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Not since A.L. Rowse published his memoir On Historians has such a witty and perceptive memoir been published by a celebrated historian. Captain Professor constitutes the memoir of one of...

The book titled Richard Meinertzhagen: Soldier, Scientist and Spy by the author Mark Cocker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Captain Robert N. Buck retired from TWA after having flown well over two thousand Atlantic crossings and thirty-seven years of service as chief pilot and director of thunderstorm research. During...

The story of Zelda Sayre, a talented and beautiful Southern belle who captured the heart of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book recounts the lives of a couple who symbolized...

In her brilliant fictional biography, The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields created an astonishing portrait of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a modern woman struggling to understand her place in her own life....

The book titled Saturday at M.I.9: History of Underground Escape Lines in N.W.Europe by the author Airey Neave. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Following the great success of Now Then Lad , PC Mike Pannett returns with more tales of policing rural Yorkshire. In YOU'RE COMING WITH ME LAD Mike Pannett blends gentle...

Written over twenty years ago, The Restless Heart was the product of a lonely young man searching for meaning to his feelings of emptiness and isolation. Powerful and autobiographical this...

An astonishingly candid book from the Nobel Laureate about what has shaped his interpretation of literature and the world. For the "serious traveller", one who is fully engaged with the...

Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how...

Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia. The loss of both of his parents during childhood was the prelude to a series of...

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"Darius has always been one of my favorite people to sing with and to call a friend in this industry and yet even knowing him well for as long as...

"Toni Morrison once said, 'The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.' In The Moment , Bakari Sellers brilliantly and precisely cuts through the noise of the calculated,...

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best...

An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY 'A triumph - a meditation...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey : it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to...

The book titled Orwell by the author Raymond Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn February 1956, the Kremlin became the stage for one of the most seismic political events of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of power, duty, and national identity stands the American military officer — and Morris Janowitz's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives a scientific genius to overturn centuries of accepted wisdom, and what does the inner life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor readers navigating the vast, labyrinthine world of William Faulkner's fiction, Who's Who in Faulkner is an indispensable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageVaslav Nijinsky — the name alone conjures visions of impossible leaps, otherworldly grace, and a genius so blazing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedPart of the prestigious Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series, Rob Lyle's Mistral presents a focused and illuminating critical study...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the pantheon of twentieth-century French literature, few figures loom as large or as enigmatically as André Malraux — novelist, art theorist, adventurer, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the landscape of modern European thought, few figures loom as large or as enigmatically as Miguel de Unamuno — the Spanish...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerVasily Rozanov stands as one of the most provocative and enigmatic figures in Russian intellectual history, a writer whose radical subjectivity and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor any reader seeking to navigate the rich and often labyrinthine world of D.H. Lawrence's fiction, Graham Holderness's Who's Who in D.H. Lawrence stands...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn one of the most chilling and meticulously documented accounts of political mass murder ever written, The Great Terror...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the twilight years of one of Russia's most defiant literary voices, Osip Mandelstam produced a body of verse that stands as both a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the gilded halls of St. Petersburg to the smouldering barricades of 1917, The Shadow of the Winter Palace chronicles nearly a century of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAnne Clissmann's Flann O'Brien: A Critical Introduction to His Writings is an authoritative and comprehensive scholarly study of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of Britain's most turbulent wartime years, Men and Power: 1917-1918 offers a gripping, insider account of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the front lines of the Western Desert to the cramped quarters of an English childhood, A Prose Miscellany presents the full breadth of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn one of the most harrowing and intimate accounts of life under the Third Reich, Victor Klemperer —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century European history command the reverence and complexity of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and founding father of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian England's collision between science and faith stands one of the most extraordinary memoirs ever written — Edmund Gosse's Father and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markFew lives have intersected with the great upheavals of the twentieth century as dramatically as that of Bertram D. Wolfe...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the twentieth century's most celebrated and devastating political cartoonists, David Low tells his own story in Low's Autobiography...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Victorian faith and doubt stands Leslie Stephen — mountaineer, philosopher, editor, and father of Virginia Woolf — a man who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodVictorian England harboured few monsters as chilling as Mary Ann Cotton — a soft-spoken widow who buried husband after husband, child after child, collecting...