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Smiley’s People
- £25.00
- Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not to solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and Hamburg.
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Smiley’s People
- £50.00
- Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not to solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and Hamburg.
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Smut: Stories
- £7.00
- One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient…
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Snow Country (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another. 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war…
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Solar
- £14.00
- Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering.…
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Solar (signed)
- £30.00
- Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering.…
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Something Fishy (The Butler Did It)
- £30.00
- A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge. It features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books,…
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Something to Declare (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of Flaubert's Parrot and Cross Channel, he has criss-crossed the country and its culture. The essays…
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Son of Nobody
- £40.00
- The past is never done with: always the song continues. Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home…
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Songs of Enchantment
- £14.00
- The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road. 'A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the Rich and Poor... Okri's voice is all his own' Independent. Having outwitted death, Azaro, the spirit child, remains in the land…
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Sons of the Ocean Deeps (Winston Science Fiction #9)
- £25.00
- It might not have been so hard to sell Jon West on the Deeps Ñ if he hadn't had his heart set on the stars. Bitter disappointment over washing out of space school prompted his rash decision to join the Deepsmen who struggled to conquer Earth's last frontier and the…
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Sophie’s Choice
- £25.00
- Award-winning (National Book Award) novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World). Centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor…
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Sophy
- £15.00
- Sophy is disgraced--a social ruin. Seduced at her coming-out ball and now pregnant; But instead of suicide or a recluse's life, she manages to remained unashamed and open, recording the buildup to the birth in her diary.
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Southern Cross: a powerful saga of Australia’s first decades
- £20.00
- Susannah King was the daughter of the English governor of the Australian colony. Nicolas Baudin was a French explorer. They found each other in a new land and forged a pure, passionate, perfect - and tragic - love affair. Amid the turbulence and wonder of the emerging Australian nation, unfolds…
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Space Intruder
- £75.00
- On a chance visit to the local Observatory, Eric spots a new interplanetary body, soon to be named Hades. Hades is heading towards earth at the rate of twenty miles a second and within three weeks will strike somewhere in Europe. The dedicated group of scientists at Woomera know that…
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Smiley’s People
- £25.00
- Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not to solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and Hamburg.
- Add to basket
-
Smiley’s People
- £50.00
- Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not to solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and Hamburg.
- Add to basket
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Smut: Stories
- £7.00
- One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient…
- Add to basket
-
Snow Country (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another. 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war…
- Add to basket
-
Solar
- £14.00
- Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering.…
- Add to basket
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Solar (signed)
- £30.00
- Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering.…
- Add to basket
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Something Fishy (The Butler Did It)
- £30.00
- A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge. It features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books,…
- Add to basket
-
Something to Declare (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of Flaubert's Parrot and Cross Channel, he has criss-crossed the country and its culture. The essays…
- Add to basket
-
Son of Nobody
- £40.00
- The past is never done with: always the song continues. Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home…
- Add to basket
-
Songs of Enchantment
- £14.00
- The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road. 'A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the Rich and Poor... Okri's voice is all his own' Independent. Having outwitted death, Azaro, the spirit child, remains in the land…
- Add to basket
-
Sons of the Ocean Deeps (Winston Science Fiction #9)
- £25.00
- It might not have been so hard to sell Jon West on the Deeps Ñ if he hadn't had his heart set on the stars. Bitter disappointment over washing out of space school prompted his rash decision to join the Deepsmen who struggled to conquer Earth's last frontier and the…
- Add to basket
-
Sophie’s Choice
- £25.00
- Award-winning (National Book Award) novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World). Centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor…
- Add to basket
-
Sophy
- £15.00
- Sophy is disgraced--a social ruin. Seduced at her coming-out ball and now pregnant; But instead of suicide or a recluse's life, she manages to remained unashamed and open, recording the buildup to the birth in her diary.
- Add to basket
-
Southern Cross: a powerful saga of Australia’s first decades
- £20.00
- Susannah King was the daughter of the English governor of the Australian colony. Nicolas Baudin was a French explorer. They found each other in a new land and forged a pure, passionate, perfect - and tragic - love affair. Amid the turbulence and wonder of the emerging Australian nation, unfolds…
- Add to basket
-
Space Intruder
- £75.00
- On a chance visit to the local Observatory, Eric spots a new interplanetary body, soon to be named Hades. Hades is heading towards earth at the rate of twenty miles a second and within three weeks will strike somewhere in Europe. The dedicated group of scientists at Woomera know that…
- Add to basket