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Tobias Smollett's novels are funny, fast-moving, boisterous and coarse, the fictional equivalent of Hogarth's 'Rake's Progress' or a Rowlandson engraving. Indeed without doubt, Smollett is the most vigorous and entertaining...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Moisture damage (small), top corner of block.A landmark of eighteenth-century British literature, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is an epistolary...

Author: Tobias SmollettBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis epistolary novel, Humphrey Clinker, chronicles the misadventures of the eccentric Bramble family as they embark on a grand tour...

Author: Tobias SmollettBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis epistolary novel, Humphry Clinker, chronicles the misadventures of the eccentric Bramble family as they journey across Great Britain, encountering...

Author: Tobias SmollettBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis epistolary novel, Humphry Clinker, chronicles the misadventures of the eccentric Bramble family as they journey across Great Britain,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels of the eighteenth century capture the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian Britain with the same riotous energy as...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most wickedly brilliant satires ever written, Candide chronicles the misadventures of its relentlessly optimistic young...

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Fans of the Divergent series by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent...

The hilarious family saga as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Delicious' Nigella Lawson 'Clever and beguiling' Guardian 'Sublime and immersive' Jojo Moyes Erica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960 when she...

STUART TURTON'S INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD NOW IS OUT NOW 'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this...

Cinderella is dead, but Snow White fights on ... New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron makes her highly anticipated return to the fairytale realm of Cinderella...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn a world where the sea holds secrets older than memory, The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver by Rafael Torrubia chronicles a gripping...

The right place, walked at the right time, can heal, energise, restore and inspire. Instead of ambling the same old track, find a route to match and mend your mood...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingStep into the enchanting world of puppet theatre with H. W. Whanslaw's A Book of Marionette Plays, a carefully curated collection of...

Alan Moore and David Lloyd's powerful epic about loss of freedom and individuality gets the DC Compact Comics treatment! Alan Moore and David Lloyd's powerful epic about loss of freedom...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the twilight of his turbulent life, Lord Byron — poet, exile, and legend — fell into a love affair so consuming...

The world needs changing - that much is clear. But how best to do it? Change how you vote? Get out and protest? Have an argument? The fact is that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew artists shattered the boundaries of modern painting as violently and as beautifully as Jackson Pollock, and this landmark catalogue — produced...

The book titled That Singular Person Called Lear by the author Susan Chitty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA treasure trove for connoisseurs and scholars alike, Islamic Carpets from the Joseph V McMullan Collection presents one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew art books dare to gather five of the most towering figures in Western painting under a single, authoritative volume — Great Masters of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew intellectuals have navigated the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with as much candour and conviction as Robert Manne, and this...

What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy? This is the story of the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the English literary tradition as Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century poet whose vivid imagination and masterful verse transformed the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. worn edges - creased corners; internally sound.At the dawn of the twentieth century, in the shadowy quarters...

The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature. The poems included in this...

Edition: limited to 2000 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew lives in the annals of maritime exploration burn as brightly as that of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to construct a living theology in a world desperately in need of...

There is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. There is an increasingly large number of weapons in the arsenal of the rich, the powerful and the elected...

'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA...

Before there was Gary Ablett, Tony Lockett and Lance Buddy Franklin, there was Graham Polly Farmer, a footballing legend who revolutionised the game. This captivating biography recounts his life; from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small circular hole at back of binding. Few artists embodied the anarchic spirit of 20th-century modernism as...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have shaped the English literary canon with the visionary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices comes Collected Stories, Volume Two: The Temptation of...

The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations ,...

How to be Real tackles one of the most urgent questions: how can we thrive in a world that is so troubling and confusing? We are constantly being told that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers captured the glittering, brittle world of 1920s British high society with the razor-sharp wit and theatrical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA handpicked treasury of thrilling tales awaits in Boy's Choice: A Collection of Stories, an anthology assembled for young readers with a hunger for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the raw and restless years of colonial Australia, one man's correspondence offers an intimate and vivid window into a...