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A Gentle Occupation
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- 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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Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
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- 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
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- 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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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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Pop Goes The Weasel
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- 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
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- 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)
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- A satirical collection of moments and observations from the Great Depression in Britain
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Solar (signed)
- £30.00
- Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering.…
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Sword of Honour 2: Officers and Gentlemen
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- The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Having been sent home in disgrace (at the end of vol 1) Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show…
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Sword of Honour 3: Unconditional Surrender
- £75.00
- The third volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of…
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Taffy Was A Welshman
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- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924); this time he turns his scorn on the Welsh (having already done so about the Scots, Irish, English and Japanese).
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The Beautiful Teetotaller
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- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a condemnation of the impudence and intolerance of teetotallers.
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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…
- 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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Solar (signed)
- £30.00
- Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering.…
- Add to basket
-
Sword of Honour 2: Officers and Gentlemen
- £40.00
- The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Having been sent home in disgrace (at the end of vol 1) Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show…
- Add to basket
-
Sword of Honour 3: Unconditional Surrender
- £75.00
- The third volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of…
- Add to basket
-
Taffy Was A Welshman
- £35.00
- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924); this time he turns his scorn on the Welsh (having already done so about the Scots, Irish, English and Japanese).
- Add to basket
-
The Beautiful Teetotaller
- £30.00
- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a condemnation of the impudence and intolerance of teetotallers.
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