London: Vintage Books, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013. Hardcover with Slipcase. Stock photos shown. Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2020. First Printing. Paperback. 'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2008. YES (cover design). Reissued as part of the Penguin Design Series. Reprint. Paperback. Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern..... More
New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2014. Anton Petrov (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripods—and risk their lives—in this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series..... More
New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2014. Anton Petrov (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Will must defeat the Tripods once and for all in this third book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. After being held..... More
New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2014. Anton Petrov (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Monstrous machines rule the Earth, but a few humans are fighting for freedom in this repackaged start to a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave. Will Parker never dreamed he would..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2018. Reprint. Trade Paperback. THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER IS NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! FEATURED ON 60 MINUTES and FRESH AIR “So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.” – The New York Times Named a best book of the year by..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heartrending account of..... More
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2018. Seventh Printing. Trade Paperback. Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Third Edition. Reprint. Paperback. When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. It represents one of the finest traditions in Chinese culture: the tradition of creativity, of the freedom of thought, freedom of spirit and freedom of the imagination. These are the characteristics of Hong Kong literature. The..... More
London: Penguin Books, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by A.J.P. Taylor An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Darren Hayward (cover design), Grahame Collins (ed.). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Hong Kong, 1954. The British colony was not yet ready to hear about a Eurasian policeman having an affair with the police commissioner’s daughter. Twenty-two-year-old Simon Lee tasted swift punishment. He was banished..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. Jose Clemente Orozco (illustrations). First Penguin Classics Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school..... More
London: Pan Books, 2010. 50th Anniversary Edition. 13th Printing. Paperback. In 1960, Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa – the lioness she had rescued as an orphaned cub and raised to adulthood at her home in Kenya. But, as Elsa had been..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. First Edition (presumed). Third Printing. Hardcover. Before Carl Linnaeus began classifying organisms, before John James Audubon drew birds from the wild, before Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, there lived a 13-year-old girl named Maria Merian who loved to draw bugs. With a keen..... More
NY: Puffin Books, 1972. Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestselling author's first book in her classic Fudge series. Two is a crowd when Peter and his little brother, Fudge, are in the same room. Grown-ups think Fudge is absolutely adorable, but Peter and his pet turtle, Dribble, know..... More
Sedgwick, ME: Leete's Island Books, 1977. Thomas J. Harper, Edward G. Seidensticker (trs.). Thirteenth Printing. Paperback. An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over..... More
New York: Balzer + Bray, 2019. Reprint. Trade Paperback. At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar—a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet. Jane McKeene was born two..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2014. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Judith T. Zeitlin, translated from the Chinese by Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton with the collaboration of Cyril Birch A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical cataclysm, The Peach Blossom..... More
Beverly, Massachusetts: Quarry Books, 2017. Trade Paperback. The perfect book for budding artists, How to Draw Almost Every Day challenges and inspires you to draw one simple illustration each day of the year. Don't let your artistic aspirations come to an end before they start! Everyone wants to draw..... More
Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015. Timothy Basil Ering (illustrations). First Paperback Edition. Reprint. Paperback. A heartwarming young adventure story, winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal. A deftly crafted fairy tale adventure story from a New York Times bestselling author, twice winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal. Here, reader, is the..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2018. David Dean (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. The cat flap opened. Emily thought a wild animal was coming into the house. But the muddy creature that climbed through had four little wheels and a tail. It spoke in a voice like rough sandpaper. ‘Come on, you..... More
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