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This all-new volume by the inimitable poet, comedian and performer John Hegley brings together poetry, prose and drawings on the themes closest to his heart. Contemplating subjects from painting, France...

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This all-new volume by the inimitable poet, comedian and performer John Hegley brings together poetry, prose and drawings on the themes closest to his heart. Contemplating subjects from painting, France...

Sir John Gielgud's career as an actor was perhaps the most distinguished of any of his generation, and, in a lifetime that spanned almost a century, he appeared in hundreds...

In the middle of a city, in a deserted apartment block, a woman lives, alone. She has just fifty days to complete her self-imposed task. Bustling into her apartment each...

It's been two decades since Y2K, and our nostalgia for the humanity's best decade is stronger than ever. Between Titanic, Thelma and Louise, The Joy Luck Club, and The Goodfellas,...

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. A description of our secondhand...

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. Author: Sheridan Morley Format: Hardback...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. This authoritative political biography chronicles the remarkable life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the legend of one of Australia's most controversial and enigmatic figures lies a story far more compelling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the history of English theatre command the reverence accorded to Sir John Gielgud, an actor whose voice alone was...

Author: John W. Wheeler-BennettBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, John Anderson: Viscount Waverley, chronicles the remarkable career of a...

Author: G.R. EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: Lion Book, 2005Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis scholarly work presents a rigorous examination of a pivotal figure in medieval religious...

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Author: J. B. PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis compelling critical biography chronicles the multifaceted career...

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...

Author: John O'GradyBinding: HardbackPublished: Ure Smith, Sydney, 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis comedic novel chronicles the uproarious escapades of an Australian...

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The Gallipoli campaign was launched in April 1915 in an effort to knock Turkey out of the war but the force that was deployed was too small to achieve its...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Remnants of previous price sticker to back of cover.Few Australian artists command the raw expressive power that John Howley brings to...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms...

Showing you what others only tell you. A unique visual guide on all aspects of olives and olive oil, from how olives are grown and the oil is extracted, to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling biography, John The Twenty-Third, chronicles the remarkable life and transformative papacy of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, later Pope John...

Edition: First US editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light chipping on back of jacket - otherwise fine...

Geoffrey Serle is a graduate of the University of Melbourne where he taught history before moving to Monash and the Australian National universities. He was general editor of the "Australian...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA beloved classic of Australian comic literature, No Kava for Johnny chronicles the misadventures...

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...

An edition of Shakespeare's King John which includes a lengthy introduction, an extensive commentary and suggested further reading.

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew Australian artists have lived as vividly and painted as fiercely as John Perceval,...

John McEnroe was just an eighteen-year-old amateur from Queens when he stunned the tennis world by making it to the Wimbledon semifinals in 1977. He turned pro the following year...

'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author...

Read the true story that inspired the major new film, The Iron Lady. John Campbell's magisterial biography is the political biography of Margaret Thatcher. 'An enormously useful achievement...every twist and...

The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph...

In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...

Edition: facsimile edCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the dawn of modern medicine, one landmark text forever changed how physicians understood disease within the human body — Matthew Baillie's...

The Great Wall is the most famous of China s monuments. Everyone has seen pictures of the line of stone snaking over mountains. Millions every year take the five mile...

Quentin Blake is a collaboration between Tate and the House of Illustration, published to coincide with the gallery's inaugural exhibition, Inside Stories, a landmark show by Quentin Blake. Quentin Blake...

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of minarets and the murky underbelly of Cold War intrigue, Goodbye to Istanbul...

During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the nineteenth century's...

From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation , a visionaryargument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than thefourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state...