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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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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'…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
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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.…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.…
- Add to basket
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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.…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket