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Author: Hugo Vickers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' Sunday...

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Author: Hugo Vickers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 832 Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated...

** The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' Sunday Times 'A continuously astonishing and ultimately moving account...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark work of biographical non-fiction, Hugo Vickers' exhaustive and authoritative portrait chronicles the extraordinary life of Cecil...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in twentieth-century British culture burned as brightly — or as eccentrically — as Sir Cecil Beaton, the legendary...

'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'One of the funniest, most...

Hugo's Gothic tale of Quasimodo In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a...

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Victor Hugo — leader of...

It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence...

Beautiful clothbound edition of Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love, ahead of the major new film starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. Part of Penguin's beautiful...

Penguin Classics relaunch A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for...

NOW A MAJOR BBC TV ADAPTATION 'Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism' Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times Read the masterful story of romance and revolution behind...

The book titled Victims by the author Hugh Miller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Justin Finn, at three, looks like any other child. But his face, one day, will be the exact match of the cold-blooded killer of whom he is a perfect genetic...

Biography of Queen Victoria's eldest child,who married the German emperor, Frederick III and whose eldest child became Kaiser Wilhelm II and took his country to war against his mother's native...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedLong before the gold rush fever and the roar of colonial ambition reshaped the Australian continent, the land that would become Victoria...

Author: Aliette de Bodard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats under tight military rule . . . where the powerful have...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn Persons of Consequence: Queen Victoria and Her Circle, Louis Auchincloss presents an incisive and elegantly crafted portrait of Victorian England through the lives of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOliver Goldsmith stands as one of the most brilliantly versatile figures of eighteenth-century English literature, and this collected volume brings together three of his most celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers of the eighteenth century captured the warmth, wit, and gentle irony of English life as...