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The Lost Tales I (The History of Middle Earth vol 1)
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- The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form…
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The Lost Tales I (The History of Middle Earth vol 1)
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- The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form…
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The Lost Tales II (The History of Middle Earth vol 2)
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- The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This second part of The Book of Lost Tales includes the tale of Beren and Lthien, Trin and the Dragon, and the only full…
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The Love of Four Colonels, a play in Three Acts
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- Ustinov was a comic master and polymath. This play was set in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, in the Austrian village of Herzogenburg, in the HQ of the Allied Military Administration (UK, USA, France, USSR). Cover design by Ustinov.
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The love of the Last Tycoon – a western
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 before he finished this novel. This text purges the printers' errors and editorial interventions that have appeared in previous editions. The tragic centre of the book is film producer Monroe Stahr, who sees film as art, rather than a money-making device.
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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 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 Maestro
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- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (SIGNED)
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- A stunning, emotionally satisfying tale about the art of storytelling. I never wanted the lights to come up. I could not put it down' GRAHAM NORTON 'It's its own universe, complete with a sun, a cast of circling planets, and a limitless number of stars. Its gravity pulls you in…
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The Man Between
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- Recommended. I read it one breathless sittingÕ Ian Rankin. He risked it all to become a spy. Now he must pay the price. A gripping new standalone spy thriller from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and Ôthe master of the…
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The Man Born to be King: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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- Presented by the BBC, Dec. 1941-Oct. 1942, producer: Val Gielgud: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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The Man in the Red Coat
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- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885,…
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The Man Who Stopped To Help
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- Enid Blyton's storybook retelling of Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan, with illustrations from Elsie Walker (who worked on 8 of Blyton's biblical storybooks).
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The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
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- Where are you now? Look around you; what can you see? Close your eyes and think of a loved one Ð do you see their face? Stretch out a hand; what can you feel with your fingertips, your palm, the soft underside of your wrist? What can you hear Ð…
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The Man Who Was George Smiley
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- After a period following the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks has hit an all-time low, John le Carr s intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le…
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The Lost Tales I (The History of Middle Earth vol 1)
- £50.00
- The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form…
- Add to basket
-
The Lost Tales I (The History of Middle Earth vol 1)
- £60.00
- The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form…
- Add to basket
-
The Lost Tales II (The History of Middle Earth vol 2)
- £90.00
- The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of TolkienÕs epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This second part of The Book of Lost Tales includes the tale of Beren and Lthien, Trin and the Dragon, and the only full…
- Add to basket
-
The Love of Four Colonels, a play in Three Acts
- £15.00
- Ustinov was a comic master and polymath. This play was set in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, in the Austrian village of Herzogenburg, in the HQ of the Allied Military Administration (UK, USA, France, USSR). Cover design by Ustinov.
- Add to basket
-
The love of the Last Tycoon – a western
- £15.00
- F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 before he finished this novel. This text purges the printers' errors and editorial interventions that have appeared in previous editions. The tragic centre of the book is film producer Monroe Stahr, who sees film as art, rather than a money-making device.
- Add to basket
-
The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
- £45.00
- 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
-
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
-
The Maestro
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
- Add to basket
-
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- A stunning, emotionally satisfying tale about the art of storytelling. I never wanted the lights to come up. I could not put it down' GRAHAM NORTON 'It's its own universe, complete with a sun, a cast of circling planets, and a limitless number of stars. Its gravity pulls you in…
- Add to basket
-
The Man Between
- £14.00
- Recommended. I read it one breathless sittingÕ Ian Rankin. He risked it all to become a spy. Now he must pay the price. A gripping new standalone spy thriller from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and Ôthe master of the…
- Add to basket
-
The Man Born to be King: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- £60.00
- Presented by the BBC, Dec. 1941-Oct. 1942, producer: Val Gielgud: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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The Man in the Red Coat
- £30.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885,…
- Add to basket
-
The Man Who Stopped To Help
- £16.00
- Enid Blyton's storybook retelling of Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan, with illustrations from Elsie Walker (who worked on 8 of Blyton's biblical storybooks).
- Add to basket
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The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
- £14.00
- Where are you now? Look around you; what can you see? Close your eyes and think of a loved one Ð do you see their face? Stretch out a hand; what can you feel with your fingertips, your palm, the soft underside of your wrist? What can you hear Ð…
- Add to basket
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The Man Who Was George Smiley
- £20.00
- After a period following the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks has hit an all-time low, John le Carr s intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le…
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