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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew monuments have captivated the human imagination quite like the obelisk — those soaring stone needles that pierce the sky...

A #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers' award, for fans of BEFORE COFFEE GETS COLD For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and...

Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and...

An extraordinary story of love and exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military...

'There is a connection, Jack. Find it, or you'll never find him.' The highly anticipated third crime thriller in the DCI Jack Hawksworth series. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Police are...

Daughter of two ruthless high-gradient telepaths, Auden Scott is not the child her Psy parents wanted or expected, even before her brain injury. Her thoughts are scattered, her memories fuzzy-or...

A dazzling tale of love, courage and sisterhood, spanning 40 years of tumult in Berlin, perfect for fans of Cabaret and The Whalebone Theatre. Berlin, 1926. After the death of...

Le Carre shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the glittering, jazz-soaked boulevards of 1920s Paris, few Americans lived with more style, generosity, and élan...

Alyss, born in Wonderland, is destined to be a warrior queen. After a bloody coup topples the Heart regime, Alyss is exiled to another world entirely, where she is adopted...

The high school reunion occurs throughout the United States and cuts across differences in age, locality, and ethnicity. This popular event is commonly thought of as a light-hearted social occasion...

** AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF YEAR **'Ward's most complex and brilliant book yet' - GUARDIAN'A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession' - DAILY EXPRESSWriters are monsters. We eat...

An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis. A Penguin Classic...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA richly detailed work of cultural history, Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the...

This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Some rubbing and chipping to edges of jacket. Page Condition: Some yellowing/tanning. Markings: Bookshop stamp. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure....

As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smiley A department of ageing British spies...

" Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff...

In 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his sixdecade-long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contributed dozens of profiles on...

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Description: A portrait of the artist Marcel Duchamp, an influential and admired artist of the 20th century. Calvin Tomkins explores Duchamp's humour, his love affairs and originality, as well as noting...

The true story about the greatest shearer in the world ... whose incredible shearing record remains unbeaten after more than a century! Jack Howe had hands the size of tennis...

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Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 912 Looking for other books by Hilary Mantel?  Click here.Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize...

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Author: Calvin TomkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has minor wear and tear along some edges, page...

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Author: Calvin TomkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: LONGMAN, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the fascinating genesis and evolution of one of the world's most...

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A deluxe edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of wondrously charming nonsense, in time for its 150th anniversary Lewis Carroll's brilliantly timeless tales-in a deluxe 150th-anniversary edition.Nominated as one of...

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The book titled Deadly Illusions: Inside the Looking-glass War by the author John Costello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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This book brings into focus the new-look universe that the Hubble Telescope is revealing day by day, With an expert commentary by one of the worlds leading astronmy writers complements...

Alice's second adventure takes her through the looking-glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to...

'A bold, beautiful, sexy, full-throttle thriller: immaculately constructed and rich with detail, it is a gorgeous, creepy Gothic story for our times' NICCI FRENCH 'The queen of psychological gothic reigns'...

In this paradise you won't like what you see . . . When Nina's father dies, she inherits a gleaming dream vacation home in a balmy tropical paradise - one...

Araldis is still under occupation by hostile forces, and with the Orion League of Sentient Species seemingly unable - or unwilling - to help, Mira Fedor is forced to turn...

Though images of women were ubiquitous in the Roman world, these were seldom intended to be taken simply at face value. The importance of marriage, motherhood and political stability was...

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