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Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St Peter finds himself in...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 246 Willa CatherÕs My çntonia is a moving portrait of frontier life on the Great Plains. Through the eyes of Jim Burden,...

Cather's masterpiece of life, death and faith in New Mexico, new to Modern Classics Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico....

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it To the anger of her brothers, it is...

Willa Cather's first novel, "Alexander's Bridge" (1912), tells the story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between his duties to his career and his wife Winifred, and his passion...

The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . . Marian Forrester enchants everyone around...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew American writers have captured the vast, unforgiving beauty of the frontier with the precision and emotional depth...

The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its heart Jim and ntonia meets as children in...

Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to a new world even as...

MY ANTONIA(1918) is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia,who has settled in Nebraska.Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden,the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative...

A brand new Very Hungry Caterpillar lift-the-flap adventure featuring a world of wonderful animals - exclusively for Australia! Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he explores Australia and makes lots...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books A young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the...

"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...

From the award-winning author of The Book of V. , an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from...

Here's the thing about covert operations: the really bad things always happen when you least expect them. The enemies don't give you a heads-up. And they never let you stop...

Here's the thing about covert operations: the really bad things always happen when you least expect them. The enemies don't give you a heads-up. And they never let you stop...

Until the letters of the newspaper article she was reading rearranged themselves into an article foretelling her best friend Jodi's death, Lizzy Mortimer had always thought of Crabapple as a...

With fabulous pictures of the young royal family, this book takes a look at William and Kate's life from their engagement to the lead up to the arrival of Prince...

DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HEADLINES, THE REVELATORY ROYAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR From the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal correspondent, Robert Jobson - with his extensive connections within...

When Dr. Paris DeMont lost her beloved Gabriella to the mindless tragedy of Nine Eleven, she lost more than her partner of eight years. She lost her will to love....

Andrew Morton, well-connected British royal biographer and the author of Diana: Her True Story, is writing a new book about Diana's son Prince William and his soon-to-be wife, Kate Middleton....

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of Enlightenment idealism and imperial autocracy stands one of history's most fascinating paradoxes: a coterie of Russian moral...

"I put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang on to that love and look after it. You must protect it."...

"I put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang on to that love and look after it. You must protect it."...

The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch...Searing skin, and petrifying metal and wood, it took possession of London...

Courting Catherine Catherine 'C.C.' Calhoun is determined to keep her family's estate, the Towers, in the family. The cost of maintaining the crumbling mansion is expensive, so when arrogant hotel...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBorn into the most powerful dynasty in Renaissance Italy and thrust onto the treacherous stage of the French court at just fourteen years old,...

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Learn your first 100 animals with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this chunky lift-the-flap board book! Learn your first 100 animals with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this chunky lift-the-flap...

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of...

Author: Emily Chappell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Non-Fiction Award 2020 'Chappell is a gifted storyteller' - Observer In...

This biography of England's heroic abolitionist commemorates the 200th anniversary of the ending of slavery in the United Kingdom William Wilberforce (1759-1833) has been hailed as a one of society's...

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A big lift-the-flap board book - with colourful scenes and multiple flaps on every page! Have fun learning first words with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this brightly coloured chunky...

"Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity make this one of the year's best thriller debuts." --Lee Child "Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the...

'A brilliant, creepy, wonderfully written mystery that will keep you turning the pages until you have to get up and put all the lights on because you're scared out of...

A big touch-and-feel board book - with bright scenes and lots to explore on every page! Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he meets animals from the rainforest, the farmyard,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few rulers in history have commanded as much power,...

Catherine Cookson was born 100 years ago in a run-down area on the south bank of the Tyne. Forty-four years later her debut novel, Kate Hannigan , established her as...

Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Non-Fiction Award 2020 'Chappell is a gifted storyteller' - Observer In 2015 Emily Chappell embarked on a formidable new bike race: The...