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These accomplished, gothic-infused stories impress in terms of their range and unexpected twists - this is an exceptional debut collection that includes the title novella, 'The Gorgon Flower'. A young...

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Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few works in the English biographical tradition carry the quiet authority and intimate grace of Izaak Walton's collected Lives....

'In this comprehensive volume, we see the actor in a range of roles: loving son, wicked gossip, star actor, indecisive director, anguished lover, brilliant anecdotist...This splendid book reveals an infinitely...

Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition **NAMED AS BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR...

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Author: A. Windsor-RichardsBinding: HardbackPublished: John Gifford Ltd, 1966Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsOf Hidden Depths is a compelling psychological drama that uncovers...

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Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which...

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In the first definitive biography of Britain's greatest public intellectual, Richard Reeves reveals John Stuart Mill as a passionate man of action: a philosopher, radical MP and reformer who profoundly...

A superb translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems- the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some foxing on top of blockThis captivating historical biography, Splendour And Scandal: The Reign Of Beau Nash, chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of British political satire, The Other Half: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher presents...

Here is the definitive portrait of the ultimate power broker by "the toughest, most in-your-face investigative reporter in the U.S.A." (Greg Palast). Dick Cheney sets energy policy. He guided the...

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Author: John T. ApplebyBinding: HardbackPublished: History Book Club, 1967Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account delves into the period of English history between 1189 and 1199,...

A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is edited with an introduction and notes by Sir John Keegan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodWhat does it mean to write in a language that belongs to a homeland you can never...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodThis Time-Life boxed set unites three essential texts on the composer, with Robert Gutman's "Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind and His Music" chronicling the...

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat,...

Inside the lives of the scientists who are exploring the world, our universe, the past and ourselves.Based on the interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4's hugely popular series, THE LIFE...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the smoke-choked battlefields of antiquity to the mechanised carnage of the twentieth century, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle presents a sweeping and...

Author: John BuchanBinding: HardbackPublished: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 1919Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis gripping spy thriller, Mr. Standfast, chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most captivating collections in English literary history, Brief Lives presents the irresistibly candid and intimate portraits of seventeenth-century England's most...

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Hollywood has given us no greater director than John Ford. Between 1917 and 1970, Ford directed and/or produced some 226 pictures, from short silent films to ambitious historical epics and...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the gossipy salons of seventeenth-century England emerges one of history's most captivating collections of biography — John Aubrey's Brief Lives chronicles the lives...

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Author: John GloagBinding: HardbackPublished: THE RICHARDS PRESS, 1949Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerJohn Gloag's Time, Taste And Furniture presents a...

NEW EVIDENCE ON THE FATE OF THE 'PRINCES IN THE TOWER' When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of...

'Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor' is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is...

Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world's most influential modern and contemporary artists. Richard Cork draws on his...

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the autumn of 1960, America stood at a crossroads, and...