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The Quiet Wards
- £30.00
- The 3rd novel by Andrews (pseudonym of Lucilla Crichton) in her series of hospital romances.
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The Raymond Chandler Omnibus
- £25.00
- First UK combination of 4 great Chandler wartime novels: The Big Sleep (1939); Farewell, my Lovely (1940); The High Window (1943); The Lady in the Lake (1944).
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The Razor’s Edge, a novel
- £150.00
- Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The…
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The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion
- £19.00
- The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a 'disenchantment of the world'…
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The Re-Inherited Mind: Recovering The Judaeo-Christian Inheritance In Western Christendom
- £15.00
- In this book, Reverend Doctor Scott argues that the Judaeo-Christian tradition contains many excellent insights into what we are as human beings, which we are in grave danger of forgetting, but which we can recall to our infinite advantage if we seek to do so. The book is filled with…
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The Reader’s Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel
- £20.00
- A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year.
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The Real Persuasion: Portrait of a real-life Jane Austen Heroine
- £10.00
- Her father is a vain, foolish baronet, obsessed with his lineage but so careless with money that he is obliged to quit his ancestral seat. Her sister is a fretful invalid with a good-natured husband and two disobedient sons. She herself falls in love with a handsome naval officer, and…
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The Rebel (L’Homme Révolté)
- £250.00
- A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. Translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Sir Herbert Read. The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt…
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The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath (SIGNED)
- £38.00
- Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives…
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The Recovery of Belief: a Restatement of Christian Philosophy
- £100.00
- From the dustjacket: Joad is not a sentimental preacher, exhorting us to 'return to religion'. He is a thinker, a philosopher, who has found himself slowly compelled by his reason to concede the unique claim of the Christian religion. He has set out to tell us what has happened in…
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The Rediscovery of Jesus’ Eschatological Discourse (Gospel Perspectives IV)
- £60.00
- Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. Vol IV differs in that it is a single-author monograph, by David Wenham, one of the co-editors of the series.
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The Religion of Jesus the Jew
- £12.00
- This book completes a trilogy which started in 1973 with Jesus the Jew and continued ten years later with the appearance of Jesus and the World of Judaism, by a leading Jewish expert on the history and literature of Jesus' time whose name is especially associated with work on the…
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The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813 (Folio Society)
- £16.00
- Folio edition. n June 1812, NapoleonÕs 680,000 strong Grande Arme crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien BourgogneÕs Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic…
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The Return (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A beautiful book, story, piece of history. From the haunting tones of the flamenco to a country ravaged by fanaticism. Hardly a day goes past since finishing this book that I don't think about some aspect of it. One of the best books I have read in a long time'…
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The Return of A.J. Raffles: An Edwardian Comedy
- £30.00
- First staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company the play has as its chief characters A. J. Raffles, the literary creation some seventy odd years ago of E. W. Hornung. The cool daring of the impeccable Amateur Cracksman, always torn between the rival claims of burglary and cricket, ensured his popularity…
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The Quiet Wards
- £30.00
- The 3rd novel by Andrews (pseudonym of Lucilla Crichton) in her series of hospital romances.
- Add to basket
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The Raymond Chandler Omnibus
- £25.00
- First UK combination of 4 great Chandler wartime novels: The Big Sleep (1939); Farewell, my Lovely (1940); The High Window (1943); The Lady in the Lake (1944).
- Add to basket
-
The Razor’s Edge, a novel
- £150.00
- Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The…
- Add to basket
-
The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion
- £19.00
- The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a 'disenchantment of the world'…
- Add to basket
-
The Re-Inherited Mind: Recovering The Judaeo-Christian Inheritance In Western Christendom
- £15.00
- In this book, Reverend Doctor Scott argues that the Judaeo-Christian tradition contains many excellent insights into what we are as human beings, which we are in grave danger of forgetting, but which we can recall to our infinite advantage if we seek to do so. The book is filled with…
- Add to basket
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The Reader’s Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel
- £20.00
- A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year.
- Add to basket
-
The Real Persuasion: Portrait of a real-life Jane Austen Heroine
- £10.00
- Her father is a vain, foolish baronet, obsessed with his lineage but so careless with money that he is obliged to quit his ancestral seat. Her sister is a fretful invalid with a good-natured husband and two disobedient sons. She herself falls in love with a handsome naval officer, and…
- Add to basket
-
The Rebel (L’Homme Révolté)
- £250.00
- A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. Translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Sir Herbert Read. The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt…
- Add to basket
-
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath (SIGNED)
- £38.00
- Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives…
- Add to basket
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The Recovery of Belief: a Restatement of Christian Philosophy
- £100.00
- From the dustjacket: Joad is not a sentimental preacher, exhorting us to 'return to religion'. He is a thinker, a philosopher, who has found himself slowly compelled by his reason to concede the unique claim of the Christian religion. He has set out to tell us what has happened in…
- Add to basket
-
The Rediscovery of Jesus’ Eschatological Discourse (Gospel Perspectives IV)
- £60.00
- Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. Vol IV differs in that it is a single-author monograph, by David Wenham, one of the co-editors of the series.
- Add to basket
-
The Religion of Jesus the Jew
- £12.00
- This book completes a trilogy which started in 1973 with Jesus the Jew and continued ten years later with the appearance of Jesus and the World of Judaism, by a leading Jewish expert on the history and literature of Jesus' time whose name is especially associated with work on the…
- Add to basket
-
The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813 (Folio Society)
- £16.00
- Folio edition. n June 1812, NapoleonÕs 680,000 strong Grande Arme crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien BourgogneÕs Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic…
- Add to basket
-
The Return (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A beautiful book, story, piece of history. From the haunting tones of the flamenco to a country ravaged by fanaticism. Hardly a day goes past since finishing this book that I don't think about some aspect of it. One of the best books I have read in a long time'…
- Add to basket
-
The Return of A.J. Raffles: An Edwardian Comedy
- £30.00
- First staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company the play has as its chief characters A. J. Raffles, the literary creation some seventy odd years ago of E. W. Hornung. The cool daring of the impeccable Amateur Cracksman, always torn between the rival claims of burglary and cricket, ensured his popularity…
- Add to basket