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The Case of the Daring Divorcee (Perry Mason)
- £35.00
- If the framer fits... Take a no-holds-barred proxy war for a rich Texas oil company, with Jerry Conway, its young president, fighting for survival. Add a beautiful woman in a mudpack and not much else who gives up a freshly fired .38 to Conway before she shows him the door.…
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The Cat & The King, a novel
- £15.00
- Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction." An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the…
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The Chemistry of Tears (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of loveall are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her…
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The Child in Time (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch. On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single…
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The Children Act
- £12.00
- Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years…
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The Children Act
- £15.00
- A brilliant, emotionally-wrenching novel from the bestselling author of Atonement, now a major film starring Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci. Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies…
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The Children of Hrin
- £25.00
- Painstakingly restored from TolkienÕs manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich…
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The Christmas Books of Mr M. A. Titmarsh (vol IX of XIII)
- £10.00
- Michael Angelo Titmarsh was one of Thackeray's several pseudonyms early on in his career. He was a trenchant critic and satirist of the absurdities and hypocrisies of high society. The 5 Christmas books were combined and not revealed to be Thackeray's until after his death in 1863.
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The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
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The Cloister and the Hearth
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #29. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and the Hearth often…
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The Comfort of Strangers
- £25.00
- Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers…
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The Comfort of Strangers
- £22.00
- Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers…
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The Commodore
- £20.00
- The seventeenth installment, set during the Napoleonic Wars, in the Aubrey-Maturin series, featuring naval commander Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon (and spy) Stephen Maturin, in an episode that ranges from Ireland to the West African coast, where the protagonists disrupt the slave trade, saving more than 5,000 slaves.
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The Commodore
- £8.00
- 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower . . . Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weather: fog,…
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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
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The Case of the Daring Divorcee (Perry Mason)
- £35.00
- If the framer fits... Take a no-holds-barred proxy war for a rich Texas oil company, with Jerry Conway, its young president, fighting for survival. Add a beautiful woman in a mudpack and not much else who gives up a freshly fired .38 to Conway before she shows him the door.…
- Add to basket
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The Cat & The King, a novel
- £15.00
- Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction." An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the…
- Add to basket
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The Chemistry of Tears (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of loveall are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her…
- Add to basket
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The Child in Time (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch. On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single…
- Add to basket
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The Children Act
- £12.00
- Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years…
- Add to basket
-
The Children Act
- £15.00
- A brilliant, emotionally-wrenching novel from the bestselling author of Atonement, now a major film starring Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci. Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies…
- Add to basket
-
The Children of Hrin
- £25.00
- Painstakingly restored from TolkienÕs manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich…
- Add to basket
-
The Christmas Books of Mr M. A. Titmarsh (vol IX of XIII)
- £10.00
- Michael Angelo Titmarsh was one of Thackeray's several pseudonyms early on in his career. He was a trenchant critic and satirist of the absurdities and hypocrisies of high society. The 5 Christmas books were combined and not revealed to be Thackeray's until after his death in 1863.
- Add to basket
-
The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
- Add to basket
-
The Cloister and the Hearth
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #29. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and the Hearth often…
- Add to basket
-
The Comfort of Strangers
- £25.00
- Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers…
- Add to basket
-
The Comfort of Strangers
- £22.00
- Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers…
- Add to basket
-
The Commodore
- £20.00
- The seventeenth installment, set during the Napoleonic Wars, in the Aubrey-Maturin series, featuring naval commander Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon (and spy) Stephen Maturin, in an episode that ranges from Ireland to the West African coast, where the protagonists disrupt the slave trade, saving more than 5,000 slaves.
- Add to basket
-
The Commodore
- £8.00
- 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower . . . Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weather: fog,…
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
- Add to basket