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At 0500 on Tuesday 3 May 2005, a lone Antonov-32 transport flies through the dawn light over the Himalayas and approaches the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Its destination is the notorious...

Hector Grieve was once the angriest young man in the world...He is now a hellraising soldier of fortune. Protecting Cambodia's ancient ruins from looters, he makes bloodthirsty speeches to his...

Author: Elise Downing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2021 Running away from your problems doesn't solve anything -...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition shown as picturedHostages To Fortune is a poignant literary novel that chronicles the life of...

Jack Absolute is returning to England. On the voyage home, Jack helps in the defeat of a privateer, gaining a friend in a charismatic Irishman, Red Hugh McClune, along with...

Martin Westley has lost his memory and quite possibly his mind. He has a wife who despises him, a son who ignores him and a daughter who is drifting away....

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Nam penned on fep. Binding: Intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible. A rousing maritime adventure novel, Spoiling for...

The mind-body problem is widely seen as the great remaining challenge to science and philosophy. Why and how did matter evolve to take on the quality of mind? The author...

How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research,...

When Humphrey hears about a sailing competition on Potter's Pond, he longs for a BIG-BIG-BIGGER adventure. And believe us, he gets one... but it isn't all smooth sailing. He helps...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the powdered wig and the austere bench of the Old Bailey stood one of the most formidable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in British legal history commanded the courtroom with such quiet authority as Sir Travers Humphreys, a...

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'Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys...

Dear Friends Jingle bells and dancing snowflakes, Christmas was coming and suddenly my life as a classroom hamster became unsqueakably exciting! The music teacher, Miss Lark, spent a lot of...

Author: Chris Humphreys Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Three lands. Each ruled in different ways by a decadent immortal elite for their own pleasure and power. They know nothing...

Author: W. G. HumphreysBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1962Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsA Commonwealth Anthology is a curated collection of works that reflects the diverse literary voices...

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Author: Barry HumphriesBinding: HardbackPublished: Currency Press Sydney, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsBarry Humphries, the master of comedic characterization, presents A Nice Night's Entertainment, a collection that chronicles...

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Author: Humphrey CarpenterBinding: PaperbackPublished: Allen & Unwin., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine is cracked - page section is slightly detaching from binding, tanning...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Very good, no visible tears or major damage. Page Condition: Good, coffee stain on top corner. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover binding. No...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markings"Death Train" is an action thriller that sends a crack unit of covert operatives racing across Europe to intercept a...

Author: Barry HumphriesBinding: HardbackPublished: Currency Press., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents a vibrant and often satirical look at Australian...

The book titled Alistair MacLean's "Night Watch" by the author Alastair MacNeill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A most promising debut for the talented Humphreys.' Marcel Berlins, The Times Clarissa Morland is twenty-seven, attractive, shy -and standing trial for the murder of her ex-lover John Grant. John...

" A joyous rallying cry for middle-aged couch potatoes everywhere " - Mike Parker, author of All the Wide Border " Steve's adventure reminds us all that wildness and countryside...

Adam Athelstan grows and sells-and sings to-very rare flowers.Where once the whim of the Hebrew God determined the fate of that tribe's greatest heroes, in Waxed Exceeding Mighty it is...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY CHILDREN'S TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019. Some of the greatest adventurers of all time have once failed. Many more have had to...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in twentieth-century British public life...

'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, reissued to mark Tolkien's 125th Anniversary. In more than 40 years since Tolkien's...

" A joyous rallying cry for middle-aged couch potatoes everywhere " - Mike Parker, author of All the Wide Border " Steve's adventure reminds us all that wildness and countryside...

Author: Simon Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 "A truly inspiring journey that celebrates the healing power of adventure. A must-read." - Levison Wood "Wonderfully relatable on so many...

'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...

Young flyer Willa Briggs is thrilled to meet air ace Grace O'Gorman, let alone to co-pilot her bid to break the record for non-stop flight. The current record of 25...