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Edward Thomas, poet, essayist, and critic, with some thirty books to his name, was thirty-nine when he was killed in the Arras offensive on Easter Day, 1917. F.R. Leavis singled...

Bringing back into Penguin the poems and prose of the extraordinary writer and war poet Edward Thomas - with an introduction from bestselling English writer Robert Macfarlane 'I have come...

Author: Matthew HollisFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 233mm, 215g, 416 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets capture the fragile beauty of the English countryside with the...

A 'play for voices', "Under Milk Wood" is a delightful modern pastoral set in an imagined seaside town. The 'dismays and rainbows' of its inhabitants are played out within the...

Author: E. Barrington ThomasBinding: HardbackPublished: -, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA compelling collection of essays presents a wide array of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright text. Alternative America: Henry...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew writers have captured the soul of rural England with such raw...

A new edition of Dylan Thomas's dazzling radio play It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent... In the Welsh seaside town of...

The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart It is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One freezing morning,...

Author: Edward Carpenter, M.A., Ph.D., B.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: SPCK, 1948Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis biography delves into the life and times of Thomas Tenison, offering...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...

At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war "at once." Stimson is waiting for...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...

Want to make it among the wealthy, upper-class students at the University of Oxford? Then you'd better have something interesting to say when people ask about your identity. Luckily, Edward...

Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning consistent with age (1913 publication); minor insect damage on title page. Markings: No visible...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in the annals of the British Empire contain such stark contradictions as...

There has been speculation over the loss of the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic ever since the tragic event of her sinking, which occurred during the night of Sunday 14...

Want to make it among the wealthy, upper-class students at the University of Oxford? Then you'd better have something interesting to say when people ask about your identity. Luckily, Edward...

Author: Thomas Hardy, Edward LeesonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tear front bottom left corner (see photo)The Bedside Hardy is a...

This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and...

Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...

The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to...

Author: Edward J. CashinBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Georgia Press, 1989Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsEdward J. Cashin's The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown And The American...

PREORDER DAVID GILMAN'S THRILLING NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL THE KNIFE MAKER OF VENICE NOW! THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR COMES TO LIFE WITH DAVID GILMAN In this gripping historical adventure, Master of...

Desperate Remedies was Hardy's first published work, and combines murder mystery with a powerful love story. Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'....

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE* A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt...

An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from \"The World's Greatest Living Explorer\" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by...

Author: S. G. FosterBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the life and influence of Edward Deas Thomson, a pivotal...

Secondhand Garden & Botany Bargain Book Box SP4170 Australian natives, Japanese design, ferns, bonsai, rhododendrons and roses: eighteen gardening and botany books, nearly all hardback. Grow What Where, the Edna...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE* A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt...

Karen Edwards offers a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which Milton is shown to represent Eden's plants and animals in the light of the century's new, scientific natural history....

New edition Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThomas De Quincey's The Opium Eater & Selections From The Autobiography presents a seminal work of confessional literature, offering an...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded spineA richly accessible work of popular history, The House of History: The Basement — From the Earliest Men to...

Tony Thomas's new essays pulverise "woke" causes including climate doomism; the Aboriginal industry; and the ABC's bias. While society goes mad with political correctness, Tony gives sanity and laughter a...

Author: Thomas, HelenBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1956, First Combined EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book weaves together personal reflections and broader themes of existence,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew poets have lived as ferociously and as brilliantly as Dylan Thomas, the Welsh wordsmith whose voice, verse, and vices made him one of...

Author: Neville WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Barrie & Rockliff, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical biography chronicles the tumultuous life of Thomas Howard Fourth Duke Of Norfolk,...

This is a novel about how Lawrence of Arabia honed his expertise and cultural understanding to become one of the most pivotal figures in the Arab revolt of World War...

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