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40 Sonnets (SIGNED Faber Members Ed)
- £75.00
- Winner: 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD: 40 Sonnets is the new collection by Don Paterson, a rich and accomplished work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.…
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A Little Life
- £35.00
- When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a…
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A Thief in the Village, and other stories (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Some moving and atmospheric short stories by James Berry who won the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean.
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Alice’s Masque
- £10.00
- It is September 1991, three days before the autumnal equinox. Ronan is driving westwards into Cornwall, looking for the lover he has lost, and desperate to reclaim her. The search will bring him to Roseleye -the gull-coloured house by the sea where Alice has lived for almost fifty years since…
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Amongst Women
- £60.00
- AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME 'A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.' Sunday Telegraph Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm…
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Amsterdam
- £25.00
- On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon…
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Amsterdam
- £20.00
- On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon…
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
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Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
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Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
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Arthur and George
- £40.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Atonement
- £25.00
- ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Atonement (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- ÔA person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.Õ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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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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Bewilderment (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** A father. A son. A bewildering world. Discover the breath-taking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory. 'The love between son and father has an emotional truth that wrings the heart' Guardian / Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who…
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Bitter Lemons
- £100.00
- Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years (1953–1956) he spent on the island of Cyprus. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957, the second year the prize was awarded. It is a wonderful study of moods and atmospheres; the house-buying…
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Black Dogs
- £35.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Dogs
- £30.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Dogs (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy Book 1) (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Tracker is a hunter. Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters, each stranger and more dangerous than the last. As…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2)
- £50.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2) SIGNED
- £135.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £20.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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C. S. Lewis: a life – eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- £75.00
- ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
- £12.00
- Winner of the Michael Ramsay Prize 2016 Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in Western society today. Some have even gone so far as to suggest euthanasia as a solution to the perceived indignity of memory loss and the disorientation that accompanies it. In this book John Swinton…
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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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District and Circle
- £15.00
- Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been…
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Enduring Love (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- This story begins on a windy summer's day in the Chilterns when the calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. What happens is shocking and tragic, but strangely inconsequential. The consequences come after, for that fatal accident brings Joe together, briefly, with Jed Parry. Unknown…
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England, England (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from…
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England, England (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from…
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Family Matters (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young…
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Felicia’s Journey
- £12.00
- WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * From acclaimed author William Trevor, Felicia's Journey is a tightly woven psychological thriller. 'A book so brilliant that it compels you to stay up all night galloping through to the…
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Flche (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Winner: COSTA POETRY AWARD POETRY and BOOK SOCIETY Recommendation Flche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer,…
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Flowering Wilderness
- £20.00
- The second in the final Forsyte sequence 'The End of the Chapter'. Dinny Cherrell has been proposed to numerous times. But no one has ever come close to touching her independent spirit. That is, until she encounters Wilfred Desert. They had first met at Fleur and Michael Mont’s wedding and…
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Golden Child (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- It's dark now; the bats are out. Insects knock against the light on the patio and the dog sits at the gate. A boy has not returned home and a family anxiously awaits. A father steps out into the night to search for his son. As the hours turn into…
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Golden Hill (SIGNED – Faber Members)
- £250.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious…
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Grief is the Thing With Feathers (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £100.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Winner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. In a London flat, two young boys…
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Headlong
- £25.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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Headlong (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence
- £15.00
- LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021. 'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. 'An invaluable guide to avoiding self-deception and fake news'…
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Hyde (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD. IAN RANKIN'S CHOICE FOR BOTH BEST MYSTERY BOOK OF 2021 (PBS), AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (NEW STATESMAN) 'Russell writes a pacy, ever-twisting mystery that will keep you turning the pages.' - Ian Rankin 'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is…
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July’s People
- £8.00
- A fictionalised account of the end of Apartheid in South Africa written 15 years before it happened, by the South African author & political activist Nadine Gordimer who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was banned in her native country.
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Kim Kardashian’s Marriage (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement.…
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- **Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie. ÔA masterpieceÉ ExtraordinaryÕ Daily Telegraph ÔA story of hatred defeated by loveÕ Guardian. On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate…
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Krishna Fluting, a novel (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From flap: "Krishna Fluting is a very superior kind of book, all about exotic, barefaced India, where the ancient lunar cold of the Himalayas fights a losing battle against the life force, where Peter Bruff is battered at by gods, demigods and humans, and seems to enjoy it, and comes…
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Life of Pi (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, an astonishing work of imagination that will delight and stun readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God. After the tragic sinking of a…
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Light Perpetual (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Winner of the Encore Award 2022. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience…
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
- £14.00
- Winner: FORWARD PRIZE for individual poem 2004. Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures…
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Look We Have Coming to Dover! (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Winner: FORWARD PRIZE for individual poem 2004. Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures…
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Lucky Jim
- £400.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.…
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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted…
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Master Georgie, a novel (signed)
- £20.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.…
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Max is Missing (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Few poets now writing share PorterÕs sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal…
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Meanwhile in Dopamine City (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- It's a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe. But Shelby-Ann - his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye - has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone. So new realities are rocketing their way to 37…
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Men at Arms
- £13.00
- Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's Sword of Honour series, the author's look at the Second World War. The novels loosely parallel Waugh's wartime experiences. Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms.
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Narcissus and Goldmund
- £10.00
- One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian. One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled…
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No One Is Talking About This (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- * WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 ** A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK * This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when…
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Old God’s Time (SIGNED & LIMITED)
- £125.00
- Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms…
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On the Black Hill
- £40.00
- Chatwin's novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982, and was made into a film in 1987 (directed by Andrew Grieve). Set on the border between England and Wales, which quite literally reuns through the farmhouse at the narrative's centre. A tale of identical twin brothers who grow…
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On the Black Hill
- £45.00
- Chatwin's novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982, and was made into a film in 1987 (directed by Andrew Grieve). Set on the border between England and Wales, which quite literally reuns through the farmhouse at the narrative's centre. A tale of identical twin brothers who grow…
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Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96
- £18.00
- This volume was a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to…
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- £20.00
- From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys. Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he…
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Silent House: a novel
- £9.00
- In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden,…
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Skylight
- £30.00
- A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Jose Saramago (1922-2010), "Skylight" tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily marriedelderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more…
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Songs of Enchantment
- £14.00
- The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road. 'A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the Rich and Poor... Okri's voice is all his own' Independent. Having outwitted death, Azaro, the spirit child, remains in the land…
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Sophie’s Choice
- £25.00
- Award-winning (National Book Award) novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World). Centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor…
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Strangers & Brothers 7: Homecomings
- £40.00
- The personal life of Lewis Eliot, the central figure and narrator of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers, takes centre stage in this moving account of his wartime years.The suicide of Lewis’s desperately vulnerable wife, Sheila, ends a marriage fraught with difficulty and pain and shakes his world to the…
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Talking it over
- £15.00
- From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend…
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The Child in Time (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch. On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single…
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
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The Crescent Moon
- £30.00
- "The Crescent Moon" by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of poems and verses written self-translated from the original Bengali, specifically during the period known for its spiritual and artistic exploration in literature. 1st published in the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, this primarily reflects on…
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The Distance Between Us (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of HAMNET. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller 2004 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella…
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A PeopleÕs History of Afghanistan (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan Ð the first book from one of the worldÕs leading war correspondents. In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanÕs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the…
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The Finkler Question
- £12.00
- He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly…
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The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission
- £20.00
- Christianity Today 2024 Book Award (Missions/Global Church) Outreach 2024 Resource of the Year (Mission and Cross-Cultural) Highly regarded biblical scholar and speaker Christopher Wright shows us that how we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. According to Wright, ÒPeople read (and preach)…
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The History of the Kelly Gang (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Booker Prize Winner: 'Extraordinary . . . So mesmerising and moving.' Mail on Sunday. 'Vastly entertaining.' New York Times. To the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling…
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The Inheritance of Loss
- £13.00
- The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen…
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The Man in the Red Coat
- £30.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885,…
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The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £60.00
- Shortlisted for the WomenÕs Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ÔMantel has taken us to the dark heart of historyÉand what a showÕ The Times ÔIf you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Õ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in…
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The Mosquito Coast
- £25.00
- The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation…
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THE NEAR AND THE FAR Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu
- £15.00
- Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944) was a British novelist who took his own life during the war. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the…
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The Noise of Time
- £8.00
- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
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The Porcupine
- £9.00
- Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But Petkanov is not beaten yet. He has been…
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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 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 Sellout (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS AND INEQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, BY A LITERARY GENIUS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 2016. In his trademark absurdist style, Paul Beatty will make you laugh and cry in this…
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The Spy and the Traitor
- £15.00
- The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carr. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any…
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- £10.00
- Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. 'A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her…
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The Walk Home (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Stevie's been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he's working as a labourer not so far from his childhood home in Glasgow ... But he's not told his family -…
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Twilight Of Democracy: The Seductive Lure Of Authoritarianism
- £15.00
- In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually -…
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Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
- £10.00
- Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author. Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry. To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life's most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to…
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Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy 1)
- £120.00
- The first book in Hilary MantelÕs award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ÔEvery bit as…
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Young Stalin
- £12.00
- Winner of the Costa Biography Award. What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest,…
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40 Sonnets (SIGNED Faber Members Ed)
- £75.00
- Winner: 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD: 40 Sonnets is the new collection by Don Paterson, a rich and accomplished work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.…
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A Little Life
- £35.00
- When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a…
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A Thief in the Village, and other stories (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Some moving and atmospheric short stories by James Berry who won the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean.
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Alice’s Masque
- £10.00
- It is September 1991, three days before the autumnal equinox. Ronan is driving westwards into Cornwall, looking for the lover he has lost, and desperate to reclaim her. The search will bring him to Roseleye -the gull-coloured house by the sea where Alice has lived for almost fifty years since…
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Amongst Women
- £60.00
- AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME 'A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.' Sunday Telegraph Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm…
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Amsterdam
- £25.00
- On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon…
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Amsterdam
- £20.00
- On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon…
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
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Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
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Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
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Arthur and George
- £40.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Atonement
- £25.00
- ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Atonement (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- ÔA person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.Õ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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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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Bewilderment (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** A father. A son. A bewildering world. Discover the breath-taking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory. 'The love between son and father has an emotional truth that wrings the heart' Guardian / Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who…
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Bitter Lemons
- £100.00
- Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years (1953–1956) he spent on the island of Cyprus. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957, the second year the prize was awarded. It is a wonderful study of moods and atmospheres; the house-buying…
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Black Dogs
- £35.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Dogs
- £30.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Dogs (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy Book 1) (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Tracker is a hunter. Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters, each stranger and more dangerous than the last. As…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2)
- £50.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2) SIGNED
- £135.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £20.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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C. S. Lewis: a life – eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- £75.00
- ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
- £12.00
- Winner of the Michael Ramsay Prize 2016 Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in Western society today. Some have even gone so far as to suggest euthanasia as a solution to the perceived indignity of memory loss and the disorientation that accompanies it. In this book John Swinton…
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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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District and Circle
- £15.00
- Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been…
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Enduring Love (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- This story begins on a windy summer's day in the Chilterns when the calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. What happens is shocking and tragic, but strangely inconsequential. The consequences come after, for that fatal accident brings Joe together, briefly, with Jed Parry. Unknown…
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England, England (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from…
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England, England (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from…
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Family Matters (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young…
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Felicia’s Journey
- £12.00
- WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * From acclaimed author William Trevor, Felicia's Journey is a tightly woven psychological thriller. 'A book so brilliant that it compels you to stay up all night galloping through to the…
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Flche (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Winner: COSTA POETRY AWARD POETRY and BOOK SOCIETY Recommendation Flche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer,…
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Flowering Wilderness
- £20.00
- The second in the final Forsyte sequence 'The End of the Chapter'. Dinny Cherrell has been proposed to numerous times. But no one has ever come close to touching her independent spirit. That is, until she encounters Wilfred Desert. They had first met at Fleur and Michael Mont’s wedding and…
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Golden Child (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- It's dark now; the bats are out. Insects knock against the light on the patio and the dog sits at the gate. A boy has not returned home and a family anxiously awaits. A father steps out into the night to search for his son. As the hours turn into…
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Golden Hill (SIGNED – Faber Members)
- £250.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious…
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Grief is the Thing With Feathers (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £100.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Winner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. In a London flat, two young boys…
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Headlong
- £25.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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Headlong (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence
- £15.00
- LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021. 'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. 'An invaluable guide to avoiding self-deception and fake news'…
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Hyde (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD. IAN RANKIN'S CHOICE FOR BOTH BEST MYSTERY BOOK OF 2021 (PBS), AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (NEW STATESMAN) 'Russell writes a pacy, ever-twisting mystery that will keep you turning the pages.' - Ian Rankin 'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is…
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July’s People
- £8.00
- A fictionalised account of the end of Apartheid in South Africa written 15 years before it happened, by the South African author & political activist Nadine Gordimer who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was banned in her native country.
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Kim Kardashian’s Marriage (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement.…
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- **Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie. ÔA masterpieceÉ ExtraordinaryÕ Daily Telegraph ÔA story of hatred defeated by loveÕ Guardian. On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate…
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Krishna Fluting, a novel (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From flap: "Krishna Fluting is a very superior kind of book, all about exotic, barefaced India, where the ancient lunar cold of the Himalayas fights a losing battle against the life force, where Peter Bruff is battered at by gods, demigods and humans, and seems to enjoy it, and comes…
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Life of Pi (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, an astonishing work of imagination that will delight and stun readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God. After the tragic sinking of a…
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Light Perpetual (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Winner of the Encore Award 2022. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience…
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
- £14.00
- Winner: FORWARD PRIZE for individual poem 2004. Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures…
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Look We Have Coming to Dover! (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Winner: FORWARD PRIZE for individual poem 2004. Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures…
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Lucky Jim
- £400.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.…
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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted…
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Master Georgie, a novel (signed)
- £20.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.…
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Max is Missing (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Few poets now writing share PorterÕs sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal…
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Meanwhile in Dopamine City (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- It's a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe. But Shelby-Ann - his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye - has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone. So new realities are rocketing their way to 37…
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Men at Arms
- £13.00
- Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's Sword of Honour series, the author's look at the Second World War. The novels loosely parallel Waugh's wartime experiences. Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms.
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Narcissus and Goldmund
- £10.00
- One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian. One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled…
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No One Is Talking About This (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- * WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 ** A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK * This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when…
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Old God’s Time (SIGNED & LIMITED)
- £125.00
- Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms…
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On the Black Hill
- £40.00
- Chatwin's novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982, and was made into a film in 1987 (directed by Andrew Grieve). Set on the border between England and Wales, which quite literally reuns through the farmhouse at the narrative's centre. A tale of identical twin brothers who grow…
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On the Black Hill
- £45.00
- Chatwin's novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982, and was made into a film in 1987 (directed by Andrew Grieve). Set on the border between England and Wales, which quite literally reuns through the farmhouse at the narrative's centre. A tale of identical twin brothers who grow…
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Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96
- £18.00
- This volume was a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to…
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
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- From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys. Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he…
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Schindler’s Ark
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- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Schindler’s Ark
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- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Silent House: a novel
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- In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden,…
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Skylight
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- A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Jose Saramago (1922-2010), "Skylight" tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily marriedelderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more…
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Songs of Enchantment
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- The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road. 'A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the Rich and Poor... Okri's voice is all his own' Independent. Having outwitted death, Azaro, the spirit child, remains in the land…
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Sophie’s Choice
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- Award-winning (National Book Award) novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World). Centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor…
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Strangers & Brothers 7: Homecomings
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- The personal life of Lewis Eliot, the central figure and narrator of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers, takes centre stage in this moving account of his wartime years.The suicide of Lewis’s desperately vulnerable wife, Sheila, ends a marriage fraught with difficulty and pain and shakes his world to the…
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Talking it over
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- From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend…
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The Child in Time (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch. On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single…
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
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- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
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The Crescent Moon
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- "The Crescent Moon" by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of poems and verses written self-translated from the original Bengali, specifically during the period known for its spiritual and artistic exploration in literature. 1st published in the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, this primarily reflects on…
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The Distance Between Us (SIGNED)
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- Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of HAMNET. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller 2004 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella…
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A PeopleÕs History of Afghanistan (SIGNED)
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- A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan Ð the first book from one of the worldÕs leading war correspondents. In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanÕs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the…
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The Finkler Question
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- He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly…
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The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission
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- Christianity Today 2024 Book Award (Missions/Global Church) Outreach 2024 Resource of the Year (Mission and Cross-Cultural) Highly regarded biblical scholar and speaker Christopher Wright shows us that how we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. According to Wright, ÒPeople read (and preach)…
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The History of the Kelly Gang (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Booker Prize Winner: 'Extraordinary . . . So mesmerising and moving.' Mail on Sunday. 'Vastly entertaining.' New York Times. To the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling…
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The Inheritance of Loss
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- The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen…
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The Man in the Red Coat
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- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885,…
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The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £60.00
- Shortlisted for the WomenÕs Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ÔMantel has taken us to the dark heart of historyÉand what a showÕ The Times ÔIf you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Õ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in…
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The Mosquito Coast
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- The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation…
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THE NEAR AND THE FAR Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu
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- Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944) was a British novelist who took his own life during the war. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the…
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The Noise of Time
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- In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few…
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The Observations
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- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
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The Porcupine
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- Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But Petkanov is not beaten yet. He has been…
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The River of Fire (Le Fleuve de Feu)
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- 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 Sea, The Sea
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- 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 Sellout (SIGNED)
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- A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS AND INEQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, BY A LITERARY GENIUS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 2016. In his trademark absurdist style, Paul Beatty will make you laugh and cry in this…
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The Spy and the Traitor
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- The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carr. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any…
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The Story of Lucy Gault
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- Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. 'A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her…
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The Walk Home (SIGNED)
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- Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Stevie's been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he's working as a labourer not so far from his childhood home in Glasgow ... But he's not told his family -…
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Twilight Of Democracy: The Seductive Lure Of Authoritarianism
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- In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually -…
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Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
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- Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author. Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry. To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life's most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to…
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Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy 1)
- £120.00
- The first book in Hilary MantelÕs award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ÔEvery bit as…
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Young Stalin
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- Winner of the Costa Biography Award. What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest,…
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