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Screenwriting Unchained: Reclaim Your Creative Freedom and Master Story Structure
- £25.00
- In Screenwriting Unchained, Emmanuel Oberg sets out a dogma-busting, innovative method for developing screenplays. This practical, no-nonsense guide leaves behind one-size-fits-all story theories and offers a refreshingly modern approach to story structure, making it a precious resource for anyone involved creatively in the Film and TV industry (or aspiring to…
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas)
- £14.00
- ÒOne of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.Ó_John Gray, New York Times Book Review ÒA powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. .…
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Selected Poems
- £12.00
- In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. From its first appearance her poetry has been recognised as possessing a rare imaginative integrity,…
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Selected Poems (1968-1983)
- £30.00
- A collection of poems from "the most significant English-language poet born since the second world war." The Times Literary Supplement
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Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
- £9.00
- ÒSelected Poems of Francis ThompsonÓ is a fantastic collection of some of Francis Thompson's best poetry, together with an introductory chapter by editor Paul Beard. Contents include: ÒPoems on ChildrenÓ, ÒFrom Sister SongsÓ, ÒLove in Dian's LapÓ, and ÒMiscellaneous PoemsÓ. Francis Thompson (1859Ð1907) was an English mystic and poet. Thompson…
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Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (new edition)
- £18.00
- Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the time. Elizabeth Wilson covers the composerÕs life from his early successes to his struggles under the Stalinist regime, and…
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Silent House: a novel
- £9.00
- In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden,…
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Simon ArmitageÕs Òcompulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited versionÓ (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers Òa brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetryÓ (Poetry Review) that Òrecreates the originalÕs gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its tableaux and…
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Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
- £9.00
- A biography of a remarkable writer - a hero of the 1930s - a panoramic portrait of a troubled century. Seven years after Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the first authorized life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. As wellas knowing him personally Sutherland has had unhindered access to…
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Studies in Words (Second edition)
- £25.00
- LanguageÑin its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meaningsÑis a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and…
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The Billiard Table Murders: A Gladys Babbington Morton Mystery
- £30.00
- Ever since the two bizarre deaths on the tennis courts of St Drunston's, the shadow of suspicion has fallen on the shoulders of Gladys Babbington Morton. Detective Inspector Trubcock of Scotland Yard is sent to investigate the murders.
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The Blunders of Our Governments
- £10.00
- Let us take a look back over three decades of outrageous political mishaps.A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful of cock-ups that we remember all too well, from the poll tax to the Millennium Dome. However, the list is longer than most of…
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The Book of Snobs Etc Etc
- £20.00
- The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England,…
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The Brownings, a biography compiled from contemporary sources (Folio Society)
- £10.00
- A biography of the Brownings - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , with four black and white illustrations of the poets.
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The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
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Screenwriting Unchained: Reclaim Your Creative Freedom and Master Story Structure
- £25.00
- In Screenwriting Unchained, Emmanuel Oberg sets out a dogma-busting, innovative method for developing screenplays. This practical, no-nonsense guide leaves behind one-size-fits-all story theories and offers a refreshingly modern approach to story structure, making it a precious resource for anyone involved creatively in the Film and TV industry (or aspiring to…
- Add to basket
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas)
- £14.00
- ÒOne of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.Ó_John Gray, New York Times Book Review ÒA powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. .…
- Add to basket
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Selected Poems
- £12.00
- In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. From its first appearance her poetry has been recognised as possessing a rare imaginative integrity,…
- Add to basket
-
Selected Poems (1968-1983)
- £30.00
- A collection of poems from "the most significant English-language poet born since the second world war." The Times Literary Supplement
- Add to basket
-
Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
- £9.00
- ÒSelected Poems of Francis ThompsonÓ is a fantastic collection of some of Francis Thompson's best poetry, together with an introductory chapter by editor Paul Beard. Contents include: ÒPoems on ChildrenÓ, ÒFrom Sister SongsÓ, ÒLove in Dian's LapÓ, and ÒMiscellaneous PoemsÓ. Francis Thompson (1859Ð1907) was an English mystic and poet. Thompson…
- Add to basket
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Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (new edition)
- £18.00
- Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the time. Elizabeth Wilson covers the composerÕs life from his early successes to his struggles under the Stalinist regime, and…
- Add to basket
-
Silent House: a novel
- £9.00
- In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden,…
- Add to basket
-
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Simon ArmitageÕs Òcompulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited versionÓ (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers Òa brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetryÓ (Poetry Review) that Òrecreates the originalÕs gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its tableaux and…
- Add to basket
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Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
- £9.00
- A biography of a remarkable writer - a hero of the 1930s - a panoramic portrait of a troubled century. Seven years after Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the first authorized life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. As wellas knowing him personally Sutherland has had unhindered access to…
- Add to basket
-
Studies in Words (Second edition)
- £25.00
- LanguageÑin its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meaningsÑis a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and…
- Add to basket
-
The Billiard Table Murders: A Gladys Babbington Morton Mystery
- £30.00
- Ever since the two bizarre deaths on the tennis courts of St Drunston's, the shadow of suspicion has fallen on the shoulders of Gladys Babbington Morton. Detective Inspector Trubcock of Scotland Yard is sent to investigate the murders.
- Add to basket
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The Blunders of Our Governments
- £10.00
- Let us take a look back over three decades of outrageous political mishaps.A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful of cock-ups that we remember all too well, from the poll tax to the Millennium Dome. However, the list is longer than most of…
- Add to basket
-
The Book of Snobs Etc Etc
- £20.00
- The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England,…
- Add to basket
-
The Brownings, a biography compiled from contemporary sources (Folio Society)
- £10.00
- A biography of the Brownings - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , with four black and white illustrations of the poets.
- Add to basket
-
The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
- Add to basket