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Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable process by which experience became art. Michael Barber focuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material....

A short account of the relations between Islam and Christianity from Muhammad to the Reformation. The author argues that though there were trading and cultural interactions between the two during...

Lord Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, was a cabinet minister during World War II. As a minister, Fleet Street press baron and compulsive manipulator, he was both admired and hated. His friends ranged...

The book titled The Bookman's Wake: A Mystery with Cliff Janeway by the author John Dunning. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Death Down Home by the author Eve K Sandstrom. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding-author of "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder"-here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two...

Traces the life of the influential British writer who paved the way for modernism, and discusses his ideas and their reception by his contemporaries.

The book titled Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the by the author Jack F Matlock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels by the author Nina Berberova. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Turnaround: A Memoir by the author Milos Forman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching...

This new biography of our 28th president is pithy and intelligent; it is also hurried. As with other titles in the Penguin Lives series, the match up of author and...

The book titled Taming a Sea-horse by the author Robert B. Parker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Plants may live in places that provide too little rainfall, yet they thrive, either by evading drought, like the animals that live in deserts, or by tolerating the scarcity. There...

In the 1940s and 1950s, Australian pulp fiction jostled with magazines and comics at newsstands. Tariffs kept the local industry cheap and viable and offered Australian writers national and international...

This criss-cross study, the first of its kind, arranges a shotgun wedding between cliches and coinages - the old (that refuses to die), and new (that often quickly fades). Not...

The book titled Wycliffe and the Last Rites by the author W. J. Burley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937...

The book titled Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury by the author William Urry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Head First by the author William Leonard Marshall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Lenin and the End of Politics by the author A. J. Polan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or...

Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera...

The book titled The Moscow Art Theatre Letters by the author Jean Benedetti. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Behind the Scenes at the Museum by the author Kate Atkinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece "Invisible Man." In 1953, Ellison's explosive story...

The book titled The Quincunx by the author Charles Palliser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Death's Autograph by the author Marianne MacDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Detective Chief Inspector Phil Benholme has a reputation for being a little soft -- but it's only because he tries to see both sides of every story. And now he...

The book titled Rage by the author Gwen Moffat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Twelve Red Herr/First Among (Duo) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Yellow Room Conspiracy by the author Peter Dickinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The celebrated French general and emperor Napoleon I was born in Ajaccio in Corsica in 1769. France had acquired Corsica only 15 months before his birth, and in his early...

Three stories in one volume from one of Britain's most admired authors and playwrights. "The Laying On Of Hands" is Bennett at his inimitable best in this funny, and mischievous...

The book titled Dead on Arrival by the author Patricia Hall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first freely elected head of state in Russia's 1000-year history, Boris Yeltsin ended Soviet military occupation of Eastern Europe, introduced the free market economy and, most importantly, forged and...

Kayla Anson, the only surviving child and heir of a multibillionaire capitalist, is being touted as the most glamorous debutante of the season. So when Bennis Hannaford, staying overnight at...

From the author of American Bloomsbury, Louisa May Alcott , and Home Before Dark , a major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright considered...

The book titled Decadence and Innovation: Austria-Hungary in the Fin-de-siecle by the author Robert B. Pynsent. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Kitchen in Corfu by the author James Chatto. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It's contents are as curious as its price: subtitled Language of the Megaliths' this is a book for believers in the Earth Mother, with corn dollies, megalithic art and sexual...

The book titled Travels Through the Third World by the author Brian Schwartz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Dying Day by the author James Mitchell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus by the author Brian Roberts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Christopher Unborn by the author Carlos Fuentes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Berlioz: The Making of an Artist by the author David Cairns. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this perceptive series of lectures Doris Lessing explores the strange phenomenon that although, today, we know a lot more about ourselves very little of this knowledge has been put...

The book titled The Secret Life of the Seine by the author Rosenblum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.