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A collection of Studs Terkel most memorable interviews a panoramic chronicle of America from the 1920's onwards. For over 30 years, millions of readers have enjoyed Studs Terkel's groundbreaking, provocative...

'I loved this novel and every single one of its characters. Supremely heartfelt, hilarious and heartrending - it's an absolute triumph.' Sophie Kinsella 'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny...

'A modern Gothic novel unlike any other , about love and loss echoing through the ages. Sad, sweet, funny and hopeful' --- Emilia Hart (author of Weyward ) From acclaimed...

This text reveals why some people work less, earn more, pay less in taxes, and feel more financially secure than others. It is simply a matter of knowing which "quadrant"...

THE WOMAN UNKNOWN: Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taking care of her sick mother and calls on the...

The three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and little Sunny, arrive at the Prufrock Preparatory School, only to be met by the unpleasant bully, Carmelita Spats. The children must to the...

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century's first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who signed...

In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees lead to angry student-led protests. What will become of higher...

An intelligence agency expose so explosive that the British government tried to stop its publication or the first time ever, MI6, Britain's legendary player at the chessboard of international intelligence-gathering,...

A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh. When he'd finished playing, a solemn silence...

Somerset Maugham? If anybody ever sold their soul to the devil, he did, and with sizzling relish! Stephen Tennant, in a letter to Hugo Vickers. For nearly sixty years Somerset...

Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and at the same time a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature and added...

Frank Kermode has a strong claim to be Britain's most distinguished literary critic. Over the course of a long career, he has written on a enormous variety of English literature,...

For many years, Roger Shattuck has been mesmerised by one write. First came "Proust's Binoculars", a short, brilliant study published in 1964. Then came "Marcel Proust", commissioned by Frank Kermode...

"What an impossible novel my life is!" Berlioz wrote in 1832 to his friend Albert Du Boys. To his sister Adele, "I am absorbed continually by the strangeness, the romanticness...

The first volume of John Campbell's biography of Margaret Thatcher was praised by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as 'much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher'. That...

Fluent in at least seven languages and a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. In...

Acclaimed novelist and essayist Francine du Plessix Gray paints a spirited portrait of a woman who defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become one of its...

The long-awated biography of one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Although blessed with a magnetic personality and musical brilliance, Britten was wracked by depression and self-doubt. An...

The book titled Lewis Carroll: a Biography by the author Morton Norton Cohen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Is there really a new Europe? Have the extraordinary transformations of the last half century - the rise and fall of the Eastern Bloc, Germany's reunification, ethnic warfare, even the...

The book titled My Life as Author and Editor by the author H. L. Mencken. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become...

The book titled Cold Warrior by the author Mangold. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than...

The book titled Borderlands: Nation and Empire by the author Scott Malcolmson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

From his recognition by Henry Miller, Anais Nin and T. S. Eliot when he was in his twenties, to the completion of his oeuvre with The Avignon Quintet and an...

This is the autobiography of G. Cabrera Infante, recognized as one of the most original Latin American writers. He has written novels, stories, critical essays, articles and screenplays and has...

This book is the product of many years research and interviewing. Michael Glenny travelled throughout the world to track down the eyewitness accounts reproduced here of the 1905 Revolution, the...

Change - sometimes gentle and subtle sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal history, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our...

The book titled Scenes from Soviet Life by the author Mary Seton-Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The third volume of Alan Johnson's bestselling and award-winning memoirs takes us to the corridors of Westminster and lifts the lid on the life of a hard-working constituency MP... Winner...

To the outside world, Yemen is famous for its beautiful landscapes and architecture. However, as Paul Dresch demonstrates, Yemen's modern history is unique and deserves to be better understood. While...

Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century....

A sensitive analysis of the thought and intellectual development of G. D. H. Cole (1889-1959) the distinguished Labour historian. Cole's career is traced from his earliest days in the Labour...

The book titled Deadly Illusions: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spy by the author John Costello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Based on personal letters and interviews with more than 100 of his friends and colleagues, as well as his two former wives, this is a biography of the American photographer,...

In 1914, a new kind of war came about, bringing with it a new kind of world. World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain...

The book titled Doctor Criminale by the author Malcolm Bradbury. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

'...well-written and accessible. Making the difficult seem easy is Fiske's great talent. No introductory reading list in the field would be complete without a Fiske' - Sociology In Reading the...

The book titled Girl in a Turban by the author Marta Morazzoni. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled Our Age: English Intellectuals Between the World Wars: A Group by the author Noel Annan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History by the author John Clive. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Balazuc is a small medieval village carved from a limestone cliff thast towers over the Ardeche River in south-central France. It is a lovely place for visitors, but for residents...

Not many people remember that Andre Previn started his career as a film score composer in Hollywood - arriving at the age of 18. He was a quick learner, and...

"Lingua Franca "covered the intellectual life of the 1990s--when American scholars took to the public stage as never before--with wit and passion and helped establish many of the leading voices...

Peter Parker's biography is as frank and often almost as witty as Ackerley's own books . . . But Ackerley is more than a candid account of one man's public...

Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to...