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The book titled Madame Du Barry by the author Joan Haslip. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Tells the true story of Lady Hester Stanhope, who, at the turn of the 18th-century left her homeland and travelled through Cairo, Jaffa, Damascus, Palmyra. This biography explores the incredible...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedLong before she became one of Britain's most beloved comic actresses, Joanna Page was just a girl from Swansea with big dreams and an...

The internet is no longer new, it is part of our everyday lives, and as a commonplace, we rarely take time to contemplate what we have made together. In these...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn St. Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out on a picnic excursion to the...

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the annals of Australia's colonial past, few stories are as dramatic and ultimately tragic as that of Thomas Peel,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFor the passionate puppeteer seeking to master the ancient and intricate craft, A Second Bench Book of Puppetry stands as an indispensable...

_______________ WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the term became a cultural shorthand for disaffected youth, Generation X — the original sociological study...

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names in the English literary canon command the reverence and enduring affection of Jane Austen, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an era of shoulder pads, self-help, and sexual politics run amok, Hit & Ms cuts through the...

The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations : 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh. BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR , THERE...

Trapped in the Maze, Forged by Myth-Wonder Woman Faces Her Greatest Test Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me continues Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman's bold new...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives a person to greatness — and what haunts them in the quiet moments? In the Psychiatrist's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand drawing rooms and corridors of Victorian power, Anthony Trollope's The Pallisers unfolds one of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe eighteenth century was an age of revolution — not only political, but visual — and Graphic Art...

MESTRA -THE NEW SHORT STORY BY MADELINE MILLER OUT 29 SEPTEMBER A SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE....

This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson's White Smoke , Friday the 13th, The Haunting...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the remote county of T'an-ch'eng in seventeenth-century China, a peasant woman named Wang vanishes into the night,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Western intellectual history burned as brilliantly — or as dangerously — as François-Marie Arouet, the man the world came...

A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Francesca Bridgerton, in the sixth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the twilight of his turbulent life, Lord Byron — poet, exile, and legend — fell into a love affair so consuming...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Some general wear on binding but otherwise good copy.What does it mean for a woman writer to find herself — truly find herself...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2025 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly compelling.' SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterpiece of biography.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A total joy to read.'...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the threshold of abstraction, Wassily Kandinsky revolutionized the language of art, and Kandinsky Compositions stands as the definitive scholarly record of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary lives have been as turbulent, brilliant, and heartbreaking as that of Virginia Woolf — and no...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. worn edges - creased corners; internally sound.At the dawn of the twentieth century, in the shadowy quarters...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWanda, a glass-blower of rare sensitivity, lives in quiet retreat from the world, haunted by a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodRenaissance Italy comes alive with menace and beauty in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait, a gripping historical novel that reimagines the brief, ill-fated life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet amid the sun-scorched plains and vast pastoral runs of colonial New South Wales in the 1880s, Such...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet corrupt underbelly of Second Empire Paris, a city intoxicated by wealth, spectacle, and moral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew screenplays in Hollywood history have achieved the status of pure, kinetic art — Ernest Lehman's North by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Faded slipcase. This three-volume Oxford World's Classics set presents Samuel Richardson's final novel, "The History of Sir Charles Grandison," a landmark epistolary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of British architecture cast as long a shadow as Sir John Soane, and this volume from the celebrated Architectural...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: good/fair for age. Worn and sunned boards. Some bumping on spines and corners....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodWhen the world erupted into global conflict in 1939, the reverberations were felt in every Australian home, street, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodHidden for nearly a thousand years within the honeycomb of cave shrines at Dunhuang, on the edge of the Gobi Desert, one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew campaigns in modern warfare have burned themselves into a nation's consciousness as completely as the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew battles of the First World War have been chronicled with such ferocity of conviction as the campaign at Gallipoli — yet history has...