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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- £50.00
- Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets…
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
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And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning: Reading the Bible in Translation
- £45.00
- For readers of Bruce FeilerÕs Walking the Bible and Kathleen NorrisÕs The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation. Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of…
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Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
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Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a biography
- £12.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. Anne Thackeray Ritchie was the daughter of W.M. Thackeray and also Virginia Woolf's aunt, thus bridging two extraordinary periods in English letters.
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
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Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
- £90.00
- A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled…
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Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
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Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
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Approved Unto God
- £15.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. In Approved Unto God, he draws from the treasure-house of Scripture invaluable advice and encouragement for Christian workers.
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April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery (SIGNED)
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- The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. 'He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn't. It wasn't simple at…
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Ararat
- £14.00
- "'Sergei Rozanov had made an unnecessary journey from Moscow to Gorky, simply in order to sleep with a young blind woman.' So begins D.M. Thomas's novel (his first since the publication of The White Hotel), a complex, brilliant fantasia that, in the telling, is a like a series of Russian…
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Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Ariel’s Gift: a Commentary on Birthday Letters (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary…
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Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
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- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
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Art, Faith and Modernity
- £25.00
- Which artists in British 20th century art painted religious images? Broadly speaking there seem to have been two categories: The first concerns artists who created religious images when the religious content was in response to a set subject, for example The Deluge in the 1920 Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting,…
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Artemis Fowl, the Arctic Incident
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- THE FAIRIES ARE IN TROUBLE. Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human help. Holly Short is convinced it's her old nemesis, Artemis Fowl. But, for once, Artemis is innocent. He's too busy getting his father back from the…
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Arthur & George (Uncorrected Proof)
- £18.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Arthur and George
- £40.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Arthur, King of the Middle March (SIGNED)
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- Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy from the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award is a timeless novel. It…
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As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
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- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and…
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Ash Wednesday
- £25.00
- Jimmy is AWOL from the army, but - with characteristic fierceness and terror - he's about to embark on the biggest commitment of his life. Christy is pregnant with Jimmy's child, and she's determined to head home, with or without Jimmy, to face up to her past and prepare for…
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Asia’s First Republic: The Story of China 1912-1961
- £20.00
- An official illustrated narrative of 20th Century Chinese history from the perspective of The Republic of China (aka Taiwan) rather than the PRC in Beijing.
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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
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Assorted Espionage book bundle
- £50.00
- Espionage books from 2WW and Cold War
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Assorted Sizes
- £15.00
- Collection of Lancaster's wartime 'pocket cartoons' from the Daily Express (printed in landscape)
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At Lady Molly’s [A Dance to the Music of Time 4]
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- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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At the Court of the Borgia (Folio)
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- At the Court of the Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI. Johann Burchard (c.1450Ð1506) was an Alsatian-born priest and chronicler during the Italian Renaissance. He spent his entire career at the papal Courts of Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Pius III, and Julius II,…
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Atlas
- £25.00
- A 1982 collection of cartoons first published in the Netherlands, featuring more of Baxter's Amazing People, more Great Failures of History, and more Great Culinary Disasters of Our Time
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Atmosphere: A Love Story (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at HoustonÕs Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group…
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Atonement
- £25.00
- ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Atonement (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- ÔA person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.Õ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Australians: Origins to Eureka 1
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- Now in paperback, the outstanding first volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history of Australia bringsto life the vast range of characters who have formed Australia's national story Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers it is from their lives and…
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Author, Author, a novel (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- In David Lodge's previous novel (Thinks), the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their…
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Authority (SIGNED): Southern Reach Trilogy 2
- £200.00
- In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened É Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in ÔAnnihilationÕ (later filmed by Alex Garland), the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government…
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Avenger (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what…
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Avenue of Mysteries
- £20.00
- John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and…
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Avenue of Mysteries
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- John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan DiegoÑa fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in MexicoÑhas a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and…
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Avignon Quintet: 4. Sebastian, or Ruling Passions
- £30.00
- The fourth in Durrell's acclaimed Avignon Quintet. An Egyptian banker and member of a gnostic brotherhood learns that a letter prescribing his death has been innocently intercepted by the woman he loves
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Backcloth (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 4th Volume of his autobiography Filling in the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. It is based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, covering many aspects of a celebrated…
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Backhand (Anna Lee Mystery 6/6 (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- 6th and final volume of the Anna Lee series; When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a paedophile,…
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Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
- £15.00
- Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays…
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
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Ballads and Poems
- £30.00
- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
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Balzac
- £30.00
- Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with…
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Banksy: Wall and Piece
- £15.00
- Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book.
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Banksy: Wall and Piece
- £15.00
- Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book.
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Barley Barley
- £25.00
- A collection of original poems by the author of "Conkers", which deals with the lives and experiences of young children and teenagers.
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Bath
- £30.00
- In eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable members of English society found a splendid justification for improving their health and enjoying themselves at the same time. They took the waters assiduously, gambled excessively, danced away the evenings at cotillion balls,…
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Beauchamp’s Career
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- Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Rene de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One…
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Beautiful Children
- £14.00
- One Saturday night, in a city surrounded by desert and oversaturated with glitter is Newell Ewing. With his older, socially maladjusted mate Kenny, the two embark on Newell's first Saturday night out on the town in Vegas. Newell is twelve years old. Before the sun rises Newell has disappeared, never…
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Becket or The Honour of God
- £25.00
- First published in France in 1959, this was quickly translated into English. When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with…
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Becoming
- £25.00
- An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African…
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Behind the lines, a book of poems
- £50.00
- Milne's poems written during the first 9 months of the 2nd World War; dedicated to his son Christopher: 'scholar of Trinity, and by the time this appears, with any luck, private in the Royal Engineers.'
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Behold this Dreamer – of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, …
- £50.00
- Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled five of them, with commentaries, using poems and passages of prose. To each he brought such a range of reading, wisdom…
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Being Human: The Nature of Spiritual Experience
- £15.00
- Who is right about what it means to be human? The Greeks envisioned an ideal humanity. Their ethereal sculptures depict a transcendent, spiritual model. But today many scientists view human beings as mere machines. And some believe we will be able to make machines with human-like intelligence in the near…
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Benjamin Britten and Russia (Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 11)
- £50.00
- Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten. This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout his life by examining his engagement with Russian composers, musicians and writers in the context of twentieth-century politics. The remarkable relationship between Britten and Shostakovich is…
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Benjamin Britten: a Biography
- £30.00
- Uses Britten's diaries, letters, and manuscripts to offer a personal glimpse of the British composer, discusses the impact of his homosexuality on his life, and looks at his major compositions.
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Benjamin Britten: a Commentary on his works from a group of Specialists
- £20.00
- Written to help the understanding of the millions who admire Britten superficially. Contributors include: Earl of Harewood, Dpeter Pears, George Malcolm, Norman del Mar, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley
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Benjamin Britten: his life and operas
- £14.00
- Long regarded as the best and most comprehensive introduction to the life and words of Benjamin Britten, it was out of print for many years. This 2nd edition was updated posthumously (after Britten's death in 1976) to include penetrating studies of the last two operas, Owen Wingrave (1970) and Death…
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Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life 1913-1976
- £15.00
- Donald Mitchell has here gathered together over 400 photographs which fascinatingly document the life and times of Benjamin Britten, who died in 1976. This is not a picture book in the conventional sense. It sets out to document as faithully and revealingly as possible mamny majro aspects of the life…
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Beowulf
- £25.00
- The Anglo-Saxon classic, probably written in the eighth century, which is one of the world's most famous epics. The story is retold in rhythmical and quick-paced prose. Introduction by Bruce Mitchell and lithographs by Virgil Burnett. 125 pages including genealogical tables and list of proper names.
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Beowulf: a new translation
- £12.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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Beowulf: a new translation (SIGNED)
- £650.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966
- £16.00
- With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 and 1966, Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city which demonstrated the conflict between East and West at that time like no other. The photographs throw into focus the situation existing both before…
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Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
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Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
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Better than God (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or…
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Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- For decades, Steven Curtis Chapman's music and message have brought hope and inspiration to millions around the world. Now, for the first time, Steven openly shares the experiences that have shaped him, his faith, and his music in a life that has included incredible highs and faith-shaking lows. Readers will…
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Betwys-Y-Coed: A pictorial trip down memory lane (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Take a fascinating and delightful trip down the memory lane of Betws-y-coed and compare yesterday with today.
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Bewilderment (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** A father. A son. A bewildering world. Discover the breath-taking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory. 'The love between son and father has an emotional truth that wrings the heart' Guardian / Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who…
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Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God
- £15.00
- One of the 3 sets of famous radio talks during the war that were initially published individually, and then were combined to form Mere Christianity.
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Beyond Turner’s Road: New Paintings; Walking up Walls
- £40.00
- In 2001, Sinclair wrote Walking up Walls to accompany McFadyen's solo exhibition at Agnew's. Small oblong 8vo concertina into postcard size.
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Bhowani Junction
- £15.00
- The tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India are grippingly evoked in John Masters' classic 'Bhowani Junction'. Set in the late 1940s and first published in 1954 in the wake of Partition, the novel has increased in stature over the years. 'Bhowani Junction', along with Masters' other…
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Biggles – Air Commodore
- £12.00
- First published, in ten parts, as BIGGLES FIGHTS ALONE in The Modern Boy, issues 452 to 461, dated 3rd October 1936 to 5th December 1936. 1994 publication under the title Biggles and the Secret Mission.
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Biggles – Air Detective
- £7.00
- Book First published in May 1950 by Latimer House for Marks and Spencer* (in a large "annual" style format) - 93 pages. The stories were serialised in either the “The Melbourne Herald” or “The Sun Pictorial” in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between July and December 1950. Later published in standard book…
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Biggles – Air Detective
- £10.00
- Book First published in May 1950 by Latimer House for Marks and Spencer* (in a large "annual" style format) - 93 pages. The stories were serialised in either the ÒThe Melbourne HeraldÓ or ÒThe Sun PictorialÓ in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between July and December 1950. Later published in standard book…
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Biggles – Secret Agent
- £15.00
- First published, in ten parts, as CASTLE SINISTER in Modern Boy, issues 78 to 87, dated 12th August 1939 to 14th October 1939; in book form in 1940.
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Biggles & Co
- £20.00
- In #10, Biggles is approached by Paul Cronfelt from a firm of Bullion Brokers called 'Cronfelt & Carstairs' with a proposition. Cronfelt wants him to set up an airline, a private venture with the primary object of carrying his companies' freight, namely gold and jewellery. Biggles is initially reluctant but…
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Biggles and the Black Peril
- £10.00
- When Biggles and Algy are forced by bad weather to land in a cove on the Norfolk coast they stumble upon an elaborate plot by the Russians to invade Britain. Unravelling the mystery they find themselves helped by a scruffy teenager, Ginger.
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Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy (no. 58)
- £75.00
- American Edie Ross, who helped Biggles solve the heroin smuggling case (Biggles in the fight against the white death), appears in London. He is looking for the lost son of a millionaire and Biggles must help him É
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Biggles Flies Again
- £16.00
- Biggles flies again into adventure in the far places of the earth. Stranded among the tropical swamps of British Guiana when the company employing him as a pilot folds up, he takes possession of the amphibian aircraft he is flying and proceeds to earn his living by undertaking dangerous missions…
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Biggles Flies North
- £20.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend counter the attempts of a vicious gang to stifle his air freight business in Canada.
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- £50.00
- Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets…
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
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And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning: Reading the Bible in Translation
- £45.00
- For readers of Bruce FeilerÕs Walking the Bible and Kathleen NorrisÕs The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation. Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of…
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Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
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Animal Farm
- £40.00
- Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was…
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Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a biography
- £12.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. Anne Thackeray Ritchie was the daughter of W.M. Thackeray and also Virginia Woolf's aunt, thus bridging two extraordinary periods in English letters.
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
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Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
- £90.00
- A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled…
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Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
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Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
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Approved Unto God
- £15.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. In Approved Unto God, he draws from the treasure-house of Scripture invaluable advice and encouragement for Christian workers.
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April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. 'He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn't. It wasn't simple at…
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Ararat
- £14.00
- "'Sergei Rozanov had made an unnecessary journey from Moscow to Gorky, simply in order to sleep with a young blind woman.' So begins D.M. Thomas's novel (his first since the publication of The White Hotel), a complex, brilliant fantasia that, in the telling, is a like a series of Russian…
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Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Ariel’s Gift: a Commentary on Birthday Letters (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary…
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Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
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Art, Faith and Modernity
- £25.00
- Which artists in British 20th century art painted religious images? Broadly speaking there seem to have been two categories: The first concerns artists who created religious images when the religious content was in response to a set subject, for example The Deluge in the 1920 Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting,…
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Artemis Fowl, the Arctic Incident
- £12.00
- THE FAIRIES ARE IN TROUBLE. Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human help. Holly Short is convinced it's her old nemesis, Artemis Fowl. But, for once, Artemis is innocent. He's too busy getting his father back from the…
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Arthur & George (Uncorrected Proof)
- £18.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Arthur and George
- £40.00
- Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of…
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Arthur, King of the Middle March (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy from the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award is a timeless novel. It…
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As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
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- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and…
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Ash Wednesday
- £25.00
- Jimmy is AWOL from the army, but - with characteristic fierceness and terror - he's about to embark on the biggest commitment of his life. Christy is pregnant with Jimmy's child, and she's determined to head home, with or without Jimmy, to face up to her past and prepare for…
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Asia’s First Republic: The Story of China 1912-1961
- £20.00
- An official illustrated narrative of 20th Century Chinese history from the perspective of The Republic of China (aka Taiwan) rather than the PRC in Beijing.
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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
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Assorted Espionage book bundle
- £50.00
- Espionage books from 2WW and Cold War
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Assorted Sizes
- £15.00
- Collection of Lancaster's wartime 'pocket cartoons' from the Daily Express (printed in landscape)
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At Lady Molly’s [A Dance to the Music of Time 4]
- £10.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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At the Court of the Borgia (Folio)
- £18.00
- At the Court of the Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI. Johann Burchard (c.1450Ð1506) was an Alsatian-born priest and chronicler during the Italian Renaissance. He spent his entire career at the papal Courts of Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Pius III, and Julius II,…
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Atlas
- £25.00
- A 1982 collection of cartoons first published in the Netherlands, featuring more of Baxter's Amazing People, more Great Failures of History, and more Great Culinary Disasters of Our Time
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Atmosphere: A Love Story (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at HoustonÕs Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group…
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Atonement
- £25.00
- ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.’ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Atonement (SIGNED)
- £110.00
- ÔA person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.Õ On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too…
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Australians: Origins to Eureka 1
- £45.00
- Now in paperback, the outstanding first volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history of Australia bringsto life the vast range of characters who have formed Australia's national story Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers it is from their lives and…
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Author, Author, a novel (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- In David Lodge's previous novel (Thinks), the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their…
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Authority (SIGNED): Southern Reach Trilogy 2
- £200.00
- In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened É Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in ÔAnnihilationÕ (later filmed by Alex Garland), the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government…
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Avenger (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what…
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Avenue of Mysteries
- £20.00
- John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and…
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Avenue of Mysteries
- £20.00
- John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan DiegoÑa fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in MexicoÑhas a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and…
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Avignon Quintet: 4. Sebastian, or Ruling Passions
- £30.00
- The fourth in Durrell's acclaimed Avignon Quintet. An Egyptian banker and member of a gnostic brotherhood learns that a letter prescribing his death has been innocently intercepted by the woman he loves
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Backcloth (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 4th Volume of his autobiography Filling in the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. It is based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, covering many aspects of a celebrated…
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Backhand (Anna Lee Mystery 6/6 (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- 6th and final volume of the Anna Lee series; When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a paedophile,…
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Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
- £15.00
- Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays…
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
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Ballads and Poems
- £30.00
- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
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Balzac
- £30.00
- Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with…
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Banksy: Wall and Piece
- £15.00
- Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book.
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Banksy: Wall and Piece
- £15.00
- Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book.
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Barley Barley
- £25.00
- A collection of original poems by the author of "Conkers", which deals with the lives and experiences of young children and teenagers.
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Bath
- £30.00
- In eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable members of English society found a splendid justification for improving their health and enjoying themselves at the same time. They took the waters assiduously, gambled excessively, danced away the evenings at cotillion balls,…
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Beauchamp’s Career
- £10.00
- Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Rene de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One…
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Beautiful Children
- £14.00
- One Saturday night, in a city surrounded by desert and oversaturated with glitter is Newell Ewing. With his older, socially maladjusted mate Kenny, the two embark on Newell's first Saturday night out on the town in Vegas. Newell is twelve years old. Before the sun rises Newell has disappeared, never…
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Becket or The Honour of God
- £25.00
- First published in France in 1959, this was quickly translated into English. When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with…
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Becoming
- £25.00
- An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African…
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Behind the lines, a book of poems
- £50.00
- Milne's poems written during the first 9 months of the 2nd World War; dedicated to his son Christopher: 'scholar of Trinity, and by the time this appears, with any luck, private in the Royal Engineers.'
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Behold this Dreamer – of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, …
- £50.00
- Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled five of them, with commentaries, using poems and passages of prose. To each he brought such a range of reading, wisdom…
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Being Human: The Nature of Spiritual Experience
- £15.00
- Who is right about what it means to be human? The Greeks envisioned an ideal humanity. Their ethereal sculptures depict a transcendent, spiritual model. But today many scientists view human beings as mere machines. And some believe we will be able to make machines with human-like intelligence in the near…
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Benjamin Britten and Russia (Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 11)
- £50.00
- Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten. This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout his life by examining his engagement with Russian composers, musicians and writers in the context of twentieth-century politics. The remarkable relationship between Britten and Shostakovich is…
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Benjamin Britten: a Biography
- £30.00
- Uses Britten's diaries, letters, and manuscripts to offer a personal glimpse of the British composer, discusses the impact of his homosexuality on his life, and looks at his major compositions.
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Benjamin Britten: a Commentary on his works from a group of Specialists
- £20.00
- Written to help the understanding of the millions who admire Britten superficially. Contributors include: Earl of Harewood, Dpeter Pears, George Malcolm, Norman del Mar, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley
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Benjamin Britten: his life and operas
- £14.00
- Long regarded as the best and most comprehensive introduction to the life and words of Benjamin Britten, it was out of print for many years. This 2nd edition was updated posthumously (after Britten's death in 1976) to include penetrating studies of the last two operas, Owen Wingrave (1970) and Death…
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Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life 1913-1976
- £15.00
- Donald Mitchell has here gathered together over 400 photographs which fascinatingly document the life and times of Benjamin Britten, who died in 1976. This is not a picture book in the conventional sense. It sets out to document as faithully and revealingly as possible mamny majro aspects of the life…
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Beowulf
- £25.00
- The Anglo-Saxon classic, probably written in the eighth century, which is one of the world's most famous epics. The story is retold in rhythmical and quick-paced prose. Introduction by Bruce Mitchell and lithographs by Virgil Burnett. 125 pages including genealogical tables and list of proper names.
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Beowulf: a new translation
- £12.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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Beowulf: a new translation (SIGNED)
- £650.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966
- £16.00
- With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 and 1966, Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city which demonstrated the conflict between East and West at that time like no other. The photographs throw into focus the situation existing both before…
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Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
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Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
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Better than God (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or…
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Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- For decades, Steven Curtis Chapman's music and message have brought hope and inspiration to millions around the world. Now, for the first time, Steven openly shares the experiences that have shaped him, his faith, and his music in a life that has included incredible highs and faith-shaking lows. Readers will…
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Betwys-Y-Coed: A pictorial trip down memory lane (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Take a fascinating and delightful trip down the memory lane of Betws-y-coed and compare yesterday with today.
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Bewilderment (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** A father. A son. A bewildering world. Discover the breath-taking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory. 'The love between son and father has an emotional truth that wrings the heart' Guardian / Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who…
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Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God
- £15.00
- One of the 3 sets of famous radio talks during the war that were initially published individually, and then were combined to form Mere Christianity.
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Beyond Turner’s Road: New Paintings; Walking up Walls
- £40.00
- In 2001, Sinclair wrote Walking up Walls to accompany McFadyen's solo exhibition at Agnew's. Small oblong 8vo concertina into postcard size.
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Bhowani Junction
- £15.00
- The tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India are grippingly evoked in John Masters' classic 'Bhowani Junction'. Set in the late 1940s and first published in 1954 in the wake of Partition, the novel has increased in stature over the years. 'Bhowani Junction', along with Masters' other…
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Biggles – Air Commodore
- £12.00
- First published, in ten parts, as BIGGLES FIGHTS ALONE in The Modern Boy, issues 452 to 461, dated 3rd October 1936 to 5th December 1936. 1994 publication under the title Biggles and the Secret Mission.
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Biggles – Air Detective
- £7.00
- Book First published in May 1950 by Latimer House for Marks and Spencer* (in a large "annual" style format) - 93 pages. The stories were serialised in either the “The Melbourne Herald” or “The Sun Pictorial” in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between July and December 1950. Later published in standard book…
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Biggles – Air Detective
- £10.00
- Book First published in May 1950 by Latimer House for Marks and Spencer* (in a large "annual" style format) - 93 pages. The stories were serialised in either the ÒThe Melbourne HeraldÓ or ÒThe Sun PictorialÓ in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between July and December 1950. Later published in standard book…
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Biggles – Secret Agent
- £15.00
- First published, in ten parts, as CASTLE SINISTER in Modern Boy, issues 78 to 87, dated 12th August 1939 to 14th October 1939; in book form in 1940.
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Biggles & Co
- £20.00
- In #10, Biggles is approached by Paul Cronfelt from a firm of Bullion Brokers called 'Cronfelt & Carstairs' with a proposition. Cronfelt wants him to set up an airline, a private venture with the primary object of carrying his companies' freight, namely gold and jewellery. Biggles is initially reluctant but…
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Biggles and the Black Peril
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- When Biggles and Algy are forced by bad weather to land in a cove on the Norfolk coast they stumble upon an elaborate plot by the Russians to invade Britain. Unravelling the mystery they find themselves helped by a scruffy teenager, Ginger.
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Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy (no. 58)
- £75.00
- American Edie Ross, who helped Biggles solve the heroin smuggling case (Biggles in the fight against the white death), appears in London. He is looking for the lost son of a millionaire and Biggles must help him É
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Biggles Flies Again
- £16.00
- Biggles flies again into adventure in the far places of the earth. Stranded among the tropical swamps of British Guiana when the company employing him as a pilot folds up, he takes possession of the amphibian aircraft he is flying and proceeds to earn his living by undertaking dangerous missions…
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Biggles Flies North
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- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend counter the attempts of a vicious gang to stifle his air freight business in Canada.
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