literature
-
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
- Add to basket
-
Balzac
- £30.00
- Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with…
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
- Add to basket
-
Brave New World Revisited
- £40.00
- In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of…
- Add to basket
-
Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
- Add to basket
-
Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
- Add to basket
-
Denton Welch, The Making Of A Writer
- £20.00
- Maurice Denton Welch (1915Ð1948) was an English writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Fictional content aside, the point of origin of virtually all of his stories is biographical: they are often set in places he knew or had visited, and feature thinly-disguised, often deeply unflattering,…
- 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
-
Dr Johnson and the Law: and Other Essays on Johnson
- £60.00
- xiii, 49 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 24 cm. Plan of the the Inner and Middle Temple from the Map of London (John Ogilby, 1677) serves as end papers. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Johnson, Samuel - 1709-1784 - Knowledge Law. Dr. Johnson's House (London, England).…
- Add to basket
-
East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C S Lewis
- £25.00
- A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book. C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology,…
- Add to basket
-
Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971-2001
- £25.00
- Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.
- Add to basket
-
From the Land of Shadows
- £8.00
- His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best. '[T]he lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Ð Times Literary Supplement. Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early…
- Add to basket
-
George Mackay Brown: The Life
- £14.00
- George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer…
- Add to basket
-
God As Author: A Biblical Approach To Narrative
- £10.00
- God as Author takes a thoughtful literary approach to understanding the Gospel. Gene Fant writes in the preface: "Most of us have heard that Christ is 'the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12:2), so it makes sense that the Gospel would be God's story. As many a church…
- Add to basket
-
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
- Add to basket
-
Balzac
- £30.00
- Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with…
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
- Add to basket
-
Brave New World Revisited
- £40.00
- In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of…
- Add to basket
-
Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
- Add to basket
-
Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
- Add to basket
-
Denton Welch, The Making Of A Writer
- £20.00
- Maurice Denton Welch (1915Ð1948) was an English writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Fictional content aside, the point of origin of virtually all of his stories is biographical: they are often set in places he knew or had visited, and feature thinly-disguised, often deeply unflattering,…
- 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
-
Dr Johnson and the Law: and Other Essays on Johnson
- £60.00
- xiii, 49 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 24 cm. Plan of the the Inner and Middle Temple from the Map of London (John Ogilby, 1677) serves as end papers. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Johnson, Samuel - 1709-1784 - Knowledge Law. Dr. Johnson's House (London, England).…
- Add to basket
-
East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C S Lewis
- £25.00
- A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book. C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology,…
- Add to basket
-
Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971-2001
- £25.00
- Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.
- Add to basket
-
From the Land of Shadows
- £8.00
- His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best. '[T]he lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Ð Times Literary Supplement. Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early…
- Add to basket
-
George Mackay Brown: The Life
- £14.00
- George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer…
- Add to basket
-
God As Author: A Biblical Approach To Narrative
- £10.00
- God as Author takes a thoughtful literary approach to understanding the Gospel. Gene Fant writes in the preface: "Most of us have heard that Christ is 'the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12:2), so it makes sense that the Gospel would be God's story. As many a church…
- Add to basket