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The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture...
Zone
Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a...
The Deserters
Fleeing a nameless war, an unknown soldier emerges from deep within the Mediterranean scrubland, dirty and exhausted. A chance meeting forces him to rethink his journey, and the price he...
Compass
As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the...
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
In 1506, Michelangelo - a young but already renowned sculptor - is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered,...
Under Milk Wood and Other Radio Scripts: New Annotated Edition
It is a moonless spring night in the Welsh fishing town of Llareggub, and all its inhabitants are asleep. As if by incantation, their dreams become audible, and a concert...
The Returns
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F.M.: The Life Of Frederick Matthias Alexander: Founder of the
The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its...
Returning
Author: Kirli Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 'Mate, you're standing on stolen land.' Returning is a stunning work a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli's...
Almost Nothing Happened
Paris. August. One long summer of nothing. 48 hours of everything. From the inimitable Meg Rosoff comes a chaotic and irresistible new YA. 17-year-old Callum is facing an unfortunate truth:...
This is Where the Serpent Lives: 'Set to be a standout novel of 2026'
**SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY THE GUARDIAN , FINANCIAL TIMES , DAILY MAIL , NEW STATESMAN AND THE WEEK ** Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving:...
History Of The World: Prehistory To The Renaissance
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the primordial dawn of human civilisation to the glittering intellectual rebirth of the Renaissance, History of the World: Prehistory...
As Many Souls as Stars: The breakout gothic historical sapphic fantasy
1592. Cybil Harding, daughter of a secret alchemist, was born under cursed stars. Destined to bring disaster to those around her, Cybil is trapped in a grand house with a...
French Flower Painters Of The 19Th Century: A Dictionary
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersA landmark reference work in the history of decorative painting,...
No One Is Talking About This: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
* WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU , THE LATEST SENSATION FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, OUT NOW * 'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale 'A masterpiece' Guardian...
The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic and Rediscovered Writing
'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA...
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories - 'My favourite American
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid 'The Misfit', an escaped convict who's reportedly heading...
Aftertaste: Feast upon this year's most delicious debut novel: 'A fun
'Part ghost story, part gastro romance ... and lashings of bittersweet humour' Mail on Sunday 'A fun romp through New York's restaurant scene and the world of the undead' The...
The Prodigious Builders: Notes Toward A Natural History Of Architecture With Special Regard To Those Species That Are Traditionally Neglected Or Downright Ignored
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat if the most extraordinary architecture on Earth was never designed by an architect? The Prodigious Builders by Bernard Rudofsky presents a...
Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich
'Riveting, timely and truly revelatory. The Organisation Todt is the Nazi-era secret that still needs to emerge from the shadows' DAMIEN LEWIS, author of SAS Brothers in Arms and The...
Bon Appétit Desserts: The Cookbook For All Things Sweet And Wonderful
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA feast for the senses and an indispensable kitchen companion, Bon Appétit Desserts: The Cookbook for All Things Sweet and Wonderful is the ultimate...
The Convict Years: Transportation And The Penal System 1788-1868
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFor eighty years, the British Empire cast its unwanted across the seas to...
Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic Reform
When Robert Francis Prevost OSA appeared on the loggia of St. Peter's on 8th May 2025, he surprised the world. The first North American pope is a quiet man few...
Bread of Angels: from the National Book Award-winning author of Just
'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times , 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times , 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly...
Philip Gidley King: A Biography Of The Third Governor Of New South Wales
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the turbulent dawn of European settlement in the Pacific, one man's ambition, tenacity,...
Headlands: John Beard Works 1993 - 2007
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists capture the raw, elemental tension between humanity and the natural world with the visceral intensity of...