1st USA
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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…
- 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
-
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
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
- £25.00
- The last of Eliot's Ariel poems, in its USA edition.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket