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A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career "He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in...

Author: Derek Walcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career He gives us more than himself or 'a world';...

An astonishingly candid book from the Nobel Laureate about what has shaped his interpretation of literature and the world. For the "serious traveller", one who is fully engaged with the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY 'It is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in...

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry In this 'graceful, elegant translation' (Guardian), Poet Laureate Simon Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the Middle English tale with all...

Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul's writing has been characterized by a commitment to truth that gives his work a unique luminosity and brilliance. In "A...

A new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through language In Waiting for the Past, Les Murray employs his molten sense of language...

Author: William Sieghart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and glamorous' Carol Ann Duffy 100 Prized...

David Icke, the world's most controversial author, has spent the last quarter of a century unravelling the secrets of the Universe, reality and the forces that manipulate our world. What...

In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all...

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade...

The book titled Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Personality by the author Hesketh Pearson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Robert WalcottBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Yellowing to end pages and dust jacket and tears on...

Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was...

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Author: Richard WoolcottBinding: HardbackPublished: HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited, 2003Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe authoritative volume The Hot Seat: Reflections On Diplomacy From Stalin's Death To The Bali Bombings...

George Eliot's last novel is a richly textured portrait of British society and the Jewish experience within it As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared...

This is a unique new reference book to English-language writers and writing throughout the present century, in all major genres and from all around the world - from Joseph Conrad...

Talcott Parsons has been one of the most influential American sociologists of the postwar period. Bryan Turner's selections from Parsons' work provide a comprehensive overview of his principal contributions and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst performed in 1610, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist stands as one of the most brilliantly constructed comedies in...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,...

`Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy, fog-choked streets of 1830s London, a young Italian street boy vanished — and the chilling truth of what happened to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew regions of England reward the curious traveller as richly as Oxford and the Cotswolds,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: gift edition in slipcase; illustrated endpapers; appears unreadIn a world where magic is hidden in plain sight, an orphaned boy sleeping under...

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween. It is...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew memoirs capture the delicate threshold between boyhood and manhood with the quiet brilliance of The Golden Sovereign, the concluding...

Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill Drakulic draws...

Their Convenient Tuscan Marriage - Bronwyn Scott Sparks that burn... hotter than a Tuscan summer! After a haunting loss, restless Colonel Hayes Winterton accepts his father's mission to secure a...

Thirty years of silence. A detective with nothing left to lose. Someone will do anything to keep it that way... 'Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine ' Elly Griffiths RUNNING...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of...

Unique collection of short stories When the descendant of an ancient aristocratic family moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral home in the south of England, he is plagued...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFrom the celebrated author of Eat, Pray, Love comes a deeply personal meditation on the forces that shape a human life — love in...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWarm, sun-drenched, and brimming with the spirit of the Australian landscape, Knee Deep in Sunshine by Charles Madox-Brown is an...

The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of...

The intoxicating and bloodthirsty finale to the New York Times bestselling The Cruel Prince, nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019,and New York Times bestseller The Wicked King After being...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the classrooms of Melbourne's Church of England Grammar School to the wider world of literary appreciation, Modern...

Long before the picturesque village of Little Marlow became a well-known location for filming episodes of popular television crime shows such as Inspector Morse, Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders, the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the brooding, mist-laden highlands of Scotland, A Falcon for a Queen draws readers into a world of mystery,...

Romance, danger and intrigue await you in the breathtaking sixth book in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series. What was broken will be remade. Deep in...

'Witty, funny, warm and wise' Marian Keyes Is it a break? Or is it a blip? 'You've just had a holiday,' I pointed out, trying not to yawn. 'Wasn't that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFour masterworks of pulse-pounding suspense are gathered in this complete and unabridged omnibus edition from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated architects of...