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Collected Stories (Pritchett)
- £15.00
- Long recognised as the doyen of the English short story, this collection brings together 29 stories demonstrating his mastery over 50 years.
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Collected Stories (Tagore)
- £9.00
- This collection combines some of Tagore's more popular stories like The Cabuliwallah with lesser known ones like The Son of Rashmani, all of them bound together by a common theme-human fallibility. Tagore impartially delineates the mistakes of his charac-ters, their impulsive generosity and even their unthinking cruelty towards their fellow…
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Condition Black
- £25.00
- From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick It is only month before Saddam Hussein instructs his troops in invade Kuwait, and the Iraqis will stop at nothing to achieve nuclear capability. They are actively targeting scientists from the…
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Confederates
- £40.00
- The best novel of the Civil War since The Red Badge of Courage' Newsweek. As the Civil War tears America apart, General Stonewall Jackson leads a troop of Confederate soldiers on a long trek towards the battle they believe will be a conclusive victory. Through their hopes, fears and losses,…
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Conspirators
- £17.00
- Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When a member of his own family is murdered, the Count gives broad police powers to his…
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Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins
- £25.00
- Contains five short stories. In the title story a loving and contented husband discovers the true nature of his marriage, as though he has walked through a mirror and found that the life held in the glass was not his own at all.
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Coram Boy
- £12.00
- Aaron grows up in the 18th-century Corum Foundling Hospital, having been saved from death by a boy called Meshak, who believes Aaron's mother to be an angel. Meshak, Aaron and Toby, the child of an African slave, all have a narrow escape as Meshak's evil father sets sail to sell…
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Coram Boy
- £12.00
- Aaron grows up in the 18th-century Corum Foundling Hospital, having been saved from death by a boy called Meshak, who believes Aaron's mother to be an angel. Meshak, Aaron and Toby, the child of an African slave, all have a narrow escape as Meshak's evil father sets sail to sell…
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Couples
- £15.00
- An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year round.
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Cousins (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From the bestselling author of THE LIBRARIAN. How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Each member of the…
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Cranford, Cage at Cranford, Moorland Cottage
- £10.00
- The World's Classics No.110; 'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by…
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Crewe Train (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behaviour. CREWE TRAIN…
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Crook Manifesto (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle 1971, New York City. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is going bankrupt, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black…
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Cry, The Beloved Country: a Story of Comfort in Desolation
- £12.00
- Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry the Beloved Country is a classic work…
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Cuts: a very short novel
- £9.00
- Up in the north of England they are cost-cutting at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado TV they are getting ready to cut and edit a major series that will outshine "Brideshead" and "The Jewel in…
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Collected Stories (Pritchett)
- £15.00
- Long recognised as the doyen of the English short story, this collection brings together 29 stories demonstrating his mastery over 50 years.
- Add to basket
-
Collected Stories (Tagore)
- £9.00
- This collection combines some of Tagore's more popular stories like The Cabuliwallah with lesser known ones like The Son of Rashmani, all of them bound together by a common theme-human fallibility. Tagore impartially delineates the mistakes of his charac-ters, their impulsive generosity and even their unthinking cruelty towards their fellow…
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Condition Black
- £25.00
- From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick It is only month before Saddam Hussein instructs his troops in invade Kuwait, and the Iraqis will stop at nothing to achieve nuclear capability. They are actively targeting scientists from the…
- Add to basket
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Confederates
- £40.00
- The best novel of the Civil War since The Red Badge of Courage' Newsweek. As the Civil War tears America apart, General Stonewall Jackson leads a troop of Confederate soldiers on a long trek towards the battle they believe will be a conclusive victory. Through their hopes, fears and losses,…
- Add to basket
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Conspirators
- £17.00
- Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When a member of his own family is murdered, the Count gives broad police powers to his…
- Add to basket
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Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins
- £25.00
- Contains five short stories. In the title story a loving and contented husband discovers the true nature of his marriage, as though he has walked through a mirror and found that the life held in the glass was not his own at all.
- Add to basket
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Coram Boy
- £12.00
- Aaron grows up in the 18th-century Corum Foundling Hospital, having been saved from death by a boy called Meshak, who believes Aaron's mother to be an angel. Meshak, Aaron and Toby, the child of an African slave, all have a narrow escape as Meshak's evil father sets sail to sell…
- Add to basket
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Coram Boy
- £12.00
- Aaron grows up in the 18th-century Corum Foundling Hospital, having been saved from death by a boy called Meshak, who believes Aaron's mother to be an angel. Meshak, Aaron and Toby, the child of an African slave, all have a narrow escape as Meshak's evil father sets sail to sell…
- Add to basket
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Couples
- £15.00
- An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year round.
- Add to basket
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Cousins (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From the bestselling author of THE LIBRARIAN. How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Each member of the…
- Add to basket
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Cranford, Cage at Cranford, Moorland Cottage
- £10.00
- The World's Classics No.110; 'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by…
- Add to basket
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Crewe Train (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behaviour. CREWE TRAIN…
- Add to basket
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Crook Manifesto (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle 1971, New York City. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is going bankrupt, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black…
- Add to basket
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Cry, The Beloved Country: a Story of Comfort in Desolation
- £12.00
- Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry the Beloved Country is a classic work…
- Add to basket
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Cuts: a very short novel
- £9.00
- Up in the north of England they are cost-cutting at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado TV they are getting ready to cut and edit a major series that will outshine "Brideshead" and "The Jewel in…
- Add to basket