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Messengers of Day (Vol 2 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £18.00
- The second volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1926-1934, includes pen portraits of several friends, including George Orwell.
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Messiah
- £40.00
- Gore Vidal's "Messiah" is a chilling exploration of faith, manipulation, and the seductive power of belief. This dystopian novel delves into a future consumed by a new religion centered on the glorification of suicide. Through sharp satire, Vidal examines the nature of cults and the dangers of blind devotion. A…
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Meurtre dans la Cathédrale
- £75.00
- Meurtre dans la cathédrale. Traduit de l?anglais et présenté par Henri Fluchère. Collection Des Cahiers du Rhône. / Translation by Henri Fluchère whose introductory essay is included after the play's text. The essay is dated July 1939.
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MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
- £10.00
- A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carr world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carr's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5. Much to…
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MI5: British Security Service Operations 1909-1945
- £20.00
- Nigel West is the nom de plume of former MP, Rupert Allason, under which he has written many books on espionage and the Cold War.
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Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £18.00
- In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems express contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a…
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
- £25.00
- A fresh and engaging account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton. For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant…
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Milton’s Earlier Poems
- £14.00
- Cassell's National Library #34, includes William Cowper's translations of Milton's Latin and Italian poems. Includes Psalms paraphrased, Elegy for Lancelot Andrews, Ode on Nativity etc.
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Miracles, a Preliminary Study
- £75.00
- The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.Õ This is the key statement of ÔMiraclesÕ, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in…
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Miracles, a Preliminary Study
- £50.00
- The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.Õ This is the key statement of ÔMiraclesÕ, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £35.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £60.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Miss Marple’s 6 Final Cases and 2 other stories
- £25.00
- Published 3 years after Christie's death, this anthology brought together stories for the first time in one place in the UK. Contents: Sanctuary; Strange Jest; Tape-Measure Murder; The Case of the Caretaker; The Case of the Perfet Maid; Miss Marple Tells a Story; The Dressmaker's Doll; In a Glass Darkly.
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Missee Lee – a sequel to Peter Duck
- £18.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 10. Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them. forever.
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Mission to the Moon (Winston Science Fiction #30)
- £16.00
- Jim Stanley, who had helped to build the first space station, was thrilled to return to it as a member of the crew selected to erect the ships which would fulfill Man's age-long dream to reach the Moon. A total effort was being made to surpass the progress achieved in…
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
- £300.00
- "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" (DNB). Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a missionary in Africa and linguist. One of Moffat's greatest achievements was the translation and printing of the New Testament into Tswana, for the use of…
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MLA Handbook (8th edition)
- £9.00
- The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book or…
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Molly Fox’s Birthday
- £10.00
- Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest day of the year, the playwright reflects upon her own life, Mollys, and that of…
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Money from Holme
- £20.00
- Sebastian Holme was a painter who, as the exhibition catalogue recorded, had met a tragic death during a foreign revolution. Art dealer, Braunkopf, has made a small fortune from the exhibition. Unfortunately, Holme turns up at the private view in this fascinating mystery of the art world in which Mervyn…
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Money in the Bank
- £30.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Money in the Bank
- £30.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Money in the Bank
- £25.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Monkey Grip (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD 'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' Lauren Groff 'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' David Nicholls 'A revelation. Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' Madelaine Lucas In 1970s Melbourne, Nora is…
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Monsignor Quixote
- £35.00
- With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times.
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Monsignor Quixote
- £35.00
- With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times.
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Monsignor Quixote
- £35.00
- With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times.
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Moortown
- £40.00
- Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979. The author, poet Ted Hughes, married Carol Orchard, a farmer's daughter, in 1970. Ted and his father-in-law, Jack Orchard, ran Moortown farm near Winkleigh in Mid Devon. The book contains a moving…
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More Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
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More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
- £12.00
- Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us Ð it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people…
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More Letters of Herbert Hensley Henson
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- Herbert Hensley Henson (8 November 1863 Ð 27 September 1947) was an Anglican priest, bishop, scholar and controversialist. He was Bishop of Hereford from 1918 to 1920 and Bishop of Durham from 1920 to 1939. The son of a zealous member of the Plymouth Brethren, Henson was not allowed to…
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More Poems (Housman)
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- An anthology of Housman's poetry published posthumously in the year he died, edited by his brother to whom he'd left this instruction: I direct my brother, Laurence Housman, to destroy all my prose manuscripts in whatever language, and I permit him but do not enjoin him to select from my…
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More Rough Rhymes of a Padre
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- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (1883Ð1929) was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed "Woodbine Willie" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes to the soldiers he met, as well as spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. He became known for his poetry written for and…
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Morning Flight: a book of Wildfowl
- £35.00
- Peter Scott made most of his wildfowl studies in the marshes of East Anglia, and this book (his first of many) first came out in 1936. The Times: It is safe to say that no one else could bring off the right and left, write the text and paint these…
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Morning, Noon and Night in London
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- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
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Mornings in the Dark: The Graham Greene Film Reader
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- Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been closely involved in so many aspects of the film business all their lives, as Graham Greene. Even at University he was touching on it. His long-term experience of the evolving art included producing, performing, script-writing and adaptation. Not to mention the…
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Most Secret
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- In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II. This is classic Shute: at once a thrilling adventure that…
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Motel Nirvana: Dreaming Of The New Age In The American Desert
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- A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.
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Mother Land (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish island, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian,…
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Mozart: Traces of Transcendence
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- In a theological study of Mozart's music, Kung discusses the composer's Catholic background--something that, surprisingly, has hardly been treated by scholars--and reveals, among other things, the possibility of a new creative understanding of Mozart's "Coronation Mass", as interpretated by Mozart's music. A provocative study that may even surpass Karl Barth's…
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
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- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The popular view of the First World War remains that of 'Blackadder': incompetent generals sending our soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to…
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Mules
- £45.00
- The 2nd collection of poems by the acclaimed Irish poet.
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Mulliner Nights
- £20.00
- A private detective who can make the guilty confess simply by smiling at them. An artist so intimidated by his morally impeccable cat that he feels compelled to wear formal attire at dinner. A devotee of Proust whose life is turned upside down when he inadvertently subscribes to a correspondence…
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Multitude and Solitude
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- Sometimes an actor hesitated for his lines, forgot a few words, or improvised others. He drew in his breath sharply, whenever this happened, it was like a false note in music, but he knew that he was the only person there who felt the discord. He found himself admiring the…
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Munich
- £12.00
- MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be known for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two…
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £15.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £25.00
- 2nd edition (2nd impression) of Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral first published 1935 - with some alterations made for 2nd impression as TSE indicates in preface dated Jan 1936.
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £300.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £50.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral (with SIGNED Letter)
- £1,000.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Music and Silence
- £55.00
- In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the musicians have to perform in a freezing cellar underneath the Royal apartments, he understands that he's come to a…
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Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1600
- £30.00
- In the years following the Act of Uniformity in 1549, musicians seemed to thrive on the challenge of the New Prayer Book, and the successive reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I bought a rich and varied repertory of vernacular church music. Peter Le Huray traces these developments…
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Mustard in the Mouth
- £35.00
- The text of a speech given by Sanderson to the Toronto Arts & Letters Club on 25 September 1975. The Chair was taken by the Club's President, Elmer S. Phillips. This edition is limited to 110 numbered copies designed and hand-printed by Alan Anderson at the Tregara Press, Edinburgh. Printed…
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
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- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
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My Apprenticeship
- £100.00
- My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an…
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My Driver (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies from London to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive Housekeeper of Kampala's up-market Sheraton Hotel. But Mary has her own agenda: her son Jamil is missing,…
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My Friend the Professor
- £100.00
- Young probationer nurse Frances Dorland is helped with the ups and downs of hospital life by "the Professor". But just who is this kind and understanding older man?
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My Life and Times: Octave Three 1900-1907
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- Volume Three out of Ten of Compton Mackenzie's memoirs. "With its bravura, high spirits and zest for life, its dolce ardor, Octave Three is lyrical, comic and elegaic in turn. Each chapter contains a world of evocation and the pages dance with a life of their own."
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My Lives (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891Ð1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press. From a famous literary family (his mother was the poet Alice), he was a conscientious objector in 1WW, went on hunger strike, was a communist for a time, and even big business entrepreneur. He…
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My Old Man: a Personal History of Music Hall
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the…
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My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend
- £15.00
- Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti. A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was…
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My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
- £13.00
- In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16's liaison…
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Napoleon’s Last Island (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by…
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Napoleon’s Last Island (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by…
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell…
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Narcissus and Goldmund
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- One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian. One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled…
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Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne (Folio Society)
- £30.00
- Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tortoise…
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Nazareth or Social Chaos
- £45.00
- McNabb was a renowend Catholic apologist and theologian, born in Ireland and subsequently spending many years ministering in London.
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Near East
- £15.00
- Beaton's account of his 3 months in the Near East taking photographs and collecting material for the British Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. Includes many b/w photographs
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Netherland
- £12.00
- In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11,…
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Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Finest Speeches (SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 'This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by…
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Never Judge a Man by His Umbrella
- £280.00
- The author is the son of Sir Claude Elliott, a former Head Master and Provost of Eton and a notable figure in the world of mountaineering. The opening chapters of this always entertaining book contain an affectionate and amusing portrait of Sir Claude, both at Cambridge and at Eton, chairman…
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New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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New Cemetery (SIGNED, BLACK)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Cemetery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Poems (Francis Thompson)
- £24.00
- The final anthology of Thompson's poetry originally published in the year of his death (1907).
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New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
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New Selected Poems 1966-1987
- £14.00
- This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987). 'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse…
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New Selected Poems 1988-2013
- £18.00
- New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher…
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New York
- £50.00
- After four visits during the 1920s, Paul Morand wrote a profile of the city of New York in 1930. This English translation came out the following year. Theodore Purdy, Jr. wrote about the book: "There is a good deal in it that is inaccurate, and the spellings of American names…
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New York Yacht Club 1844-1994 (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- A history of the prestigious New York Yacht Club covering its 'first century and a half' in what Walter Cronkite described as 'a dramatic story of winners and losers, gallant gentlemen and an occasional spoilsport, great yachts and real adventurers united by their relentless quest for speed under sail. Its…
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News of the World
- £35.00
- George Granville Barker (1913-1991) was an English poet identified with the New Apocalyptics movement which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. He was helped by his editor at Faber, T. S. Eliot, to get a university teaching post in Japan which ended in 1940 as hostilities began.
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Night Over Water
- £20.00
- Britain has just declared war against Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the worldÕs most luxurious airliner, the Pan American Clipper, takes off on its final flight to neutral New York Ð a haven for those fleeing the conflict. The passengers aboard the plane each have their own reasons for leaving Britain.…
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Nights of Plague (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- Plague is not the only killer -- an historical epic of murder and mystery, myth-making and nation-building, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald built…
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
- £600.00
- The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works…
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Nineteen Steps (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- Love blooms in the darkest daysÉ London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warden Billy, the boy next door whoÕs always been…
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Nineteen Stories (Graham Greene)
- £200.00
- Eight of the stories originally appeared in an earlier collection (1935) entitled The Basement Room. Among those new to this collection are "A Drive in the Country," "The Lottery Ticket," and "The Other Side of the Border," the latter two of which were excised from later collections.
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Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
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No Compromise: The Life Story Of Keith Green (revised & expanded)
- £10.00
- An intimate and moving account from the widow of the great writer, musician, and minister Keith Green chronicles Green's career through to his untimely death at only 28, discussing his unpublished songs and journals and showing how his inspirational ministry lives on.
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No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845
- £15.00
- Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward Ð and some of them, in the authorÕs…
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No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- £15.00
- The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict…
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No Empty Phrases, an anthology of poetry and prose based on the Lord’s Prayer
- £8.00
- The Lord's Prayer is older than the Church. A Fresh and stimulating exploration of its meaning is thus an appropriate publication for the third millennium. Donald Hilton, well known for his series of anthologies, has gathered a variety of items of poetry and prose stemming from many different parts of…
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No More Dragons: Get Free From Broken Dreams, Lost Hope, Bad Religion, And Other Monsters
- £10.00
- Becoming a dragon is a dangerously subtle process. You make a long chain of bad choices. The chain gradually wraps around you. Layer by layer, it begins to take on the aspect of scales. One day you glance at yourself in the mirror and a monster is staring back at…
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No More Ghosts: Selected Poems
- £75.00
- A selection of poems by popular author Robert Graves, British author whose work never ran out of print. This volume including titles such as 'The Haunted House,' 'Apples and Water,' 'Time,' 'On Dwelling,' 'Love in Barrenness,' and many others.
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No One Is Talking About This (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- * WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 ** A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK * This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when…
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No One Writes to the Colonel
- £10.00
- Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that…
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No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel
- £20.00
- In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.…
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Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 5)
- £20.00
- Full title: Noble essences, or, courteous revelations: Being a book of characters and the fifth and last volume of "Left hand, right hand" The 5th and final volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography.
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Nonesuch (SIGNED, Special Edition)
- £80.00
- A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill. 'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley 'His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer 'A literary magician.' Daily Telegraph 'My god can he write.' Richard Osman. It's the summer of…
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
- £25.00
- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Messengers of Day (Vol 2 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £18.00
- The second volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1926-1934, includes pen portraits of several friends, including George Orwell.
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Messiah
- £40.00
- Gore Vidal's "Messiah" is a chilling exploration of faith, manipulation, and the seductive power of belief. This dystopian novel delves into a future consumed by a new religion centered on the glorification of suicide. Through sharp satire, Vidal examines the nature of cults and the dangers of blind devotion. A…
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Meurtre dans la Cathédrale
- £75.00
- Meurtre dans la cathédrale. Traduit de l?anglais et présenté par Henri Fluchère. Collection Des Cahiers du Rhône. / Translation by Henri Fluchère whose introductory essay is included after the play's text. The essay is dated July 1939.
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MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
- £10.00
- A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carr world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carr's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5. Much to…
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MI5: British Security Service Operations 1909-1945
- £20.00
- Nigel West is the nom de plume of former MP, Rupert Allason, under which he has written many books on espionage and the Cold War.
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Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £18.00
- In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems express contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a…
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
- £25.00
- A fresh and engaging account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton. For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant…
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Milton’s Earlier Poems
- £14.00
- Cassell's National Library #34, includes William Cowper's translations of Milton's Latin and Italian poems. Includes Psalms paraphrased, Elegy for Lancelot Andrews, Ode on Nativity etc.
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Miracles, a Preliminary Study
- £75.00
- The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.Õ This is the key statement of ÔMiraclesÕ, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in…
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Miracles, a Preliminary Study
- £50.00
- The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.Õ This is the key statement of ÔMiraclesÕ, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £35.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £60.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Miss Marple’s 6 Final Cases and 2 other stories
- £25.00
- Published 3 years after Christie's death, this anthology brought together stories for the first time in one place in the UK. Contents: Sanctuary; Strange Jest; Tape-Measure Murder; The Case of the Caretaker; The Case of the Perfet Maid; Miss Marple Tells a Story; The Dressmaker's Doll; In a Glass Darkly.
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Missee Lee – a sequel to Peter Duck
- £18.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 10. Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them. forever.
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Mission to the Moon (Winston Science Fiction #30)
- £16.00
- Jim Stanley, who had helped to build the first space station, was thrilled to return to it as a member of the crew selected to erect the ships which would fulfill Man's age-long dream to reach the Moon. A total effort was being made to surpass the progress achieved in…
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
- £300.00
- "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" (DNB). Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a missionary in Africa and linguist. One of Moffat's greatest achievements was the translation and printing of the New Testament into Tswana, for the use of…
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MLA Handbook (8th edition)
- £9.00
- The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book or…
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Molly Fox’s Birthday
- £10.00
- Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest day of the year, the playwright reflects upon her own life, Mollys, and that of…
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Money from Holme
- £20.00
- Sebastian Holme was a painter who, as the exhibition catalogue recorded, had met a tragic death during a foreign revolution. Art dealer, Braunkopf, has made a small fortune from the exhibition. Unfortunately, Holme turns up at the private view in this fascinating mystery of the art world in which Mervyn…
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Money in the Bank
- £30.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Money in the Bank
- £30.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Money in the Bank
- £25.00
- First published in the USA in 1942, UK readers had to wait until 1946 before its publication due to suspicions about Wodehouse's possible collaboration with the Nazi regime. Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he…
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Monkey Grip (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD 'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' Lauren Groff 'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' David Nicholls 'A revelation. Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' Madelaine Lucas In 1970s Melbourne, Nora is…
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Monsignor Quixote
- £35.00
- With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times.
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Monsignor Quixote
- £35.00
- With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times.
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Monsignor Quixote
- £35.00
- With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times.
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Moortown
- £40.00
- Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979. The author, poet Ted Hughes, married Carol Orchard, a farmer's daughter, in 1970. Ted and his father-in-law, Jack Orchard, ran Moortown farm near Winkleigh in Mid Devon. The book contains a moving…
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More Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
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More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
- £12.00
- Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us Ð it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people…
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More Letters of Herbert Hensley Henson
- £12.00
- Herbert Hensley Henson (8 November 1863 Ð 27 September 1947) was an Anglican priest, bishop, scholar and controversialist. He was Bishop of Hereford from 1918 to 1920 and Bishop of Durham from 1920 to 1939. The son of a zealous member of the Plymouth Brethren, Henson was not allowed to…
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More Poems (Housman)
- £15.00
- An anthology of Housman's poetry published posthumously in the year he died, edited by his brother to whom he'd left this instruction: I direct my brother, Laurence Housman, to destroy all my prose manuscripts in whatever language, and I permit him but do not enjoin him to select from my…
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More Rough Rhymes of a Padre
- £25.00
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (1883Ð1929) was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed "Woodbine Willie" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes to the soldiers he met, as well as spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. He became known for his poetry written for and…
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Morning Flight: a book of Wildfowl
- £35.00
- Peter Scott made most of his wildfowl studies in the marshes of East Anglia, and this book (his first of many) first came out in 1936. The Times: It is safe to say that no one else could bring off the right and left, write the text and paint these…
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Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
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Mornings in the Dark: The Graham Greene Film Reader
- £18.00
- Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been closely involved in so many aspects of the film business all their lives, as Graham Greene. Even at University he was touching on it. His long-term experience of the evolving art included producing, performing, script-writing and adaptation. Not to mention the…
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Most Secret
- £12.00
- In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II. This is classic Shute: at once a thrilling adventure that…
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Motel Nirvana: Dreaming Of The New Age In The American Desert
- £12.00
- A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.
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Mother Land (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish island, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian,…
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Mozart: Traces of Transcendence
- £10.00
- In a theological study of Mozart's music, Kung discusses the composer's Catholic background--something that, surprisingly, has hardly been treated by scholars--and reveals, among other things, the possibility of a new creative understanding of Mozart's "Coronation Mass", as interpretated by Mozart's music. A provocative study that may even surpass Karl Barth's…
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The popular view of the First World War remains that of 'Blackadder': incompetent generals sending our soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to…
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Mules
- £45.00
- The 2nd collection of poems by the acclaimed Irish poet.
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Mulliner Nights
- £20.00
- A private detective who can make the guilty confess simply by smiling at them. An artist so intimidated by his morally impeccable cat that he feels compelled to wear formal attire at dinner. A devotee of Proust whose life is turned upside down when he inadvertently subscribes to a correspondence…
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Multitude and Solitude
- £15.00
- Sometimes an actor hesitated for his lines, forgot a few words, or improvised others. He drew in his breath sharply, whenever this happened, it was like a false note in music, but he knew that he was the only person there who felt the discord. He found himself admiring the…
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Munich
- £12.00
- MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be known for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two…
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £15.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £25.00
- 2nd edition (2nd impression) of Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral first published 1935 - with some alterations made for 2nd impression as TSE indicates in preface dated Jan 1936.
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £300.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £50.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral (with SIGNED Letter)
- £1,000.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Music and Silence
- £55.00
- In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the musicians have to perform in a freezing cellar underneath the Royal apartments, he understands that he's come to a…
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Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1600
- £30.00
- In the years following the Act of Uniformity in 1549, musicians seemed to thrive on the challenge of the New Prayer Book, and the successive reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I bought a rich and varied repertory of vernacular church music. Peter Le Huray traces these developments…
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Mustard in the Mouth
- £35.00
- The text of a speech given by Sanderson to the Toronto Arts & Letters Club on 25 September 1975. The Chair was taken by the Club's President, Elmer S. Phillips. This edition is limited to 110 numbered copies designed and hand-printed by Alan Anderson at the Tregara Press, Edinburgh. Printed…
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
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My Apprenticeship
- £100.00
- My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an…
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My Driver (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies from London to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive Housekeeper of Kampala's up-market Sheraton Hotel. But Mary has her own agenda: her son Jamil is missing,…
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My Friend the Professor
- £100.00
- Young probationer nurse Frances Dorland is helped with the ups and downs of hospital life by "the Professor". But just who is this kind and understanding older man?
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My Life and Times: Octave Three 1900-1907
- £30.00
- Volume Three out of Ten of Compton Mackenzie's memoirs. "With its bravura, high spirits and zest for life, its dolce ardor, Octave Three is lyrical, comic and elegaic in turn. Each chapter contains a world of evocation and the pages dance with a life of their own."
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My Lives (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891Ð1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press. From a famous literary family (his mother was the poet Alice), he was a conscientious objector in 1WW, went on hunger strike, was a communist for a time, and even big business entrepreneur. He…
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My Old Man: a Personal History of Music Hall
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the…
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My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend
- £15.00
- Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti. A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was…
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My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
- £13.00
- In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16's liaison…
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Napoleon’s Last Island (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by…
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Napoleon’s Last Island (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by…
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell…
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Narcissus and Goldmund
- £10.00
- One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian. One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled…
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Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne (Folio Society)
- £30.00
- Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tortoise…
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Nazareth or Social Chaos
- £45.00
- McNabb was a renowend Catholic apologist and theologian, born in Ireland and subsequently spending many years ministering in London.
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Near East
- £15.00
- Beaton's account of his 3 months in the Near East taking photographs and collecting material for the British Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. Includes many b/w photographs
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Netherland
- £12.00
- In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11,…
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Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Finest Speeches (SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 'This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by…
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Never Judge a Man by His Umbrella
- £280.00
- The author is the son of Sir Claude Elliott, a former Head Master and Provost of Eton and a notable figure in the world of mountaineering. The opening chapters of this always entertaining book contain an affectionate and amusing portrait of Sir Claude, both at Cambridge and at Eton, chairman…
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New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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New Cemetery (SIGNED, BLACK)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Cemetery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Poems (Francis Thompson)
- £24.00
- The final anthology of Thompson's poetry originally published in the year of his death (1907).
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New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
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New Selected Poems 1966-1987
- £14.00
- This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987). 'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse…
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New Selected Poems 1988-2013
- £18.00
- New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher…
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New York
- £50.00
- After four visits during the 1920s, Paul Morand wrote a profile of the city of New York in 1930. This English translation came out the following year. Theodore Purdy, Jr. wrote about the book: "There is a good deal in it that is inaccurate, and the spellings of American names…
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New York Yacht Club 1844-1994 (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- A history of the prestigious New York Yacht Club covering its 'first century and a half' in what Walter Cronkite described as 'a dramatic story of winners and losers, gallant gentlemen and an occasional spoilsport, great yachts and real adventurers united by their relentless quest for speed under sail. Its…
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News of the World
- £35.00
- George Granville Barker (1913-1991) was an English poet identified with the New Apocalyptics movement which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. He was helped by his editor at Faber, T. S. Eliot, to get a university teaching post in Japan which ended in 1940 as hostilities began.
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Night Over Water
- £20.00
- Britain has just declared war against Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the worldÕs most luxurious airliner, the Pan American Clipper, takes off on its final flight to neutral New York Ð a haven for those fleeing the conflict. The passengers aboard the plane each have their own reasons for leaving Britain.…
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Nights of Plague (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- Plague is not the only killer -- an historical epic of murder and mystery, myth-making and nation-building, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald built…
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
- £600.00
- The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works…
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Nineteen Steps (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- Love blooms in the darkest daysÉ London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warden Billy, the boy next door whoÕs always been…
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Nineteen Stories (Graham Greene)
- £200.00
- Eight of the stories originally appeared in an earlier collection (1935) entitled The Basement Room. Among those new to this collection are "A Drive in the Country," "The Lottery Ticket," and "The Other Side of the Border," the latter two of which were excised from later collections.
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Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
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No Compromise: The Life Story Of Keith Green (revised & expanded)
- £10.00
- An intimate and moving account from the widow of the great writer, musician, and minister Keith Green chronicles Green's career through to his untimely death at only 28, discussing his unpublished songs and journals and showing how his inspirational ministry lives on.
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No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845
- £15.00
- Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward Ð and some of them, in the authorÕs…
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No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- £15.00
- The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict…
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No Empty Phrases, an anthology of poetry and prose based on the Lord’s Prayer
- £8.00
- The Lord's Prayer is older than the Church. A Fresh and stimulating exploration of its meaning is thus an appropriate publication for the third millennium. Donald Hilton, well known for his series of anthologies, has gathered a variety of items of poetry and prose stemming from many different parts of…
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No More Dragons: Get Free From Broken Dreams, Lost Hope, Bad Religion, And Other Monsters
- £10.00
- Becoming a dragon is a dangerously subtle process. You make a long chain of bad choices. The chain gradually wraps around you. Layer by layer, it begins to take on the aspect of scales. One day you glance at yourself in the mirror and a monster is staring back at…
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No More Ghosts: Selected Poems
- £75.00
- A selection of poems by popular author Robert Graves, British author whose work never ran out of print. This volume including titles such as 'The Haunted House,' 'Apples and Water,' 'Time,' 'On Dwelling,' 'Love in Barrenness,' and many others.
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No One Is Talking About This (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- * WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 ** A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK * This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when…
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No One Writes to the Colonel
- £10.00
- Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that…
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No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel
- £20.00
- In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.…
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Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 5)
- £20.00
- Full title: Noble essences, or, courteous revelations: Being a book of characters and the fifth and last volume of "Left hand, right hand" The 5th and final volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography.
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Nonesuch (SIGNED, Special Edition)
- £80.00
- A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill. 'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley 'His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer 'A literary magician.' Daily Telegraph 'My god can he write.' Richard Osman. It's the summer of…
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
- £25.00
- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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