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ONE of THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS of the YEAR * A VANITY FAIR and TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times bestselling...

What if the life you're chasing isn't the one you actually want? 'Truly inspiring' - Ben Fogle 'A beautiful book' - Joe Sugg _______________ A moving travel memoir and guide...

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A TIME MUST-READ FOR 2024 'A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one's soul' Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life'...

The book titled Mahler Remembered by the author Norman Lebrecht. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Still the best portrait of modern rural life in England, subtle and compassionate' Roger Deakin, BBC Wildlife magazine This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices...

First edition in Penguin Classics for two powerful prose sagas, and part of a new series of eight Icelandic Sagas These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought...

Am I a writer? Where should I get ideas? Is my writing any good? How did my favorite authors make it big? The act of writing is a daunting task...

Award-winning illustrated biography of Hal Foster, in which author Brian M. Kane examines the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the 20th century. Superman was modelled after...

'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA...

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 AN OPRAH WINFREY AND FEARNE COTTON BOOK CLUB PICK ' No one who reads this book will ever forget it ' Meg Mason...

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times , 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times , 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly...

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times , 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times , 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly...

At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge...

"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her...

With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as...

The book titled Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by the author Alan Bullock,Baron Bullock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This volume covers four decades: The Eighties and Nineties when the author was no longer engaged in active politics as a party-member of any sort, but had moved sideways to...

This text contains depictions of 150 species of what must be categorized as "fairies". Seven chapters summon forth the Fairies of the Air and the Wind, the Fairies from the...

We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law's...

This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks...

This book offers an insight into the life of Roald Dahl. It is a mixture of written anecdotes covering Roald Dahl's upbringing, his youth and early days in Africa and...

People are compelled to keep diaries for a many different reasons. Although they are the most private form of writing, there have been few diarists who have not in their...

The book titled Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by the author Anne Sebba. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A single moment has the power to change any life, forever. This is a story about what happens next. On 1st March 1999, Dom Frawley was a rural general practitioner,...

These traveller's tales have one thing in common: they are all true. Antarctica is the driest continent, the windiest, the highest continent on earth. And the least known. This anthology...

The story of Marist priest, Father Tony Glynn and his life as a missionary in Japan.

Norton Simon amassed a huge fortune by transforming floundering companies into highly profitable enterprises. In his late forties he turned to art collecting, and built one of the largest private...

Anedcotes entertain, highlight history and reveal character. William Ellery Channing even claimed that, One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography . A good collection of anecdotes...

The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance...

The Adamsons' public image, mediated through their books and films, was one of loving co-operation in a second Eden. The reality, as revealed in this book, was much more interesting...

The book titled C.S.Lewis by the author William Griffen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Good Old Days by the author Klee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Savage Jungle: An Epic Struggle for Survival by the author Iain Finlay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.'- Guardian 'Few can match Uglow's skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character.' - Sunday Times 'Uglow's style is...

IM Donaldson examines Fischers life and career from his days as a child prodigy through the height of his World Championship triumph and into his tumultuous final years. Donaldsons meticulous...

Sue Walker tells the story of her magazine editor grandfather against the larger backdrop of Australian history and cultural growth. William Shum was a pioneer in Australian magazines, as founding...

One of England's foremost writers and novelists, there are few authors more beloved than Jane Austen with her observations, wit and style. This Pitkin biography covers her life from childhood...

Paul Keres was a great player in chess history and a contender for the world championship for a third of a century. This work charts the progress of Keres's career...

Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth. Many of his early poems - wistful, mysterious and suffused with...

With a foreword by Viola Davis, award-winning actress Edwina Findley Dickerson presents a faith-filled, laugh-out-loud guide for manifesting your "God Dream" and creating the life you've always envisioned. Were you...

At the outbreak of World War 1, Ernest Randolph Holmes, eldest of seven children, from Kew Victoria, couldn't enlist in the artillery fast enough. This is his story, told through...

Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she...