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The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
- £14.00
- Where are you now? Look around you; what can you see? Close your eyes and think of a loved one Ð do you see their face? Stretch out a hand; what can you feel with your fingertips, your palm, the soft underside of your wrist? What can you hear Ð…
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The Man Who Was George Smiley
- £20.00
- After a period following the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks has hit an all-time low, John le Carr s intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le…
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The Man Within
- £110.00
- Greene's first novel, it tells the story of Francis Andrews, a reluctant smuggler, who betrays his colleagues, and the aftermath of his betrayal.
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The Manuscripts of A Passage to India (The Abinger Edition 6a)
- £200.00
- To accompany The Abinger Edition of A Passage to India, this volume relates page by page, line by line, to the novel in such. Way that the reader can follow the successive revisions - whether of a single word, sentence, paragraph or lenghty passage - that culminated in the published…
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The Marble Foot, an Autobiography (1905-1938)
- £20.00
- Sir Peter Quennell CBE (1905Ð1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. This is the first of 2 volumes in his autobiography.
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The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
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The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
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The Masterful Monk
- £18.00
- Owen Francis Dudley (1882-1952) was a Catholic priest who wrote detective fiction (amongst other things) that has often been compared to Chesterton's Father Brown stories. His Masterful Monk features in several novels, of which this was the 1st (published in 1929). It was also the 3rd volume in his Problems…
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The Mating Season
- £75.00
- It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent. At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village…
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The Merry Muse
- £20.00
- A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age of sixty has a rampant appetite for the pleasures of the flesh, takes charge of it. As…
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The Method of Grace
- £25.00
- FlavelÕs book explores salvationÕs transformative effects on the heart. In the first two of the bookÕs five sections, Flavel describes how Christ and the Holy Spirit prepare a person to receive GodÕs saving grace. Following this, he describes how truly convicting the effects of the preparation can be, and how…
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The Middle-Earth Treasury: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings (gift set)
- £100.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of pocket leather-bound editions featuring J.R.R. TolkienÕs most popular works, which together tell the tale of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and of the War of the Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers…
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The Military Philosophers [A Dance to the Music of Time 9]
- £40.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Ministry of Time (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test the limits of time-travel. Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as '1847' - Commander…
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the…
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The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
- £14.00
- Where are you now? Look around you; what can you see? Close your eyes and think of a loved one Ð do you see their face? Stretch out a hand; what can you feel with your fingertips, your palm, the soft underside of your wrist? What can you hear Ð…
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The Man Who Was George Smiley
- £20.00
- After a period following the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks has hit an all-time low, John le Carr s intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le…
- Add to basket
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The Man Within
- £110.00
- Greene's first novel, it tells the story of Francis Andrews, a reluctant smuggler, who betrays his colleagues, and the aftermath of his betrayal.
- Add to basket
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The Manuscripts of A Passage to India (The Abinger Edition 6a)
- £200.00
- To accompany The Abinger Edition of A Passage to India, this volume relates page by page, line by line, to the novel in such. Way that the reader can follow the successive revisions - whether of a single word, sentence, paragraph or lenghty passage - that culminated in the published…
- Add to basket
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The Marble Foot, an Autobiography (1905-1938)
- £20.00
- Sir Peter Quennell CBE (1905Ð1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. This is the first of 2 volumes in his autobiography.
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The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
- Add to basket
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The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
- Add to basket
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The Masterful Monk
- £18.00
- Owen Francis Dudley (1882-1952) was a Catholic priest who wrote detective fiction (amongst other things) that has often been compared to Chesterton's Father Brown stories. His Masterful Monk features in several novels, of which this was the 1st (published in 1929). It was also the 3rd volume in his Problems…
- Add to basket
-
The Mating Season
- £75.00
- It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent. At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village…
- Add to basket
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The Merry Muse
- £20.00
- A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age of sixty has a rampant appetite for the pleasures of the flesh, takes charge of it. As…
- Add to basket
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The Method of Grace
- £25.00
- FlavelÕs book explores salvationÕs transformative effects on the heart. In the first two of the bookÕs five sections, Flavel describes how Christ and the Holy Spirit prepare a person to receive GodÕs saving grace. Following this, he describes how truly convicting the effects of the preparation can be, and how…
- Add to basket
-
The Middle-Earth Treasury: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings (gift set)
- £100.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of pocket leather-bound editions featuring J.R.R. TolkienÕs most popular works, which together tell the tale of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and of the War of the Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers…
- Add to basket
-
The Military Philosophers [A Dance to the Music of Time 9]
- £40.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
- Add to basket
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The Ministry of Time (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test the limits of time-travel. Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as '1847' - Commander…
- Add to basket
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the…
- Add to basket