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This is the second book by new author Elenor Gill, and follows her first book In the Shadow of Trees, published in May 2006. Set in the UK, the story...

Jagose's prose is sophisticated and descriptive, a litany, in places, of words put together exquisitely and often unexpectedly. ELIZABETH JOLLEY, THE AGE 'And not just any chimpanzee, which would have...

Alexander Otto has it all - eminence as a surgeon, admiring colleagues, a loving family. Yet from the opening lines of this modern tragedy, he is a man on the...

Shortlisted, Australian/Vogel Literary Award 1994 Shortlisted, Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award 1998 Friendship and fidelity intertwine these intriguing, yet deceptively simple novellas, Bombora and The Chiming of Light. Set against a...

Since her death, Marilyn Monroe has been the subject of some 600 books, scores of which claim to be biographies, and all of which promise to uncover the real Marilyn....

Now that communism has officially lost its ideological battle with capitalism it's time for the winners to rewrite history. In Eastern Europe, people are even beginning to look back at...

Slang is an integral part of the English language and has been so for the best part of 200 years. The most popular belief is that it began as a...

Slang is an integral part of the English language and has been so for the best part of 200 years. The most popular belief is that it began as a...

In this haunting book, eminent psychiatrist Peter Dally explores the darker side of Virginia Woolf. Brin ging together his knowledge as a doctor and his fascination, he sheds light on...

The book titled GENIUS AND LUST THE CREATIVE AND by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate...

THE FINAL VOLUME IN THE TRILOGY.LATA FINALLY MAKES HER DECISION & THE WHOLE ENDSAS IT STARTED WITH A WEDDING.

THE SECOND PART OF THE LATA SAGA- WILL SHE CHOOSE AMIDST THE TURMOIL OF HER COUNTRY ENTERING A NEW ERA AFTER PARTITION.HER SISTER SAVITA DIVERTS MRS MEHRA'S ATTENTION BY GIVING...

Did your sweetie money stretch to Spangles and sherbet dips? Did you beg you parents for a chopper bike or a frisbee? This collection of reminiscences, original advertisments and personal...

This is a guide to the authentic London pub. From river pubs to theatre pubs, Victorian gin palaces to medieval coaching houses, the pubs in the book have been chosen...

Following the end of the First World War Richard Hannay, the hero of John Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle" and "Mr Standfast", has retired to the Cotswolds with his wife...

Victoria Wood is still an extraordinarily popular star in the UK. This biography is a warts-and-all portrait of a star who is much more complex than she has shown herself...

In the second half of the fourth century BC, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great created the largest empire the world has ever known. On 11 June 323 BC, in...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book invites readers to explore the nature of qualitative research, and...

Seven years after their unprecedented arrival in the UK, The Kings of Leon are finally making a name for themselves overseas. This biography of Kings of Leon presents their history.

The double-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter with the shocking pink hair has now been a regular fixture on the world's charts since 2000, hitting the heights with the searing autobiographical pop/rock of "Missundaztood"....

The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience (satyagraha), honoured in India as 'father of nation', Mohandas K....

Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers; but where does the myth...

Five adventures, all featuring the perennially popular Albert Campion, prefaced by the author's affectionate profile of this mercurial character.

Jane and Petra have been together for six years and after deciding to have a child, they move to Petra's hometown, Berlin. But things do not quite go according to...

This wry look at the world of the golfer includes sections on why golfers shout 'fore!', what is wrong with crazy golf? and why albatrosses are so sought after.

One Day- Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. Watching,...

Tommy Cooper's Book of Mirth, Magic and Mischief takes us back into the hilarious world of the master. In this volume not only do we revisit Tommy's personal joke collection...

A masterpiece of narrative reporting and an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump's wealth, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters - revealing how a man once thought to be...

An ingenious, heretical and timely argument to save democracy from elections Whenever there are elections, the results are the same- fear-mongering, division and broken promises. Against Elections offers a new...

It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence...

The book titled Heart Song by the author Virginia Andrews. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This work traces the story of the Swedish supergroup ABBA through their songs, from their world-conquering '70s' disco beginnings, with modern classics such as 'Voulez-Vous' and 'Chiquitita' through to the...

It is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island, working a small, and failing, plantation. He should never have told anyone about his...

As president of Czechoslovakia and of the nascent Czech Republic. Have led central Europe out of communism and into the twenty-first century before stepping down in 2003. In this illuminating...

The Grosvenor Hotel on London's Park Lane is one of the world's premier five-star hotels. In 'Celebrity Hotel', Neil Kirby, a former general manager of the hotel, looks back on...

In the current financial crisis Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have...

This is the definitive book of rock 'n' roll, pop, R&B and blues' deaths. From Johnny Ace to Frank Zappa, every famous name is included, along with dates, the details...

Countless cities have risen and fallen over the past 10,000 years of urban history. Some were true metropolises, capitals that governed entire empires and inspired awe and wonder as the...

In 2006, the "Guardian's" much-loved Country Diary column is a hundred years old, and to commemorate the anniversary Martin Wainwright has compiled a collection of the best of a century's...

Sammy Davis, Jr was one of the most recognisable showbiz entertainers of the twentieth century: dancer, singer, hyperactive cabaret performer, film star and hard-drinking, high-living bad-boy member of Las Vegas's...

Useless information - we can't get enough of it. Everywhere you look these days, there is a new book of trivia, a new web page, a new column in the...

The e-mail home is an essential part of every gap-year back-packers journey. Where once the news of a fresh tattoo, the purchase of a gold Mercedes or a village chief's...

A New York bar bouncer with dreams of being more, Tommy Russo jumps at the chance to join a horse-owning syndicate. But to do so he'll have to pony up...

The phenomenal worldwide success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has led to enormous interest in the many mysteries - some genuine, some fictional or altered through 'author's licence'...

The 1950s - Liberty bodices, suspender belts, little blue waxed paper twists of salt in packets of crisps, black Bakelite phones, and Ford Populars, Sooty puppets and Meccano sets. The...