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Books do Furnish a Room [Dance to the Music of Time 10]
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Border Crossing (signed)
- £25.00
- The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
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Border Crossing (signed)
- £25.00
- The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
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Box 88 (Lachlan Kite 1)
- £12.00
- An organisation that doesnÕt exist. A spy that canÕt be caught. Years ago, a spy was bornÉ 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on…
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Box 88 (Lachlan Kite 1)
- £10.00
- An organisation that doesnÕt exist. A spy that canÕt be caught. Years ago, a spy was bornÉ 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on…
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Branwell Brontë, a biography
- £25.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. While her seminal work was about Charlotte Brontë, this biography was greatly respected.
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Brave New World
- £15.00
- First published in 1932, the Zodiac Press edition (by arrangement with Chatto & Windus) was published in 1948
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Brave New World
- £250.00
- Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society…
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Brave New World Revisited
- £40.00
- In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of…
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Brazzaville Beach (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps. But the more Hope studies Mallabar,…
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Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brighton Rock
- £12.00
- A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2)
- £50.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2) SIGNED
- £135.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £20.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Britannia (Eagles of Empire 14)
- £15.00
- Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes, inspired by the Druids' hatred of the Romans, prepare to make a stand. But can they match the discipline and courage of the legionaries? Wounded during a skirmish, Centurion Macro remains behind in charge of the fort as Centurion Cato leads an invasion…
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British Architects & Craftsmen
- £20.00
- Full title: British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830. 'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.' Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen,…
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British Columbia in the Making
- £100.00
- Account of the history, geography and economy of Canada's Western-most province. With many b/w photographs and diagrams
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Britten (The Composer as Contemporary)
- £10.00
- An illustrated biography of composer Benjamin Britten, which charts the composer's success with works such as Billy Budd, Peter Grimes and the War Requiem.
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Britten (The Dent Master Musicians)
- £12.00
- Part of the Master Musicians series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Benjamin Britten and includes his posthumously published works and new biographical material. All the reference sections have been updated, including the discography of Britten's performances of his own…
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Britten (The Dent Master Musicians)
- £12.00
- Part of the Master Musicians series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Benjamin Britten and includes his posthumously published works and new biographical material. All the reference sections have been updated, including the discography of Britten's performances of his own…
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Britten (The Great Composers – 3rd Edition)
- £20.00
- This revised third edition of Holst's profile of Britten describes the final years leading up to Britten's death in 1976. Holst had worked with him for 24 years and thus able to write with insight and sympathy. 'An essential book for anyoneÉ who wants to get a clearer, more personal…
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Britten (The Great Composers) SIGNED
- £65.00
- First edition of Imogen Holst's celebrated profile of Britten. Holst would work with him for 24 years by the time of his death and thus well qualified to write with insight and sympathy. Includes b/w phots throughout, and 16 pages of music examples.
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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Britten’s Gloriana: essays and sources (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)
- £22.00
- This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Gloriana has been a source of controversy since its premire as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953. It was planned as…
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Broome Stages
- £25.00
- A biography of this theatrical family, opening with the first Richard Broome born in 1715 who seemingly made brooms during his childhood. Follows the lives of the rest of the Broome family.
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Brothers in Arms (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war. It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in the Second World War. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving…
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Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
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Books do Furnish a Room [Dance to the Music of Time 10]
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Border Crossing (signed)
- £25.00
- The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
- Add to basket
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Border Crossing (signed)
- £25.00
- The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
- Add to basket
-
Box 88 (Lachlan Kite 1)
- £12.00
- An organisation that doesnÕt exist. A spy that canÕt be caught. Years ago, a spy was bornÉ 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on…
- Add to basket
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Box 88 (Lachlan Kite 1)
- £10.00
- An organisation that doesnÕt exist. A spy that canÕt be caught. Years ago, a spy was bornÉ 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on…
- Add to basket
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Branwell Brontë, a biography
- £25.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. While her seminal work was about Charlotte Brontë, this biography was greatly respected.
- Add to basket
-
Brave New World
- £15.00
- First published in 1932, the Zodiac Press edition (by arrangement with Chatto & Windus) was published in 1948
- Add to basket
-
Brave New World
- £250.00
- Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society…
- Add to basket
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Brave New World Revisited
- £40.00
- In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of…
- Add to basket
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Brazzaville Beach (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps. But the more Hope studies Mallabar,…
- Add to basket
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Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
- Add to basket
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
- Add to basket
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
- Add to basket
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Brighton Rock
- £12.00
- A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
- Add to basket
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2)
- £50.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2) SIGNED
- £135.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
- Add to basket
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £20.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
- Add to basket
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Britannia (Eagles of Empire 14)
- £15.00
- Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes, inspired by the Druids' hatred of the Romans, prepare to make a stand. But can they match the discipline and courage of the legionaries? Wounded during a skirmish, Centurion Macro remains behind in charge of the fort as Centurion Cato leads an invasion…
- Add to basket
-
British Architects & Craftsmen
- £20.00
- Full title: British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830. 'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.' Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen,…
- Add to basket
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British Columbia in the Making
- £100.00
- Account of the history, geography and economy of Canada's Western-most province. With many b/w photographs and diagrams
- Add to basket
-
Britten (The Composer as Contemporary)
- £10.00
- An illustrated biography of composer Benjamin Britten, which charts the composer's success with works such as Billy Budd, Peter Grimes and the War Requiem.
- Add to basket
-
Britten (The Dent Master Musicians)
- £12.00
- Part of the Master Musicians series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Benjamin Britten and includes his posthumously published works and new biographical material. All the reference sections have been updated, including the discography of Britten's performances of his own…
- Add to basket
-
Britten (The Dent Master Musicians)
- £12.00
- Part of the Master Musicians series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Benjamin Britten and includes his posthumously published works and new biographical material. All the reference sections have been updated, including the discography of Britten's performances of his own…
- Add to basket
-
Britten (The Great Composers – 3rd Edition)
- £20.00
- This revised third edition of Holst's profile of Britten describes the final years leading up to Britten's death in 1976. Holst had worked with him for 24 years and thus able to write with insight and sympathy. 'An essential book for anyoneÉ who wants to get a clearer, more personal…
- Add to basket
-
Britten (The Great Composers) SIGNED
- £65.00
- First edition of Imogen Holst's celebrated profile of Britten. Holst would work with him for 24 years by the time of his death and thus well qualified to write with insight and sympathy. Includes b/w phots throughout, and 16 pages of music examples.
- Add to basket
-
Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
- Add to basket
-
Britten’s Gloriana: essays and sources (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)
- £22.00
- This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Gloriana has been a source of controversy since its premire as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953. It was planned as…
- Add to basket
-
Broome Stages
- £25.00
- A biography of this theatrical family, opening with the first Richard Broome born in 1715 who seemingly made brooms during his childhood. Follows the lives of the rest of the Broome family.
- Add to basket
-
Brothers in Arms (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war. It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in the Second World War. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving…
- Add to basket
-
Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
- Add to basket