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The Chocolate Wedding
- £12.00
- Lulu is going to be a bridesmaid, but the night before the wedding she eats too much chocolate and is very poorly. Lulu has a nap to feel better, but before long she is woken up by someone crying. Join Lulu on her very chocolatey escapades as she tries to…
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The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
- £75.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, is the first edition of his 1st novel. Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who…
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The English Gentleman
- £12.00
- Tongue in cheek treatment of the legendary upper class man which examines his habits, actions and viewpoints concerning such diverse considerations as wardrobe, war, the Church and domestic habits. "Extremely funny" Jilly Cooper "Douglas Sutherland is a most witty exemplar of this vanishing species, and he has written a perfect…
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The English Public School: An Irreverent and Personal History
- £13.00
- Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the…
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The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next 1 (SIGNED)
- £90.00
- The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters' - Time Out.…
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The Family Arsenal, a novel
- £30.00
- The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists,…
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The Female Approach
- £30.00
- "Hearties and Half-Wits" - the Female approach with masculine sidelights by Ronald Searle. With a letter from Max Beerbohm
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The Finkler Question
- £12.00
- He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly…
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The History Boys: The Film
- £12.00
- An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room…
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The Hoffnung Music Festival
- £12.00
- 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…
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The Hotel Avocado (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- WARNING - this book includes: heavy crimes, car journeys, dreadfulness, large fruits, romance, planning applications, and a lot of pie. Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of his legal job in Peckham and eating pies with his next door…
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The Hounding of John Thomas (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- D.H. Lawrence got it all wrong. This is the real story of Lady Chatterley and Mellors, and of their son, John Thomas, a Conservative Cabinet Minister who discovers the truth about his past. He tries to kill Mellors (now the proprietor of a garden centre) and Lady Chatterley herself.
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The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
- £45.00
- The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight Fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his…
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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: A book for an Idle Holiday
- £25.00
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886 in London, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authorÕs second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of JeromeÕs better works, and in spite of…
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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
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The Chocolate Wedding
- £12.00
- Lulu is going to be a bridesmaid, but the night before the wedding she eats too much chocolate and is very poorly. Lulu has a nap to feel better, but before long she is woken up by someone crying. Join Lulu on her very chocolatey escapades as she tries to…
- Add to basket
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The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
- £75.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, is the first edition of his 1st novel. Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who…
- Add to basket
-
The English Gentleman
- £12.00
- Tongue in cheek treatment of the legendary upper class man which examines his habits, actions and viewpoints concerning such diverse considerations as wardrobe, war, the Church and domestic habits. "Extremely funny" Jilly Cooper "Douglas Sutherland is a most witty exemplar of this vanishing species, and he has written a perfect…
- Add to basket
-
The English Public School: An Irreverent and Personal History
- £13.00
- Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the…
- Add to basket
-
The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next 1 (SIGNED)
- £90.00
- The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters' - Time Out.…
- Add to basket
-
The Family Arsenal, a novel
- £30.00
- The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists,…
- Add to basket
-
The Female Approach
- £30.00
- "Hearties and Half-Wits" - the Female approach with masculine sidelights by Ronald Searle. With a letter from Max Beerbohm
- Add to basket
-
The Finkler Question
- £12.00
- He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly…
- Add to basket
-
The History Boys: The Film
- £12.00
- An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room…
- Add to basket
-
The Hoffnung Music Festival
- £12.00
- 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 Hotel Avocado (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- WARNING - this book includes: heavy crimes, car journeys, dreadfulness, large fruits, romance, planning applications, and a lot of pie. Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of his legal job in Peckham and eating pies with his next door…
- Add to basket
-
The Hounding of John Thomas (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- D.H. Lawrence got it all wrong. This is the real story of Lady Chatterley and Mellors, and of their son, John Thomas, a Conservative Cabinet Minister who discovers the truth about his past. He tries to kill Mellors (now the proprietor of a garden centre) and Lady Chatterley herself.
- Add to basket
-
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
- £45.00
- The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight Fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his…
- Add to basket
-
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: A book for an Idle Holiday
- £25.00
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886 in London, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authorÕs second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of JeromeÕs better works, and in spite of…
- Add to basket
-
The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
- Add to basket