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Tobias Smollett's novels are funny, fast-moving, boisterous and coarse, the fictional equivalent of Hogarth's 'Rake's Progress' or a Rowlandson engraving. Indeed without doubt, Smollett is the most vigorous and entertaining...

Author: Tobias SmollettBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis epistolary novel, Humphrey Clinker, chronicles the misadventures of the eccentric Bramble family as they embark on a grand tour...

Author: Tobias SmollettBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis epistolary novel, Humphry Clinker, chronicles the misadventures of the eccentric Bramble family as they journey across Great Britain, encountering...

Author: Tobias SmollettBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis epistolary novel, Humphry Clinker, chronicles the misadventures of the eccentric Bramble family as they journey across Great Britain,...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Moisture damage (small), top corner of block.A landmark of eighteenth-century British literature, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is an epistolary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels of the eighteenth century capture the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian Britain with the same riotous energy as...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most wickedly brilliant satires ever written, Candide chronicles the misadventures of its relentlessly optimistic young...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn a world where the sea holds secrets older than memory, The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver by Rafael Torrubia chronicles a gripping...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Delicious' Nigella Lawson 'Clever and beguiling' Guardian 'Sublime and immersive' Jojo Moyes Erica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960 when she...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the twilight of his turbulent life, Lord Byron — poet, exile, and legend — fell into a love affair so consuming...

The narrative of Tumult! The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner is an extended exploration of the magical transformation of shy country girl Anna Mae Bullock into the boisterous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: grazia gunn's copy. Few works in the history of Western art have shattered convention as decisively as Pablo...

STUART TURTON'S INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD NOW IS OUT NOW 'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...

Revolution is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince's most prolific and groundbreaking music made with considerable inspiration and performed by a unique cadre of musicians he gathered and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat happens when the passion of Italian opera meets the soul of Italian cuisine? Allegro Al Dente: Pasta & Opera is a gloriously indulgent celebration of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the twentieth century's most revolutionary musical minds tells his own story in An Autobiography, a candid...

Tame Impala's psychedelic third album Currents (2015) is emblematic of a cultural shift in music production and consumption in the early days of streaming and a project that cemented its...

Secrets. Glamour. Lies. Your new favourite twisty thriller was written by INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Rebecca Heath 'Pitch perfect!' Jo Furniss, author of All the Little Children A REMOTE ISLAND It's been...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the cultural heart of Australia's southern capital, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: An Introduction and Appreciation chronicles the remarkable journey of one of the nation's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. worn edges - creased corners; internally sound.At the dawn of the twentieth century, in the shadowy quarters...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew artists shattered the boundaries of modern painting as violently and as beautifully as Jackson Pollock, and this landmark catalogue — produced...

Before there was Gary Ablett, Tony Lockett and Lance Buddy Franklin, there was Graham Polly Farmer, a footballing legend who revolutionised the game. This captivating biography recounts his life; from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew intellectuals have navigated the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with as much candour and conviction as Robert Manne, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to construct a living theology in a world desperately in need of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small circular hole at back of binding. Few artists embodied the anarchic spirit of 20th-century modernism as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA treasure trove for connoisseurs and scholars alike, Islamic Carpets from the Joseph V McMullan Collection presents one...

'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew art books dare to gather five of the most towering figures in Western painting under a single, authoritative volume — Great Masters of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the English literary tradition as Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century poet whose vivid imagination and masterful verse transformed the...

'A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch...

The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature. The poems included in this...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have shaped the English literary canon with the visionary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew military history publications have matched the meticulous, on-the-ground rigor of After the Battle, the legendary British magazine...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of ancient tradition and contemporary expression, Indigenous Art: Art Gallery of Western Australia presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spiral binding.From the remote shores of Groote Eylandt, a rugged island nestled in the Gulf of Carpentaria,...

Edition: limited to 2000 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew lives in the annals of maritime exploration burn as brightly as that of...

What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy? This is the story of the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel,...

The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations ,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Third Reich, where survival demanded impossible choices, Werner Rings' Life with the Enemy: Collaboration and Resistance in Hitler's Europe...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spiral binding,Few corners of the world preserve a cultural heritage as ancient and visually arresting as Groote...

Alan Moore and David Lloyd's powerful epic about loss of freedom and individuality gets the DC Compact Comics treatment! Alan Moore and David Lloyd's powerful epic about loss of freedom...