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Author: Pauline Melville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 What could a ballerina, an anarchist, an Islamic terrorist and a banker possibly have in common? Our narrator, the enigmatic, piano-playing,...

The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of...

In this totally revised four-part edition of her landmark book, Pauline brings her practical, clinical insight as a psychotherapist and her personal understanding from overcoming her own debilitating agoraphobia to...

Pauline Neville evokes her family's recent past and recaptures the moving friendship between two cousins. This revealing memoir is also a meditation about the nature of dying and the value...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Creased spine ith minor creasing on cover. Part of the renowned Writers and Critics series, this...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Slipcase: goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsOmoo is a sequel to Melville's first novel, Typee, and follows the adventures of a sailor who escapes from a South...

Author: Herman MelvilleBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis classic adventure narrative transports readers to the lush, untamed Marquesas Islands, recounting the captivating experiences of a young sailor...

The tales in this selection of Melville's shorter works were all written after the publication of "Moby-Dick" and after "Pierre", his first commercial failure. They are products of Melville's complex...

In his introduction, Stephen Matterson discusses Melville's literary career, the role of the trickster in American literature, and themes of satire and religious allegory in this unusual novel Onboard the...

Herman Melville was born into a family that in the fledgling republic had lost both money and status. Toughened at sea as a young man, he returned home to chronicle...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of Britain's most beloved comic writers comes Merely Melville, a sparkling collection of witty observations, comic sketches,...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. This gripping espionage thriller, A Sort...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA gripping entry in the Superintendent Capricorn series, The Rockefeller Gift plunges readers into a complex...

The book titled No Pleasure in Death by the author Pauline Bell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some wear on edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover binding. A gripping police procedural and...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A compelling work of political non-fiction, Guatemala: Another Vietnam? presents a searing...

The book titled Baby Drop by the author Jennie Melville. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: James MelvilleBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg London, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsSayonara, Sweet Amaryllis transports readers to the intricate world of Japanese crime, where...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with minor chipping and wear to edges and corners. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible. A taut and...

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own...

The book titled The Morbid Kitchen by the author Jennie Melville. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Feast into Mourning by the author Pauline Bell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A new Penguin Classics black spine edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories--American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's...

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Author: Robert MelvilleBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition with light bumping on corners. All...

Author: James MelvilleBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis gripping mystery, The Death Ceremony, plunges readers into a meticulously crafted world of...

The book titled A Tarnished Phoenix by the author James Melville. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA classic entry in the British detective fiction tradition, A Sort of Samurai chronicles the investigations of Superintendent...

How can a man who achieved so much be so little remembered? Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and secret agent; loyal lieutenant to...