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The Russia House
- £12.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Russia House
- £15.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Russia House (SIGNED)
- £450.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Saboteurs
- £15.00
- une Drummond (1923-2011) was a South African writer of mysteries. Thirty of her crime novels, often set in Durban, South Africa, or London, England, were published between 1959 and 2011. The Saboteurs is her 6th. Set in apartheid-era South Africa, wealthy Caspar Douglas returns to the country and finds his…
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
- £40.00
- Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be his only…
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The Sacred Wood, essays on poetry and criticism
- £12.00
- First published by Methuen in 1920 and compiled from various journals, this University Paperbacks edition was first published in 1960.
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The sad, sad tail of Normas the Tebbit
- £20.00
- What the hell is a Tebbit? What does it look like? Does it really fill a whole house? Why does the poor creature want to be loved? At last the truth is revealed in this book, the heart-rendering story of an outsized crossbreed - half terrier, half rabbit - who…
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The Salzburg Connection
- £21.00
- Basis of 1972 film, the debut of Klaus Maria Brandauer. A cold war espionage novel rescued from irrelevance by MacInnes's story- telling ability: shifting points of view with progressive revelations about key characters
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The Saracen’s Head or the Reluctant Crusader
- £35.00
- First volume in Lancaster's wonderful Littlehampton saga, starting with the heroic William de Littlehampton in the Crusades.
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The Saracen’s Head or the Reluctant Crusader
- £40.00
- First volume in Lancaster's wonderful Littlehampton saga, starting with the heroic William de Littlehampton in the Crusades.
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The Satires of Jonathan Swift
- £25.00
- From the master of satire, Jonathan Swift, a collection of his classic satirical works as well as some of his poetry and letters. An Argument Against the Abolishment of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative, A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, Predictions for the Year 1708, and The…
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The Scandaroon
- £20.00
- After completing the 15-volume saga of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, Williamson returned to the story he had previously put aside about a pigeon. This was his last novel to be published in his lifetime.
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The Scapegoat
- £25.00
- A good original novel, well tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking…
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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
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The Russia House
- £12.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Russia House
- £15.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Russia House (SIGNED)
- £450.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
- Add to basket
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The Saboteurs
- £15.00
- une Drummond (1923-2011) was a South African writer of mysteries. Thirty of her crime novels, often set in Durban, South Africa, or London, England, were published between 1959 and 2011. The Saboteurs is her 6th. Set in apartheid-era South Africa, wealthy Caspar Douglas returns to the country and finds his…
- Add to basket
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
- £40.00
- Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be his only…
- Add to basket
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The Sacred Wood, essays on poetry and criticism
- £12.00
- First published by Methuen in 1920 and compiled from various journals, this University Paperbacks edition was first published in 1960.
- Add to basket
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The sad, sad tail of Normas the Tebbit
- £20.00
- What the hell is a Tebbit? What does it look like? Does it really fill a whole house? Why does the poor creature want to be loved? At last the truth is revealed in this book, the heart-rendering story of an outsized crossbreed - half terrier, half rabbit - who…
- Add to basket
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The Salzburg Connection
- £21.00
- Basis of 1972 film, the debut of Klaus Maria Brandauer. A cold war espionage novel rescued from irrelevance by MacInnes's story- telling ability: shifting points of view with progressive revelations about key characters
- Add to basket
-
The Saracen’s Head or the Reluctant Crusader
- £35.00
- First volume in Lancaster's wonderful Littlehampton saga, starting with the heroic William de Littlehampton in the Crusades.
- Add to basket
-
The Saracen’s Head or the Reluctant Crusader
- £40.00
- First volume in Lancaster's wonderful Littlehampton saga, starting with the heroic William de Littlehampton in the Crusades.
- Add to basket
-
The Satires of Jonathan Swift
- £25.00
- From the master of satire, Jonathan Swift, a collection of his classic satirical works as well as some of his poetry and letters. An Argument Against the Abolishment of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative, A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, Predictions for the Year 1708, and The…
- Add to basket
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The Scandaroon
- £20.00
- After completing the 15-volume saga of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, Williamson returned to the story he had previously put aside about a pigeon. This was his last novel to be published in his lifetime.
- Add to basket
-
The Scapegoat
- £25.00
- A good original novel, well tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking…
- Add to basket
-
The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
- Add to basket
-
The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
- Add to basket