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Cuts: a very short novel
- £11.00
- Up in the north of England they are cost-cutting at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado TV they are getting ready to cut and edit a major series that will outshine "Brideshead" and "The Jewel in…
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Cuts: a very short novel
- £15.00
- Up in the north of England they are cost-cutting at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado TV they are getting ready to cut and edit a major series that will outshine "Brideshead" and "The Jewel in…
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Daniel Deronda, complete in one volume (Works of George Eliot vol 2)
- £60.00
- As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes…
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Daniel Martin
- £30.00
- Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home…
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Daniel Martin (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home…
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Dark Disguise
- £15.00
- A spy story set in an English aircraft factory during the Second World War written at the time and published by 1945. Despite initial suspicion falling on a Greek engineer in the factory, he is not the culprit and the search is on.
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Daughters-in-Law (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that…
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David Hockney, a Life
- £10.00
- "Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I recognised myself" DAVID HOCKNEY "A perfect short expos of Hockney's life as seen through the eyes of an admiring novelist" Kirkus Reviews With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English…
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Davita’s Harp, a novel
- £20.00
- For Davita Chandal, growing up in New York in the 1930s and '40s is an experience of indescribable joy--and unfathomable sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope for a new, better world. But the deprivations of war and the Depression take their ruthless…
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Dead Girl Walking (Jack Parlabane: 1) (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance…
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Death comes to Pemberley
- £12.00
- A wonderful treat.' Melvyn Bragg 'A sparkling curio that will appeal to both Janeites and Jamesites.' Daily Telegraph The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley,…
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Death comes to Pemberley
- £12.00
- A wonderful treat.' Melvyn Bragg 'A sparkling curio that will appeal to both Janeites and Jamesites.' Daily Telegraph The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley,…
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Death in Holy Orders
- £18.00
- Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
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Death in Holy Orders (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
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Death in Holy Orders (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
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Death is now my Neighbour
- £10.00
- Death is Now My Neighbour is the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. 'You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens – the dead woman's next-door neighbour.' 'Death is…
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Death of a Vulpicide
- £35.00
- John Keith Stanford OBE MC (1892-1971) was a British civil servant who worked in Burma and wrote many books on sport, humour, and natural history, both fiction and non-fiction.
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Death of an Expert Witness (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times. When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the…
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Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
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Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe)
- £25.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED
- £100.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
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Devices & Desires (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The Queen of Crime.' New York Times. When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken…
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Devices and Desires (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as…
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Devotion (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A glorious love story' Ð Sarah Winman, author of Still Life. Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. A stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist, from the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Hannah Kent. Hanne and TheaÕs friendship is…
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Dirty Tricks
- £18.00
- Karen and I on the sofa, Karen and I in the back seat of the BMW, Karen and I at the river, up the alley, down the garden, round the corner, in the pub. Our movements are furtive, frantic and compulsive. Our pleasures are brief and incomplete. Our frustrations are…
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Disgrace
- £25.00
- A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Winner of 1999…
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Disgrace
- £20.00
- A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Winner of 1999…
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Divisadero (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Fleeing the violence that destroyed her California family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in south-central France, in an isolated house once occupied by a writer, while she struggle to reconcile the past and present, the…
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Doctor Criminale
- £12.00
- Naive, anonymous, provincial Francis Jay has ambitions to break out of Camden and into the media. Writing a TV documentary about Doctor Bazlo Criminale - urbane polymath and the "Great Thinker of the Age of Glasnost", he steps into a world outside his experience and beyond his comprehension.
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Cuts: a very short novel
- £11.00
- Up in the north of England they are cost-cutting at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado TV they are getting ready to cut and edit a major series that will outshine "Brideshead" and "The Jewel in…
- Add to basket
-
Cuts: a very short novel
- £15.00
- Up in the north of England they are cost-cutting at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado TV they are getting ready to cut and edit a major series that will outshine "Brideshead" and "The Jewel in…
- Add to basket
-
Daniel Deronda, complete in one volume (Works of George Eliot vol 2)
- £60.00
- As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes…
- Add to basket
-
Daniel Martin
- £30.00
- Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home…
- Add to basket
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Daniel Martin (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home…
- Add to basket
-
Dark Disguise
- £15.00
- A spy story set in an English aircraft factory during the Second World War written at the time and published by 1945. Despite initial suspicion falling on a Greek engineer in the factory, he is not the culprit and the search is on.
- Add to basket
-
Daughters-in-Law (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that…
- Add to basket
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David Hockney, a Life
- £10.00
- "Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I recognised myself" DAVID HOCKNEY "A perfect short expos of Hockney's life as seen through the eyes of an admiring novelist" Kirkus Reviews With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English…
- Add to basket
-
Davita’s Harp, a novel
- £20.00
- For Davita Chandal, growing up in New York in the 1930s and '40s is an experience of indescribable joy--and unfathomable sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope for a new, better world. But the deprivations of war and the Depression take their ruthless…
- Add to basket
-
Dead Girl Walking (Jack Parlabane: 1) (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance…
- Add to basket
-
Death comes to Pemberley
- £12.00
- A wonderful treat.' Melvyn Bragg 'A sparkling curio that will appeal to both Janeites and Jamesites.' Daily Telegraph The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley,…
- Add to basket
-
Death comes to Pemberley
- £12.00
- A wonderful treat.' Melvyn Bragg 'A sparkling curio that will appeal to both Janeites and Jamesites.' Daily Telegraph The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley,…
- Add to basket
-
Death in Holy Orders
- £18.00
- Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
- Add to basket
-
Death in Holy Orders (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
- Add to basket
-
Death in Holy Orders (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
- Add to basket
-
Death is now my Neighbour
- £10.00
- Death is Now My Neighbour is the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. 'You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens – the dead woman's next-door neighbour.' 'Death is…
- Add to basket
-
Death of a Vulpicide
- £35.00
- John Keith Stanford OBE MC (1892-1971) was a British civil servant who worked in Burma and wrote many books on sport, humour, and natural history, both fiction and non-fiction.
- Add to basket
-
Death of an Expert Witness (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times. When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the…
- Add to basket
-
Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
- Add to basket
-
Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
- Add to basket
-
Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe)
- £25.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
- Add to basket
-
Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED
- £100.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
- Add to basket
-
Devices & Desires (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The Queen of Crime.' New York Times. When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken…
- Add to basket
-
Devices and Desires (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as…
- Add to basket
-
Devotion (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A glorious love story' Ð Sarah Winman, author of Still Life. Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. A stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist, from the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Hannah Kent. Hanne and TheaÕs friendship is…
- Add to basket
-
Dirty Tricks
- £18.00
- Karen and I on the sofa, Karen and I in the back seat of the BMW, Karen and I at the river, up the alley, down the garden, round the corner, in the pub. Our movements are furtive, frantic and compulsive. Our pleasures are brief and incomplete. Our frustrations are…
- Add to basket
-
Disgrace
- £25.00
- A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Winner of 1999…
- Add to basket
-
Disgrace
- £20.00
- A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Winner of 1999…
- Add to basket
-
Divisadero (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Fleeing the violence that destroyed her California family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in south-central France, in an isolated house once occupied by a writer, while she struggle to reconcile the past and present, the…
- Add to basket
-
Doctor Criminale
- £12.00
- Naive, anonymous, provincial Francis Jay has ambitions to break out of Camden and into the media. Writing a TV documentary about Doctor Bazlo Criminale - urbane polymath and the "Great Thinker of the Age of Glasnost", he steps into a world outside his experience and beyond his comprehension.
- Add to basket