2nd-Hand Books
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Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006
- £8.00
- The idea for this book - a new selection of her poems with notes - grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and…
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
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U2: Past, Present, Future
- £30.00
- U2 remains deeply rooted in tradition while still looking toward the future and pushing boundaries. Follow this popular Irish band from its formation and early years through the release of its milestone albums and arena-packed shows. Explore, also, the challenges raised by the group s unwavering political and social commitment.…
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Ukridge
- £12.00
- First published in 1924, these short stories had previously appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US and in the Strand Magazine in the UK. There are 10 included, relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
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Ultimatum (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . . They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within IranÕs Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose objective is to transform their country into a nuclear-armed nation, and so seal its domination of the…
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Uncle
- £200.00
- The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A classic in the great English nonsense tradition - Observer. Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He…
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Uncle Dynamite
- £85.00
- Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened…
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
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Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
- £10.00
- Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author. Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry. To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life's most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
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Unpresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 'Feb 26, White House briefing room: the coronavirus feels like it is changing everything.... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign.... ' Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon…
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Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported
- £18.00
- Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' Ð Giles Foden, The Guardian A critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson. Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable…
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
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Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006
- £8.00
- The idea for this book - a new selection of her poems with notes - grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and…
- Add to basket
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
- Add to basket
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U2: Past, Present, Future
- £30.00
- U2 remains deeply rooted in tradition while still looking toward the future and pushing boundaries. Follow this popular Irish band from its formation and early years through the release of its milestone albums and arena-packed shows. Explore, also, the challenges raised by the group s unwavering political and social commitment.…
- Add to basket
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Ukridge
- £12.00
- First published in 1924, these short stories had previously appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US and in the Strand Magazine in the UK. There are 10 included, relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
- Add to basket
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Ultimatum (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . . They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within IranÕs Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose objective is to transform their country into a nuclear-armed nation, and so seal its domination of the…
- Add to basket
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Uncle
- £200.00
- The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A classic in the great English nonsense tradition - Observer. Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He…
- Add to basket
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Uncle Dynamite
- £85.00
- Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened…
- Add to basket
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
- Add to basket
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Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
- £10.00
- Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author. Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry. To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life's most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to…
- Add to basket
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
- Add to basket
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
- Add to basket
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Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
- Add to basket
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Unpresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 'Feb 26, White House briefing room: the coronavirus feels like it is changing everything.... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign.... ' Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon…
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Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported
- £18.00
- Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' Ð Giles Foden, The Guardian A critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson. Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable…
- Add to basket
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
- Add to basket