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Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
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Veronika Decides to Die (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho Ð a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has…
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Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
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Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
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Victory: An island tale
- £15.00
- A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior…
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Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
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Virginia Woolf: Her art as a novelist
- £8.00
- Virginia Woolf's vision of human life, and it is about her sense of values. It attempts to analyse the form of her novels.
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Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
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Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
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War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
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War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
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War Lord (The Last Kingdom 13)
- £20.00
- The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom. An impossible choice. The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to hang up his sword. But as long as the kingdom…
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Waterland (SIGNED, Dutch) / Vertaling Rien Verhoef
- £100.00
- In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of…
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
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West of Sunset (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 3rd novel, set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence Ð the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles Ð West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington,…
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Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
- Add to basket
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Veronika Decides to Die (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho Ð a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has…
- Add to basket
-
Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
- Add to basket
-
Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
- Add to basket
-
Victory: An island tale
- £15.00
- A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior…
- Add to basket
-
Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
- Add to basket
-
Virginia Woolf: Her art as a novelist
- £8.00
- Virginia Woolf's vision of human life, and it is about her sense of values. It attempts to analyse the form of her novels.
- Add to basket
-
Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
- Add to basket
-
Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
- Add to basket
-
War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
- Add to basket
-
War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
- Add to basket
-
War Lord (The Last Kingdom 13)
- £20.00
- The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom. An impossible choice. The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to hang up his sword. But as long as the kingdom…
- Add to basket
-
Waterland (SIGNED, Dutch) / Vertaling Rien Verhoef
- £100.00
- In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of…
- Add to basket
-
Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
- Add to basket
-
West of Sunset (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 3rd novel, set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence Ð the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles Ð West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington,…
- Add to basket