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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in...

'Very smart and entertaining . . . dishy-yet-earnest . . . Gefter shows why Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the '60s like a torpedo.' - NPR, Fresh Air 'Raucous,...

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Author: Richard BurtonBinding: HardbackPublished: HEINEMANN | LONDON, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsRichard Burton’s A Christmas Story is a warm, evocative tale...

'The book of the year' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE 'I've never read...

The book titled The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by the author Fawn M. Brodie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Author: Philip Gefter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Well-researched ... I was fascinated' Roger Lewis, author of Erotic Vagrancy A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From...

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 —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedLong before the age of satellites and GPS, a succession of daring, obsessive, and often eccentric Westerners risked everything to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of stories from the famous 'One Thousand and One Nights,' translated by the renowned scholar...

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This beautiful and rare textile, now in the British Museum, was produced in the late seventeenth century in the wake of the remarkable outflow of Krishna veneration resulting from the...

Follow-up to the phenomenal international bestseller. Including letters from: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis...

A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century...

Author: Jessie Burton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book...

Author: Richard Burdon HaldaneBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1929Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards. Bumping on corners....

Author: Jessie Burton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Seductive, exhilarating and suspenseful, The Muse is an...

Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his pioneering 17th-century psychological work, The...

The book titled Bird Behaviour by the author Robert Burton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In But Enough About Me , legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert...

Author: Jessie Burton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. Winner of the...

Author: Richard Francis Burton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a...

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THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton 'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver 'It changed how I thought about the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodStep into the muddy, boisterous, and gloriously chaotic world of international rugby with Mike Burton's Have Balls Will Travel, a riotous first-hand chronicle of life on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Light foxing on FEP but otherwise fine. Few corners of the natural world inspire as much wonder as the lives of birds —...

With a new introduction and concluding chapter from bestselling medieval author Dan Jones. Richard III is one of the most mysterious figures in English history, and as such is the...

Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists say farewell in this unique collection. In these pages...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of economic and social history, The Rise & Fall of King Cotton chronicles the extraordinary dominance...

The book titled Colour Library of Science: Birds by the author Maurice Burton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe compelling non-fiction work The Past At Work by Anthony Burton presents a meticulous analysis of how historical forces continue to...

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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...

Author: Burton GrahamBinding: HardbackPublished: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis gripping espionage thriller plunges readers into a high-stakes world of international intrigue and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew lives have ever matched the sheer audacity of Richard Halliburton's — a man who swam the Panama Canal, retraced Hannibal's route over the...

In a journey that took five years to complete, property magnate Richard Buxton circumnavigated Australia by air and sea in an effort to raise public awareness and funds for research...

Following the bestselling publication of THE KENNETH WILLIAMS DIARIES, the devastating self-portrait of one of our most loved and complex performers is completed with this marvellous selection of his letters....

'A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson's wonderful...

Author: Sharon Bolton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'The Buried's undoubted strengths include Bolton's deftly shaded portrayal of the attitudes of yesteryear towards women and the bonds of necessity...