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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)
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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
- £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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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.…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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 -…
- Add to basket
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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 -…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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,…
- Add to basket