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Speaking Their Minds

Speaking Their Minds

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The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story

The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story

$19.99$8.00
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A chilling medieval ghost story, first written by a 15th-century monk and now retold by historian Dan Jones. A chilling medieval...
Kyiv

Kyiv

$32.99$12.00
Author: Graham Hurley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War. 'Historical fiction of a...
Experience

Experience

$34.99$29.74
Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
12 Edmondstone Street

12 Edmondstone Street

$25.00$21.25
Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

$22.99$19.54
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
Of Love and Other Wars

Of Love and Other Wars

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Author: Sophie Hardach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 385 The story of a Quaker family and a Jewish family in love and at war during WWII. London, 1939...
Our Woman in Moscow

Our Woman in Moscow

$29.99$12.00
Author: Beatriz Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Don't miss the gripping new book from the international bestseller - the story of two sisters caught up in...
The Radio Operator: A Novel

The Radio Operator: A Novel

$32.99$12.00
Author: Ulla Lenze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Based on a true story, a gripping historical novel about a German immigrant who becomes embroiled in a Nazi...
Island Song

Island Song

$29.99$10.00
Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
The Eyes of Asia

The Eyes of Asia

$22.99$10.00
Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Kipling's The Eyes of Asia takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

$35.00$29.75
Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP...
A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

$22.99$19.54
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

$22.99$19.54
Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
Catch-22

Catch-22

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Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, now celebrating its 50th anniversary. SOON TO BE A MAJOR...
Slaughterhouse 5: 50th Anniversary Edition

Slaughterhouse 5: 50th Anniversary Edition

$22.99$19.54
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 50th anniversary hardback edition of the bestselling cult US classic - with extra material 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young...
Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

$14.99$12.74
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...
Innocence: two novellas

Innocence: two novellas

$49.99$15.00
Author: Frank White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 Hodder published Frank White's There Was A Time, surely the last novel about the Second World War to be...
Birdsong

Birdsong

$22.99$19.54
Author: Sebastian Faulks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling WWI classic now reissued in the new Faulks series style Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska

The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska

$22.99$19.54
Author: Sharon Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podg rska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

$85.00$72.25
Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
The Golden Flea

The Golden Flea

$22.99$16.98
Author: Michael Rips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 For decades the legendary Chelsea flea market sprawled over several blocks on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would...
A Pair of Silver Wings

A Pair of Silver Wings

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward...
The Daughters Of Mars

The Daughters Of Mars

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 In the tradition of Atonement and Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI...
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

$22.99$19.54
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
Orwell's England

Orwell's England

$27.99$23.79
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried

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Author: Tim O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The...
The Annals of Imperial Rome

The Annals of Imperial Rome

$22.99$19.54
Author: Cornelius Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome...
The Makers of Rome

The Makers of Rome

$22.99$19.54
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
The Sixteen Satires

The Sixteen Satires

$29.99$25.49
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

$24.99$21.24
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
Poetics

Poetics

$22.99$19.54
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
The Histories

The Histories

$24.99$21.24
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
If Not Now, When?

If Not Now, When?

$24.99$21.24
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
We Germans

We Germans

$29.99$15.00
Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
Land of the Living

Land of the Living

$29.99$10.00
Author: Georgina Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A profound masterpiece on war, loss and survival, rendered in prose of rhythmic precision, subtlety and exceptional sensitivity, by...
The Other Hoffmann Sister

The Other Hoffmann Sister

$19.99$10.00
Author: Ben Fergusson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of...
The Conquest of Gaul

The Conquest of Gaul

$22.99$19.54
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice...
The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman

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Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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Author: Hans Fallada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants...
The Fourth Shore

The Fourth Shore

$32.99$10.00
Author: Virginia Baily Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Liliana's beloved husband has been dead six months when she finds a roll of banknotes in a drawer with...