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That Hideous Strength: a modern fairy tale for grown-ups
- £35.00
- The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth, and tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity. The story surrounds Mark and Jane Studdock, a newly married couple. Mark is a Sociologist who is enticed to join an organisation called N.I.C.E. which…
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The 7th Function of Language
- £10.00
- One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels youÕll read this year' - Observer ÔThe most outrageously entertaining novel of the yearÉ A joyÕ - Philip Hensher Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. ItÕs February 1980 and he has just come…
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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
- £25.00
- In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking…
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The Adventures of a Three Guinea Watch
- £50.00
- Reed was a pioneer of school fiction for boys -- he contributed to The Boys' Own Paper (BOP) -- writing from a Christian standpoint but without the moralism of others. This was his first published book, after being serialised in the BOP; due to the immediate success and popularity of…
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The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, an Oxford Undergraduate
- £20.00
- The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is a novel by Cuthbert M. Bede, a pseudonym of Edward Bradley (1827Ð1889). It covers the exploits of Mr Verdant Green a first year undergraduate at Oxford University. Different editions have varying titles, including Mr Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman. The same…
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The African Queen
- £50.00
- First published in 1935: The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat - not the kind of boat anyone would take down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that. The First World War has just begun, and…
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The Album of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time
- £30.00
- The perfect companion alongside Hilary Spurling's Handbook and of course the 12-volume novel sequence. Edited by Violet Powell, preface by Anthony Powell, introduction by John Bayley. With 224 period drawings, paintings and photographs.
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The Alteration
- £25.00
- Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious…
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The Angel’s Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 2 (SIGNED)
- £130.00
- In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the…
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The Antagonists
- £20.00
- The sixth of 21 books involving William Haggard's protagonist Colonel Charles Russell, the urbane head of the unobtrusive but lethal Security Executive, a government counter-intelligence agency clearly based on the actual MI5 or Security Service, where he moves easily and gracefully along C.P. Snow's Corridors of Power in Whitehall. Like…
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The Arrow of Gold: A story between two notes
- £12.00
- Published in 1919 and originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920. Set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features…
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The Arrow Of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes (Benn’s Essex Library)
- £9.00
- Published in 1919 and originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920. Set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features…
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A brilliant Ð and rather transgressive Ð collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story ÔThe School of EnglishÕ. Hilary Mantel is one of BritainÕs most accomplished and acclaimed writers.…
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The Beach of Falesá
- £20.00
- Dylan Thomas's reworking of a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson set in the South Seas.
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The Bellwether Revivals (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The novel has at its lodestone Brideshead Revisited. Donna Tartt's The Secret History is also in the DNA here ... Readers will find themselves transfixed by this richly drawn cast of characters' Independent. Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care…
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That Hideous Strength: a modern fairy tale for grown-ups
- £35.00
- The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth, and tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity. The story surrounds Mark and Jane Studdock, a newly married couple. Mark is a Sociologist who is enticed to join an organisation called N.I.C.E. which…
- Add to basket
-
The 7th Function of Language
- £10.00
- One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels youÕll read this year' - Observer ÔThe most outrageously entertaining novel of the yearÉ A joyÕ - Philip Hensher Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. ItÕs February 1980 and he has just come…
- Add to basket
-
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
- £25.00
- In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking…
- Add to basket
-
The Adventures of a Three Guinea Watch
- £50.00
- Reed was a pioneer of school fiction for boys -- he contributed to The Boys' Own Paper (BOP) -- writing from a Christian standpoint but without the moralism of others. This was his first published book, after being serialised in the BOP; due to the immediate success and popularity of…
- Add to basket
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The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, an Oxford Undergraduate
- £20.00
- The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is a novel by Cuthbert M. Bede, a pseudonym of Edward Bradley (1827Ð1889). It covers the exploits of Mr Verdant Green a first year undergraduate at Oxford University. Different editions have varying titles, including Mr Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman. The same…
- Add to basket
-
The African Queen
- £50.00
- First published in 1935: The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat - not the kind of boat anyone would take down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that. The First World War has just begun, and…
- Add to basket
-
The Album of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time
- £30.00
- The perfect companion alongside Hilary Spurling's Handbook and of course the 12-volume novel sequence. Edited by Violet Powell, preface by Anthony Powell, introduction by John Bayley. With 224 period drawings, paintings and photographs.
- Add to basket
-
The Alteration
- £25.00
- Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious…
- Add to basket
-
The Angel’s Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 2 (SIGNED)
- £130.00
- In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the…
- Add to basket
-
The Antagonists
- £20.00
- The sixth of 21 books involving William Haggard's protagonist Colonel Charles Russell, the urbane head of the unobtrusive but lethal Security Executive, a government counter-intelligence agency clearly based on the actual MI5 or Security Service, where he moves easily and gracefully along C.P. Snow's Corridors of Power in Whitehall. Like…
- Add to basket
-
The Arrow of Gold: A story between two notes
- £12.00
- Published in 1919 and originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920. Set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features…
- Add to basket
-
The Arrow Of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes (Benn’s Essex Library)
- £9.00
- Published in 1919 and originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920. Set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features…
- Add to basket
-
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A brilliant Ð and rather transgressive Ð collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story ÔThe School of EnglishÕ. Hilary Mantel is one of BritainÕs most accomplished and acclaimed writers.…
- Add to basket
-
The Beach of Falesá
- £20.00
- Dylan Thomas's reworking of a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson set in the South Seas.
- Add to basket
-
The Bellwether Revivals (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The novel has at its lodestone Brideshead Revisited. Donna Tartt's The Secret History is also in the DNA here ... Readers will find themselves transfixed by this richly drawn cast of characters' Independent. Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care…
- Add to basket