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Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes...

A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter's...

This speculative fiction collection contains twelve stories centred around the theme of being altered by a situation. Stories include the acclaimed How to Win a War, which suggests a strategy...

The book titled ROBERT ALTMAN by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to spend just a few days...

In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced...

With themes of love, deception, rivalry and grand world events, this will be our biggest paperback campaign yet THE BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES, INDEPENDENT, SPECTATOR, i NEWS A...

Secondhand Arts, Culture & Historical Biography Bargain Book Box (15 Books) Spanning the creative spectrum from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the foundational poets of the nineteenth century, this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before satire became the wit of the civilised page, it was a weapon of terrifying power —...

As heard on The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett. Everyone experiences challenges, setbacks and mind blocks, the key is to break through them. Bestselling author Adam Alter shows...

OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE. THE SIZZLING FINALE TO THE NO 1 BESTSELLING ROMANTASY TRILOGY PHENOMENON! ? Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer return to the Kingdom of Ilya... ?...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of Enlightenment idealism and Romantic revolution, the late eighteenth century witnessed one of the most dramatic reinventions...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the first glowing ember of a prehistoric forge to the towering steel frameworks of the modern city, Out of the Fiery Furnace:...

The book titled Dreamgates by the author Robert Moss. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years afterjust another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends,...

Author: Robert First Earl Of LyttonBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual...

Author: Robert CowleyBinding: HardbackPublished: American Historical Publications, 2001Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection, The Collected What If?: Eminent Historians Imagining What Might Have Been, presents a fascinating...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the twilight years of Tsarist Russia, a fragile and fractious political class struggled to preserve its ancient privileges against the tide...

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In the year 2000--and beyond--what will the church be like? What challenges will it face? Will the church be able to provide a strong sense of community? Will it be...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Tanning and foxing. Few events in modern history have reshaped the world as profoundly as the...

A controversial and groundbreaking take on the nature-nuture debate Professor Robert Plomin, the world's leading geneticist, said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology-...

Author: Peter GoodchildBinding: HardbackPublished: BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, J. Robert Oppenheimer: 'shatterer Of Worlds', chronicles the life and profound impact of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA monumental work of narrative biography, Peter the Great: His Life and World chronicles the extraordinary life of one of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in Victorian intellectual life commanded...

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A collection of letters by one of the nation's greatest writers and poets includes Davies's correspondence with John Gielgud, Margaret Atwood, and Salvador Dali, among many others.

The book titled Robert Louis Stevenson: "Kidnapped", "Master of Ballantrae", "Strange by the author Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Author: Derek WilsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical biography, Bear Rampant: The Autobiography Of Robert Dudley Duke Of Northumberland, Earl Of Warwick...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Faded boards; yellowed endpapers - internally sound. Few artists have captured humanity's dreams of the cosmos with the authority and grandeur of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA towering figure in Australian contemporary art, Robert Macpherson has spent decades crafting a body of work...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBeneath the vast, silent expanse of the Pacific Ocean lies a graveyard of steel and memory — the sunken remnants of one of World War II's...

Robertson Davies, one of North America's most beloved and critically acclaimed novelists, added an impeccable sense of style to all his diverse writings. Now, in this exciting publishing event, there...

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Author: Alan KendallBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical biography chronicles the life and times of one of Elizabethan England's most influential...

FROM THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GALLOWS POLE COMES A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR _______________________ 'What a radical thing, these days, to have...

Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions.The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhen a wealthy art lover is found dead among his prized collection, the genteel world of connoisseurship is shattered —...

The book titled God's Banker: Account of the Life and Death of Roberto Calvi by the author Rupert Cornwell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

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Author: Michael Page And Robert IngpenBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, Sydney, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsTurning Points In The Making Of Australia chronicles the pivotal moments that shaped the...