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On 16th April 1994, Nick Richardson was shot down over the beseiged Bosnian Muslim town of Gorazde, his plane hit by a surface-to-air missile. NO ESCAPE ZONE is the story...

Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission...

This work (previously published in two volumes in 1985 and 2000) is a biography of John Ruskin, arguably the most influential 19th-century critic of art and society. Drawing on the...

Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades-a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In this witty and eloquent book, a distinguished...

This book tells the story of two generations of Jewish intellectuals living in France. The older group, born at the turn of the 20th century, are Lithuanian immigrants who were...

These 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late18th century and the present day. They include Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labour history and social...

The book titled The Iron Duke: A Military Biography of Wellington by the author Lawrence James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century. He was a natural countryman who had a sharp eye for the natural world, a dislike of technology...

'A must-read for all Friends fans.' Grazia 'Funny, enlightening and incredibly well-researched' Emerald Street What is it about Friends that makes such comforting viewing? Has it stood the test of...

The warm and witty paperback reinvention of the Number One Sunday Times Bestseller This is Dawn French's fabulously inventive take on modern life - the twists and turns, the surprises,...

The book titled Charlotte Mew and Her Friends: With a Selection of Her Poems by the author Penelope Fitzgerald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

This book examines social policy in the Edwardian age in relation to poverty and unemployment - issues which remain at the heart of our social concerns. These are presented through...

William Blake (1757-1827) was a poet of striking originality, whose poetic world of myth and mysticism continues to fascinate. By turns a haunting lyricist, an apocalyptic visionary, and an unorthodox...

In Zurich in 1918 and 1919, the English painter Frank Budgen and Joyce met almost daily to walk, talk and drink wine. During these meetings they discussed "Ulysses", the novel...

The book titled A Little Tour in France by the author Henry James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Born in Australia, Gilbert Murray came to England at the age of 11. After a brilliant career in Classics at Oxford, he became Professor of Greek at Glasgow at the...

The book titled Letters of Leonard Woolf by the author Frederic Spotts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Set in Satellite City, In the not-too-distant future, thirteen-year-old Cosmo Hill is unfortunate enough to come into the world unwanted by his parents. And so, as are all orphaned boys...

Get ready, book 10 in the phenomenally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is coming! Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg...

In 2004 three major novels featuring Henry James as a character were published - one of them went on to win the Booker Prize. It was not David Lodge's AUTHOR...

'Deserves a place on everyone's kitchen shelf' - Sophie Grigson Fish is becoming increasingly popular with the British who are learning to appreciate its enormous variety, versatility and its value...

A biography of a remarkable writer - a hero of the 1930s - a panoramic portrait of a troubled century. Seven years after Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the first...

This work is a narrative of the most momentous event in the post-war world - the end of communism and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union. Seen, in some...

Over ten years in the making, Meredith Daneman has produced the first serious and in-depth biography of the world famous ballerina. Margot Fonteyn began life on the 18th of May,...

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...

The book titled Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945 by the author Michael Burns. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Available for the first time in an American edition, this book contains all of Wodehouse's sparkling short stories featuring Jeeves and Bertie--34 glorious tales of the high life in London...

In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist...

Don't miss the next utterly romantic historical saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! She ran along the snow-covered cobbles, gripping her sewing box - fate in...

The past can't be locked away forever... _________________________________________________________________ *Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Eve Chase & Lucinda Riley* Sweeping from the French Riviera to the wind-blown Cornish cliffs, lose...

Fifteen years ago Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small Welsh village. Never to be seen again. Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives,...

Who will guard the living when the dead arise? Sabriel is sent as a child across the Wall to the safety of a school in Ancelstierre. Away from magic; away...

A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories... First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound... then, the riddle of a dead man's buried treasure......

The book titled Ourselves, Growing Older by the author Jean Shapiro. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

AN INTIMATE GLIMPSE INTO THE LIFE OF THIS REVERED AND ICONIC FRENCH WRITER Andre Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature, is a revered figure in French literature....

The book titled The Rise and Fall of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu by the author Mark Almond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than...

A keenly argued and thought-provoking history of the British, French and American Enlightenments with an introduction by Gordon Brown. Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity,...

Set against the backdrop of Moscow and Odessa in 1918 and 1919 these are the great anti-Bolshevik diaries of Ivan Bunin, the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel prize...

In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily...

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the...

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future....

The great American exodus to Paris after World War I included not only writers and artists but journalists. They came by the score, the raw and the accomplished, and in...

Collects Ethan Frome and three short stories: The Other Two, The Dilettante, and Xingu.

'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL BRYSON 'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four...

We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or...