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He was the nephew of Temptations singer Melvin Franklin; a boy who watched and listened, mesmerized from underneath cocktail tables at the shows of Etta James and Miles Davis. He...

A new edition of this classic James novel, edited and introduced by Christopher Ricks After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and...

Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and heavy metal fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume surveys more than 80 of the genre's greatest axe-slingers from the 1970s to present....

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...

Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 James Darke helped his beloved wife, Suzanne, die. And now he is holed up in his house waiting for his daughter,...

Author: Phil Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The fifteenth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series. 'Merrily Watkins is the most singular of crime fiction protagonists... As ever [Rickman]'s...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: slightly shaky, no loose pages. Few figures in the world...

1513, King James IV lies dead on Flodden's field, his young heir entrusted to two loyal lairds. There are many who seek to supplant or control the boy-king, and as...

Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of...

Brilliant, passionate, and effective, this could be the best guide ever written to making your dreams come true. Integrating brain science, wisdom traditions, and practical psychology, it brings readers along...

'The perfect antidote to 2020' Huffington Post'A must-read if you like funny things' Greg James'I had no idea Pat Sharp's life story would be so hilarious and I strongly suspect...

How perfect is too perfect? Ross Ransome is at the top of his profession; one of the most successful, and certainly one of the richest, plastic surgeons in the business....

The Folland Gnat was used by the RAF mainly in the advanced training role, in the 1960s and 70s, where it proved to be an ideal lead-in trainer for high-performance...

Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The...

In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and...

Howard Carter's career was a remarkable one: he had arrived in Egypt as a 17-year old "tracer" with rudimentary education, and progressed to become the first Chief Inspector of Antiquities...

Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard 's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching...

Enter the worlds of Keith Laumer. From the adventures of self-aware superheavy battle tanks to the intricacies of galactic diplomacy via the clash of parallel worlds, Laumer's imagination knew few...