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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores the life and works of Thomas Love Peacock, an influential figure in English literature known for his...

Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist. He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of...

Hardy's first Wessex novel, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are...

Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublisher: William Heinemann , -Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: like newA poignant early 20th-century...

BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER: Edgar Awards International Thriller Writers Awards A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker NPR The Diplomatic Courier During the Arab Spring, an American spy's...

Penguin Classics relaunch Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Signed"Love and Other Deaths" is a collection of poetry in which D.M. Thomas presents a bold and emotionally charged...

Penguin Classics relaunch When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been...

A stunning clothbound edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge, a haunting study of guilt and lost love Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded spineA carefully curated literary anthology, this collection presents the finest works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, the darkly visionary Romantic...

A hopeful and practical model for what it means to be a Christian and a culture-maker in a world of hurt and wondrous possibility, from multi-Grammy winner Charlie Peacock and...

Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...

This triptych of stories represents some of the finest work by the great German master, Thomas Mann. From a classic early account of artistic formation, suffused with deep melancholy, to...

Author: Corrinne Averiss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Funny, emotional and uplifting picture book about separation and love, to help children understand their emotions. Everyone loves everyone in Tess's...

Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsSet against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of colonial India, The Emerald Peacock is a richly atmospheric historical romance that chronicles...

Penguin Classics relaunch. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In...

Author: Maurice BrownBinding: PaperbackPublisher: The Craftsmen Press Pty, Ltd., 1972Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Author signature title pageThe story of a caravan trip from...

Penguin Classics relaunch When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to -...

Sue Bridehead, his last heroine, is an extaordinarily complex woman - an English Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina. Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty...

Desperate Remedies was Hardy's first published work, and combines murder mystery with a powerful love story. Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'....

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the twilight of Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on the remote island of Saint Helena, The...

Penguin Classics relaunch. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following...

A new edition of Henry Fielding's exuberant satire, chronicling the life, loves and fortunes of Tom Jones. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country...

Author: PetrarchBinding: HardbackPublished: The Heritage Press, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis edition of The Sonnets of Petrarch features the renowned poetry of Petrarch, edited by Thomas...

Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving...

The book titled Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends by the author Christopher Awdry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Thomas HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSet against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, The Trumpet-Major chronicles the romantic entanglements and societal pressures within a small...

BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER: Edgar Awards International Thriller Writers Awards A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker NPR The Diplomatic Courier During the Arab Spring, an American spy's...

Author: Paul Tudor Owen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 254 Following a sudden break-up, Englishman in New York Nick Braeburn takes a room with the elderly Peacock sisters in their...

Author: Neville WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Barrie & Rockliff, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical biography chronicles the tumultuous life of Thomas Howard Fourth Duke Of Norfolk,...

This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to...

Author: Thomas MooreBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1911Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Rebound copy. The Poetical Works...

Edition: 8th impressionCondition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket. A sparkling work of comic fiction, Cage Me a...

Everything changes for Aster the night her brother dies. Suddenly she's the only hope of the family, and instead of an early marriage to a boy from her small village...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsAlexandra Hasluck’s Thomas Peel Of Swan River chronicles the tumultuous life of a pivotal figure in Western Australian...