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'An endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book' Neil MacGregor 'Full of delights' Tom Stoppard An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the most beguiling history book of the year This...

The siege of Troy is in its ninth year. The Greeks, with Achilles at their head, have inflicted numerous defeats on the Trojans, but Troy itself still stands. When Agamemnon...

Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize What is the shape of Britain? The country's outline, looking a little like a wingless dragon, is instantly recognisable on any map or...

This guide shows the reader how to create an environmentally-friendly garden that will take care of itself. Illustrations provide detailed information on planting and plant nourishment, and simple propagation. There...

The book titled And So We Graft from Six to SI: The Brickmakers of New South Wales by the author Gemmel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Seen | Unseen is a deep, richly illustrated, and erudite analysis of the interconnections between science and the visual arts. Martin Kemp explores the responses of artists, scientists, and their...

When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It...

In the words of Richard Gregory `Here are to be found novel links to art and science, and to mind and brain... These many themes are captured to weave a...

Landscape painting in Australia in the 19th century is important both as an expression of colonists' attitudes to the country they had only recently settled and as a record of...

The Australian Paperback Oxford Thesaurus is the most easy to use Australian thesaurus available for adults - easier to find the word you are looking for, and to use its...

Written by a team of political scientists from Warwick University, this authoritative reference features 1,500 entries that provide international coverage of major political institutions, thinkers and concepts. There are many...

Medieval architecture comprises more than the traditional image of Gothic cathedrals and the castles of chivalry. A great variety of buildings - synagogues, halls, and barns - testifies to the...

The first millennium saw a rich and distinctive artistic tradition form in Europe. While books had long been central to the Christian religious tradition, education, and culture, they now became...

This fascinating exploration of Leonardo's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of one of the world's most celebrated artistic geniuses...

Here is a poetry collection sure to delight and inspire the adventurous traveler and the armchair dreamer alike. As pilgrims, missionaries and explorers, as soldiers, diplomats, merchants and tourists, the...

The daughter of a celebrity must discover who is worthy of her devotion and who is just a fan. It's been twenty years since her mother was photographed, blood-soaked, outside...

A richly detailed account of the little-known cultural and political relationship between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have...

The book titled Gloucestershire: Pt. 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean by the author David Verey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Stretching from the very fringes of London, Berkshire originally covered much of present day Oxfordshire. The variety of architecture is, consequently, broad and remarkable, from the towns of the home...

The Derbyshire Peak District makes a dramatic setting for some of England's finest buildings: the rambling medieval Haddon Hall, the great ducal seat and park at Chatsworth, and the amazing...

Alsace, the smallest of all French regions, is rich in towns and villages crammed with half-timbered houses, splendid churches, old inns and courtyards decked with begonia. Sheltered to the west...

Socrates spent a lifetime analyzing ethical issues, and the "Euthyphro" finds him outside the court-house, still debating the nature of piety with an arrogant acquaintance. "The Apology" is both a...

This book presents the great stories of the heroic age - "Dionysus", "Heracles", "Theseus", "The Quest for the Golden Fleece", and many more.

Scientists have just begun to understand how complexity and organization can emerge from featurelessness and chaos. Is the way the universe is now in some sense predetermined? Is there, in...

The book titled Captain James Cook by the author John Hooker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It...

A fascinating, timely and extremely approachable account of the social and psychological causes for the global obesity epidemic - and how we can overcome it. Our planet is in the...

A new look for the eighth installment in the Commissario Brunetti crime fiction series 'Leon is a skilful plotter . . . Brunetti is a nicely shaded creation, a moral...

From Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Leon comes the eighteenth Brunetti mystery in the series where our police Commissario finds himself chasing the Venetian mafia. 'Super sleuth Brunetti again patrols...

The seventeenth instalment in the bestselling crime series by Silver Dagger winner Donna Leon sees Commissario Brunetti investigate the death of a young girl whose body is found in the...

One of the Roman novels from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series Another engrossing historical mystery bringing Ancient Rome to life in all its gruesome glory from the pen of...

A wonderful collection of stories published together with a poignant novella from the internationally renowned author of Hunting and Gathering. I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere explores how...

When Sloane, an unsuccessful painter but a successful forger, is released from prison after taking part in a high-profile art scam, he finds a letter from a woman with whom...

The twenty-year journey, intimately told in his own words and pictures. Ever since a sixteen-year-old boy called Robert Peter Williams joined a boy band and was told his new name,...

The book titled A Five Year Plan by the author Philip Kerr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

SEASIDE HOUSES is a celebration of the casual, relaxed way of life at the seashore, the Sunday picnics, the beach barbeques, the croquet tournaments, the traditions passed down through generations,...

Your search for the right word in Italian is over. Stop hunting blindly through ordinary bilingual dictionaries! With 4,000 words, Must-Know Italian gives you the power to be understood in...

Through a lively blend of memoirs, reminiscences, and modern day adventure, John Baxter (author of The Perfect Meal and Immoveable Feast ) takes us into the heart of Paris during...

A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in...

The book titled Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela by the author Fatima Meer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dark world, he...

A chilling psychological thriller about family - the ties that bind us, and the lies that destroy us. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and I Let...