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'Everything a reader could desire: wit, passion, mystery, brilliant detective work, a love of rare books, a deep dive into literary history and, best of all, the restoration of reputation...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Page cut on fep. Winifred Gérin's The Young Fanny Burney chronicles the formative years...

A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie...

'Everything a reader could desire: wit, passion, mystery, brilliant detective work, a love of rare books, a deep dive into literary history and, best of all, the restoration of reputation...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography chronicles the remarkable life of Fanny Burney, a pioneering...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics - the world's favourite stories Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school and settle in. But when she...

'In her debut novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family's real-life collaboration during the Second World War' - New Yorker Best Books of the Year In a grand...

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket. A warm and unhurried work of travel writing, To Meet The Spring: A...

Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of feminism and Marxism, Sisters or Citizens? presents a groundbreaking examination of the fraught and often contradictory relationship between the French...

A renowned journalist shows us France as never before seen, and the view will chill and electrify anyone who loves -- or loves to hate -- the country that not...

Born in 1902 in Seattle, Washington, Frances Lovell Oldham left her hometown in her early twenties to pursue a journalism career in Europe. At a time when women rarely found...

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Lance Franklin : My Football Journey is a stunning celebration and companion to the career of one of Australia's most revered AFL players, Lance 'Buddy' Franklin. Lance Franklin has held...

Lance Franklin : My Football Journey is a stunning celebration and companion to the career of one of Australia's most revered AFL players, Lance 'Buddy' Franklin. Lance Franklin has held...

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This is the first full-scale study of the artist, his career and his key contribution to the 17th century Bolognese school of painting. Beginning with an account of Albani's life...

Author: Mary Paulson-EllisFormat: Paperback, 131mm x 197mm, 372g, 528 pagesPublished: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2020From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the...

'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four...

Author: John Burney; John HallowesBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, Australia, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markings60 Minutes: The Book, compiled by John Burney and John Hallowes in 1983,...

Author: Edizione ScalaBinding: HardbackPublished: Edizione Scala, 1973Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book features a comprehensive collection of the works of Piero della Francesca, presented...

With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, Among the Burning Flowers sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree ....

Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Evelina by Frances Burney 'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one...

In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of...