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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £20.00
- 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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Gregorius
- £18.00
- Ageing and unattractive, the widowed Pastor Gregorius seems to have been granted a second chance at happiness when Helga, the young girl he has been fascinated by since her childhood, accepts his offer of marriage. Yet before long, the relationship turns sour and brutal and Gregorius suspects that his wife's…
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Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (Nonesuch Press)
- £35.00
- First published in 1934, this volume gives a representative selection from the whole body of Swift's work. There are selections from such prose as "Directions to Servants", and the verse selections display the many-sidedness of Swift.
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Gut Symmetries
- £25.00
- Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright, young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Jove's mistress, an affair…
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Hag-Seed – the Tempest Retold
- £22.00
- reimagines Shakespeare's final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. "A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that's utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original's back…
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Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
- £16.00
- South Africa's culturally rich and complex Asian community-the birthplace of Gandhiism - is officially subsumed under apartheid's blanket "non-white" category, with the accompanying indignities of forced removals and other restrictions. Now Ahmed Essop gives these other South Africans a literary voice, in stories ranging from the humorous "Hajji Musa and…
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Half Bad (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- n a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both? Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the world's most dangerous witch. Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan…
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Half in Love (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative and his account of the horse in the Boer War. While…
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £35.00
- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
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Hangman Blind (An Abbess of Meaux Mystery 1) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace…
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Hard Frost (Jack Frost 4)
- £15.00
- Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time. A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked…
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Hav (comprising Last Letters from Hav, and Hav of the Myrmidons)
- £80.00
- When the world's foremost travel writer describes the small city-state of Hav, it is unlike any of her other books. For Hav exists only in one special place - Jan Morris's imagination. Hav gives us Jan Morris at her most delightful and most suggestive. The city is a magical place…
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Haven (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- The highly anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room 'Haven is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. This is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet 'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning…
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Headlong
- £25.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £20.00
- 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
-
Gregorius
- £18.00
- Ageing and unattractive, the widowed Pastor Gregorius seems to have been granted a second chance at happiness when Helga, the young girl he has been fascinated by since her childhood, accepts his offer of marriage. Yet before long, the relationship turns sour and brutal and Gregorius suspects that his wife's…
- Add to basket
-
Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (Nonesuch Press)
- £35.00
- First published in 1934, this volume gives a representative selection from the whole body of Swift's work. There are selections from such prose as "Directions to Servants", and the verse selections display the many-sidedness of Swift.
- Add to basket
-
Gut Symmetries
- £25.00
- Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright, young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Jove's mistress, an affair…
- Add to basket
-
Hag-Seed – the Tempest Retold
- £22.00
- reimagines Shakespeare's final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. "A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that's utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original's back…
- Add to basket
-
Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
- £16.00
- South Africa's culturally rich and complex Asian community-the birthplace of Gandhiism - is officially subsumed under apartheid's blanket "non-white" category, with the accompanying indignities of forced removals and other restrictions. Now Ahmed Essop gives these other South Africans a literary voice, in stories ranging from the humorous "Hajji Musa and…
- Add to basket
-
Half Bad (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- n a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both? Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the world's most dangerous witch. Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan…
- Add to basket
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Half in Love (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative and his account of the horse in the Boer War. While…
- Add to basket
-
Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
- Add to basket
-
Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £35.00
- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
- Add to basket
-
Hangman Blind (An Abbess of Meaux Mystery 1) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace…
- Add to basket
-
Hard Frost (Jack Frost 4)
- £15.00
- Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time. A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked…
- Add to basket
-
Hav (comprising Last Letters from Hav, and Hav of the Myrmidons)
- £80.00
- When the world's foremost travel writer describes the small city-state of Hav, it is unlike any of her other books. For Hav exists only in one special place - Jan Morris's imagination. Hav gives us Jan Morris at her most delightful and most suggestive. The city is a magical place…
- Add to basket
-
Haven (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- The highly anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room 'Haven is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. This is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet 'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning…
- Add to basket
-
Headlong
- £25.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
- Add to basket