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The Pathway
- £30.00
- The 4th in Williamson's Willie Maddison tetralogy
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The Patriot’s Progress: Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock
- £25.00
- A classic of First World War fiction by Henry Williamson (of Tarka the Otter fame), a man who had witnessed it first hand and received the MC. Illustrations by Kermode who also served on the Western Front and was awarded the MC.
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The Penfriend
- £15.00
- Novel by English novelist Alan Wykes (1914-1993)
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The People’s Train
- £35.00
- Artem Samsurov, a protg of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon discovers that repression and injustice exist there too. Though distracted by an infatuation with a beautiful female lawyer, he throws himself back into the socialist cause, only to be imprisoned,…
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The Phantom Shark (Rick Brant Electronic Adventure #5)
- £14.00
- The Phantom Shark! Barby Brant finally gets to leave Spindrift Island and accompany Rick and Scotty on an adventure. The three Spindrifters and Chahda meet their friends the Warners on the trawler Tarpon and head off to map fishing grounds in the exotic South Pacific. They soon run head long…
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The Pianoplayers
- £25.00
- This novel is one of Anthony BurgessÕs most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his own early life. The…
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The Picts and the Martyrs or, Not Welcome at All
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- Swallows & Amazons Book 11. The dreaded Great Aunt has invited herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends Dick and Dorothea arrive for the Summer holiday. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses and reading poetry (but breaking out at night), while Dick and…
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The Picts and the Martyrs or, Not Welcome at All
- £60.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 11. The dreaded Great Aunt has invited herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends Dick and Dorothea arrive for the Summer holiday. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses and reading poetry (but breaking out at night), while Dick and…
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The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism
- £90.00
- One of C. S. LewisÕ works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon BunyanÕs PilgrimÕs Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different sections of the Church. Written within a year of LewisÕ conversion, it characterises the various theological and temperamental leanings of the time. This brilliant…
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The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An account of the author's voyage from Gibraltar, one of the Pillars of Hercules, to the southern Pillar. Instead of crossing the straits, he chose to travel the long way, up the coast of Spain along the Riviera, and by ferry to Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and beyond, through the near-anarchy…
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The Plato Papers, a novel
- £15.00
- On ritual occasions Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures on The Origin of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on Sigmund Freud; whilst providing a glossary…
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The Plato Papers, a novel (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- On ritual occasions Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures on The Origin of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on Sigmund Freud; whilst providing a glossary…
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The Playmaker
- £60.00
- In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of…
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The Poems of Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- World's Classics series XVI: Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot (vols I & II) – the annotated text
- £100.00
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over…
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The Pathway
- £30.00
- The 4th in Williamson's Willie Maddison tetralogy
- Add to basket
-
The Patriot’s Progress: Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock
- £25.00
- A classic of First World War fiction by Henry Williamson (of Tarka the Otter fame), a man who had witnessed it first hand and received the MC. Illustrations by Kermode who also served on the Western Front and was awarded the MC.
- Add to basket
-
The Penfriend
- £15.00
- Novel by English novelist Alan Wykes (1914-1993)
- Add to basket
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The People’s Train
- £35.00
- Artem Samsurov, a protg of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon discovers that repression and injustice exist there too. Though distracted by an infatuation with a beautiful female lawyer, he throws himself back into the socialist cause, only to be imprisoned,…
- Add to basket
-
The Phantom Shark (Rick Brant Electronic Adventure #5)
- £14.00
- The Phantom Shark! Barby Brant finally gets to leave Spindrift Island and accompany Rick and Scotty on an adventure. The three Spindrifters and Chahda meet their friends the Warners on the trawler Tarpon and head off to map fishing grounds in the exotic South Pacific. They soon run head long…
- Add to basket
-
The Pianoplayers
- £25.00
- This novel is one of Anthony BurgessÕs most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his own early life. The…
- Add to basket
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The Picts and the Martyrs or, Not Welcome at All
- £30.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 11. The dreaded Great Aunt has invited herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends Dick and Dorothea arrive for the Summer holiday. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses and reading poetry (but breaking out at night), while Dick and…
- Add to basket
-
The Picts and the Martyrs or, Not Welcome at All
- £60.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 11. The dreaded Great Aunt has invited herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends Dick and Dorothea arrive for the Summer holiday. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses and reading poetry (but breaking out at night), while Dick and…
- Add to basket
-


The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism
- £90.00
- One of C. S. LewisÕ works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon BunyanÕs PilgrimÕs Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different sections of the Church. Written within a year of LewisÕ conversion, it characterises the various theological and temperamental leanings of the time. This brilliant…
- Add to basket
-
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An account of the author's voyage from Gibraltar, one of the Pillars of Hercules, to the southern Pillar. Instead of crossing the straits, he chose to travel the long way, up the coast of Spain along the Riviera, and by ferry to Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and beyond, through the near-anarchy…
- Add to basket
-
The Plato Papers, a novel
- £15.00
- On ritual occasions Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures on The Origin of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on Sigmund Freud; whilst providing a glossary…
- Add to basket
-
The Plato Papers, a novel (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- On ritual occasions Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures on The Origin of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on Sigmund Freud; whilst providing a glossary…
- Add to basket
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The Playmaker
- £60.00
- In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of…
- Add to basket
-
The Poems of Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- World's Classics series XVI: Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
- Add to basket
-
The Poems of T. S. Eliot (vols I & II) – the annotated text
- £100.00
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over…
- Add to basket
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