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Flesh Wounds (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Private investigator Jasmine Sharp's father was murdered before she was born, and her mother went to self-sacrificing lengths in order to shield her from the world in which he moved. Since her mother's death, all she has been able to learn is his first name - and that only through…
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Flight into Camden
- £40.00
- A moving story recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorkshire miner, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed an almost lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making and the intricacies…
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Flight of the White Crows: stories, tales and paradoxes (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From the cover: Devastatingly original Stories, Tales and Paradoxes about the cheerful horror of West confronting East in the shadow of the Himalayas. Including the 'Pious Puzzles of Ananda Mahadev'
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Floating down to Camelot (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Floating Down to Camelot is a campus novel by David Benedictus published in 1985 and set in Cambridge. The title is drawn from Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, in which while floating down to Camelot the Lady of Shalott apparently dies of a broken heart, caused by the rejection…
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Flowering Wilderness
- £20.00
- The second in the final Forsyte sequence 'The End of the Chapter'. Dinny Cherrell has been proposed to numerous times. But no one has ever come close to touching her independent spirit. That is, until she encounters Wilfred Desert. They had first met at Fleur and Michael Mont’s wedding and…
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Flying Hero Class
- £35.00
- When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines take? Conflicts of loyalty, terror and revolutionary fervour form the explosive ingredients in this riveting and thought-provoking novel.
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Fools and Mortals (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A dramatic departure for the #1 bestseller. A gripping story of rivalry and ambition, loyalty and love set in the heart of Elizabethan England. ÔWith all the vivid history that is his trademark, Bernard Cornwell transports the readers to the playhouses, backstreets and palaces of Shakespeare's London with added depth…
- Add to basket
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For Special Services
- £20.00
- The second of John Gardner's James Bond novels. In this heart-stopping thriller, James Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, to investigate a dangerous criminal, suspected of reviving the notorious organisation SPECTRE. The organisation was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst…
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Framley Parsonage
- £25.00
- Everyman's Library #181
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Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 4) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 4 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In an attempt to make connections with high society, young vicar Mark Robarts foolishly guarantees a loan to the corrupt MP, Nate Sowerby. With Mr Sowerby not repaying the loan, MarkÕs friend Lord Lufton eventually steps…
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Frankenstein, according to Spike Milligan (SIGNED)
- £135.00
- Spike Milligan's interpretation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Although the narrative unfolds along the familiar lines, there are some distinguishing features, for example the monster's desperate need for a cigarette, profuse swearing, and love of sausages, mash and mushy peas.
- Add to basket
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Franny and Zooey
- £35.00
- A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye. 'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And…
- Add to basket
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Freedom
- £12.00
- Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. PaulÑthe gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their…
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From a View to a Death
- £25.00
- Anthony Powell's celebrated early novel (from 1933) turns to English rural society to caricature a socially aspiring artist and his disastrous ambition to marry well.
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From a View to a Death
- £13.00
- From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.
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Frozen Music
- £15.00
- My Name is Esther Fisher and I'm about to walk out on the only man I've ever loved...' Esther has been angry all her life - angry with her impossible parents, and at a world that just won't play by the rules. Now working as a tabloid journalist, she takes…
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Full Moon [at Blandings Castle]
- £35.00
- When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the commissioning of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth's opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of The…
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
- £11.00
- A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant…
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Gabriel’s Moon (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- An accidental spy. A web of betrayals. A mystery that will take you around the world . . . Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent…
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Galahad at Blandings
- £60.00
- Sam Bagshott, son of the late Boko Bagshott, had been at Blandings Castle only a short while, but long enough to know that anyone enjoying its hospitality must get the occasional shock. Sam braced himself as the possibilities flitted through his mind. The house was on fire? Empress of Blandings…
- Add to basket
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Gallows’ Foot (Crime Club Choice)
- £25.00
- The death of Greta Marais--once so famous among model-girls--was a seven-day sensation to the newspapers. But to the unsuccessful, small-time actor Roger Brand, looking down at the sprawled corpses of his mistress, it implied a terrible and frightening predicament. It was so obvious that he had had the motive, the…
- Add to basket
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Getaway
- £15.00
- An Italian fisherman and his wife, Rosa, live in Sydney. Hard times are ahead. Their mortgaged boat may be lost and with it, their livelihood. But Rosa has a plan to reach the coast of America from the islands of the Pacific, sailing on a beleaguered little houseboat. The plan…
- Add to basket
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Ghosts and Marvels (World’s Classics No. 284)
- £35.00
- A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (World's Classic No. 284). Includes stories by M R James, Daniel Defoe, Lord Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W W Jacobs, H G Wells, Algernon Blackwood, Barry Pain and…
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Go Set A Watchman
- £25.00
- Set two decades after Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the…
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Go Set A Watchman
- £15.00
- A landmark late novel from Harper Lee published just months before her death, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch Ð ÔScoutÕ Ð returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the…
- Add to basket
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Golden Child (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- It's dark now; the bats are out. Insects knock against the light on the patio and the dog sits at the gate. A boy has not returned home and a family anxiously awaits. A father steps out into the night to search for his son. As the hours turn into…
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Golden Hill (SIGNED – Faber Members)
- £250.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious…
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Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- £15.00
- December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming…
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Gossip from the Forest
- £20.00
- In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides…
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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £12.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 12. The final book in Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious…
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Flesh Wounds (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Private investigator Jasmine Sharp's father was murdered before she was born, and her mother went to self-sacrificing lengths in order to shield her from the world in which he moved. Since her mother's death, all she has been able to learn is his first name - and that only through…
- Add to basket
-
Flight into Camden
- £40.00
- A moving story recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorkshire miner, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed an almost lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making and the intricacies…
- Add to basket
-
Flight of the White Crows: stories, tales and paradoxes (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From the cover: Devastatingly original Stories, Tales and Paradoxes about the cheerful horror of West confronting East in the shadow of the Himalayas. Including the 'Pious Puzzles of Ananda Mahadev'
- Add to basket
-
Floating down to Camelot (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Floating Down to Camelot is a campus novel by David Benedictus published in 1985 and set in Cambridge. The title is drawn from Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, in which while floating down to Camelot the Lady of Shalott apparently dies of a broken heart, caused by the rejection…
- Add to basket
-
Flowering Wilderness
- £20.00
- The second in the final Forsyte sequence 'The End of the Chapter'. Dinny Cherrell has been proposed to numerous times. But no one has ever come close to touching her independent spirit. That is, until she encounters Wilfred Desert. They had first met at Fleur and Michael Mont’s wedding and…
- Add to basket
-
Flying Hero Class
- £35.00
- When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines take? Conflicts of loyalty, terror and revolutionary fervour form the explosive ingredients in this riveting and thought-provoking novel.
- Add to basket
-
Fools and Mortals (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A dramatic departure for the #1 bestseller. A gripping story of rivalry and ambition, loyalty and love set in the heart of Elizabethan England. ÔWith all the vivid history that is his trademark, Bernard Cornwell transports the readers to the playhouses, backstreets and palaces of Shakespeare's London with added depth…
- Add to basket
-
For Special Services
- £20.00
- The second of John Gardner's James Bond novels. In this heart-stopping thriller, James Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, to investigate a dangerous criminal, suspected of reviving the notorious organisation SPECTRE. The organisation was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst…
- Add to basket
-
Framley Parsonage
- £25.00
- Everyman's Library #181
- Add to basket
-
Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 4) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 4 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In an attempt to make connections with high society, young vicar Mark Robarts foolishly guarantees a loan to the corrupt MP, Nate Sowerby. With Mr Sowerby not repaying the loan, MarkÕs friend Lord Lufton eventually steps…
- Add to basket
-
Frankenstein, according to Spike Milligan (SIGNED)
- £135.00
- Spike Milligan's interpretation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Although the narrative unfolds along the familiar lines, there are some distinguishing features, for example the monster's desperate need for a cigarette, profuse swearing, and love of sausages, mash and mushy peas.
- Add to basket
-
Franny and Zooey
- £35.00
- A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye. 'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And…
- Add to basket
-
Freedom
- £12.00
- Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. PaulÑthe gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their…
- Add to basket
-
From a View to a Death
- £25.00
- Anthony Powell's celebrated early novel (from 1933) turns to English rural society to caricature a socially aspiring artist and his disastrous ambition to marry well.
- Add to basket
-
From a View to a Death
- £13.00
- From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.
- Add to basket
-
Frozen Music
- £15.00
- My Name is Esther Fisher and I'm about to walk out on the only man I've ever loved...' Esther has been angry all her life - angry with her impossible parents, and at a world that just won't play by the rules. Now working as a tabloid journalist, she takes…
- Add to basket
-
Full Moon [at Blandings Castle]
- £35.00
- When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the commissioning of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth's opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of The…
- Add to basket
-
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
- £11.00
- A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant…
- Add to basket
-
Gabriel’s Moon (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- An accidental spy. A web of betrayals. A mystery that will take you around the world . . . Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent…
- Add to basket
-
Galahad at Blandings
- £60.00
- Sam Bagshott, son of the late Boko Bagshott, had been at Blandings Castle only a short while, but long enough to know that anyone enjoying its hospitality must get the occasional shock. Sam braced himself as the possibilities flitted through his mind. The house was on fire? Empress of Blandings…
- Add to basket
-
Gallows’ Foot (Crime Club Choice)
- £25.00
- The death of Greta Marais--once so famous among model-girls--was a seven-day sensation to the newspapers. But to the unsuccessful, small-time actor Roger Brand, looking down at the sprawled corpses of his mistress, it implied a terrible and frightening predicament. It was so obvious that he had had the motive, the…
- Add to basket
-
Getaway
- £15.00
- An Italian fisherman and his wife, Rosa, live in Sydney. Hard times are ahead. Their mortgaged boat may be lost and with it, their livelihood. But Rosa has a plan to reach the coast of America from the islands of the Pacific, sailing on a beleaguered little houseboat. The plan…
- Add to basket
-
Ghosts and Marvels (World’s Classics No. 284)
- £35.00
- A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (World's Classic No. 284). Includes stories by M R James, Daniel Defoe, Lord Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W W Jacobs, H G Wells, Algernon Blackwood, Barry Pain and…
- Add to basket
-
Go Set A Watchman
- £25.00
- Set two decades after Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the…
- Add to basket
-
Go Set A Watchman
- £15.00
- A landmark late novel from Harper Lee published just months before her death, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch Ð ÔScoutÕ Ð returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the…
- Add to basket
-
Golden Child (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- It's dark now; the bats are out. Insects knock against the light on the patio and the dog sits at the gate. A boy has not returned home and a family anxiously awaits. A father steps out into the night to search for his son. As the hours turn into…
- Add to basket
-
Golden Hill (SIGNED – Faber Members)
- £250.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious…
- Add to basket
-
Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- £15.00
- December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming…
- Add to basket
-
Gossip from the Forest
- £20.00
- In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides…
- Add to basket
-
Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £12.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 12. The final book in Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious…
- Add to basket