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22 Days in May: the Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 22 Days in May is the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government in May 2010, along with an essential desription of the early days of the government. David Laws was one of the key Lib Dem…
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A Better Class Of Person: Autobiography 1929-1956 (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This is the first instalment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger". 'It's a classic' Melvyn Bragg
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A Certain Justice (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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A Colder War (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6Õs top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrivesÉ for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon…
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A Colder War (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6Õs top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrivesÉ for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon…
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A Different Kind of Power (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- The deeply personal memoir from the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the worldÕs youngest female head of government and just the second to become a mother in office. Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister…
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A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (Signed)
- £35.00
- It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home…
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A Legacy of Spies (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- Vintage le Carr. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carr exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service,…
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A Life of My Own (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of a wartime childhood, Cambridge friendships and an early marriage to a brilliant journalist. After his sudden death in a war zone, Claire is left…
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A Maggot
- £100.00
- In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of…
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A Perfect Spy (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
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A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
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A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
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22 Days in May: the Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 22 Days in May is the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government in May 2010, along with an essential desription of the early days of the government. David Laws was one of the key Lib Dem…
- Add to basket
-
A Better Class Of Person: Autobiography 1929-1956 (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This is the first instalment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger". 'It's a classic' Melvyn Bragg
- Add to basket
-
A Certain Justice (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander…
- Add to basket
-
A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- Add to basket
-
A Colder War (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6Õs top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrivesÉ for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon…
- Add to basket
-
A Colder War (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6Õs top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrivesÉ for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon…
- Add to basket
-
A Different Kind of Power (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- The deeply personal memoir from the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the worldÕs youngest female head of government and just the second to become a mother in office. Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister…
- Add to basket
-
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (Signed)
- £35.00
- It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home…
- Add to basket
-
A Legacy of Spies (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- Vintage le Carr. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carr exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service,…
- Add to basket
-
A Life of My Own (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of a wartime childhood, Cambridge friendships and an early marriage to a brilliant journalist. After his sudden death in a war zone, Claire is left…
- Add to basket
-
A Maggot
- £100.00
- In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of…
- Add to basket
-
A Perfect Spy (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
- Add to basket
-
A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
- Add to basket
-
A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
- Add to basket
-
A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
- Add to basket