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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,…
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Tom Swift and his Spectro-Marine Selector (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #15)
- £25.00
- "We're trapped a mile below the ocean's surface," Tom Swift announces to his companions as calmly as possible. His father and Bud Barclay exchange fearful glances in the air-bubble elevator stopped in its undersea descent by a jammed cable. This close call is only one of the many hazards which…
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Tom Swift in his Diving Seacopter(New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #7)
- £25.00
- In his unique invention the Ocean Arrow, an "underwater helicopter," Tom Swift Jr. embarks on a precarious search for a lost rocket from space. The rocket, containing evidence of living things on another planet, was directed to Swift Enterprises for scientific study. But its course was mysteriously changed while the…
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Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #8)
- £25.00
- Fascinated by the amazing report from a pilot who crash-landed in the African jungle, Tom Swift Jr.'s eyes glow with curiosity as he replies: "Sounds like antiprotons rampaging. Such a phenomenon is unknown on earth. This may be the greatest discovery of the century. It could revolutionize the whole science…
- Add to basket
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Tombland (Shardlake series 7)
- £25.00
- England, 1549: Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among…
- Add to basket
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Tommy & Co. Etc (+ Roberts’ The Way of A Man + Albanesi’s Cissy)
- £20.00
- Tommy and Co was published in 1904. A series of short stories, pen portraits of a cast of different characters. The first is Peter Hope, described as follows, "Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with…
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Too Damn Famous: a novel (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- It is 1987 and Katherine Bennet is at the height of her beauty, power and fame as star of the TV series, The Skeffingtons. But her private life is in tatters. Newly divorced, with a son who is threatening to go off the rails, Katherine promises herself and her public…
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Toward the End of Time: a novel
- £15.00
- Ben Turnbull is a 66-year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of…
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Towards Asmara: an African Novel
- £20.00
- During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they bear witness to the devastation of war as…
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Trace (The new Scarpetta Novel)
- £14.00
- America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the…
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Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carr
- £30.00
- John le Carr is one of the most significant political novelists in the English language. His early career in the secret service took him to West Germany at the height of the Cold War and subsequent novels prompted field trips all over the world, from Hong Kong to the Democratic…
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Transcription
- £20.00
- An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers…
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Trappers of Venus (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #4)
- £25.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Travels with my Aunt
- £25.00
- Aunt Agatha travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of doggies' church, the CIA man obsessed by statistics and his hippy daughter, and old Mr. Visconti.
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Travels with my Aunt
- £25.00
- Aunt Agatha travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of doggies' church, the CIA man obsessed by statistics and his hippy daughter, and old Mr. Visconti.
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Trieste (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- "Trieste is a work of European high culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject, the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick" Craig Seligman, New York Times…
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Trustee from the Toolroom
- £50.00
- Happiest and last of Shute's novels. Aman happy with his model engineering suddenly becomes Trustee to a 10 year old Girl.
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Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
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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…
- 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
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- 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
-
Tom Swift and his Spectro-Marine Selector (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #15)
- £25.00
- "We're trapped a mile below the ocean's surface," Tom Swift announces to his companions as calmly as possible. His father and Bud Barclay exchange fearful glances in the air-bubble elevator stopped in its undersea descent by a jammed cable. This close call is only one of the many hazards which…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Swift in his Diving Seacopter(New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #7)
- £25.00
- In his unique invention the Ocean Arrow, an "underwater helicopter," Tom Swift Jr. embarks on a precarious search for a lost rocket from space. The rocket, containing evidence of living things on another planet, was directed to Swift Enterprises for scientific study. But its course was mysteriously changed while the…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #8)
- £25.00
- Fascinated by the amazing report from a pilot who crash-landed in the African jungle, Tom Swift Jr.'s eyes glow with curiosity as he replies: "Sounds like antiprotons rampaging. Such a phenomenon is unknown on earth. This may be the greatest discovery of the century. It could revolutionize the whole science…
- Add to basket
-
Tombland (Shardlake series 7)
- £25.00
- England, 1549: Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among…
- Add to basket
-
Tommy & Co. Etc (+ Roberts’ The Way of A Man + Albanesi’s Cissy)
- £20.00
- Tommy and Co was published in 1904. A series of short stories, pen portraits of a cast of different characters. The first is Peter Hope, described as follows, "Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with…
- Add to basket
-
Too Damn Famous: a novel (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- It is 1987 and Katherine Bennet is at the height of her beauty, power and fame as star of the TV series, The Skeffingtons. But her private life is in tatters. Newly divorced, with a son who is threatening to go off the rails, Katherine promises herself and her public…
- Add to basket
-
Toward the End of Time: a novel
- £15.00
- Ben Turnbull is a 66-year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of…
- Add to basket
-
Towards Asmara: an African Novel
- £20.00
- During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they bear witness to the devastation of war as…
- Add to basket
-
Trace (The new Scarpetta Novel)
- £14.00
- America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the…
- Add to basket
-
Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carr
- £30.00
- John le Carr is one of the most significant political novelists in the English language. His early career in the secret service took him to West Germany at the height of the Cold War and subsequent novels prompted field trips all over the world, from Hong Kong to the Democratic…
- Add to basket
-
Transcription
- £20.00
- An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers…
- Add to basket
-
Trappers of Venus (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #4)
- £25.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
- Add to basket
-
Travels with my Aunt
- £25.00
- Aunt Agatha travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of doggies' church, the CIA man obsessed by statistics and his hippy daughter, and old Mr. Visconti.
- Add to basket
-
Travels with my Aunt
- £25.00
- Aunt Agatha travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of doggies' church, the CIA man obsessed by statistics and his hippy daughter, and old Mr. Visconti.
- Add to basket
-
Trieste (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- "Trieste is a work of European high culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject, the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick" Craig Seligman, New York Times…
- Add to basket
-
Trustee from the Toolroom
- £50.00
- Happiest and last of Shute's novels. Aman happy with his model engineering suddenly becomes Trustee to a 10 year old Girl.
- Add to basket
-
Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
- Add to basket