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A new, modern look for Sebald's classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of W.G. Sebald's haunting masterwork Austerlitz is a man adrift in time — Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural...

'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed...

Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on...

A new, modern look for Sebald's classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of...

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Selby Jr's controversial cult classic, new to Penguin Modern Classics Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and...

Author: Edgar MittelholzerBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker and Warburg, 1953, First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Life and Death of Sylvia is a compelling novel by Edgar...

'He has everything - pleasantry, seriousness, reason, vigour, pathos, eloquence of every kind' Voltaire A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' - Sunday Times 'Stunning' - LIZ NUGENT...

George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in,...

Author: Lawrence DurrellBinding: HardbackPublished: faber and faber, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsLawrence Durrell's Sebastian Or Ruling Passions presents a profound literary exploration within his acclaimed Avignon Quintet,...

Master of international intrigue Daniel Silva, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, comes an explosive thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon. The most beautiful music hides...

Colonel Tom Blake is a modern day hero, a man that provides unwelcome problems for his superiors along with welcome successes. To his bosses a maverick but to his colleagues...

Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the red wine still flowed, the cafes...

Author: Erich SegalBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsIn this once-upon-a-timely tale, a Young and Innocent Hero embarks on a...

A rich new tapestry of worlds from the acclaimed author of the Black Jewels trilogy. Long ago, in a time that has faded from memory, a mother's tears forged the...

Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Why is...

A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...

'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work' - Ali Smith 'The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly' -...

Author: V E Schwab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab and torn from the universe of the Shades...

Author: Hubert Selby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion...

Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA cornerstone of Victorian comic verse, The Bab Ballads: With...

Stefan Zweig's most famous novel, reissued with a new jacket and title 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military...

THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLER 'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times 'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The Times In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in...

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Author: Wilfrid BluntBinding: HardbackPublished: James Barrie, London, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Fold-out map intact. Board with bumping on corners and spine. Minor nick/tear...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of autobiographical fiction, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston collects Siegfried Sassoon's celebrated trilogy — Memoirs of...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just...

Author: George MacdonaldBinding: HardbackPublished: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1890Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Sunned...

New to Black Classics Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of...

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG 'Excruciatingly powerful' ANTONY BEEVOR 'A brilliant, harrowing, powerful novel' DAILY MAIL 'Faulks is a prodigiously talented writer' NEW YORK TIMES In the...

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Edition: First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: British Empire issue, with the publisher's label affixed to...

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'The whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual...

Author: Alberto MoraviaBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker and Warburg, 1953, First U.K. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Time of Indifference is a novel by Alberto Moravia that explores...

New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops. Twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, putting his mother Elise into a panic...

'One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years' William Dalrymple 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we...

Author: Kent Wascom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops. Twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack...