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Author: Elza Adamowicz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is the first comprehensive study in English of surrealist leader Andre Breton's life-long commitment to the visual arts. As an...

NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude towards life. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of...

The book titled Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism by the author Andre Breton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Contains new translations of de Nerval's work Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and...

"Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941. . . . A moving tale of...

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate "Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its flaws and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in the history of French letters have burned as brightly — or as turbulently...

Paris insiders know the best place to go for inspiration is not the Louvre, and the best place to go to buy something fabuleux is not the Boulevard St. Germain:...

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There is only one Arsene Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story. In this definitive autobiography, the world-renowned, revolutionary football manager...

**Alan's new cosy crime novel How To Kill A Gardener is available to pre-order now!** A powerfully life-affirming story of the wonder of nature, the ties of family, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; pages can have minimal notes and/or highlighting; signed ephemera laid in. What happens when a...

"An eerie silence quickly enveloped the Cohen family wagon. That last turn had been a grave mistake. They were no longer en route to California but heading south, deep into...

Secondhand Bryce Courtenay Bargain Book Box SP4263 Sixteen Bryce Courtenay titles, several in hardback: The Power of One and its sequel Tandia, the complete Potato Factory trilogy, The Persimmon Tree...

THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL #METOOINCEST MOVEMENT A family's secret weighs on everyone... THE...

Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as...

ONE OF THE TIMES ' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023 The first epic novel in THE GLORIOUS YEARS series from the two times winner of the prestigious Prix-Goncourt 'You have the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the modern novel had found its footing, Henry Fielding set the template with Joseph Andrews, a...

Peter Evans's biography of Aristotle Onassis, Ari , metwith great acclaim when it was published in 1986. Ariprovided the world with an unprecedented glimpse of theGreek shipping magnate's orbit of...

During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST DESIGNED CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT SERIES ABDA AWARD 2020 When a lovable sloth's book is hijacked by a fox with STYLE and PIZZAZZ, sloth has to learn how...

A fun-filled fantasy quest starring an unforgettable new hero: BRONTE TEMPESTRA! Bronte Tempestra of the Storm Kingdom is taking charge of her own destiny - she will be the first...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict -...

From the bestselling author of the Eagles of the Empire novels comes first instalment of the epic story of Caratacus: the barbarian king who united Britannia's tribes to raise an...

This third collection of Martin Crimp's work brings together four remarkable plays - Fewer Emergencies; Cruel and Tender; The City and In the Republic of Happiness 'Martin Crimp is one...

From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; 16 tipped on colour plates of paintings - identification and description of plates. Few artists in the...

DARK, HONEST, UPLIFTING. THIS IS A SOBRIETY MEMOIR LIKE NO OTHER. 'This is a book that tears down walls.' Marian Keyes 'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer whose razor-sharp...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger ' A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara Nadel 'This debut promises...

He's beheld the butt and offered the scoop on poop. Now Artie Bennett takes young readers on a discovery of those little (and not so little) puffs that exit from...

'There was none like her before and there's been none like her since - she was unique.' Dawn French Victoria Wood was one of the true comedy greats of her...

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an...

A rare book on economics that is actually written in English. Trenchant, clear and comes complete with solutions. Essential reading for the coming election. -- Simon Jenkins A lively review...

For years, the police commissioner and the mayor have duked it out for publicity, credit, and power. Some have translated their stardom into success after leaving office, while others have...

By a detailed investigation of dreams Freud discovered a way of exploring the unconscious, recognized that dreams, like neurotic symptoms, are products of a conflict and compromise between conscious and...

The charioteer in his purest form. The supreme master of destiny and the elements. A man who made a circus out of life, and life out of a circus. 'A.D....

'A cross between H is for Hawk and Wild , this beautifully written tale follows Fowler's travels through Eastern Europe after her fiance was killed by a jellyfish' Stylist 'A...

So this is surfing in Britain, I told myself as I grumpily walked up a slope of wet rocks and wispy beach grass, trying to keep a foothold as rain...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before the illustrated Bible became a staple of Sunday school classrooms, Frank Beard pioneered a brilliantly inventive format — the rebus — to...

THE BRAND-NEW WARTIME SAGA BY MAGGIE MASON - PERFECT FOR READERS OF VAL WOOD, KITTY NEALE AND ROSIE GOODWIN 'Reading a Maggie Mason book is like having a warm hug'...

She kept her gaze fixed out of the window, towards the village and Withington Hall beyond. 'It's perfect,' she said... September 1920. A young bride is discovered dead at a...

Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including...