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Trappers of Venus (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #4)
- £25.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Travel Diaries 1936-1978 (Aldeburgh Studies in Music vol 2)
- £35.00
- This volume brings together for the first time all the travel diaries of distinguished tenor Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986), friend of Benjamin Britten and principal interpreter of his works. The first diary dates from 1936, the year before Pears' friendship with Britten began, when he went on tour of North…
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Travel Diaries of a Naturalist: vol 1
- £15.00
- First of 3 volumes of the renowned naturalist's diaries. Vol 1 covers Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Africa, Galapagos Islands, Antarctica, Falkland Islands.
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Travel Diaries of a Naturalist: vol 2 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Second of 3 volumes of the renowned naturalist's diaries. Vol 2 covers Hawaii, California, Alaska, Florida, Bahamas, Iceland, Norway, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Israel, Romania, Siberia.
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Travel Diaries of a Naturalist: vol 3
- £20.00
- Third of 3 volumes of the renowned naturalist's diaries. Vol 3 covers Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand.
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- £15.00
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one…
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Travels with my Aunt
- £25.00
- Aunt Agatha travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of doggies' church, the CIA man obsessed by statistics and his hippy daughter, and old Mr. Visconti.
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Travels with my Aunt
- £25.00
- Aunt Agatha travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of doggies' church, the CIA man obsessed by statistics and his hippy daughter, and old Mr. Visconti.
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Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his Fiftieth Birthday
- £75.00
- As a ttribute, a group of Britten's friends were invited to contribute to a symposium of articles about matters of mutual interest, ranging from the Suffolk countryside, to Mozart's Cosi and a chapter from an unfinished novel by E. M. Forster. Contributors include: William Plomer, Imogen Holst, the Earl of…
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Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems
- £10.00
- The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three significant royal occasions. 'The Patriarchs: An Elegy' was written after Prince Philip passed away in April 2021, 'Queenhood' celebrates the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, while 'Floral Tribute'…
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Trieste (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- "Trieste is a work of European high culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject, the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick" Craig Seligman, New York Times…
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Troilus and Criseyde
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #992: Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover,…
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Trustee from the Toolroom
- £50.00
- Happiest and last of Shute's novels. Aman happy with his model engineering suddenly becomes Trustee to a 10 year old Girl.
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Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
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Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
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Turlough, a novel (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid.…
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
- £14.00
- Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A…
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Twice Brightly (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- I was shaken with spasms of helpless mirth at frequent intervals...Harry Secombe brings untold pleasure and laughter into the lives of those who pick up this most entertaining book PRINCE CHARLES Sir Harry's classic story of a young comic's very first week in variety draws strongly on his own experiences.…
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Twilight Of Democracy: The Seductive Lure Of Authoritarianism
- £15.00
- In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually -…
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
- £35.00
- A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - to look after him. But what follows is a blood-streaked trail across three continents... Twinkle, Twinkle Little…
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Two against the Amazon
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- An account of the trip by two inexperienced amateurs to the Amazon (John Brown with Sebastian Snow (1929-2001) in 1951) to prove that the Ninococha glacier lake flowed into the Maranon, the Amazon's most voluminous tributory. Includes Index.
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Two Caravans (signed)
- £25.00
- A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There…
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Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006
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- The idea for this book - a new selection of her poems with notes - grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and…
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
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U2: Past, Present, Future
- £30.00
- U2 remains deeply rooted in tradition while still looking toward the future and pushing boundaries. Follow this popular Irish band from its formation and early years through the release of its milestone albums and arena-packed shows. Explore, also, the challenges raised by the group s unwavering political and social commitment.…
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Ukridge
- £12.00
- First published in 1924, these short stories had previously appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US and in the Strand Magazine in the UK. There are 10 included, relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
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Ultimatum (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . . They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within IranÕs Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose objective is to transform their country into a nuclear-armed nation, and so seal its domination of the…
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Uncle
- £200.00
- The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A classic in the great English nonsense tradition - Observer. Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He…
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Uncle Dynamite
- £85.00
- Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened…
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
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- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
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Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
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- Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author. Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry. To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life's most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unnatural Causes
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- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
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Unpresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 'Feb 26, White House briefing room: the coronavirus feels like it is changing everything.... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign.... ' Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon…
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Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported
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- Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' Ð Giles Foden, The Guardian A critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson. Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable…
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
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Untold Stories
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- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Untold Stories
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- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from “the New Yorker”
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- The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan. Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink…
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Up with Authority: Why We Need Authority to Flourish as Human Beings
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- Authority is something we experience every day, but is it necessary? Many think that it is not, and that it exists only as a remedy for some defect in us. Victor Lee Austin sets about exploring the higher and nobler functions of authority, and in doing so reveals its human…
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Up, up and away: The biography of Be Fair
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- With complete frankness, and a definite touch of humour, Lucinda Prior-Palmer offers the biography of her remarkable horse, Be Fair. This timeless story begins back in 1968, when Lucinda acquired Be Fair for her fifteenth birthday. That day the problems began; but it was also the start of an extraordinary…
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Us and our Donkey
- £15.00
- Amy Le Feuvre (1861 – 1929) was a prolific writer of Christian fiction
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Us Four
- £40.00
- The story of Cyril and his 3 brothers, growing up on a large estate in Edwardian England. It is a world in itself, with its large house, outdoor and indoor staffs, forestry, gardens and animals. But the Great War breaks across this carefree life.
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Usain Bolt: 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Eight days É É three gold medals É three world records É one amazing reputation firmly established. Usain Bolt's life Ð and the world of sport Ð would never be quite the same again. 16 August 2008 É Beijing, China É the Bird's Nest stadium É 91,000 spectators and an…
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V-U2: an immersive concert film at Sphere Las Vegas
- £100.00
- Official record of the film made of the Sphere Las Vegas's first residency of U2.
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Van Gogh: From the Early Gloom-laden Paintings to the Works of His Final Years
- £20.00
- Vincent Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the work of his final…
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Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- This autobiography chronicles the career and life of one of Britain's leading actresses, telling of her performances on stage and screen, her political beliefs and her family, up until 1991.
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Venice
- £300.00
- Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its…
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Venice: the most triumphant city
- £10.00
- Bull was a multi-talented and accomplished journalist, translator and art historian. This account of Venice was widely-regarded.
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Venus in Libra (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- John Bayliss was a British poet sometimes associated with the New Apocalyptics, a reaction against 1930s realism through surrealism and mysticism. He contributed in the war years to Poetry London and Poetry Quarterly; later to Poetry Review. He was also published in Air Force Poetry (1944). In 1977 he published…
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Venusberg
- £30.00
- Powell's early novel translated by Bruno Fonzi
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Venusberg
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- An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define…
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Venusberg + Agents & Patients
- £25.00
- Two early novels in one volume
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Vermeer’s Family Secrets
- £35.00
- Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art:…
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Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
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Veronika Decides to Die (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho Ð a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has…
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Verses (Christina Rossetti)
- £25.00
- Rossetti's poetry drawn from her collections 'Called to be Saints, 'Time Flies' and 'The Face of the Deep'. First published thus 1896
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Versus
- £15.00
- Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
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Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
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- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
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Victoria: A Life
- £25.00
- When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff…
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Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
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Victory: An island tale
- £15.00
- A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior…
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Vienna
- £25.00
- Spender's long poem written while living in Vienna to celebrate the uprising of the Viennese socialists in 1934
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
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Vigils
- £70.00
- Sassoon's collection of poems published in 1935 and dedicated to his wife Hester, whom he had married in 1933. "In using the word 'vigils' Sassoon conjured up the image of the silent, careful watcher of unfolding events." (Roberts, p.255)
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Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
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Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
- £25.00
- Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. ItÕs a pedestrianÕs world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone,…
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Virginia Woolf: Her art as a novelist
- £8.00
- Virginia Woolf's vision of human life, and it is about her sense of values. It attempts to analyse the form of her novels.
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Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- £9.00
- Collection of essays, introduced by the author's letter to William Ernest Henley; on Girls and Boys (tr. of title), English Admirals, potraits by Raeburn etc. Orig pub in 1881
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Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
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Voices by the Sea: the story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir
- £12.00
- In 1947, when the UK was deep in the throes of post-war austerity, that the concept of the Aldeburgh festival was first conceived. The prime movers were the singer Peter Pears, the librettist Eric Crozier, and above all, the composer Benjamin Britten.
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Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
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Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
- £8.00
- One of the world's leading voices of faith and social activism also happens to be one of its biggest rock groups. The band members drink, smoke and swear - yet a radical biblical agenda and faith fuel their life and work. Welcome to the dichotomy of U2, arguably the greatest…
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Walking on Sunshine
- £8.00
- Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares the strategies that have helped her stay calm and happy…
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Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
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War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
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War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
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War Lord (The Last Kingdom 13)
- £20.00
- The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom. An impossible choice. The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to hang up his sword. But as long as the kingdom…
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Waterland (SIGNED, Dutch) / Vertaling Rien Verhoef
- £100.00
- In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of…
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Watership Down
- £140.00
- One of the best-loved children's classics of all time, this is the complete, original story of Watership Down. Something terrible is about to happen to the warren - Fiver feels sure of it. And Fiver's sixth sense is never wrong, according to his brother Hazel. They had to leave immediately,…
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Waugh in Abyssinia
- £75.00
- In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent…
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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We British: the Poetry of the People
- £20.00
- More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it…
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We British: the Poetry of the People
- £25.00
- More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it…
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We’ve been thinking
- £20.00
- Reminiscences of English Hunts, published after the author's death but edited by Robert Colville, with contributions by Major Guy Paget, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, Brigadier Sir Percy Laurie, Phyllis Hinton, Colonel Charles Rich.
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
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West of Sunset (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 3rd novel, set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence Ð the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles Ð West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington,…
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What Am I Doing Here
- £35.00
- In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and…
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What art does: an unfinished theory (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring…
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What Do Jewish People Think About Jesus?
- £12.00
- Written in an accessible style, What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus? answers sixty common questions about Jewish people and Jewish culture. Drawn from the steady stream of questions Michael L. Brown's ministry receives every month, the book's questions reflect the perennial Christian fascination with Jewish customs and beliefs. A…
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What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
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What I saw in Russia (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- The account of a British socialist's fact-finding mission to Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Lansbury became leader of the Labour Party in 1932, and was succeeded by his deputy Clement Atlee in 1935. Lansbury's account provides a firsthand view of the nation's efforts to rebuild after the revolution, as…
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What is a Classic?
- £50.00
- The transcript of Eliot's wartime lecture given to the Virgil Society on 16 October 1944 published the following January in London.
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What on earth is heaven?
- £10.00
- What happens to us when we die? Will heaven be a place of fluffy clouds, angels and cherubs playing harps? Is the Christian faith just about securing a place in heaven when we die? In What on Earth is Heaven? James Paul explores the radical truth of what the Bible…
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What the Dog Saw and other adventures
- £15.00
- In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 'Masterpieces in the art of the…
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Trappers of Venus (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #4)
- £25.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Travel Diaries 1936-1978 (Aldeburgh Studies in Music vol 2)
- £35.00
- This volume brings together for the first time all the travel diaries of distinguished tenor Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986), friend of Benjamin Britten and principal interpreter of his works. The first diary dates from 1936, the year before Pears' friendship with Britten began, when he went on tour of North…
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Travel Diaries of a Naturalist: vol 1
- £15.00
- First of 3 volumes of the renowned naturalist's diaries. Vol 1 covers Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Africa, Galapagos Islands, Antarctica, Falkland Islands.
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Travel Diaries of a Naturalist: vol 2 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Second of 3 volumes of the renowned naturalist's diaries. Vol 2 covers Hawaii, California, Alaska, Florida, Bahamas, Iceland, Norway, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Israel, Romania, Siberia.
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Travel Diaries of a Naturalist: vol 3
- £20.00
- Third of 3 volumes of the renowned naturalist's diaries. Vol 3 covers Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand.
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- £15.00
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one…
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Travels with my Aunt
- £25.00
- Aunt Agatha travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of doggies' church, the CIA man obsessed by statistics and his hippy daughter, and old Mr. Visconti.
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Travels with my Aunt
- £25.00
- Aunt Agatha travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of doggies' church, the CIA man obsessed by statistics and his hippy daughter, and old Mr. Visconti.
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Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his Fiftieth Birthday
- £75.00
- As a ttribute, a group of Britten's friends were invited to contribute to a symposium of articles about matters of mutual interest, ranging from the Suffolk countryside, to Mozart's Cosi and a chapter from an unfinished novel by E. M. Forster. Contributors include: William Plomer, Imogen Holst, the Earl of…
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Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems
- £10.00
- The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three significant royal occasions. 'The Patriarchs: An Elegy' was written after Prince Philip passed away in April 2021, 'Queenhood' celebrates the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, while 'Floral Tribute'…
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Trieste (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- "Trieste is a work of European high culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject, the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick" Craig Seligman, New York Times…
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Troilus and Criseyde
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #992: Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover,…
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Trustee from the Toolroom
- £50.00
- Happiest and last of Shute's novels. Aman happy with his model engineering suddenly becomes Trustee to a 10 year old Girl.
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Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
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Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
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Turlough, a novel (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid.…
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
- £14.00
- Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A…
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Twice Brightly (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- I was shaken with spasms of helpless mirth at frequent intervals...Harry Secombe brings untold pleasure and laughter into the lives of those who pick up this most entertaining book PRINCE CHARLES Sir Harry's classic story of a young comic's very first week in variety draws strongly on his own experiences.…
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Twilight Of Democracy: The Seductive Lure Of Authoritarianism
- £15.00
- In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually -…
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
- £35.00
- A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - to look after him. But what follows is a blood-streaked trail across three continents... Twinkle, Twinkle Little…
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Two against the Amazon
- £10.00
- An account of the trip by two inexperienced amateurs to the Amazon (John Brown with Sebastian Snow (1929-2001) in 1951) to prove that the Ninococha glacier lake flowed into the Maranon, the Amazon's most voluminous tributory. Includes Index.
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Two Caravans (signed)
- £25.00
- A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There…
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Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006
- £8.00
- The idea for this book - a new selection of her poems with notes - grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and…
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
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U2: Past, Present, Future
- £30.00
- U2 remains deeply rooted in tradition while still looking toward the future and pushing boundaries. Follow this popular Irish band from its formation and early years through the release of its milestone albums and arena-packed shows. Explore, also, the challenges raised by the group s unwavering political and social commitment.…
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Ukridge
- £12.00
- First published in 1924, these short stories had previously appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US and in the Strand Magazine in the UK. There are 10 included, relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
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Ultimatum (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . . They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within IranÕs Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose objective is to transform their country into a nuclear-armed nation, and so seal its domination of the…
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Uncle
- £200.00
- The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A classic in the great English nonsense tradition - Observer. Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He…
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Uncle Dynamite
- £85.00
- Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened…
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
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Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
- £10.00
- Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author. Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry. To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life's most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
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Unpresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 'Feb 26, White House briefing room: the coronavirus feels like it is changing everything.... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign.... ' Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon…
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Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported
- £18.00
- Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' Ð Giles Foden, The Guardian A critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson. Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable…
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
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Untold Stories
- £12.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Untold Stories
- £15.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from “the New Yorker”
- £16.00
- The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan. Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink…
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Up with Authority: Why We Need Authority to Flourish as Human Beings
- £25.00
- Authority is something we experience every day, but is it necessary? Many think that it is not, and that it exists only as a remedy for some defect in us. Victor Lee Austin sets about exploring the higher and nobler functions of authority, and in doing so reveals its human…
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Up, up and away: The biography of Be Fair
- £40.00
- With complete frankness, and a definite touch of humour, Lucinda Prior-Palmer offers the biography of her remarkable horse, Be Fair. This timeless story begins back in 1968, when Lucinda acquired Be Fair for her fifteenth birthday. That day the problems began; but it was also the start of an extraordinary…
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Us and our Donkey
- £15.00
- Amy Le Feuvre (1861 – 1929) was a prolific writer of Christian fiction
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Us Four
- £40.00
- The story of Cyril and his 3 brothers, growing up on a large estate in Edwardian England. It is a world in itself, with its large house, outdoor and indoor staffs, forestry, gardens and animals. But the Great War breaks across this carefree life.
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Usain Bolt: 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Eight days É É three gold medals É three world records É one amazing reputation firmly established. Usain Bolt's life Ð and the world of sport Ð would never be quite the same again. 16 August 2008 É Beijing, China É the Bird's Nest stadium É 91,000 spectators and an…
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V-U2: an immersive concert film at Sphere Las Vegas
- £100.00
- Official record of the film made of the Sphere Las Vegas's first residency of U2.
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Van Gogh: From the Early Gloom-laden Paintings to the Works of His Final Years
- £20.00
- Vincent Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the work of his final…
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Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- This autobiography chronicles the career and life of one of Britain's leading actresses, telling of her performances on stage and screen, her political beliefs and her family, up until 1991.
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Venice
- £300.00
- Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its…
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Venice: the most triumphant city
- £10.00
- Bull was a multi-talented and accomplished journalist, translator and art historian. This account of Venice was widely-regarded.
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Venus in Libra (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- John Bayliss was a British poet sometimes associated with the New Apocalyptics, a reaction against 1930s realism through surrealism and mysticism. He contributed in the war years to Poetry London and Poetry Quarterly; later to Poetry Review. He was also published in Air Force Poetry (1944). In 1977 he published…
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Venusberg
- £30.00
- Powell's early novel translated by Bruno Fonzi
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Venusberg
- £20.00
- An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define…
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Venusberg + Agents & Patients
- £25.00
- Two early novels in one volume
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Vermeer’s Family Secrets
- £35.00
- Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art:…
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Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
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Veronika Decides to Die (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho Ð a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has…
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Verses (Christina Rossetti)
- £25.00
- Rossetti's poetry drawn from her collections 'Called to be Saints, 'Time Flies' and 'The Face of the Deep'. First published thus 1896
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Versus
- £15.00
- Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
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Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
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Victoria: A Life
- £25.00
- When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff…
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Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
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Victory: An island tale
- £15.00
- A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior…
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Vienna
- £25.00
- Spender's long poem written while living in Vienna to celebrate the uprising of the Viennese socialists in 1934
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
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Vigils
- £70.00
- Sassoon's collection of poems published in 1935 and dedicated to his wife Hester, whom he had married in 1933. "In using the word 'vigils' Sassoon conjured up the image of the silent, careful watcher of unfolding events." (Roberts, p.255)
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Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
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Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
- £25.00
- Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. ItÕs a pedestrianÕs world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone,…
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Virginia Woolf: Her art as a novelist
- £8.00
- Virginia Woolf's vision of human life, and it is about her sense of values. It attempts to analyse the form of her novels.
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Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- £9.00
- Collection of essays, introduced by the author's letter to William Ernest Henley; on Girls and Boys (tr. of title), English Admirals, potraits by Raeburn etc. Orig pub in 1881
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Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
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Voices by the Sea: the story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir
- £12.00
- In 1947, when the UK was deep in the throes of post-war austerity, that the concept of the Aldeburgh festival was first conceived. The prime movers were the singer Peter Pears, the librettist Eric Crozier, and above all, the composer Benjamin Britten.
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Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
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Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
- £8.00
- One of the world's leading voices of faith and social activism also happens to be one of its biggest rock groups. The band members drink, smoke and swear - yet a radical biblical agenda and faith fuel their life and work. Welcome to the dichotomy of U2, arguably the greatest…
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Walking on Sunshine
- £8.00
- Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares the strategies that have helped her stay calm and happy…
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Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
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War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
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War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
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War Lord (The Last Kingdom 13)
- £20.00
- The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom. An impossible choice. The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to hang up his sword. But as long as the kingdom…
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Waterland (SIGNED, Dutch) / Vertaling Rien Verhoef
- £100.00
- In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of…
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Watership Down
- £140.00
- One of the best-loved children's classics of all time, this is the complete, original story of Watership Down. Something terrible is about to happen to the warren - Fiver feels sure of it. And Fiver's sixth sense is never wrong, according to his brother Hazel. They had to leave immediately,…
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Waugh in Abyssinia
- £75.00
- In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent…
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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We British: the Poetry of the People
- £20.00
- More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it…
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We British: the Poetry of the People
- £25.00
- More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it…
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We’ve been thinking
- £20.00
- Reminiscences of English Hunts, published after the author's death but edited by Robert Colville, with contributions by Major Guy Paget, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, Brigadier Sir Percy Laurie, Phyllis Hinton, Colonel Charles Rich.
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
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West of Sunset (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 3rd novel, set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence Ð the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles Ð West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington,…
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What Am I Doing Here
- £35.00
- In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and…
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What art does: an unfinished theory (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring…
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What Do Jewish People Think About Jesus?
- £12.00
- Written in an accessible style, What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus? answers sixty common questions about Jewish people and Jewish culture. Drawn from the steady stream of questions Michael L. Brown's ministry receives every month, the book's questions reflect the perennial Christian fascination with Jewish customs and beliefs. A…
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What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
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What I saw in Russia (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- The account of a British socialist's fact-finding mission to Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Lansbury became leader of the Labour Party in 1932, and was succeeded by his deputy Clement Atlee in 1935. Lansbury's account provides a firsthand view of the nation's efforts to rebuild after the revolution, as…
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What is a Classic?
- £50.00
- The transcript of Eliot's wartime lecture given to the Virgil Society on 16 October 1944 published the following January in London.
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What on earth is heaven?
- £10.00
- What happens to us when we die? Will heaven be a place of fluffy clouds, angels and cherubs playing harps? Is the Christian faith just about securing a place in heaven when we die? In What on Earth is Heaven? James Paul explores the radical truth of what the Bible…
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What the Dog Saw and other adventures
- £15.00
- In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 'Masterpieces in the art of the…
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