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My Name Is Why
Author: Lemn Sissay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This...
Listener
Author: Lemn Sissay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Breaking the silence Lemn Sissay is back with a sensational new book. Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections...
Morning Breaks In The Elevator
Lemn Sissay brings together a stunning new collection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator . In Sissay's work, we witness declamation being honed and brought to fine art, establishing his reputation...
The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry
Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Poetry First published in 1998, The Fire People celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since...
More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry
In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current...
Trauma Proof: Healing, Attachment and the Science of Prevention
'Lucid, clear, visionary' - Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps The Score 'An important book' Bruce Perry, author of What Happened to You? 'Buy this book' -...
Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory
Author: Shobna Gulati Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Afterword by Alzheimer's Research UK. 'Shobna Gulati is the Northern heroine of a nation' - Lemn Sissay 'Lucid and probing' -...
Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them
Author: Polly Curtis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 'Brilliant . . . I love this book' LEMN SISSAY 'A must-read book'...
Virgin: 'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' Giovanna Fletcher
'Like Pam Ayres on acid' LEMN SISSAY 'Energising, fearless and joyful' SARA PASCOE 'Hollie has such a wonderful voice. Warm, relatable, smart and funny' SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 'Funny, so smart and...
The Country Commonplace Book
A seasonal touchstone packed full of quotes, book lists, recipes, poems and observations on the natural world to keep close at hand and to accompany you through the year. Commonplace...
Right from Wrong: My Story of Guilt and Redemption
Author: Jacob Dunne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Engaging... Dunne argues cogently, coherently and from experience that to have choices in life you also have to have chances.' The...
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
Author: Debora Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Extraordinary' - Kate Mosse 'Electric' - Lemn Sissay 'Searing' - Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when...
An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year
Celebrate animals with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year. From well-known classics to modern fresh takes, An Animal Poem for Every Day...
A Year of Black Joy: 52 Black Voices Share Their Life Passions
This joy-filled collection of contributions from 52 cultural luminaries from around the world. Discover the joy of chess with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, then learn the moves of the game. Find...
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
"One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news"A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter, Wheatle's compassion shines through the pain" Observer"Alex is a truly...
Fern-Seed And Elephants: And Other Essays On Christianity
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Minor markings to back of cover, tanned edges.What happens when one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds turns his...
Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail 'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure' Stylist 'A...
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
"One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news"A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter, Wheatle's compassion shines through the pain" Observer"Alex is a truly...
Hourglass: A 'beautiful, funny, profound' (New Statesman) debut novel about love and loss
Author: Keiran Goddard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'A universal love story' Guardian 'Beautiful and very funny' Brett Anderson 'This book glows in the heart of the reader' Max...
Sandakan: A Conspiracy Of Silence
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased cover and spine; stamp on title page, otherwise internally sound.One of the...
Siddur Tehillat Hashem: Nusach Ha-Ari Zal: Annotated Edition
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of Jewish daily worship stands a prayerbook of extraordinary depth and precision — the Siddur...
Gytha's Message: A Tale Of Saxon England
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingSet against the turbulent backdrop of Saxon England, Gytha's Message chronicles the journey of a young messenger caught in the crosscurrents of loyalty, faith,...
Surprised by Joy (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic)
For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography. "In the Trinity...
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order'...
The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionIn the misty hollows of rural Virginia in 1897, a shadowy figure with matrimonial ambitions beyond all social...
The Ladies Of Missalonghi
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-dappled mountains of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales at the turn of the twentieth century, a poor and plain spinster...
Fair Day, And Another Step Begun (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionA single summer day becomes a journey of quiet revelation in Katie Letcher Lyle's...
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass , launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient...
Stephane Reynaud's 365 Good Reasons to Sit Down to Eat
From the best-selling French author of Terrine, Ripailles, Pork & Sons and Rotis, comes this idiosyncratic culinary almanac, Stephane Reynaud's 365 Good Reasons To Sit Down To Eat. The recipes,...
The Poetical Works Of Adam Lindsay Gordon
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the sun-scorched plains of colonial Australia to the fog-shrouded racetracks of England, the verse...
Studies In Iconology: Humanistic Themes In The Art Of The Renaissance
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most formidable intellects of the twentieth century, Erwin Panofsky permanently transformed...
Selections From The Arabian Nights: Sir Richard Burton's Famous Translation Of The Thousand Nights And A Night With Modernized Spelling And Punctuation
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in world literature have captured the human imagination as completely and enduringly as The Arabian Nights —...
Daddy-Long-Legs
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most charming epistolary novels of the early twentieth century, Daddy-Long-Legs chronicles the remarkable journey of Jerusha Judy Abbott, a witty and...
Getting Away With Murder: A Memoir (SIGNED)
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew figures in British television and crime fiction have wielded a pen as sharp or a vision as unflinching as Lynda La Plante, and...
Into The Silent Land: Travels In Neuropsychology
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it mean to be a self — to possess a mind, a soul, an identity — when the very organ that generates...
Girls In Their Married Bliss
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe final, devastating installment of Edna O'Brien's celebrated Country Girls trilogy, Girls in their Married Bliss chronicles the...
The Passage
$30.00 AUD
Edition: new ed., resetCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the rugged Queensland coastline in the early twentieth century, The Passage is a...
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation
$15.00 AUD
"China Witness" is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of "The...
Seven Letters from Paris
In the best romantic tradition of ALMOST FRENCH, a woman falls madly in love with a Frenchman in Paris, but with a twist. It takes her twenty years to find...
Cattleman
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the vast, sun-scorched landscapes of outback Australia, Cattleman by R.S. Porteous is a sweeping tale of...
A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four
A Study in Scarlet introduced the great scientific detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, his friend and chronicler, to the reading public. This novel, a cornerstone in the annals of...