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With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...

This beautiful full-colour edition is the perfect choice for every family's bookshelf. E. B. White's Charlotte's Web in full colour makes a perfect gift. 'No child should be without a...

A simple search-and-find in the great outdoors with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! In this engaging search-and-find board book, young readers will be challenged to find various animals on a nature...

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The book titled Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave: The Story of Martha Gellhorn by the author Carl Rollyson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age when aviation was synonymous with daring and death, one man rose above the...

Walter Kovak - insurance worker, early forties, unhappily married, no children, memorably invisible - is the sole survivor of a devastating suburban train crash. But Walter has no memory of...

Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Charles Wright's truth - the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging - is at the heart...

'Eloquent, impressive . . . while her touch is witty, her manner almost buoyant, her themes are sinister beyond belief. She touches the frontiers of the human' Hilary Mantel Boston,...

Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...

Author: Sir Gustav NossalBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 2007Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis authoritative historical account, Diversity And Discovery: The Walter And Eliza Hall Institute...

A hilarious tale of history come to life. From the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo, best-selling author of War Horse. Living with a ghost can have its difficulties, I discovered,...

Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell...

'Vivid. Eloquent. Offers insight as well as delight' Guardian 'An exquisite portrayal of the lonely dislocation of being deaf in a hearing world' The Times 'Absolutely brilliant. Ellen Lark is...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Usual aging - otherwise in good conditionA richly detailed literary biography, The Case of Walter Pater presents a penetrating...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markings"That Great Lucifer" is a British biography that portrays Sir Walter Ralegh as the quintessential Elizabethan adventurer, chronicling...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of historical biography and imperial history, this volume chronicles the life and ambitions of Sir Walter Ralegh against...

There never was a cricketer- or a character- like Doug Walters. The boy from Dungog breezed onto the international scene in 1965 with a century in his first Test and...

A brilliant and very readable critical biography of, according to the author, 'the greatest single imaginative genius of the nineteenth century'. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. 'I have...

Author: Philip GosseBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1940, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography explores the life of Charles Waterton, an eccentric naturalist and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical biography chronicles the tumultuous life of Lucy Walter, a figure entangled in the...

Author: Michael LeveyBinding: HardbackPublished: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a compelling examination of the life and influence of Victorian critic Walter...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA master of psychological suspense, Richard Neely unleashes a chilling narrative in The Walter Syndrome — a dark, compulsive thriller...

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an explorer, pirate, lover, poet, courtier, philosopher and political prisoner, a man of timeless fascination. An essential part of the nation's history he embodies...

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Author: Macfarlane BurnetBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the foundational decades of a renowned medical research institution, detailing its...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A sweeping work of romantic historical fiction, Here Was a Man: A Romantic History of...

The remarkable story of footballing star and war hero Walter Tull is brought to life in this inspiring illustrated retelling. Tully and his brother don't have much. But they do...

William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been...

New and expecting parents will love charting their pregnancies and babies' milestones with these charming paper-over-board blocks. Decorated with spot art from The Very Hungry Caterpillar (a character who knows...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhat happens when the undisputed pope of trash trades his director's chair for a roadside sign and a thumb pointed west? In...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the shadow of a Puritan settlement in seventeenth-century Boston, a woman named Hester Prynne is forced to stand...