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Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...
Drake: The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero
A masterly re-evaluation of a self-made Elizabethan hero, and a fascinating re-creation of the man and his era. Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in...
The Rest is Death: a twist-laden thriller from the Sunday Times
A macabre ancient secret. An innovative biotech company connected to the highest levels of government. And the trail of bloodshed in its wake. 'Finally got my Tony McLean fix' READER...
The Last True Poets Of The Sea
"Profound and page-turning."--Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times best-selling author of CirceThe Larkin family isn t just lucky they persevere. At least that s what Violet and her younger brother,...
James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
$30.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero
This biography presents Drake through the accounts of friends and enemies on both the national and personal level. From his family's fierce love of Protestantism, and their early poverty which...
Sir Francis Drake
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Page Condition: yellowed with tanning. Markings: Remainder mark. **He was a pirate to his enemies and a hero to his queen...
Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
$20.00 AUD
With illustrations and maps, a witty and erudite account of the history of circumnavigation and how it has influenced the way we think about the Earth and ourselves. In the...
Sir Francis Drake
Four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the most legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce's greatest works A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper For the centennial...
An Uncommon Dialogue
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James Darling: Instinct, Imagination, Physical Work
$20.00 AUD
Author: Daniel ThomasBinding: HardbackPublished: Wakefield Press, 2001Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some wear and foxing of dust cover; some yellowing to edges of inside pages; in...
REVOLUTION: Prince, the Band, the Era
Revolution is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince's most prolific and groundbreaking music made with considerable inspiration and performed by a unique cadre of musicians he gathered and...
Ghost-Maker/Clownhunter by James Tynion IV
Clownhunter's brutal mission to hunt down all the clowns from The Joker War continues! Clownhunter's brutal mission to hunt down all the clowns from The Joker War continues! The untrained...
Among the Burning Flowers: Take your first steps into the epic
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 ....
War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution
"Robust and focused" - The Wall Street Journal "History at its insightful and mesmerizing best" - Nathaniel Philbrick Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how...
Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980 Twenty-one books of poetry, drama, and literary reference — Ibsen, Shaw, Euripides, Sophocles, Lorca, Howard Barker, Edward Albee, Sheridan, Geoffrey Dutton,...
Colonial Painters 1788-1880
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's earliest artistic voices speak across centuries in Colonial Painters 1788–1880, a richly authoritative survey that chronicles the...
Modern Painters 1931-1970
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark contribution to the study of antipodean modernism, Modern Painters 1931–1970 presents a sweeping survey...
Swanfall: The Times Children's Book of the Week*
'Swanfall manages to capture the kind of magic of a great winter walk. As Soon as you're finished, you'll want to pull on your wellies and stomp outside in search...
Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and
The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different...
The Coast Road: 'A perfect book club read' Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: N EWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 A WOMEN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' A perfect book...
Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence
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...