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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.

Run away to the circus with this book by the award-winning Australian novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard.Welcome to Haxby's Circus, the lightest, brightest little show on earth. From Bendigo to Narrabri,...

Written by a team of medical experts, this market-leading illustrated dictionary contains 12,400 authoritative entries covering all aspects of medical science. The text has been fully revised and updated for...

The work of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) has become an cultural reference-point. This volume examines the entire range of Arnold's literary, social and religious criticism, as well as his poetry, and...

This is an up-to-date biography of one of the 20th century's finest German novelists, the author of "Death in Venice", "The Magic Mountain" and "The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence...

"Thoroughly readable....A fascinating introduction to the world of the Jew in 19th-century Europe, viewed through the eyes of a brilliant and perceptive artist."--AB Bookman's Weekly. "A first-rate eye-opener, a fascinating...

A Superficial Journey is the result of a year spent in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Peking. "A kind of travel film, a sequence in which image suggests image," it describes, in...

Through quiet meadows, rolling hills, leafy suburbia, industrial sites, and a changing London riverside, Mick Sinclair tracks the Thames from source to sea, documenting internationally-known landmarks such as Tower Bridge...

Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused...

Part biography, part critical appraisal, "The Anti-Egotist" aims to capture the essence of Kingsley Amis as a man of letters. Paul Fussell traces the influences that have shaped Amis's writing,...

This is a fascinating study - part biography, part cultural history - about George Orwell and his literary reputation. No one gained such sudden fame as Orwell did in the...

Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public...

This account of the history of the Arabs, from pre-Islamic times to the present day, considers Arabic culture, society and politics, as well as the place of the Arabs in...

In addition to the text of "The Two Noble Kinsmen", a play that the editor contends was written by Shakespeare in collaboration with his younger colleague Fletcher, this book includes...

During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of...

This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in...

Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew . It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in...

The climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, this book is a celebration of a young warrior-king. It is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war and...

From Sanskrit to Scouse, this volume provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective...

The book titled Intellectual Memoirs OBE/R by the author McCarthy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English...

Published throughout Europe to widespread acclaim and prestigious awards, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is by turns haunting and funny. As suspenseful as a masterfully crafted mystery, it...

WINNER OF THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION 'Haunting . . . Beautifully written' The New York Times Book...

Packed full of hours of fun, this very silly Bumper Book is a must-have for every child! A handy travel-sized paperback, great for holidays, car trips or when you're stuck...

For fans of Michelle Paver's Chronicles of Ancient Darkness and the Spirit Animals series comes this exciting new Stone Age series, perfect for middle readers. Tarin longs to be a...

The selected writings of one of the foremost innovators in psychoanalysis Although she always remained faithful to the basic frameworks established by her father, Anna Freud (1895-1982) was one of...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Ed Glinert It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop....

First paperback publication of Peter Ackroyd's incredibly well-received retelling The Canterbury Tales is a major part of England's literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the...

First time in Penguin Classics for this single-volume edition of Churchill's most famous speeches The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business...

A classics coming-of-age adventure that distils Scottishness This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words,...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless,...

A dazzling novella from one of the most daring American authors Tender and nostalgic, Quiet Days in Clichy is a celebration of love, art, and the bohemian life, written in...

Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work The second volume of The Rosy Crucifixion, Plexus is the core of the...

Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work The first novel in the autobiographical Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, Sexus depicts Miller's first...

Nexus is the last volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work The last volume of The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, Nexus continues the story of...

The classic introduction to Celtic literature and culture Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and...

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power;...

For the first time this Latin American bestseller is published in Penguin Modern Classics 'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest...

'How often, honestly, does the unveiling in translation of a 'forgotten genius' live up to the hype? Well here's one that does: Raduan Nassar' Times Literary Supplement 'I felt the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery After the death of Henry V, the French revolt and threaten to reclaim...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Under the rule of King John, England is forced into war when the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Henry VI is tricked into marrying Margaret - lover of the Earl of...

The final Sherlock Holmes novel links a gruesome murder in England to strange and violent events in the United States The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out...

The first Sherlock Holmes novel - a story of letters written in blood, Mormonism and poison pills When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock...

A superb selection of some of Sherlock Holmes' most brilliant cases As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but...

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the...

The first English publication of Simenon's compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions 'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion...