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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores the life and works of Thomas Love Peacock, an influential figure in English literature known for his...

Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist. He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublisher: William Heinemann , -Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: like newA poignant early 20th-century...

BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER: Edgar Awards International Thriller Writers Awards A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker NPR The Diplomatic Courier During the Arab Spring, an American spy's...

Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit...

A hopeful and practical model for what it means to be a Christian and a culture-maker in a world of hurt and wondrous possibility, from multi-Grammy winner Charlie Peacock and...

This triptych of stories represents some of the finest work by the great German master, Thomas Mann. From a classic early account of artistic formation, suffused with deep melancholy, to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsSet against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of colonial India, The Emerald Peacock is a richly atmospheric historical romance that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA celebrated work of Australian short fiction, The Time of the Peacock chronicles the lives of an...

Author: Maurice BrownBinding: PaperbackPublisher: The Craftsmen Press Pty, Ltd., 1972Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Author signature title pageThe story of a caravan trip from...

Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...

A stunning clothbound edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge, a haunting study of guilt and lost love Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie...

Edition: 8th impressionCondition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket. A sparkling work of comic fiction, Cage Me a...

Everything changes for Aster the night her brother dies. Suddenly she's the only hope of the family, and instead of an early marriage to a boy from her small village...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded spineA carefully curated literary anthology, this collection presents the finest works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, the darkly visionary Romantic...

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Penguin Classics relaunch Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence...

"Until she was released in November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi had been under house arrest in Burma for fourteen of the previous twenty years. She was already confined to...

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BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER: Edgar Awards International Thriller Writers Awards A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker NPR The Diplomatic Courier During the Arab Spring, an American spy's...

Penguin Classics relaunch When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Signed"Love and Other Deaths" is a collection of poetry in which D.M. Thomas presents a bold and emotionally charged...

Author: Thomas MooreBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1911Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Rebound copy. The Poetical Works...

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The book titled Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends by the author Christopher Awdry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the twilight of Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on the remote island of Saint Helena, The...

Author: James ReevesBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1960Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight foxing on edge of paper. Slight stain on bottom edge of paper. Small...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to -...

Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving...

Author: PetrarchBinding: HardbackPublished: The Heritage Press, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis edition of The Sonnets of Petrarch features the renowned poetry of Petrarch, edited by Thomas...

Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes...

This collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English-language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to...

Meet Pearl. She is a magical unicorn. But Pearl doesn't quite know how to use her magic. With the help of her friends, Tweet and Olive, can Pearl believe in...

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A novel which explores the myths and facts surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It blends the real, the potential and the imagined, as it questions what would have...

SEASCRAPER is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family's past, dreaming of a bigger life. *LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE...

It's not easy being Davern Cavern. Everyone in his family is a super-smart, super-brave explorer ... except for Davern. But when Davern's world-famous dad mysteriously disappears, it's up to Davern...

'Exceptionally good...a master storyteller' Allan Massie, Scotsman 'Both an absorbing wartime thriller and a thoroughly convincing study of grief' Sunday Times In 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse married in...

A "fascinating and terrifying" memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life ( Scientific American ) - and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: As new. Set against the opulent and treacherous backdrop of Tudor England, this sweeping historical novel chronicles the rise and...

Author: Arinze Ifeakandu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'The best piece of fiction I read this year' COLM TOIBIN, New Stateman Books of the Year 'Although he writes about...

The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escape. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten...