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Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier returns from war to the news that his filmmaker brother Daniel has died in mysterious circumstances -- the papers say it was an accident, but others...

'A modern master at work' THE TIMES 'Heart-poundingly suspenseful' WASHINGTON POST 'Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape' LEE CHILD Berlin, 1963. The height of the Cold War...

Walter Kotlar is the epitome of the American dream, the son of working class immigrants who attends Yale and becomes part of the establishment, but he is caught up in...

Moscow, the Cold War, 1961. Stalin has been dead for eight years. With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's international prestige is at an all-time high. Former CIA agent...

Walter Kotlar is the epitome of the American dream, the son of working class immigrants who attends Yale and becomes part of the establishment, but he is caught up in...

How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to be made? A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul survived WW2 as a magnet for...

It is 1950 and communists are being hunted across America. When Walter Kotlar is accused of being a spy by the House Un-American Activities Committee, his young son Nick destroys...

In the closing weeks of the war in Europe a security guard on the Manhattan Project is murdered near the Hill. Michael Connolly is sent to Los Alamos from Washington...

After cutting his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin, Jake Geismar returns in 1945 to find the city unrecognizable. In the ruins, Berliners survive, including his lost love,...

* NOT FINAL JACKET Film tie-in (film released 22 Feb 07) of this gripping post-WWII thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Cate Blanchett and George Clooney. Jake Geismar cut...

The bestselling author of "Los Alamos" and "Alibi "returns to 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar, an American correspondent who spent...

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1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 On 14 February 1989, Valentine's...

International chess master Byron Jacobs explains the basic elements, strategies, and tactics of the Advance variation of the Caro-Kann Defense. Long popular with competitive players, it's been revived and added...

Edited and with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest...

A gripping thriller based on true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy under the nose of his SS officer...

A charming autobiography from the president of the Cannes Film Festival.

Author: Joaquin Gomez CanoBinding: HardbackPublished: SEO/BirdLife, 2010Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis work features a multitude of singing birds perched on the branches of a tree, symbolizing the...

Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies since the...

Published alongisde other Conrad's works, on the 150th anniversary of his death In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life...

The author recounts a Jewish childhood in the last days of Czarist Russia, and his experiences during the German occupation.

B`An unquiet and mysterious country of inextinguishable desires and fears' `The Lagoon' creates and sustains an ironic tension between reality and romance thatpreoccupies all of the twelve stories in this...

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Author: Joseph HoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, London , 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Brown boards with light bumping on corners. Yellowed...

A vast, magnificent book about a vast, magnificent man, the first volume of Simon Callow's biography takes us from Welles' birth and prodigious boyhood to Citizen Kane . Pronounced a...

Anya lives a happy, carefree life in Russia with her mother, father and beloved pet bird, Miaka. But when hard times come and her father's crop fails she must leave...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, good. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Usual shelf-wear. Few lives have scandalized and captivated Europe quite...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of Joseph Conrad's most celebrated novellas are gathered in this essential volume, each a masterclass...

Author: Roger KahnBinding: HardbackPublished: William Morrow & Company, NY, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the intense and often tumultuous relationship between two American icons, Joe...

'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...' So Roth begins his novel about...

Author: Michael GreenBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine, page edges have light foxingA riotous collection of...

Condition remarks: Condition: New/Excellent. - book is sealed in original publisher's shrink wrap. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few literary lives rival the sheer improbability of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most visionary physicists raises a son who turns his back on the cosmos in favour of...

Love arrives at the most unexpected time . . . 1821: Elias Roch has ghastly luck with women. He met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping...

Carolly Erickson brings to life the complex, charming, ever-resilient Josephine, from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.'

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025 'Viscerally vivid...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025 'Viscerally vivid...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the annals of agricultural and imperial history, few stories are as remarkable as the clandestine transfer of Spain's prized Merino sheep...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the crucible of post-revolutionary France, a remarkable generation of visionary thinkers dared to imagine a...