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When should you mention a person's family name in a greeting? Should you pay immediately when you are served in a cafe? This guide combines an appreciation of France's rich...

In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school,...

"[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time." -David Remnick In The Shakespeare Wars , Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking...

From the FORGOTTEN REALMS series, a fantasy novel in which a petty criminal who tries to pass himself off as a wizard discovers that he has attracted the attentions of...

Now in paperback, an "unforgettably good book [told] with compassion and sympathy" (Simon Winchester, New York Times ) about an eccentric aviator and the thrilling early days of flight. From...

"Cheaper by The Dozen" meets A Year in Provence in this delightful chronicle of a Southern family (two parents, three kids, and an elderly cat) who moves to a small...

From the age of five, Marcel Marceau knew he wanted to be a silent actor, just like Charlie Chaplin. When World War II intervened, he joined the resistance, helping to...

From the Champs-Elysees to the twinkling banks of la Seine, chic Parisian policewoman Capucine LeTellier plunges into a uniquely Parisian affair of gastronomic delights and bureaucratic intrigue to close a...

'Aims to open the eyes and tug the heartstrings' Independent An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain from Victoria Hislop, the...

This is ostensibly a detective story, about a crime that is committed in 1917, and solved 20 years later. The location is a small town in Northern France. The war...

They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland...

Two seventeen-year-olds are killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. As Detective Inspector John Rebus puts it, 'there's no mystery ...except the why'. But this question...

Entering Normal is the story of an unlikely friendship between two women of different ages and backgrounds whose lives become linked through tragedy. Opal is a single mother with a...

'Find where you belong and make that place your own...' Tanner has spent his whole life moving from place to place, belonging nowhere. So when his dying grandmother reveals the...

The inspiration for seasons one and two of the hit Netflix series Sex/Life One woman's secret journal completely changes her marriage in this hilarious and biting memoir. School psychologists aren't...

Sarah Fortune is bored to death - but few know, and less would guess, how the beautiful and successful redheaded solicitor escapes the stultifying tedium of her career. Since the...

A naked woman in red high-heeled shoes is perched on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge with her back pressed to the safety fence, weeping into a mobile phone. Clinical...

Alisha Barba s dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career...

Following the critically acclaimed and top ten Best Seller The Deadhouse, Linda Fairstein now takes us behind the scenes of some of New York's magnificent and mysterious institutions in her...

Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband, but he always returned, so when they got wind of his plan to hire a...

To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark,...

'Extraordinary. A fabulous read' SIMON SCHAMA 'Wonderful. He writes with eloquence and wit' NICHOLAS HYTNER 'Fascinating' EIMEAR McBRIDE Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors....

Tells the true story of Lady Hester Stanhope, who, at the turn of the 18th-century left her homeland and travelled through Cairo, Jaffa, Damascus, Palmyra. This biography explores the incredible...

Growing up in Canada, Adam quickly realised that he was different from other children, for he had an extraordinary gift. He could look at a person and actually see the...

The oldest keys known to exist date from around 4,000 BC in Ancient Egypt. These were simple wooden cylinders that were part of a mechanism to secure doors. By the...

'These broken pieces were all he had; like keepsakes pulled from the ruins, like photo albums tied to mattresses on the carts of refugees. Fragile traces, dug from the cold...

When David Walker, an Experimental Psychologist, saves one of his pupils from drowning it is the beginning of a brief but passionate affair. Two years later, Helen Costelloe writes to...

How do you reinvigorate an institution that prides itself on preserving two thousand years of history? That is the challenge Jorge Mario Bergoglio faced when he became Pope Francis in...

For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same. The greatness of the former added to the influence of the latter, and vice versa. French...

The book titled Romantic Image by the author Frank Kermode. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Imagine a former French major getting vocabulary tips from her young children! That was the experience of Kristin Espinasse, an American who fell in love with a Frenchman and moved...

November 1979, the height of Northern Ireland' s Troubles. Kathleen Moran' s son Sean has just been transferred to the hypersecure H-block in Belfast' s notorious Maze prison, where he...

A collection of writing from the world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, including previously unpublished work. The world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, Benny Green was...

The book titled Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by the author Jacki Lyden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled ABC Grandstand Footy Book by the author Kevin Taylor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This title explores the strange story of how a colonial 'gentleman' from New South Wales went to serve in the American Civil War. The reality of slavery, the poverty of...

This is my fantasy. My dream. I have made it come true. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy the terror...this is the way I want to live. Nobody can...

There is so much confusing and conflicting information about the world in which we live that the truth can be impossible to find. The rise of modern scepticism against `fake...

'The Tomb of an Unknown Craftsman is of a treasure hoard from a distinct civilisation. The difference is that it is a civilisation of one. The territory it springs from...

What kind of child murders another child? First published in 1972, The Case of Mary Bell still stirs controversy today and is a work of extraordinary and compassionate journalism. In...

The book titled Mosquito Squadrons of the Royal Air Force by the author Chaz Bowyer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Arnold Wienolt - MP, lion hunter and intelligence agent - was a larger-than-life action hero whose eccentricities were legendary. He once hired a circus tent when campaigning for parliament and...

Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza's Religion , she sets out a bold...

A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with...

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dimitri Shostakovich drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. Using much material never previously published in...

This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was...

Having witnessed the brutal massacre of her entire family by Hutu men, Frida received a blow to the head that was intended to kill. She was then buried alongside her...

Growing up in the southern Australian countryside in Lal Lal, Claire Ashman knew there was something different about her strict Catholic upbringing. Largely isolated from the outside world, Claire and...