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A Case of Exploding Mangoes (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE** 'Exuberant and satirical: this is an angry comedy about Zia's brutal legacy to Pakistan' Observer There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest…
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A Gentle Occupation
- £40.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 1st novel, set in the uneasy aftermath of WWII, a group of ordinary British soldiers and their families find themselves stationed as peacekeepers at an outpost in the Java Sea. Whilst attempting to return the island to Dutch control, they are subject to violent attacks by the locals…
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Author, Author, a novel (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- In David Lodge's previous novel (Thinks), the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their…
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Clown Town: Slough House 9 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do. Slow horse River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work. With time to kill, and with his grandfather - a legendary former spy - long dead, River investigates the secrets of the old man's library, and a mysteriously missing book.…
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Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
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Horizon: (Vol XVII, No. 98) The Loved One, By Evelyn Waugh
- £45.00
- The first appearance of Waugh's satire on the ''American way of Death''. In Horizon magazine (pp. 76-159) edited by Cyril Connolly. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely…
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John Cleese: And Now For Something Completely Different
- £40.00
- llustrated throughout using classic and rare images from television, stage and the big screen, this is the first comprehensive, full-colour biography of an extraordinary and singularly English comic talent.'
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £70.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
- £6.00
- Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator…
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Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry
- £12.00
- Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber. Comprising Hughes's monumental works for the stage, poetry, lyrics, interviews, acceptance speeches, written warnings and wordless sketches, this essential volume includes extensive critical reflections by…
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Pop Goes The Weasel
- £150.00
- The final published work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a scathing condemnation of the Scottish people. One of two publications that launched what would become the Fortune Press.
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Put Out More Flags
- £20.00
- Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'. The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and…
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Rough Island Story: News Reel (and Unreal) of the Depression (1931-1935)
- £15.00
- A satirical collection of moments and observations from the Great Depression in Britain
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A Case of Exploding Mangoes (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE** 'Exuberant and satirical: this is an angry comedy about Zia's brutal legacy to Pakistan' Observer There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest…
- Add to basket
-
A Gentle Occupation
- £40.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 1st novel, set in the uneasy aftermath of WWII, a group of ordinary British soldiers and their families find themselves stationed as peacekeepers at an outpost in the Java Sea. Whilst attempting to return the island to Dutch control, they are subject to violent attacks by the locals…
- Add to basket
-
Author, Author, a novel (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- In David Lodge's previous novel (Thinks), the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their…
- Add to basket
-
Clown Town: Slough House 9 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do. Slow horse River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work. With time to kill, and with his grandfather - a legendary former spy - long dead, River investigates the secrets of the old man's library, and a mysteriously missing book.…
- Add to basket
-
Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
- Add to basket
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Horizon: (Vol XVII, No. 98) The Loved One, By Evelyn Waugh
- £45.00
- The first appearance of Waugh's satire on the ''American way of Death''. In Horizon magazine (pp. 76-159) edited by Cyril Connolly. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely…
- Add to basket
-
John Cleese: And Now For Something Completely Different
- £40.00
- llustrated throughout using classic and rare images from television, stage and the big screen, this is the first comprehensive, full-colour biography of an extraordinary and singularly English comic talent.'
- Add to basket
-
Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £70.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
- Add to basket
-
Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
- Add to basket
-
Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
- Add to basket
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
- £6.00
- Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator…
- Add to basket
-
Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry
- £12.00
- Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber. Comprising Hughes's monumental works for the stage, poetry, lyrics, interviews, acceptance speeches, written warnings and wordless sketches, this essential volume includes extensive critical reflections by…
- Add to basket
-
Pop Goes The Weasel
- £150.00
- The final published work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a scathing condemnation of the Scottish people. One of two publications that launched what would become the Fortune Press.
- Add to basket
-
Put Out More Flags
- £20.00
- Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'. The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and…
- Add to basket
-
Rough Island Story: News Reel (and Unreal) of the Depression (1931-1935)
- £15.00
- A satirical collection of moments and observations from the Great Depression in Britain
- Add to basket