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A Guardian, NYT and TIME best book of the year, Beautyland is the best of cosy crossover literary fiction - a wise and tender novel about a woman who doesn't...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A scholarly anthology presenting the work of nine major...

Stella Rimington meets State of Play in this smart political thriller for a new generation of Le Carre fans. SECRETS 1991, Belfast. Maire Anne McCartney is recruited for a one-off...

A "warm, witchy, and wonderful" family story that is the queer love-child of Practical Magic and The Parent Trap as one woman is about to discover that she's a witch...

'Wildly inventive, highly entertaining' The Times In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's assassination, a man named P. T. Barnum opened a museum in New York City....

From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer...

Bertie is about to go on his first flight from the hive and collect the pollen for making honey, like he has watched all his friends do! But he is...

Author: J. R. R. TolkienFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 200g, 288 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully...

On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as...

An intimate and at times savagely funny psychological study of two sisters, one of who has made her home in East Berlin and one who has stayed on in their...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as...

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Emma, Lady Hamilton, rose from poverty to become a media celebrity, and her relationship with Admiral Nelson, and her renowned beauty, made her the most instantly-recognisable woman of her era,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich work of historical biography and primary source scholarship, The Amberley Papers presents the private letters, diaries, and documents...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Worn/faded with some minor chipping and edge wear. Page Condition: good. Markings: No visible markings noted. A landmark work of biographical and historical scholarship,...

The book titled The Shape of the World: Mapping and Discovery of the Earth by the author Simon Berthon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Author: Bertram NewmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1957Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsEnglish Historians: Selected Passages by Bertram Newman presents a...

Author: Darell BerthonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Some minor markings to board, tanned edges...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markBehind the austere, imperious gaze that defined one of Britain's most singular literary minds lies a life as dramatic...

'You will not find a more devoted, thorough, loving and surprising book on the life of Leonard Bernstein - the most extraordinary man of extraordinary talents. Read it.' Lauren Bacall...

Author: Hanna Kiel; Carter BrownBinding: HardbackPublished: Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents the profound insights of a master art historian,...

The creator of Mapp and Lucia, E.F. Benson (always known as Fred) ranks with P.G. Woodhouse as one of Britain's greatest humourists. He was born into one of the most...

Russell's letters span 70 years, from the late Victorian age to the 1960s, and range from private love letters to impassioned pleas to political leaders to technical philosophical letters. His...

Author: Major F. E. Verney, M.C.Binding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards...

Author: Halliday SutherlandBinding: HardbackPublished: Geoffrey Bles, 1939Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsHalliday Sutherland’s Hebridean Journey chronicles a captivating voyage through the remote and rugged islands of the Scottish...

Author: S. M. Burton And Gilbert F. CunninghamBinding: HardbackPublished: George Philip & Son, Ltd., 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis essential reference...

Author: Major F. E. VerneyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928, Popular EdCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a character study of Edward, the...

Author: Burton J. HendrickBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Minimal...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minor wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. No stickers or price tags visible. This authoritative...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedIn Far East, the legendary British aesthete, photographer, and wartime chronicler Cecil Beaton turns his singular eye...

Author: Jeffery FarnolBinding: HardbackPublished: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co Ltd, London, 1915Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBeltane The Smith...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsUnknown

Author: Dudley SommerBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD, 1960Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA compelling historical biography,...

Born in County Clare, Ireland, brought up on Lamb's Shakespeare, lime sherbet sweets and the golden dust of fairy's wings, young Harriet Smithson's imagination promises the world in a bubble....

Author: P.N. FurbankBinding: HardbackPublished: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsP.N. Furbank's E.M. Forster: A Life chronicles the intricate existence of one...

Age range 8 to 12 'Our history is full of stories about hairy people, furry people, yowies, bunyips and monster apes. But this is the story about the hairy holes....