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JT. One of the greats, simply the best. He is Johnathan Thurston. As a young Brisbane kid, Johnathan Thurston was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild...

Author: Deryck ScarrBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian National University Press, 1973Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis compelling historical biography, I, The Very Bayonet:...

Author: Richard Bach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull,...

Perfect for cricket fans everywhere, Thanks Johnners is a warm and witty tribute to Brian Johnston and his time at the helm of Test Match Special. The Test Match Special...

Edition: facsimile edition. No. 162 of 250 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed by Bruce L. Evans (Foreword). 22ppIn the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew political memoirs have shaken Washington to its foundations quite like Blind Ambition, the searing firsthand account by...

From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adele Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her more than...

'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL READERS' -- ReadPlus on Barney and the Secret of the Whales The whisper in the darkness is: rebellion! (Or: death or liberty!) Frog is an orphan,...

'Bloody and beguiling.' THE TIMES 'A salty, action-packed saga.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Perfect for Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell fans.' DAILY EXPRESS Spanning the sacking of England's south coast by...

*A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* 'Carefully observed, rich in detail, imaginative, compassionate and angry. A raw, unexpected portrait of Britain's grandeur, wealth, energy, cruelty and hypocrisy in...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor chipsto edge of DJ, some minor discolouration to spine. In the...

When a baby is born whose reproductive organs do not fit neatly into a binary idea of biological sex, they are deemed intersex. Often, doctors and parents decide to do...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices comes Collected Stories, Volume Two: The Temptation of...

The internet is no longer new, it is part of our everyday lives, and as a commonplace, we rarely take time to contemplate what we have made together. In these...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2026* 'A must-read for every leader who dares to create real impact.' Jayn Sterland, Managing Director of Weleda UK 'A masterclass in harnessing...

The third book in a series that explores Australia's secret histories By the 1790s, orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams...

'Deary's storytelling is simple, historically accurate and compelling.' - The i newspaper on The Silver Hand From the author of the blockbuster Horrible Histories series, which is now a TV...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...

The first in a new series that focuses on a secret part of our history From best-selling and award-winning author Jackie French comes a new series for younger readers called...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the remote county of T'an-ch'eng in seventeenth-century China, a peasant woman named Wang vanishes into the night,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of British architecture cast as long a shadow as Sir John Soane, and this volume from the celebrated Architectural...

The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe fifth instalment of Penguin's landmark Penguin Modern Stories series gathers a bold and eclectic quartet of voices...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the earliest days of colonial settlement to the storied heights of Paddington Hill, From Sydney Cove to...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: SignedA compelling sports memoir, this work chronicles the remarkable life of Colin McDonald, the legendary Australian opening batsman whose stoic...

EQUAL PARTS HILARIOUS AND PROFOUND, THE ALTERNATIVES IS A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL ABOUT FOUR GIFTED IRISH SISTERS, FROM A MAJOR LITERARY VOICE. PERFECT FOR FANS OF JONATHAN FRANZEN, MAGGIE O'FARRELL...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists captured the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian England with the raw vitality and comic genius of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Some general wear on binding but otherwise good copy.What does it mean for a woman writer to find herself — truly find herself...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodChristchurch, New Zealand's most English of cities, carries its architectural heritage in stone and steel across its streets and waterways — and Buildings &...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor three and a half centuries, a parade of Western missionaries, soldiers, doctors, and engineers arrived in China...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to construct a living theology in a world desperately in need of...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew works have shaped a nation's understanding of itself as profoundly as Manning Clark's monumental History of Australia, a sweeping chronicle of the continent...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA rare and vital document of Australian military service, Vietnam: A Pictorial History of...

*2026 LOCUS FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL* *ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2025* Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?...

With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden and turbulent age of Shakespeare and the Virgin Queen, Elizabethan People: State and Society presents...

The prevailing image of food at sea in the age of sail features rotting meat and weevily biscuits, but this highly original book proves beyond doubt that this was never...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe skies over Britain in the summer of 1940 became the stage for one of history's most desperate...

The second book in a series that explores little-known history about Australia's fascinating past. Barney Bean is keen to make his fortune and he hears a secret; a sailor's secret...

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...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew disciplines reveal the ambitions, anxieties, and intellectual courage of civilisation quite like cartography —...