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In this collection, acclaimed writer Mandy Sayer brings together nine of the best Australian examples of the long story - tales that combine the intensity of the short story with...

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success...

With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam , Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" ( The New York Times ) works that have lucidly...

Who really did 'discover' New Zealand?; Why history has turned its back on the timid Abel Tasman; The burning of the sailing ship Boyd sets back European settlement by a...

Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the...

A third edition of the title which contains the latest advances in the field of study. The dictionary has over 2,800 entries and encompasses classical and modern astronomy, giving the...

This second edition includes over 4500 entries to provide an up-to-date guide to physics. Cross-referenced, it also covers related sciences such as physical chemistry, astronomy, medical physics, computing and engineering....

When Laura Rambotham arrives at an exclusive Melbourne girls school from her country home, she is ridiculed by the other pupils for her differences, her name, her unusual clothes and...

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in...

The book titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by the author Washington Irving. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In The Barmaid's Brain , Jay Ingram explores some of the little known quirks of human behaviour, including why we laugh and how we see mirages; he reports on science's...

How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to. In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence...

The book titled The Second World War: v. 4: Hinge of Fate by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Prima Donna: A History by the author Rupert Christiansen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"For 20 years Garrett Hardin has been our most hardnosed thinker about ecological problems...Filters Against Folly makes provocative reading." -- Michael Crichton The ecological problems facing our world present a...

The book titled Journey into Russia by the author Laurens Van der Post. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Famous Trials: v. 8: Captain William Kidd, Dr.Thomas Smethurst, Alfred by the author James H. Hodge. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

This book provides a look at philosophical practice from the viewpoint of the practitioner or prospective practitioner. It answers the questions: What is philosophical practice? What are its aims and...

This is the story of Rimbaud`s `lost years' the years after he turned his back on poetry, and fame and France, for a life of wandering and obscurity in the...

It is 1642, and Laurence Beaumont has just returned to England after six long years fighting - and avoiding fighting - in the European Wars. Having fled his homeland to...

The Greatest Novel about the First World War and an International Bestseller All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is...

Stunned by a dramatic appeal from his otherwise cool mother-in-law, Falco cannot resist. His brother-in-law, Aulus, has been diverted from his route to Athens University by a man whose newly...

Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he needs is a collapsed woman in the street on Christmas Eve. Ellen Donnelly...

An omnibus edition of three Ruth Rendell murder mysteries - To Fear a Painted Devil, Vanity Dies Hard and The Secret House of Death.

This work is an amazing collection of stories by four young writers. Four definite literary stars of the future - Chloe Hooper, Anna Kay, Jay Krantz and Mark Panozzo -...

Concentrating on the words which cause most difficulty for the average English user, this dictionary provides clear, concise definitions with the emphasis on problem points - spelling, pronunciation, disputed usage...

Thurston Clarke needed twelve visas to travel along the equator and this book is the culmination of the journey. The countries he travelled through include Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Nairobi, Quito,...

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"Outsell Your Competition is truly packed with sales tips and winning 'how to's'.I immediately ordered 200 copies for my National Sales Management Team.A compulsive read." - Ian Stuart, Director of...

A revised and updated edition of one of the most successful guides to writing ever published (one million copies sold). A Classic in its Field, On Writing Well is the...

Pompeii, Machu Picchu, the Valley of the Kings, the Parthenon-the names of these legendary archaeological sites conjure up romance and mystery. The news is full of archaeology: treasures found (British...

The thrilling Cold War masterwork by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago , published in full for the first time. "Solzhenitsyn's best novel. . . . A great...

The book titled Writing to Learn by the author William Zinsser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Disturber of the Peace: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent by the author Harrison E. Salisbury. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the...

In this work, leading anthropologist Noel T. Boaz describes how innovative research techniques have transformed our understanding of our earliest human ancestors. By telling the story of his own 20-year...

An empowering, unbiased guide and essential toolkit for pregnancy, labour, birth, breastfeeding and your baby's first year by GP and TV presenter, Dr Sara Kayat. "I LOVE this book -...

Stop smoking. Stop vaping. Start living. We've been sold a lie: that smoking and vaping help us relax. This Naked Mind: Nicotine exposes the truth - nicotine doesn't relieve stress,...

`The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you'll read this year' The Washington Post A dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a...

An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end...

The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. In this sixth DS Logan McRae thriller, Scotland's finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder... Everyone deserves...

A hilarious exploration of friendship, loyalty, ambition and BOYS! Brilliant, new interpretation of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM set in twenty-first century High School America. When the auditions poster for the...

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The book titled Buyer's Market by the author Anthony Powell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The second edition of the Collins Dictionary of Geology is a fully comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of geology, encompassing all the major areas of study in over 4500 entries, making...