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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: With 48 plates and 37 drawings and maps in text. xvi. 559pp. DJ: price clipped; some...

An undiscovered novel by an iconic American food writer - the publication of this enchanting portrait of 1930s bohemian life will be a major literary event 'I sank into The...

Admired by W. H. Auden as one of the greatest American writers, M. F. K Fisher never focuses on just the food set before her. Instead, with unfailingly elegant prose,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Acceptable. Jacket: good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: ex-lib with usual markings. A taut and gripping thriller, Variation on a Theme by David E. Fisher weaves together science,...

'I'm going to kill her. You'd better come if you want to save her.' Lorraine - 'Rainy' - lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine...

Beginning with her first food memory - the greyish-pink fuzz of her grandmother's strawberry jam - M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a voyage of gastronomical discovery, from her childhood in...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn this delightfully nostalgic and whimsical collection of folk-style stories, young readers...

The celebrated American food writer M.F.K. Fisher pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods: the oyster. She tells of oysters found in stews and soups, roasted, baked,...

Marnie's really messed up this time - expelled and forced to change schools, the only empty seat in Marnie's new school is next to Zed, a nerd with zero tolerance...

The celebrated American food writer M.F.K. Fisher pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods: the oyster. She tells of oysters found in stews and soups, roasted, baked,...

What would you sell your soul for? Sixteen-year-old Sarah Trevelyan would give anything to regain the power and wealth her family has lost, so she makes a bargain with Azrael,...

Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCarrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking presents a hilariously candid and poignant memoir, chronicling her extraordinary...

'I am the person I always should have been,' says Amy, 'except for a brief but total, unfathomable lapse of judgment in my youth.' Dubbed the 'Long Island Lolita', Amy...

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Author: Margot Livesey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Mercury is as luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered as only Margot Livesey can accomplish. - Dennis Lehane An optometrist in suburban...

The decidedly raven-haired Miss Phryne Fisher returns to delve deep into the dark cellars of Melbourne. 1929: pretty little golden-haired girls are going missing in Melbourne. But they're not just...

Author: Adam Stower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 40 'An absolute delight... brilliantly original, utterly hilarious' DAVID WALLIAMS Fin is extremely forgetful - he wears slippers to school and comes...

Author: Carrie FisherBinding: PaperbackPublished: SIMON & SCHUSTER, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis novel chronicles the tumultuous life of a Hollywood actress...

'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...

For fans of Michael Morpurgo, this is an animal story unlike any you've read before. Kirsty Weaver isn't like most ten year olds. She doesn't spend her time watching TV...

'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary 'A...

'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...

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Author: Margaret Baillie-SaundersBinding: HardbackPublished: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913Condition:Book: Poor, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cover lifted from board along spine, cover has significant wear and staining, pages...

Author: Margery SharpBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, England, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsMargery Sharp's "The Innocents" is a charming work of classic British fiction that introduces readers...

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Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones...

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When the Velveteen Rabbit first arrives in the nursery, he is snubbed by the other toys. But the Rabbit soon makes friends with the Skin Horse who explains how toys...

When Margaret is six, she imagines herself a spy, a healer, a queen: and later at crisis points in her life, she feels as if parts of her have split...