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The Best Adventure
- £12.00
- Successor to Secret Service, and Dangerous Treasure. Once again Peter and Ginger become involved in dramatic happenings which start when they set out at midnight to try and catch the mysterious visitor to their own private, secret cave.
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The Big Six
- £18.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 9. It's great detective work that's needed now. Bill, Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends and they soon set to work to…
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The Big Six
- £15.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 9. It's great detective work that's needed now. Bill, Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends and they soon set to work to…
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The Biggles – Air Detective Omnibus
- £22.00
- First edition of this omnibus, containing: Sergeant Bigglesworth, C.I.D.; Biggles' Second Case; Another Job for Biggles; Biggles Works it out
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The Biographer’s Moustache
- £12.00
- Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling hack, gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties. Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronuncation. Scott-Thompson, however, is extrememly…
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The Black Book
- £200.00
- A tapestry of Middle East and Islamic culture, by the author of "The White Castle" who won the 2008 Nobel price for Literature. Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, suspects that his vanished wife is hiding out with her half-brother, a newspaper columnist whose fame Galip envies. Galip plays the part of…
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The Blind Assassin
- £15.00
- Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular…
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The Blue Bedspread: A novel
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth WritersÕ Award for the Eurasia region. In a house on a Calcutta street, lit by the half-light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby, one day old, wrapped in its hospital towel. In the next…
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The Book of Strange New Things
- £22.00
- I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest…
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The Brave (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress…
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The Broken World
- £20.00
- Writing an on-line walk-through to a computer game of some complexity can take up a lot of time. As our narrator grapples with his player's guide, real life starts to intrude in troublesome ways. The day job, the live-in girlfriend and his best friend are all causing him headaches; but…
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The Bull from the Sea (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- The sequel to The King Must Die. The Bull from the Sea continues the story of the hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Having freed the city of Athens from the onerous tribute demanded by the ruler of Knossos - the sacrifice of noble youths and maidens to the…
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The Business
- £15.00
- Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo…
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The Captain and the Enemy
- £30.00
- 'I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest was my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September that I met the Captain for the first time. I can still remember the wetness…
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The Captain from Connecticut
- £15.00
- No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody. His mission: break the British Blockade. The…
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The Best Adventure
- £12.00
- Successor to Secret Service, and Dangerous Treasure. Once again Peter and Ginger become involved in dramatic happenings which start when they set out at midnight to try and catch the mysterious visitor to their own private, secret cave.
- Add to basket
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The Big Six
- £18.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 9. It's great detective work that's needed now. Bill, Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends and they soon set to work to…
- Add to basket
-
The Big Six
- £15.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 9. It's great detective work that's needed now. Bill, Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends and they soon set to work to…
- Add to basket
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The Biggles – Air Detective Omnibus
- £22.00
- First edition of this omnibus, containing: Sergeant Bigglesworth, C.I.D.; Biggles' Second Case; Another Job for Biggles; Biggles Works it out
- Add to basket
-
The Biographer’s Moustache
- £12.00
- Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling hack, gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties. Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronuncation. Scott-Thompson, however, is extrememly…
- Add to basket
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The Black Book
- £200.00
- A tapestry of Middle East and Islamic culture, by the author of "The White Castle" who won the 2008 Nobel price for Literature. Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, suspects that his vanished wife is hiding out with her half-brother, a newspaper columnist whose fame Galip envies. Galip plays the part of…
- Add to basket
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The Blind Assassin
- £15.00
- Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular…
- Add to basket
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The Blue Bedspread: A novel
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth WritersÕ Award for the Eurasia region. In a house on a Calcutta street, lit by the half-light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby, one day old, wrapped in its hospital towel. In the next…
- Add to basket
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The Book of Strange New Things
- £22.00
- I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest…
- Add to basket
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The Brave (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress…
- Add to basket
-
The Broken World
- £20.00
- Writing an on-line walk-through to a computer game of some complexity can take up a lot of time. As our narrator grapples with his player's guide, real life starts to intrude in troublesome ways. The day job, the live-in girlfriend and his best friend are all causing him headaches; but…
- Add to basket
-
The Bull from the Sea (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- The sequel to The King Must Die. The Bull from the Sea continues the story of the hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Having freed the city of Athens from the onerous tribute demanded by the ruler of Knossos - the sacrifice of noble youths and maidens to the…
- Add to basket
-
The Business
- £15.00
- Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo…
- Add to basket
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The Captain and the Enemy
- £30.00
- 'I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest was my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September that I met the Captain for the first time. I can still remember the wetness…
- Add to basket
-
The Captain from Connecticut
- £15.00
- No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody. His mission: break the British Blockade. The…
- Add to basket