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Literary Life
- £25.00
- This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for…
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Loose Canon: the Extraordinary songs of Clive James and Pete Atkin
- £10.00
- For the last 50 years, Clive James has been writing remarkable songs Ð witty, moving, sometimes satirical, often thrillingly poetic Ð with his musical partner, Pete Atkin. TheyÕve written more than 200 together, releasing the first album of their work in 1970 and the last in 2015. John Peel loved…
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Lucky Jim
- £15.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Lucky Jim
- £400.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Making Money (Discworld Novel 36)
- £12.00
- The Discworld is very much like our own Ð if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.…
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Many Long Years Ago
- £15.00
- First UK edition of Nash's poems to enable all his published works to be in print here.
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Meet My Folks!
- £25.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
- £10.00
- A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carr world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carr's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5. Much to…
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Money in the Bank
- £30.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Money in the Bank
- £25.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
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New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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Not That Kind of Girl: a young woman tells you what she’s ‘learned’ (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham Ð the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBOÕs ÔGirlsÕ Ð as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. ÒIf I could take what…
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Novel Notes
- £25.00
- An early novel from Jerome K Jerome, who had been born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was…
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Now We Are Six
- £20.00
- But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!' Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work includes poems for children which feature…
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Literary Life
- £25.00
- This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for…
- Add to basket
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Loose Canon: the Extraordinary songs of Clive James and Pete Atkin
- £10.00
- For the last 50 years, Clive James has been writing remarkable songs Ð witty, moving, sometimes satirical, often thrillingly poetic Ð with his musical partner, Pete Atkin. TheyÕve written more than 200 together, releasing the first album of their work in 1970 and the last in 2015. John Peel loved…
- Add to basket
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Lucky Jim
- £15.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
- Add to basket
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Lucky Jim
- £400.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
- Add to basket
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Making Money (Discworld Novel 36)
- £12.00
- The Discworld is very much like our own Ð if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.…
- Add to basket
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Many Long Years Ago
- £15.00
- First UK edition of Nash's poems to enable all his published works to be in print here.
- Add to basket
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Meet My Folks!
- £25.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
- Add to basket
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MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
- £10.00
- A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carr world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carr's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5. Much to…
- Add to basket
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Money in the Bank
- £30.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
- Add to basket
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Money in the Bank
- £25.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
- Add to basket
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
- Add to basket
-
New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
- Add to basket
-
Not That Kind of Girl: a young woman tells you what she’s ‘learned’ (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham Ð the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBOÕs ÔGirlsÕ Ð as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. ÒIf I could take what…
- Add to basket
-
Novel Notes
- £25.00
- An early novel from Jerome K Jerome, who had been born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was…
- Add to basket
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Now We Are Six
- £20.00
- But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!' Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work includes poems for children which feature…
- Add to basket