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The book titled Best Short Stories: 1989 by the author Giles Gordon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

' A gripping tale of tropical corruption ' Spectator ' A genuine imaginative achievement ' Daily Telegraph ' As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I...

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Manchester United scooping the treble, Schumacher barging Hill off the track, Tyson chewing Holyfield, England being beaten on penalties by just about everyone, name a defining sporting moment of the...

Author: Kenneth GilesBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: dust jacket chipped, tanned and worn; plastic jacket installed; pages significantly...

Author: Kenneth GilesBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1969Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerDeath Cracks A Bottle presents a classic whodunit, where a seemingly innocuous object...

Paperback Unearthed from the vast collection of the National Archives by Giles Milton’s ‘metaphorical metal detecting’, here are 100 nuggets of almost – but not quite – forgotten history and...

Author: Christopher HibbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the tumultuous events of the 1780 Gordon...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA classic entry in the golden age tradition of British detective fiction, Death Cracks...

Author: Richard GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, London, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis witty novel, Nuts In May, presents a delightful comedic narrative, chronicling the misadventures of its memorable...

Post-war Australia didn't know what to make of promoter Lee Gordon. To some he was a typical Yank: crass, loud and outspoken, focused on just one thing - making money....

Post-war Australia didn't know what to make of promoter Lee Gordon. To some he was a typical Yank: crass, loud and outspoken, focused on just one thing - making money....

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. In the annals of Australian political history, few figures commanded as much respect...

Author: Gordon RussellBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis autobiography presents the life and career of Gordon Russell,...

Edward Trencom has bumbled through life, relying on his trusty nose to turn the family cheese shop into the most celebrated fromagerie in England. But his world is turned upside...

Author: Harry GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: LANSDOWNE PRESS MELBOURNE, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical biography chronicles the extraordinary life of an Aboriginal warrior, whose defiance...

Author: Harry GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: Cheshire Press; Lansdowne Press, 1962Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: ex-library copy; cloth cover wrapped in...

This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Bound in blue cloth with a blue/green spine, the binding remains intact and square; the cloth shows general age-related fading and light soiling, the spine cloth...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded DJ with small tear. Light stains on endpapers. "Adam Lindsay Gordon: The Man and the Myth" is...

Author: Max GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Australia, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography, First Australian-Born Governor-General: Sir Isaac Isaacs 1855-1948, chronicles the remarkable life...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsUnknownA vibrant and concisely told biography of one of the 19th century’s most revered comic geniuses. Incidents in the Life...

Author: Soula Emmanuel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Soula is the most exciting new voice in Irish writing' Barry Pierce, i-D 'One of my favourite books so far this...

'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters' RODDY DOYLE 'It's not every...

'Soula Emmanuel's prose is breathtaking: searingly sharp, deliciously funny, profound. Wild Geese is a beautiful and devastating read. An extraordinary debut. I loved this deeply intelligent and emotionally powerful novel'...

Author: Sam Byers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The new novel from the author of Perfidious Albion - a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and...

Author: Sam Byers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The new novel from the author of Perfidious Albion - a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and...