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What They Heard: How The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan Listened to Each Other
- £12.00
- They were the artists who revolutionised popular music and took it to new levels of originality and influence. But they didnÕt do it in a bubble. In fact, The Beatles, Beach Boys and Bob Dylan remade modern music by listening to each other, and using what they heard to drive…
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What You Need to Be Warm (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from…
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What’s Become Of Waring
- £30.00
- The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen…
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What’s Become of Waring
- £15.00
- In WhatÕs Become of Waring, Powell lampoons a world with which he was intimately acquainted: the inner workings of a small London publisher. But even as Powell eviscerates the publishersÕ less than scrupulous plotting in his tale of wild coincidences, mistaken identity, and romance, he never strays to the far…
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Whatever Happened At Hazelwood, a new detective novel
- £12.00
- Michael Innes was the nom de plume of Scottish novelist and academic John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906-1994).
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When we were very young
- £35.00
- Written with simplicity and gentle humor, A. A. Milne's poems recapture the innocence of childhood and the wonder of everyday situations, from putting on boots for a rainy day to birdwatching and gazing at a cloudy sky. Alert readers will recognize the narrator of Teddy Bear, a poem that originally…
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When we were very young
- £15.00
- Written with simplicity and gentle humor, A. A. Milne's poems recapture the innocence of childhood and the wonder of everyday situations, from putting on boots for a rainy day to birdwatching and gazing at a cloudy sky. Alert readers will recognize the narrator of Teddy Bear, a poem that originally…
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When Your Twenties Are Darker Than You Expected
- £11.00
- When Your Twenties Are Darker Than You Expected explores the darkest, most unmanageable emotions that your twenties grow in your gut: Depression, Suicidality, Regret, Grief, Doubt, Dissatisfaction, Anxiety, Loneliness, and Lust. You may not know any of these words intimately. If that's the case, I recommend you don't purchase this…
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Where Love and Friendship Dwelt
- £20.00
- Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was writer and one-time MP Hilaire Belloc's sister. She wrote from 1898 until her death, and had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Four of her works were adapted for the screen: The Chink in the Armour (1912; adapted 1922), The Lodger…
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Whereabouts
- £30.00
- Mark Roper's third collection of poems, exploring the mystery of the self, its relation to nature and to others, its unpredictability and unknowability.
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Whit or Isis amongst the Unsaved
- £30.00
- 1st edition of the novel from Scottish writer, Iain Banks (1954-2013). Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates. The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help.
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White
- £10.00
- It is 2015. Edmee and Pete are engineers on a remote research station in Antarctica, Project White. Pete has come to find peace among the practical rituals of life on the station. Edmee, the only woman on the base, works to secure communication with the outside world. Both are running…
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White Male Heart (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In the magnificent wilderness that is the Scottish Highlands, Aaron and Hugh have been friends for as long as they can remember, bound by a shared affinity for their surroundings and an increasing sense of alienation from the remote, close-knit community that is their home. But when a young woman…
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Who do you think you are? Stories and Parodies
- £20.00
- A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury's playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and an entire novel from Muriel Spark.
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Who Killed Cock Robin? Remarks on Poetry and Its criticism, and Including the Sad Story of Eunuch Arden
- £40.00
- Sitwell offers characteristically erudite & amusing comments on poetry & its criticism in seven parts: I - The Public and the Mammon of Righteousness; II - Give them the Bird; III - An Inquest on the Body of Eunuch Arden; IV - From the Bathroom "Window; V - Concerning Simple…
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Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
- £10.00
- A wide-ranging study examines key theological issues and argues that the popular--and historically inaccurate--acceptance of the biblical version of Jesus's execution has resulted in dangerous anti-Semitic practices.
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Who thought this was a good idea?
- £6.00
- If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . . Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days…
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Who Was Jesus?: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue
- £22.00
- Who Was Jesus? is a collection of articles revolving around the dialogue between Jewish New Testament scholar Peter Zaas and Christian apologist William Craig, with a focus on the differing Jewish and Christian assessments of Jesus of Nazareth, and the question of Jewish-Christian relations. Their points of agreement and disagreement,…
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Who’s Who in D. H. Lawrence
- £12.00
- Writer and critic Graham Holderness has published over 40 books, many on Shakespeare, and hundreds of chapters and articles of criticism, theory and theology. He was one of the founders of British cultural materialism, and is acknowledged as a formative contributor to a number of branches of Shakespeare criticism and…
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Whose Body?
- £10.00
- Dorothy L. SayerÕs first novel, Whose Body?, introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in fourteen subsequent novels and short stories. Athletic, scholarly, stylish and sharp, Lord Peter Wimsey became one of the most popular and beloved heroes of the genre. In WimseyÕs first…
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Why I Am A Protestant
- £7.00
- This book is in two parts. In the first I try to set out my reasons for being a Protestant; in the second are my reasons for rejecting Roman Catholicism. I make here a personal profession of faith, which binds nobody but myself. But it may be that the reasons…
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Why they behave like Russians
- £11.00
- What began as a study of Russian history at Oxford in 1933 grew to an extensive analysis of the Soviet system as it stood just after the end of the Second World War.
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Why Work?
- £35.00
- Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.Transcript of an Address Delivered at Eastbourne, April 23rd, 1942.
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
- £25.00
- A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers…
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Wild Chorus
- £35.00
- The follow up to Morning Flight, Scott includes accouints of birding trips to Hungary, Roumania and Persia, as well as his iconic paintings of wildfowl in their natural environments. 20 colour plates, 48 sepia plates
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Wild Chorus
- £20.00
- The follow up to Morning Flight, Scott includes accouints of birding trips to Hungary, Roumania and Persia, as well as his iconic paintings of wildfowl in their natural environments. 20 colour plates, 48 sepia plates
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Wild Flowers: Pastoral and Local Poetry
- £100.00
- Bloomfield was a labouring class poet who was self-taught like Mary Collier and John Clare. Includes a lovely extended dedication to his son Charles. Unfortuantely, 6 years later, his publisher of Vernor & Hood went bust, causing Bloomfield significant hardship.
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Wild Geese and Eskimos: A journal of the Perry River expedition of 1949
- £20.00
- A journal of the Perry River expedition of 1949
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Wild Lone: the story of a Pytchley Fox
- £45.00
- Denys James Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990) was a British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym "BB". He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Written on the eve of the Second World War, the novel follows the life of a young fox named RufusÑand…
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Will (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. William Shakespeare is on his deathbed, where he receives his lawyer to set out his final will and testament. As he answers his questions the Bard begins to…
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William and A.R.P. (Air Raid Precautions)
- £25.00
- Crompton's William series Book 21. In time of war, William Brown is a force to be reckoned with, with his newly formed band of experts on air raid tactics and his gas mask made from a flower pot. Saving the country should be easy for someone with William's courage and…
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
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William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
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William Harvey: Englishman 1578-1657
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- William Harvey (1578Ð 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the…
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William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
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William the Rebel
- £20.00
- Crompton's William series Book 15. Contains: Three dogs and William; A Rescue Party; Mistakes Will Happen; William and Cleopatra; The Outlaws and the Penknife; Wiliam and the Watch and Chain; William's Wonderful Plan; William and the Fisherman; William and the Drug Trafficker; April Fool's Day; William Makes Things Hum; It…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £70.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
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Wilt on High (Wilt 3)
- £15.00
- Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable…
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Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Winged Chariot
- £22.00
- Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, 'Quia Amore Langueo', in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul…
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Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- From dormouse hibernation to C.S. Lewis and solstice celebrations to Sylvia Plath, May deftly demonstrates how interconnected our personal contentment is with the pattern of the seasons. Wintering is a comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine…
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
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With an Eye to the Future
- £18.00
- Lancaster's 2nd autobiographical collection, personally illustrated with 35 b/w drawings and 2 full colour plates
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With These Hands: a collection of work
- £9.00
- a collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her present busy career as a writer and broadcaster.
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Wodehouse: A Life (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One hundred years after his first novel was published P.G. Wodehouse still promises a release from everyday cares into a paradise of innocent comic mayhem. His many books are still in print, his characters -Jeeves, Wooster and Lord Emsworth - have passed into the language and his admirers range from…
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Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy 1)
- £120.00
- The first book in Hilary MantelÕs award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ÔEvery bit as…
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Woman of the Inner Sea
- £35.00
- A remarkable, powerful novel, all the more exciting for the exotic background so vividly described' Daily Express A young woman once told Thomas Keneally her life story. It was to lodge in his mind and haunt his imagination, becoming the kernel for this enthralling and emotive novel. It tells of…
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Words for the Wind
- £40.00
- Roethke's 2nd volume of poems published in the UK, a year before the USA edition.
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World At Risk
- £20.00
- Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism…
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World Brain
- £180.00
- World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936Ð1938.[1] Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that…
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Wormwood (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Dr Sabian Blake - astronomer, scientist, and master of the Cabala - is in possession of the Nemorensis, an ancient leather-bound book which holds the secrets of the universe. Its mysterious inscription reads: 'Wormwood...the bright star shall fall from the sky...and many will die from its bitterness'. Deciphering this prophecy…
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Wounded By God’s People: Discovering How God’s Love Heals Our Hearts
- £7.50
- I believe there are many of us who have been wounded by God's people. And I believe there are those of you who have been so wounded, that you have confused God's people with God, and so have run from Him. The purpose of this book is to help you…
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Write Better Ð A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
- £12.00
- Christianity Today 2020 Book of the Year Award, Culture and the Arts Writing is not easy. But it can get better. In this primer on nonfiction writing, Andrew Le Peau offers insights he has learned as a published author and an editor for over forty years, training, guiding, and cheering…
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Writing Home
- £9.00
- Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years…
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Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish: A Guidebook for the Journey
- £17.00
- Most novelists attempt to write their first novels in small snatches of time_a few hours here, a few hours there. Making Time for Story is designed to accommodate this writing approach, featuring a combination of exercises, how-to instruction, and motivational passages to keep writers moving forward every time they sit…
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Writings of The Rev. John Knox (British Reformers), minister of God’s word in Scotland
- £12.00
- Various treatises, sermons and letters from Scotland's Reformer
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Wyntertide (Rotherweird 2) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Welcome back to Rotherweird. The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of…
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Yes! No! But Wait…!: The One Thing You Need to Know To Write a Novel
- £11.00
- Yes! No! But WaitÉ! is the most straightforward book on writing a novel ever published. It is also the most practical, honest and useful. Tim Lott admits he canÕt teach someone how to write a novel (thatÕs one of the myths propagated by the novel-writing industry). But he can help…
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Yesterday’s Spy
- £25.00
- Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy…
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You Can’t Do Both (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Robin Davies is old beyond his years, in hard-won experience at least. This story follows him from his South London adolescence in a genteel pre-war suburban household, through a series of rites of passage involving rebellion, self-discovery, and sex in various forms and approaches.
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You Can’t Get There from Here
- £15.00
- Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must Be More to Life. A hilarious collection of Nash's verse, including Nature Walks,All's Brillig in Tin Pan Alley, The Literary Scene etc. Drawings from the brilliant Maurice Sendak.
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You Found Me: New Research on How Unchurched Nones, Millennials, and Irreligious
- £15.00
- Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearMany bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly…
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You only live twice
- £35.00
- The Castle of Death shelters a poisoned garden, curated by a criminal mastermind and set atop a rocky Japanese island. Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld but M. gives him one last chance. To save his job, James Bond needs…
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Young Stalin
- £12.00
- Winner of the Costa Biography Award. What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest,…
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Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
- £12.00
- The ultimate stocking filler for the crime fan in your life. The book Miss Marple wishes she owned. This is your essential guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village, where danger lurks around each cobblestoned corner and every bite of scone or sip of tea may be…
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Youth And Gaspar Ruiz
- £10.00
- Youth was not my first contribution to " Maga " * It was the second. But that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, with whom my relations have grown very intimate in the course of years. The origins of that gentleman (nobody as far…
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Youth: A Narrative; Heart of Darkness; End of the Tether
- £25.00
- Combination of Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), The End of the Tether (1902)
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Ypres & Other Poems
- £20.00
- Lesser known World War I poet, William G Shakespeare, depicting the Ypres Salient battles.
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Zealots: Investigation into the Jewish Freedom Movement
- £80.00
- Investigations Into the Jewish Freedom Movement in the Period from Herod I until 70AD. Hengel's classic work refers not only to all of Josephus' works, but also to every relevant Rabbinic tractate, Qumran text, contemporary Latin or Greek author and biblical, apocryphal or pseudepigraphical and early Christian text.
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Zonal (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Don Paterson's new collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of The Twilight Zone (1959-1960), playing…
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Zorro, a novel
- £18.00
- Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and helpless.
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What They Heard: How The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan Listened to Each Other
- £12.00
- They were the artists who revolutionised popular music and took it to new levels of originality and influence. But they didnÕt do it in a bubble. In fact, The Beatles, Beach Boys and Bob Dylan remade modern music by listening to each other, and using what they heard to drive…
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What You Need to Be Warm (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from…
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What’s Become Of Waring
- £30.00
- The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen…
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What’s Become of Waring
- £15.00
- In WhatÕs Become of Waring, Powell lampoons a world with which he was intimately acquainted: the inner workings of a small London publisher. But even as Powell eviscerates the publishersÕ less than scrupulous plotting in his tale of wild coincidences, mistaken identity, and romance, he never strays to the far…
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Whatever Happened At Hazelwood, a new detective novel
- £12.00
- Michael Innes was the nom de plume of Scottish novelist and academic John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (1906-1994).
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When we were very young
- £35.00
- Written with simplicity and gentle humor, A. A. Milne's poems recapture the innocence of childhood and the wonder of everyday situations, from putting on boots for a rainy day to birdwatching and gazing at a cloudy sky. Alert readers will recognize the narrator of Teddy Bear, a poem that originally…
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When we were very young
- £15.00
- Written with simplicity and gentle humor, A. A. Milne's poems recapture the innocence of childhood and the wonder of everyday situations, from putting on boots for a rainy day to birdwatching and gazing at a cloudy sky. Alert readers will recognize the narrator of Teddy Bear, a poem that originally…
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When Your Twenties Are Darker Than You Expected
- £11.00
- When Your Twenties Are Darker Than You Expected explores the darkest, most unmanageable emotions that your twenties grow in your gut: Depression, Suicidality, Regret, Grief, Doubt, Dissatisfaction, Anxiety, Loneliness, and Lust. You may not know any of these words intimately. If that's the case, I recommend you don't purchase this…
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Where Love and Friendship Dwelt
- £20.00
- Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was writer and one-time MP Hilaire Belloc's sister. She wrote from 1898 until her death, and had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Four of her works were adapted for the screen: The Chink in the Armour (1912; adapted 1922), The Lodger…
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Whereabouts
- £30.00
- Mark Roper's third collection of poems, exploring the mystery of the self, its relation to nature and to others, its unpredictability and unknowability.
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Whit or Isis amongst the Unsaved
- £30.00
- 1st edition of the novel from Scottish writer, Iain Banks (1954-2013). Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates. The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help.
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White
- £10.00
- It is 2015. Edmee and Pete are engineers on a remote research station in Antarctica, Project White. Pete has come to find peace among the practical rituals of life on the station. Edmee, the only woman on the base, works to secure communication with the outside world. Both are running…
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White Male Heart (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In the magnificent wilderness that is the Scottish Highlands, Aaron and Hugh have been friends for as long as they can remember, bound by a shared affinity for their surroundings and an increasing sense of alienation from the remote, close-knit community that is their home. But when a young woman…
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Who do you think you are? Stories and Parodies
- £20.00
- A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury's playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and an entire novel from Muriel Spark.
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Who Killed Cock Robin? Remarks on Poetry and Its criticism, and Including the Sad Story of Eunuch Arden
- £40.00
- Sitwell offers characteristically erudite & amusing comments on poetry & its criticism in seven parts: I - The Public and the Mammon of Righteousness; II - Give them the Bird; III - An Inquest on the Body of Eunuch Arden; IV - From the Bathroom "Window; V - Concerning Simple…
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Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
- £10.00
- A wide-ranging study examines key theological issues and argues that the popular--and historically inaccurate--acceptance of the biblical version of Jesus's execution has resulted in dangerous anti-Semitic practices.
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Who thought this was a good idea?
- £6.00
- If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . . Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days…
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Who Was Jesus?: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue
- £22.00
- Who Was Jesus? is a collection of articles revolving around the dialogue between Jewish New Testament scholar Peter Zaas and Christian apologist William Craig, with a focus on the differing Jewish and Christian assessments of Jesus of Nazareth, and the question of Jewish-Christian relations. Their points of agreement and disagreement,…
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Who’s Who in D. H. Lawrence
- £12.00
- Writer and critic Graham Holderness has published over 40 books, many on Shakespeare, and hundreds of chapters and articles of criticism, theory and theology. He was one of the founders of British cultural materialism, and is acknowledged as a formative contributor to a number of branches of Shakespeare criticism and…
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Whose Body?
- £10.00
- Dorothy L. SayerÕs first novel, Whose Body?, introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in fourteen subsequent novels and short stories. Athletic, scholarly, stylish and sharp, Lord Peter Wimsey became one of the most popular and beloved heroes of the genre. In WimseyÕs first…
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Why I Am A Protestant
- £7.00
- This book is in two parts. In the first I try to set out my reasons for being a Protestant; in the second are my reasons for rejecting Roman Catholicism. I make here a personal profession of faith, which binds nobody but myself. But it may be that the reasons…
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Why they behave like Russians
- £11.00
- What began as a study of Russian history at Oxford in 1933 grew to an extensive analysis of the Soviet system as it stood just after the end of the Second World War.
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Why Work?
- £35.00
- Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.Transcript of an Address Delivered at Eastbourne, April 23rd, 1942.
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
- £25.00
- A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers…
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Wild Chorus
- £35.00
- The follow up to Morning Flight, Scott includes accouints of birding trips to Hungary, Roumania and Persia, as well as his iconic paintings of wildfowl in their natural environments. 20 colour plates, 48 sepia plates
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Wild Chorus
- £20.00
- The follow up to Morning Flight, Scott includes accouints of birding trips to Hungary, Roumania and Persia, as well as his iconic paintings of wildfowl in their natural environments. 20 colour plates, 48 sepia plates
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Wild Flowers: Pastoral and Local Poetry
- £100.00
- Bloomfield was a labouring class poet who was self-taught like Mary Collier and John Clare. Includes a lovely extended dedication to his son Charles. Unfortuantely, 6 years later, his publisher of Vernor & Hood went bust, causing Bloomfield significant hardship.
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Wild Geese and Eskimos: A journal of the Perry River expedition of 1949
- £20.00
- A journal of the Perry River expedition of 1949
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Wild Lone: the story of a Pytchley Fox
- £45.00
- Denys James Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990) was a British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym "BB". He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Written on the eve of the Second World War, the novel follows the life of a young fox named RufusÑand…
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Will (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. William Shakespeare is on his deathbed, where he receives his lawyer to set out his final will and testament. As he answers his questions the Bard begins to…
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William and A.R.P. (Air Raid Precautions)
- £25.00
- Crompton's William series Book 21. In time of war, William Brown is a force to be reckoned with, with his newly formed band of experts on air raid tactics and his gas mask made from a flower pot. Saving the country should be easy for someone with William's courage and…
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
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William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
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William Harvey: Englishman 1578-1657
- £12.00
- William Harvey (1578Ð 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the…
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William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
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William the Rebel
- £20.00
- Crompton's William series Book 15. Contains: Three dogs and William; A Rescue Party; Mistakes Will Happen; William and Cleopatra; The Outlaws and the Penknife; Wiliam and the Watch and Chain; William's Wonderful Plan; William and the Fisherman; William and the Drug Trafficker; April Fool's Day; William Makes Things Hum; It…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £70.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
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Wilt on High (Wilt 3)
- £15.00
- Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable…
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Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Winged Chariot
- £22.00
- Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, 'Quia Amore Langueo', in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul…
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Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- From dormouse hibernation to C.S. Lewis and solstice celebrations to Sylvia Plath, May deftly demonstrates how interconnected our personal contentment is with the pattern of the seasons. Wintering is a comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine…
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
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With an Eye to the Future
- £18.00
- Lancaster's 2nd autobiographical collection, personally illustrated with 35 b/w drawings and 2 full colour plates
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With These Hands: a collection of work
- £9.00
- a collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her present busy career as a writer and broadcaster.
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Wodehouse: A Life (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One hundred years after his first novel was published P.G. Wodehouse still promises a release from everyday cares into a paradise of innocent comic mayhem. His many books are still in print, his characters -Jeeves, Wooster and Lord Emsworth - have passed into the language and his admirers range from…
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Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy 1)
- £120.00
- The first book in Hilary MantelÕs award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ÔEvery bit as…
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Woman of the Inner Sea
- £35.00
- A remarkable, powerful novel, all the more exciting for the exotic background so vividly described' Daily Express A young woman once told Thomas Keneally her life story. It was to lodge in his mind and haunt his imagination, becoming the kernel for this enthralling and emotive novel. It tells of…
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Words for the Wind
- £40.00
- Roethke's 2nd volume of poems published in the UK, a year before the USA edition.
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World At Risk
- £20.00
- Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism…
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World Brain
- £180.00
- World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936Ð1938.[1] Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that…
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Wormwood (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Dr Sabian Blake - astronomer, scientist, and master of the Cabala - is in possession of the Nemorensis, an ancient leather-bound book which holds the secrets of the universe. Its mysterious inscription reads: 'Wormwood...the bright star shall fall from the sky...and many will die from its bitterness'. Deciphering this prophecy…
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Wounded By God’s People: Discovering How God’s Love Heals Our Hearts
- £7.50
- I believe there are many of us who have been wounded by God's people. And I believe there are those of you who have been so wounded, that you have confused God's people with God, and so have run from Him. The purpose of this book is to help you…
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Write Better Ð A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
- £12.00
- Christianity Today 2020 Book of the Year Award, Culture and the Arts Writing is not easy. But it can get better. In this primer on nonfiction writing, Andrew Le Peau offers insights he has learned as a published author and an editor for over forty years, training, guiding, and cheering…
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Writing Home
- £9.00
- Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years…
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Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish: A Guidebook for the Journey
- £17.00
- Most novelists attempt to write their first novels in small snatches of time_a few hours here, a few hours there. Making Time for Story is designed to accommodate this writing approach, featuring a combination of exercises, how-to instruction, and motivational passages to keep writers moving forward every time they sit…
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Writings of The Rev. John Knox (British Reformers), minister of God’s word in Scotland
- £12.00
- Various treatises, sermons and letters from Scotland's Reformer
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Wyntertide (Rotherweird 2) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Welcome back to Rotherweird. The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of…
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Yes! No! But Wait…!: The One Thing You Need to Know To Write a Novel
- £11.00
- Yes! No! But WaitÉ! is the most straightforward book on writing a novel ever published. It is also the most practical, honest and useful. Tim Lott admits he canÕt teach someone how to write a novel (thatÕs one of the myths propagated by the novel-writing industry). But he can help…
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Yesterday’s Spy
- £25.00
- Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy…
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You Can’t Do Both (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Robin Davies is old beyond his years, in hard-won experience at least. This story follows him from his South London adolescence in a genteel pre-war suburban household, through a series of rites of passage involving rebellion, self-discovery, and sex in various forms and approaches.
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You Can’t Get There from Here
- £15.00
- Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must Be More to Life. A hilarious collection of Nash's verse, including Nature Walks,All's Brillig in Tin Pan Alley, The Literary Scene etc. Drawings from the brilliant Maurice Sendak.
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You Found Me: New Research on How Unchurched Nones, Millennials, and Irreligious
- £15.00
- Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearMany bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly…
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You only live twice
- £35.00
- The Castle of Death shelters a poisoned garden, curated by a criminal mastermind and set atop a rocky Japanese island. Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld but M. gives him one last chance. To save his job, James Bond needs…
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Young Stalin
- £12.00
- Winner of the Costa Biography Award. What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest,…
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Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
- £12.00
- The ultimate stocking filler for the crime fan in your life. The book Miss Marple wishes she owned. This is your essential guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village, where danger lurks around each cobblestoned corner and every bite of scone or sip of tea may be…
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Youth And Gaspar Ruiz
- £10.00
- Youth was not my first contribution to " Maga " * It was the second. But that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, with whom my relations have grown very intimate in the course of years. The origins of that gentleman (nobody as far…
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Youth: A Narrative; Heart of Darkness; End of the Tether
- £25.00
- Combination of Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), The End of the Tether (1902)
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Ypres & Other Poems
- £20.00
- Lesser known World War I poet, William G Shakespeare, depicting the Ypres Salient battles.
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Zealots: Investigation into the Jewish Freedom Movement
- £80.00
- Investigations Into the Jewish Freedom Movement in the Period from Herod I until 70AD. Hengel's classic work refers not only to all of Josephus' works, but also to every relevant Rabbinic tractate, Qumran text, contemporary Latin or Greek author and biblical, apocryphal or pseudepigraphical and early Christian text.
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Zonal (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Don Paterson's new collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of The Twilight Zone (1959-1960), playing…
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Zorro, a novel
- £18.00
- Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and helpless.
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