London
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A Spy’s London
- £45.00
- In 'this remarkable book' (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history made real. Author Roy Berkeley has gone behind the facades of ordinary buildings, in the city that West calls 'the espionage capital of the World', to…
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A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
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Backhand (Anna Lee Mystery 6/6 (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- 6th and final volume of the Anna Lee series; When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a paedophile,…
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Caledonian Road (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as…
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (SIGNED Simon Heffer) TRILOGY
- £350.00
- Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by…
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Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
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Nonesuch (SIGNED, Special Edition)
- £80.00
- A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill. 'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley 'His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer 'A literary magician.' Daily Telegraph 'My god can he write.' Richard Osman. It's the summer of…
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Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
- £20.00
- After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a…
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Something to Fall Back On (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- A humorous look at life as it really is, by the actress and comedian, Maureen Lipman. This book is a follow-up to her previous book "How Was It For You?"
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The Family Arsenal, a novel
- £30.00
- The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists,…
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A Spy’s London
- £45.00
- In 'this remarkable book' (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history made real. Author Roy Berkeley has gone behind the facades of ordinary buildings, in the city that West calls 'the espionage capital of the World', to…
- Add to basket
-
A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
- Add to basket
-
Backhand (Anna Lee Mystery 6/6 (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- 6th and final volume of the Anna Lee series; When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a paedophile,…
- Add to basket
-
Caledonian Road (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as…
- Add to basket
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (SIGNED Simon Heffer) TRILOGY
- £350.00
- Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by…
- Add to basket
-
Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
- Add to basket
-
Nonesuch (SIGNED, Special Edition)
- £80.00
- A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill. 'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley 'His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer 'A literary magician.' Daily Telegraph 'My god can he write.' Richard Osman. It's the summer of…
- Add to basket
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Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
- £20.00
- After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a…
- Add to basket
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Something to Fall Back On (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- A humorous look at life as it really is, by the actress and comedian, Maureen Lipman. This book is a follow-up to her previous book "How Was It For You?"
- Add to basket
-
The Family Arsenal, a novel
- £30.00
- The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists,…
- Add to basket