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Author: Colin Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944...

This book contains a collection of stories of captivity and escape from World Wars I and II, all involving Australian soldiers. The stories tell of capture, imprisonment and escape -...

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The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three...

In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and...

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is the shocking seminal novel that spawned one of the most notorious films ever made. Fifteen-year-old Alex and his thrill-seeking gang regularly indulge in ultra-violence,...

In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light...

WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006 Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider...

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A delightful and uniquely imaginative tribute to the Bard, incorporating biography, theatrical history, and a vivid recreation of the Elizabethan age. Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the twentieth century's most audacious literary achievements opens with a line that immediately signals its ambition: an eighty-one-year-old homosexual novelist,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA witty and erudite work of cultural history and personal essay, On Going to Bed presents Anthony Burgess's characteristically irreverent...

Colin Burrow's engaging (even amusing) introduction asks what the term metaphysical means and includes A Very Short History of Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Rochester. Spanning the Elizabethan age to...

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAnthony Burgess's Shakespeare stands as one of the most audacious and brilliantly conceived biographical studies of the English language's greatest...

'Lewis' eccentric memoir-cum-biography will be read long after Burgess' own works have vanished into oblivion.' Mail on Sunday 'There are passages of such brilliance - especially when he rails against...

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The book titled The Royal Marriages by the author Colin Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A Personal Portrait of the Royal Family elegantly showcases one man's devotion to the British Monarchy. Colin Edwards has become a familiar face at Royal events; so frequently attending visits...

The delirious kaleidoscope of a book is the culmination and distillation of twenty years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), the author who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the...

Author: Anthony BurgessBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson & Co, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Kingdom Of The Wicked by Anthony Burgess presents a compelling narrative that reimagines the early...

In these previously uncollected essays written over the past two decades by Anthony Burgess, the masterful English novelist and elegant stylist contemplates topics as various as oranges, Marilyn Monroe, Yiddish...

Author: J. Mordaunt CrookBinding: PaperbackPublished: John Murray, London, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Extensive pencil underlining of internal pagesThis authoritative volume chronicles the extraordinary career...

Author: Tim Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 380 Tim Burgess was born in Salford but grew up in a village near Northwich, Cheshire. Leaving school at 16 to work...

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The eleventh Inspector Morse novel begins when a body is discovered in a set of rooms off a prestigious staircase in the most famous Oxford college of them all. Colin...

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Author: Melvin Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Bloods are in control and they're desperate to turn Britain into the world they want to see: right, white, Christian...

Author: Anthony BurgessBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Soe minor tears to back of DJ.The novel reimagines the...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the chaos and dust of wartime China, one extraordinary woman carved out a legend that would outlast...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of economic theory and practical understanding, National Income: An Introduction presents a clear and accessible...

Author: Tony GouldBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsInside Outsider: The Life And Times Of Colin Macinnes chronicles the...

Author: Wright William & Robert Hughes (text); Colin Lanceley (paintings)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Craftsman House, Sydney, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image*Colin Lanceley* pairs...

An ability to punish errors in the opening i s an essential aspect of modern opening play. With this book , FIDE Master Graham Burgess presents a comprehensive collec tion...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: SignedA compelling sports memoir, this work chronicles the remarkable life of Colin McDonald, the legendary Australian opening batsman whose stoic...

Summer, 1951. Two suspected spies, Burgess and Maclean, have disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with their whereabouts. Speculation is at fever pitch when Colin Harris, a member of the...

Author: David Torrance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Born in Irvine in 1970 Nicola Sturgeon joined the SNP aged only 16 and devoted her teenage years to Glasgow University's...