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In the heyday of Empire just before the First World War, Lord Cromer was second only to Lord Curzon in fame and public esteem. In the days when Cairo and...

This volume trace ways in which time is represented in reverse forms throughout modernist culture, from the beginning of the twentieth century until the decade after World War II. Though...

Ben Jonson was commonly regarded during his lifetime and the century following his death as a writer whose powers were equal, if not superior, to those of Shakespeare. By the...

Questions the manner in which, since the 18th century, a supposed English cultural centre has controlled the way we read. The author interrogates the Anglocentricity of the subject "English literature",...

What is going on in English studies? Bernard Bergonzi, a literary critic and teacher, who has also published poetry and fiction and has been involved in university administration, seeks to...

This book is intended for students of art history; Australian art; aboriginal art.

With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive and now more-timely-than-ever history of...

Sean Fitzpatrick played for the best rugby team on the planet, the All Blacks. His aggressive, uncompromising approach made him one of the greatest players ever. Ruthless, devious and compelling...

Vincent O'Sullivan draws on a large collection of personal papers, official records, and contemporary memoirs for this vivid portrait of a man who remains enduringly fascinating, emblematic of so much...

Is it OK to wear a bikini after forty? What about peacock-blue toenail polish with bright-white hair and a faceful of slap? If you don't bother with make-up, bosom upholstery...

Briefly traces the development of the city, describes buildings of historic and architectural significance, and includes information about architects and architectural terms and styles.

The book titled Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet by the author Dr. Germaine Greer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Shelley: The Pursuit by the author Richard Holmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The work of Jung has had an incalculable effect on the development of psychology for scholars, students and the lay person alike. This book provides an introduction to the theories...

The book titled The Railway Station Man by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled George Orwell: A Life by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Everyday tragedy comes face to face with the magical and inexplicable in this haunting, poignant, addictive novel, which travels effortlessly across three generations and through time. This haunting, poignant and...

The unputdownable new Marshal Guarnaccia novel, from the acclaimed 'Donna Leon of Florence'. 'Credible, classy and compelling, Nabb is crime fiction at its best' Sunday Times It is spring in...

The new book from the author of Maverick! which sold 1.1 million copies worldwide. In The Seven-Day Weekend, Semler explains how he transformed a small family business into a highly...

The book titled Last Rites by the author Neil White. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"My name is Harriet Manners, and I will always be a geek." The fifth book in the bestselling, award-winning GEEK GIRL series. Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is....

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how...

The moving story of a woman sending her pilot son away to fight in World War II - from one of Scotland's bestselling, best-loved storytellers. Nancy MacLeod's great-great-grandfather brought his...

The book titled The Uses of Error by the author Frank Kermode. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Featuring breathtaking photographs of masks created by a renowned twenty-first-century craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective into noh and kyogen, two of the oldest surviving forms of theater in...

The Leningrad System is one of the sharpest and most interesting replies to 1 d4, and since this typical set-up is also playable against the flank openings 1 c4 and...

The book titled Russian by the author Berlitz Guides. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Richard Harrison has spent most of his life as a spy. But that's all behind him; he wants nothing more than a quiet retirement in the cathedral town of Canterbury....

Introduction by Fiona Wright 'I hate and despise business and anything to do with making money.' 'Do you think it's wrong?' 'It is the enemy of art.' Eighteen-year-old Honor Lawrence...

A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper...

At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences...

Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full ofunilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and...

Redemption is born of guilt, and weighs heavy on even the strongest man. Traumatised by the disappearance of his daughter Claire, Taylor Bridges' marriage breaks down, and he exiles himself...

Alistair Greenwood, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, hosts a luncheon at his faultless 17th Century home. Its perfection is marred by the incompatability of the guests and the...

This anthology is intended to answer the need for a large-scale anthology of early Scottish Literature, which is felt particularly acutely in the academic field. It has been designed as...

Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...

Signs and Wonders offers an account of some of the most original and powerful writers of our age and of earlier times. The book is intended for the general reader,...

Ford's novel, "Parade's End", has been acknowledged as one of the great British novels about World War I. This book features a selection of Ford's other writings about the war,...

These books are perfect for enthusiastic chess players who are starting out in the game, and who are seeking to understand the basic principles behind these important openings: the Pirc/Modern...

From dungeon to cathedral, from brothel to hermit's hut, the gambits of the mighty face the power of seers and stars. In the fortress of Bren, mad King Kylock and...

CONTENTS WORDS AND MUSIC 1. Quiet Subversive John Updike 2. A Sonnet Setting Alexander Goehr 3. Brooksmith by Henry James Daniel Stern 4. Recollections Robert Tear 5. Afterwards Al Alvarez...

The book titled Patton's Third Army at War by the author George Forty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.