{"title":"David Gates","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the captivating works of David Gates, where sharp wit meets profound emotional insight. Dive into complex characters and compelling narratives exploring modern relationships and societal tensions. Start your literary journey here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"napoleonic-wars-1803-1815-book-david-gates-9780712607193","title":"The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815","description":"Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states.  A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval and reform across much of Europe, with aspects of its legacy lingering to this very day.   There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are only a handful of scholarly works that seek to cover the Napoleonic Wars in their entirety, and fewer still that place the conflict in any broader framework. This study redresses the balance.  Drawing on recent findings and applying a 'total' history approach, it explores the causes and effects of the conflict, and places it in the context of the evolution of modern warfare.  It reappraises the most significant and controversial military ventures, including the war at sea and Napoleon's campaigns of 1805-9.  The study gives an insight into the factors that shaped the war, setting the struggle in its wider economic, cultural, political and intellectual dimensions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49504526467345,"sku":"GOR001267744","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49726960566545,"sku":"NGR9780712607193","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50485089403153,"sku":"GOR006170320","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51712966328593,"sku":"GOR011382514","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52153338855697,"sku":"GOR005915851","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52863178506513,"sku":"CIN0712607196G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0712607196.jpg?v=1767093229"},{"product_id":"wonders-of-the-invisible-world-book-david-gates-9780575068247","title":"The Wonders of the Invisible World","description":"A brilliant collection of stories, which illuminate with unflinching vision and hard-earned compassion a great variety of lives. In 'Star Baby' a gay man leaves the big city for life in his hometown, only to find himself cast as a father figure to his detoxing sister's young son ('Mostly he avoids taking Deke to restaurants, not because of the catamite issue but because the two of them look so alone in the world.'); In 'The Crazy Thought' a woman chafes at life after the departure of the husband she never imagined leaving her (' ''Nothing wrong with John Le Carre,'' Paul said. 'I'd hell of a lot sooner read him than fucking John Updike. If we're talking about Johns here.'''); and in the title story an embittered dean loses his wife, child, and student lover ('I took out The Portable Blake. Holding it up to read meant exposing my fraying cuffs. But I'd be straphanging any minute now, so what the fuck. And what the fuck anyway.'). Often bleak but always funny, usually centring around disintegrating relationships but covering the broad sweep of contemporary life in America, David Gates, in The Wonders of the Invisible World, has written the best collection of short stories to come out of America since Richard Ford's Rock Springs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49506394636561,"sku":"GOR001704185","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0575068248.jpg?v=1751136576"},{"product_id":"preston-falls-book-david-gates-9780679756439","title":"Preston Falls","description":"Beautifully written. Gates  has a] pitch-perfect ear for contemporary speech.and. a] keen, journalistic eye.--Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel \u003cb\u003eJernigan\u003c\/b\u003e was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, sends his protagonist on a visceral journey to the dark side of suburban masculinity, explores the claims youth makes on middle age, and the tenacious --at times perverse--power of love to assert itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Doug Willis has a mid-life crisis, he doesn't join a gym or have an affair. Instead he gets himself arrested while camping with his wife and kids, takes a two month leave of absence from his PR job, and retreats to his farmhouse in rural Preston Falls--where he plugs in his guitar and tries to shut out his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile his wife, Jean, struggles to pay the bills and raise their sullen, skeptical kids, Willis's plans for hiatus crumble into Dewars-and-cocaine fueled disarray. A shattered window, an unguarded gun, and a shady small town attorney force a crisis--and Willis can't go home again. With its biting humor and harsh realism, \u003cb\u003ePreston Falls\u003c\/b\u003e confirms David Gates as a talent in the tradition of Russell Banks and Richard Ford: a master of dark truths and private longings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49507487154449,"sku":"GOR006635497","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49622661398801,"sku":"GOR007920557","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777460379921,"sku":"CIN0679756434G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359835066641,"sku":"CIN0679756434A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005592699153,"sku":"NIN9780679756439","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416128684305,"sku":"CIN0679756434VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51510383313169,"sku":"GOR007741595","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679756434.jpg?v=1750912315"},{"product_id":"jernigan-book-david-gates-9781781254905","title":"Jernigan","description":"Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn't work, you up the dose. And when that doesn't work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?)  Jernigan's answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him - his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his vulnerable new girlfriend Martha and, eventually, himself - until the laughs have turned to mute horror. But while he's busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, Jernigan's perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end.  Shot through with gin and irony, Jernigan is a funny, scary, mesmerising portrait of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open - wisecracking all the way.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49508071407889,"sku":"GOR007509779","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49598094868753,"sku":"GOR007120852","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49664254509329,"sku":"GOR008826970","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735792361745,"sku":"NGR9781781254905","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51506311004433,"sku":"GOR006888360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1781254907.jpg?v=1772101262"},{"product_id":"hand-reached-down-to-guide-me-book-david-gates-9781781254912","title":"A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me","description":"A woman moving calamitously into middle-age; a musician taking in a friend with terminal cancer; a failed actor moving to the country: cynical, unreliable, sinking into middle age or alcoholism, dealing with physical decline or mediocrity, Gates's characters are a dark reflection of our own urban and suburban lives. Terrifyingly self-aware, overcome by the burdens of the human condition, they find their impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. But wherever it is they're going - and sometimes it's nowhere fast - they won't go gently.  Relentlessly inventive, by turns comical, caustic and tragic (and often all three together) but always moving, the novella and ten short stories which make up  A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me reinforce David Gates as 'a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever.' (New York Magazine).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49508138811665,"sku":"GOR006819374","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50957139247377,"sku":"GOR014145288","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52991323963665,"sku":"GOR009027351","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1781254915.jpg?v=1772272436"},{"product_id":"sixty-stories-book-david-gates-9780141180939","title":"Sixty Stories","description":"This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49513371336977,"sku":"GOR001887168","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49727664521489,"sku":"NGR9780141180939","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345561227537,"sku":"CIN0141180935G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50890952179985,"sku":"GOR002733342","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51288062591249,"sku":"GOR002704452","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51437511803153,"sku":"GOR008388093","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141180935.jpg?v=1751132345"},{"product_id":"british-light-infantry-army-1790-1815-book-david-gates-9780713455991","title":"The British Light Infantry Army, 1790-1815","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524536901905,"sku":"GOR003586932","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52392895643921,"sku":"CIN0713455993VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0713455993.jpg?v=1750880989"},{"product_id":"warfare-in-nineteenth-century-book-david-gates-9780333735343","title":"Warfare in Nineteenth Century","description":"This book is not a campaign history, but rather an examination of the development of warfare in its wider context in the course of the 1800s.  David Gates's study not only covers warfare as it evolved throughout the nineteenth century but also seeks to explore its connection with, and effect on, technical, social, economic, political and cultural change.  In this examination of war per se, specific engagements and campaigns are invoked only to highlight the turning points in the development of the way in which military operations were conducted.  Indeed, Gates argues, actual fighting became just part of an ever more complex situation as competition between dynasties gave way to rivalries between peoples and the 'totality' of warfare increased; if attainable at all, victory on the battlefield could, and frequently did, prove cruelly deceptive, for success here might ultimately be nullified by failure elsewhere.  Thoughtful, wide-ranging and informed, for anybody seeking a work that places war during the 1800s in its wider historical context, this book is essential reading.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49534796235025,"sku":"CIN033373534XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560560861457,"sku":"GOR004850136","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53211810824465,"sku":"CIN033373534XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/033373534X.jpg?v=1750909616"},{"product_id":"the-spanish-ulcer-a-history-of-the-peninsular-war-book-gates-david-9780049400795","title":"The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49557708570897,"sku":"GOR005775465","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49607700250897,"sku":"GOR005202174","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51388931440913,"sku":"GOR005022004","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0049400797.jpg?v=1750811189"},{"product_id":"preston-falls-book-david-gates-9780575068230","title":"Preston Falls","description":"The answer to Doug Willis' mid-life crisis is a sabbatical at his rural retreat in Preston Falls, two months spent restoring the faded splendour of the farmhouse, reading Dickens in the evening and watching summer gently fade to autumn. But following a marathon whiskey drinking session, a disastrous attempt to tear out the living room ceiling and an incident with a sheriff at a local campsite, Willis ends his first weekend away in jail, and it's clear the wired, burned-out New York copy-writer within is still very much to the fore.  And while Willis' wife Jean struggles to pay the bills and raise their sullen, sceptical kids, Willis' 'break' crumbles into Dewars- and Cocaine-fuelled disarray, and embarks on another kind of journey altogether.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49566988665105,"sku":"GOR003113207","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51864492605713,"sku":"GOR014434096","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53350652084497,"sku":"GOR004481157","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/057506823X.jpg?v=1751445197"},{"product_id":"preston-falls-book-david-gates-9780575403178","title":"Preston Falls","description":"The answer to Doug Willis' mid-life crisis is a sabbatical at his rural retreat in Preston Falls, two months spent restoring the faded splendour of the farmhouse, reading Dickens in the evening and watching summer gently fade to autumn. But following a marathon whiskey drinking session, a disastrous attempt to tear out the living room ceiling and an incident with a sheriff at a local campsite, Willis ends his first weekend away in jail, and it's clear the wired, burned-out New York copy-writer within is still very much to the fore. And while Willis' wife Jean struggles to pay the bills and raise their sullen, sceptical kids, Willis' 'break' crumbles into Dewars- and Cocaine-fuelled disarray, and he embarks on another kind of journey altogether.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49605529862417,"sku":"GOR001989334","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640811036945,"sku":"GOR007482996","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51471031501073,"sku":"GOR003691140","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0575403179.jpg?v=1751326434"},{"product_id":"preston-falls-a-novel-book-david-gates-9780679436676","title":"Preston Falls: a Novel","description":"Beautifully written. Gates  has a] pitch-perfect ear for contemporary speech.and. a] keen, journalistic eye.--Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel \u003cb\u003eJernigan\u003c\/b\u003e was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, sends his protagonist on a visceral journey to the dark side of suburban masculinity, explores the claims youth makes on middle age, and the tenacious --at times perverse--power of love to assert itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Doug Willis has a mid-life crisis, he doesn't join a gym or have an affair. Instead he gets himself arrested while camping with his wife and kids, takes a two month leave of absence from his PR job, and retreats to his farmhouse in rural Preston Falls--where he plugs in his guitar and tries to shut out his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile his wife, Jean, struggles to pay the bills and raise their sullen, skeptical kids, Willis's plans for hiatus crumble into Dewars-and-cocaine fueled disarray. A shattered window, an unguarded gun, and a shady small town attorney force a crisis--and Willis can't go home again. With its biting humor and harsh realism, \u003cb\u003ePreston Falls\u003c\/b\u003e confirms David Gates as a talent in the tradition of Russell Banks and Richard Ford: a master of dark truths and private longings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49618647974161,"sku":"GOR012947968","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679436677.gif?v=1751393595"},{"product_id":"wonders-of-the-invisible-world-book-david-gates-9780679756446","title":"The Wonders of the Invisible World","description":"The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful lives in late twentieth-century America. \u003cbr\u003ePopulated by highly educated men and women in combat with one another, with substance abuse, and above all with their own relentless self-awareness, the stories in The Wonders of the Invisible World take place in and around New York City, and put urbanism into uneasy conflict with a fleeting dream of rural happiness. Written with style and ferocious black humor, they confirm David Gates as one of the best-and funniest-writers of our time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49647892988177,"sku":"GOR012175214","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50055027753233,"sku":"GOR004698613","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50357635186961,"sku":"CIN0679756442G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52599196516625,"sku":"CIN0679756442A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52736237371665,"sku":"NIN9780679756446","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53533493199121,"sku":"CIN0679756442VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679756442.jpg?v=1751327345"},{"product_id":"jernigan-book-david-gates-9780679737131","title":"Jernigan","description":"From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his dangerously vulnerable mistress--and, not least of all, on himself. This novel is a bravura performance: a funny, scary, mesmerizing study of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open--wisecracking all the way.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655832707345,"sku":"GOR005716633","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656141545745,"sku":"GOR003903127","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50221308281105,"sku":"CIN0679737138G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50296780587281,"sku":"CIN0679737138VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359267295505,"sku":"CIN0679737138A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005492068625,"sku":"NIN9780679737131","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679737138.jpg?v=1751451712"},{"product_id":"love-is-always-seventeen-cd-0010467701228","title":"Love Is Always Seventeen","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49704495808785,"sku":"DVDB000003MVRVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53423933980945,"sku":"CINB000003MVRG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B000003MVR.jpg?v=1750969963"},{"product_id":"first-never-let-her-go-goodbye-girl-falling-in-love-again-cd-0740155703431","title":"First \u0026 Never Let Her Go \u0026 Goodbye Girl \u0026 Falling In Love Again","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49759053611281,"sku":"DVDB00CY5XTB6VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53502598906129,"sku":"DVDB00CY5XTB6LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B00CY5XTB6.jpg?v=1751003102"},{"product_id":"hand-reached-down-to-guide-me-book-david-gates-9780804168748","title":"A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Hand Reached Down to Guide Me \u003c\/i\u003eis populated by characters, young, old or somewhere in between, who are broadly knowledgeable and often creative and variously accomplished, whether as doctors, composers, academics or journalists. Terrifyingly self-aware, each one of them carries the full weight of the human condition: parents in assisted-living facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. In settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast, we follow their lives, alternately hilarious and tragic, as they refuse to go gently--even when they're going nowhere fast. Relentlessly inventive, these eleven stories and novella prove yet again that David Gates is one of our most talented, witty and emotionally intelligent writers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889993064721,"sku":"CIN0804168741G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007659835665,"sku":"NIN9780804168748","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325389799697,"sku":"CIN0804168741VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0804168741.jpg?v=1750745611"},{"product_id":"wonders-of-the-invisible-world-book-david-gates-9780679436683","title":"Wonders of the Invisible World","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49926569197841,"sku":"CIN0679436685G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679436685.jpg?v=1750944943"},{"product_id":"spanish-ulcer-book-david-gates-9780306810831","title":"The Spanish Ulcer","description":"The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula. Napoleon considered the war so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying instead on his marshals and simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Yet the Peninsular War was to end with total defeat for the French, and in 1813 Wellington's army crossed the Pyrenees into mainland France. What Napoleon had called \"the Spanish ulcer\" ultimately helped bring down the French empire. Michael Howard of Oxford University hailed this book as \"a major achievement...the first brief and balanced account of the war to have appeared within our generation.\" Illustrated with over a hundred maps and fifty contemporary drawings and paintings, this is a richly detailed history of a crucial period in history that resonates powerfully to this day,and figures prominently in Bernard Cornwell's internationally acclaimed novels of the Napoleonic era.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49943621632273,"sku":"GOR008272234","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50283997004049,"sku":"CIN0306810832VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50897264640273,"sku":"GOR006435084","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000746672401,"sku":"NIN9780306810831","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52946553143569,"sku":"CIN0306810832G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53400170234129,"sku":"GOR009756656","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0306810832.jpg?v=1751292047"},{"product_id":"napoleonic-wars-1803-1815-book-david-gates-9780340614471","title":"The Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815","description":"Until they were surpassed by the war of 1914-1918, the Napoleonic Wars of 1803-1815 were often collectively tagged, \"The Great War\". Progressively engulfing not only the whole of the continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states, it was a war of unprecedented scale and intensity. In many ways a product of change, it acted as a catalyst for upheaval and reform across much of Europe. This study draws on recent findings and applies a \"total\" history approach, covering the causes and effects of the conflict and its place in the evolution of modern warfare. It explores and reappraises the most significant and controversial military ventures, including the war at sea and Napoleon's campaigns of 1805-1809, yet demonstrates, in interspersed thematic sections, how incomplete our understanding of the stuggle must be without an appreciation of the wider economic, cultural, political, and intellectual dimensions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125348208913,"sku":"CIN0340614471G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50306937880849,"sku":"CIN0340614471VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50472184938769,"sku":"GOR002127977","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53359856222481,"sku":"GOR003144504","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340614471.jpg?v=1750780621"},{"product_id":"jernigan-book-david-gates-9780330321273","title":"Jernigan","description":"This is the story of one man's life, from Independence Day one year to Christmas of the next. The narrator and protagonist, Peter Jernigan, is a man who has suffered the absurd death of his wife, the immolation of his father, and the adolescence of his son.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50131406192913,"sku":"GOR002153521","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330321277.jpg?v=1751228146"},{"product_id":"labor-days-book-david-gates-9780812971613","title":"Labor Days","description":"The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Southern Illinois University Law LibraryCTRG98-B1509 .  I]ncluding the procedure in divorce and matrimonial causes and matters in the High Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal, and the House of Lords, with forms and directions as to drawing petitions, pleadings, affidavits, \u0026amp;c. .--Pref., p. vi. InLondon: Jordan \u0026amp; Sons, 1911. viii, 492 p.: forms; 22 cm","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50304034963729,"sku":"CIN0812971612G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51719268237585,"sku":"CIN0812971612VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812971612.jpg?v=1751233313"},{"product_id":"hand-reached-down-to-guide-me-book-david-gates-9780385351539","title":"A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Hand Reached Down to Guide Me \u003c\/i\u003eis populated by characters, young, old or somewhere in between, who are broadly knowledgeable and often creative and variously accomplished, whether as doctors, composers, academics or journalists. Terrifyingly self-aware, each one of them carries the full weight of the human condition: parents in assisted-living facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. In settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast, we follow their lives, alternately hilarious and tragic, as they refuse to go gently--even when they're going nowhere fast. Relentlessly inventive, these eleven stories and novella prove yet again that David Gates is one of our most talented, witty and emotionally intelligent writers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352377692433,"sku":"CIN0385351534G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332789338385,"sku":"CIN0385351534VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385351534.jpg?v=1751324970"},{"product_id":"type-book-david-gates-9780823055227","title":"Type","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362979418385,"sku":"CIN0823055221G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50368653951249,"sku":"CIN0823055221A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0823055221.jpg?v=1750746314"},{"product_id":"graphic-design-studio-procedures-book-david-gates-9780938249009","title":"Graphic Design Studio Procedures","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367622250769,"sku":"CIN0938249002G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0938249002.jpg?v=1751363506"},{"product_id":"jernigan-book-david-gates-9780679402374","title":"Jernigan","description":"From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his dangerously vulnerable mistress--and, not least of all, on himself. This novel is a bravura performance: a funny, scary, mesmerizing study of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open--wisecracking all the way.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50496146571537,"sku":"CIN0679402373G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51316103414033,"sku":"CIN0679402373VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679402373.jpg?v=1751074217"},{"product_id":"jesus-a-serious-beginner-s-guide-book-david-gates-9781847486028","title":"Jesus - A Serious Beginner's Guide","description":"'.a stupendous service for the serious enquirer.' Rev. Richard Bewes OBE I am impressed at how much helpful information this book contains which is presented in a very easy manner.' Rev. Dr Derek Tidball, Former Principal of the London School of Theology Nearly two thousand years after the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he continues to arouse strong emotions, controversy and debate. In a secular-driven society, it can be difficult for a novice to obtain a lucid introduction to Jesus's story and the origins of the Christian faith. In this clearly structured guide, David Gates sets out to provide just such an introduction. Aimed at those wishing to find out more about the life and death of Jesus, A Serious Beginner's Guide contains the vital information, questions and answers in an accessible and thought-provoking style. In spite of having a degree in Theology and Pastoral Studies, it has taken David Gates some three years to write this book. David has worked and lived in both Turkey and Cyprus. He has travelled in the Middle East including Iran and Israel.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50720868303121,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50720868532497,"sku":"GOR003896832","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1847486029.jpg?v=1751440864"},{"product_id":"islands-in-the-sky-book-david-gates-9781491800348","title":"Islands in the Sky","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51194120536337,"sku":"NIN9781491800348","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52122023166225,"sku":"NLS9781491800348","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1491800348.jpg?v=1751242587"},{"product_id":"islands-in-the-sky-book-david-gates-9781491800331","title":"Islands in the Sky","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51194145571089,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51194147701009,"sku":"NIN9781491800331","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52121077285137,"sku":"NLS9781491800331","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/149180033X.jpg?v=1750828427"},{"product_id":"sky-wars-book-david-gates-9781861891891","title":"Sky Wars","description":"Examines the history of military aerospace power, discussing technical developments between both World Wars and the use of air power in specific wars in the latter part of the twentieth century, including the recent conflict with Iraq. This book analyses the military and civil applications of airpower in the contemporary world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51682192458001,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51682192916753,"sku":"GOR002017413","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/186189189X.jpg?v=1750931418"},{"product_id":"lettering-for-reproduction-book-david-gates-9780823027514","title":"Lettering for Reproduction","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51899273543953,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51899273969937,"sku":"CIN0823027511G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53333628846353,"sku":"CIN0823027511VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780823027514.jpg?v=1755025195"},{"product_id":"924-miles-book-david-gates-9781490874999","title":"924 Miles","description":"\u003cp\u003e924 Miles tells the story of a man searching for God while trying to figure out what life is all about. It explores the true purpose of life, the grace of God, and the connection between the two. It will make you cry, laugh, and ultimately examine your purpose in life; many are calling 924 Miles a must-read book \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126515986705,"sku":"NLS9781490874999","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53223425868049,"sku":"NIN9781490874999","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781490874999.jpg?v=1757476690"},{"product_id":"924-miles-book-david-gates-9781490874982","title":"924 Miles","description":"\u003cp\u003e924 Miles tells the story of a man searching for God while trying to figure out what life is all about. It explores the true purpose of life, the grace of God, and the connection between the two. It will make you cry, laugh, and ultimately examine your purpose in life; many are calling 924 Miles a must-read book \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52139408032017,"sku":"NLS9781490874982","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781490874982.jpg?v=1757568905"},{"product_id":"jernigan-book-david-gates-9780330321266","title":"Jernigan","description":"The story of one man's life, from Independence Day one year to Christmas of the next. The narrator and protagonist, Peter Jernigan, is a man who has suffered the absurd death of his wife, whose father has burned to death and whose son has reached adolescence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52394323935505,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52394323968273,"sku":"GOR003152251","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780330321266.jpg?v=1758638732"},{"product_id":"blurr-book-david-gates-9781512783384","title":"The Blurr","description":"\u003cp\u003eA disease . . . the end of the times . . . a quest for survival? Where is a safe place to hide from the dangers that lurk behind a mask of lies?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Gains and his best friend Carson Dennison own a retail establishment outside of town and have expectations in expanding their business. Little did they know that those plans were about to change. One day Dan is inspired by God to deliver a message to his church. Deeply disturbed by it, he ministers to them anyways. Shortly afterward, an unannounced disease, Blurr, is threatening the lives of millions, and he is afraid for his family. He embarks on a journey, meeting others along the way while searching for a safe place from the disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Dan, is chosen to search for a safe place for his family and friends to escape the terror of the disease Blurr, he encounters obstacles that only God can help him through. With the betrayal by many, the numerous of unexplained deaths, and the unquestionable acts of the elements of the world, will they survive as they hope for another day? Despite all that is going wrong, God's power is at work, helping him and others along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52424213987601,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52424214610193,"sku":"NLS9781512783384","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781512783384.jpg?v=1759151213"},{"product_id":"blurr-book-david-gates-9781512783391","title":"The Blurr","description":"\u003cp\u003eA disease . . . the end of the times . . . a quest for survival? Where is a safe place to hide from the dangers that lurk behind a mask of lies?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Gains and his best friend Carson Dennison own a retail establishment outside of town and have expectations in expanding their business. Little did they know that those plans were about to change. One day Dan is inspired by God to deliver a message to his church. Deeply disturbed by it, he ministers to them anyways. Shortly afterward, an unannounced disease, Blurr, is threatening the lives of millions, and he is afraid for his family. He embarks on a journey, meeting others along the way while searching for a safe place from the disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Dan, is chosen to search for a safe place for his family and friends to escape the terror of the disease Blurr, he encounters obstacles that only God can help him through. With the betrayal by many, the numerous of unexplained deaths, and the unquestionable acts of the elements of the world, will they survive as they hope for another day? Despite all that is going wrong, God's power is at work, helping him and others along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52424214675729,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52424215429393,"sku":"NLS9781512783391","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781512783391.jpg?v=1759151207"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-david-gates.oembed?page=2","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}