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This is a journey both into a time and a place - the South of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The author describes a childhood outside the main currents...

This essential guide to bathrooms offers imaginative design and decorating tips for every home and is filled with easily achievable ideas, styled exclusively for this book.

A wryly told, delightful melange of footloose chronicles by a sometimes anxious wanderer. Maxwell (I Don't Know Why I Swallowed the Fly, 1997) is rather like the rest of us:...

A true story of how a murderer and a serial rapist were put away by the work of a forensic scientist. There are many techniques that have been honed in...

'Tony Barnett is a masterly scientist and communicator. (The two don't always go together.) As a writer and broadcaster, he displays an encyclopedic range of knowledge--incisive, profound, often subversive--with astringent...

The book titled Knowing Otherwise: Feminism, Women and Religion by the author Erin White. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Gunantuna: Aspects of the Person, the Self and the Individual among by the author A.L. Epstein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are legends of half-remembered heroes or people whose lives were changed by magic. Brilliantly retold...

More than 3000 years ago a village was established at Thebes on the west bank of the Nile. Situated amid a barren landscape are housed the workers who created the...

The book titled Virginia Woolf by the author John Mepham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A reissue of Willard Price's classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom. 'You are walking into the jaws of death' Hal and Roger Hunt are on an awesome African...

The book titled Forgotten Soldiers by the author Brian Moynahan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

One of the greatest works of the American West - 'A new American classic.' Time On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne...

As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They...

Fascinated by word play, Leonardo created a series of riddles, cleverly disguised as apocalyptic prophecies and fantasies. The 'solution' to each of these inspired sayings - often simply the image...

The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as the 'eighth wonder of the world', its vast and...

The book titled True War Stories by the author Jon E. Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Washington Square' marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and...

14 months seems like a long time to go out to buy a pint of milk, Gloria thinks as she waits for her husband to return home. She seeks solace...

This is a beautiful guided journal for anyone who shares their life with a dog - and wants to celebrate that bond. Filled with questions and reflections that will help...

In the explosive sequel to Fear the Flames, two fated lovers must unite against warring kingdoms to defend their home and crowns from those who wish to destroy them. Perfect...

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to her former high school teacher, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years...

the unexpected international bestseller. Meet Keiko. She's 36 years old, has never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd...

Break free from the clutches of perfectionism and start loving yourself a little more Do you feel social pressure to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect...

Perfect for fans of Tana French, Jane Casey and Gillian Flynn 'Truly first class. Just knock-out' C. J Tudor, author of The Chalk Man 'Fantastic . . . Compelling, chilling...

The follow-up to Miracle on the 17th Green, this is an inspirational story about talent, perseverance and self-belief An inspiring story of hope, redemption, and trying to hit the ball...

We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic'...

There's a serial killer on the loose. The social network sites all love him. Because he cuts the throats of rich and powerful men. And he's good at it. Twenty...

After eight years working in Japan, immersing herself in its language and literature, Lesley Chan Downer set off in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho, Japan's most cherished poet, to explore...

The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman was a hermit state until 1970, preserving in every detail the poverty, personality and picturesque reality of a medieval kingdom. For forty years, Sultan...

Lewen Weldon was mapping the eastern desert of Egypt when World War I broke out. A fluent Arabic speaker, he was recruited to run a network of spies and confidential...

'I'm leaving Europe! The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. To swim, to trample the grass, to hunt, and of course to smoke; to drink...

When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayocircumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for thevillage in northern Cameroon where he had lived as...

NigelBarley travels to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajanpeople, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate ancestor cults. At lasthe is following his own advice...

Eothen , which means 'news from the east' started out asa few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advicefor his own...

'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years,...

'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin Thubron 'One of the most humane and visionary of all travel...

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian...

Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to get to know the...

There are only a handful of destinations left in the world that have retained their ability to shock the traveller with their unique perspective. These places still awaken a sense...

Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming. Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence,...

Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She developed an acute eye for the way in which isolation has shaped this society, meeting...

Mary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and...

'A warm-hearted and perceptive story that explores the meaning of family and the ties that bind us. I adored the vivid characters in this stand-out novel - young Alfie Bains...

Renee Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit find a DNA link to a serial killer known as the Pillowcase Rapist. But when Ballard and her team move in on their...

Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over. They love to live in urban environments, where it's a short flight path from one type...

WINNER OF THE 2016 DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT 'Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast,...