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The Widow in the Bye Street
- £15.00
- After years of writing little, Masefield had a new impetus in 1911 when he published the first of his narrative poems, The Everlasting Mercy. Two more followed in 1912, of which The Widow in the Bye Street was the 1st. As a result of these three, he was awarded the…
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The Willow Cabin
- £12.00
- Pamela Sydney Frankau (1908-1967) was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family. She was abandoned by her novelist father Gilbert Frankau at an early age, and she became a prolific writer. She stopped writing for a decade after the death of her lover, the poet Humbert…
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The Wilt Alternative (Wilt 2)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in…
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The Wilt Alternative (Wilt 2)
- £25.00
- Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in…
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The Wind and the Rain
- £10.00
- Hodge (1903-1958) was a an accomplished actor and playwright as well as medical doctor from New Zealand. His play The Wind and The Rain won great international acclaim, first performed in London in 1933 (with 1000 performances) and then for 6 months on Broadway. It was translated into 9 languages.
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The Wind Knows My Name (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on…
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The Winding Stair
- £13.00
- Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his…
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The Winter of our Discontent
- £20.00
- Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises successin every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder,…
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The Wish Maker (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Zaki Shirazi, a young Pakistani in a household dominated by his mother and grandmother, is close to his female cousin, Samar Api, but while Samar's reckless teenage behavior brings consequences for her, Zaki is free to explore the world, only later reflecting on the true meaning of happiness.
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The Witch Ð A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
- £16.00
- Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in EuropeÕs history "Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the world throughout history.Ó_Los Angeles Times. The witch came to…
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The Witch of Portobello (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- From one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho, comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed Ôthe Witch of PortobelloÕ. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through…
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The Wooden Horse
- £15.00
- It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the…
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The Word and the Words: Voigt Lectures on Preaching
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- The Voigt lectures on Preaching given by the BBC Head of Religious Broadcasting and President of the Methodist Conference.
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The Word and the Work
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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. This post-war volume is dedicated to the unemployed men…
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The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation
- £25.00
- Ryken describes the translation principles that make for reliable English Bible translation, looks at common translation fallacies, and offers principles for good translation.
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The Work of Ambrose McEvoy (born August 12th, 1878)
- £150.00
- Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (12 August 1877 Ð 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour. This compilation was…
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The Work We Have To Do: A History Of Protestants In America
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- A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins of American Protestants all the way back to the first English colony at Jamestown. The book covers…
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The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse & Prose (vol III of X)
- £200.00
- Third volume (of 10) of Pope's collected works. Containing his Essay on Man (in 4 epistles); The Universal Prayer; Moral Essays (in 5 epistles); Appendix: Essay on Satire; A Letter to a Noble Lord; Notes and Observations by Gilbert Wakefield
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The Works of Francis Thompson (3 volumes)
- £100.00
- This set of Thompson's works (2 vols of poetry, 1 vol of prose) was edited by Wilfrid Meynell, a British newspaper publisher and editor. Francis Thompson was an English poet and mystic. He lived on the streets of London for years supporting himself with menial labour in order to pursue…
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The Works of George Crabbe (in 5 volumes)
- £250.00
- The collected poetry and prose writings of the great poet, surgeon and clergyman, George Crabbe. Published in his lifetime (1754-1832). Complete with engravings. Includes The Borough sequence (the basis of Benjamin Britten's operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes)
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The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D., Dean of St Patrick’s Dublin
- £150.00
- The Works Of The Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean Of St. Patrick's Dublin. Carefully Selected With a Life of the Author and original and Authentic Notes.
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The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life (4 vol)
- £350.00
- Full title: Burns (Robert). The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life, and A Criticism On His Writings, To Which Are Prefixed, Some Observations On The Character And Condition Of The Scottish Peasantry. 4 volumes, 4th edition (1st in 1800)
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The Works of Shakespere Vol III: Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets – revised from the best authorities
- £60.00
- III of 3-vol set with a memoir and essay by Barry Cornwall. Illustrated throughout with vignette illustrations by Kenny Meadows. Also containing annotations and introductory remarks on the plays by many distinguished writers.
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The Works of William Shakespeare (vol XII)
- £20.00
- Contains the classical works: Pericles, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets; plus A lover's complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets to sundry notes of music; Phoenix and the Turtle.
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The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
- £15.00
- One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay…
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The World Ahead: Our Future In The Making
- £25.00
- Will humanity survive the coming century? Are we threatened by a demographic time-bomb? Will there be food for all? Can we eliminate poverty? Are we, in our cities, heading for a kind of apartheid between the affluent and the socially excluded? Will new information technologies increase the gap between rich…
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The World Elsewhere and other stories
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- Nirmal Verma (1929Ð2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature. This anthology collects a number of…
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The World of Nagaraj
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- Narayan's 14th novel to be set in the imaginary town of Malgudi is the tale of Nagaraj, a contentedly aimless man whose only mission in life is to write a great treatise on the sanskrit scholar Narada. His comfortable existence of writing and drinking coffee and observing the world from…
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The World Turned Upside Down
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- The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, And Power. In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies.…
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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- From the author of No.1 international bestseller Collapse, a mesmerizing portrait of the human past that offers profound lessons for how we can live today Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs…
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The Wrecker
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- The Wrecker (1892) is an ocean adventure novel written by Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only…
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The Wrong Set and other stories
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- A satirist collection of twelve short stories, including: Union Reunion, A Story of Historical Interest, The Wrong Set, Crazy Crowd, Raspberry Jam, and more. Written by Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, an English novelist and short story writer who was one of England's first openly gay authors,
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The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
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The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
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The Yellow Admiral
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- 18th novel in a sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written – sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even Jack’s exploits at…
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The Young George du Maurier, a selection of his letters, 1860-1867
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- The letters of the writer and cartoonist George du Maurier, edited by his granddaughter, Daphne. Illustrated with George's drawings, and with a biographical appendix by Derek Pepys Whiteley.
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The Young King and other stories
- £50.00
- Three stories, The Young King, The Star child and The Happy Prince illustarted in full-page brown toned drawings by Georg Ehrlich.
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The Young Visiters or, Mr Salteenas Plan
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- The Young Visiters or Mr Salteena's Plan is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window, it was written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford.…
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The Zeal of Thy House (SIGNED)
- £240.00
- First published in 1937, this play was written for presentation by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury Festival in June 1937". Sayers had been recommended to Babington by the FestivalÕs playwright of 1936, the poet Charles Williams. In 1934 the Festival began honoring various professions each year, and the…
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The Zoo Father (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- At the dark heart of this unique collection is a daughter's fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants, shaman masks, hummingbirds, shrunken heads, jaguars) these poems at once ward off and…
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Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda
- £80.00
- This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different interpretations of single plays in multiple…
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Theft, a love story (SIGNED)
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- Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration, responsibility and redemption.
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Theft, A Love Story (SIGNED)
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- Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from therural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration, responsibility and redemption.
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Then and Now
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- Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of his own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.
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Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
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- The Book of Revelation is a work of profound theology. But its literary form makes it impenetrable to many modern readers and open to all kinds of misinterpretations. Richard Bauckham explains how the book's imagery conveyed meaning in its original context and how the book's theology is inseparable from its…
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Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition
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- What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from…
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There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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- In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.
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They and I
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- While remodeling his new home, a man and his children move into a country cottage where he must adjust to the new sights and sounds. This is a detailed look at how he manages his disparate children in a foreign environment. A sudden move prompts a man to reevaluate his…
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
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- From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces. As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army…
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They Knew: How a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent
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- In They Knew, New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United StatesÕ Òculture of conspiracy,Ó putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by propagandists. Conspiracy theories are on the rise because officials refuse to enforce accountability…
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They Shaped Our Worship (Alcuin Club Collection)
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- A series of essays on those who have contributed to liturgical scholarship, the renewal of liturgical practice and the conduct of worship during the lifetime of the Alcuin Club. The authors (incl. Martin Dudley, Donald Gray, Colin Buchanan, Paul Bradshaw) reflect on the lives of 23 leading figures of Anglican…
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They Were Pilgrims
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- A small collection of biographical sketches of pioneering missionaries (originally published 1970): David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Ion Keith-Falconer.
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This Cold Universe – Poems
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- The first of several volumes Dickinson (1914-1994) published in The Phoenix Living Poets series.
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This Ever Diverse Pair
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- Intro by Walter de la Mare. First publ. in 1950, when Barfield was as a solicitor in London. A humorous portrayal of everyday life in a lawyer's office, the novel's true subject is what C.S. Lewis described as "the rift in every life between the human person and his public…
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This Immoral Trade: Slavery In The 21st Century (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Slavery remains rampant worldwide. It is estimated that more than 27m slaves exist today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indentured workers in Burma. This popularly written but carefully researched volume has been comprehensively updated. It includes a chapter on different forms of contemporary slavery, a chapter on the Christian…
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This is How
- £14.00
- When his fiance breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling…
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This is London
- £45.00
- Selected transcripts of Murrow's famous CBS radio broadcasts from war-time London, which brought the war to the American audience and made him a celebrity here; still a compelling first-person account of the tension in pre-war England and of the early days of the war, when Britain stood alone.
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This Rough Magic
- £25.00
- This Rough Magic is a romantic suspense novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1964. The title is a quote from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Like several other novels by Stewart, it is set in Greece and has an element of suspense.
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This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey
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- In a series of twenty-four letters Michael Mayne makes an offering to his grandchildren of all that has inspired him in literature, music and art. It is, in Ronald Blythe's words `an inventory of his joy'. Written in a candid autobiographical fashion, the book is a passionate plea to the…
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This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future
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- The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposing the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point. This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that…
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
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- A searing indictment of war, set in the German army around the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was written by Igor Sentjurc, a Yugoslav artist who fled from enforced service in Hitler's armies. Eric Mosbacher translated so that it was published in the same year as the original…
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Three Cheers for the Paraclete
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- A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. PeterÕs the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when heÕs trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds himself at odds with his superiors and the…
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Three Gems in One Setting: The Poet’s Song (Tennyson); Field Flowers (Thomas Campbell); Pilgrim Fathers (Mrs Hemans)
- £150.00
- Beautifully illustrated collection of 3 poems: The poet's song (Tennyson); Field flowers (Campbell); Pilgrim fathers (Mrs. Hemans). In full colour with 18 Chromolithographs printed by David Brand in full colour. Engraved title-page and three separate title-pages printed also in full colour. Original dark-red cosway-style thick bound boards (with inlaid colour…
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Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)
- £280.00
- What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the winding…
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Three Men on the Bummel
- £18.00
- Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions…
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Three Men on Wheels
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- Three Men on Wheels is the US title of Three Men on the Bummel, a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1899, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three…
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Three Novels: Angel Pavement; Bright Day; Sir Michael & Sir George
- £60.00
- Bright Day (1946): Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is holed up in a Cornish hotel writing a script he must finish. A chance encounter in the bar sends him back in time to the doomed world of his youth before the slaughter of The First World War. Caught in his own…
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Three Plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete; the Voysey Inheritance; Waste
- £12.00
- Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a national theatre. In The Voysey Inheritance, a…
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Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
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Thrones, Dominations (A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery)
- £35.00
- An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review 'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal. 1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into married life with…
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Thy Servant A Dog (told by Boots)
- £15.00
- Apparently, a "delightful and touching story to pull at the heartstrings of dog lovers, told by 'Boots' in the most insightful 'dog-speak'". Make of that what you will.
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Till We Have Faces: a myth retold
- £450.00
- Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from the perspective of PsycheÕs sister, Orual. ÔI saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that…
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Time to be in Earnest (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of the 12 months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays. In writing it she simultaneously remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author.
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Time Was Away – A Notebook in Corsica
- £500.00
- It was rugged travel; the hotels where we stayed were basic and often dirty. We lived on bread, cheese, figs, pastis and wine. The bus journeys were slow and suffocating, with long stops for no particular reason. One day we would be languishing in the humid heat of an estuary,…
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Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- £50.00
- Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one…
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Tiresias, and other poems
- £15.00
- First edition of this collection from towards the end of Tennyson's life (dedicated to Robert Browning), including The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, Helen's Tower, Epitaph on Caxton.
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Tittivulus or The Verbiage Collector
- £30.00
- Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. He also wrote and illustrated Tittivulus or…
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To Be Someone (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Waking in a hospital bed after a tragic accident to find herself deaf in one ear, blinded in one eye, badly disfigured and her career in tatters, an ex-rockstar and prime-time DJ turns to music to write her life story, using songs to represent the most important periods in her…
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep
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- In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to…
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To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Anthony Powell (4-volume set)
- £175.00
- After completing his 12-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, Powell began to publish his memoirs, in 4 volumes: Infants In Spring ISBN 0434599220, Messengers Of Day ISBN 0434599239, Faces In My Time ISBN 0434599247. The Strangers All Are Gone ISBN 0434599417.
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Told After Supper
- £90.00
- Told After Supper (1891) is a collection of short ghost stories written by the English writer Jerome K Jerome. The collectionÕs ÒintroductoryÓ starts as follows: ÒIt was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin [É] The experienced reader knows it was…
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Tolkien and the Silmarils
- £25.00
- One of the earliest examples of Tolkien scholarship. Randel Helms' short but illuminating volume on "The Silmarillion" approaches the work from a literary & theological perspective, Helms reminds the reader of Tolkien's lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith, which informs every page of his work, as well as his deep…
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Tom Stoppard: Plays I (SIGNED) ‘The Real Inspector Hound’, ‘Dirty Linen’, ‘Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth’, ‘After Magritte’
- £200.00
- The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece,…
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Tom Swift and his Flying Lab (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #1)
- £25.00
- This brand new series of adventures for boys introduces Tom Swift Jr., son of the famous inventor of a generation ago. Young Tom is now an inventor in his own right. As an associate in his father's great enterprise at Shopton, his brilliant mind is seething with the inventive genius…
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Tom Swift and his Space Solartron (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #13)
- £25.00
- A MIGHTY TASK faces Tom Swift Jr. in his exciting, new project - colonization of the moon. To accomplish this astounding feat, Tom must perfect his latest invention, the matter maker, which will be essential for life on the moon. Not only must this amazing solartron manufacture oxygen and fuel,…
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Tom Swift and his Spectro-Marine Selector (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #15)
- £25.00
- "We're trapped a mile below the ocean's surface," Tom Swift announces to his companions as calmly as possible. His father and Bud Barclay exchange fearful glances in the air-bubble elevator stopped in its undersea descent by a jammed cable. This close call is only one of the many hazards which…
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Tom Swift in his Diving Seacopter(New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #7)
- £25.00
- In his unique invention the Ocean Arrow, an "underwater helicopter," Tom Swift Jr. embarks on a precarious search for a lost rocket from space. The rocket, containing evidence of living things on another planet, was directed to Swift Enterprises for scientific study. But its course was mysteriously changed while the…
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Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #8)
- £25.00
- Fascinated by the amazing report from a pilot who crash-landed in the African jungle, Tom Swift Jr.'s eyes glow with curiosity as he replies: "Sounds like antiprotons rampaging. Such a phenomenon is unknown on earth. This may be the greatest discovery of the century. It could revolutionize the whole science…
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Tombland (Shardlake series 7)
- £25.00
- England, 1549: Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among…
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Tommy & Co. Etc (+ Roberts’ The Way of A Man + Albanesi’s Cissy)
- £20.00
- Tommy and Co was published in 1904. A series of short stories, pen portraits of a cast of different characters. The first is Peter Hope, described as follows, "Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with…
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Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
- £22.00
- Ace Books 81656. Shaw's first collection of short fiction. Includes "The Cosmic Cocktail Party," a fine SF satire in which the brains of selected humans are scanned and used by Biosyn to create a super computer that has become an artificial intelligence. The Gollancz and Ace editions were both published…
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Too Damn Famous: a novel (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- It is 1987 and Katherine Bennet is at the height of her beauty, power and fame as star of the TV series, The Skeffingtons. But her private life is in tatters. Newly divorced, with a son who is threatening to go off the rails, Katherine promises herself and her public…
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Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
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Toward the End of Time: a novel
- £15.00
- Ben Turnbull is a 66-year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of…
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Towards Asmara: an African Novel
- £20.00
- During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they bear witness to the devastation of war as…
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Trace (The new Scarpetta Novel)
- £14.00
- America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the…
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Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carr
- £30.00
- John le Carr is one of the most significant political novelists in the English language. His early career in the secret service took him to West Germany at the height of the Cold War and subsequent novels prompted field trips all over the world, from Hong Kong to the Democratic…
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Transcription
- £20.00
- An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers…
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Transposition and Other Addresses
- £25.00
- Five of Lewis' most well known addresses including Transpition; The Weight of Glory; Membership; Learning in War-Time; The Inner Ring.
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The Widow in the Bye Street
- £15.00
- After years of writing little, Masefield had a new impetus in 1911 when he published the first of his narrative poems, The Everlasting Mercy. Two more followed in 1912, of which The Widow in the Bye Street was the 1st. As a result of these three, he was awarded the…
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The Willow Cabin
- £12.00
- Pamela Sydney Frankau (1908-1967) was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family. She was abandoned by her novelist father Gilbert Frankau at an early age, and she became a prolific writer. She stopped writing for a decade after the death of her lover, the poet Humbert…
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The Wilt Alternative (Wilt 2)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in…
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The Wilt Alternative (Wilt 2)
- £25.00
- Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in…
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The Wind and the Rain
- £10.00
- Hodge (1903-1958) was a an accomplished actor and playwright as well as medical doctor from New Zealand. His play The Wind and The Rain won great international acclaim, first performed in London in 1933 (with 1000 performances) and then for 6 months on Broadway. It was translated into 9 languages.
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The Wind Knows My Name (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on…
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The Winding Stair
- £13.00
- Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his…
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The Winter of our Discontent
- £20.00
- Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises successin every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder,…
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The Wish Maker (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Zaki Shirazi, a young Pakistani in a household dominated by his mother and grandmother, is close to his female cousin, Samar Api, but while Samar's reckless teenage behavior brings consequences for her, Zaki is free to explore the world, only later reflecting on the true meaning of happiness.
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The Witch Ð A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
- £16.00
- Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in EuropeÕs history "Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the world throughout history.Ó_Los Angeles Times. The witch came to…
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The Witch of Portobello (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- From one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho, comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed Ôthe Witch of PortobelloÕ. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through…
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The Wooden Horse
- £15.00
- It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the…
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The Word and the Words: Voigt Lectures on Preaching
- £7.00
- The Voigt lectures on Preaching given by the BBC Head of Religious Broadcasting and President of the Methodist Conference.
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The Word and the Work
- £15.00
- 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. This post-war volume is dedicated to the unemployed men…
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The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation
- £25.00
- Ryken describes the translation principles that make for reliable English Bible translation, looks at common translation fallacies, and offers principles for good translation.
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The Work of Ambrose McEvoy (born August 12th, 1878)
- £150.00
- Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (12 August 1877 Ð 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour. This compilation was…
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The Work We Have To Do: A History Of Protestants In America
- £7.00
- A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins of American Protestants all the way back to the first English colony at Jamestown. The book covers…
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The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse & Prose (vol III of X)
- £200.00
- Third volume (of 10) of Pope's collected works. Containing his Essay on Man (in 4 epistles); The Universal Prayer; Moral Essays (in 5 epistles); Appendix: Essay on Satire; A Letter to a Noble Lord; Notes and Observations by Gilbert Wakefield
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The Works of Francis Thompson (3 volumes)
- £100.00
- This set of Thompson's works (2 vols of poetry, 1 vol of prose) was edited by Wilfrid Meynell, a British newspaper publisher and editor. Francis Thompson was an English poet and mystic. He lived on the streets of London for years supporting himself with menial labour in order to pursue…
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The Works of George Crabbe (in 5 volumes)
- £250.00
- The collected poetry and prose writings of the great poet, surgeon and clergyman, George Crabbe. Published in his lifetime (1754-1832). Complete with engravings. Includes The Borough sequence (the basis of Benjamin Britten's operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes)
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The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D., Dean of St Patrick’s Dublin
- £150.00
- The Works Of The Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean Of St. Patrick's Dublin. Carefully Selected With a Life of the Author and original and Authentic Notes.
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The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life (4 vol)
- £350.00
- Full title: Burns (Robert). The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life, and A Criticism On His Writings, To Which Are Prefixed, Some Observations On The Character And Condition Of The Scottish Peasantry. 4 volumes, 4th edition (1st in 1800)
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The Works of Shakespere Vol III: Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets – revised from the best authorities
- £60.00
- III of 3-vol set with a memoir and essay by Barry Cornwall. Illustrated throughout with vignette illustrations by Kenny Meadows. Also containing annotations and introductory remarks on the plays by many distinguished writers.
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The Works of William Shakespeare (vol XII)
- £20.00
- Contains the classical works: Pericles, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets; plus A lover's complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets to sundry notes of music; Phoenix and the Turtle.
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The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
- £15.00
- One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay…
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The World Ahead: Our Future In The Making
- £25.00
- Will humanity survive the coming century? Are we threatened by a demographic time-bomb? Will there be food for all? Can we eliminate poverty? Are we, in our cities, heading for a kind of apartheid between the affluent and the socially excluded? Will new information technologies increase the gap between rich…
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The World Elsewhere and other stories
- £25.00
- Nirmal Verma (1929Ð2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature. This anthology collects a number of…
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The World of Nagaraj
- £10.00
- Narayan's 14th novel to be set in the imaginary town of Malgudi is the tale of Nagaraj, a contentedly aimless man whose only mission in life is to write a great treatise on the sanskrit scholar Narada. His comfortable existence of writing and drinking coffee and observing the world from…
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The World Turned Upside Down
- £20.00
- The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, And Power. In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies.…
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
- £20.00
- From the author of No.1 international bestseller Collapse, a mesmerizing portrait of the human past that offers profound lessons for how we can live today Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs…
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The Wrecker
- £15.00
- The Wrecker (1892) is an ocean adventure novel written by Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only…
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The Wrong Set and other stories
- £40.00
- A satirist collection of twelve short stories, including: Union Reunion, A Story of Historical Interest, The Wrong Set, Crazy Crowd, Raspberry Jam, and more. Written by Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, an English novelist and short story writer who was one of England's first openly gay authors,
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The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
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The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- £25.00
- The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young…
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The Yellow Admiral
- £15.00
- 18th novel in a sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written – sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even Jack’s exploits at…
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The Young George du Maurier, a selection of his letters, 1860-1867
- £14.00
- The letters of the writer and cartoonist George du Maurier, edited by his granddaughter, Daphne. Illustrated with George's drawings, and with a biographical appendix by Derek Pepys Whiteley.
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The Young King and other stories
- £50.00
- Three stories, The Young King, The Star child and The Happy Prince illustarted in full-page brown toned drawings by Georg Ehrlich.
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The Young Visiters or, Mr Salteenas Plan
- £20.00
- The Young Visiters or Mr Salteena's Plan is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window, it was written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford.…
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The Zeal of Thy House (SIGNED)
- £240.00
- First published in 1937, this play was written for presentation by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury Festival in June 1937". Sayers had been recommended to Babington by the FestivalÕs playwright of 1936, the poet Charles Williams. In 1934 the Festival began honoring various professions each year, and the…
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The Zoo Father (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- At the dark heart of this unique collection is a daughter's fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants, shaman masks, hummingbirds, shrunken heads, jaguars) these poems at once ward off and…
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Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda
- £80.00
- This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different interpretations of single plays in multiple…
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Theft, a love story (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration, responsibility and redemption.
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Theft, A Love Story (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from therural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration, responsibility and redemption.
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Then and Now
- £9.00
- Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of his own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.
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Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
- £25.00
- The Book of Revelation is a work of profound theology. But its literary form makes it impenetrable to many modern readers and open to all kinds of misinterpretations. Richard Bauckham explains how the book's imagery conveyed meaning in its original context and how the book's theology is inseparable from its…
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Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition
- £20.00
- What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from…
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There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
- £7.00
- In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.
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They and I
- £14.00
- While remodeling his new home, a man and his children move into a country cottage where he must adjust to the new sights and sounds. This is a detailed look at how he manages his disparate children in a foreign environment. A sudden move prompts a man to reevaluate his…
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
- £15.00
- From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces. As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army…
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They Knew: How a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent
- £30.00
- In They Knew, New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United StatesÕ Òculture of conspiracy,Ó putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by propagandists. Conspiracy theories are on the rise because officials refuse to enforce accountability…
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They Shaped Our Worship (Alcuin Club Collection)
- £8.00
- A series of essays on those who have contributed to liturgical scholarship, the renewal of liturgical practice and the conduct of worship during the lifetime of the Alcuin Club. The authors (incl. Martin Dudley, Donald Gray, Colin Buchanan, Paul Bradshaw) reflect on the lives of 23 leading figures of Anglican…
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They Were Pilgrims
- £15.00
- A small collection of biographical sketches of pioneering missionaries (originally published 1970): David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Ion Keith-Falconer.
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This Cold Universe – Poems
- £15.00
- The first of several volumes Dickinson (1914-1994) published in The Phoenix Living Poets series.
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This Ever Diverse Pair
- £18.00
- Intro by Walter de la Mare. First publ. in 1950, when Barfield was as a solicitor in London. A humorous portrayal of everyday life in a lawyer's office, the novel's true subject is what C.S. Lewis described as "the rift in every life between the human person and his public…
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This Immoral Trade: Slavery In The 21st Century (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Slavery remains rampant worldwide. It is estimated that more than 27m slaves exist today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indentured workers in Burma. This popularly written but carefully researched volume has been comprehensively updated. It includes a chapter on different forms of contemporary slavery, a chapter on the Christian…
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This is How
- £14.00
- When his fiance breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling…
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This is London
- £45.00
- Selected transcripts of Murrow's famous CBS radio broadcasts from war-time London, which brought the war to the American audience and made him a celebrity here; still a compelling first-person account of the tension in pre-war England and of the early days of the war, when Britain stood alone.
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This Rough Magic
- £25.00
- This Rough Magic is a romantic suspense novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1964. The title is a quote from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Like several other novels by Stewart, it is set in Greece and has an element of suspense.
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This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey
- £12.00
- In a series of twenty-four letters Michael Mayne makes an offering to his grandchildren of all that has inspired him in literature, music and art. It is, in Ronald Blythe's words `an inventory of his joy'. Written in a candid autobiographical fashion, the book is a passionate plea to the…
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This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future
- £20.00
- The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposing the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point. This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that…
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
- £20.00
- A searing indictment of war, set in the German army around the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was written by Igor Sentjurc, a Yugoslav artist who fled from enforced service in Hitler's armies. Eric Mosbacher translated so that it was published in the same year as the original…
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Three Cheers for the Paraclete
- £25.00
- A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. PeterÕs the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when heÕs trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds himself at odds with his superiors and the…
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Three Gems in One Setting: The Poet’s Song (Tennyson); Field Flowers (Thomas Campbell); Pilgrim Fathers (Mrs Hemans)
- £150.00
- Beautifully illustrated collection of 3 poems: The poet's song (Tennyson); Field flowers (Campbell); Pilgrim fathers (Mrs. Hemans). In full colour with 18 Chromolithographs printed by David Brand in full colour. Engraved title-page and three separate title-pages printed also in full colour. Original dark-red cosway-style thick bound boards (with inlaid colour…
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Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)
- £280.00
- What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the winding…
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Three Men on the Bummel
- £18.00
- Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions…
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Three Men on Wheels
- £15.00
- Three Men on Wheels is the US title of Three Men on the Bummel, a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1899, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three…
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Three Novels: Angel Pavement; Bright Day; Sir Michael & Sir George
- £60.00
- Bright Day (1946): Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is holed up in a Cornish hotel writing a script he must finish. A chance encounter in the bar sends him back in time to the doomed world of his youth before the slaughter of The First World War. Caught in his own…
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Three Plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete; the Voysey Inheritance; Waste
- £12.00
- Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a national theatre. In The Voysey Inheritance, a…
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Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
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Thrones, Dominations (A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery)
- £35.00
- An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review 'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal. 1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into married life with…
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Thy Servant A Dog (told by Boots)
- £15.00
- Apparently, a "delightful and touching story to pull at the heartstrings of dog lovers, told by 'Boots' in the most insightful 'dog-speak'". Make of that what you will.
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Till We Have Faces: a myth retold
- £450.00
- Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from the perspective of PsycheÕs sister, Orual. ÔI saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that…
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Time to be in Earnest (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of the 12 months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays. In writing it she simultaneously remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author.
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Time Was Away – A Notebook in Corsica
- £500.00
- It was rugged travel; the hotels where we stayed were basic and often dirty. We lived on bread, cheese, figs, pastis and wine. The bus journeys were slow and suffocating, with long stops for no particular reason. One day we would be languishing in the humid heat of an estuary,…
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Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- £50.00
- Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one…
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Tiresias, and other poems
- £15.00
- First edition of this collection from towards the end of Tennyson's life (dedicated to Robert Browning), including The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, Helen's Tower, Epitaph on Caxton.
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Tittivulus or The Verbiage Collector
- £30.00
- Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. He also wrote and illustrated Tittivulus or…
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To Be Someone (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Waking in a hospital bed after a tragic accident to find herself deaf in one ear, blinded in one eye, badly disfigured and her career in tatters, an ex-rockstar and prime-time DJ turns to music to write her life story, using songs to represent the most important periods in her…
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep
- £8.00
- In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to…
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To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Anthony Powell (4-volume set)
- £175.00
- After completing his 12-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, Powell began to publish his memoirs, in 4 volumes: Infants In Spring ISBN 0434599220, Messengers Of Day ISBN 0434599239, Faces In My Time ISBN 0434599247. The Strangers All Are Gone ISBN 0434599417.
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Told After Supper
- £90.00
- Told After Supper (1891) is a collection of short ghost stories written by the English writer Jerome K Jerome. The collectionÕs ÒintroductoryÓ starts as follows: ÒIt was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin [É] The experienced reader knows it was…
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Tolkien and the Silmarils
- £25.00
- One of the earliest examples of Tolkien scholarship. Randel Helms' short but illuminating volume on "The Silmarillion" approaches the work from a literary & theological perspective, Helms reminds the reader of Tolkien's lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith, which informs every page of his work, as well as his deep…
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Tom Stoppard: Plays I (SIGNED) ‘The Real Inspector Hound’, ‘Dirty Linen’, ‘Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth’, ‘After Magritte’
- £200.00
- The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece,…
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Tom Swift and his Flying Lab (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #1)
- £25.00
- This brand new series of adventures for boys introduces Tom Swift Jr., son of the famous inventor of a generation ago. Young Tom is now an inventor in his own right. As an associate in his father's great enterprise at Shopton, his brilliant mind is seething with the inventive genius…
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Tom Swift and his Space Solartron (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #13)
- £25.00
- A MIGHTY TASK faces Tom Swift Jr. in his exciting, new project - colonization of the moon. To accomplish this astounding feat, Tom must perfect his latest invention, the matter maker, which will be essential for life on the moon. Not only must this amazing solartron manufacture oxygen and fuel,…
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Tom Swift and his Spectro-Marine Selector (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #15)
- £25.00
- "We're trapped a mile below the ocean's surface," Tom Swift announces to his companions as calmly as possible. His father and Bud Barclay exchange fearful glances in the air-bubble elevator stopped in its undersea descent by a jammed cable. This close call is only one of the many hazards which…
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Tom Swift in his Diving Seacopter(New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #7)
- £25.00
- In his unique invention the Ocean Arrow, an "underwater helicopter," Tom Swift Jr. embarks on a precarious search for a lost rocket from space. The rocket, containing evidence of living things on another planet, was directed to Swift Enterprises for scientific study. But its course was mysteriously changed while the…
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Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #8)
- £25.00
- Fascinated by the amazing report from a pilot who crash-landed in the African jungle, Tom Swift Jr.'s eyes glow with curiosity as he replies: "Sounds like antiprotons rampaging. Such a phenomenon is unknown on earth. This may be the greatest discovery of the century. It could revolutionize the whole science…
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Tombland (Shardlake series 7)
- £25.00
- England, 1549: Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among…
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Tommy & Co. Etc (+ Roberts’ The Way of A Man + Albanesi’s Cissy)
- £20.00
- Tommy and Co was published in 1904. A series of short stories, pen portraits of a cast of different characters. The first is Peter Hope, described as follows, "Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with…
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Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
- £22.00
- Ace Books 81656. Shaw's first collection of short fiction. Includes "The Cosmic Cocktail Party," a fine SF satire in which the brains of selected humans are scanned and used by Biosyn to create a super computer that has become an artificial intelligence. The Gollancz and Ace editions were both published…
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Too Damn Famous: a novel (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- It is 1987 and Katherine Bennet is at the height of her beauty, power and fame as star of the TV series, The Skeffingtons. But her private life is in tatters. Newly divorced, with a son who is threatening to go off the rails, Katherine promises herself and her public…
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Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
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Toward the End of Time: a novel
- £15.00
- Ben Turnbull is a 66-year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of…
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Towards Asmara: an African Novel
- £20.00
- During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they bear witness to the devastation of war as…
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Trace (The new Scarpetta Novel)
- £14.00
- America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the…
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Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carr
- £30.00
- John le Carr is one of the most significant political novelists in the English language. His early career in the secret service took him to West Germany at the height of the Cold War and subsequent novels prompted field trips all over the world, from Hong Kong to the Democratic…
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Transcription
- £20.00
- An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers…
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Transposition and Other Addresses
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- Five of Lewis' most well known addresses including Transpition; The Weight of Glory; Membership; Learning in War-Time; The Inner Ring.
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