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This second edition of John Forester's handbook for transportation policy makers and bicycling advocates has been rewritten to reflect changes of the last decade. It includes new chapters on European...

A brilliantly atmospheric and gripping portrayal of the dark heart of a killer, new to Penguin Modern Classics At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is...

Known by the contemporary press as Big John, Forrest was as large in reputation as he was in stature, and achieved a level of fame and popularity unique in the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom one of Britain's most celebrated and intellectually daring postmodern writers comes The Ebony Tower, a masterful collection of novellas that holds...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the quarterdeck to the engine room, One of Our Warships immerses the reader in the tightly-knit world of a Royal Navy vessel, chronicling...

'Blissfully funny, staggeringly informative, a joyful companion' Caroline Quentin'Tells the endlessly fascinating tale of Britain's natural history in a way that makes every delicate detail sparkle with life' Charlie Corbett,...

Shortlisted for the 2016 David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Novel. The third in The Faithful and the Fallen series, Ruin by John Gwynne continues the gripping battle of good...

Author: John Croumbie Brown, Ll.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: Oliver and Boyd, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, 1883Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning...

Since colonisation, Australians have been frantically logging our native forests as if our lives depended on it. Our lives do depend on the forests-but on keeping them, not destroying them....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA treasured artifact of naval historical fiction, Hornblower and the Crisis presents...

In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils...

The spruces are so close together that the barks are a sable-brown. Michael O'Kane is known as the 'Kinderschrek', the 'child scarer'. He haunts Cloosh Wood in western Ireland. As...

Nobody captured the landscape and faces of the American people the way John Ford did, in films such as The Searchers, Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. He...

Author: Andrew Greig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A motorcyclist with a stolen ring walks into Rothiemurchus Forest until he finds a quiet place to die. A woman with...

IN 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving...

A town. A forest. A hero. You can't go far without a quick brain and some rule-bending in a place like Locksley. After its vast car plants shut down, the...

'Blissfully funny, staggeringly informative, a joyful companion' Caroline Quentin'Tells the endlessly fascinating tale of Britain's natural history in a way that makes every delicate detail sparkle with life' Charlie Corbett,...

This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a...

Hollywood has given us no greater director than John Ford. Between 1917 and 1970, Ford directed and/or produced some 226 pictures, from short silent films to ambitious historical epics and...

Author: Iain McCalman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Busst. Known to his enemies as 'The Bingil Bay Bastard', John Busst, a Bendigo-born...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew directors have left as indelible a mark on the cinematic landscape as John Ford — the gruff, visionary genius who gave the world...

Author: John Boorman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Chosen as one of Sight & Sound's 'Best Film Books of the Year' John Boorman is one of the cinema's authentic...

Poems to celebrate summer. Pour out a long drink, take a seat under a shady tree, and lose yourself in this sublime collection of nature poems for summer. From William...

Author: John Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When we go for a walk, whether in the countryside or city, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and...

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Author: Claire Keegan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog...

Author: John Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When we go for a walk, whether in the countryside or city, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and...

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An anthology of writings from John Blashford-Snell, one of the world's greatest living adventurers and explorers, featuring highlights from the hundred or so expeditions he has organised and led, in...

REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES...On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would meet...

For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023'Epic and marvellously entertaining... There's a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back'FINANCIAL TIMES'Magnificent......

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with foxing. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Faded spine. In the sun-scorched wilds of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket. A landmark work of American political and military history, The Forrestal Diaries presents...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023'Epic and marvellously entertaining... There's a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back'FINANCIAL TIMES'Magnificent......

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom a Viking longship to the forests of colonial...

Less than 50 years ago, trains were routinely hauled by majestic steam-powered locomotives. These magnificent machines still exercise a powerful hold on our imagination, conjuring up the romance of old-fashioned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew landscapes in Australia possess the mythic grandeur of the Blue Mountains, and Blue Mountains Sketchbook captures this rugged wilderness with the intimacy and precision...