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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Right Royal
- £9.00
- In 1920, Masefield published three long narrative poems which dealt with man's relationship with the natural world, of which this was the second. The others were Reynard the Fox and King Cole
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £35.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Siegfried Sassoon, a Life
- £16.00
- A biography of the soldier and poet who inspired Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Thomas Hardy, among others, reconstructs the life of this twentieth-century icon in vivid detail.
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Smiley’s People
- £25.00
- Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not to solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and Hamburg.
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Smut: Stories
- £7.00
- One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient…
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Talking it over
- £15.00
- From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend…
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The Book of Strange New Things
- £22.00
- I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest…
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £25.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £25.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
- £25.00
- The last of Eliot's Ariel poems, in its USA edition.
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The Edge of Day: a boyhood in the West of England
- £35.00
- The American edition of Laurie Lee's much loved memoir, Cider with Rosie. A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie…
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The Fisher King
- £20.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Honorary Consul
- £15.00
- In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum – a British consul with dubious authority and a notorious fondness for drink – is kidnapped by rebels in a case of mistaken identity. Their intended victim, the young but world-weary Doctor Eduardo Plarr, is left to pick up the pieces and secure…
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The Honourable Schoolboy
- £25.00
- In the second part of John le Carr's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its…
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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: A book for an Idle Holiday
- £25.00
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886 in London, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authorÕs second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of JeromeÕs better works, and in spite of…
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The Incredible Voyage: A Personal Odyssey
- £15.00
- In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga--a six year voyage during which he a covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world--revealing both a rich sense of history an insuppressible Welsh wit. With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as nay hazard he…
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The Kindly Ones
- £30.00
- A Dance to the Music of Time (no 6.) With Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in…
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The Looking Glass War
- £30.00
- The Fourth George Smiley novel. When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some standing in the Intelligence world. Desperate for glory and determined to…
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The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
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- From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
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The Magician: a novel
- £25.00
- WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022. From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great…
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The Marble Foot, an Autobiography (1905-1938)
- £20.00
- Sir Peter Quennell CBE (1905Ð1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. This is the first of 2 volumes in his autobiography.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back: an idle fancy
- £50.00
- First published in the UK in 1908, Jerome wrote both a short story and this play about the various small-minded inhabitants of a London building and ways they are affected by the arrival of a stranger who works to redeem them. The work was adapted into two films (in 1918…
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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- £30.00
- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
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The Secret Pilgrim
- £40.00
- THE EIGHTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL 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 class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As…
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The World Turned Upside Down
- £20.00
- The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, And Power. In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies.…
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Told After Supper
- £90.00
- Told After Supper (1891) is a collection of short ghost stories written by the English writer Jerome K Jerome. The collectionÕs ÒintroductoryÓ starts as follows: ÒIt was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin [É] The experienced reader knows it was…
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Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
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Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
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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…
- 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)
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- 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
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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,…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
Right Royal
- £9.00
- In 1920, Masefield published three long narrative poems which dealt with man's relationship with the natural world, of which this was the second. The others were Reynard the Fox and King Cole
- Add to basket
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £35.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
- Add to basket
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Siegfried Sassoon, a Life
- £16.00
- A biography of the soldier and poet who inspired Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Thomas Hardy, among others, reconstructs the life of this twentieth-century icon in vivid detail.
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Smiley’s People
- £25.00
- Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not to solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and Hamburg.
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Smut: Stories
- £7.00
- One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient…
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Talking it over
- £15.00
- From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend…
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The Book of Strange New Things
- £22.00
- I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest…
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £25.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £25.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
- £25.00
- The last of Eliot's Ariel poems, in its USA edition.
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The Edge of Day: a boyhood in the West of England
- £35.00
- The American edition of Laurie Lee's much loved memoir, Cider with Rosie. A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie…
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The Fisher King
- £20.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Honorary Consul
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- In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum – a British consul with dubious authority and a notorious fondness for drink – is kidnapped by rebels in a case of mistaken identity. Their intended victim, the young but world-weary Doctor Eduardo Plarr, is left to pick up the pieces and secure…
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The Honourable Schoolboy
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- In the second part of John le Carr's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its…
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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: A book for an Idle Holiday
- £25.00
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886 in London, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authorÕs second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of JeromeÕs better works, and in spite of…
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The Incredible Voyage: A Personal Odyssey
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- In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga--a six year voyage during which he a covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world--revealing both a rich sense of history an insuppressible Welsh wit. With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as nay hazard he…
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The Kindly Ones
- £30.00
- A Dance to the Music of Time (no 6.) With Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in…
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The Looking Glass War
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- The Fourth George Smiley novel. When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some standing in the Intelligence world. Desperate for glory and determined to…
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The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
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- From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
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The Magician: a novel
- £25.00
- WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022. From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great…
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The Marble Foot, an Autobiography (1905-1938)
- £20.00
- Sir Peter Quennell CBE (1905Ð1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. This is the first of 2 volumes in his autobiography.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back: an idle fancy
- £50.00
- First published in the UK in 1908, Jerome wrote both a short story and this play about the various small-minded inhabitants of a London building and ways they are affected by the arrival of a stranger who works to redeem them. The work was adapted into two films (in 1918…
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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
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- The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the…
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The Secret Pilgrim
- £40.00
- THE EIGHTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL 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 class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As…
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The World Turned Upside Down
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- The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, And Power. In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies.…
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Told After Supper
- £90.00
- Told After Supper (1891) is a collection of short ghost stories written by the English writer Jerome K Jerome. The collectionÕs ÒintroductoryÓ starts as follows: ÒIt was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin [É] The experienced reader knows it was…
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Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
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Vernon God Little
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- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
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- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
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