1st USA
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A Certain Smile
- £25.00
- Set in Paris in the 1950s and told by a young student bored by her law books, restless and curious about love and sex. She is fond of her loyal boyfriend, but he, too, bores her. His worldly uncle strikes her as more exciting, appealingly risky and forbidden. Frank and…
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A Moving Target
- £30.00
- Collection of 16 short essays (divided into "Places" and "Ideas"), plus the author's preface.
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A Perfect Spy
- £40.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
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A Perfect Spy (UNCORRECTED PROOF)
- £50.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
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A Place Called Freedom
- £30.00
- Scotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave by birth, destined for a cruel and harsh life as a miner. But as a man of principles and courage, he has the strength to stand up for what he believes in, only to be labelled as a rebel and enemy of the…
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A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
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A Sparrow Falls (When the Lion Feeds Trilogy 3)
- £30.00
- Mark picked the weapon off the rack and the shape and feel of it brought memories crowding back. He thrust them aside. He would need a rifle where he was going. General Sean Courtney returns from the horrors of the Great War in France, his mind on his heirs and…
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All that I am
- £15.00
- Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit…
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
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As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
- £30.00
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Charity (III in Faith, Hope and Charity)
- £15.00
- With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside down over the last ten years. But when he takes a train from Moscow to Berlin, he stumbles across a clue that may lead him…
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Collected Poems 1958-2015 (Clive James)
- £25.00
- The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awards for decades. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life have brought him an even wider readership; some, such as "Japanese Maple" (first published in The New Yorker), became global news events upon their publication. In…
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Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins
- £25.00
- Contains five short stories. In the title story a loving and contented husband discovers the true nature of his marriage, as though he has walked through a mirror and found that the life held in the glass was not his own at all.
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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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Difficulties of a Bridegroom
- £25.00
- A collection of stories by the the great poet including others the fable "O'Kelly's Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II. Why it has to say 'Poet Laureate of England' (rather than UK) on the cover, though,…
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Faith (Bernard Samson series)
- £35.00
- In 1987, as the Cold War reaches a climax, British agent Bernard Samson confronts difficulties at home and on the job as he copes with an affair with a coworker, his wife, ethical conflict, and high-level government scandal. 125,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £60.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
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Innocent Blood
- £20.00
- Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that…
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Long Life, Memoirs
- £20.00
- Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots.
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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted…
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Memoirs I: Messengers of Day
- £30.00
- Volume II of Powell's memoirs
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
- £25.00
- A fresh and engaging account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton. For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant…
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My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
- £13.00
- In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16's liaison…
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New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
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Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
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Parrot & Olivier in America
- £25.00
- Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America.…
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Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
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Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
- £15.00
- Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and…
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A Certain Smile
- £25.00
- Set in Paris in the 1950s and told by a young student bored by her law books, restless and curious about love and sex. She is fond of her loyal boyfriend, but he, too, bores her. His worldly uncle strikes her as more exciting, appealingly risky and forbidden. Frank and…
- Add to basket
-
A Moving Target
- £30.00
- Collection of 16 short essays (divided into "Places" and "Ideas"), plus the author's preface.
- Add to basket
-
A Perfect Spy
- £40.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
- Add to basket
-
A Perfect Spy (UNCORRECTED PROOF)
- £50.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
- Add to basket
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A Place Called Freedom
- £30.00
- Scotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave by birth, destined for a cruel and harsh life as a miner. But as a man of principles and courage, he has the strength to stand up for what he believes in, only to be labelled as a rebel and enemy of the…
- Add to basket
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A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
- Add to basket
-
A Sparrow Falls (When the Lion Feeds Trilogy 3)
- £30.00
- Mark picked the weapon off the rack and the shape and feel of it brought memories crowding back. He thrust them aside. He would need a rifle where he was going. General Sean Courtney returns from the horrors of the Great War in France, his mind on his heirs and…
- Add to basket
-
All that I am
- £15.00
- Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit…
- Add to basket
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
- Add to basket
-
As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
- £30.00
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and…
- Add to basket
-
Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
- Add to basket
-
Charity (III in Faith, Hope and Charity)
- £15.00
- With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside down over the last ten years. But when he takes a train from Moscow to Berlin, he stumbles across a clue that may lead him…
- Add to basket
-
Collected Poems 1958-2015 (Clive James)
- £25.00
- The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awards for decades. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life have brought him an even wider readership; some, such as "Japanese Maple" (first published in The New Yorker), became global news events upon their publication. In…
- Add to basket
-
Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins
- £25.00
- Contains five short stories. In the title story a loving and contented husband discovers the true nature of his marriage, as though he has walked through a mirror and found that the life held in the glass was not his own at all.
- 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
-
Difficulties of a Bridegroom
- £25.00
- A collection of stories by the the great poet including others the fable "O'Kelly's Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II. Why it has to say 'Poet Laureate of England' (rather than UK) on the cover, though,…
- Add to basket
-
Faith (Bernard Samson series)
- £35.00
- In 1987, as the Cold War reaches a climax, British agent Bernard Samson confronts difficulties at home and on the job as he copes with an affair with a coworker, his wife, ethical conflict, and high-level government scandal. 125,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
- Add to basket
-
Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £60.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
- Add to basket
-
How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
- Add to basket
-
Innocent Blood
- £20.00
- Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that…
- Add to basket
-
Long Life, Memoirs
- £20.00
- Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots.
- Add to basket
-
Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted…
- Add to basket
-
Memoirs I: Messengers of Day
- £30.00
- Volume II of Powell's memoirs
- Add to basket
-
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
- £25.00
- A fresh and engaging account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton. For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant…
- Add to basket
-
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
- £13.00
- In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16's liaison…
- Add to basket
-
New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
- Add to basket
-
Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
- Add to basket
-
Parrot & Olivier in America
- £25.00
- Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America.…
- Add to basket
-
Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
- Add to basket
-
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
- £15.00
- Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and…
- Add to basket