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Somewhere Other is published to coincide with the opening of John Wardle Architects' installation as part of the curated Arsenale exhibition at the 16th International Biennale Architettura, held in Venice...

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...

Spiritlands invites you into a territory that is at once individual and plural. On the one hand, this is poetry about a personal geography, an eclectic landscape, space in which...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names in cinema history carry the weight of John Wayne — an icon so synonymous with American...

John Fowles has been compared to Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in "The New York Times" hailed him as aa remarkable novelist, a and the novelist John Gardner...

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...

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Author: John WarehamBinding: HardbackPublished: Wareham International Limited, New York, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Wareham's Way: Escaping The Judas Trap presents a compelling...

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...

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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Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown anecdotes and quotes, Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat separates those who rise to the top from those who sabotage their own success? Wareham's Way: Escaping the Judas...

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...

Edition: Leatherbound special EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in Australian history command as much admiration and complexity as Sir John Monash...

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...

Author: Thomas HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSet against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, The Trumpet-Major chronicles the romantic entanglements and societal pressures within a small...

Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Trollope's moving, insightful exploration of moral dilemmas fought in public and private The first book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles is...

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,...

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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...

RESIDENT'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 '[Joel's] got me glued to these pages . . . I think my brother knows how...

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of...

FOR FANS OF THE BBC SERIES SAS ROGUE HEROES , THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story...

A critical look at over 80 years of conflict, collusion, and corruption between financiers and politicians Undue Influence paints a vivid portrait of the dealings between "the few", in this...

'Witty, bittersweet, surprising, and compellingly readable' Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review 'A completely original and bewitching adventure' A. D. Rhine, author of Daughters of Bronze and Horses of Fire 'A dazzling...

From award-winning children's author, Leila Rasheed, Katherine Johnson, A Life Story is the perfect way for readers to discover the fascinating facts and inspirational moments from the life of the...

Meet Johnny Bunko. He's probably a lot like you. He did what everybody - parents, teachers, careers advisors - told him to do. But now, stuck in a dead-end job,...

*This special edition hardback contains a bonus short story* 'Murdered people don't kill themselves . . .' A quiet night on a country road. The stillness shattered by a car...

From the bestselling author of the Eagles of the Empire novels comes first instalment of the epic story of Caratacus: the barbarian king who united Britannia's tribes to raise an...

At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie...

What happens if the psychiatric hospital in which you have lived for ten years is bombed and all the staff run away? What is it like to be a twelve-year-old...

This is the enthralling story of the great powerhouse of British history - the middle class. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the spread of literacy, the industrial...

Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain...

Untouchables presents a timely and well-evidenced case for a fully independent system of policing the police.

"Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton." - Baltimore Sun Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton's The Civil War...

Ferius Parfax has a simple plan: kill every last inhabitant of the spell-gifted nation that destroyed her people, starting with the man who murdered her parents. Killing mages is a...