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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 Family Madness: a novel
- £25.00
- Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those unscathed by war, Delaney gropes to understand Kabbel's outlook…
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A Fox Under My Cloak (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: 5)
- £120.00
- A Fox under My Cloak (1954) was the fifth entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It follows Phillip Maddison into the Great War, surviving in the face of terror, from the famous Christmas…
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A Fox Under My Cloak (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: 5)
- £70.00
- A Fox under My Cloak (1954) was the fifth entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It follows Phillip Maddison into the Great War, surviving in the face of terror, from the famous Christmas…
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A Gentle Occupation
- £40.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 1st novel, set in the uneasy aftermath of WWII, a group of ordinary British soldiers and their families find themselves stationed as peacekeepers at an outpost in the Java Sea. Whilst attempting to return the island to Dutch control, they are subject to violent attacks by the locals…
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A Gun for Sale
- £12.00
- Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually…
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A Gun for Sale (Uniform edition)
- £12.00
- Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually…
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A Harlot’s Progress
- £8.00
- A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators…
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A High Wind in Jamaica
- £25.00
- First published in 1929, The Bas-Thornton children (John, Emily, Edward, Rachel, and Laura) are raised on a plantation in Jamaica at an unspecified time after the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire (1834). It is a time of technological transformation, and sailing ships and steamers coexist on the high…
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
- £20.00
- A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote "Metroland" for which he won the 1981 Somerset Maughan Award and "Flaubert's Parrot" which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
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A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (Signed)
- £35.00
- It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home…
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A Legacy of Spies
- £12.00
- Vintage le Carre. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carre exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service,…
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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 Family Madness: a novel
- £25.00
- Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those unscathed by war, Delaney gropes to understand Kabbel's outlook…
- Add to basket
-
A Fox Under My Cloak (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: 5)
- £120.00
- A Fox under My Cloak (1954) was the fifth entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It follows Phillip Maddison into the Great War, surviving in the face of terror, from the famous Christmas…
- Add to basket
-
A Fox Under My Cloak (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: 5)
- £70.00
- A Fox under My Cloak (1954) was the fifth entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It follows Phillip Maddison into the Great War, surviving in the face of terror, from the famous Christmas…
- Add to basket
-
A Gentle Occupation
- £40.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 1st novel, set in the uneasy aftermath of WWII, a group of ordinary British soldiers and their families find themselves stationed as peacekeepers at an outpost in the Java Sea. Whilst attempting to return the island to Dutch control, they are subject to violent attacks by the locals…
- Add to basket
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A Gun for Sale
- £12.00
- Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually…
- Add to basket
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A Gun for Sale (Uniform edition)
- £12.00
- Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually…
- Add to basket
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A Harlot’s Progress
- £8.00
- A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators…
- Add to basket
-
A High Wind in Jamaica
- £25.00
- First published in 1929, The Bas-Thornton children (John, Emily, Edward, Rachel, and Laura) are raised on a plantation in Jamaica at an unspecified time after the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire (1834). It is a time of technological transformation, and sailing ships and steamers coexist on the high…
- Add to basket
-
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
- £20.00
- A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote "Metroland" for which he won the 1981 Somerset Maughan Award and "Flaubert's Parrot" which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
- Add to basket
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A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (Signed)
- £35.00
- It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home…
- Add to basket
-
A Legacy of Spies
- £12.00
- Vintage le Carre. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carre exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service,…
- Add to basket