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Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a biography
- £12.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. Anne Thackeray Ritchie was the daughter of W.M. Thackeray and also Virginia Woolf's aunt, thus bridging two extraordinary periods in English letters.
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
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Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
- £90.00
- A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled…
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Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
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Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
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Approved Unto God
- £15.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. In Approved Unto God, he draws from the treasure-house of Scripture invaluable advice and encouragement for Christian workers.
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April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. 'He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn't. It wasn't simple at…
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Ararat
- £14.00
- "'Sergei Rozanov had made an unnecessary journey from Moscow to Gorky, simply in order to sleep with a young blind woman.' So begins D.M. Thomas's novel (his first since the publication of The White Hotel), a complex, brilliant fantasia that, in the telling, is a like a series of Russian…
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Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Ariel’s Gift: a Commentary on Birthday Letters (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary…
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Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
- Add to basket
-
Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a biography
- £12.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. Anne Thackeray Ritchie was the daughter of W.M. Thackeray and also Virginia Woolf's aunt, thus bridging two extraordinary periods in English letters.
- Add to basket
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
- Add to basket
-
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
- Add to basket
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
- Add to basket
-
Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
- £90.00
- A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled…
- Add to basket
-
Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
- Add to basket
-
Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
- Add to basket
-
Approved Unto God
- £15.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. In Approved Unto God, he draws from the treasure-house of Scripture invaluable advice and encouragement for Christian workers.
- Add to basket
-
April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. 'He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn't. It wasn't simple at…
- Add to basket
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Ararat
- £14.00
- "'Sergei Rozanov had made an unnecessary journey from Moscow to Gorky, simply in order to sleep with a young blind woman.' So begins D.M. Thomas's novel (his first since the publication of The White Hotel), a complex, brilliant fantasia that, in the telling, is a like a series of Russian…
- Add to basket
-
Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
- Add to basket
-
Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
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Ariel’s Gift: a Commentary on Birthday Letters (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary…
- Add to basket