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'At last I read her books, reminding myself to breathe, wondering if her characters could extricate themselves from her finely spun web of psychological torment. I seized my chance to...

Internationally acclaimed for her five brilliant novels, Elizabeth Harrower is also the author of a small body of short fiction. A Few Days in the Country brings together for the...

The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch...Searing skin, and petrifying metal and wood, it took possession of London...

Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an Australian industrial town. Growing up neglected in a seedy boarding house,...

Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared away all signs of work in an instant, examined their souls for defects, in a sense...

Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...

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THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING RAVENSCAR TRILOGY Elizabeth Turner, scion of the fabled Deravenel family, carries the red-gold hair and beautiful English complexion of her ancestors. And it is...

Author: Elizabeth Byrdbinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1972Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: Previous ownerThe Famished Land is a novel that explores the harrowing experiences during the Irish potato...

Over half a century after her movie debut at the age of ten, Elizabeth Taylor is the only star from Hollywood's Golden Age who continues to hit the headlines. After...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with...

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 AN OPRAH WINFREY AND FEARNE COTTON BOOK CLUB PICK ' No one who reads this book will ever forget it ' Meg Mason...

The Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, untold story of 'Countess Janina Suchodolska', a Jewish...

The final novel in the bestselling Ravenscar series following the fortunes of the Deravenel family Elizabeth Turner, scion of the fabled Deravenel family, carries the red-gold hair and beautiful English...

Author: Elizabeth Hardwick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'A series of fleeting images and memories ... united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.' - Sally Rooney...

Author: Jasper RidleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates., 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the life and reign of Elizabeth I, one of England's most iconic monarchs....

Discover the revelatory royal autobiography of the year, with stories featuring Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III and many more. From an early age, Grant Harrold was always obsessed with...

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The Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, untold story of 'Countess Janina Suchodolska', a Jewish...

Author: Elizabeth Gill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 1877, Durham. After a traumatic and harrowing incident at the hands of a stranger, a woman gives birth to a child....

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The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book...

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Author: G. W. Groos (translation)Binding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, The Diary Of Baron Waldstein: A Traveller In Elizabethan England, chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a compelling collection of personal correspondence from the celebrated poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works--and really doesn't--in A Fighting Chance As...

Set in Victorian-era Scotland and filled to the brim with fae, this is historical romantasy adventure will sweep you away This edition has been revised and expanded, with new spicy...

Author: Alison PlowdenBinding: HardbackPublished: M, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markings'Elizabeth Regina 1588-1603' presents a compelling historical account of the final fifteen years of Queen Elizabeth I's remarkable...

Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by...

Drawing on archival sources, much of it neglected by Sand's previous biographers, Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand's writing and defined her life....

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While I waited for sleep I retraced the road which brought me to you. Unbelievably it only took six months, equinox to equinox.  This dazzling rediscovered classic, shortlisted for the...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerJo Manton's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson chronicles the extraordinary life of Britain's first qualified female physician and...

The book titled The Senior Partner's Daughter by the author Elizabeth Harrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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Few people know the truth about Elizabeth II and her family. But biographer Sarah Bradford has spent the last ten years penetrating the Palace facade, uncovering unpublished documents and talking...