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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
- £30.00
- 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
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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
- £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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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
- £30.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket