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The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
- £30.00
- From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
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The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
- £30.00
- From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
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The Magician: a novel
- £25.00
- WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022. From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great…
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The Magus, a revised version
- £40.00
- On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human…
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The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing
- £18.00
- The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative writing--both fiction and creative nonfiction. Its hands-on, completely accessible approach walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the initial triggering idea to the revision of the final manuscript. It is unique…
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- A stunning, emotionally satisfying tale about the art of storytelling. I never wanted the lights to come up. I could not put it down' GRAHAM NORTON 'It's its own universe, complete with a sun, a cast of circling planets, and a limitless number of stars. Its gravity pulls you in…
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The Man Between
- £14.00
- Recommended. I read it one breathless sittingÕ Ian Rankin. He risked it all to become a spy. Now he must pay the price. A gripping new standalone spy thriller from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and Ôthe master of the…
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The Man Who Stopped To Help
- £16.00
- Enid Blyton's storybook retelling of Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan, with illustrations from Elsie Walker (who worked on 8 of Blyton's biblical storybooks).
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The Man Within
- £110.00
- Greene's first novel, it tells the story of Francis Andrews, a reluctant smuggler, who betrays his colleagues, and the aftermath of his betrayal.
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The Manuscripts of A Passage to India (The Abinger Edition 6a)
- £200.00
- To accompany The Abinger Edition of A Passage to India, this volume relates page by page, line by line, to the novel in such. Way that the reader can follow the successive revisions - whether of a single word, sentence, paragraph or lenghty passage - that culminated in the published…
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The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
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The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
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The Masterful Monk
- £18.00
- Owen Francis Dudley (1882-1952) was a Catholic priest who wrote detective fiction (amongst other things) that has often been compared to Chesterton's Father Brown stories. His Masterful Monk features in several novels, of which this was the 1st (published in 1929). It was also the 3rd volume in his Problems…
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The Mating Season
- £75.00
- It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent. At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village…
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The Merry Muse
- £20.00
- A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age of sixty has a rampant appetite for the pleasures of the flesh, takes charge of it. As…
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The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
- £30.00
- From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
- Add to basket
-
The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
- £30.00
- From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
- Add to basket
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The Magician: a novel
- £25.00
- WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022. From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great…
- Add to basket
-
The Magus, a revised version
- £40.00
- On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human…
- Add to basket
-
The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing
- £18.00
- The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative writing--both fiction and creative nonfiction. Its hands-on, completely accessible approach walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the initial triggering idea to the revision of the final manuscript. It is unique…
- Add to basket
-
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- A stunning, emotionally satisfying tale about the art of storytelling. I never wanted the lights to come up. I could not put it down' GRAHAM NORTON 'It's its own universe, complete with a sun, a cast of circling planets, and a limitless number of stars. Its gravity pulls you in…
- Add to basket
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The Man Between
- £14.00
- Recommended. I read it one breathless sittingÕ Ian Rankin. He risked it all to become a spy. Now he must pay the price. A gripping new standalone spy thriller from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and Ôthe master of the…
- Add to basket
-
The Man Who Stopped To Help
- £16.00
- Enid Blyton's storybook retelling of Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan, with illustrations from Elsie Walker (who worked on 8 of Blyton's biblical storybooks).
- Add to basket
-
The Man Within
- £110.00
- Greene's first novel, it tells the story of Francis Andrews, a reluctant smuggler, who betrays his colleagues, and the aftermath of his betrayal.
- Add to basket
-
The Manuscripts of A Passage to India (The Abinger Edition 6a)
- £200.00
- To accompany The Abinger Edition of A Passage to India, this volume relates page by page, line by line, to the novel in such. Way that the reader can follow the successive revisions - whether of a single word, sentence, paragraph or lenghty passage - that culminated in the published…
- Add to basket
-
The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
- Add to basket
-
The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
- Add to basket
-
The Masterful Monk
- £18.00
- Owen Francis Dudley (1882-1952) was a Catholic priest who wrote detective fiction (amongst other things) that has often been compared to Chesterton's Father Brown stories. His Masterful Monk features in several novels, of which this was the 1st (published in 1929). It was also the 3rd volume in his Problems…
- Add to basket
-
The Mating Season
- £75.00
- It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent. At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village…
- Add to basket
-
The Merry Muse
- £20.00
- A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age of sixty has a rampant appetite for the pleasures of the flesh, takes charge of it. As…
- Add to basket