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The book titled Best of Friends: Letters by the author Gerald Brenan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Volume two of the acclaimed Oxford translation of Aristotle's works-now fully revised and expanded Originally published in twelve volumes between 1912 and 1954, the Oxford translation of Aristotle is universally...

The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on...

The book titled IT All Adds up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The idea for Ian Hamilton's unorthodox new book was sparked by a rereading of Samuel Johnson's classic "Lives of the English Poets". Johnson included appraisals of 52 poets, but of...

Award winning journalist Colette Rossnt's charming memoir of growing up in French colonial Egypt filled with her favourite recipes.

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to contemporary Russia by examining its past. This second edition includes new material and expands sections dealing with the late...

This book takes as its focus the response of the English intelligentsia to the new, and supposedly threatening, phenomenon of mass culture. It shows how the attitudes of disdain and...

Who invented the rotary clothesline, the lawn-mower and the fibreglass swimming pool? Why are our back gardens today so different from those of our grandparents? And whatever happened to the...

Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated. Born in China to missionary parents, Luce was a kind of lay preacher, anxious to mold the American mind...

American Visions of Europe sets three learned and elegantly written portraits against the background of the dramatic events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century. John Lamberton Harper's careful...

Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a 'class' society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions which underpinned this mission,...

While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works....

The book titled Pleasure of Ruins by the author Rose Macaulay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

'Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace', writes Hans Richter, the artist and film-maker closely associated with this radical movement from its earliest...

Accompanying the exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield from 22 June to 3 November 2024, this is the first major monograph on sculptor Ronald Moody, exploring his legacy and impact through...

'A thrilling insight into one of the 20th century's great artists. Agar's exuberant and colourful life and work come alive in this book' Katy Hessel 'A vivid panorama of an...

A revised edition of a compelling photographic history of Queen Elizabeth II's life and reign This book is a photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, from her first official photograph...

The essential illustrated guide to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome, vividly retelling their stories and exploring their origins. Who were the gods and goddesses of ancient...

The book titled The Fisher King by the author Anthony Powell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

In ancient Greece, from the sixth century onwards legilation was introduced in Athens and a number of the more advanced city states which was specifically aimed at the restriction of...

A vivid account of the people and places that inspired so much of Spark's work--Edinburgh of the 1920s; her Jewish father; her Presbyterian, English mother; and of course the original...

This is a biography of one of the last of the ideological spies, belonging to the important group the author calls "the Cambridge Comintern". Robert Cecil, a close acquaintance of...

'Fierce and fascinating. This is the story Red Sonja has always deserved. Unmissable' FELICIA DAY 'An epic debut novel from one of the most entertaining writers on the planet' TOM...

'Funny and astute, Lewis has a keen eye for both the echoing loneliness and transcendent moments of connection in our increasingly atomised lives.' Marie Claire What happens when you reach...

*A book of the year in the Daily Mail and the New Statesman * *A 5 under 35 honoree* 'Hypnotic' Financial Times 'Captivating ' Daily Mail 'Visionary' Chris Kraus Avery...

An unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales, celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude 'An extra ordinary selection...

This play, a specified text for Revised Higher English, is the story of three women in war-torn Belfast. Although their men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities,...

Patrick French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private papers and his personal recollections. With great feeling for Naipaul's formidable body of work, he has produced a luminous...

Set after the end of the world, this darkly fantastical climate change tale explores hope, memory, and what really makes a monster. Climate change culminated in the Flood, an enormous...

From the bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm comes a dark and hilarious tale of the Weirdie triplets-three VERY weird siblings-and their journey to find true family, perfect for fans...

A thoughtful guide to navigating transition and impermanence rooted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of bardo In a world where nothing lasts forever, how do we live? Life is perpetually,...

The legendary "Oxford English Dictionary" today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the "OED"...

The acclaimed Proust biographer William Carter portrays Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about...

The book titled Conspiracy of Silence: Secret Life of Anthony Blunt by the author Barrie Penrose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

In Albania, under the long dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, each Albanian citizen had a biografi - literally an account of their suitability as good socialists which was registered by the...

The book titled A View from the Diners Club by the author Gore Vidal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

21 essays on classic writers are included in this book. Essays on Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Saul Bellow, Edith Wharton, J.M. Coetzee, Primo Levi, Italo Calvino,...

This collection includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favourites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particular feature of the book is the...

A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century...

The book titled Centuries of Childhood by the author Philippe Aries. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The Mitrokhin Archive II reveals for the first time the full extent of the KGB's global penetration, exposing its operations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. For...

The book titled The War Against the Jews 1933-45 by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled India: A Million Mutinies Now by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled Lord's and Commons: Cricket in Novels and Stories by the author John Bright-Holmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

In the 2000 years since Cleopatra's death she has been recreated over and over again, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that...

A brilliant collection of conversations and essays about writers and writing from Philip Roth, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016 Philip Roth is the voice of our...