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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...

New to Black Classics for this Classic Travel Book, with a new introduction by Jon Lee Anderson During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred...

In 1979, the author of this work read "Arabian Sands" by W. Thesiger, which had an impact on his life and made him become a desert explorer. In tribute to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedLong before the age of satellites and GPS, a succession of daring, obsessive, and often eccentric Westerners risked everything to...

The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 3000 km below the earth's surface an extraordinary inner world the size...

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...

'It is a formidable, indeed a damning indictment and Wilkes presents the result of his detective work with journalistic panache' P. D. JAMES, Times Literary Supplement 'Roger Wilkes's seminal book...

One day Grug visited the animals at the zoo. Which animals did he meet?

A compulsive mix of crime fiction and legal thriller, exploring highly topical themes. Readers rave about the Ben Schroeder series: 'Another fantastic Ben Schroeder book' 'Marvellous' 'I would award 6...

The debut novel from the bestselling author of The Fine Print and Love Redesigned , and the first book in a swoonworthy Formula 1 romance series. Noah: Maya Alatorre is...

Manifesting queen, star of The Bridge and co-host of Mamamia's Fill My Cup podcast Allira Potter has devised a 'guidebook' for life that will allow readers to bring in their...

"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...

*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!* A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal...

Secondhand Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4285 Eighteen recent literary novels in near-new condition, several of them publisher’s proofs: Colson Whitehead twice (The Nickel Boys proof and Crook Manifesto), Patricia...

Special agent Paul Chavasse is familiar with undercover missions that no one else will undertake - but none have entailed being sent to prison for seven years. With commando-like precision,...

Secondhand Business & Self-Improvement Bargain Book Box SP4114 Eighteen business and personal-development books, half hardback: Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog, James Clear’s Atomic Habits, Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance, Crucial Conversations, Gerber’s E-Myth...

The power of The Green Witch meets the magic of oracle cards with these 50 green witchcraft-inspired oracle cards to guide you with the wisdom and insight from natural magic....

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 10-14) Bargain Book Box SP4297 Eighteen action books, two complete series between them: all nine CHERUBs from The Recruit to Mad Dogs (minus Dark Sun), and...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4147 Twenty-one biographies and memoirs, nearly all hardback with jackets: Flea’s Acid for the Children, Will Sergeant’s Echoes, Mike Love’s Good Vibrations, Tom...

Secondhand History Bargain Book Box SP4111 Nineteen histories, mostly big-format paperbacks, with four hardbacks: Beevor’s Russia, Ackroyd’s London, Inwood’s London, Lawrence James’s Raj, Orlando Figes’s Natasha’s Dance, Paxman’s The English,...

A mysterious creature called a Hullabaloo has attached itself to a sixth grader named Jack in this beautifully illustrated and humorous graphic novel that celebrates our differences and life's changes....

In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and...

'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...

A beautifully written new crime thriller you won't want to miss. In a beautiful village, a terrible storm is brewing... A rural paradise... Detective Jake Jackson moved to the countryside...

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles...

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...

Wolf pack politics, heart-pounding action, dark magic, newfound family dynamics, and shifter romance come to an explosive climax in the incredible conclusion of the Golden Court Trilogy by bestselling author...

Secondhand Christian Theology Bargain Book Box SP4158 Twenty Christian paperbacks from the serious evangelical shelf, with a run of vintage Fontana Religious: Karl Barth’s Faith of the Church, Butterfield’s Christianity...

Hilarity follows disaster in this sharp-witted tale of the trials of pre-teen life, from award-winning and critically acclaimed Crongton author Alex Wheatle. Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out...

Secondhand Young Adult Fantasy & Adventure Bargain Book Box SP4281 Fifteen YA novels: The Hunger Games, two Percy Jacksons, Ranger’s Apprentice book one, The School for Good and Evil, Maximum...

Weird and terrifying and that's the good guys ... SHAWN OF THE DEAD meets GHOSTBUSTERS filtered through a very twisted mind tHE LOCAtION: Undisclosed tHE tHREAt: UnconFirmed (but scary as...

Charlotte and Zee get caught up in Poseidon's plan to avenge his progeny's defeat in this "witty, well-paced, and fun" ( Kirkus Reviews ) second book in the middle grade...

Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4116 Twenty-one SF paperbacks across forty years: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Green Mars, Hal Clement, Barrington Bayley, Haldeman, Lafferty, two Amtrak Wars, Lawhead’s Empyrion omnibus,...

When the anticipation of your child's birth turns into the grief of miscarriage, tubal pregnancy, stillbirth, or early infant death, no words can ease your loss. But there is strength...

'A n uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing' Susie Boyt, Financial Times 'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us...

Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Publications have hitherto presented his long career as...

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...

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...

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...

From the bestselling and award-winning A.M. Howell, author of The Garden of Lost Secrets and The House of One Hundred Clocks, comes a brand-new thrilling historical mystery of stolen treasure,...

Did you enjoy watching the Matildas at the World Cup? Would you like to learn more about the sport you love? My Football Journal is the ultimate journal for all...

Perfect for readers of Pumpkin Spice Cafe , Erin Sterling and Lana Harper. In Oak Haven, this witch is about to brew up more trouble than she bargained for... When...