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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in Australian commercial and civic life commanded as much respect as Arthur William Coles — businessman, retailer, and public servant — whose remarkable career...

Author: Walter Isaacson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did...

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the...

A brilliant and very readable critical biography of, according to the author, 'the greatest single imaginative genius of the nineteenth century'. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. 'I have...

A hilarious tale of history come to life. From the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo, best-selling author of War Horse. Living with a ghost can have its difficulties, I discovered,...

Amazing photographs accompany a search-and-find story by Walter Wick, the creator of award-winning picture books, the author and photographer of The New York Times bestselling Can You See What I...

Walter Kovak - insurance worker, early forties, unhappily married, no children, memorably invisible - is the sole survivor of a devastating suburban train crash. But Walter has no memory of...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Walter Cronkite Format: Hardback...

The book titled Walter Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity by the author Neal Gabler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Usual aging - otherwise in good conditionA richly detailed literary biography, The Case of Walter Pater presents a penetrating...

Author: Tom PocockBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear and minor damage on edges of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markings"That Great Lucifer" is a British biography that portrays Sir Walter Ralegh as the quintessential Elizabethan adventurer, chronicling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA master of psychological suspense, Richard Neely unleashes a chilling narrative in The Walter Syndrome — a dark, compulsive thriller...

The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying...

Author: Michael LeveyBinding: HardbackPublished: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work presents a compelling examination of the life and influence of Victorian critic Walter...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the shadow of Edinburgh's most infamous prison, a young woman's courage becomes her only weapon against an unjust world. The Heart...

The book titled Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Personality by the author Hesketh Pearson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the edge of consciousness, where thought dissolves into sensation and the self fractures into voices,...

'Eloquent, impressive . . . while her touch is witty, her manner almost buoyant, her themes are sinister beyond belief. She touches the frontiers of the human' Hilary Mantel Boston,...

A critical look at over 80 years of conflict, collusion, and corruption between financiers and politicians Undue Influence paints a vivid portrait of the dealings between "the few", in this...

'Refreshingly original and laugh-out-loud funny' - CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Delightfully shocking and irreverently funny' - JANICE HALLETT I have a gift. I see people as ghosts before they die. Of course,...

Historical crimes involving a Victorian child killer may hold the key to several contemporary deaths in this macabre outing for Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist. Ruth has excavated a body...

'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past100 years.' Sarah Waters 'Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be...

'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A...

'Macavity' (the mystery cat!) is one of the best-loved poems from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - the inspiration for Cats: The Musical - beloved by...

'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An intimate, revealing and...

THE BRAND-NEW WARTIME SAGA BY MAGGIE MASON - PERFECT FOR READERS OF VAL WOOD, KITTY NEALE AND ROSIE GOODWIN 'Reading a Maggie Mason book is like having a warm hug'...

'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author...

The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the...

THE WORD-OF-MOUTH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Nineteenth-century rural France. Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden...

A brilliant mystery series from bestselling author Enid Blyton, perfect for fans of The Secret Seven . There's been a robbery at Mr Fellows' house, but nothing has been stolen....

THE DEBUT ADULT NOVEL FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE KISSING BOOTH , A MAJOR NETFLIX HIT Five couples. One week. A love story like no other . ....

So this is surfing in Britain, I told myself as I grumpily walked up a slope of wet rocks and wispy beach grass, trying to keep a foothold as rain...

WINNER OF THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARD, WORK & LIFE 2025 'A manifesto for working women' THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'A new practical guide and empowering manifesto for those ready to...

We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is drying up. In When the Rivers Run Dry , Fred Pearce...

'Endlessly captivating ' - Tracy Borman ' Tantalising ' - Gill Hornby ' More scandal than Bridgerton 's Lady Whistledown ' - Helena Kelly The carriages have rolled back into...