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The roars of the hungry Minotaur came nearer and nearer - his feet could be heard thundering along the echoing floor of the labyrinth... Meet the original heroes of Greece...

Author: Various Format: Leather / fine binding Number of Pages: 704 The romance of the story Beauty and the Beast - the triumph of love over looks - has fascinated...

Tales from Shakespeare, written by Charles and Mary Lamb as an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and...

A lively and enchanting collection of much-loved tales, new to Penguin Classics Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously...

Author: Andrew Lauder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA compelling biographical profile of one of New Zealand’s most dynamic political figures, David...

Author: Various AuthorsFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 736 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2015This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic....

Fritz Lang, director of films such as "Metropolis", "M" and "The Big Heat", established his reputation in Germany during the silent era. When Hitler rose to power, Lang emigrated to...

Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe...

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War --winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and...

"My Lords, The several Goals and Places for the Confinement of Felons in this Kingdom being in so crouded a State ... I ... signify to your Lordships His Majesty's...

The book titled Brook Andrew Peace and Hope by the author Marcia Langton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines...

To celebrate our 90th birthday, a reissue of the biography of a phenomenal individual and the story of Penguin Books. By founding Penguin Books in 1935 and popularizing the paperback,...

Author: Robert BlakeBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the life and political career of...

A book of the year for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail'Gloriously tender and funny . . . with My Family and Other Rock Stars, Murray...

Andres Serrano (*1950 in New York), one of the most celebrated representatives of international contemporary photography and art, achieved major prominence for his work Piss Christ which to this day...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - hinges cracked. Text - clean. A focused monograph on Australian painter Andrew...

A vital and searching exploration of sadness and depression in the age of anti-depressants and quick-fix solutions What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or...

With warmth, a popular radio and podcast host shares her love of language, weaving together linguistic history, regional phrases, the hidden poetry in etymologies, new words, and stories from her...

Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly...

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an...

The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the defeat of settler colonialism, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths...

Along the border of gentrifying Los Angeles, a teenage girl is found dead at a construction site. Homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton's partner assumes it's a suicide. Lou isn't buying...

For the first time, the whole uncensored story of one of the financial world's most flamboyant characters. In some ways, Rene Rivkin's story was the classic tale of an immigrant...

' Now's the time to curl up with a ghostly tale - and this collection should be your go to!' Fabulous 'This cracking collection of spooky tales is perfect for...

"Enchanting, breathtaking and beautiful... If you need me, I'll be in Storyland" - Ben Miller DREAM OF THE HEROES AND MONSTERS RIGHT ON YOUR DOORSTEP. THIS IS WHERE WE BEGAN....

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer 'A masterpiece' Andrew...

During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can...

So this is surfing in Britain, I told myself as I grumpily walked up a slope of wet rocks and wispy beach grass, trying to keep a foothold as rain...

A BAFFLING MURDER IN RURAL CHINA. AN EXILED DETECTIVE. AND POLITICS AS DEADLY AS A KILLER. 'Parts the bamboo curtain to reveal a detailed and pacy portrait of police work...

In April 1871, a constable walking a beat near Greenwich found a girl dying in the mud - her face cruelly slashed and her brains protruding from her skull. The...

Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle...

'Arditti is a master storyteller who uses his theological literacy sparingly to deliver a challenging but enthralling read' Guardian Award-winning, bestselling author Michael Arditti's tenth novel, documenting the history of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the brutal crucible of a British penal colony at the edge of the known world, one soldier's...

Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger ' A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara Nadel 'This debut promises...

Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including...

By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U. S. as a hyperpower, to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented...

This book will showcase 100 never been seen before gardens and could be the most comprehensive book on Australian garden design ever produced. As a follow on from the successful...