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Edition: LE - No. 291 of 800 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the rugged and untamed landscape of colonial Tasmania, one man carved out a life that would...

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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

Displaying an enviable depth of interest and knowledge, Fenton's pieces range from a controversial essay on Egyptian funerary portraits - he questions whether in fact they were death portraits at...

Author: Justin Fenton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in...

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Author: Justin Fenton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in...

At a time when the world has been blindsided by failures of intelligence, a veteran CBS News correspondent reveals how the news media has betrayed our trust and endangered our...

Author: Dorothy FentonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Self-Published, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMemoir-style writing, capturing the reflective journey of the author's life from...

Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey - from...

This is an account of a trip up the Orinoco river and across the Amazon basin in which the author discovered that poisonous snakes and life-threatening diseases were not the...

'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history of Britain you were never taught at school, fully...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...

What would you do if you could literally rewrite your fate--on Facebook? This heartwarming and hilarious new novel from the authors of Your Perfect Life follows a woman who discovers...

The shark was pale, shiny grey and quite magnificent. Hypnotised by the creature's eyes, like large black discs, he was hardly aware of other people gathering tightly around him.It's the...

Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature' Peter Wohlleben James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying...

Jack Reacher, \"the coolest series character\" (Stephen King), returns in a brand new, pulse-pounding read from Lee and Andrew Child. Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about...

Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...

Henry Stanfield is pleased with his new title: 'Truth Commissioner' has a pleasing ring to it. But his neutrality, as the product of an Irish Catholic mother and an English...

Part of a series of new editions of Lawrence's works From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts...

Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James...

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Author: Rubinstein, Hilary LBinding: HardbackPublished: Scottish Academic Press Limited, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis political biography presents the turbulent life of James, first Duke of Hamilton, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century Britain, where loyalty was a currency as volatile as gunpowder, James Hamilton, First Duke...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: slightly shaky, no loose pages. Few figures in the world...

A macabre ancient artefact. An innovative bio tech company connected to the highest levels of government. And the trail of bloodshed in its wake. 'Finally got my Tony McLean fix'...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew names in the history of Australian boxing ring with the same ferocity and triumph as Jeff Fenech — a three-weight world...

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the genteel parlours and tree-lined streets of 1840s New York, Washington Square presents one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew authors have captured the thundering tension of the racing world quite like Dick Francis, and this complete and unabridged omnibus collects five of...

Scaldingly honest, impeccably researched and movingly written, 'MAXED OUT' is, as 'FAST FOOD NATION' was to the food industry, the book the captains of the debt industry wish you would...

In WHO ARE WE? author Samuel Huntington turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only...

Quentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with Roald Dahl on books such as The Giraffe and the Pelly...

If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line until the eighteenth century, when the...

President, whistleblower, crusader. Exposure is the story of how Michael Woodford exposed the dark heart of Olympus. When Michael Woodford was made President and CEO of Olympus, he became the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a celebrated modern novelist writes a series of letters to her reluctant niece, urging her...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; pages can have minimal notes and/or highlighting; signed ephemera laid in. What happens when a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the fog-laden, gaslit streets of late Victorian London, a seemingly unremarkable shopkeeper named Adolf Verloc leads a...