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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - tears; clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good. For a Bengali intellectual who had spent his entire...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew subjects in the history of human civilization are as vast, ancient, and misunderstood as Hinduism, and Nirad C. Chaudhuri's landmark study cuts through...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation andinsight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorousbeauty and cosmology...

Abhi, a Bengali boy, spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta, trying to make sense of the often confusing world of adults around him. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes,...

A Strange and Sublime Address , Amit Chaudhuri's first book, features a Bengali boy who spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes, prayer-sessions, shopping...

A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle. His loneliness and...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'A mysterious, subtle, haunting novel.' - Chris Power An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, hasbeen hired to cure a 'sick' sweet...

Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marriage to a teengaed poet who develops a relationship with a lonely...

In Friend of My Youth , a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the...

Hugely acclaimed on hardback publication - this is Chaudhuri's break out book Jayojit, a semi successful writer, now divorced, has finally retrieved his son Bonny for his summer holidays. They...

Meghna and Rani used to be friends. Now they're bitter rivals. Or are they?     When Meghna fails to make it to the final round of a competition but...

This study is a valuable review of an important era in Australia where the foundations of post graduate education in the rapidly expanding university sector were established. The benefits of...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS 'Pioneers of Armour in the Great War' tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the...

Author: Joseph. J. MackBinding: HardbackPublished: Neptune Press, Newtown, 1983Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis narrative recounts the experiences of a Victorian pioneer. It provides insights into...

When Bianca chooses death over becoming a vampire, she doesn't realise that another life lies in store... The fourth and final novel in the internationally best-selling EVERNIGHT series - a...

With an irresistible cast of characters, an incredible high fantasy world, and a unique, dangerous magic system, THORN SEASON is an epic court romantasy - perfect YA for fans of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew collections have shaped the intellectual landscape of the Western world quite like Great Books...

Dr. Steven R. Gundry, the New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking Plant Paradox series, shares compelling evidence that our gut microbiome is driving our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and...

Erin Hunter's #1 bestselling Warriors series continues with the second book in the Changing Skies arc, as the Clans continue to navigate an ominous prophecy that foreshadows the end of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of Christianity, seven letters addressed to seven fledgling congregations in Asia Minor carried...

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass , launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient...

'Chess is a staggering invention, if indeed it was invented. Maybe it just evolved. It is still evolving, now faster than ever, and Peter Doggers has traced and tracked its...

BLOODTHIRSTY UNICORNS. UNLIKELY HEROES. A MORTAL ENEMY. Don't miss this epic final adventure in the number 1 bestselling SKANDAR series, for fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Eragon and Impossible...

From the author of the blockbuster Horrible Histories series, which is now a TV show and movie, and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. ' Deary's storytelling is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in world literature have captured the human imagination as completely and enduringly as The Arabian Nights —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and literary genius stands François Mauriac — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Catholic moralist, and one of the most towering...

A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Four adventurous siblings - Peter, Susan, Edmund,...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the high-stakes world of clinical practice, getting patients to change their behaviour is one of medicine's most...

From the best-selling French author of Terrine, Ripailles, Pork & Sons and Rotis, comes this idiosyncratic culinary almanac, Stephane Reynaud's 365 Good Reasons To Sit Down To Eat. The recipes,...

Batman & Robin,, fish & chips, gin & tonic . . . Fry & Laurie - some pairings become iconic . . . 'One of the best sketch shows ....

'This book is NUTS! - in the best possible way. A relentless roller coaster ride through the heaven and hell of modern Russia' PETER POMERANZEV 'Written with all the pace...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the vast and brutal theatre of the Second World War, few accounts match the analytical precision and narrative sweep...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased cover and spine; stamp on title page, otherwise internally sound.One of the...

Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America's best-loved pioneer family. The sun-kissed prairie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingRalph G. Martin's "Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill" is a two-volume biography that chronicles the extraordinary life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the twilight years of steam-powered rail, photographer and railway enthusiast Shane McCarthy undertook a remarkable visual journey across Australia and New Zealand, capturing the...

Bestselling YA horror writer Cynthia Murphy crafts a spine-chilling thriller about a summer camp gone deathly wrong. When an American-style residential camp is set up in the grounds of an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the sun-scorched grandeur of ancient Judea, a wrongfully condemned Jewish prince named Judah Ben-Hur rises from the chains of Roman slavery to seek...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a world where gods walk among men and tyranny is dressed in the gilded robes of divine right, The Chosen — the first...