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1939 – a novel
- £25.00
- Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a prolific writer of novels, poetry, childrens fiction, and translations from French. She and her third husband Baron Joseph von Franckenstein were victims of Macarthyism and HUAC, both being blacklisted from various outlets. The story of a French woman who loves an Austrian--but it is more…
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A Little Life
- £35.00
- When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a…
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A Singular Man
- £75.00
- What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money; his dipsomaniacal housekeeper is trying to arouse his carnal interest; his secretary, the beautiful, blond Miss Thomson,…
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A Voice from the Chorus
- £30.00
- Sinyavsky was a literary critic for Novy Mir and wrote works critical of Soviet society under the pseudonym Abram Tertz (_____ ____) published in the West to avoid censorship in the Soviet Union. Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were convicted of Anti-Soviet agitation in a show trial, becoming the first Soviet…
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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Caught in the Quiet
- £9.00
- Rodney Marvin McKuen (1933Ð2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned…
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Couples
- £15.00
- An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year round.
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Darwin’s Nemesis, Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
- £10.00
- With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis…
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Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
- £12.00
- Winner of the Michael Ramsay Prize 2016 Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in Western society today. Some have even gone so far as to suggest euthanasia as a solution to the perceived indignity of memory loss and the disorientation that accompanies it. In this book John Swinton…
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Early Christianity and Society
- £10.00
- An original and scholarly book that challenged and countered cherished assumptions about the early Christian Church and its adherents.
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El Infierno
- £16.00
- Moreno's tenth and last work of fiction was published originally in Mexico in 1981, with this edition being the first of his novels to appear in English. When this was published earlier in Uruguay it won the Ministry of Culture prize from the democratic government. EL INFIERNO chronicles the rise…
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Eva Luna
- £25.00
- The remarkable novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover. Meet the unforgettable Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary and above all, a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener Ð born poor, orphaned…
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Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
- £12.00
- Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of StalinÕs Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former People is a book filled with chilling tales of…
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Frolic and Detour (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Although Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the…
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Go Set A Watchman
- £25.00
- Set two decades after Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the…
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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk.' Kit Fan, Guardian A 'howdie-skelp' is the…
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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
- £9.00
- I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in…
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Ice in the Bedroom
- £25.00
- Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie's neighbour in the suburb of Valley Fields. When…
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Imperial Bedrooms (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero, his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' (New Yorker), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters --…
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Inés of My Soul
- £15.00
- A real historical figure, Inés Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540, helping to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this remarkable novel, Isabel Allende – one of the world's most spellbinding storytellers – re-imagines Inés's life and that…
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Inside, Outside
- £25.00
- Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery…
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It Can’t Happen Here
- £75.00
- Published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, It Can''t Happen Here is a chilling cautionary tale by one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, which is still startlingly relevant almost a century later.Charting the rise to power of Berzelius ''Buzz'' Windrip, who whips his supporters into…
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Jeeves in the Offing
- £25.00
- Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that situation when he goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court. So much is obvious. Why celebrated loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop should be there too, masquerading as a…
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King Queen Knave
- £15.00
- A novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into English by the…
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Let Me Illustrate: Stories, Anecdotes, Illustrations
- £25.00
- Barnhouse was pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1927 to his death in 1960. As a pioneer in radio broadcasting, his program, The Bible Study Hour, continues today and is now known as Dr. Barnhouse & the Bible.
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Many Long Years Ago
- £15.00
- First UK edition of Nash's poems to enable all his published works to be in print here.
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Money in the Bank
- £30.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Money in the Bank
- £25.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
- £6.00
- Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator…
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One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
- £40.00
- This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a…
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Problems and Other Stories
- £25.00
- A collection of stories that deals with situations and phenomena that need to be coped with: divorce and marriage, parents and children, prostitution and leprosy, extinct mammals and guilt-gems, resigning from a committee and getting in and out of Ethiopia.
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Selected Poems 1968-2014 (SIGNED) Muldoon
- £45.00
- Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals', Muldoon seems determined to escape definition yet this…
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Service with a Smile
- £35.00
- With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully, and Lavender Briggs, his secretary, making life miserable, Lord Emsworth has little time to concentrate on the invasion of Blandings Castle by…
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Something Fishy (The Butler Did It)
- £30.00
- A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge. It features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books,…
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Sophie’s Choice
- £25.00
- Award-winning (National Book Award) novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World). Centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor…
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
- £75.00
- ÔJeeves, of course, is a gentlemanÕs gentleman, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.Õ BertieÕs friend ÔStinker PinkerÕ needs his help. But helping his friend means venturing back into the dreaded Totleigh Towers and facing Sir Watkyn Bassett, his ghastly daughter…
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
- £70.00
- ÔJeeves, of course, is a gentlemanÕs gentleman, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.Õ BertieÕs friend ÔStinker PinkerÕ needs his help. But helping his friend means venturing back into the dreaded Totleigh Towers and facing Sir Watkyn Bassett, his ghastly daughter…
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The Beach of Falesá
- £20.00
- Dylan Thomas's reworking of a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson set in the South Seas.
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The Black Book
- £200.00
- A tapestry of Middle East and Islamic culture, by the author of "The White Castle" who won the 2008 Nobel price for Literature. Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, suspects that his vanished wife is hiding out with her half-brother, a newspaper columnist whose fame Galip envies. Galip plays the part of…
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The Cat & The King, a novel
- £15.00
- Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction." An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the…
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy
- £35.00
- No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863Ð1933).…
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
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The Coup: a novel
- £25.00
- Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...
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The End of a Mission
- £35.00
- Novel of post-war Germany by 1972 Nobel laureate. Well translated by Leila Vennewitz
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The Intruder: a novel of Boston
- £30.00
- The wife of a prominent architect is assaulted by an unknown intruder in her suburban home in Boston. The incident changes the family's life completely.
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. The D-Day Story
- £65.00
- Compiled from many participants' accounts, this is still the finest one-volume account of D-Day. It is the basis of Ken Annakin's well-known feature film (1962) starring John Wayne, Kenneth More and a host of other stars. With 28 plates and colour endpaper maps.
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The Lost Book of the White (The Eldest Curses 2) (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare and award-winning author Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series, which continues the love story between Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel. Magnus Bane and…
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The Mating Season
- £75.00
- It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent. At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village…
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The Phantom Shark (Rick Brant Electronic Adventure #5)
- £14.00
- The Phantom Shark! Barby Brant finally gets to leave Spindrift Island and accompany Rick and Scotty on an adventure. The three Spindrifters and Chahda meet their friends the Warners on the trawler Tarpon and head off to map fishing grounds in the exotic South Pacific. They soon run head long…
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The Primrose Path
- £25.00
- UK edition of Nash's work drawing pieces from his 'The Primrose Path' and 'Happy Days' as well as a number of other subsequent pieces.
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The Secret Pilgrim
- £15.00
- The eighth of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out…
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The Secret Pilgrim
- £18.00
- The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out…
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The Sellout (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS AND INEQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, BY A LITERARY GENIUS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 2016. In his trademark absurdist style, Paul Beatty will make you laugh and cry in this…
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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 Sot-Weed factor
- £150.00
- This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this…
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The Triune Man
- £50.00
- Is Buddy Satvan the creator of the cartoon superhero Diamond Sutro? Or is Sutro the creator of Buddy Satvan, the mightiest crusader in the universe? Are these two men, or six? Are they real, or figments of someone's imagination? A challenging journey to the other side of reality that adds…
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The White Tiger
- £20.00
- 2008 Booker Prize Winner. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is…
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The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
- £15.00
- One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay…
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The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
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Toward the End of Time: a novel
- £15.00
- Ben Turnbull is a 66-year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of…
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Versus
- £15.00
- Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
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Who thought this was a good idea?
- £6.00
- If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . . Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days…
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You Can’t Get There from Here
- £15.00
- Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must Be More to Life. A hilarious collection of Nash's verse, including Nature Walks,All's Brillig in Tin Pan Alley, The Literary Scene etc. Drawings from the brilliant Maurice Sendak.
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1939 – a novel
- £25.00
- Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a prolific writer of novels, poetry, childrens fiction, and translations from French. She and her third husband Baron Joseph von Franckenstein were victims of Macarthyism and HUAC, both being blacklisted from various outlets. The story of a French woman who loves an Austrian--but it is more…
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A Little Life
- £35.00
- When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a…
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A Singular Man
- £75.00
- What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money; his dipsomaniacal housekeeper is trying to arouse his carnal interest; his secretary, the beautiful, blond Miss Thomson,…
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A Voice from the Chorus
- £30.00
- Sinyavsky was a literary critic for Novy Mir and wrote works critical of Soviet society under the pseudonym Abram Tertz (_____ ____) published in the West to avoid censorship in the Soviet Union. Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were convicted of Anti-Soviet agitation in a show trial, becoming the first Soviet…
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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Caught in the Quiet
- £9.00
- Rodney Marvin McKuen (1933Ð2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned…
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Couples
- £15.00
- An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year round.
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Darwin’s Nemesis, Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
- £10.00
- With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis…
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Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
- £12.00
- Winner of the Michael Ramsay Prize 2016 Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in Western society today. Some have even gone so far as to suggest euthanasia as a solution to the perceived indignity of memory loss and the disorientation that accompanies it. In this book John Swinton…
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Early Christianity and Society
- £10.00
- An original and scholarly book that challenged and countered cherished assumptions about the early Christian Church and its adherents.
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El Infierno
- £16.00
- Moreno's tenth and last work of fiction was published originally in Mexico in 1981, with this edition being the first of his novels to appear in English. When this was published earlier in Uruguay it won the Ministry of Culture prize from the democratic government. EL INFIERNO chronicles the rise…
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Eva Luna
- £25.00
- The remarkable novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover. Meet the unforgettable Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary and above all, a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener Ð born poor, orphaned…
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Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
- £12.00
- Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of StalinÕs Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former People is a book filled with chilling tales of…
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Frolic and Detour (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Although Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the…
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Go Set A Watchman
- £25.00
- Set two decades after Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the…
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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk.' Kit Fan, Guardian A 'howdie-skelp' is the…
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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
- £9.00
- I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in…
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Ice in the Bedroom
- £25.00
- Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie's neighbour in the suburb of Valley Fields. When…
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Imperial Bedrooms (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero, his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' (New Yorker), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters --…
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Inés of My Soul
- £15.00
- A real historical figure, Inés Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540, helping to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this remarkable novel, Isabel Allende – one of the world's most spellbinding storytellers – re-imagines Inés's life and that…
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Inside, Outside
- £25.00
- Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery…
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It Can’t Happen Here
- £75.00
- Published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, It Can''t Happen Here is a chilling cautionary tale by one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, which is still startlingly relevant almost a century later.Charting the rise to power of Berzelius ''Buzz'' Windrip, who whips his supporters into…
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Jeeves in the Offing
- £25.00
- Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that situation when he goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court. So much is obvious. Why celebrated loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop should be there too, masquerading as a…
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King Queen Knave
- £15.00
- A novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into English by the…
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Let Me Illustrate: Stories, Anecdotes, Illustrations
- £25.00
- Barnhouse was pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1927 to his death in 1960. As a pioneer in radio broadcasting, his program, The Bible Study Hour, continues today and is now known as Dr. Barnhouse & the Bible.
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Many Long Years Ago
- £15.00
- First UK edition of Nash's poems to enable all his published works to be in print here.
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Money in the Bank
- £30.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Money in the Bank
- £25.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
- £6.00
- Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator…
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One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
- £40.00
- This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a…
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Problems and Other Stories
- £25.00
- A collection of stories that deals with situations and phenomena that need to be coped with: divorce and marriage, parents and children, prostitution and leprosy, extinct mammals and guilt-gems, resigning from a committee and getting in and out of Ethiopia.
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Selected Poems 1968-2014 (SIGNED) Muldoon
- £45.00
- Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals', Muldoon seems determined to escape definition yet this…
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Service with a Smile
- £35.00
- With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully, and Lavender Briggs, his secretary, making life miserable, Lord Emsworth has little time to concentrate on the invasion of Blandings Castle by…
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Something Fishy (The Butler Did It)
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- A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge. It features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books,…
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Sophie’s Choice
- £25.00
- Award-winning (National Book Award) novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World). Centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor…
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
- £75.00
- ÔJeeves, of course, is a gentlemanÕs gentleman, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.Õ BertieÕs friend ÔStinker PinkerÕ needs his help. But helping his friend means venturing back into the dreaded Totleigh Towers and facing Sir Watkyn Bassett, his ghastly daughter…
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
- £70.00
- ÔJeeves, of course, is a gentlemanÕs gentleman, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.Õ BertieÕs friend ÔStinker PinkerÕ needs his help. But helping his friend means venturing back into the dreaded Totleigh Towers and facing Sir Watkyn Bassett, his ghastly daughter…
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The Beach of Falesá
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- Dylan Thomas's reworking of a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson set in the South Seas.
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The Black Book
- £200.00
- A tapestry of Middle East and Islamic culture, by the author of "The White Castle" who won the 2008 Nobel price for Literature. Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, suspects that his vanished wife is hiding out with her half-brother, a newspaper columnist whose fame Galip envies. Galip plays the part of…
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The Cat & The King, a novel
- £15.00
- Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction." An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the…
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy
- £35.00
- No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863Ð1933).…
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
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The Coup: a novel
- £25.00
- Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...
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The End of a Mission
- £35.00
- Novel of post-war Germany by 1972 Nobel laureate. Well translated by Leila Vennewitz
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The Intruder: a novel of Boston
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- The wife of a prominent architect is assaulted by an unknown intruder in her suburban home in Boston. The incident changes the family's life completely.
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. The D-Day Story
- £65.00
- Compiled from many participants' accounts, this is still the finest one-volume account of D-Day. It is the basis of Ken Annakin's well-known feature film (1962) starring John Wayne, Kenneth More and a host of other stars. With 28 plates and colour endpaper maps.
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The Lost Book of the White (The Eldest Curses 2) (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare and award-winning author Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series, which continues the love story between Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel. Magnus Bane and…
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The Mating Season
- £75.00
- It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent. At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village…
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The Phantom Shark (Rick Brant Electronic Adventure #5)
- £14.00
- The Phantom Shark! Barby Brant finally gets to leave Spindrift Island and accompany Rick and Scotty on an adventure. The three Spindrifters and Chahda meet their friends the Warners on the trawler Tarpon and head off to map fishing grounds in the exotic South Pacific. They soon run head long…
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The Primrose Path
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- UK edition of Nash's work drawing pieces from his 'The Primrose Path' and 'Happy Days' as well as a number of other subsequent pieces.
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The Secret Pilgrim
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- The eighth of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out…
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The Secret Pilgrim
- £18.00
- The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out…
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The Sellout (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS AND INEQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, BY A LITERARY GENIUS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 2016. In his trademark absurdist style, Paul Beatty will make you laugh and cry in this…
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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 Sot-Weed factor
- £150.00
- This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this…
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The Triune Man
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- Is Buddy Satvan the creator of the cartoon superhero Diamond Sutro? Or is Sutro the creator of Buddy Satvan, the mightiest crusader in the universe? Are these two men, or six? Are they real, or figments of someone's imagination? A challenging journey to the other side of reality that adds…
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The White Tiger
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- 2008 Booker Prize Winner. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is…
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The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
- £15.00
- One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay…
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The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
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Toward the End of Time: a novel
- £15.00
- Ben Turnbull is a 66-year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of…
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Versus
- £15.00
- Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
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Who thought this was a good idea?
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- If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . . Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days…
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You Can’t Get There from Here
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- Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must Be More to Life. A hilarious collection of Nash's verse, including Nature Walks,All's Brillig in Tin Pan Alley, The Literary Scene etc. Drawings from the brilliant Maurice Sendak.
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