New Hardback Books

Alex Benzie / The Year's Midnight (Hardback)

in the late 18th century, in the Scottish village of Aberlevin, a man in unjustly hanged. Enraged, the townsfolk vent their anger on the clocktower, destroying the clock and calling a halt to time. A century later, shy, gifted watchmaker William...

Claire Sterling / Crime Without Frontiers (Hardback)

New global criminal consortiumS emerged in the 1990's to threaten the security of Europe and America, ignoring the national frontiers. The world's powerful crime syndicates co-operated rather than compete; the Sicilian Mafia has links with criminals from...

Richard Bourke / Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity - Wordsworth - the Intellectual and Cultural Critique (Hardback)

This provocative book explores the difficulties surrounding the attempt to understand the relationship between literary and political discourse. It examines the initial formulation of these difficulties in Georgian Britain, and traces them through the...

J M Beesley / Echoes of a Distant Past (Hardback)

As the Honourable Jethro StJohn stood on the threshold of the ballroom at Devonshire House, that evening in 1784. He surveyed the company through his quizzing glass, and his eyes alighted on a young woman to whom he felt an immediate attatchment. From...

John McPhee / The Control of Nature (Hardback)

1990 Profiles the various places where humankind is struggling to control the forces of nature, discussing both the natural forces at work and the individuals who attempt to foil them.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Da Chen / Colours of the Mountain (Hardback)

Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer. Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao Zedong's...