bow church, in London), but rather than fixating on Dirty Den from Eastenders, Dickensian villains or Pearly...

Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers...

Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures - delivered...

The book titled Proclaimed in Blood: True Crimes Solved by Forensic Scientists by the author Hugh Miller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled The King of Inventors: Life of Wilkie Collins by the author Catherine Peters. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford by the author Nancy Mitford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send...

`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular,...

The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in...

John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...

This updated edition of the Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary features over 4,000 entries in alphabetical order, new illustrations and photographs in a contemporary and easy-to-use design. Entries are simple and...

With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...

This book features introductions by Dr. Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.). 'I have tried with an almost filial regard to render the vibration of life in...

Authored by one of the country's leading curmudgeons, the deluxe edition of "The Dictionary of Disagreeable English" provides 50 percent more content than the popular original, as well as a...

During the 1950s and 1960s, W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman spent their summers on Ischia in the Gulf of Naples, at a time when the island had not yet been...

This cultural history extends to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological and emotional dimensions of the primary colours. Using poetry, song, fable, opinion, literary criticism,...

Concentrating on the words which cause most difficulty for the average English user, this dictionary provides clear, concise definitions with the emphasis on problem points - spelling, pronunciation, disputed usage...

The book titled Byron: A Portrait by the author Leslie A. Marchand. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A revised and updated edition of one of the most successful guides to writing ever published (one million copies sold). A Classic in its Field, On Writing Well is the...

A father on trial for murder. A son whose world is falling apart. The No.1 New York Times bestselling final volume of the ground-breaking Natchez Burning Trilogy by Greg Iles....

Celebrate brilliant bugs from around the world: Meet the world's most impressive insects, from the strongest (the Goliath beetle that can carry 850 times its own weight) to the longest...

A biography of John Burroughs, a nature writer of such popularity and influence that he counted among his friends not only the nature poet Walt Whitman, but President Teddy Roosevelt,...

Award-winning author Judy Allen has had a lifelong interest in the natural world. As a child, she compiled a notebook of writings on the subject that interested or moved her...

"Oh I DID want to be happy as a woman. But I'm a monster and must accept being one. Not all writers are monsters. But my kind is." Antonia White...

Author of the celebrated and hilarious THE DUD AVOCADO, the classic novel about a young American ingenue in Paris, Elaine Dundy was born in New York in the 1930s. Her...

His review has got to be 'in' by mid-day tomorrow ... at about 9 pm his mind will grow relatively clear, and until the small hours he will sit ......

A conscientious objector during World War 1, Basil Bunting worked for British Intelligence during World War 2 but his real forte was writing poetry. In 1994 Oxford University Press published...

The rich colours and lyrical words make this the perfect book to add to a bedtime routine. Acclaimed mother-and-son team Sally Morgan and Ezekiel Kwaymullina take readers on a journey...

He was Russia's greatest playwright. She was the leading actress in Stanislavski's legendary Moscow Art Theatre. Together they created some of the most memorable women ever to grace the stage:...

This is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's "Old...

There seems to be a continuing theme in English literature on the freedom of beggars and highwaymen. Beggars and highwaymen pride themselves on their relative honesty, using a rhetoric of...