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Denton Welch, The Making Of A Writer
- £20.00
- Maurice Denton Welch (1915Ð1948) was an English writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Fictional content aside, the point of origin of virtually all of his stories is biographical: they are often set in places he knew or had visited, and feature thinly-disguised, often deeply unflattering,…
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
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Derek Mahon Poems 1962-1978
- £60.00
- Derek Mahon (1941Ð2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President…
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe)
- £25.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED
- £100.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
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Deutsch-Englische Begegnung – English-German Reconciliation Ottobeuren – Coventry
- £14.00
- Commemorative publication for the performance of Britten's War Requiem on Sept 6 1964, in Ottobeuren and Coventry, in German and English. Leicht unfrisch. Gedenkschrift fr die Auffhrung des "War Requiem" vom Benjamin Britten am 6. September 1964 in Ottobeuren! - Beiliegend das Programm des Konzertes.
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Devices & Desires (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The Queen of Crime.' New York Times. When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken…
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Devices and Desires (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as…
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Devotion (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A glorious love story' Ð Sarah Winman, author of Still Life. Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. A stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist, from the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Hannah Kent. Hanne and TheaÕs friendship is…
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Diaries 1924-1932
- £25.00
- Picking up from earlier diaries, this volume begins with the formation of the first Labour Government and ends after the Labour debacles of 1931 and the Webbs' departure for their Russian tour.
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Diaries and Selected Letters
- £12.00
- The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was…
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Diary of One Who Vanished
- £50.00
- Introduction by Seamus Heany. Leos Janacek discovered the poems he was to set in his song cycle 'Diary of one who vanished' (1917) in his local paper. They tell the story of a man who abandons his home because of his sexual infatuation with a gypsy. These new English versions…
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Dickens (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. Dickens the novelist, Dickens the radical and the actor, Dickens the prematurely exhausted middle-aged man whose own unquiet fictions seem to shape his…
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Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? The Resurrection Debate
- £18.00
- [This] is the most important question regarding the claims of the Christian faith. Certainly no question in modern religious history demands more attention or interest, as witnessed by the vast body of literature dealing with the Resurrection. James I. Packer says it well in his response to this debate: 'When…
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Denton Welch, The Making Of A Writer
- £20.00
- Maurice Denton Welch (1915Ð1948) was an English writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Fictional content aside, the point of origin of virtually all of his stories is biographical: they are often set in places he knew or had visited, and feature thinly-disguised, often deeply unflattering,…
- Add to basket
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
- Add to basket
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Derek Mahon Poems 1962-1978
- £60.00
- Derek Mahon (1941Ð2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President…
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
- Add to basket
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe)
- £25.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED
- £100.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
- Add to basket
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Deutsch-Englische Begegnung – English-German Reconciliation Ottobeuren – Coventry
- £14.00
- Commemorative publication for the performance of Britten's War Requiem on Sept 6 1964, in Ottobeuren and Coventry, in German and English. Leicht unfrisch. Gedenkschrift fr die Auffhrung des "War Requiem" vom Benjamin Britten am 6. September 1964 in Ottobeuren! - Beiliegend das Programm des Konzertes.
- Add to basket
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Devices & Desires (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The Queen of Crime.' New York Times. When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken…
- Add to basket
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Devices and Desires (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as…
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Devotion (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A glorious love story' Ð Sarah Winman, author of Still Life. Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. A stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist, from the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Hannah Kent. Hanne and TheaÕs friendship is…
- Add to basket
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Diaries 1924-1932
- £25.00
- Picking up from earlier diaries, this volume begins with the formation of the first Labour Government and ends after the Labour debacles of 1931 and the Webbs' departure for their Russian tour.
- Add to basket
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Diaries and Selected Letters
- £12.00
- The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was…
- Add to basket
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Diary of One Who Vanished
- £50.00
- Introduction by Seamus Heany. Leos Janacek discovered the poems he was to set in his song cycle 'Diary of one who vanished' (1917) in his local paper. They tell the story of a man who abandons his home because of his sexual infatuation with a gypsy. These new English versions…
- Add to basket
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Dickens (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. Dickens the novelist, Dickens the radical and the actor, Dickens the prematurely exhausted middle-aged man whose own unquiet fictions seem to shape his…
- Add to basket
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Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? The Resurrection Debate
- £18.00
- [This] is the most important question regarding the claims of the Christian faith. Certainly no question in modern religious history demands more attention or interest, as witnessed by the vast body of literature dealing with the Resurrection. James I. Packer says it well in his response to this debate: 'When…
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