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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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Letters To Camondo (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,SignedWhat would you say to a man whose world was annihilated within a generation? In Letters to Camondo, Edmund de Waal — celebrated...
Letters to Camondo: 'Immerses you in another age' Financial Times
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son...
The White Road: A Journey Into Obsession
The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The gripping story of the lure of...
We Are Movement: Unlocking Your Physical Intelligence
'This is a revolutionary book which will improve the lives of all its readers... highly recommend' Paloma Faith 'A deeply humane book about how we move and touch the world...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters
Author: Natasha Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS 'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL...
A Noble Madness: The dark side of collecting from antiquity to now
'A magisterial rethinking of why we collect. I loved this book' Edmund de Waal 'Magnificent . . . so compulsive and entertaining' Stephen Fry 'Give it to the collector in...
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Laura Cumming, a kaleidoscopic memoir connecting her life as an art critic with the vivid world of her father's paintings and those of the...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'
'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
Exiles: Three Island Journeys
Author: William AtkinsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' - EDMUND DE WAAL'Atkins spins...
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' - Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.'...
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and
'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian Keyes AS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4 From the award-winning...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL,...
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times
Author: Kit de Waal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian...
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and
'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian KeyesAS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4From the award-winning author of...
Supporting Cast
Author: Kit de Waal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A deeply moving collection of stories featuring characters from My Name is Leon and The Trick to Time As she...
The Ape and the Sushi Master
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Quick Reads 2024
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Kit de Waal and her brother and sisters had a hard childhood in the West Midlands. Her Irish mother didn't feed them, didn't believe in Christmas or birthdays, and thought...
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other
To observe a dog's guilty look. to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals...
Becoming Dinah
In her first YA novel, Costa-shortlisted Kit de Waal responds to classic MOBY DICK by tearing the power away from obsessive Captain Ahab and giving it to a teenage girl....
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLLER In this groundbreaking and entertaining book, primatologist Frans de Waal draws on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos and...
Becoming Dinah
Author: Kit de Waal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In her first YA novel, Costa-shortlisted Kit de Waal responds to classic MOBY DICK by tearing the power...
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
Author: Frans de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 How different are men and women? Is gender uniquely human or do other primates also learn gendered roles? Drawing on...
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes
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The book titled Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes by the author Franz de Waal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Our Inner Ape: The Best and Worst of Human Nature
We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to co-operation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our...
Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero, And Martyr
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Author: Evelyn WaughBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageEvelyn Waugh’s masterful biography of Edmund Campion offers a penetrating...
The Life And Letters Of Sir Edmund Gosse
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Author: The Hon. Evan Charteris, K.C.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small stamps on prelims, otherwise internally sound. This...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Orbital
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set...
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time. 'An exquisite book' -
'A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.' TELEGRAPH 'Every page glitters' SPECTATOR 'Mesmerising' NEW STATESMAN A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ______________________ In Hands...
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater's prose...
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth
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St.Edmund of Abingdon
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St Edmund was the last Archbishop of Canterbury and the first Oxford master to have been officially canonized. This book offers a careful scrutinisation of the hagiographic tradition and the...