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The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (7 volumes)
- £150.00
- The Brontë sisters' complete works in a beautiful Folio edition; Agnes Grey 172 pp (illus. Harry Brockway); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 385 pp (illus. Ian Stephens), Wuthering Heights, 293 pp (illus. Peter Forster) The Professor 226 pp (illus. George Tute), Villette, 450 pp (illus. Peter Reddick); Jane Eyre, 436…
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The Complete Short Stories (3 vols)
- £150.00
- Maugham's brilliant stories move the reader from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and…
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The Complete Short Stories (3 vols)
- £120.00
- Maugham's brilliant stories move the reader from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and…
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The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
- £75.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, is the first edition of his 1st novel. Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who…
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
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The Confidential Agent
- £150.00
- Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents…
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The Constant Gardener
- £30.00
- Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to…
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The Constant Gardener
- £10.00
- Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared. Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets…
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The Constant Gardener
- £15.00
- Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to…
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The Constant Gardener
- £15.00
- Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to…
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The Consul’s File
- £25.00
- Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey through small town Malaysia through the eyes of the exuberant Spencer Savage in his breathtaking novel The Consul's File. Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down…
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The Cornerstones, a conversation in Elysium
- £14.00
- An imaginary conversation between Confucius, Lincoln, Lenin, a British airman and a soldier in which they demand that humanity in the present crisis be given a nobler purpose and more certain aim. Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-1974) was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as…
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The Coup: a novel
- £25.00
- Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...
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The Crock of Gold
- £12.00
- The Crock of Gold is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens and first published in 1912. A mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the "battle of the sexes", it consists of six books, Book 1 – The Coming of Pan, Book 2 – The Philosophers Journey, Book…
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The Cross of Carl, an allegory
- £100.00
- First published in 1931, The Cross of Carl is a book describing trench warfare with a visionary intensity. It is a masterpiece of the imagination, and one of the most terrifying books you will ever read. The Times Literary Supplement review, on 16 July 1931, called the book 'A war…
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The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (7 volumes)
- £150.00
- The Brontë sisters' complete works in a beautiful Folio edition; Agnes Grey 172 pp (illus. Harry Brockway); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 385 pp (illus. Ian Stephens), Wuthering Heights, 293 pp (illus. Peter Forster) The Professor 226 pp (illus. George Tute), Villette, 450 pp (illus. Peter Reddick); Jane Eyre, 436…
- Add to basket
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The Complete Short Stories (3 vols)
- £150.00
- Maugham's brilliant stories move the reader from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and…
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Short Stories (3 vols)
- £120.00
- Maugham's brilliant stories move the reader from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and…
- Add to basket
-
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
- £75.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, is the first edition of his 1st novel. Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who…
- Add to basket
-
The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
- Add to basket
-
The Confidential Agent
- £150.00
- Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents…
- Add to basket
-
The Constant Gardener
- £30.00
- Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to…
- Add to basket
-
The Constant Gardener
- £10.00
- Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared. Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets…
- Add to basket
-
The Constant Gardener
- £15.00
- Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to…
- Add to basket
-
The Constant Gardener
- £15.00
- Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to…
- Add to basket
-
The Consul’s File
- £25.00
- Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey through small town Malaysia through the eyes of the exuberant Spencer Savage in his breathtaking novel The Consul's File. Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down…
- Add to basket
-
The Cornerstones, a conversation in Elysium
- £14.00
- An imaginary conversation between Confucius, Lincoln, Lenin, a British airman and a soldier in which they demand that humanity in the present crisis be given a nobler purpose and more certain aim. Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-1974) was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as…
- Add to basket
-
The Coup: a novel
- £25.00
- Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...
- Add to basket
-
The Crock of Gold
- £12.00
- The Crock of Gold is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens and first published in 1912. A mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the "battle of the sexes", it consists of six books, Book 1 – The Coming of Pan, Book 2 – The Philosophers Journey, Book…
- Add to basket
-
The Cross of Carl, an allegory
- £100.00
- First published in 1931, The Cross of Carl is a book describing trench warfare with a visionary intensity. It is a masterpiece of the imagination, and one of the most terrifying books you will ever read. The Times Literary Supplement review, on 16 July 1931, called the book 'A war…
- Add to basket