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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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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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,…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
The Beach of Falesá
- £20.00
- Dylan Thomas's reworking of a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson set in the South Seas.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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).…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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...
- Add to basket
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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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