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The book titled Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? by the author Richard Symonds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ramachandra Guha is one of the world's foremost historians and writers on cricket. Here he is offering three books to Picador. The first will be an Indian history of a...

In this collection of journalistic profiles the author trains his gaze on figures from Gerry Adams to Dennis Rodman and Ralph Ellison to Ben Bradlee. It shows how Gerry Adams...

Cormac McCarthy's monumental trilogy together for the first time in one volume.The Border Trilogy chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole...

To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption with a devastating line in witness intimidation - and proving...

The book titled Lovehead by the author Jackie Collins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

There are two worlds in racing. Winning and losing. Private detective Sid Halley has gone from one to the other - fast. First his career as a jockey ended when...

Charles Todd makes a living as a painter of horses. However someone is making a fortune forging paintings by the masters and then selling them to people who usually end...

Edward Lincoln had scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases, defeated scores of assassins. As a film action man he'd even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After...

The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its...

In the late 1980s, when she began keeping a diary, Edwina Currie was the second most prominent woman in British politics - after Margaret Thatcher. Indeed, she was often spoken...

"Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me ." --Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review A New York Times Book Review...

The book titled Khrushchev on Khrushchev by the author Sergei Khrushchev. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Inspiring, outrageous...A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served...

Hollywood has given us no greater director than John Ford. Between 1917 and 1970, Ford directed and/or produced some 226 pictures, from short silent films to ambitious historical epics and...

The book titled Cyril Connolly: The Life and Times of England's Most Controversial by the author Clive Fisher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

This insightful, inspiring devotional examines the lives of specific women in the Bible and how their wants, needs, and feelings relate with those of women today. Each devotion includes a...

The author of the New York Times Notable Book Blood-Dark Track delivers a mesmerizing novel about a man trying to make his way in an America of shattered hopes and...

From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final...

Superb new translations of Gorky's classic memoirs of Tolstoy and other remarkable Russians, along with unforgettable characterizations of Gorky himself by his contemporaries Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) enjoyed worldwide fame of...

Drawing on archival sources, much of it neglected by Sand's previous biographers, Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand's writing and defined her life....

Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. And it was a very long age indeed: he became famous in the mid-1890s and remained so until...

A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem,...

A biography of Thomas Gray, exploring the life of the English poet and our understanding of his personality and influential body of work. Robert L. Mack draws in developments in...

In the span of less than a generation, university humanities departments have experienced an almost unbelievable reversal of attitudes, now attacking and undermining what had previously been considered best and...

Written by a veteran foreign correspondent and former Moscow bureau chief for the Toronto Star, this riveting book presents the first comprehensive investigation into the organized crime and corruption that...

For 40 years the Soviet-American nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet...

Bernard Lewis is internationally recognised as an outstanding scholar and historian of Middle Eastern and Islamic history, who has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also,...

Elizabeth Wilson's life of Jaqueline Du Pre is authorized by Barenboim and has exclusive access to familly papers. She has tracked down hitherto unheard recordings, and the book is the...

The book titled Cecil Beaton: The Authorized Biography by the author Hugo Vickers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'It is impossible to imagine a world in which Wagner never happened. - He was at the same time a horror, a phenomenon and a genius. But he was Wagner...

During the height of his own literary acclaim, Ezra Pound became notorious for supporting Mussolini, openly criticizing Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the war, and launching anti-Semitic tirades. Until now the...

The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book...

This selection of travel writing from "The Spectator" covers diversity of experience and is arranged in geographical sections (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Far East and Australia, North...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie. 'A Moment of War' is the magnificent conclusion to...

Eva Luna, entwined with her lover in bed, is asked to tell him a story 'you have never told anyone before'. As she relates a tale of twenty-three interwoven parts,...

One of Thailand's best-known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman Nopporn, a Thai student studying in Japan, is...

The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen...

One of the iconic American playwright's late great plays, to be published during his centenary Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the...

In this life of Baudelaire (1821-67) Claude Pichois has drawn on a century's worth of research and scholarship. Baudelaire's short life was a frought one, plagued by disease, impecuniousness and...

The book titled A Life with Alan: The Diary of A.J.P.Taylor's Wife, Eva, from 1978 to by the author Eva Haraszti Taylor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...

The book titled A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, 1913-50 by the author Duff Cooper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Statesman, political thinker, orator, and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the most brilliant figures of the eighteenth century. This unorthodox biography focuses on Burke's thoughts, responses, and actions...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the...

The second volume of Ray Monk's biography of Bertrand Russell focuses on Russell's tragic and moving relationship with his first son John. It traces the story, from Russell's ecstacy at...

The book titled The Originals: Who's Really Who in Fiction by the author William Amos. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.