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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
- £30.00
- The Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century…
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The Wasted Vigil (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus's daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus's wife,…
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The Waters under the Earth
- £22.00
- John Cecil Moore (1907-1967) was a best-selling British writer and pioneer conservationist. He was described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation. His best-selling trilogy, published in the years immediately after the Second World War (Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village and The…
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The Weakness in Me: Selected Lyrics (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan Armatrading for the first time in one unique volume. Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across…
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The Weald of Youth
- £12.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
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The West Wing: The American Presidency As Television Drama
- £20.00
- Informed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at the award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Media scholars Peter C. Rollins and John E. OÕConnor make an important contribution to the field with an eclectic mix of essays, which translate the visual language…
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The Whispering Gallery, Autobiography I
- £30.00
- Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (1907-1987) was an English poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. A member of the Bloomsbury set, Born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and…
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The White Hour, and other stories
- £10.00
- Neil Miller Gunn (1891Ð1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the…
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The White Umbrella (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Brian Sewell strays from the art world to tell the enchanting story of a man and his pet donkey, Pavlova. Beautifully illustrated by the celebrated cartoonist Sally Ann Lasson, The White Umbrella is an allegorical tale about taking personal responsibility for our environment and the importance of both compassion and…
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The White/Garnett Letters
- £20.00
- Sylvia Warner Townsend Warner's biography of T. H. White, which had an enthusiastic reception, recvealed in the author of The Sword in the Stone a gnarled and tormented personality, fascinating in its diversity. The series of letters between White and David Garnett, the author of Aspects of Love and many…
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The Widow and her Hero
- £25.00
- Both an absorbing wartime thriller and a thoroughly convincing study of grief' Sunday Times In 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse married in Australia, they were part of a young generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on, as Grace…
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The Widow in the Bye Street
- £15.00
- After years of writing little, Masefield had a new impetus in 1911 when he published the first of his narrative poems, The Everlasting Mercy. Two more followed in 1912, of which The Widow in the Bye Street was the 1st. As a result of these three, he was awarded the…
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The Wilt Alternative (Wilt 2)
- £25.00
- Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in…
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The Wilt Alternative (Wilt 2)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in…
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The Wind Knows My Name (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on…
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
- £30.00
- The Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century…
- Add to basket
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The Wasted Vigil (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus's daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus's wife,…
- Add to basket
-
The Waters under the Earth
- £22.00
- John Cecil Moore (1907-1967) was a best-selling British writer and pioneer conservationist. He was described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation. His best-selling trilogy, published in the years immediately after the Second World War (Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village and The…
- Add to basket
-
The Weakness in Me: Selected Lyrics (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan Armatrading for the first time in one unique volume. Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across…
- Add to basket
-
The Weald of Youth
- £12.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
- Add to basket
-
The West Wing: The American Presidency As Television Drama
- £20.00
- Informed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at the award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Media scholars Peter C. Rollins and John E. OÕConnor make an important contribution to the field with an eclectic mix of essays, which translate the visual language…
- Add to basket
-
The Whispering Gallery, Autobiography I
- £30.00
- Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (1907-1987) was an English poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. A member of the Bloomsbury set, Born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and…
- Add to basket
-
The White Hour, and other stories
- £10.00
- Neil Miller Gunn (1891Ð1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the…
- Add to basket
-
The White Umbrella (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Brian Sewell strays from the art world to tell the enchanting story of a man and his pet donkey, Pavlova. Beautifully illustrated by the celebrated cartoonist Sally Ann Lasson, The White Umbrella is an allegorical tale about taking personal responsibility for our environment and the importance of both compassion and…
- Add to basket
-
The White/Garnett Letters
- £20.00
- Sylvia Warner Townsend Warner's biography of T. H. White, which had an enthusiastic reception, recvealed in the author of The Sword in the Stone a gnarled and tormented personality, fascinating in its diversity. The series of letters between White and David Garnett, the author of Aspects of Love and many…
- Add to basket
-
The Widow and her Hero
- £25.00
- Both an absorbing wartime thriller and a thoroughly convincing study of grief' Sunday Times In 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse married in Australia, they were part of a young generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on, as Grace…
- Add to basket
-
The Widow in the Bye Street
- £15.00
- After years of writing little, Masefield had a new impetus in 1911 when he published the first of his narrative poems, The Everlasting Mercy. Two more followed in 1912, of which The Widow in the Bye Street was the 1st. As a result of these three, he was awarded the…
- Add to basket
-
The Wilt Alternative (Wilt 2)
- £25.00
- Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in…
- Add to basket
-
The Wilt Alternative (Wilt 2)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in…
- Add to basket
-
The Wind Knows My Name (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on…
- Add to basket