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An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire (uncorrected proof)
- £85.00
- Uncorrected proof of Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- £50.00
- Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
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Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
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Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
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April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. 'He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn't. It wasn't simple at…
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Ararat
- £14.00
- "'Sergei Rozanov had made an unnecessary journey from Moscow to Gorky, simply in order to sleep with a young blind woman.' So begins D.M. Thomas's novel (his first since the publication of The White Hotel), a complex, brilliant fantasia that, in the telling, is a like a series of Russian…
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Artemis Fowl, the Arctic Incident
- £12.00
- THE FAIRIES ARE IN TROUBLE. Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human help. Holly Short is convinced it's her old nemesis, Artemis Fowl. But, for once, Artemis is innocent. He's too busy getting his father back from the…
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Arthur & George (Uncorrected Proof)
- £18.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Arthur and George
- £40.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Arthur, King of the Middle March (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy from the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award is a timeless novel. It…
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Ash Wednesday
- £25.00
- Jimmy is AWOL from the army, but - with characteristic fierceness and terror - he's about to embark on the biggest commitment of his life. Christy is pregnant with Jimmy's child, and she's determined to head home, with or without Jimmy, to face up to her past and prepare for…
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At Lady Molly’s [A Dance to the Music of Time 4]
- £10.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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Atmosphere: A Love Story (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at HoustonÕs Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group…
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Atonement
- £25.00
- ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Atonement (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- ÔA person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.Õ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Author, Author, a novel (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- In David Lodge's previous novel (Thinks), the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their…
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Authority (SIGNED): Southern Reach Trilogy 2
- £200.00
- In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened É Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in ÔAnnihilationÕ (later filmed by Alex Garland), the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government…
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Avenger (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what…
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Avenue of Mysteries
- £20.00
- John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and…
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Avenue of Mysteries
- £20.00
- John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan DiegoÑa fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in MexicoÑhas a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and…
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Avignon Quintet: 4. Sebastian, or Ruling Passions
- £30.00
- The fourth in Durrell's acclaimed Avignon Quintet. An Egyptian banker and member of a gnostic brotherhood learns that a letter prescribing his death has been innocently intercepted by the woman he loves
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Backhand (Anna Lee Mystery 6/6 (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- 6th and final volume of the Anna Lee series; When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a paedophile,…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Beauchamp’s Career
- £10.00
- Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Rene de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One…
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An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire (uncorrected proof)
- £85.00
- Uncorrected proof of Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But…
- Add to basket
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
- Add to basket
-
An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
- Add to basket
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An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- £50.00
- Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets…
- Add to basket
-
Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
- Add to basket
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
- Add to basket
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
- Add to basket
-
Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
- Add to basket
-
Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
- Add to basket
-
April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. 'He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn't. It wasn't simple at…
- Add to basket
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Ararat
- £14.00
- "'Sergei Rozanov had made an unnecessary journey from Moscow to Gorky, simply in order to sleep with a young blind woman.' So begins D.M. Thomas's novel (his first since the publication of The White Hotel), a complex, brilliant fantasia that, in the telling, is a like a series of Russian…
- Add to basket
-
Artemis Fowl, the Arctic Incident
- £12.00
- THE FAIRIES ARE IN TROUBLE. Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human help. Holly Short is convinced it's her old nemesis, Artemis Fowl. But, for once, Artemis is innocent. He's too busy getting his father back from the…
- Add to basket
-
Arthur & George (Uncorrected Proof)
- £18.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
- Add to basket
-
Arthur and George
- £40.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
- Add to basket
-
Arthur, King of the Middle March (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy from the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award is a timeless novel. It…
- Add to basket
-
Ash Wednesday
- £25.00
- Jimmy is AWOL from the army, but - with characteristic fierceness and terror - he's about to embark on the biggest commitment of his life. Christy is pregnant with Jimmy's child, and she's determined to head home, with or without Jimmy, to face up to her past and prepare for…
- Add to basket
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At Lady Molly’s [A Dance to the Music of Time 4]
- £10.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
- Add to basket
-
Atmosphere: A Love Story (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at HoustonÕs Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group…
- Add to basket
-
Atonement
- £25.00
- ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
- Add to basket
-
Atonement (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- ÔA person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.Õ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
- Add to basket
-
Author, Author, a novel (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- In David Lodge's previous novel (Thinks), the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their…
- Add to basket
-
Authority (SIGNED): Southern Reach Trilogy 2
- £200.00
- In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened É Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in ÔAnnihilationÕ (later filmed by Alex Garland), the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government…
- Add to basket
-
Avenger (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what…
- Add to basket
-
Avenue of Mysteries
- £20.00
- John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and…
- Add to basket
-
Avenue of Mysteries
- £20.00
- John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan DiegoÑa fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in MexicoÑhas a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and…
- Add to basket
-
Avignon Quintet: 4. Sebastian, or Ruling Passions
- £30.00
- The fourth in Durrell's acclaimed Avignon Quintet. An Egyptian banker and member of a gnostic brotherhood learns that a letter prescribing his death has been innocently intercepted by the woman he loves
- Add to basket
-
Backhand (Anna Lee Mystery 6/6 (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- 6th and final volume of the Anna Lee series; When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a paedophile,…
- Add to basket
-
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
- Add to basket
-
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
- Add to basket
-
Beauchamp’s Career
- £10.00
- Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Rene de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One…
- Add to basket