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Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
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Jonas Fisher, a poem in Brown and White (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The 9th Earl of Southesk was a Scottish soldier, explorer and poet. This is the first edition of the long narrative poem, Jonas Fisher.
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: a story
- £22.00
- The timeless classic by Richard Bach. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. ÔMost gulls donÕt bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight Ð how to get from shore to food…
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Jonathan Swift (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rest including 'A Tale of Tub', 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Modest Proposal' and more. This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.
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Journals (Vol. I): 1982-1986
- £40.00
- "Stuck" on a novel in the mid-80s, Anthony Powell kept a journal. It gives an insight into the life of a respected writer and contains portraits of luminaries from the literary world, including Osbert Lancaster, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Lord Longford and others.
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Journals (Vol. II): 1987-1989
- £25.00
- ese journals, started in 1982 when Powell had become 'stuck' on a novel, became the place where he could most happily exercise his extraordinarily acute and often witty powers of observation and record his memories of times and writers past. This, the second volume of the journals sees the writer…
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Journals (Vol. III): 1990-1992
- £20.00
- A third volume of Powell's journals which contains his observations, and his accounts of family occasions and famous visitors.
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Journey Down A Rainbow
- £30.00
- Mr & Mrs Priestley visited the American South-West in the late autumn of 1954 with a set purpose: to observe and reflect upon man, as a social animal (i) in primitive society, a form of which still persists in New Mexico, (ii) in the booming technocracy of mid-twentieth century Texas.…
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Journey into Russia
- £40.00
- Behind the enigmatic iron curtain of Soviet officialdom, Laurens Van der Post travelled extensively to discover the real Russia as treasured by its ordinary people.
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Journey to Jupiter (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #3)
- £30.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
- £30.00
- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
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Jpod (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames end in 'J' are bureaucratically marooned in JPod. JPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The six workers daily confront the forces that define our era: global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2)
- £20.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2)
- £20.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2)
- £12.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2)
- £18.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2) SIGNED
- £45.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Jude the Obscure (Wessex Novels vol VIII)
- £350.00
- Jude Fawley is a young man who longs to better himself and go to Christminster University. However, poverty forces him into a job as a stonemason and an unhappy marriage. When his wife leaves him Jude moves to Christminster determined to follow his dream. There he meets and falls for…
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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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Just William’s Luck
- £30.00
- Crompton's William series Book 26. The only full-length Just William novel. William and the Outlaws decide to form the Knights of the Square Table, ‘rightin’ wrongs’ for a minor fee (‘Small wrongs: sixpence. Big wrongs: one shillin’.) In their quest to earn enough money to become tramps, they stop at…
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Justification: the doctrine of Karl Barth and a catholic reflection
- £15.00
- Hans Kung's groundbreaking study--acclaimed as a model for ecumenical discussion--has become a classic work. Looking at the doctrine of justification as understood by the Protestant theologian Karl Barth in comparison to classic Roman Catholic theology, Kung found that the two had similar ideas about the main elements of justification. He…
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
- £10.00
- Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict…
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Katabasis (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and Ð inconveniently…
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Kate & Emma
- £18.00
- Monica Dickens's novel opens in a Juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a sixteen-year-old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience of going…
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Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday. The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern…
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Kathleen and Frank
- £15.00
- This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father’s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well…
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Keats’ Poems of 1817
- £50.00
- A replica of Keats' 'Poems' [his first volume of verse] published by C. & J. Ollier in 1817
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Keats’ Poems of 1920
- £40.00
- Replica of the 1820 anthology including Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes
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Kennedy 35 (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- *WATERSTONES BEST ESPIONAGE THRILLERS OF 2023* 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices that will…
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Longfellow (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc. - Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of…
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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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King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
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- An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself - was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene…
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King Queen Knave
- £15.00
- A novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into English by the…
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Kipling and War: From ‘Tommy’ to ‘My Boy Jack’
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- Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the…
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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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Komorn hudba / Chamber Music
- £20.00
- Parallel English and Czech translations of poetry from renowned Irish literary giant, James Joyce. Chamber Music is James JoyceÕs debut collection of poetry, thirty-six lyrical, delicately wrought verses that reveal a softer, more musical side of one of modernismÕs most celebrated authors. Though often overshadowed by his later novels, Chamber…
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Kosher Jesus
- £18.00
- Kosher Jesus is a project of more than six years research and writing. The book seeks to offer to Jews and Christians the real story of Jesus, a wholly observant, Pharisaic Rabbi who fought Roman paganism and oppression and was killed for it. While many Christians will be confused by…
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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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L.A. Baby! (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the fall of 2024 and stayed sane by writing poems and talking to Emily Juniper on the phone. She then did the honourable thing and designed this stuff, lovingly filling the pages of a beautifully-sized green book. Amongst the glitz and glamour of…
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La Liturgie ou le Livres des Prières Publiques (BCP in French)
- £16.00
- The BCP translated into French by SPCK
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Labels, A Mediterranean Journey
- £50.00
- Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.…
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Lady Anna
- £9.00
- When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' (Saturday Review)…
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Lady into Fox
- £50.00
- Early novella (and first in his own name) from a member of the Bloomsbury group, and co-founder (with Francis Meynell) of the Nonesuch Press (first published in Oct 1922). Lady into Fox dedicated to, Duncan Grant, his lover at the time, and subsequent father-in-law. The work won the 1922 James…
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Lamb’s Last Essays
- £20.00
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for his humorous Essays of Elia from which the essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron…
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Lancelot and Guinevere (Folio)
- £30.00
- Taken from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, this is the Folio edition of Prof Eugne Vinaver produced in association with OUP/Clarendon Press.
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Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
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Land from the Waters
- £20.00
- Wallace was an English novelist, grammar school teacher and social campaigner. In more than 40 novels she is seen to explore examples of "comic and tragic cross-purposes between different classes, sexes and generations". This historical novel is set against the backdrop of the draining of the fens.
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Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Lascaux and Carnac
- £25.00
- A well-known British Archaeologist on the painted caves in various places in France as well as the magalithic monuments near Carnac in Brittany. Described by the author as 'a light gossipy guide to some aspects of the gastro-archaeology of France.'
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
- £25.00
- Read this prize-winning historianÕs ÒimmersiveÓ ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism. They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s,…
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Last Poems (Housman)
- £20.00
- Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers,…
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Last Stories
- £25.00
- In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed…
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Laughter in the Next Room (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 4)
- £25.00
- Vol IV of Sitwell's five-volume autobiography. There can be little doubt that Osbert Sitwell's finest achievement was his five-volume autobiography published by Macmillan between 1945-50. Vol I' Left Hand, Right Hand! ' Vol II 'The Scarlet Tree' Vol III 'Great Morning' Vol IV 'Laughter in the Next Room' Vol V'…
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Laughter In The Next Room: Being The Fourth Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand!
- £12.00
- Final and 4th volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography
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Lays of Ancient Rome
- £180.00
- With Illustrations by George Scharf, Jr.
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Lazarus is Dead (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What would you do, given the second chance of a lifetime? Like most men in their thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He's busy. Life is good. But he can't cheat destiny. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus returns to life. This part we all know. But as Lazarus…
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Le Cimitière Marin / The Graveyard by the Sea (parallel English & French)
- £150.00
- One of 500 numbered copies printed in at Officia Bodoni in Vicenza, Italy, on Magnani paper, French text with Day Lewis' parallel translation.
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
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Le Morte Darthur (2 vols)
- £120.00
- Two volumes in Macmillan's Library of English Classics, of Thomas Malory's classic fable. Central figures in the Matter of Britain, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table still inspire many books and films today. Drawing on the legends of Camelot from French and English sources, Sir Thomas Malory…
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Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy
- £15.00
- Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked:…
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Leading Out Of Who You Are: Discovering The Secret Of Undefended Leadership
- £10.00
- Leadership involves power and influence over others-but each of us is trapped by a psychological imperative inside us to use whatever control we have for our own ends. Where does this imperative come from? The author describes four ego patterns, formed during our childhood, which is the source of our…
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Leaf Storm
- £10.00
- Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm. 'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of…
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Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The prize-winning memoir: Òan enlightening walk through a life that encompasses West AfricaÉrent strikes, the divided self and the question of graceÓ (Scotland on Sunday, UK). An international bestseller and winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize, Ricard HollowayÕs candid memoir Òis many things. It is a compelling account of a journey…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography
- £15.00
- Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, heÕs simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable manÕ Books of the Year - The Times He was historyÕs most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo…
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Les Diaboliques
- £15.00
- Les Diaboliques consists of six tales of female temptresses, or she-devils, in which horror and the wild Normandy countryside combine to send a shiver down the spine of the reader. Barbey D'Aurevilly (1808-1889) gave up the law for literasture and left Normandy for Paris where he led a very dissolute…
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Lessing’s Theological Writings
- £20.00
- From A & C Black's A Library of Modern Religious Series which reprinted writing of historical importance; each contains an introduction, in this case by Lessing's translator and future Regius Professor, Henry Chadwick.
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Lessons (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts…
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Lest we forget, a war anthology
- £20.00
- Edited by H. B. Elliott and published in aid of Queen Mary Needlework Guild, the writers and poets featured include James Elroy Flecker, Thomas Hardy, Frank Sidgwick, Alfred Noyes, Grace Tollemache et al. The foreword was written by Baroness Orczy (writter of the Scarlet Pimpernel novels).
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Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten
- £35.00
- The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.…
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LETTERS FROM A LIFE: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten. (Two vols) I: 1923-1939; II: 1939-1945
- £60.00
- This two-volume set of letters sheds new light on the composer Benjamin Britten's personal and musical life. "Volume One, 1923-39" opens with a letter from Britten, aged ten, to his mother Edith. This first volume includes the period he spent at the Royal College of Music where he meets influential…
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Letters from Iceland
- £45.00
- As the cover says, "This book takes the form of a series of letters, some in verse, written from Iceland in the summer of 1936. The recipients of the letters include Lord Byron, a tourist, an employee of Shell-Mex, a member of the Oxford City Council, a Cambridge lady don,…
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Letters from Italy
- £25.00
- Karel _apek (1890 -1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He also published a number of travel books, of which this was the first (originally published in Czech in 1923).
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Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer Spiritual Reality in the Personal Christian Life
- £20.00
- In this collection of Francis Schaeffer's letters, the personal, spiritual, and practical side of Dr. Schaeffer's work comes shining through so clearly. Each of us will find here something of ourselves, our frailty and our human need, but also something of what we might become through the transforming presence of…
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Letters to Malcolm, chiefly on prayer
- £35.00
- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer is a book by C. S. Lewis posthumously published in 1964. The book takes the form of a series of letters to a fictional friend, "Malcolm", in which Lewis meditates on prayer as an intimate dialogue between man and God. Beginning with a discussion…
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Lewis Carroll
- £12.00
- de la Mare's brief appreciation of the great Victorian master of the absurd
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Liberation Day (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo. MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York…
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Lies and Loyalties (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- One cool March morning in London, MP Leo Barr is told that his brother, Charlie, is dead. He has hanged himself from a chestnut tree in the grounds of a mental hospital. His family reacts in different ways. Charlie's mother, Imogen, sees no point in pretending that life is still…
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Life and Correspondence of Arnold (vols I & II)
- £60.00
- The biography of the famous Victorian educator and headmaster of Rugby, by one of this former pupils.
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
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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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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- £10.00
- This classic gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues…
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Life’s Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy
- £35.00
- Life's Ultimate Questions is unique among introductory philosophy textbooks. By synthesizing three distinct approaches -- topical, historical, and worldview/conceptual systems -- it affords students a breadth and depth of perspective previously unavailable in standard introductory texts. Part One, Six Conceptual Systems, explores the philosophies of: naturalism, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine,…
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Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 and some early poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Lift Every Heart brings together the collected hymn texts of Timothy Dudley-Smith, one of the most respected and widely published contemporary English hymnwriters. This volume is arranged thematically. It includes informative notes on all the hymns listing themes, suggested tunes, and details of interest, with an extensive series of indexes.
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Light on C. S. Lewis
- £50.00
- Written soon after Lewis's death in 1963, this book contains verious essays on his legacy. Owen Barfield, Austin Farrer, J. A. W. Bennett, Nevill Coghill, John Lawlor, Stella Gibbons, Kathleen Raine, Chad Walsh and Walter Hooper. Index. CONTENTS: Preface by Jocelyn Gibb, Introduction by Owen Barfield. 1. The Christian Apologist…
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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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Lighthousekeeping
- £12.00
- From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless…
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Like a Mighty Army
- £9.00
- Maurice Wood's book on the revolution of lay leadership and evangelism within the Christian church, particularly focused on the Church of England. Foreword by the Right Reverend Gerard Falkner (Bishop of Chelmsford)
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Like A Two-Edged Sword: The Word Of God In Liturgy And History
- £8.00
- Donald Gray, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, Canon of Westminster, and Chairman of the Alcuin Club, has given distinguished service to liturgical renewal. This volume, celebrating his 65th birthday, brings together essays on aspects of the Word of God by a…
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Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Lip Reading (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The popular comedy actress and raconteuse Maureen Lipman reveals how she found herself trussed up backstage in Birmingham, ponders the more peculiar aspects of cricket terminology and explores the miracle of plastic tablecloths.
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Liquid Love: On The Frailty Of Human Bonds
- £16.00
- This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, Ôliquid modernÕ times Ð the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the…
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Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
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Literary Life
- £25.00
- This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for…
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Little Gidding
- £40.00
- The final part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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Little Gidding
- £60.00
- The final part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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Little History of Music (Little Histories)
- £20.00
- Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest…
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Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
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Jonas Fisher, a poem in Brown and White (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The 9th Earl of Southesk was a Scottish soldier, explorer and poet. This is the first edition of the long narrative poem, Jonas Fisher.
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: a story
- £22.00
- The timeless classic by Richard Bach. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. ÔMost gulls donÕt bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight Ð how to get from shore to food…
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Jonathan Swift (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rest including 'A Tale of Tub', 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Modest Proposal' and more. This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.
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Journals (Vol. I): 1982-1986
- £40.00
- "Stuck" on a novel in the mid-80s, Anthony Powell kept a journal. It gives an insight into the life of a respected writer and contains portraits of luminaries from the literary world, including Osbert Lancaster, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Lord Longford and others.
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Journals (Vol. II): 1987-1989
- £25.00
- ese journals, started in 1982 when Powell had become 'stuck' on a novel, became the place where he could most happily exercise his extraordinarily acute and often witty powers of observation and record his memories of times and writers past. This, the second volume of the journals sees the writer…
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Journals (Vol. III): 1990-1992
- £20.00
- A third volume of Powell's journals which contains his observations, and his accounts of family occasions and famous visitors.
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Journey Down A Rainbow
- £30.00
- Mr & Mrs Priestley visited the American South-West in the late autumn of 1954 with a set purpose: to observe and reflect upon man, as a social animal (i) in primitive society, a form of which still persists in New Mexico, (ii) in the booming technocracy of mid-twentieth century Texas.…
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Journey into Russia
- £40.00
- Behind the enigmatic iron curtain of Soviet officialdom, Laurens Van der Post travelled extensively to discover the real Russia as treasured by its ordinary people.
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Journey to Jupiter (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #3)
- £30.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
- £30.00
- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
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Jpod (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames end in 'J' are bureaucratically marooned in JPod. JPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The six workers daily confront the forces that define our era: global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2)
- £20.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2)
- £20.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2)
- £12.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2)
- £18.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Judas 62 (Lachlan Kite 2) SIGNED
- £45.00
- The second book in Charles CummingÕs gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 Ð a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on EarthÉ 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the…
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Jude the Obscure (Wessex Novels vol VIII)
- £350.00
- Jude Fawley is a young man who longs to better himself and go to Christminster University. However, poverty forces him into a job as a stonemason and an unhappy marriage. When his wife leaves him Jude moves to Christminster determined to follow his dream. There he meets and falls for…
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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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Just William’s Luck
- £30.00
- Crompton's William series Book 26. The only full-length Just William novel. William and the Outlaws decide to form the Knights of the Square Table, ‘rightin’ wrongs’ for a minor fee (‘Small wrongs: sixpence. Big wrongs: one shillin’.) In their quest to earn enough money to become tramps, they stop at…
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Justification: the doctrine of Karl Barth and a catholic reflection
- £15.00
- Hans Kung's groundbreaking study--acclaimed as a model for ecumenical discussion--has become a classic work. Looking at the doctrine of justification as understood by the Protestant theologian Karl Barth in comparison to classic Roman Catholic theology, Kung found that the two had similar ideas about the main elements of justification. He…
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
- £10.00
- Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict…
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Katabasis (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and Ð inconveniently…
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Kate & Emma
- £18.00
- Monica Dickens's novel opens in a Juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a sixteen-year-old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience of going…
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Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday. The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern…
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Kathleen and Frank
- £15.00
- This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father’s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well…
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Keats’ Poems of 1817
- £50.00
- A replica of Keats' 'Poems' [his first volume of verse] published by C. & J. Ollier in 1817
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Keats’ Poems of 1920
- £40.00
- Replica of the 1820 anthology including Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes
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Kennedy 35 (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- *WATERSTONES BEST ESPIONAGE THRILLERS OF 2023* 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices that will…
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Longfellow (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc. - Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of…
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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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King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
- £25.00
- An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself - was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene…
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King Queen Knave
- £15.00
- A novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into English by the…
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Kipling and War: From ‘Tommy’ to ‘My Boy Jack’
- £15.00
- Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the…
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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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Komorn hudba / Chamber Music
- £20.00
- Parallel English and Czech translations of poetry from renowned Irish literary giant, James Joyce. Chamber Music is James JoyceÕs debut collection of poetry, thirty-six lyrical, delicately wrought verses that reveal a softer, more musical side of one of modernismÕs most celebrated authors. Though often overshadowed by his later novels, Chamber…
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Kosher Jesus
- £18.00
- Kosher Jesus is a project of more than six years research and writing. The book seeks to offer to Jews and Christians the real story of Jesus, a wholly observant, Pharisaic Rabbi who fought Roman paganism and oppression and was killed for it. While many Christians will be confused by…
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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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L.A. Baby! (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the fall of 2024 and stayed sane by writing poems and talking to Emily Juniper on the phone. She then did the honourable thing and designed this stuff, lovingly filling the pages of a beautifully-sized green book. Amongst the glitz and glamour of…
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La Liturgie ou le Livres des Prières Publiques (BCP in French)
- £16.00
- The BCP translated into French by SPCK
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Labels, A Mediterranean Journey
- £50.00
- Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.…
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Lady Anna
- £9.00
- When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' (Saturday Review)…
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Lady into Fox
- £50.00
- Early novella (and first in his own name) from a member of the Bloomsbury group, and co-founder (with Francis Meynell) of the Nonesuch Press (first published in Oct 1922). Lady into Fox dedicated to, Duncan Grant, his lover at the time, and subsequent father-in-law. The work won the 1922 James…
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Lamb’s Last Essays
- £20.00
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for his humorous Essays of Elia from which the essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron…
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Lancelot and Guinevere (Folio)
- £30.00
- Taken from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, this is the Folio edition of Prof Eugne Vinaver produced in association with OUP/Clarendon Press.
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Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
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Land from the Waters
- £20.00
- Wallace was an English novelist, grammar school teacher and social campaigner. In more than 40 novels she is seen to explore examples of "comic and tragic cross-purposes between different classes, sexes and generations". This historical novel is set against the backdrop of the draining of the fens.
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Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Lascaux and Carnac
- £25.00
- A well-known British Archaeologist on the painted caves in various places in France as well as the magalithic monuments near Carnac in Brittany. Described by the author as 'a light gossipy guide to some aspects of the gastro-archaeology of France.'
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
- £25.00
- Read this prize-winning historianÕs ÒimmersiveÓ ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism. They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s,…
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Last Poems (Housman)
- £20.00
- Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers,…
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Last Stories
- £25.00
- In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed…
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Laughter in the Next Room (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 4)
- £25.00
- Vol IV of Sitwell's five-volume autobiography. There can be little doubt that Osbert Sitwell's finest achievement was his five-volume autobiography published by Macmillan between 1945-50. Vol I' Left Hand, Right Hand! ' Vol II 'The Scarlet Tree' Vol III 'Great Morning' Vol IV 'Laughter in the Next Room' Vol V'…
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Laughter In The Next Room: Being The Fourth Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand!
- £12.00
- Final and 4th volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography
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Lays of Ancient Rome
- £180.00
- With Illustrations by George Scharf, Jr.
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Lazarus is Dead (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What would you do, given the second chance of a lifetime? Like most men in their thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He's busy. Life is good. But he can't cheat destiny. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus returns to life. This part we all know. But as Lazarus…
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Le Cimitière Marin / The Graveyard by the Sea (parallel English & French)
- £150.00
- One of 500 numbered copies printed in at Officia Bodoni in Vicenza, Italy, on Magnani paper, French text with Day Lewis' parallel translation.
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
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Le Morte Darthur (2 vols)
- £120.00
- Two volumes in Macmillan's Library of English Classics, of Thomas Malory's classic fable. Central figures in the Matter of Britain, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table still inspire many books and films today. Drawing on the legends of Camelot from French and English sources, Sir Thomas Malory…
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Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy
- £15.00
- Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked:…
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Leading Out Of Who You Are: Discovering The Secret Of Undefended Leadership
- £10.00
- Leadership involves power and influence over others-but each of us is trapped by a psychological imperative inside us to use whatever control we have for our own ends. Where does this imperative come from? The author describes four ego patterns, formed during our childhood, which is the source of our…
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Leaf Storm
- £10.00
- Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm. 'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of…
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Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The prize-winning memoir: Òan enlightening walk through a life that encompasses West AfricaÉrent strikes, the divided self and the question of graceÓ (Scotland on Sunday, UK). An international bestseller and winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize, Ricard HollowayÕs candid memoir Òis many things. It is a compelling account of a journey…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography
- £15.00
- Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, heÕs simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable manÕ Books of the Year - The Times He was historyÕs most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo…
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Les Diaboliques
- £15.00
- Les Diaboliques consists of six tales of female temptresses, or she-devils, in which horror and the wild Normandy countryside combine to send a shiver down the spine of the reader. Barbey D'Aurevilly (1808-1889) gave up the law for literasture and left Normandy for Paris where he led a very dissolute…
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Lessing’s Theological Writings
- £20.00
- From A & C Black's A Library of Modern Religious Series which reprinted writing of historical importance; each contains an introduction, in this case by Lessing's translator and future Regius Professor, Henry Chadwick.
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Lessons (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts…
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Lest we forget, a war anthology
- £20.00
- Edited by H. B. Elliott and published in aid of Queen Mary Needlework Guild, the writers and poets featured include James Elroy Flecker, Thomas Hardy, Frank Sidgwick, Alfred Noyes, Grace Tollemache et al. The foreword was written by Baroness Orczy (writter of the Scarlet Pimpernel novels).
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Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten
- £35.00
- The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.…
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LETTERS FROM A LIFE: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten. (Two vols) I: 1923-1939; II: 1939-1945
- £60.00
- This two-volume set of letters sheds new light on the composer Benjamin Britten's personal and musical life. "Volume One, 1923-39" opens with a letter from Britten, aged ten, to his mother Edith. This first volume includes the period he spent at the Royal College of Music where he meets influential…
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Letters from Iceland
- £45.00
- As the cover says, "This book takes the form of a series of letters, some in verse, written from Iceland in the summer of 1936. The recipients of the letters include Lord Byron, a tourist, an employee of Shell-Mex, a member of the Oxford City Council, a Cambridge lady don,…
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Letters from Italy
- £25.00
- Karel _apek (1890 -1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He also published a number of travel books, of which this was the first (originally published in Czech in 1923).
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Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer Spiritual Reality in the Personal Christian Life
- £20.00
- In this collection of Francis Schaeffer's letters, the personal, spiritual, and practical side of Dr. Schaeffer's work comes shining through so clearly. Each of us will find here something of ourselves, our frailty and our human need, but also something of what we might become through the transforming presence of…
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Letters to Malcolm, chiefly on prayer
- £35.00
- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer is a book by C. S. Lewis posthumously published in 1964. The book takes the form of a series of letters to a fictional friend, "Malcolm", in which Lewis meditates on prayer as an intimate dialogue between man and God. Beginning with a discussion…
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Lewis Carroll
- £12.00
- de la Mare's brief appreciation of the great Victorian master of the absurd
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Liberation Day (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo. MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York…
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Lies and Loyalties (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- One cool March morning in London, MP Leo Barr is told that his brother, Charlie, is dead. He has hanged himself from a chestnut tree in the grounds of a mental hospital. His family reacts in different ways. Charlie's mother, Imogen, sees no point in pretending that life is still…
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Life and Correspondence of Arnold (vols I & II)
- £60.00
- The biography of the famous Victorian educator and headmaster of Rugby, by one of this former pupils.
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
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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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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
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- This classic gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues…
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Life’s Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy
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- Life's Ultimate Questions is unique among introductory philosophy textbooks. By synthesizing three distinct approaches -- topical, historical, and worldview/conceptual systems -- it affords students a breadth and depth of perspective previously unavailable in standard introductory texts. Part One, Six Conceptual Systems, explores the philosophies of: naturalism, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine,…
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Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 and some early poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Lift Every Heart brings together the collected hymn texts of Timothy Dudley-Smith, one of the most respected and widely published contemporary English hymnwriters. This volume is arranged thematically. It includes informative notes on all the hymns listing themes, suggested tunes, and details of interest, with an extensive series of indexes.
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Light on C. S. Lewis
- £50.00
- Written soon after Lewis's death in 1963, this book contains verious essays on his legacy. Owen Barfield, Austin Farrer, J. A. W. Bennett, Nevill Coghill, John Lawlor, Stella Gibbons, Kathleen Raine, Chad Walsh and Walter Hooper. Index. CONTENTS: Preface by Jocelyn Gibb, Introduction by Owen Barfield. 1. The Christian Apologist…
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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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Lighthousekeeping
- £12.00
- From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless…
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Like a Mighty Army
- £9.00
- Maurice Wood's book on the revolution of lay leadership and evangelism within the Christian church, particularly focused on the Church of England. Foreword by the Right Reverend Gerard Falkner (Bishop of Chelmsford)
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Like A Two-Edged Sword: The Word Of God In Liturgy And History
- £8.00
- Donald Gray, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, Canon of Westminster, and Chairman of the Alcuin Club, has given distinguished service to liturgical renewal. This volume, celebrating his 65th birthday, brings together essays on aspects of the Word of God by a…
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Limits and Renewals
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Lip Reading (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The popular comedy actress and raconteuse Maureen Lipman reveals how she found herself trussed up backstage in Birmingham, ponders the more peculiar aspects of cricket terminology and explores the miracle of plastic tablecloths.
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Liquid Love: On The Frailty Of Human Bonds
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- This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, Ôliquid modernÕ times Ð the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the…
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Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
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Literary Life
- £25.00
- This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for…
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Little Gidding
- £40.00
- The final part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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Little Gidding
- £60.00
- The final part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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Little History of Music (Little Histories)
- £20.00
- Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest…
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