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A Burnt Out Case
- £25.00
- Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation.…
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A Case of Exploding Mangoes (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE** 'Exuberant and satirical: this is an angry comedy about Zia's brutal legacy to Pakistan' Observer There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest…
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A Certain Justice
- £9.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
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A Certain Justice
- £12.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
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A Certain Justice
- £12.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
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A Certain Justice (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
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A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Collective Nouns
- £12.00
- A charm of goldfinches, an ascension of larks, a school of dolphins, a cloud of bats, a murder of crows. All these and more are portrayed in this enchanting new book by much loved artist Matt Sewell, playing on the theme of collective nouns for animals. Illustrated with MattÕs inimitable…
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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
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A Coat of Varnish
- £20.00
- The elderly Lady Ashbrook is brutally murdered, for no apparent reason, in her London home during a scorching heatwave. Concentrating his enquiries on three main suspects, Chief Superintendent Briers discovers the murderer but has no proof and his ultimate dilemma is what to do with the man he knows to…
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A Colder War (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6Õs top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrivesÉ for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon…
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A Colder War (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6Õs top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrivesÉ for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon…
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A Dance To The Music of Time (ALL 1st printings, 12-volume-set)
- £4,000.00
- Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time is…
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A Delicate Truth
- £15.00
- With A Delicate Truth, le Carre has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . the novel is the most satisfying, subtle and compelling of his recent oeuvre' The Times A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its…
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A Dog’s Life (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In the spring of 1985, the novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome…
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A Burnt Out Case
- £25.00
- Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation.…
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A Case of Exploding Mangoes (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE** 'Exuberant and satirical: this is an angry comedy about Zia's brutal legacy to Pakistan' Observer There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest…
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A Certain Justice
- £9.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
- Add to basket
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A Certain Justice
- £12.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
- Add to basket
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A Certain Justice
- £12.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
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A Certain Justice (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
- Add to basket
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A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Collective Nouns
- £12.00
- A charm of goldfinches, an ascension of larks, a school of dolphins, a cloud of bats, a murder of crows. All these and more are portrayed in this enchanting new book by much loved artist Matt Sewell, playing on the theme of collective nouns for animals. Illustrated with MattÕs inimitable…
- Add to basket
-
A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- Add to basket
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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
- Add to basket
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A Coat of Varnish
- £20.00
- The elderly Lady Ashbrook is brutally murdered, for no apparent reason, in her London home during a scorching heatwave. Concentrating his enquiries on three main suspects, Chief Superintendent Briers discovers the murderer but has no proof and his ultimate dilemma is what to do with the man he knows to…
- Add to basket
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A Colder War (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6Õs top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrivesÉ for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon…
- Add to basket
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A Colder War (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6Õs top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrivesÉ for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon…
- Add to basket
-
A Dance To The Music of Time (ALL 1st printings, 12-volume-set)
- £4,000.00
- Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time is…
- Add to basket
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A Delicate Truth
- £15.00
- With A Delicate Truth, le Carre has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . the novel is the most satisfying, subtle and compelling of his recent oeuvre' The Times A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its…
- Add to basket
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A Dog’s Life (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In the spring of 1985, the novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome…
- Add to basket