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Reminiscent of Donna Tartt, a circle of friends at Cambridge form a private club that scales the university colleges by night, until one day they take their daredevil activities one...

Will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you think' Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project 'A book with true heart and soul' Joanna Cannon, author of The...

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription The summer of 1940 was among the most consequential in...

When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring...

Author: James Gibb StuartBinding: HardbackPublished: Embryo Books - William Maclellan, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book examines the lives and ideas of influential...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew journalists of the twentieth century bore witness to history with the moral clarity and narrative force of...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels present. Next Time I'll Sing to You...

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...

Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner was reticent about his private life. In this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, scotches many Turner myths,...

When King James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England in 1603 he had ruled his native land almost as long as had Queen Elizabeth. He showed both vision...

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Author: James SutherlandBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJames Sutherland's Restoration Tragedies presents a scholarly examination of the...

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Author: James Ivory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so...

Author: James Lees-MilneBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine, price clipped,The Last Stuarts chronicles...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR...

Author: Antonia FraserBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket and cloth cover have hole front bottom edge (see photo), some pages...

One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young...

Author: James Ivory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In Solid Ivory, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and director of A...

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In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing...

Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...

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Author: Jan G. DickerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Elizabeth Tudor Press, Rose Bay, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIan G. Dicker's J.C.W.: A Short Biography Of James Cassius Williamson chronicles...

The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA work of Australian historical biography, this volume chronicles the remarkable...