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The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor…
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The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
- £30.00
- Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a…
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The Office of Innocence
- £20.00
- Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he beomes entangled with a…
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The Old Devils
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
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The Old Devils
- £10.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
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The Old Devils (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
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The Only Story (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesnÕt know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, heÕs proud of the fact his relationship flies…
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
- £65.00
- This disquieting, sharply comic and semi-autobiographical novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations…
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
- £85.00
- This disquieting, sharply comic and semi-autobiographical novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations…
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
- £65.00
- This disquieting, sharply comic and semi-autobiographical novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations…
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
- £90.00
- This disquieting, sharply comic and semi-autobiographical novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations…
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The Origin of Loneliness: Poems and Short Stories in Five Moods
- £55.00
- A Collection of poems and short stories, grouped into five themes: travel, war, philosophy, love and death. John Martin became a medical doctor after studying in humanities, becoming Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London.
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The Original (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÔThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Õ Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncleÕs home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude…
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The Other Man: Conversations With Graham Greene
- £75.00
- For any fascinated by Graham Greene, this is a must-read. Renowned for personal reserve, even prickliness, it took a friend, Marie-Francoise Allain to do what no other journalist had been able to do: to draw out of Greene some of his inner-most thoughts and perceptions. This was in part because…
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The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor…
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The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
- Add to basket
-
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
- £30.00
- Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a…
- Add to basket
-
The Office of Innocence
- £20.00
- Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he beomes entangled with a…
- Add to basket
-
The Old Devils
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
- Add to basket
-
The Old Devils
- £10.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
- Add to basket
-
The Old Devils (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
- Add to basket
-
The Only Story (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesnÕt know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, heÕs proud of the fact his relationship flies…
- Add to basket
-
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
- £65.00
- This disquieting, sharply comic and semi-autobiographical novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations…
- Add to basket
-
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
- £85.00
- This disquieting, sharply comic and semi-autobiographical novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations…
- Add to basket
-
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
- £65.00
- This disquieting, sharply comic and semi-autobiographical novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations…
- Add to basket
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
- £90.00
- This disquieting, sharply comic and semi-autobiographical novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations…
- Add to basket
-
The Origin of Loneliness: Poems and Short Stories in Five Moods
- £55.00
- A Collection of poems and short stories, grouped into five themes: travel, war, philosophy, love and death. John Martin became a medical doctor after studying in humanities, becoming Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London.
- Add to basket
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The Original (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÔThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Õ Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncleÕs home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude…
- Add to basket
-
The Other Man: Conversations With Graham Greene
- £75.00
- For any fascinated by Graham Greene, this is a must-read. Renowned for personal reserve, even prickliness, it took a friend, Marie-Francoise Allain to do what no other journalist had been able to do: to draw out of Greene some of his inner-most thoughts and perceptions. This was in part because…
- Add to basket