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The Fisher King
- £25.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Five Nations
- £10.00
- The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in late 1903, both in UK & USA. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably "Recessional", of 1897), sometimes in different versions. (format identical to…
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The Flight of the Dancing Bear
- £25.00
- Set in Soviet Russia, the story centers on Ur Kamak and Natacha, his performing bear, beloved by the Russian people, but who get into trouble when the aging bear bites a Red Army general. Rather than obey orders to kill the animal, Ur and the bear decide to flee to…
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The Flight of the Falcon
- £16.00
- As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the death of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town…
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The Folding Star
- £60.00
- Set in London and Bruges, this story takes the narrative of "The Swimming Pool Library" into the late 1980s. Alan Hollinghurst is also the author of "Bajazet", and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Writers for 1993.
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The Foreign Correspondent
- £25.00
- By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini's fascist government and found refuge in Paris. There, amidst the poverty and difficulty of migr life, they joined the Italian resistance, founding an underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to their lost homeland.…
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The Forsyte Saga (I): The Man of Property
- £15.00
- The Forsyte Saga won Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. The original sequence was: 12. The Man of Property (1906); 13Indian Summer of a Forsyte, In Chancery (1918, 1920), Awakening, To Let (1920, 1921)
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The Fortune Teller
- £12.00
- Another thriller featuring Inspector Constatin Vadim, back in his Arctic home town after a short and nearly catastrophic appointment in Moscow. But now Vadim is faced with personal tragedy, his wife Natalya, a doctor, answers an emergency medical call and goes missing.
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The Fourth Protocol
- £10.00
- Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan within a plan that, in its spine-chilling ingenuity, breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent,…
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The Fraud (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims…
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- £100.00
- et in Victorian London. The novel explores the fraught relationship of a gentleman and amateur naturalist, Charles Smithson, and the former governess and independent woman, Sarah Woodruff, with whom Charles falls in love. The novel builds on Fowles' authority in Victorian literature, both following and critiquing many of the conventions…
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The Gate of Air: a ghost story
- £15.00
- When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons…
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The Ghost Road (Regeneration 3) (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe 'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' Sunday Times 'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' Independent 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in…
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The Ghost Road (Regeneration Trilogy 2)
- £40.00
- 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if…
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The Ghost Ship: Joubert Family Chronicles 3/3 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Another meticulously researched and stunningly written novel by a much-loved and highly accomplished author. I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is…
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The Fisher King
- £25.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
- Add to basket
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The Five Nations
- £10.00
- The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in late 1903, both in UK & USA. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably "Recessional", of 1897), sometimes in different versions. (format identical to…
- Add to basket
-
The Flight of the Dancing Bear
- £25.00
- Set in Soviet Russia, the story centers on Ur Kamak and Natacha, his performing bear, beloved by the Russian people, but who get into trouble when the aging bear bites a Red Army general. Rather than obey orders to kill the animal, Ur and the bear decide to flee to…
- Add to basket
-
The Flight of the Falcon
- £16.00
- As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the death of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town…
- Add to basket
-
The Folding Star
- £60.00
- Set in London and Bruges, this story takes the narrative of "The Swimming Pool Library" into the late 1980s. Alan Hollinghurst is also the author of "Bajazet", and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Writers for 1993.
- Add to basket
-
The Foreign Correspondent
- £25.00
- By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini's fascist government and found refuge in Paris. There, amidst the poverty and difficulty of migr life, they joined the Italian resistance, founding an underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to their lost homeland.…
- Add to basket
-
The Forsyte Saga (I): The Man of Property
- £15.00
- The Forsyte Saga won Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. The original sequence was: 12. The Man of Property (1906); 13Indian Summer of a Forsyte, In Chancery (1918, 1920), Awakening, To Let (1920, 1921)
- Add to basket
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The Fortune Teller
- £12.00
- Another thriller featuring Inspector Constatin Vadim, back in his Arctic home town after a short and nearly catastrophic appointment in Moscow. But now Vadim is faced with personal tragedy, his wife Natalya, a doctor, answers an emergency medical call and goes missing.
- Add to basket
-
The Fourth Protocol
- £10.00
- Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan within a plan that, in its spine-chilling ingenuity, breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent,…
- Add to basket
-
The Fraud (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims…
- Add to basket
-
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- £100.00
- et in Victorian London. The novel explores the fraught relationship of a gentleman and amateur naturalist, Charles Smithson, and the former governess and independent woman, Sarah Woodruff, with whom Charles falls in love. The novel builds on Fowles' authority in Victorian literature, both following and critiquing many of the conventions…
- Add to basket
-
The Gate of Air: a ghost story
- £15.00
- When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons…
- Add to basket
-
The Ghost Road (Regeneration 3) (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe 'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' Sunday Times 'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' Independent 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in…
- Add to basket
-
The Ghost Road (Regeneration Trilogy 2)
- £40.00
- 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if…
- Add to basket
-
The Ghost Ship: Joubert Family Chronicles 3/3 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Another meticulously researched and stunningly written novel by a much-loved and highly accomplished author. I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is…
- Add to basket