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The Witch of Portobello (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- From one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho, comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed Ôthe Witch of PortobelloÕ. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through…
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The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D., Dean of St Patrick’s Dublin
- £150.00
- The Works Of The Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean Of St. Patrick's Dublin. Carefully Selected With a Life of the Author and original and Authentic Notes.
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The World Elsewhere and other stories
- £25.00
- Nirmal Verma (1929Ð2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature. This anthology collects a number of…
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The World of Nagaraj
- £10.00
- Narayan's 14th novel to be set in the imaginary town of Malgudi is the tale of Nagaraj, a contentedly aimless man whose only mission in life is to write a great treatise on the sanskrit scholar Narada. His comfortable existence of writing and drinking coffee and observing the world from…
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The Wrong Set and other stories
- £40.00
- A satirist collection of twelve short stories, including: Union Reunion, A Story of Historical Interest, The Wrong Set, Crazy Crowd, Raspberry Jam, and more. Written by Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, an English novelist and short story writer who was one of England's first openly gay authors,
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The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
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The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
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The Yellow Admiral
- £15.00
- 18th novel in a sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written – sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even Jack’s exploits at…
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The Young Visiters or, Mr Salteenas Plan
- £20.00
- The Young Visiters or Mr Salteena's Plan is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window, it was written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford.…
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Theft, a love story (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration, responsibility and redemption.
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Theft, A Love Story (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from therural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration, responsibility and redemption.
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They and I
- £14.00
- While remodeling his new home, a man and his children move into a country cottage where he must adjust to the new sights and sounds. This is a detailed look at how he manages his disparate children in a foreign environment. A sudden move prompts a man to reevaluate his…
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This is How
- £14.00
- When his fiance breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling…
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This Rough Magic
- £25.00
- This Rough Magic is a romantic suspense novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1964. The title is a quote from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Like several other novels by Stewart, it is set in Greece and has an element of suspense.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
- £20.00
- A searing indictment of war, set in the German army around the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was written by Igor Sentjurc, a Yugoslav artist who fled from enforced service in Hitler's armies. Eric Mosbacher translated so that it was published in the same year as the original…
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Three Cheers for the Paraclete
- £25.00
- A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. PeterÕs the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when heÕs trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds himself at odds with his superiors and the…
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Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)
- £280.00
- What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the winding…
- Add to basket
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Three Men on the Bummel
- £18.00
- Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions…
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Three Men on Wheels
- £15.00
- Three Men on Wheels is the US title of Three Men on the Bummel, a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1899, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three…
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Three Novels: Angel Pavement; Bright Day; Sir Michael & Sir George
- £60.00
- Bright Day (1946): Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is holed up in a Cornish hotel writing a script he must finish. A chance encounter in the bar sends him back in time to the doomed world of his youth before the slaughter of The First World War. Caught in his own…
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Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
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Thrones, Dominations (A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery)
- £35.00
- An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review 'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal. 1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into married life with…
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Thy Servant A Dog (told by Boots)
- £15.00
- Apparently, a "delightful and touching story to pull at the heartstrings of dog lovers, told by 'Boots' in the most insightful 'dog-speak'". Make of that what you will.
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Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- £50.00
- Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one…
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Tittivulus or The Verbiage Collector
- £30.00
- Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. He also wrote and illustrated Tittivulus or…
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To Be Someone (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Waking in a hospital bed after a tragic accident to find herself deaf in one ear, blinded in one eye, badly disfigured and her career in tatters, an ex-rockstar and prime-time DJ turns to music to write her life story, using songs to represent the most important periods in her…
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep
- £8.00
- In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to…
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Tom Swift and his Flying Lab (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #1)
- £25.00
- This brand new series of adventures for boys introduces Tom Swift Jr., son of the famous inventor of a generation ago. Young Tom is now an inventor in his own right. As an associate in his father's great enterprise at Shopton, his brilliant mind is seething with the inventive genius…
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Tom Swift and his Space Solartron (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #13)
- £25.00
- A MIGHTY TASK faces Tom Swift Jr. in his exciting, new project - colonization of the moon. To accomplish this astounding feat, Tom must perfect his latest invention, the matter maker, which will be essential for life on the moon. Not only must this amazing solartron manufacture oxygen and fuel,…
- Add to basket
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The Witch of Portobello (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- From one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho, comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed Ôthe Witch of PortobelloÕ. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through…
- Add to basket
-
The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D., Dean of St Patrick’s Dublin
- £150.00
- The Works Of The Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean Of St. Patrick's Dublin. Carefully Selected With a Life of the Author and original and Authentic Notes.
- Add to basket
-
The World Elsewhere and other stories
- £25.00
- Nirmal Verma (1929Ð2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature. This anthology collects a number of…
- Add to basket
-
The World of Nagaraj
- £10.00
- Narayan's 14th novel to be set in the imaginary town of Malgudi is the tale of Nagaraj, a contentedly aimless man whose only mission in life is to write a great treatise on the sanskrit scholar Narada. His comfortable existence of writing and drinking coffee and observing the world from…
- Add to basket
-
The Wrong Set and other stories
- £40.00
- A satirist collection of twelve short stories, including: Union Reunion, A Story of Historical Interest, The Wrong Set, Crazy Crowd, Raspberry Jam, and more. Written by Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, an English novelist and short story writer who was one of England's first openly gay authors,
- Add to basket
-
The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
- Add to basket
-
The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
- Add to basket
-
The Yellow Admiral
- £15.00
- 18th novel in a sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written – sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even Jack’s exploits at…
- Add to basket
-
The Young Visiters or, Mr Salteenas Plan
- £20.00
- The Young Visiters or Mr Salteena's Plan is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window, it was written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford.…
- Add to basket
-
Theft, a love story (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration, responsibility and redemption.
- Add to basket
-
Theft, A Love Story (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from therural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration, responsibility and redemption.
- Add to basket
-
They and I
- £14.00
- While remodeling his new home, a man and his children move into a country cottage where he must adjust to the new sights and sounds. This is a detailed look at how he manages his disparate children in a foreign environment. A sudden move prompts a man to reevaluate his…
- Add to basket
-
This is How
- £14.00
- When his fiance breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling…
- Add to basket
-
This Rough Magic
- £25.00
- This Rough Magic is a romantic suspense novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1964. The title is a quote from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Like several other novels by Stewart, it is set in Greece and has an element of suspense.
- Add to basket
-
Thou Shalt Not Kill
- £20.00
- A searing indictment of war, set in the German army around the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was written by Igor Sentjurc, a Yugoslav artist who fled from enforced service in Hitler's armies. Eric Mosbacher translated so that it was published in the same year as the original…
- Add to basket
-
Three Cheers for the Paraclete
- £25.00
- A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. PeterÕs the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when heÕs trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds himself at odds with his superiors and the…
- Add to basket
-
Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)
- £280.00
- What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the winding…
- Add to basket
-
Three Men on the Bummel
- £18.00
- Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions…
- Add to basket
-
Three Men on Wheels
- £15.00
- Three Men on Wheels is the US title of Three Men on the Bummel, a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1899, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three…
- Add to basket
-
Three Novels: Angel Pavement; Bright Day; Sir Michael & Sir George
- £60.00
- Bright Day (1946): Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is holed up in a Cornish hotel writing a script he must finish. A chance encounter in the bar sends him back in time to the doomed world of his youth before the slaughter of The First World War. Caught in his own…
- Add to basket
-
Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
- Add to basket
-
Thrones, Dominations (A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery)
- £35.00
- An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review 'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal. 1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into married life with…
- Add to basket
-
Thy Servant A Dog (told by Boots)
- £15.00
- Apparently, a "delightful and touching story to pull at the heartstrings of dog lovers, told by 'Boots' in the most insightful 'dog-speak'". Make of that what you will.
- Add to basket
-
Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
- Add to basket
-
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- £50.00
- Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one…
- Add to basket
-
Tittivulus or The Verbiage Collector
- £30.00
- Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. He also wrote and illustrated Tittivulus or…
- Add to basket
-
To Be Someone (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Waking in a hospital bed after a tragic accident to find herself deaf in one ear, blinded in one eye, badly disfigured and her career in tatters, an ex-rockstar and prime-time DJ turns to music to write her life story, using songs to represent the most important periods in her…
- Add to basket
-
To Capture What We Cannot Keep
- £8.00
- In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Swift and his Flying Lab (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #1)
- £25.00
- This brand new series of adventures for boys introduces Tom Swift Jr., son of the famous inventor of a generation ago. Young Tom is now an inventor in his own right. As an associate in his father's great enterprise at Shopton, his brilliant mind is seething with the inventive genius…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Swift and his Space Solartron (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #13)
- £25.00
- A MIGHTY TASK faces Tom Swift Jr. in his exciting, new project - colonization of the moon. To accomplish this astounding feat, Tom must perfect his latest invention, the matter maker, which will be essential for life on the moon. Not only must this amazing solartron manufacture oxygen and fuel,…
- Add to basket