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Lessons (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts…
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Liberation Day (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo. MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York…
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Lies and Loyalties (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- One cool March morning in London, MP Leo Barr is told that his brother, Charlie, is dead. He has hanged himself from a chestnut tree in the grounds of a mental hospital. His family reacts in different ways. Charlie's mother, Imogen, sees no point in pretending that life is still…
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Life of Pi (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, an astonishing work of imagination that will delight and stun readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God. After the tragic sinking of a…
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Light Perpetual (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Winner of the Encore Award 2022. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience…
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Lighthousekeeping
- £12.00
- From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless…
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Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Liza of Lambeth (Jubilee edition)
- £150.00
- Maugham's 1st novel. In the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their…
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Lord Jim
- £15.00
- Everyman's Library (#925). First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also…
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Lord of the Rings (3 vols)
- £190.00
- Tolkien's classic trilogy with author's original fold-out maps
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta
- £50.00
- George Meredith OM (1828–1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. This was his 17th novel.
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta, a Novel
- £10.00
- Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894) depicts a woman breaking free from a humiliating marriage and re-establishing her self-worth through a new relationship. It contains a sketch of a school that resembles the one he attended in Neuwied.
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Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
- £9.00
- The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water and East Lyn Valley region of Exmoor in North Devon and Somerset, England. John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the…
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Loser takes all
- £25.00
- Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for…
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Loser Takes All
- £50.00
- Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for…
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Lessons (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts…
- Add to basket
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Liberation Day (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo. MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York…
- Add to basket
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Lies and Loyalties (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- One cool March morning in London, MP Leo Barr is told that his brother, Charlie, is dead. He has hanged himself from a chestnut tree in the grounds of a mental hospital. His family reacts in different ways. Charlie's mother, Imogen, sees no point in pretending that life is still…
- Add to basket
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Life of Pi (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, an astonishing work of imagination that will delight and stun readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God. After the tragic sinking of a…
- Add to basket
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Light Perpetual (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Winner of the Encore Award 2022. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience…
- Add to basket
-
Lighthousekeeping
- £12.00
- From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless…
- Add to basket
-
Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
- Add to basket
-
Liza of Lambeth (Jubilee edition)
- £150.00
- Maugham's 1st novel. In the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their…
- Add to basket
-
Lord Jim
- £15.00
- Everyman's Library (#925). First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also…
- Add to basket
-
Lord of the Rings (3 vols)
- £190.00
- Tolkien's classic trilogy with author's original fold-out maps
- Add to basket
-
Lord Ormont and His Aminta
- £50.00
- George Meredith OM (1828–1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. This was his 17th novel.
- Add to basket
-
Lord Ormont and His Aminta, a Novel
- £10.00
- Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894) depicts a woman breaking free from a humiliating marriage and re-establishing her self-worth through a new relationship. It contains a sketch of a school that resembles the one he attended in Neuwied.
- Add to basket
-
Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
- £9.00
- The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water and East Lyn Valley region of Exmoor in North Devon and Somerset, England. John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the…
- Add to basket
-
Loser takes all
- £25.00
- Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for…
- Add to basket
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Loser Takes All
- £50.00
- Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for…
- Add to basket