Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew rulers in history have commanded the world's stage with such formidable brilliance as Catherine II of Russia, and Zoé Oldenbourg's Catherine the Great presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodShe smoked cigars, wore trousers, took lovers freely, and wrote over seventy novels — George Sand was the most scandalous and celebrated woman in nineteenth-century France,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the twentieth century's most extraordinary lives unfolds in Madame Curie, the definitive biography of Marie Curie written by her own daughter, Eve Curie —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBorn into the glittering Habsburg court of Vienna and thrust onto the treacherous stage of Versailles, Marie Antoinette remains one of history's most captivating and tragic...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet along the banks of the River Floss in rural England, The Mill on the Floss chronicles the turbulent life of Maggie Tulliver, a fiercely intelligent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA masterwork of savage wit and unflinching psychological realism, The Way of All Flesh is Samuel Butler's searing semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles four generations of the...

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Edition: 2026100012244Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: light foxing on the book blocks and prelims; Nevil Shute began his career as...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4147 Twenty-one biographies and memoirs, nearly all hardback with jackets: Flea’s Acid for the Children, Will Sergeant’s Echoes, Mike Love’s Good Vibrations, Tom...

Secondhand History Bargain Book Box SP4111 Nineteen histories, mostly big-format paperbacks, with four hardbacks: Beevor’s Russia, Ackroyd’s London, Inwood’s London, Lawrence James’s Raj, Orlando Figes’s Natasha’s Dance, Paxman’s The English,...

Aurangzeb must rebel against his father, and compete with his brothers, especially Darashikoh who is Emperor Shah Jahan's favoured son, to become the shahenshah of India and sit on the...

We're sitting around a wood stove as she tells these stories. There's a gale force wind outside, forest heaving. Another woman in the group ran the New York marathon a...

Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a...

A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and...

This lively collection of essays examines in witty detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument "to the table," and some of the pitfalls that...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4159 Nineteen military histories, mostly big-format paperbacks: Beevor’s D-Day, Schama’s British Wars, Niall Ferguson’s Empire, Charles Esdaile’s Napoleon’s Wars, R.V. Jones’s Most Secret War,...

Secondhand Landmarks of the World’s Art Bargain Book Box SP4122 The complete nine-volume Landmarks of the World’s Art series from Paul Hamlyn, all hardback with jackets: Prehistoric and Primitive Man,...

Secondhand History Bargain Book Box SP4125 Nineteen vintage Pelican and Penguin histories: E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class, A.J.P. Taylor’s English History 1914–1945, Edmund Wilson’s To the...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4298 Nine large-format military histories, most hardback with jackets: The Allied Bomber War, Air War Pacific, Gordon Smith’s The War at Sea, Fighter Missions,...

Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4105 Fifteen art books, most large-format hardback: Treasures of the Louvre, Monet and the Impressionists, Taschen’s Courbet, the Prado and Rijksmuseum guides, Van Gogh...

An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Last Daughter is a story of heartbreak and healing that offers a path forward for...

'Devastating' J. M. Coetzee, Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature THE STORY OF A YOUNG MAN'S COMING OF AGE A TENDER TRIBUTE TO A...

My journey to the skies and the people and animals of the Australian outback 'Scott is devoted to bringing veterinarian services to the vast outback plains she calls home with...

In 1852 the newly proclaimed colony of Victoria needed someone to set up schools across their domain. William Knowles Miller seemed the perfect choice. Son of a judge, a bright...

The New York Times bestselling memoir a girl who learns to live - and then escape - an invisible life In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn...

Have you ever looked back on an experience and thought, had I only known, it would all have turned out differently? In this inspiring book of life lessons, journalist Joe...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSome bonds defy simple description — they are felt in quiet moments, inherited lessons, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: some moisture damage to book block; In the raw, restless years of the Victorian Gold Rush, one Englishman ventured to...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew combat memoirs carry the raw authenticity and hard-won authority of American Warrior, the gripping firsthand account of Brigadier General John C....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the vast and brutal theatre of the Second World War, few accounts match the analytical precision and narrative sweep...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it mean to be a self — to possess a mind, a soul, an identity — when the very organ that generates...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent theatre of Australian politics, few figures burned as brightly — or as controversially — as...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the crucible of post-revolutionary France, a remarkable generation of visionary thinkers dared to imagine a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark of American literature, A Boy's Own Story is a luminous and achingly honest coming-of-age narrative set...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when D. H. Lawrence's reputation remained fiercely contested, F. R. Leavis mounted one...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the twentieth century embodied wit, elegance, and creative genius quite like Noël Coward...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most electrifying figures of the twentieth century, Isadora Duncan lived as boldly as she danced...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; stained book blockFrom the fog-shrouded courts of Anglo-Saxon England to the gilded splendour of the modern monarchy,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the twentieth century's most candid and revelatory memoirs, Christopher Isherwood chronicles his own life with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodWritten in the form of a long, intimate letter from a dying emperor to his young successor Marcus Aurelius,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePublished at the dawn of the modern gay liberation movement, Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA raw and unflinching confessional, The Autobiography of an Englishman 'Y' presents the anonymous account of a man...