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Super-fun stories specially chosen for 7-year-olds! Super-fun stories specially chosen for 7-year-olds! Lulu Bell and an injured penguin, a school play spectacular, holidays at Pop's farm, scary fairies, a lost...

The story of the land rights battle of the Larrakia people for Kulaluk, near Darwin, in the 1970s.

In 1948, Robert Craft would begin a unique friendship with Stravinsky that would last until the composer's death in 1971. This book tells the story of his "improbable life" before,...

What might the author of Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own have in common with the author of the Claudine series and The Pure and the Impure? Resisting...

In a work that re-investigates archival materials and deploys an innovative theoretical framework, Jean Mills explores the intellectual and political relationship between Virginia Woolf and the Cambridge classicist Jane Ellen...

France's Prime Minister and signatory to the Munich Agreement in 1938, Edouard Daladier, was arrested and imprisoned by the Vichy Regime for the duration of World War II. As a...

The adventures of Ivy and Bean continue in the latest installment from series creators Annie Barrows and Sophie Blackall. In Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad the two girls...

World record fever grips the second grade, and soon Ivy and Bean are trying to set their own record by becoming the youngest people to have ever discovered a dinosaur....

"People know me as the author of The Story of Art who have never heard of me as a scholar. But many of my colleagues have never read the book....

The man who changed the course of modern France In 1981, Francois Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led...

An exploration of the history and legacy of Italian fascism as reflected by the body of Benito Mussolini discusses how the dictator's brutal execution, the graphic display of his corpse,...

Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity in its...

The book titled Stalin's Prosecutor by the author Vaksberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of...

The book titled Scattered among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Ten Portraits by the author Allan Levine. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

For millennia, many have tried to decipher the mysteries of Revelation: the final book of the Bible. Now, one man believes that he has found the answer that will bring...

Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, 'don't think, just shoot' pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as nanny to the fabulously...

Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money and did the time. His family couldn't be more proud. He always was the smart one. Dom happens to be the cousin...

'Dear Mr Darwin ' You might find it presumptuous of me, if not a little macabre, that I should take up my pen and write to you more than a...

The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger for Tommy Carmellini's latest adventure.Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies...

DEAD SOULS - A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus. An old school friend's son has gone missing,...

Their discovery doesn't remain a secret for long. A US Air Force UFO investigation team arrives just minutes before a team sent by an Australian billionaire who wants to steal...

When the police are called to a building on New York s Upper East Side, Detective Mike Chapman and Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper respond quickly. A resident, Tina Barr, is...

In 1988, carbon dating of the world's most famous Christian relic revealed that it was a mediaeval or Renaissance forgery. Yet many questions remained. How could a hoaxer of 500...

The unfortunate popular perception is that when someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia, they are immediately lost to themselves, to those who love them and to those they love....

This multi-authored volume focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore...

This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about what its like to be a women (East and West), a story about the history of the...

The book titled Jazz Women: 1900 to the Present, Their Words, Lives and Music by the author Sally Placksin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Darby Carmichael decides that she wants to become a newspaper girl and tell the truth about how life is, for all the world to read. Soon, her little column in...

In Cython's underground slave camps, only the timid and obedient survive - but Tali is neither of these. In Cython, having magic means the death penalty, and Tali's gift is...

The book titled Classic Short Stories by the author Philip Gardner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Ocean Shores to Desert Dunes' is an award-winning book that takes the reader on a journey through the landscapes of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, describing the...

The book titled Silken Web: Natural History of Australian Spiders by the author Bert Simon-Brunet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

With the imminent television adaptation of the Gormenghast trilogy and the reissuing of his books, interest in Mervyn Peake''s work has never been higher. This biography is the result of...

The book titled Tamara: Memoirs of St.Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium by the author T.Talbot Rice. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...

In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and...

The latest Campus Clancy thriller featuring the returning series character Jack Ryan Jr.

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Julia Margaret Cameron - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented...

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives...

The vastness of China and the antquity of its culture have both fascinated and troubled the West since their earliest contacts. This text explores Western attitudes as they developed over...

This is the first Penguin book of English poetry since John Heywood's edition in the 1950s. A revelatory new anthology of English verse, poems are ordered by date of composition...

The book titled WINNING WITH THE BENKO by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Defeat in 1940 left the French so chastened and demoralized that they readily supported the Vichy regime, committed not just to pragmatic collaberation but to finding scapegoats for the nation's...

The inside story of sanctioned murder in America as seen by the men who design the machinery of execution and by those who are to be executed. For many months...