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'One of the best stories you'll ever read' New Yorker It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish...

Author: Eric AmblerBinding: HardbackPublished: The World Publishing Company, 1945Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling volume presents two seminal works from the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Ability to Kill is a compelling non-fiction anthology by Eric Ambler,...

An English novelist uncovers a trail of crime in Istanbul - and all roads lead to the mysterious master criminal Dimitrios English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul...

A car hurtles down the driveway of a luxury villa in Switzerland. The driver is a young woman, Lucia Bernardi. Inside the house, police find the body of her lover...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's master storytellers turns his razor-sharp mind from fiction to...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. No stickers or library stamps visible. A gripping Cold War thriller, The Care...

A high-octane story from the great Eric Ambler of a journalist on the run in the south of France Lucia Bernardi was last seen driving a car at top speed...

Author: Eric Ambler; introduction by Alfred HitchcockBinding: HardbackPublished: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection, "Intrigue," presents four...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some minor damage to edges and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings noted. Binding condition: Intact hardcover binding....

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — edges frayed and creasing visible, particularly at the top corners and spine; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE 'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, this is Ambler's...

Foster's dramatic skill is well-known in London's West End theaters. So perhaps it wasn't so surprising when he was hired by an American newspaper publisher to cover the trial of...

Ambler's electrifying Istanbul-set thriller from 1962, and the basis for the classic film Topkapi Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA masterwork of Cold War espionage fiction, A Kind of Anger chronicles the story of Piet Maas,...

Author: Philip Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie...

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Author: Ben Terris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris...THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of 'how it works' in this ongoing...

A riveting history of the Nazi conquest of Western Europe This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to...

'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC 'This is first class' The Times | 'Excellent' Spectator 'A highly accomplished...

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A handsome photographic tribute to The Ramble, the untamed "wild garden" of Central Park in New York City. For many New Yorkers, Central Park is Manhattan's crown jewel and what...

Now in paperback. A handsome photographic tribute to The Ramble, the untamed "wild garden" of Central Park in New York City. For many New Yorkers, Central Park is Manhattan's crown...

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Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms...

A new selection of seven of Dostoyevsky's best short stories, translated by Ronald Meyer The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA richly curated work of cricket history and nostalgia, this volume...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "This book is going to become the sports gambling bible...The formula's in the book." -Pat McAfee "The greatest and most controversial sports gambler ever" (ESPN)...

The No. 1 Bestseller- Hitler's ill-fated final stand, from the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests...

The so-called 'Battleof the Bulge' was one of the most important battles of the Second World War. It was certainly America's largest and most crucial land battle, at one stage...

'The best crime author in the southern hemisphere' TRENT DALTON 'Razor sharp and addictive . . . Pomare nails the craft of revealing and misdirecting in this story' SARAH JONES...

Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pelerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von...

A wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich octogenarian and the young ballerino he covets- Edmund White at his funniest and most unrestrained. Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat...

The right place, walked at the right time, can heal, energise, restore and inspire. Instead of ambling the same old track, find a route to match and mend your mood...

A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed...

' The Firm on steroids.' LINWOOD BARCLAY 'Hands down his best ever.' STEPHEN KING 'This is Finder at his finest... As good as it gets.' LEE CHILD THE PAST CAN...

America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international...

From acclaimed historian John Ferling, a major, global reappraisal of the Revolutionary War on its 250th Anniversary. In April 1775, British troops marched to Lexington, where an armed group of...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR How did America end up trapped in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, in which millions see the government as an evil 'deep state'?...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ILP JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER AWARD 'I'll be following Bailey Seybolt the way I follow Tana French' Kate Brody 'Twisty and compelling' Tracy Sierra Everyone...