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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor staining to fore-edge.In the sweltering summer of 1914, the great powers of Europe stumbled — with catastrophic certainty — into the...

Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war - reissued for the 2014 Centenary War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the guns of August shattered the old world forever, there existed a civilisation of breathtaking complexity, contradictions,...

A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and...

The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues...

A glowing first novel that brings us "historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written" It is England, in the fourteenth century -- a time of plague,...

For fifty years Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it truly mean to dedicate a life to dance? Striking a Balance: Dancers Talk About Dancing presents an intimate and...

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The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it...

A "smart, juicy, deeply reported" (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time-Barbara Walters-a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules...

The next novel in the international publishing phenomenon the Ice Planet Barbarians series, now in a special print edition with a bonus original novella! Tiffany doesn't care about all the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small tear on title page, otherwise fine. This authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable and often...

Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4078 A rich, varied mix of cultural writing, memoir and social commentary. Books on race, identity, the body, deafness, ballet, the internet, menopause, photography and...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark intervention in the discourse of race and gender, Ain't...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of socialist politics and feminist thought stands George Bernard Shaw — playwright, provocateur, and unlikely champion of women's autonomy...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the vast, sunburned heart of Australia, a woman flees the wreckage of her privileged Sydney life and disappears into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep back into the rugged wilderness of colonial Tasmania with James Fenton's vivid and authoritative memoir, Bush Life in Tasmania: Fifty Years Ago —...

Edition: 1st us ed., 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedSet against the brutal and largely forgotten war for Eritrean independence, To Asmara transports readers into one of...

Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...

Secondhand Paranormal Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4097 Two beloved paranormal series in one box. Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels — gritty, darkly funny, unflinchingly adult — sit...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Bumbs and shelf wear to edge of DJ.For over a hundred years, Royal Doulton's Character and Toby Jugs have...

Secondhand History & Military Bargain Book Box SP4076 Twenty books spanning ancient history, WWII, military history, classical civilisation and modern political biography. From the Greeks and Romans to the Dambusters,...

Edition: N0 39 of 50Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFew pursuits carry the quiet poetry of fly fishing, and The Cast: From Cane to Carbon captures...

Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079 A wonderfully broad box of non-fiction — popular science, sharp cultural writing, business, nature, humour and self-help all represented. Hawking on cosmology, Bryson on...

Secondhand True Crime Bargain Book Box SP3016 Sixteen true crime titles spanning Australian crime, American murder, false imprisonment, serial killers and the hidden world of Bali's drug trade. Strong Australian...

Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4071 Nine large-format books from the much-loved Time-Life "World of" series — each a thorough survey of a single master, richly illustrated throughout. A...

Secondhand Religious Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP4093 An extraordinary collection of academic theology and religious philosophy, centred heavily on Don Cupitt — the Cambridge philosopher-priest who spent decades dismantling traditional...

Secondhand Alistair MacLean Bargain Book Box SP4094 Twenty-four novels from the undisputed king of the action thriller. Alistair MacLean wrote some of the most tightly plotted, propulsive novels of the...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the dust and danger of a war-torn East Africa, Towards Asmara chronicles the journey of a disparate group of...

Secondhand Children's Classic Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4082 Enid Blyton at her best — Famous Five, Secret Seven, Adventure series, Malory Towers, the Wishing-Chair, the Magic Faraway Tree — alongside...

Secondhand Children's Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4081 A Roald Dahl feast, with nine of his titles from the sweetly subversive to the gloriously gruesome. David Walliams provides strong backup, and...