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WILL COMBINE ORDERS TO SAVE ON PASTAGE. SMALL CREASES ON CORNERS AND SPINEThe 20th Anniversary Booklet in Very Good Condition. NO rips, tears or markings in or on the booklet. Has rim wear and corner wear

London: MacMillan & Co Limited, 1991. Hardcover.. Used. BIRTHDAY INSCRIPTION ON INSIDE PAGEElephant Song is a 1991 novel by Wilbur Smith. Publishers Weekly stated said the novel contained "some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith's fans and other action-addicted readers

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. Used.NON STANDARD SIZE & WEIGHT. WILL REQUIRE A QUOTE FOR POSTAGE.LOCAL PICKUP /DELIVERY AVAILABLEExamines more than 150 films devoted to recreating the events of the past, with analyses of each film in terms of both history and art

London: Pan Macmillan, 2015. Used. 1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores his troubled wife and instead finds himself distracted by a face from the past. Lillian must watch as her brilliant, eccentric husband Arthur is destroyed by the guilt arising from his secretive government work. Claire, too, finds that marriage is not quite what she expected it to be. In Iowa where the Langdons began, Joe sees that some aspects of life on the farm never change, while others are unrecognizable. And though a few members of the family remain mired in the past, others will attempt to move beyond the lives they have always known; and some will push forward as never before. The dark shadow of the Vietnam War hangs over every one . . . In sickness and… Read More

London: Review, 2002. Used. Early One Morning is a fictionalised account of the true story of William Grover-Williams, Eve Aubicq and Robert Benoist. Built around Williams, the tale covers from the mid-20s to the end of the war, with a separate thread tracing Williams' SOE handler still seeking answers many years later.

Text Publishing, 2009. Used. Up here, far away from everybody, the night is peaceful; there's no sound except the hum of the Earth. At school, when I sang the note to Mr Hughes he said it was B flat but he laughed when I said it was the note the Earth hummed. Gwenni Morgan can fly in her sleep-that's how she sees what's going on in the village, and how she tries to make some sense of her family and her world. But Gwenni's mother isn't too keen on her daughter's imaginative ways of looking at things; she doesn't want anyone thinking her odd. When Ifan Evans goes missing, Gwenni takes an interest in trying to help find him, much to her mother's distress, and uncovers a terrible truth. Set in a remote Welsh village in the 1950s, The Earth Hums in B Flat is a story of dark family secrets. It's filled with wonderful characters and written with insight and sparkling tenderness.

Pymble, N.S.W: Orion, 2008. Used. Autumn 1928. The Kaiser-i-Hind is en route to Bombay. In Cabin D38, Viva Hollowat, an inexperienced chaperone, is worried she's made a terrible mistake. Her advert in The Lady has resulted in three unsettling charges to be escorted to India.Rose, a beautiful, dangerously naive English girl, is about to be married to the cavalry officer she has met only a handful of times.Victoria, the bridesmaid, is determined to lose her virginity on the journey before finding a husband of her own in India. And overshadowing all three of them, the malevolent presence of Guy Glover, a strange and disturbed schoolboy.Three potential Memsahibs with a myriad of reasons for leaving England, but the cargo of hopes and secrets they carry has done little to prepare them for what lies ahead.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of the orphans on Tamarind Street, East of the Sun is everything a historical novel should be: alive with glorious detail, fascinating… Read More

London: Mandarin, 1995. Nobel Prize. Used. East of Eden is a novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Published in September 1952, the work is regarded by many to be Steinbeck's most ambitious novel and by Steinbeck himself to be his magnum opus

London: Sceptre, 2011. Hardcover/First Edition/Collec. Used. A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west.

London: A&C Black, 2000. Used. When Dr Ben Givens left his home in Seattle, he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards, where, on the verge of the Columbia River, Ben Givens had entered the world and would now take his leave of it.

London: Abacus, 2004. Used. In this extraordinary fiction debut?rich with love and betrayal, history and intellectual passion?two remarkable narratives converge on Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world.It is 1913. Elsa Pendleton travels from England to Easter Island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the Royal Geographical Society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. What begins as familial duty for Elsa becomes a grand adventure; on Easter Island she discovers her true calling. But, out of contact with the outside world, she is unaware that World War I has been declared and that a German naval squadron, fleeing the British across the South Pacific, is heading toward the island she now considers home.Sixty years later, Dr. Greer Farraday, an American botanist, travels to Easter Island to research the island?s ancient pollen, but more important, to put back the pieces of her life after the death of her husband.A series of brilliant revelations… Read More

London: SINGLE BOOK PRICE ONLYA&C Black, 2007. Used. In this memoir, Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used. The Echo (1997) is the fifth crime novel written by award-winning British crime fiction author Minette Walters. Like all of her books, The Echo is a stand-alone (non-series) novel whose characters do not appear in any of her other books.

The Echo (1997) is the fifth crime novel written by award-winning British crime fiction author Minette Walters. Like all of her books, The Echo is a stand-alone (non-series) novel whose characters do not appear in any of her other books.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used.USED PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERThe love affair between adversaries Alexis Brockton and James Callahan--from their first meeting outside a New York City apartment house in 1946--is set against the growth of the television industry

London: Allen & Unwin, 2007. Used. Echo Park is the 17th novel by American crime-writer Michael Connelly, and the twelfth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. It was published in 2006.

London: Text Publishing Company, 1967. Used. Eclipse is Alan Moorehead's brilliant eye-witness account of the final defeat of Hitler. Eclipsewas the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead s book describes his experiences in Sicily and southern Italy in 1943, which culminated in the capture of Rome. He tells the electrifying story of D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the Allied advance through northern France and Belgium, the crossing of the Rhine. The author reconstructs, in terrifying detail, the collapse of Germany, the wholesale destruction, mass surrenders, and the unimaginable horrors of the concentration camps. Moorehead entered Belsen a few days after its liberation, and saw hell on earth. Interest in WWII history remains high among readers, and Moorehead's Eclipse is an extraordinary eye-witness history. The author s clear and timeless prose ensures that this title remains a classic of war reportage. Eclipseis a must for readers ranging from high-school level… Read More

London: A&C Black, 2011. Used. In 1962, actuary Walter Cousins makes the biggest mistake of his life. When mild-mannered Walter - 'a man who weighs risk for a living' - sleeps with the sharp-tongued, not-quite-legal British au pair, Diane Burroughs, he can have no sense of the magnitude of his error. For this brief affair sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions, upending Sophocles's immortal tale of fate, free will, and forbidden desire. At the centre is Ed King, an infant given up for adoption who becomes one of the world's richest and most powerful men. But beneath the sizzling story of Ed's seemingly inexorable rise to fame and fortune is a dark and unsettling destiny, one that approaches with ever-increasing suspense as the book reaches its shattering and surprising conclusion. An assured, propulsively written epic novel of unstoppable force, Ed King is a classic of contemporary American life: a daringly told story of a man and a myth, of blindness and narcissism, and of the precarious… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Used. Edge was one of five finalists in the Best Hard Cover Novel category in the 2010 International Thriller Writers Awards.In Edge, our protagonist ? known by the sole name Corte ? is a ?shepherd,? basically an ?ber bodyguard working for an unnamed U.S. government agency, charged with keeping witnesses and innocent (or not so innocent) people safe from threats, when no one else can.

.PAPERBACK EDITION. WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER Media, 2016. Used. Becker searches Appalachia for a bizarre pair of serial killers. Dee tears through the closet, looking for something to beat Ash with. The hangers are no good, so she asks for his belt. He hands it over willingly, and hangs his head as she beats him unconscious. Her rages have gotten worse ever since they started kidnapping the boys. Ash does not mind the pain, but the boys cry when Dee beats them. It hurts Ash to hear them cry, for he loves the boys dearly???so dearly that he is always willing to kill them to stop the tears. When another boy vanishes from an Appalachia shopping mall, the FBI calls on retired agent John Becker, who knows better than anyone how serial killers think. But Dee and Ash are not like any killer he has chased before, and catching them will mean going into a darker place than he ever has before.