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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA titan of British wit, law, and letters finally turns the lens on himself — the result is a memoir...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the dawn of aviation's golden age, when the skies were...

Author: Alan HamiltonBinding: HardbackPublished: RD Press, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket top edge has some wearThe authoritative "The Royal Handbook" presents an unparalleled guide to...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA richly textured portrait of a vanished city, London Particulars transports the reader back to the teeming, fog-laden streets of early twentieth-century London through...

The first full and authorized biography of Britain's most popular playwright.

How can a man who achieved so much be so little remembered? Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and secret agent; loyal lieutenant to...

Author: Hermione HobhouseBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable life of Queen...

Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune . This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the...

Author: Geoff TaylorBinding: HardbackPublished: Peter Davies, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA partly fictionalised account of the author's school days at St....

Author: C.H.CurreyBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson., 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ has tears and chips to it and sun-fading. Minor foxing to page...

Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in England, some time in the recent future. Brexit has happened and is real. Fear and loathing are on the rise. Grass-roots right-wing political...

Author: Alan MooreheadBinding: HardbackPublished: HAMISH HAMILTON, 1951Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis captivating work transports readers to the heart of Italy, offering a mosaic of its...

Author: H.C. CoombsBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis compelling autobiography, Trial Balance, presents the life and career of H.C. Coombs, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Australian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the turbulent dawn of Australian colonial governance, one man stood as the cornerstone of legal order — Sir Francis...

Author: Rohan RivettBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsAustralian Citizen is a compelling biography of Herbert Brookes (1867–1963), a prominent Australian businessman, philanthropist, and...

Secondhand Penguin Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4289 Fifteen vintage paperbacks, mostly Penguin and Pelican, on sagas, sex, zen and the Scots: the Vinland and Laxdaela Sagas, the Bhagavad Gita, Alan...

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"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph "sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down." Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Control...

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Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons,...

Transform your business with the fully updated 2025 edition of The 1-Page Marketing Plan. This edition is more practical than ever, now packed with new step-by-step examples and actionable exercises...

Gloriously entertaining, supremely erudite and delightfully idiosyncractic - this is the diary of the spectacular year of 1922 1922. The spectacular year that F. Scott Fitzgerald chose as a backdrop...

Fast-tracked... up the aisle! When shy housekeeper Lili Spirenze overhears her boss, Cassian Corti, needs a legitimate heir to secure his fortune, she makes an out-of-character proposal. She'll marry the...

Thinkers at the forefront in alternative theories on history, the origins of civilization, technology, and consciousness * With contributions by Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Mark Booth, Richard Hoagland, Robert Schoch,...

THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY. "For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice....

JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO. When Stoltenberg took office as Secretary General of NATO in 2014, the world...

'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen Castor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Manuscripts teem with life. They are...

JACK TAYLOR WOKE UP. HE WISHED HE HADN'T. In the private-detective business, you get on the wrong side of some dangerous people. For Galway investigator Jack Taylor, that meant a...

An adorable collection of the sweetest baby animals you've ever seen, brought to exquisitely detailed life by well-loved animal artist Hannah Dale, creator of Wrendale Designs. This beautiful gift book,...

Following the emergence of quantum computing, the subsequent quantum revolution will be that of interconnecting individual quantum computers at the global level. In the same way that classical computers only...