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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
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And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning: Reading the Bible in Translation
- £45.00
- For readers of Bruce FeilerÕs Walking the Bible and Kathleen NorrisÕs The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation. Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of…
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Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
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Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a biography
- £12.00
- 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. Anne Thackeray Ritchie was the daughter of W.M. Thackeray and also Virginia Woolf's aunt, thus bridging two extraordinary periods in English letters.
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
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Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
- £90.00
- A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled…
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Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
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Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
- Add to basket
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And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning: Reading the Bible in Translation
- £45.00
- For readers of Bruce FeilerÕs Walking the Bible and Kathleen NorrisÕs The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation. Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of…
- Add to basket
-
Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
- Add to basket
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
- Add to basket
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
- Add to basket
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
- Add to basket
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
- Add to basket
-
Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
- Add to basket
-
Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a biography
- £12.00
- 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. Anne Thackeray Ritchie was the daughter of W.M. Thackeray and also Virginia Woolf's aunt, thus bridging two extraordinary periods in English letters.
- Add to basket
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
- Add to basket
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
- Add to basket
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
- Add to basket
-
Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
- £90.00
- A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled…
- Add to basket
-
Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
- Add to basket
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Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
- Add to basket