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When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded to visit the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he has no idea that he will return a week later under...

The War of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their...

Since 1948, the USSR had dominated the World Chess Championships - evidence, Moscow claimed, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But then came Bobby Fischer.A dysfunctional genius, Fischer was...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN 'The voice of young Japan.' INDEPENDENT 'The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.' JAPAN TIMES '[Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.' SPECTATOR An...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN 'Enchanting.' TIME OUT 'The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.' JAPAN TIMES 'Sensitive, refined and graceful.' i-D [Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.'...

The book titled Spider's Web: Bush, Saddam, Thatcher and the Decade of Deceit by the author Alan Friedman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the Amazon jungle. As...

The book titled Place of Birth by the author Beverley Farmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

De la Mare's capacity to both disturb and charm is demonstrated in a compilation of verse from earlier published volumes that chronologically arranges poems dating from 1906 to 1953.

Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective...

The story of D-Day, the turning point in World War 2, has been well documented. But this lavishly illustrated book and accompanying epic TV drama will turn all preconceptions of...

The book titled The Blooding by the author Joseph Wambaugh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Sometimes even the classics need a little updating... The Bantam Classics imprint remains committed to making great literature available, accessible, and affordable for booksellers, librarians, and consumers alike. 50 Great...

The book titled The Art of Howard Terping by the author Elmer Kelton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

There's nothing unusual about the Brockets. Normal, respectable and proud of it, they turn up their noses at anyone different. But from the moment Barnaby Brocket comes into the world,...

Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home back to wherever they came from. And one nome, Masklin,...

A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. r is it? Soon strange...

The sequel to Jigsaw. The world of Frank Pagan, Special Branch's counter-terrorist agent, is being violated. He is being observed and recorded. Pagan is on the trail of Carlotta, a...

The story of the Soong family whose power and wealth have dominated China and American policy towards Asia in the 20th century. It chronicles the family's roots from the middle...

Even the approach to Christmas, 1913, fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur...

A stunning thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Iceberg , Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided is about a girl who must escape to freedom after the...

An epic novel that ties into the newest season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the hit Cartoon Network TV show! Darth Maul--the infamous villain of Star Wars: Episode I...

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously offbeat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe A...

Lively and informative, The World Atlas of Tattoo is a superbly illustrated and compelling reference book that, through examining the meeting point between tattoo artists and their personal understanding of...

The railway was the creation, in some ways the archetypal creation, of the Victorian age. It transformed the whole social and intellectual fabric of Britain, affected Victorian thought and language,...

From the cafe terraces of Saint-Germain-des-Pres to fields of lavender, from Christmas markets in Alsace to carefully tended vineyards, France is a country of a thousand sensations, impressions and memories....

What was it like to be the Pharaoh of Egypt? In this authoritative and entertaining account, eight themed chapters cover all aspects of the life of a pharaoh, from mornings...

While there are plenty of books dealing with chess openings, and no shortage of helpful volumes on the endgame, there are far fewer available on the all-important middle game. And...

These 60 complete games, annotated throughout, emphasize the Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Reti, the best. Here are real games from match...

The landmark bestselling guide----now updated with the latest essential information The third edition of this critically acclaimed guide leads you through the realities of caring for a loved one struggling...

The standard in the field, updated and revised for today's complex mechatronic systems More than ever before, engineers are responsible for the total system design of the products they create....

Understand the next level of marketing The new model for marketing- Marketing 3.0 -treats customers not as mere consumers but as the complex, multi-dimensional human beings that they are. Customers,...

In Moscow Rules Gabriel Allon went up against the sadisitc Ivan Kharkov. Now he must outsmart him once and for all in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Daniel...

"Totally compelling...fsacinating....Sweeps the reader along...Jane Smiley is a true storyteller." THE WASHINGTON POST A magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland, here is a rich and fascinating detail about the day-to-day lives--the...

A contemporary selection of 22 African women's shortstories that vividly portray the everyday concerns of women's lives. The stories, divided into sections from north, south, east and west, cover such...

The book titled The Courtneys: "When the Lion Feeds", "Sound of Thunder" and "Sparrow by the author Wilbur Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

**DRAFT blurb only** f all games of strategy, chess is the queen. Not even bridge has quite the kudos attached to chess; it is no coincidence that one of the...

In the terrible wake of Hurricane Katrina, scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand has her hands full getting Memory Mine back in business- and her relationship with her ex-husband, Shamus, back...

The book titled Mary Queen of Scots by the author Antonia Fraser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Chocolate: The Consuming Passion by the author Sandra Boynton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Vox: A Novel by the author Nicholson Baker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Taking a balanced view of major theoretical approaches, including liberalism, Marxism, feminism, and constructivism, Mingst (University of Kentucky) provides analytical tools students need to understand world political affairs at the...

Current news articles and science books give one the distinct impression that the great questions of science have been answered, and we have reached the "end of science": the great...