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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
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Absolute Friends
- £20.00
- Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. Now, decades later,…
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Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings Ôthe heart-stopping story of the missile crisisÕ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union.…
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Accordion Crimes
- £15.00
- The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses…
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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Act of Oblivion (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for…
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Act of Oblivion (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for…
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Actions and Reactions
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present
- £30.00
- Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History…
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African Nights (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Kuki Gallmann, whose bestseller "I Dreamed of Africa" captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven episodes the magic that touches all African life. Whether the adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island, or the pleasure of building a unique…
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After many a Summer
- £12.00
- Huxley's 7th novel, the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California, the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture, particularly what he…
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
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After Rain
- £10.00
- After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano…
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
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Afternoon Men
- £130.00
- Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity…
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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
- Add to basket
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Absolute Friends
- £20.00
- Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. Now, decades later,…
- Add to basket
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Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings Ôthe heart-stopping story of the missile crisisÕ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union.…
- Add to basket
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Accordion Crimes
- £15.00
- The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses…
- Add to basket
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
- Add to basket
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Act of Oblivion (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for…
- Add to basket
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Act of Oblivion (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for…
- Add to basket
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Actions and Reactions
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
- Add to basket
-
Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present
- £30.00
- Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History…
- Add to basket
-
African Nights (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Kuki Gallmann, whose bestseller "I Dreamed of Africa" captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven episodes the magic that touches all African life. Whether the adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island, or the pleasure of building a unique…
- Add to basket
-
After many a Summer
- £12.00
- Huxley's 7th novel, the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California, the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture, particularly what he…
- Add to basket
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
- Add to basket
-
After Rain
- £10.00
- After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano…
- Add to basket
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
- Add to basket
-
Afternoon Men
- £130.00
- Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity…
- Add to basket