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'An extraordinary story.' Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from...

Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many...

This alternate history coming-of-age YA is the Winner of the 2018 Storylines Tessa Duder Award. " An inferior people , that's what the Director called us at the beginning of...

This alternate history coming-of-age YA is the Winner of the 2018 Storylines Tessa Duder Award. " An inferior people , that's what the Director called us at the beginning of...

Sexual politics is far from being a recent subject of debate. In the 1880s it occupied a position of central importance in certain radical circles in London, where intellectuals such...

Gaskell's moving story of a fallen woman's path to redemption Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by...

". . . At separation it felt like childbirth. I knew that nothing would be the same but I didn't have a clue how it would be from that day...

Author: Ruth Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 Growing up, Ruth was on track for an ideal life - she had the grades, friends, great sporting potential, and a...

This study of Shaw is an attempt to provide a record of the impact Shaw made on his contemporaries and of the way in which he presented himself and his...

One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell's novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author's growing reputation but also...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great playwright stands a constellation of women who shaped his genius — and in George Bernard...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Jackie Huggins, Is That You, Ruthie? is a remarkable memoir that recounts, with characteristic humour and honesty, a...

In 1948, a young white English woman, Ruth Williams, made headline news all over the world. For she had met, fallen in love with and married Seretse Khama, an African...

Author: Andrew SaintBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAndrew Saint's definitive biography, Richard Norman Shaw, chronicles the influential...

'SET IN DIVINE NORTH NORFOLK. INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND GREAT' India KnightDr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another killer. A devastating new...

This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the...

David Icke exposes what he calls the real story behind global events which shape the future of human existence and the world we leave our children. Fearlessly, he lifts the...

Fierce, concentrated, and brutal, The Shawl burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal power' The New York Times Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new....

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle epoque...

Author: Sophie Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize 2020 Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021 Featuring on...

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Author: Ziya Tong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that...

Author: Ziya TongFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 214mm, 456g, 384 pagesPublished: Canongate Books, United Kingdom, 2020Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to...

Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping vigilante thriller - inspired by a series of graphic novels - featuring a powerful hero on the trail of...