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Shot with Crimson: An evocative murder mystery plays out on the set of
'Brilliant.' The Times 'One of Upson's most evocative novels.' Guardian September 1939: The worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and
A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions...
The Deadly Weed
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The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action when a local tobacco factory burns down and fingers are pointed at one of her ex pupils... 1920s. Cork, Ireland. Early...
Miss Aldridge Regrets
'A brilliant murder mystery with shades of Agatha Christie and The Great Gatsby . . . a glamorous and fun read' Reader review 'Louise Hare does it again - fabulous!...
Virginia Woolf
This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or...
Stalin's Russia
Stalinism is one of the most contentious political issues of the 20th century. Historical enquiry has in part benefited from, in part suffered from this. Controversy has stimulated research into...
Street Haunting
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. 'The hour should be evening and...
Ivan Bunin: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs: Vol 3: The
In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...
Letters Home
Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living
Ulysses continues to be one of the central books of the twentieth century and this is an audacious new take on it. It was never meant to be an abstruse...
D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912-1922: The Cambridge Biography of
This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and...
Paul Scott's Raj
The book titled Paul Scott's Raj by the author Robin Moore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive
Was Lenin a visionary whose ideals were subverted by his followers? Or was he a cynical misanthrope, even crueler than Stalin? This book, which contains documents from the Lenin archive...
A Question of Character: John F. Kennedy in Image and Reality
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Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End
After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers...
W. B. Yeats: A Life Vol.2: II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939
The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The...
Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920's
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The book titled Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920's by the author Humphrey Carpenter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Vanished Kingdoms
In the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers, a remarkable young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband, Frederick Wulsin, for the far reaches of...
Henry Handel Richardson Vol 2: 1917-1933
Volume 2 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence will be a major event in Australian scholarly...
James Dean: A Portrait
The book titled James Dean: A Portrait by the author Roy Schatt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Class: Image and Reality: In Britain, France and the USA Since 1930:
Class is an emotive subject, and never more so than today. It is part of the very fabric of our contemporary society and Professor Marwick's major historical study of the...
Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary
Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating...
Hitler
As Chancellor of Germany between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler exercised untrammeled power over his country's social, political and economic life. Hitler's belligerent re-armament program, his imposition of anti-Semitic legislation...
Projekt 1065: a Novel of World War II
A World War II story about a spy in the Hitler Youth. Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, lives with his family in Berlin. But Michael,...
"Gone with the Wind" Letters
The book titled "Gone with the Wind" Letters by the author Margaret Mitchell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
My Left Foot
My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and his determination to learn to read, write, and paint,...
Yesterdays: v. 1: Yesterdays Way We Were, 1919-39
Yesterdays recreates the often overlooked period between the 2 World Wars. From home to work, education to leisure, the blurring of the class-based society and the inventions that came along,...
Copsford
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Walter Murray was a young man tired of living in the city. Early in the 1920s, he persuaded a Sussex farmer to rent him a derelict cottage, which stood alone...
1938: Hitler's Gamble
In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem...
Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio
The book titled Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio by the author Donald I. Warren. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL ' Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND 'Profound, ele giac and fascinating... I zipped through it'...
D is for Death: meet the most entertaining and intriguing new
'A little bit Margery Allingham with hints of Mitford, definite tones of Eva Ibbotson and as delightful as I Capture the Castle , D is for Death is an instant...
Scandalous Women
'Wow. This was an incredible book. I couldn't put it down!' NetGalley reviewer 1966: In London , Jackie Collins 's racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops...
The Good Liars
The Sunday Times bestselling new historical fiction novel: an atmospheric tale of crime, deceit, and murder, set in the early 1920s... 'Ingenious' Sunday Times ' The Good Liars is not...
An Interrupted Life
The book titled An Interrupted Life by the author Donald Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Hitler: Thirty Days to Power
This story re-establishes the importance of individual actors in the unfolding of historical events. Henry Ashby Turner Jr is the author of "German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler"...
Hitler and His Secret Partners: Contributions, Loot and Rewards,
Here, for the first time, is the full story of the financial calculation, exploitation, and greed at the core of the Third Reich, and of an amassed legacy that continues...
An Honourable Defeat: Fight Against National Socialism in Germany,
The book titled An Honourable Defeat: Fight Against National Socialism in Germany, by the author Anton Gill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a...
Tree. Table. Book.
From two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry comes this warm and resonant story of an unlikely friendship, which unfolds as a revelation on how we hold on to-and pass on-what matters...
A Backstage Betrayal: The new novel from the West End legend
THE THEATRE MAY SEEM GLAMOROUS, BUT SECRETS WAIT BEHIND THE CURTAIN 1926. Running a theatre may appear to be all about the showbiz, but times are hard at The Empire....
Mary Martin: a Double Life: Australia - India 1915-1973
The book titled Mary Martin: a Double Life: Australia - India 1915-1973 by the author Julie Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era' The Times'A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer' Simon Heffer, TelegraphBritish architecture between the...
Takeover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and...
The Battle of Cable Street
Elsie witnesses the rise of antisemitic fascism in 1930s London in this gripping historical drama from award-winning author Tanya Landman. Life has always been tough on the streets of Stepney,...