2nd-Hand Books
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The Shadow Knows: Poems 2000-2004
- £35.00
- The official elegy for Princess Margaret was the last straw. There had to be an antidote: a poet who would stalk the powerful, the pretentious and the sycophantic. The socialist magazine Red Pepper invited Adrian Mitchell to don the dreaded costume of The Shadow Poet Laureate and write regular people's…
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The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii AD 79 (Folio)
- £40.00
- A detailed and comprehensive study of the discovery of the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century. With chapters on the volcano itself, discoveries and the reawakening of the story, the Romantics, science and methodology, the stones of Pompeii, and more. Written by Walter Raleigh Trevelyan, a British…
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The Shadows of London (Marwood & Lovett 6) (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- London 1671: The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a manÕs brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is…
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The Shapeshifter’s Daughter (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Nothing, on earth or below it, freezes faster than the worthless heart. Before she was a hideous monster, the queen of the underworld was simply Hel. But cast as a girl out of lofty Asgard, realm of the gods, by Odin the Allfather, Hel's fate as the terrible goddess of…
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The Shepherd and other poems of Peace and War
- £60.00
- Edmund Blunden's first poem appeared in 1914; but it was this volume, The Shepherd published in 1922, that made his reputation. He is now regarded as one of the best Georgians, a man deeply acquainted with that tradition of English poetry, and a poet of quiet authority and haunting imagination…
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The Ship
- £9.00
- One vital convoy can break Mussolini’s stranglehold on Malta – but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships. Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed might of the Italian battle fleet and C.S. Forester – creator of Horatio Hornblower – takes us aboard HMS…
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £25.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £30.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
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The Shoulders of Giants: A History of Human Flight to 1919
- £20.00
- Between the mythical flights of Icarus and Daedalus and the establishment of the airplane as practical transportation lie centuries of inspired failure and dogged technological advancement. The Shoulders of Giants brings to life this long and colorful history of humanity's quest for flight.
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The Sickness unto Death
- £65.00
- One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may…
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The Siege of Corinth; Parisina
- £150.00
- Byron's two narrative poems. The Siege of Corinth is a rhymed tragic poem inspired by the Ottoman massacre of the Venetian garrison holding the Acrocorinth in 1715. Parisina narrates the sordid tale of the wife of one of the Dukes of Ferrara who had incestuous relationship with his bastard son…
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The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- April 30, 1980. Six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British history. Six days in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a…
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The Silence of the Girls
- £8.00
- There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a…
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The Silent Woman – Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes
- £25.00
- Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, renowned writer Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame, to discover how Plath became an…
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The Silmarillion
- £120.00
- The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative writing, a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth, through the Second Age and the rise of Sauron, to the end of the War of the Ring. They are set in an age when Morgoth, the…
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The Shadow Knows: Poems 2000-2004
- £35.00
- The official elegy for Princess Margaret was the last straw. There had to be an antidote: a poet who would stalk the powerful, the pretentious and the sycophantic. The socialist magazine Red Pepper invited Adrian Mitchell to don the dreaded costume of The Shadow Poet Laureate and write regular people's…
- Add to basket
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The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii AD 79 (Folio)
- £40.00
- A detailed and comprehensive study of the discovery of the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century. With chapters on the volcano itself, discoveries and the reawakening of the story, the Romantics, science and methodology, the stones of Pompeii, and more. Written by Walter Raleigh Trevelyan, a British…
- Add to basket
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The Shadows of London (Marwood & Lovett 6) (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- London 1671: The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a manÕs brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is…
- Add to basket
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The Shapeshifter’s Daughter (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Nothing, on earth or below it, freezes faster than the worthless heart. Before she was a hideous monster, the queen of the underworld was simply Hel. But cast as a girl out of lofty Asgard, realm of the gods, by Odin the Allfather, Hel's fate as the terrible goddess of…
- Add to basket
-
The Shepherd and other poems of Peace and War
- £60.00
- Edmund Blunden's first poem appeared in 1914; but it was this volume, The Shepherd published in 1922, that made his reputation. He is now regarded as one of the best Georgians, a man deeply acquainted with that tradition of English poetry, and a poet of quiet authority and haunting imagination…
- Add to basket
-
The Ship
- £9.00
- One vital convoy can break Mussolini’s stranglehold on Malta – but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships. Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed might of the Italian battle fleet and C.S. Forester – creator of Horatio Hornblower – takes us aboard HMS…
- Add to basket
-
The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £25.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
- Add to basket
-
The Short Reign of Pippin IV, a fabrication
- £30.00
- Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife…
- Add to basket
-
The Shoulders of Giants: A History of Human Flight to 1919
- £20.00
- Between the mythical flights of Icarus and Daedalus and the establishment of the airplane as practical transportation lie centuries of inspired failure and dogged technological advancement. The Shoulders of Giants brings to life this long and colorful history of humanity's quest for flight.
- Add to basket
-
The Sickness unto Death
- £65.00
- One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may…
- Add to basket
-
The Siege of Corinth; Parisina
- £150.00
- Byron's two narrative poems. The Siege of Corinth is a rhymed tragic poem inspired by the Ottoman massacre of the Venetian garrison holding the Acrocorinth in 1715. Parisina narrates the sordid tale of the wife of one of the Dukes of Ferrara who had incestuous relationship with his bastard son…
- Add to basket
-
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- April 30, 1980. Six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British history. Six days in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a…
- Add to basket
-
The Silence of the Girls
- £8.00
- There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a…
- Add to basket
-
The Silent Woman – Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes
- £25.00
- Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, renowned writer Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame, to discover how Plath became an…
- Add to basket
-
The Silmarillion
- £120.00
- The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative writing, a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth, through the Second Age and the rise of Sauron, to the end of the War of the Ring. They are set in an age when Morgoth, the…
- Add to basket