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The Nicomachaean Ethics
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #547 What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all…
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The Night Ride
- £45.00
- Daddy, Kate and Tiny Teddy had lain forgotten in a dark cupboard for a long time. The children they belonged to had grown up and no longer played with them. Then, one day before Christmas, they were taken out of the cupboard and thrown into the dustbin.
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The Night Watch (signed)
- £30.00
- Nominated for the Booker Prize, this book moves back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners -…
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The Night-Mare
- £35.00
- Ten tales of horror depicting the cynacism, terror and cruelty of Hitler's Nazi regime, which whilst fictional took as their basis sworn testimony from the Nuremburg and Belsen War Trials. Not one of these stories,' writes Mr Forester in his foreword, 'tells of an actual happening, but all of them…
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The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News
- £8.00
- To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting fairly on the world. Many have been scandalised by its pessimism on Brexit and its one-sided presentation of the…
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The Noel Coward Diaries
- £20.00
- Journals chronicling the last thirty years of Coward's life provide a candid account of his theatrical career on both sides of the Atlantic and a revealing, entertaining portrait of Coward, himself
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The Noise of a Fly (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating…
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The Noise of Time
- £12.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Noise of Time
- £8.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Noise of Time
- £15.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Noise of Time (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor…
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The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- £40.00
- A limited edition of one chapter drawn from the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Lynton Lamb's beautiful woodcuts.
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The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
- £30.00
- Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a…
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The Nicomachaean Ethics
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #547 What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all…
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The Night Ride
- £45.00
- Daddy, Kate and Tiny Teddy had lain forgotten in a dark cupboard for a long time. The children they belonged to had grown up and no longer played with them. Then, one day before Christmas, they were taken out of the cupboard and thrown into the dustbin.
- Add to basket
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The Night Watch (signed)
- £30.00
- Nominated for the Booker Prize, this book moves back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners -…
- Add to basket
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The Night-Mare
- £35.00
- Ten tales of horror depicting the cynacism, terror and cruelty of Hitler's Nazi regime, which whilst fictional took as their basis sworn testimony from the Nuremburg and Belsen War Trials. Not one of these stories,' writes Mr Forester in his foreword, 'tells of an actual happening, but all of them…
- Add to basket
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The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News
- £8.00
- To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting fairly on the world. Many have been scandalised by its pessimism on Brexit and its one-sided presentation of the…
- Add to basket
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The Noel Coward Diaries
- £20.00
- Journals chronicling the last thirty years of Coward's life provide a candid account of his theatrical career on both sides of the Atlantic and a revealing, entertaining portrait of Coward, himself
- Add to basket
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The Noise of a Fly (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating…
- Add to basket
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The Noise of Time
- £12.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Noise of Time
- £8.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Noise of Time
- £15.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Noise of Time (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor…
- Add to basket
-
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- £40.00
- A limited edition of one chapter drawn from the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Lynton Lamb's beautiful woodcuts.
- Add to basket
-
The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
- Add to basket
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
- £30.00
- Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a…
- Add to basket