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'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...

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...

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...

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...

The year is 1946. A stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother...

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,...

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...

* 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...

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...

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 acclaimed first English-language biography of the great European novelist and journalist, Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars like...

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...

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...

Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man By Joseph Beuys. Edited by Carin Kuoni. "A tasty collection of hitherto uncollected/unpublished writings by and about the legendary German...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of two vibrant literary traditions, Radical Cousins: Nineteenth Century American & Australian Writers presents a compelling comparative study of the writers...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and edge wear. Page Condition: Yellowed with some tanning. Markings: No visible markings noted. Binding: Intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible....

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is...

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:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew artists have captured the fierce majesty of raptors with the same breathtaking authority as Joseph Wolf, the nineteenth century's most celebrated animal painter, and...

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.'

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: vol iv missing. vol ii - moderate annotations in grey lead. Few lives in the annals of European history have matched...

This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during...

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...

*** See the latest book on this subject: The 2nd Edition, Revised and Enhanced, of the "The Immortal Beloved Compendium: All About the Only Woman Beethoven Ever Loved (Comprehensive Edition)"....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA treasure trove for connoisseurs and scholars alike, Islamic Carpets from the Joseph V McMullan Collection presents one...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly detailed biography, The Empress Josephine chronicles the...

From the author of the much-loved Knowing Sophie and Dear Henry comes a story of two women, the price of friendship, and how there are no choices when it comes...

Edition: No. 39 of 50 limited signed and numbered copies. Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew stories capture the sweeping transformation of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the feverish decades of Melbourne's great land boom of the 1880s, a cast of audacious speculators, crooked financiers, and...

In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew geopolitical stories are as dramatic or consequential as the rapid ascent and catastrophic collapse of Imperial Japan — a nation that transformed itself...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew art books dare to gather five of the most towering figures in Western painting under a single, authoritative volume — Great Masters of...

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: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn February 1984, the legendary Sperone Westwater gallery in New York presented Pittore in Africa, a remarkable artist's...

The interpretation of certain key texts in the Bible by two Dominican Friars: the celebrated author Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe and Biblical scholar Lukasz Popko. Many today may see the relationship...

From one of the most respected military historians working today, an illuminating and brilliantly written exploration of war's profound impact -- social and cultural as well as military -- on...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: **JAPANESE TEXT ONLY**Few Japanese artists of the twentieth century achieved the spiritual luminosity and quiet grandeur of Higashiyama Kaii, whose landscape paintings...

'What makes this brilliant, considered book worthwhile is not its breadth but how thoughtful it is.' Financial Times 'The book is stunning. He is an extraordinary writer. Such erudition. Wisdom....