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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Three Famous Mysteries Age range 9 to 11These three short mystery tales from a collection of the greatest literary minds of all time Conan Doyle, Poe, and Maupassant make for an enjoyable yet spine chilling read. This volume includes Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of... RRP: $15.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Another Day In The Life 'This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it.' -... RRP: $59.99 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Prophet of Mercy To delegitimize the Messenger is to call into questionthe entire message. During his time, the Makkans called hima poet, a magician, and a madman, among other names. Today,he is insulted with other labels.The question of whether or not he sacrificed his... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Diary That Changed The World To build up a future, you have to know the past.' Otto Frank, 1967 In late 1940s Amsterdam, when Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter Anne's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first pages, he discovered a side to his daughter... RRP: $39.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Somebody Else 'I'm leaving Europe! The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. To swim, to trample the grass, to hunt, and of course to smoke; to drink liquor as strong as molten metal. I will come back with limbs of iron, a dark skin, a burning eye. I... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Founder's Tale This is the story of how one man, with a bit of help from his friends, created a revolution in the hitherto staid world of Scotch Whisky. But by creating the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, he gave whisky drinkers access to the finest distilled liquor on the... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Isolation Shepherd In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was... RRP: $22.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added William Faulkner At various stages of his life, the celebrated American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962) presented himself as a literary dandy, a shabby bohemian, a wounded war veteran, a humble farmer, a courtly lover, and a genteel but aloof Southerner. In private... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Arthur Rimbaud Before he had turned 21, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. What makes Rimbaud's poetry important, argues Seth Whidden, is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity and... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born on 30 November 1835 in Monroe County, Missouri, was never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story. A natural-born storyteller, Mark Twain freely adapted the incidents of his life and the stories he heard as a... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein (19181990) was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognisable figures. In a career spanning five decades he conducted many of the world's leading orchestras, and composed scores for landmark musicals such as Candide... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added On Failure Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Big Men Fear Me Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award Finalist for the 2023 Ottawa Book Award in English Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2023 National Business Book Award The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Factotum in the Book Trade The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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