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The Inheritance of Loss
- £13.00
- The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen…
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The Intruder: a novel of Boston
- £30.00
- The wife of a prominent architect is assaulted by an unknown intruder in her suburban home in Boston. The incident changes the family's life completely.
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The Iron Woman
- £35.00
- Mankind has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who…
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The Island of the Day Before
- £15.00
- The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before.…
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The Jewel in the Crown
- £120.00
- India 1942: everything is in flux. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters. Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head…
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The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall
- £50.00
- Washington Irving (1783Ð1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). One of Irving's most lasting contributions to American culture is in the way…
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The Khan’s Carpet
- £20.00
- A classic Haggardesque adventure novel with a treasure map, collapsing rope bridge, secret caves, aviation, swordplay, underground tunnels -- and, of course, an interesting Lost Race! Illustrated by Reginald Cleaver.
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The Kidnapped Saint and other stories
- £40.00
- B(runo) Traven was the pseudonym of a mysterious ?German writer, whose true identity is still in dispute. He is best known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This collection of short stories was published posthumously in the USA in 1975, having been translated by his wife Rosa Elena Lujan.
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The Kindly Ones
- £30.00
- A Dance to the Music of Time (no 6.) With Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in…
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The Kindly Ones [Dance to the Music of Time 6]
- £60.00
- In this sixth volume, with Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his fatherÕs footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in the Army, and asks his…
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The Kobra Manifesto (A Quiller Novel)
- £25.00
- Quiller is called back from his vacation in France by the secretive London Bureau. He is asked to take on a mission that seems strangely undefined. Quiller learns that there is an international terrorist strike being planned -- at least 3 agents with the Bureau have died trying to gain…
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The Land of Far Beyond – a classic retelling of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
- £70.00
- A classic adventure of good versus evil, this book will never be forgotten by the children who read it. Peter, Anna and Patience live in the City of Turmoil, a noisy, dirty place where children can do whatever they like. It's all fun and games until they discover the heavy…
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The Last King of Scotland (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator. 'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph. 'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening Standard. In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of…
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The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.' Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer…
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The Last of the Mohicans; The Pioneers; The Prairie
- £200.00
- A bound early serialization of three novels 'The Last of the Mohicans' (1826), 'The Pioneers or The Sources of the Susquehanna...' (1823) and 'The Prairie, A Tale' (1827); Holt Novel Newspaper 1838 in decorative binding.
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The Inheritance of Loss
- £13.00
- The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen…
- Add to basket
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The Intruder: a novel of Boston
- £30.00
- The wife of a prominent architect is assaulted by an unknown intruder in her suburban home in Boston. The incident changes the family's life completely.
- Add to basket
-
The Iron Woman
- £35.00
- Mankind has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who…
- Add to basket
-
The Island of the Day Before
- £15.00
- The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before.…
- Add to basket
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The Jewel in the Crown
- £120.00
- India 1942: everything is in flux. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters. Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head…
- Add to basket
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The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall
- £50.00
- Washington Irving (1783Ð1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). One of Irving's most lasting contributions to American culture is in the way…
- Add to basket
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The Khan’s Carpet
- £20.00
- A classic Haggardesque adventure novel with a treasure map, collapsing rope bridge, secret caves, aviation, swordplay, underground tunnels -- and, of course, an interesting Lost Race! Illustrated by Reginald Cleaver.
- Add to basket
-
The Kidnapped Saint and other stories
- £40.00
- B(runo) Traven was the pseudonym of a mysterious ?German writer, whose true identity is still in dispute. He is best known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This collection of short stories was published posthumously in the USA in 1975, having been translated by his wife Rosa Elena Lujan.
- Add to basket
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The Kindly Ones
- £30.00
- A Dance to the Music of Time (no 6.) With Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in…
- Add to basket
-
The Kindly Ones [Dance to the Music of Time 6]
- £60.00
- In this sixth volume, with Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his fatherÕs footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in the Army, and asks his…
- Add to basket
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The Kobra Manifesto (A Quiller Novel)
- £25.00
- Quiller is called back from his vacation in France by the secretive London Bureau. He is asked to take on a mission that seems strangely undefined. Quiller learns that there is an international terrorist strike being planned -- at least 3 agents with the Bureau have died trying to gain…
- Add to basket
-
The Land of Far Beyond – a classic retelling of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
- £70.00
- A classic adventure of good versus evil, this book will never be forgotten by the children who read it. Peter, Anna and Patience live in the City of Turmoil, a noisy, dirty place where children can do whatever they like. It's all fun and games until they discover the heavy…
- Add to basket
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The Last King of Scotland (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator. 'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph. 'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening Standard. In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of…
- Add to basket
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The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.' Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer…
- Add to basket
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The Last of the Mohicans; The Pioneers; The Prairie
- £200.00
- A bound early serialization of three novels 'The Last of the Mohicans' (1826), 'The Pioneers or The Sources of the Susquehanna...' (1823) and 'The Prairie, A Tale' (1827); Holt Novel Newspaper 1838 in decorative binding.
- Add to basket