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The book titled The Dying Trade by the author David Donachie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

John Pearce comes back from Corsica demanding that Captain Barclay of HMS Brilliant, the man who originally pressed him and his fellow Pelicans into the Navy, be tried at home...

Following an encounter with a mystery vessel, the red flags fluttering from the top masts of the "Bucephalas" signal that His Majesty's Navy has reached a state of mutiny. However,...

Horatio Nelson is our most famous military hero. His statue dominates the capital, he has adorned our currency, his last words have passed into folklore, and HMS Victory, his flagship...

Author: DBC Pierre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF VERNON GOD LITTLE 'Pierre's high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of...

David was first introduced to showbiz when he travelled the world as the manager of his international cabaret star wife, Lorne. In his book David describes some of the remarkable...

Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques and trekking...

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2025 A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025 A Guardian Best Sports Book 2025 A unique memoir from British...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most consequential works in twentieth-century moral philosophy, The Right and The Good presents a rigorous and...

Joe lives with his mother in Helmouth, a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the suburbs. His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the...

Edition: uncorrected proofCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe bloodiest two days of the American Civil War come roaring back to life in Don...

Edition: Second Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of medicine and faith, A Doctor's Casebook in the Light of the Bible...

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,...

This collection of linked poems from David Levithan, the author of the New York Times bestseller Every Day and the groundbreaking classic Boy Meets Boy and the co-author of Will...

An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history. Caught between the Mob...

The long-anticipated final instalment in David Levithan's wildly successful Every Day series. Every day a new body. Every day a new life. Every day a new choice. For as long...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew books have so profoundly shaped the way the English-speaking world understands the pleasures of the table as...

DISCOVER DU MAURIER AT HER DARKEST A stunning collection of thirteen chilling stories from the Godmother of Fear, introduced by international bestseller Stephen King. *** 'Her talent is a bright...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSteeped in the charm of one of England's most historically distinctive spa towns, David Peacock's Tunbridge Wells...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat separates a great novel from a merely good one? In The Art of Fiction, celebrated novelist and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSome bonds defy simple description — they are felt in quiet moments, inherited lessons, and the...

A landmark new translation of the ancient Chinese oracle and book of wisdom, in a stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition From the acclaimed translator of the Tao Te Ching and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the earliest and most beloved works of travel literature in the English canon, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes chronicles Robert...

In the century since the Gallipoli landing, Anzac Day has taken on a different tenor for each succeeding generation. Perceptively and evocatively, David Malouf traces the meaning of this 'one...

*HIGHLY COMMENDED ('BUSINESS JOURNEY' CATEGORY), BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2026* 'An inspiring story of a life well lived.' MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG, Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies The Stoic ideal...

A Study in Scarlet introduced the great scientific detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, his friend and chronicler, to the reading public. This novel, a cornerstone in the annals of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens in the hidden social world of the classroom, where the unspoken dynamics between teachers and students...

Explore Answers to Life's Most Important Theological Questions. Over 175,000 Copies Sold! How do we know the Bible is God's Word What is sin and where did it come from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor anyone seeking an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the lives, legends, and cults of the saints, The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to educate a human being — and what philosophical foundations should...

An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the 'laughing devil' of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to HL Mencken.

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy, fog-choked streets of 1830s London, a young Italian street boy vanished — and the chilling truth of what happened to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most charming epistolary novels of the early twentieth century, Daddy-Long-Legs chronicles the remarkable journey of Jerusha Judy Abbott, a witty and...

As the Sun sets on the age of virtue, the shadows gather for a final dance... The Mathuran Republic and Magadhan Empire are locked in mortal struggle, but they are...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingRalph G. Martin's "Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill" is a two-volume biography that chronicles the extraordinary life of...

Since losing his job, Ned's sole responsibility has been to look after his six-year-old son while his wife works. When he one day finds his old tennis racquet buried in...

A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to...

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass , launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; markings on rear endpaper; What drives human behavior inside organizations, and how can understanding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA richly textured portrait of a vanished city, London Particulars transports the reader back to the teeming, fog-laden streets of early twentieth-century London through...