bloomsbury publishing great britain (51 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a soft cover book in very good condition, which may include light foxing to pages, a previous owners name and/or minimal writing/highlighting, may have a remainder mark or stamp on top or bottom of pages. Spine is tight and all pages are intact. Cover has a significant bend, but minimal chipping or wear. Absolutely no stickers on my books. ABSOLUTELY NO SMOKE OR MOLD. This book would be a good gift. Book Barn Boutique since 2007, quality books at reasonable prices.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First English Edition. A super nice 240 page first English edition. Large square bound softcover. Has numerous black & white photos. A collection of writings by Elia Kazan, co-founder of the Actors Studio, producer of plays by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller and director of "On the Waterfront", "East of Eden" and "Splendour in the Grass". Here he discusses a range of topics from politics and directing, to the actors he worked with. It also includes many photogaphs from Kazan's private collection. Michel Ciment has already published his conversations with Kazan, "Kazan by Kazan" and is co-author of a film profile "Elia Kazan, Outsider". Size: 10 3/4h x 8 1/2w. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tatcheva, Eva (illustrator). 2nd printing. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear. dust jacket has very light wear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First UK Edition. "Joseph Olshan conducts a delicate and revealing journey through the minefield of guilt, wherein parents are attempting to shield their son, not least from the disintegration of their own marriage." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Minor edge wear. Small bumps on spine ends. Small creases on top corners of pages 155-174. Light soiling and tanning to edges of pages. Otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has some edge and shelf wear. Small creases on corners and spine ends. Thin scratches on back cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 307 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; Bloomsbury; 2018; Very good condition, minimal page wear or handling; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 313 p.

Tapa Blanda. Condition: Muy bien. MUY buen ejemplar en inglés, con algunas anotaciones con lápiz. 223pp.

paperback., 314pp., very good condition.

Softcover. Condition: Good. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy without saying at some point, "There was that girl". On Long Island one summer years ago, Billy fell in love with a beautiful Irish girl working for a wealthy Park Avenue family. Billy wanted to marry Eva, but then she went back to Ireland. And then Billy's cousin Dennis had to break the terrible news: Eva had died of pneumonia. Billy never got over it. Anybody who knew him would tell you so. Billy began courting Maeve not long after, but for the rest of their lives, he, she and Dennis shared a hidden, twisted grief. 280 pages. Light tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN: 0747545391. ISBN/EAN: 9780747545392. Inventory No: 273087.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Mrs Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the impoverished widow of an Archdeacon. Living in Well Walk, Hampstead, with her confidante and landlady, Mrs Benson (who once let rooms to John Keats), Mrs Rodd makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator.Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in the neighbouring village of Highgate with his wife and ten children. Fred finds the cases, and Mrs Rodd solves them, using her arch-intelligence, her iron discretion and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow.When Frederick brings to her attention a case involving the son of the well-respected, highly-connected Sir James Calderstone, Mrs Rodd sets off for Lincolnshire, to take up a position as the family's new governess - quickly making herself indispensable. .But the seemingly simple case - looking into young Charles Calderstone's 'inappropriate' love interest - soon takes a rather unpleasant turn. And as the family's secrets begin to unfold, Mrs Rodd discovers the Calderstone's have more to hide than most. 332 pages. Light foxing to outer page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction::Mystery Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781408879160. Inventory No: 273760.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 'My Side of the Story' is the perfectly rendered portrait of a precocious, troubled teenager faced with the awkward process of growing up and coming out. "My name is Jarold, but everyone calls me Jaz, which is a damn sight cooler I think you'll agree. I'm sixteen (just) and I have two remarkably undivorced parents, along with a sister and a grandmother and we all live in the same house together just like in a TV show. I've just started my A-levels too, which me and Al are planning to fail, which is our way of saying Fuck You to the British educational standard." Jaz's parents have just discovered he is gay. He is sent off to a shrink, mocked by his schoolmates, and worst of all, keeps bumping into his school teacher at the local gay bar. There's masses and masses of hassle to come, but this is pretty much where it all begins. Witty, sarcastic and incredibly funny, 'My Side of the Story' is a pitch-perfect portrait of a teenager who must learn to deal with the traumas of adolescence -- and a little something more. 243 pages. Item Type: Uncorrected Book Proof. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9780747586913. Inventory No: 270965.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 366 pages. Illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Later Print. Paperback 1st Paperback Edition 9781408855652 Paperback.First Edition Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason: Harry Potter is a Wizard!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 'Meticulous, lucid prose. Whether Gwen is describing the sound of a bomb recounting the difficulties of travel in wartime England, she is so authoritative that it's hard not to feel one is reading an eyewitness accunt' (New York Times) 182 pp.Paperback. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Constantinople, 1599. Paul Pindar, a secretary to the English ambassador, thinks he has lost his love, Celia, in a shipwreck. Now, two years later, clues begin to emerge that she may be hidden among the ranks of the slaves in the Sultan's harem. But how can he be sure? And can they be reunited? With a secret rebellion rising within the Sultan's palace, danger surrounds the lovers. A lush, ancient tale of treacherous secrets, forbidden love, and murder in the Ottoman palace. 340 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9780747580386. Inventory No: 272985.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. vi, 320pp, bibliography. Papered boards, lower edges lightly bumped, in dust-jacket. The subject is 'as rich and diverse as history itself, alive with memorable characters, whims and needs, secrets and practicalities, rational and irrational behavior.' Size: 8vo.

24x16. Encuadernación editorial con sobrecubierta (tapa dura). 560 pgs. Texto en ingles. 692785.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic- when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The first victim of a press hate campaign, his reputation never recovered and while other survivors were piecing together their accounts, Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again. With the help of that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, whose Lord Jim so uncannily predicted Ismay's fate - and whose manuscript of the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt went down with the Titanic - Frances Wilson explores the reasons behind Ismay's jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with lost honour. For those who survived the Titanic the world was never the same again. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781408821350. Inventory No: 276352.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. In the second volume of Bloomsbury's The Writer and the City series, Carey (Oscar and Lucinda), an Australian native, returns to Sydney after 17 years. Armed with a battery-powered tape recorder, he badgers old friends including a Vietnam vet, a lawyer and an architect to contribute stories that might define Sydney. "A metropolis is, by definition, inexhaustible, and by the time I departed, thirty days later, Sydney was as unknowable to me as it had been on that clear April morning when I arrived," Carey concludes. He deftly intertwines dry facts about climate, geography and history with poetic stream of consciousness. The result is a desultory, impressionistic love letter to the city, structured loosely around earth, air, fire and water (one friend protected his home from bush fires; another barely survived the "murderous seas of the 1998 Sydney-Hobart race" which sank six yachts and killed five men). The acclaimed Booker Prize winner lets his characters direct the story, stepping in briefly to explain ("A rissole, in case you are from across the sea, is a kind of hamburger patty, but it is also an arsehole and also an RSL [Returned Services League]") and describe ("On Bondi I feel the space everywhere, not just in the luxury of beach and light but in that imagined house two streets back where I will not have to throw a book away to make room for each new one"). Carey touches lightly but firmly on Sydney's own brand of white guilt and patriotism, as well as its culture and landmarks. While other travelogues may provide more information, this effort will leave more lasting impressions. Size: Small Octavo. 248 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Australian; Travel & Places; ISBN: 0747555001. ISBN/EAN: 9780747555001. Inventory No: 269895.

Softcover. Condition: As New. about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. 341 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction::Historical Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781408871751. Inventory No: 269372.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former officers of MI6 and the CIA, this definitive biography unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War. Previous owners initials on front endpaper. 352 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Espionage. ISBN/EAN: 9781408851739. Inventory No: 274937.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Doing Philosophy provides a practical guide to studying philosophy for undergraduate students. The book presents strategies for developing the necessary skills that will allow students to get the most out of this fascinating subject. It examines what it means to think, read, discuss and write philosophically, giving advice on: Reading and analysing philosophical texts Preparing for and participating in seminars Choosing essay topics Constructing arguments and avoiding plagiarism Using libraries, the internet and other resources Technical terms, forms of expression and logical notation The second edition is fully revised and expanded throughout, packed with practical exercises, useful examples and fully up-to-date resources. It also features for the first time a full companion website with additional resources and a range of pedagogical tools and activities designed for students and lecturers to use both in the classroom and in seminar preparation. 242 pages. Fading to spine edge. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Philosophy; Philosophy; ISBN/EAN: 9781441173041. Inventory No: 272544.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. * PUBLISHER: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING YEAR:2021 * ISBN/SBN: 9781408884676 * No OF PAGES: 599 * CONDITION: USED - GOOD *OTHER: *PROOF* THE COVER IS RUBBED AND CREASED WITH A STICKER PULL ON THE BACK ALONG WITH A SMALL STAIN. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS CREASED WITH A FEW SCUFF MARKS, BOTH ENDS OF SPINE ARE BUMPED. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THE PAGES ARE CLEAR AND CRISP. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Grandpré, Mary (illustrator). Reprint. triple smarties gold award winner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Donna Mehalko (illustrator). First Edition. The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be by the same title, with chic illustrations by Donna Mehalko, is a definitive look at the dresses, vintage and modern, that make an inarguable statement about the woman who wears them. Each evocatively illustrated entry identifies one of a hundred different dresses accompanied by a witty and informative look at the history of that particular style, famous wearers (if applicable), and what message, subtle or overt, is conveyed by the dress. Notes on where such a style could be observed and accessories of the wearer are also included. Featured are The Wench; The Sari; The Vreeland; The Wrap; The Austen; The Beckham; The Siren (any style, as long as it's red); The Chanel Ingenue; The Caftan; The Guinivere; The Jackie; The Slip Dress; The Biohazard (any dress dangerous to bystanders or the wearer: think Lady Gaga); and scores more. The book also includes a suggested reading list of fashion books, dresses from literature, and an index. Part style commentary, part fashion blueprint, part clever field guide, The Hundred Dresses will ensure that no woman (or man) ever underestimates the power of the dress. 213 pages. Illustrator: Donna Mehalko. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Fashion, Fabrics & Style; Fashion & Beauty. ISBN/EAN: 9781608199761. Inventory No: 273276.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 275 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. The New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the Silk Roads today. The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads, where ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established. Following the Silk Roads eastwards from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. In this prescient contemporary history, Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of these continual shifts in the centre of power - all too often absent from headlines in the west. This important - and ultimately hopeful - book asks us to reread who we are and where we are in the world, illuminating the themes on which all our lives and livelihoods depend. A few spots on front half title page. 313 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History; politics. ISBN/EAN: 9781408839980. Inventory No: 274401.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told. In the early 1930s, a group of young, queer British MPs visited Berlin on a series of trips that would change the course of the Second World War. As Hitler rose to power, they watched the Nazis arrest their gay and Jewish friends, send them to concentration camps and murder them. These men were some of the first to warn Britain about Hitler, repeatedly speaking out against their government's policy of appeasing him. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hated them. Branding them 'the glamour boys', he had them followed, harassed, spied upon and derided in the press. They suffered abuse, innuendo and threats of de-selection. At a time when even the suggestion of homosexuality could land you in prison, the bravery these men were forced to show in their personal lives gave them extraordinary courage in public. Adept at hiding their true nature, some became talented spies, while others witnessed the brutality of Hitler's camps first hand. Four of them died in action. And without them, this country would never have faced down the Nazis. Based on years of archival research, this is a story of unsung bravery at a defining moment in Britain's history. 24 pages. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; History. ISBN/EAN: 9781526630551. Inventory No: 264896.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing No tears, inscriptions or markings Internally clean. Binding tight. 654pp Size: 155mm x 240mm. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Published in collaboration with The Royal Horticultural Society. 2048 illustrations in colour. 584 pages. Fully Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Horticulture::Gardening; Gardening; ISBN: 1854710362. ISBN/EAN: 9781854710369. Inventory No: 238900.