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A Legacy of Spies
- £18.00
- 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 Legacy of Spies (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- Vintage le Carr. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carr 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 Little Life
- £35.00
- When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a…
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A Long Walk to Water
- £8.00
- A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hoursÕ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the…
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A Maggot
- £100.00
- In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of…
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A Maggot
- £20.00
- In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of…
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A Moment in Time
- £25.00
- In the summer of 1940, 19-year-old Elizabeth Cartwright lives a secluded and privileged life in a village in Kent. Her world is turned upside down with the arrival of a group of RAF officers who requisition her family home as a base. She immediately falls for Bill Ogilvie with an…
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A Most Wanted Man
- £15.00
- A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young…
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A Most Wanted Man
- £14.00
- A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young…
- Add to basket
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A Passage to India (Folio Society)
- £35.00
- Folio edition of Forster's classic: A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age. It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian…
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A Perfect Spy
- £30.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
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A Perfect Spy
- £40.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
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A Perfect Spy (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
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A Perfect Spy (UNCORRECTED PROOF)
- £50.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
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A Place Called Freedom
- £30.00
- Scotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave by birth, destined for a cruel and harsh life as a miner. But as a man of principles and courage, he has the strength to stand up for what he believes in, only to be labelled as a rebel and enemy of the…
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A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham)
- £25.00
- An exceptional historical crime novel' C.J. Sansom. India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note left in…
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A River Town
- £25.00
- In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea, supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing…
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A Sense of Reality
- £60.00
- A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy,…
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
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A Single Pilgrim
- £20.00
- Norman Lewis (1908-2003) was a brilliant journalist, novelist and above all travel writer. This is his third novel. Graham Greene described Lewis as "one of the best writers, not of any particular decade, but of our century"
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A Singular Man
- £75.00
- What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money; his dipsomaniacal housekeeper is trying to arouse his carnal interest; his secretary, the beautiful, blond Miss Thomson,…
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A Small Town In Germany
- £40.00
- West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As…
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A Small Town in Germany
- £40.00
- West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As…
- Add to basket
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A Sparrow Falls (When the Lion Feeds Trilogy 3)
- £30.00
- Mark picked the weapon off the rack and the shape and feel of it brought memories crowding back. He thrust them aside. He would need a rifle where he was going. General Sean Courtney returns from the horrors of the Great War in France, his mind on his heirs and…
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A Star Called Henry
- £60.00
- Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At fourteen, already six foot…
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A Suitable Boy (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy remains, twenty years after publication, one of the most entrancing and spellbinding works of fiction yet written. A love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial…
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A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- We could tell you about the bodies. We could tell you their names, where they were found, the state they were in. We could tell you about the suspects too, the evidence, the investigators; join a few dots, even throw you a motive. But what would be the point? You're…
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A Tangled Web
- £35.00
- Hugo Chesterman is on trial for murdering a policeman. Why did he do it? Or could he be innocent? Daisy Bland is young, beautiful and naive, and her testimony threatens to send her husband to the gallows. For Daisy, it all started when she literally bumped into Hugo and fell…
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A Taste for Death
- £35.00
- The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set…
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A Thief in the Village, and other stories (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Some moving and atmospheric short stories by James Berry who won the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean.
- Add to basket
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A Legacy of Spies
- £18.00
- 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
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A Legacy of Spies (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- Vintage le Carr. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carr 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
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A Little Life
- £35.00
- When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a…
- Add to basket
-
A Long Walk to Water
- £8.00
- A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hoursÕ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the…
- Add to basket
-
A Maggot
- £100.00
- In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of…
- Add to basket
-
A Maggot
- £20.00
- In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of…
- Add to basket
-
A Moment in Time
- £25.00
- In the summer of 1940, 19-year-old Elizabeth Cartwright lives a secluded and privileged life in a village in Kent. Her world is turned upside down with the arrival of a group of RAF officers who requisition her family home as a base. She immediately falls for Bill Ogilvie with an…
- Add to basket
-
A Most Wanted Man
- £15.00
- A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young…
- Add to basket
-
A Most Wanted Man
- £14.00
- A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young…
- Add to basket
-
A Passage to India (Folio Society)
- £35.00
- Folio edition of Forster's classic: A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age. It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian…
- Add to basket
-
A Perfect Spy
- £30.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
- Add to basket
-
A Perfect Spy
- £40.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
- Add to basket
-
A Perfect Spy (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
- Add to basket
-
A Perfect Spy (UNCORRECTED PROOF)
- £50.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
- Add to basket
-
A Place Called Freedom
- £30.00
- Scotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave by birth, destined for a cruel and harsh life as a miner. But as a man of principles and courage, he has the strength to stand up for what he believes in, only to be labelled as a rebel and enemy of the…
- Add to basket
-
A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham)
- £25.00
- An exceptional historical crime novel' C.J. Sansom. India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note left in…
- Add to basket
-
A River Town
- £25.00
- In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea, supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing…
- Add to basket
-
A Sense of Reality
- £60.00
- A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy,…
- Add to basket
-
A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
- Add to basket
-
A Single Pilgrim
- £20.00
- Norman Lewis (1908-2003) was a brilliant journalist, novelist and above all travel writer. This is his third novel. Graham Greene described Lewis as "one of the best writers, not of any particular decade, but of our century"
- Add to basket
-
A Singular Man
- £75.00
- What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money; his dipsomaniacal housekeeper is trying to arouse his carnal interest; his secretary, the beautiful, blond Miss Thomson,…
- Add to basket
-
A Small Town In Germany
- £40.00
- West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As…
- Add to basket
-
A Small Town in Germany
- £40.00
- West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As…
- Add to basket
-
A Sparrow Falls (When the Lion Feeds Trilogy 3)
- £30.00
- Mark picked the weapon off the rack and the shape and feel of it brought memories crowding back. He thrust them aside. He would need a rifle where he was going. General Sean Courtney returns from the horrors of the Great War in France, his mind on his heirs and…
- Add to basket
-
A Star Called Henry
- £60.00
- Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At fourteen, already six foot…
- Add to basket
-
A Suitable Boy (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy remains, twenty years after publication, one of the most entrancing and spellbinding works of fiction yet written. A love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial…
- Add to basket
-
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- We could tell you about the bodies. We could tell you their names, where they were found, the state they were in. We could tell you about the suspects too, the evidence, the investigators; join a few dots, even throw you a motive. But what would be the point? You're…
- Add to basket
-
A Tangled Web
- £35.00
- Hugo Chesterman is on trial for murdering a policeman. Why did he do it? Or could he be innocent? Daisy Bland is young, beautiful and naive, and her testimony threatens to send her husband to the gallows. For Daisy, it all started when she literally bumped into Hugo and fell…
- Add to basket
-
A Taste for Death
- £35.00
- The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set…
- Add to basket
-
A Thief in the Village, and other stories (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Some moving and atmospheric short stories by James Berry who won the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean.
- Add to basket
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