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Strangers & Brothers 11: Last Things
- £15.00
- The world of Sir Lewis Eliot draws to a close in Last Things, the eleventh and final novel in C. P. Snow’s decade-spanning Strangers and Brothers sequence. After his heart stops briefly on the operating table, Sir Lewis is compelled to reflect on his life, to pass judgement on his…
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Strangers & Brothers 3: The Conscience of the Rich
- £35.00
- In this, the quietly powerful third novel in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence, Lewis Eliot narrates the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking dynasties between the two World Wars. Drawn into the fold of one such family by his friendship with the son and heir, Charles March, Lewis…
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Strangers & Brothers 7: Homecomings
- £40.00
- The personal life of Lewis Eliot, the central figure and narrator of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers, takes centre stage in this moving account of his wartime years.The suicide of Lewis’s desperately vulnerable wife, Sheila, ends a marriage fraught with difficulty and pain and shakes his world to the…
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Strangers & Brothers 8: The Affair
- £20.00
- The eighth novel in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence sees a return to the Cambridge college of The Masters, where an apparent miscarriage of justice once again ranges the fellows against one another. The unpopular Dr Donald Howard is dismissed for academic fraud, much to the relief of…
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Strangers & Brothers 9: Corridors of Power
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- Lewis Eliot walks the echoing corridors of Whitehall observing political intrigues and shifting alliances in this exceptional portrait of the heart of the British government during the Suez Crisis. At its centre is Roger Quaife, an ambitious MP determined to denuclearize Britain. His weapons: persuasiveness and a consummate skill in…
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Success
- £140.00
- A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' Observer. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed…
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Summer Lightning (Blandings Castle 3)
- £35.00
- Gally is down at Blandings and writing his memoirs, to the horror of all who knew him in their wild youths, particularly Lord Emsworth's neighbour and pig-fancying rival Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. While sinister forces, including the efficient Baxter and the unpleasant Percy Pilbeam, scheme to put a stop to the…
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Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel
- £10.00
- Conrad's last and unfinished novel published posthumously. With introduction by Richard Curle
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Swallow
- £20.00
- At a lake within a lake in Finland, improvisationists compete in an Olympiad of extemporaneous narratives amid charges of plagiarism, intensifying rivalries, and the possibility of KGB interference.
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Swallowdale
- £16.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 2: John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy, otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strikes when the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their…
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Swallows and Amazons
- £20.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 1. The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in…
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Swallows and Amazons
- £20.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 1. The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in…
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Sweet Tooth (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and…
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Sword of Honour 2: Officers and Gentlemen
- £40.00
- The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Having been sent home in disgrace (at the end of vol 1) Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show…
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Sword of Honour 3: Unconditional Surrender
- £75.00
- The third volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of…
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Strangers & Brothers 11: Last Things
- £15.00
- The world of Sir Lewis Eliot draws to a close in Last Things, the eleventh and final novel in C. P. Snow’s decade-spanning Strangers and Brothers sequence. After his heart stops briefly on the operating table, Sir Lewis is compelled to reflect on his life, to pass judgement on his…
- Add to basket
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Strangers & Brothers 3: The Conscience of the Rich
- £35.00
- In this, the quietly powerful third novel in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence, Lewis Eliot narrates the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking dynasties between the two World Wars. Drawn into the fold of one such family by his friendship with the son and heir, Charles March, Lewis…
- Add to basket
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Strangers & Brothers 7: Homecomings
- £40.00
- The personal life of Lewis Eliot, the central figure and narrator of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers, takes centre stage in this moving account of his wartime years.The suicide of Lewis’s desperately vulnerable wife, Sheila, ends a marriage fraught with difficulty and pain and shakes his world to the…
- Add to basket
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Strangers & Brothers 8: The Affair
- £20.00
- The eighth novel in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence sees a return to the Cambridge college of The Masters, where an apparent miscarriage of justice once again ranges the fellows against one another. The unpopular Dr Donald Howard is dismissed for academic fraud, much to the relief of…
- Add to basket
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Strangers & Brothers 9: Corridors of Power
- £20.00
- Lewis Eliot walks the echoing corridors of Whitehall observing political intrigues and shifting alliances in this exceptional portrait of the heart of the British government during the Suez Crisis. At its centre is Roger Quaife, an ambitious MP determined to denuclearize Britain. His weapons: persuasiveness and a consummate skill in…
- Add to basket
-
Success
- £140.00
- A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' Observer. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed…
- Add to basket
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Summer Lightning (Blandings Castle 3)
- £35.00
- Gally is down at Blandings and writing his memoirs, to the horror of all who knew him in their wild youths, particularly Lord Emsworth's neighbour and pig-fancying rival Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. While sinister forces, including the efficient Baxter and the unpleasant Percy Pilbeam, scheme to put a stop to the…
- Add to basket
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Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel
- £10.00
- Conrad's last and unfinished novel published posthumously. With introduction by Richard Curle
- Add to basket
-
Swallow
- £20.00
- At a lake within a lake in Finland, improvisationists compete in an Olympiad of extemporaneous narratives amid charges of plagiarism, intensifying rivalries, and the possibility of KGB interference.
- Add to basket
-
Swallowdale
- £16.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 2: John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy, otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strikes when the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their…
- Add to basket
-
Swallows and Amazons
- £20.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 1. The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in…
- Add to basket
-
Swallows and Amazons
- £20.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 1. The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in…
- Add to basket
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Sweet Tooth (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and…
- Add to basket
-
Sword of Honour 2: Officers and Gentlemen
- £40.00
- The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Having been sent home in disgrace (at the end of vol 1) Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show…
- Add to basket
-
Sword of Honour 3: Unconditional Surrender
- £75.00
- The third volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of…
- Add to basket