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The Return (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A beautiful book, story, piece of history. From the haunting tones of the flamenco to a country ravaged by fanaticism. Hardly a day goes past since finishing this book that I don't think about some aspect of it. One of the best books I have read in a long time'…
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The River of Fire (Le Fleuve de Feu)
- £15.00
- ÒWe do not know what we desire: we do not love those whom we think we love.Ó This musing from the lips of MauriacÕs protagonist in VipersÕ Tangle might well sum up the entirety of his fictional works, but particularly his 1922 novel The River of Fire. Daniel Trasis finds…
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The Rogue
- £75.00
- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924).
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The Rover
- £15.00
- Conrad's last novel published in his lifetime (1923), this is vol 20 (of 22) Medallion series published following his death in 1924 (with facsimile autograph on endpapers.
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The Russia House
- £12.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Russia House
- £15.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Russia House (SIGNED)
- £450.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Saboteurs
- £15.00
- une Drummond (1923-2011) was a South African writer of mysteries. Thirty of her crime novels, often set in Durban, South Africa, or London, England, were published between 1959 and 2011. The Saboteurs is her 6th. Set in apartheid-era South Africa, wealthy Caspar Douglas returns to the country and finds his…
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
- £40.00
- Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be his only…
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The Salzburg Connection
- £21.00
- Basis of 1972 film, the debut of Klaus Maria Brandauer. A cold war espionage novel rescued from irrelevance by MacInnes's story- telling ability: shifting points of view with progressive revelations about key characters
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The Scandaroon
- £20.00
- After completing the 15-volume saga of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, Williamson returned to the story he had previously put aside about a pigeon. This was his last novel to be published in his lifetime.
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The Scapegoat
- £25.00
- A good original novel, well tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking…
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The Schirmer Inheritance
- £20.00
- George Cary, former WWII bomber pilot and newly minted lawyer, reviews the files on the Schneider Johnson case, to make sure nothing has been overlooked. What George discovers connects a deserter from Napoleon’s defeated army to a guerrilla fighter in post-war Greece, and leads him into a dangerous situation where…
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The Sea, The Sea
- £100.00
- Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung…
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The Second Curtain
- £12.00
- Roy Fuller (1912-1991) was an English poet who initially trained as a lawyer, and who also wrote crime fiction, of which The Second Curtain is one of his better known. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford between 1968 and 1973, and was the dedicatee of Anthony Powell's A Soldier's…
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The Return (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A beautiful book, story, piece of history. From the haunting tones of the flamenco to a country ravaged by fanaticism. Hardly a day goes past since finishing this book that I don't think about some aspect of it. One of the best books I have read in a long time'…
- Add to basket
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The River of Fire (Le Fleuve de Feu)
- £15.00
- ÒWe do not know what we desire: we do not love those whom we think we love.Ó This musing from the lips of MauriacÕs protagonist in VipersÕ Tangle might well sum up the entirety of his fictional works, but particularly his 1922 novel The River of Fire. Daniel Trasis finds…
- Add to basket
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The Rogue
- £75.00
- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924).
- Add to basket
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The Rover
- £15.00
- Conrad's last novel published in his lifetime (1923), this is vol 20 (of 22) Medallion series published following his death in 1924 (with facsimile autograph on endpapers.
- Add to basket
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The Russia House
- £12.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
- Add to basket
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The Russia House
- £15.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
- Add to basket
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The Russia House (SIGNED)
- £450.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
- Add to basket
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The Saboteurs
- £15.00
- une Drummond (1923-2011) was a South African writer of mysteries. Thirty of her crime novels, often set in Durban, South Africa, or London, England, were published between 1959 and 2011. The Saboteurs is her 6th. Set in apartheid-era South Africa, wealthy Caspar Douglas returns to the country and finds his…
- Add to basket
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
- £40.00
- Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be his only…
- Add to basket
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The Salzburg Connection
- £21.00
- Basis of 1972 film, the debut of Klaus Maria Brandauer. A cold war espionage novel rescued from irrelevance by MacInnes's story- telling ability: shifting points of view with progressive revelations about key characters
- Add to basket
-
The Scandaroon
- £20.00
- After completing the 15-volume saga of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, Williamson returned to the story he had previously put aside about a pigeon. This was his last novel to be published in his lifetime.
- Add to basket
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The Scapegoat
- £25.00
- A good original novel, well tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking…
- Add to basket
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The Schirmer Inheritance
- £20.00
- George Cary, former WWII bomber pilot and newly minted lawyer, reviews the files on the Schneider Johnson case, to make sure nothing has been overlooked. What George discovers connects a deserter from Napoleon’s defeated army to a guerrilla fighter in post-war Greece, and leads him into a dangerous situation where…
- Add to basket
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The Sea, The Sea
- £100.00
- Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung…
- Add to basket
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The Second Curtain
- £12.00
- Roy Fuller (1912-1991) was an English poet who initially trained as a lawyer, and who also wrote crime fiction, of which The Second Curtain is one of his better known. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford between 1968 and 1973, and was the dedicatee of Anthony Powell's A Soldier's…
- Add to basket