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A new generation of young readers is sure to delight in this enduring tale of love and torment by Gaston Leroux originally published in 1909-featuring a freshly reimagined cover! Filled...

New to Penguin Black Classics, the fully annotated edition of Mireille Ribi re's acclaimed translation Rumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House,...

New to Penguin Clothbound Classics, Gaston Leroux's classic tale of Gothic horror and tragic romance Rumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA masterful anthology of crime fiction, Great French Detective Stories presents a curated collection of mystery tales drawn...

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Author: Dominic Bliss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature. The book...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark of South African literature, To a Dubious Salvation is an...

Author: Louis Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic...

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Step inside Louis' life like never before as he turns his critical eye on himself, his home, and family and tries to make sense of our weird and sometimes scary...

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One-off Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box Dive into a world of captivating stories with our specially curated book box! This collection features a diverse range of contemporary fiction, from heartwarming...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the vast, lonely marshes of the Essex coast, a reclusive, hunchbacked painter named Philip Rhayader finds an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt a time when East and West stood at a profound crossroads of faith and understanding, E. Stanley Jones convened an extraordinary...

Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings, alongside ON THE ROAD, THE TOWN AND THE CITY & THE SUBTERRANEANS As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian medical history command as much reverence as Albert Coates — surgeon, soldier, and survivor — whose extraordinary life is chronicled...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, sun-scorched deserts of Central Asia, a vanished city holds the secrets of an entire civilisation...

Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact "do more." The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis matched set of eight royal and notable women’s biographies opens with John...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn a twentieth century defined by political upheaval and ideological warfare, few lives stand as a more extraordinary testament to...

'This book is NUTS! - in the best possible way. A relentless roller coaster ride through the heaven and hell of modern Russia' PETER POMERANZEV 'Written with all the pace...

A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy. Once described as 'that metropolis of dress...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the twentieth century's most candid and revelatory memoirs, Christopher Isherwood chronicles his own life with...

In this new edition of Licence To Thrill , James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of the history of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the sun-scorched bush and dusty shearing sheds of colonial Australia, Henry Lawson gave voice to the larrikins, battlers, and wanderers that defined a...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent half-century between the Congress of Vienna and the unification of Germany, a...

History & Military Bargain Book Box A unit of SAS men who went into the Western Desert dressed as Nazi stormtroopers. Ethel Rosenberg, executed on evidence her own brother later...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the most monumental achievements in historical literature, Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn one of the most thrilling wagers in all of Victorian literature, the supremely composed English gentleman Phileas Fogg...

When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Langton Quartet by Martin Boyd is a four-volume family saga of Australian literary fiction that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when two irreverent wits are let loose among the greatest masterpieces of Western art? Captions Courageous, or Comments...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew thriller writers of the twentieth century commanded the page with the assured grip of Desmond Bagley, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA candid and courageous self-portrait, Christopher and His Kind chronicles the decade between 1929 and 1939, when a young Christopher...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat to the eve of the Second World War, Documents in...

When Addie Baum's 22-year old granddaughter asks her about her childhood, Addie realises the moment has come to relive the full history that shaped her. Addie Baum was a Boston...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodLaughter, it turns out, is one of the most faithfully recorded phenomena in human history — and The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes is its...

Eighty short stories by a master of the genre O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities are unmatched. These stories-about con men and tricksters and "innocent"...

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur,...

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass , launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient...

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...