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Dead Letters
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some tears — the dust jacket shows age-related darkening and minor edge wear consistent with the period; some loss on rear panel. Page Condition:...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
'Ree, one of Britain's best-known living philosophers ... has delivered an impressive reimagining of what a history of philosophy ought to be' (Prospect) This fresh and brilliant history of how...
General Monck
$80.00 AUD
Author: Maurice AshleyBinding: HardbackPublished: JONATHAN CAPE, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsMaurice Ashley's General Monck chronicles the pivotal life of George Monck, a key figure in...
A Parade Of Cockeyed Creatures; Or Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy?
$25.00 AUD
Author: George BaxtBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape., 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor tears and rubbed edges to DJ, previous owner's writing and...
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
"A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...
The Bedside "Guardian" 2010
"The Bedside Guardian 2010" brings together the very best writing and photography from a tumultuous year in Britain and abroad. The centrepiece of the political year was an enthralling general...
Leviathan
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerDive into a high-stakes ecological thriller that pits a man's conscience against the might of the industrial whaling industry. Leviathan...
Around Australia in 80 Days
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The Life And Times Of George Iii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have been as misunderstood, mythologised, and ultimately as tragic as George III — a king who ruled for sixty...
Jonathan Cape: Publisher
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great literary movement stands a great publisher, and few in the twentieth century cast a longer shadow...
Sugar Street
'Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style . . . in the prose you can feel the adrenaline of [the protagonist's] initial flight wearing off ,...
Prince of Wales: A Biography
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The book titled Prince of Wales: A Biography by the author Jonathan Dimbleby. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His
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The riveting true story of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington's family but turned by war against Washington's crowning achievement, the Union. On the...
The Essential Samuel Butler
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few Victorian writers provoked, amused, and unsettled their contemporaries quite like Samuel...
Jonathan Swift
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Over the Top
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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
Author: Molly McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN '[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Luminous ... as...
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room' WASHINGTON POST A work...
Why Do I Say These Things?
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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
' Trippy, incisive, riotously funny ' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN '[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH ' Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance...
A Complete State Of Death
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Author: John GardnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsA Complete State Of Death presents a chilling narrative within the crime thriller genre, where...
Antarctica: Beauty in the Extreme
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The book titled Antarctica: Beauty in the Extreme by the author Jonathan Chester. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure
A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of 'Oulipo' writing, celebrating...
The Mouthless Dead: 'Completely addictive' Jonathan Coe
A powerful period crime novel based on a true story, by the author of Curtain Call and Our Friends in Berlin The Wallace Murder was a national cause celebre of...
DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain's Ambassador at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War
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There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the
'A social history of Britain spanning four decades, told with unflagging empathy and wit ' Jonathan Coe, Observer THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIES There and Back is...
There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the beloved author, TV icon and Monty Python star
Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A social history of Britain spanning four decades, told with unflagging empathy and wit ' Jonathan Coe, Observer THE FOURTH VOLUME...
The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia
An award-winning author argues for the necessity of cultural critics and intellectuals to American democracy This incisive collection of essays investigates the moral imagination of modernism and our intellectual and...
John Cornford
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Nathan's Run
A high security Virginia juvenile detention centre is the scene of a savage killing. Twelve-year-old Natan Bailey is accused of murder and branded a cop-killer; orphaned, alone and with nowhere...
Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2783
$110.00 AUD
A thoughtful literary fiction box with international range. Penelope Lively's The Road to Lichfield and DBC Pierre's Lights Out in Wonderland are the headline names, joined by Jonathan Safran Foer's...
The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations
"The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations" contains over 10,000 quotations from 1914 to the present. It is the most up-to-date, inclusive and international collection obtainable. As well as featuring...
Triangle, Rectangle, Circle: Geometric Works on Paper 1995-1996
New Zealand-born Australian artist George Johnson, who with close colleagues Roger Kemp and Leonard French introduced abstract painting to Melbourne audiences in the 1950s, is one of abstraction's most intentioned...
My Country: Stories, Essays and Speeches
Stories, essays and speeches from one of Australia's foremost writers and thinkers David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and...
The Goodbye Book
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThere are books that celebrate beginnings, and then there is The Goodbye Book — a rare and thoughtful examination of one of life's most...
May We Be Forgiven
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Reads like a brilliant miniseries ... has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt's What...
Comedies of the Georgian Stage: A London Anthology
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Author: Cumberland, Garrick, Colman & GoldsmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Various, 1770Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Good for age. Bound...
Fervour: The Secret History meets Jonathan Safran Foer meets The Royal
'Intriguing, propulsive and profoundly disturbing, this is a fearless look into the dark heart of family politics from a naturally gifted storyteller'JONATHAN COETHE ROSENTHALS ARE NOT LIKE OTHER FAMILIESHannah and...
Ticker Khan
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