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The Summer of Broken Stories
England, 1950s. While out playing in the woods, ten-year-old Mark meets a man living in an old railway carriage. Despite his wild appearance, the stranger, who introduces himself as Aubrey...
The Marriage Problem
In his first major polemical work since THE MORAL SENSE, distinguished criminologist and noted essayist James Q. Wilson tackles the root cause of civilization's decline - the collapse of traditional...
Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
Author: James Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The idea of an exceptional America remains controversial. In this dazzlingly comprehensive collection of essays, some of the nation's...
Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge
An exploration of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and of how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia....
One Foot on the Stage: The Biography of Richard Wilson
The life if Richard Wilson,the lugubrious actor best known from the series "One Foot In The Grave",whose on-screen incredulity is invariably marked by the droll if exasperated phrase "I dont...
The Brother
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Notes on Spain and the Spaniards, in the Summer of 1859, With A Glance At Sardinia
Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 This is a rare travelogue of an adventurous Charlestonian that highlights the rich intellectual life of the antebellum South. Privately published in...
The Bowman Standard
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AS THE WORLD SWIRLS IN MILITARY CONFLICT, SOCIAL DISORDER AND CLIMATE CATASTROPHE, GOVERNMENT LEADERS RECRUIT SUPER-FORECASTERS - THEIR NATION'S MOST NON-BIASED CITIZENS - TO PREDICT EVENTS AND PROPOSE POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS......
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH AWARD** D....
Ambitions And Realities: British Politics 1964-70
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA rigorous work of British political history, Ambitions and Realities: British Politics 1964-70 chronicles the turbulent...
J.C.W.: A Short Biography Of James Cassius Williamson
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Author: Jan G. DickerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Elizabeth Tudor Press, Rose Bay, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIan G. Dicker's J.C.W.: A Short Biography Of James Cassius Williamson chronicles...
The LBJ Brigade
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Woodrow Wilson
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This new biography of our 28th president is pithy and intelligent; it is also hurried. As with other titles in the Penguin Lives series, the match up of author and...
Paddington in Peru: The Story of the Movie
New for 2024, the unmissable, official novelisation of the third Paddington movie! In his third big screen outing from Studiocanal, the creators of Wonka and the Harry Potter movies,...
Animal House
The book behind the BBC documentary Loaded: Lads, Mags and MayhemBetween 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every...
Captain America: Sam Wilson Vol. 4: #takebacktheshield
Author: Nick Spencer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The world has received an ULTIMATUM: Peace in our time...or face the fury of The Flag-Smasher! Guest-starring Steve Rogers:...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a...
The Meaning of Life: Letters from Extraordinary People and their
James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one...
Turner: The Life of Britain's Greatest Painter
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The Meaning of Life: Letters from Extraordinary People and their
James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one...
Captain America: Sam Wilson Vol. 2 - Standoff
Author: Daniel Acuna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 For years, across two eras, Steve Rogers wielded his red, white and blue shield against unspeakable odds. For a...
South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer
A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...
Henry and Banjo
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A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders
In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about us in a thrilling blend of history and true...
Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of...
Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex
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A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders
In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about us in a thrilling blend of history and true...
The Meaning of Life: Letters from Extraordinary People and their Answer to Life's Biggest Question
Author: James Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to...
A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders
In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about us in a thrilling blend of history and true...
The Life And Times Of James Milson
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA work of Australian historical biography, this volume chronicles the remarkable...
The Life And Times Of James Milson
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Author: Roy H. GoddardBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne, Georgian House, 1955Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis biographical work chronicles the life and career of James Milson, a...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times
Author: Rob Percival Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation,...
Ultimate Heavy Metal Guitars: The Guitarists Who Rocked the World
Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and heavy metal fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume surveys more than 80 of the genre's greatest axe-slingers from the 1970s to present....
The Life And Times Of James Milson
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerThe biographical work The Life And Times Of James Milson chronicles the remarkable journey of a pivotal figure,...
A Street Shaken by Light: The Story of William Neilson, Volume I
'An epic voyage well worth taking ... Exhilarating' Marianka Swain, Telegraph One of Britain's outstanding historical writers delivers a romantic and picaresque masterpiece that tells the fascinating story of William...
A Street Shaken by Light: The Story of William Neilson, Volume I
'An epic voyage well worth taking ... Exhilarating' Marianka Swain, TelegraphOne of Britain's outstanding historical writers delivers a romantic and picaresque masterpiece that tells the fascinating story of William Neilson....
Juice
An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you've never read him before. 'A masterful story for the ages ....
How Sugar Corrupted the World: From Slavery to Obesity
Author: Professor James Walvin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the...
Outback Pioneers
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Stuff Happens: Jack
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In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a
Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover...