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Muhammad
$39.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
This immacualtely researched biography will enable readers to understand the true origins and spirituality of a faith that is often misrepresented as cruel, intolerant and inherently violent.
James Halliday's Wine Atlas Of Australia
$79.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
An unrivalled volume by Australia's foremost
wine industry expert. From deep, supple and mout-filling Shiraz to
golden botrytised Riesling, from delicious gooseberry and
grass-driven Sauvignon Blanc to the generosity of ...
The World At War
$79.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Ebury Press )
THE WORLD AT WAR is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to gener...
Michael Tolliver Lives
$32.95$15.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )
Fans of Maupin’s San Franciscan sextet Tales of the City rejoice! Almost twenty years since Sure of You he has returned with an instalment (of sorts) in this evergreen series. Although be warned, this isn’t strictly a ...
To Boulez And Beyond
$49.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / )
Beginning with Stravinsky and his seminal work early in the twentieth century, this book traces the course of classical music to the present day and beyond, as it moves into the twenty-first century.
Kitchen Diaries
$55.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
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Tuscany Flying High
$59.95$15.95 (Hardcover book / White Star )
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On Ugliness
$95.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
This book is the follow up to the previous volume ON BEAUTY. Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the firs...
After Dark
$29.95$14.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
I think I’ve said it before on these pages, but I have to say it again: Murakami is the literary world’s answer to David Lynch. The ordinary and the extraordinary, the natural and the supernatural, are equally expected a...
Whole Equation A History Of Hollywood
$49.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
Taking his title from a line in "The Last Tycoon, Thomson sets out to explore the American movie business in all its complexity, all its component parts, from the invention of film until the present day. What is "the who...
Spike Milligan: The Biography
$24.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Coronet )
In this first major biography of the comic genius from Woy Woy, Carpenter draws on Milligan’s writings and those closest to him to chart the life of this most complex man.
Heat
$27.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Heat is the story of an amateur cook surviving - or, perhaps more accurately, trying to survive - in a professional kitchen. Until recently, Bill Buford was an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook. His meals were c...
Meaning Of Tingo
$35.00$12.95 (Hardcover book / )
Drawing from the collective wisdom of more than 280 languages, a collection of the most astomishing words the human species has found the need to concoct.
Casa Moro
$79.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Ebury Press )
The Moro restaurant was born out of a desire to cook within the wonderful tradition of Mediterranean food, and to explore exotic flavours little known in the UK. It is one of the most talked about restaurants and in 1998...
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics 1965 to 1995
$59.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Free Press )
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Francis Crick Discoverer Of The Genetic Code Eminent Lives
$16.95 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
Francis Crick, who died at the age of 84 in 2004, wukk be bracketted with Galileo, Darwin and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time.
Ganges
$65.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Bbc Books )
The Ganges River (Gang Ma or Great Mother) is the holiest river in the world. Rising from the pure glacial meltwaters of the Himalayas, it flows down onto India's Northern Plain, then heads eastwards into the swamplands ...
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
$65.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / Heinemann )
When he died in 1924, Virginia Woolf wrote of Joseph Conrad, 'Suddenly, our guest has left us... There was always an air of mystery around him.' Never quite an Englishman, Conrad is depicted in this authoritative new bio...
In Search Of The Blues
$39.95$15.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
Everyone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this compelling book, Marybeth Hamilton radically rewrites that s...
Mere Anarchy
$32.95$13.95 (Trade paperback / Ebury Press )
I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.' Thus begins 'Strung Out', Woody Allen's hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. MERE ANARCHY, ...
Everyman
$32.95$13.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, EVERYMAN, is intended to be the p...
Decorative Arts
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley )
A comprehensive guide to the history and development of style and design from 1700 to the present day, from No.1 antiques and collectables expert Judith Miller.
From priceless Oriental porcelain and Huguenot silver to ex...
Victorians
$75.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Hutchinson )
We live in the world which the Victorians created. The 'global village' is a Victorian village. Their two great inventions go hand in hand: industrial capitalism, and imperialism. Historians in the past have tended to de...
Marie Antoinette
$69.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
We live in a world the Victorians created. Their two great inventions go hand-in-hand: industrial capitalism and imperialism. A.N. Wilson illuminates these two great facts, not in ideological terms but in personal terms,...
A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman With The Red Army
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
Vasily Grossman's masterpiece LIFE AND FATE is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN. A WRITER AT WAR i...
Voyage And Landfall: The Art Of Jan Senbergs
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Traces Senbergs' journey, his development as an artist and his distinctive interpretation of the Australian landscape.
Clearings Six Colonial Gardeners And Their Landscapes
$39.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Miegunyah Press )
When Europeans settled the Australian colonies they saw beyond the wilderness of the bush to the possibilities of an ideal landscape. But first the land had to be cleared. And to make a clearing in the colonies was to er...
One Continuous Picnic
$35.00$14.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
2007 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of One Continuous Picnic, a frequently acclaimed Australian classic on the history of eating in Australia. Until recently, historians have tended to overlo...
Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir
$49.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / M Q Publications Ltd )
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, one of the earliest female cartoonists, presents a collection of her own highly inventive and daring artwork from over four decades, along with unusual photographs and memorabilia. The road to becom...
Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself
$32.95$13.95 (Trade paperback / Hutchinson )
So what we'll do is, we'll take this boy - born into a life of illusion, bred by a mother who had hallucinations, trained in the art of being someone else and who found himself known for someone he only partly resembled ...
Book Addicts Treasury
$29.95$13.95 (Hardcover book / Frances Lincoln )
The ideal gift for any book obsessive, A Book Addict's Treasury is an extensively researched anthology of more than 350 quotations and excerpts from a wide selection of writers and thinkers--all on the subject of books.
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Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir
$35.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Doubleday )
The brilliant sequel to Gore Vida's acclaimed, bestselling memoir, Palimpsest.
In Point to Point Navigation, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable li...
Traditional Spanish Cooking
$39.95$13.95 (Paperback book / )
Presented in paperback, this work includes 270 recipes for traditional Spanish dishes from Andalusian red garlic fish soup to Catalan chicken, Asturias stuffed sardines and Galician fish stew to Castilian roast baby lamb...
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France And America 1934-1971
$39.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Ebury Press )
In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation. STRAVINSKY: THE SECOND EXILE follows Stravinsky through the rema...
Pablo Neruda
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / )
A journalist and prize-winning translator of Spanish and Latin American poetry, delves into a wealth of published and unpublished accounts of Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean writer.
Villa Gardens Of The Mediterranean From The Archives Of Country Life
$99.95$26.95 (Hardcover book / Aurum Press )
Covering gardens in the Mediterranean region, this book features over 35 locations, which are illustrated with archive photographs. It includes private residences in Greece, Spain and Italy, the iconic gardens of the Fre...
Christine Falls
$32.95$9.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
A compelling new crime series from the pen of Booker Prize winner John Banville.
In the Pathology Department it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job... it was restful, cosy, one might a...
Putin's Russia
$29.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with ...
Sixty Lights
$22.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Photography has without doubt made her a seer; she is a woman of the future, someone leaning into time, beyond others, precarious, unafraid to fall...' This is the story of Lucy Strange, a photographer, while the art is ...
On Green Dolphin Street
$39.95$15.95 (Hardcover book / )
“The sensuous, affective surfaces, the details, the fully imagined physicality of life and death are so powerful as to be almost unbearable . . . a tribute to the author’s remarkable skill and tact, and, at moments, dazz...
History Of The American People
$32.95$15.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
A history of American society and the American nation, written by the celebrated English journalist. Keenly sensitive to the contradictions that Americans embody within themselves--materialism vs. prudism, naivete vs. cy...
Social History Of The Third Reich
$39.95$19.95 (Paperback book / New Press )
A balanced, thorough study of Germany during the Nazi years, by the celebrated author of The Nazi Question.
The Inner Voice: The Making Of A Singer
$39.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Blessed with one of the most beautiful voices of her generation, soprano Renie Fleming is one of the most celebrated talents on today s music scene. In The Inner Voice, this great singer shares what she has learned from ...
God's Grace
$23.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company )
"God's Grace "(1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood-a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's prota...
Out Stealing Horses
$27.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to le...
Vintage Yachts Of The World
$79.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Feierabend )
This title offers numerous historical and technical facts as well as exquisite photographs of historic and classic yachts. Included are portrayals of ships that have been entered in the annals of the sport of yachting, a...
That's How The Light Gets In
$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harmony Books Ny )
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Brooklyn Follies
$39.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his daughter, the former life insurance salesman wants only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew Tom Wood, working...
Arthur & George
$39.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
A masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race, this tale is a profound and witty meditation on the fateful differences between what is believed, what is know...
Diana Mosley
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scanda...
Oxford History Of Christian Worship
$99.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
This text is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of experts as contributors, it examines the liturgical trad...
That Sweet Enemy
$69.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Heinemann )
A definitive study of the unique and endlessly fascinating relationship between France and Britain -- and its effects on the world. The relationship between Britain and France is one of the catalysts of world history. Th...
Hiroshige Birds And Flowers
$250.00$69.95 (Hardcover book / George Braziller )
Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and idyllic sense of nature.
I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
$25.95 (Compact disc / Cortex )
With it’s glorious hooks, distinctive melodic style and intimate lyrics, the new album is pure Martha. But there’s a lushness and glowing sensuality to the recording that hasn’t been evident before. ‘I Know You’re Marrie...
Postwar: A History Of Europe Since 1945
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
As [Tony] Judt movingly draws it, the picture of Europe at the end of World War II is pitiful almost beyond bearing. Some 36.5 million Europeans are reckoned to have died between 1939 and 1945 because of the war. Tens of...
Open To Desire: The Truth About What The Buddha Taught
$23.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Gotham )
It is common in both Buddhism and Freudian psychoanalysis to treat desire as if it is the root of all suffering and problems, but psychiatrist Mark Epstein believes this to be a grave misunderstanding. In his controversi...
Darkness In Paris
$32.95$0.00 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
In May 1940 Germany invaded France and within six weeks had triumphantly seized control of Paris. The Allies' complacency was replaced with a sense of helplessness as they were defeated by a new kind of dynamic warfare; ...
Tete A Tete The Lives And Loves Of Simone De Beauvoir And Jean Paul Sartre
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )
They are one of the world's legendary couples. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Startre - those passionate, free-thinking Existentialist philosopher-writers - had a committed but notoriously open union that generated no ...
Youth
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Secker & Warburg )
From the acclaimed South African writer, this autobiographical account explores Coetzee's youth as a boy who longs only to escape his homeland. When he finally does get away, however, and is living in London as a lonely ...
Europe East And West
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
Collected here for the first time are some of the numerous essays and lectures by Norman Davies, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed EUROPE, THE ISLES and RISING '44. Spanning over a decade and a half of h...
Desert War
$30.00$0.00 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
North Africa was one of the greatest theaters of the Second World War. Alan Moorehead's bestselling account of the Allied/Axis desert conflict is an epic story of electrifying details and keen historical insights. The De...
Malcontents The Best Bitter Cynical Satirical Writing In Theworld
$49.95$24.95 (Trade cloth / Running Press )
Popular satirist Joe Queenan proves that cynicism in literature flourished long before Generation X in this acerbic compendium of the best classic satirical writing from the last several centuries, as well as from Ancien...
Max Perutz And The Secret Of Life
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )
This is the story of the father of molecular biology whose famous research team uncovered the structure of DNA. Georgina Ferry’s story brims with life, has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of fascinating charac...
Social History Of Tea
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / National Port Galler )
In this book Jane Pettigrew will redress the balance, using the research that she has carried out over the years, and drawing on the incomparable resource of the National Trust's collections and archives. She will delve ...
Unknown American Revolution
$19.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
In 1775, war broke out between the British and the American colonists. By 1776, the colonists had declared themselves independent and in 1783, following a long and bloody war, Britain was forced to recognize the independ...