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Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
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Us and our Donkey
- £15.00
- Amy Le Feuvre (1861 – 1929) was a prolific writer of Christian fiction
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Venusberg
- £30.00
- Powell's early novel translated by Bruno Fonzi
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Venusberg
- £20.00
- An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define…
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Venusberg + Agents & Patients
- £25.00
- Two early novels in one volume
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Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
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Veronika Decides to Die (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho Ð a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has…
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Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
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Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
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Victory: An island tale
- £15.00
- A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior…
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Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
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Virginia Woolf: Her art as a novelist
- £8.00
- Virginia Woolf's vision of human life, and it is about her sense of values. It attempts to analyse the form of her novels.
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Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
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Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
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War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
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War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
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War Lord (The Last Kingdom 13)
- £20.00
- The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom. An impossible choice. The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to hang up his sword. But as long as the kingdom…
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Waterland (SIGNED, Dutch) / Vertaling Rien Verhoef
- £100.00
- In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of…
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
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West of Sunset (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 3rd novel, set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence Ð the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles Ð West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington,…
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What’s Become Of Waring
- £30.00
- The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen…
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What’s Become of Waring
- £15.00
- In WhatÕs Become of Waring, Powell lampoons a world with which he was intimately acquainted: the inner workings of a small London publisher. But even as Powell eviscerates the publishersÕ less than scrupulous plotting in his tale of wild coincidences, mistaken identity, and romance, he never strays to the far…
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Whatever Happened At Hazelwood, a new detective novel
- £12.00
- Michael Innes was the nom de plume of Scottish novelist and academic John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906-1994).
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Whit or Isis amongst the Unsaved
- £30.00
- 1st edition of the novel from Scottish writer, Iain Banks (1954-2013). Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates. The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help.
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White
- £10.00
- It is 2015. Edmee and Pete are engineers on a remote research station in Antarctica, Project White. Pete has come to find peace among the practical rituals of life on the station. Edmee, the only woman on the base, works to secure communication with the outside world. Both are running…
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White Male Heart (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In the magnificent wilderness that is the Scottish Highlands, Aaron and Hugh have been friends for as long as they can remember, bound by a shared affinity for their surroundings and an increasing sense of alienation from the remote, close-knit community that is their home. But when a young woman…
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Who do you think you are? Stories and Parodies
- £20.00
- A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury's playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and an entire novel from Muriel Spark.
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Whose Body?
- £10.00
- Dorothy L. SayerÕs first novel, Whose Body?, introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in fourteen subsequent novels and short stories. Athletic, scholarly, stylish and sharp, Lord Peter Wimsey became one of the most popular and beloved heroes of the genre. In WimseyÕs first…
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Wild Lone: the story of a Pytchley Fox
- £45.00
- Denys James Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990) was a British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym "BB". He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Written on the eve of the Second World War, the novel follows the life of a young fox named RufusÑand…
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Will (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. William Shakespeare is on his deathbed, where he receives his lawyer to set out his final will and testament. As he answers his questions the Bard begins to…
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Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
- Add to basket
-
Us and our Donkey
- £15.00
- Amy Le Feuvre (1861 – 1929) was a prolific writer of Christian fiction
- Add to basket
-
Venusberg
- £30.00
- Powell's early novel translated by Bruno Fonzi
- Add to basket
-
Venusberg
- £20.00
- An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define…
- Add to basket
-
Venusberg + Agents & Patients
- £25.00
- Two early novels in one volume
- Add to basket
-
Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
- Add to basket
-
Veronika Decides to Die (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho Ð a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has…
- Add to basket
-
Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
- Add to basket
-
Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
- Add to basket
-
Victory: An island tale
- £15.00
- A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior…
- Add to basket
-
Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
- Add to basket
-
Virginia Woolf: Her art as a novelist
- £8.00
- Virginia Woolf's vision of human life, and it is about her sense of values. It attempts to analyse the form of her novels.
- Add to basket
-
Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
- Add to basket
-
Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
- Add to basket
-
War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
- Add to basket
-
War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
- Add to basket
-
War Lord (The Last Kingdom 13)
- £20.00
- The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom. An impossible choice. The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to hang up his sword. But as long as the kingdom…
- Add to basket
-
Waterland (SIGNED, Dutch) / Vertaling Rien Verhoef
- £100.00
- In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of…
- Add to basket
-
Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
- Add to basket
-
West of Sunset (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 3rd novel, set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence Ð the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles Ð West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington,…
- Add to basket
-
What’s Become Of Waring
- £30.00
- The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen…
- Add to basket
-
What’s Become of Waring
- £15.00
- In WhatÕs Become of Waring, Powell lampoons a world with which he was intimately acquainted: the inner workings of a small London publisher. But even as Powell eviscerates the publishersÕ less than scrupulous plotting in his tale of wild coincidences, mistaken identity, and romance, he never strays to the far…
- Add to basket
-
Whatever Happened At Hazelwood, a new detective novel
- £12.00
- Michael Innes was the nom de plume of Scottish novelist and academic John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906-1994).
- Add to basket
-
Whit or Isis amongst the Unsaved
- £30.00
- 1st edition of the novel from Scottish writer, Iain Banks (1954-2013). Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates. The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help.
- Add to basket
-
White
- £10.00
- It is 2015. Edmee and Pete are engineers on a remote research station in Antarctica, Project White. Pete has come to find peace among the practical rituals of life on the station. Edmee, the only woman on the base, works to secure communication with the outside world. Both are running…
- Add to basket
-
White Male Heart (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In the magnificent wilderness that is the Scottish Highlands, Aaron and Hugh have been friends for as long as they can remember, bound by a shared affinity for their surroundings and an increasing sense of alienation from the remote, close-knit community that is their home. But when a young woman…
- Add to basket
-
Who do you think you are? Stories and Parodies
- £20.00
- A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury's playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and an entire novel from Muriel Spark.
- Add to basket
-
Whose Body?
- £10.00
- Dorothy L. SayerÕs first novel, Whose Body?, introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in fourteen subsequent novels and short stories. Athletic, scholarly, stylish and sharp, Lord Peter Wimsey became one of the most popular and beloved heroes of the genre. In WimseyÕs first…
- Add to basket
-
Wild Lone: the story of a Pytchley Fox
- £45.00
- Denys James Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990) was a British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym "BB". He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Written on the eve of the Second World War, the novel follows the life of a young fox named RufusÑand…
- Add to basket
-
Will (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. William Shakespeare is on his deathbed, where he receives his lawyer to set out his final will and testament. As he answers his questions the Bard begins to…
- Add to basket