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Biggles Flies North
- £18.00
- 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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Biggles Flies West
- £12.00
- In this adventure of Major James Bigglesworth (better known as 'Biggles') past and present meet. Biggles and his inseperable compantions, Algy Lacey and Ginger Hebblethwaite, chance to encounter, in London, a lad named Dick Denver, whose father, a sailor, has sent him a Spanish doubloon and a long letter explaining…
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Biggles Follows On
- £12.00
- A story of the Cold War in Europe and Asia
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Biggles Forms a Syndicate
- £50.00
- Biggles is visited by an old friend, Squadron Leader 'Dizzy' Digswell, who has an interesting tale to tell. After being forced to parachute out of his plane flying over the Aden Protectorate in Arabia, he thinks he has come across the ancient ruins of the city of Ophir. He found…
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Biggles Hunts Big Game: A Story Of Sergeant Bigglesworth CID And His Special Air Police
- £12.00
- The scene would not by ordinary standards have been judged remarkable. It was remarkable only in that Ginger, in all the years that he had known his chief, had never seen him reveal more interest in a postage stamp than was required to stick this on a envelope.
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Biggles in Australia
- £20.00
- What is Erich von Stalhein doing in Australia? Surely not, as appearances would suggest, doing research on marine life in tropical waters with a. group of harmless scientists! Once again Biggles and his Air Police find peril, adventure, and final success in foiling a Communist plot.
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Biggles makes ends meet
- £20.00
- In #60, Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie, Air Detectives, take on a job in the Indian Ocean. They are to invetigate a complaint of 'armed robbery on the high seas,' but Biggles soon realises that piracy is not the only thing they are up against.
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Biggles of the Special Air Police
- £16.00
- First published in 1953, 'Biggles of the Special Air Police' is a collection of 14 short stories featuring Biggles and his colleagues. The stories fall into two sections - the first 7 are, as you might expect, simplistic mysteries featuring Biggles and his colleagues in their job as detectives with…
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Biggles Sees it Through
- £20.00
- The first Biggles book not to have been serialised anywhere; first published in 1941.
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Biggles Sweeps the Desert
- £14.00
- Hopelessness took him in its grip. He knew he was wandering in circles but he had ceased to care. All he wanted to do was drink. His skin began to smart. His feet were on fire... When Biggles arrives in the desert to set up a secret oasis base, he…
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Biggles Takes A Holiday
- £10.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend Angus MacKail, virtually a prisoner in the unheard of 'Paradise Valley' in Central South America, and they make their plans quickly.
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Billion Dollar Brain
- £40.00
- The fourth and last Harry Palmer novel
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Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
- £25.00
- Baghdad throughout the Abbasid dynasty, was the centre of Arab-Muslim culture where the assimilation of Persian, Indian and Greek writing and thought produced a rich and diverse literature. The three poets represented in this volume wrote between the eighth and tenth centuries AD, and range in mood from serious speculation…
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Birds without Wings – a novel
- £25.00
- Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges…
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Birnham Wood (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the…
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Birnham Wood (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the…
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Birthday Letters
- £15.00
- Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his…
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Bitter Fame: a life of Sylvia Plath
- £30.00
- "A vivid and, to me, moving portrait of a young woman who, carrying the full mixed cultural load of Americans born in 1932, as well as personal distresses and limitations peculiar to herself, (became) in ten driven years . . . the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation."--John Updike.
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Bitter Lemons
- £100.00
- Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years (1953–1956) he spent on the island of Cyprus. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957, the second year the prize was awarded. It is a wonderful study of moods and atmospheres; the house-buying…
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Black Betty (an Easy Rawlins Mystery)
- £20.00
- Detective Easy Rawlins returns in a mystery set in 1961 Los Angeles as Easy accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed "Black Betty," who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills.
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Black Dogs
- £35.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Dogs
- £30.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Dogs (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy Book 1) (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Tracker is a hunter. Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters, each stranger and more dangerous than the last. As…
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Black Mischief
- £35.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Black Mischief
- £30.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Black Mischief
- £16.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
- £12.00
- A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020 'What happened to us?' For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi…
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Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion
- £25.00
- Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £10.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £20.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blood Red, Sister Rose
- £40.00
- The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh. Here Thomas Keneally transforms the legend, presenting a Joan who is at once a tough radical, an instinctive soldier, a nagging prophet and a…
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Blood River: A journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone.…
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Blood, Tears and Folly, In the darkest hours of the Second World War
- £15.00
- This study sets the drama of war on a world stage, and examines why, 50 years on, the lessons of World War II - when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction - still reverberate unheeded. Beginning with the political and industrial roots in the Great War of 1914-1918, Deighton…
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Blossomise
- £15.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Blossomise (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Blue at the Mizzen
- £15.00
- 20th book in Patrick O’Brian’s highly acclaimed series of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship’s doctor, part secret agent. The novel’s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon’s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at…
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Blue at the Mizzen
- £15.00
- 20th book in Patrick O’Brian’s highly acclaimed series of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship’s doctor, part secret agent. The novel’s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon’s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at…
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Blue Shoes and Happiness (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES. The one with the witch who flew away . . . Mma Ramotswe is happily married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, but her work seems more hectic than ever. Among the raft of cases coming the way…
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Book of Common Prayer
- £500.00
- Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramanets, under King George 1717, beautifully illustrated throughout.
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Book of Common Prayer
- £30.00
- Book of Common Prayer, with Psalter and Ordinal
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Books Do Furnish A Room
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Books do Furnish a Room
- £70.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Books do Furnish a Room [Dance to the Music of Time 10]
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Border Crossing (signed)
- £25.00
- The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
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Border Crossing (signed)
- £25.00
- The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
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Box 88 (Lachlan Kite 1)
- £12.00
- An organisation that doesnÕt exist. A spy that canÕt be caught. Years ago, a spy was bornÉ 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on…
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Box 88 (Lachlan Kite 1)
- £10.00
- An organisation that doesnÕt exist. A spy that canÕt be caught. Years ago, a spy was bornÉ 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on…
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Branwell Brontë, a biography
- £25.00
- 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. While her seminal work was about Charlotte Brontë, this biography was greatly respected.
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Brave New World
- £15.00
- First published in 1932, the Zodiac Press edition (by arrangement with Chatto & Windus) was published in 1948
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Brave New World
- £250.00
- Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society…
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Brave New World Revisited
- £40.00
- In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of…
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Brazzaville Beach (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps. But the more Hope studies Mallabar,…
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Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brighton Rock
- £12.00
- A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2)
- £50.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2) SIGNED
- £135.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £20.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Britannia (Eagles of Empire 14)
- £15.00
- Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes, inspired by the Druids' hatred of the Romans, prepare to make a stand. But can they match the discipline and courage of the legionaries? Wounded during a skirmish, Centurion Macro remains behind in charge of the fort as Centurion Cato leads an invasion…
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British Architects & Craftsmen
- £20.00
- Full title: British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830. 'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.' Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen,…
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British Columbia in the Making
- £100.00
- Account of the history, geography and economy of Canada's Western-most province. With many b/w photographs and diagrams
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Britten (The Composer as Contemporary)
- £10.00
- An illustrated biography of composer Benjamin Britten, which charts the composer's success with works such as Billy Budd, Peter Grimes and the War Requiem.
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Britten (The Dent Master Musicians)
- £12.00
- Part of the Master Musicians series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Benjamin Britten and includes his posthumously published works and new biographical material. All the reference sections have been updated, including the discography of Britten's performances of his own…
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Britten (The Dent Master Musicians)
- £12.00
- Part of the Master Musicians series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Benjamin Britten and includes his posthumously published works and new biographical material. All the reference sections have been updated, including the discography of Britten's performances of his own…
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Britten (The Great Composers – 3rd Edition)
- £20.00
- This revised third edition of Holst's profile of Britten describes the final years leading up to Britten's death in 1976. Holst had worked with him for 24 years and thus able to write with insight and sympathy. 'An essential book for anyoneÉ who wants to get a clearer, more personal…
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Britten (The Great Composers) SIGNED
- £65.00
- First edition of Imogen Holst's celebrated profile of Britten. Holst would work with him for 24 years by the time of his death and thus well qualified to write with insight and sympathy. Includes b/w phots throughout, and 16 pages of music examples.
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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Britten’s Gloriana: essays and sources (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)
- £22.00
- This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Gloriana has been a source of controversy since its premire as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953. It was planned as…
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BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission
- £12.00
- BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-ChiefÕs Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind Ôenemy linesÕ ten months after the Second World War had ended and continued with their intelligence-gathering missions until the fall…
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Broome Stages
- £25.00
- A biography of this theatrical family, opening with the first Richard Broome born in 1715 who seemingly made brooms during his childhood. Follows the lives of the rest of the Broome family.
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Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
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Bruno’s Dream
- £40.00
- Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid, one of Murdoch's finest comic creations; creepy Nigel the…
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Buff
- £20.00
- One of two poetry volumes Fuller published in 1965. He would become Oxford's Professor of Poetry in 1968, held until 1973. In 1966, Anthony Powell would dedicated the 8th volume of his masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, The Soldier's Art, to Fuller.
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Bunga Emas: contemporary Malaysian Literature (1930-1963)
- £25.00
- Bunga Emas means Golden Flower in Malay, and this anthology includes many pieces originally written in English as well as those translated from Chinese and Tamil, by 22 Malaysian writers.
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Byron: The Last Journey April 1823-April 1824
- £35.00
- Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First written in 1924, this is an acclaimed narrative of the final months of Lord Byron's life when he…
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C. S. Lewis (Writers and their Work)
- £10.00
- The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents…
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C. S. Lewis trilogy: Becoming C. S. Lewis; The Making of C. S. Lewis; The Completion of C. S. Lewis (3 vols)
- £95.00
- Becoming C. S. Lewis (3-Volume Set) by scholar Harry Lee Poe represents a landmark achievement in the study of one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the modern era. This groundbreaking trilogy provides an in-depth look into literary scholar, novelist, and apologist C. S. Lewis. Each book painstakingly unfolds Lewis's…
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C. S. Lewis: a life – eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- £75.00
- ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)
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Cahokia Jazz (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a…
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Cairn (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer. Cairn: A marker on open land, a…
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Caledonian Road (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as…
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Calendar Girl, in which a Lady of Rylstone Reveals All (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- When John Baker died of cancer, many of his friends in the small Yorkshire village of Cracoe were devastated. During his illness Tricia Stewart had joked with him about creating an 'alternative' W.I. calendar - she and his wife Angela were members - and after his death they were determined…
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Called to Serve: ministry and minsters in the church
- £12.00
- From the EFAC Christian Foundations series which sought to recover the church's dynamic witness, scriptural teaching and fellowship in worship. Michael Green's contribution on ministry.
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Calvin and Culture, Exploring a Worldview (Calvin 500)
- £20.00
- No other Christian teachings in the past five hundred years have affected our Western culture as deeply as the worldview of John Calvin. It extends far beyond the theological disciplines as demonstrated by the list of contributors and subjects below. They have inspired a large number of followers to apply…
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Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
- £18.00
- Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from "natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses;…
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Captain Margaret, a romance
- £35.00
- For most of the book the five main characters are shut together in the confined space of the cabin quarters on a 500 ton ship, The Broken Heart, sailing from Salcombe to Virginia and then on to the Spanish Main. They are Captain Margaret, a practical idealist with a commission…
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Captives in Space (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #2)
- £25.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Caravan I: A Stoic
- £15.00
- No 16 in Grove series. First published in 1918.
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Caravan III: The First and the Last
- £10.00
- No 18 in Grove series. This collection of short stories were first publishied between 1910 and 1923.
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Caravan of Dreams
- £12.00
- Caravan of Dreams distills the essence of Eastern thought in a feast of stories, sayings, poems and allegories, collected by one of the worldÕs leading experts in Oriental philosophy. Idries Shah builds up a complete picture of a single consciousness, relating mythology to reality, illuminating historical patterns, and presenting philosophical…
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Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant [Dance to the Music of Time 5]
- £60.00
- 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. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance…
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Cast in the Fire. Poems
- £30.00
- The first collection of Irish poet Greg Delanty. Irish novelist Colum McCann, who has himself resettled in America, described Delanty as the "poet laureate of the contemporary Irish-in-America". McCann said: "Delanty has catalogued an entire generation and its relationship to exile. He is the laureate of those who have gone".
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Caught in the Quiet
- £9.00
- Rodney Marvin McKuen (1933Ð2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned…
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Cecil Roberts: Selected Poems 1910-1960
- £18.00
- Cecil Roberts was born in Nottingham in 1892. He began his career as a civil servant, then moved into journalism at The Evening Post. From 1915 Ð 1919 he was literary editor of the Liverpool Post. During the Great War. He was also a special correspondent for the British services.…
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Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
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Chance
- £100.00
- Published following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication. Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, along with other narrators, who take up the complex narrative…
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Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In this surprising and eccentric autobiography from a former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris writes of his personal and political life with equal candour. With a First from Cambridge and the possibility of working for the Foreign Office, he decided instead to apply to be an apprentice diesel-fitter with London Transport.…
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Biggles Flies North
- £18.00
- 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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Biggles Flies West
- £12.00
- In this adventure of Major James Bigglesworth (better known as 'Biggles') past and present meet. Biggles and his inseperable compantions, Algy Lacey and Ginger Hebblethwaite, chance to encounter, in London, a lad named Dick Denver, whose father, a sailor, has sent him a Spanish doubloon and a long letter explaining…
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Biggles Follows On
- £12.00
- A story of the Cold War in Europe and Asia
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Biggles Forms a Syndicate
- £50.00
- Biggles is visited by an old friend, Squadron Leader 'Dizzy' Digswell, who has an interesting tale to tell. After being forced to parachute out of his plane flying over the Aden Protectorate in Arabia, he thinks he has come across the ancient ruins of the city of Ophir. He found…
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Biggles Hunts Big Game: A Story Of Sergeant Bigglesworth CID And His Special Air Police
- £12.00
- The scene would not by ordinary standards have been judged remarkable. It was remarkable only in that Ginger, in all the years that he had known his chief, had never seen him reveal more interest in a postage stamp than was required to stick this on a envelope.
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Biggles in Australia
- £20.00
- What is Erich von Stalhein doing in Australia? Surely not, as appearances would suggest, doing research on marine life in tropical waters with a. group of harmless scientists! Once again Biggles and his Air Police find peril, adventure, and final success in foiling a Communist plot.
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Biggles makes ends meet
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- In #60, Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie, Air Detectives, take on a job in the Indian Ocean. They are to invetigate a complaint of 'armed robbery on the high seas,' but Biggles soon realises that piracy is not the only thing they are up against.
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Biggles of the Special Air Police
- £16.00
- First published in 1953, 'Biggles of the Special Air Police' is a collection of 14 short stories featuring Biggles and his colleagues. The stories fall into two sections - the first 7 are, as you might expect, simplistic mysteries featuring Biggles and his colleagues in their job as detectives with…
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Biggles Sees it Through
- £20.00
- The first Biggles book not to have been serialised anywhere; first published in 1941.
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Biggles Sweeps the Desert
- £14.00
- Hopelessness took him in its grip. He knew he was wandering in circles but he had ceased to care. All he wanted to do was drink. His skin began to smart. His feet were on fire... When Biggles arrives in the desert to set up a secret oasis base, he…
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Biggles Takes A Holiday
- £10.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend Angus MacKail, virtually a prisoner in the unheard of 'Paradise Valley' in Central South America, and they make their plans quickly.
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Billion Dollar Brain
- £40.00
- The fourth and last Harry Palmer novel
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Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
- £25.00
- Baghdad throughout the Abbasid dynasty, was the centre of Arab-Muslim culture where the assimilation of Persian, Indian and Greek writing and thought produced a rich and diverse literature. The three poets represented in this volume wrote between the eighth and tenth centuries AD, and range in mood from serious speculation…
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Birds without Wings – a novel
- £25.00
- Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges…
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Birnham Wood (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the…
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Birnham Wood (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the…
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Birthday Letters
- £15.00
- Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his…
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Bitter Fame: a life of Sylvia Plath
- £30.00
- "A vivid and, to me, moving portrait of a young woman who, carrying the full mixed cultural load of Americans born in 1932, as well as personal distresses and limitations peculiar to herself, (became) in ten driven years . . . the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation."--John Updike.
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Bitter Lemons
- £100.00
- Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years (1953–1956) he spent on the island of Cyprus. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957, the second year the prize was awarded. It is a wonderful study of moods and atmospheres; the house-buying…
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Black Betty (an Easy Rawlins Mystery)
- £20.00
- Detective Easy Rawlins returns in a mystery set in 1961 Los Angeles as Easy accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed "Black Betty," who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills.
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Black Dogs
- £35.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Dogs
- £30.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Dogs (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- the story of an established political commentator taking stock of his life -- set against the backdrop of the fall of communism and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had…
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy Book 1) (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Tracker is a hunter. Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters, each stranger and more dangerous than the last. As…
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Black Mischief
- £35.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Black Mischief
- £30.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Black Mischief
- £16.00
- We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with…
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
- £12.00
- A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020 'What happened to us?' For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi…
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Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion
- £25.00
- Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £10.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £20.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blood Red, Sister Rose
- £40.00
- The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh. Here Thomas Keneally transforms the legend, presenting a Joan who is at once a tough radical, an instinctive soldier, a nagging prophet and a…
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Blood River: A journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone.…
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Blood, Tears and Folly, In the darkest hours of the Second World War
- £15.00
- This study sets the drama of war on a world stage, and examines why, 50 years on, the lessons of World War II - when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction - still reverberate unheeded. Beginning with the political and industrial roots in the Great War of 1914-1918, Deighton…
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Blossomise
- £15.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Blossomise (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Blue at the Mizzen
- £15.00
- 20th book in Patrick O’Brian’s highly acclaimed series of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship’s doctor, part secret agent. The novel’s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon’s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at…
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Blue at the Mizzen
- £15.00
- 20th book in Patrick O’Brian’s highly acclaimed series of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship’s doctor, part secret agent. The novel’s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon’s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at…
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Blue Shoes and Happiness (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES. The one with the witch who flew away . . . Mma Ramotswe is happily married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, but her work seems more hectic than ever. Among the raft of cases coming the way…
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Book of Common Prayer
- £500.00
- Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramanets, under King George 1717, beautifully illustrated throughout.
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Book of Common Prayer
- £30.00
- Book of Common Prayer, with Psalter and Ordinal
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Books Do Furnish A Room
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Books do Furnish a Room
- £70.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Books do Furnish a Room [Dance to the Music of Time 10]
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Border Crossing (signed)
- £25.00
- The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
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Border Crossing (signed)
- £25.00
- The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
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Box 88 (Lachlan Kite 1)
- £12.00
- An organisation that doesnÕt exist. A spy that canÕt be caught. Years ago, a spy was bornÉ 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on…
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Box 88 (Lachlan Kite 1)
- £10.00
- An organisation that doesnÕt exist. A spy that canÕt be caught. Years ago, a spy was bornÉ 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on…
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Branwell Brontë, a biography
- £25.00
- 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. While her seminal work was about Charlotte Brontë, this biography was greatly respected.
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Brave New World
- £15.00
- First published in 1932, the Zodiac Press edition (by arrangement with Chatto & Windus) was published in 1948
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Brave New World
- £250.00
- Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society…
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Brave New World Revisited
- £40.00
- In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of…
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Brazzaville Beach (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps. But the more Hope studies Mallabar,…
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Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brighton Rock
- £12.00
- A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2)
- £50.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 2) SIGNED
- £135.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £20.00
- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 WomenÕs Prize for Fiction ÔSimply exceptionalÉI envy anyone who hasnÕt yet read itÕ Daily Mail. ÔA gripping story of tumbling fury and terrorÕ Independent on Sunday. With this historic win…
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Britannia (Eagles of Empire 14)
- £15.00
- Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes, inspired by the Druids' hatred of the Romans, prepare to make a stand. But can they match the discipline and courage of the legionaries? Wounded during a skirmish, Centurion Macro remains behind in charge of the fort as Centurion Cato leads an invasion…
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British Architects & Craftsmen
- £20.00
- Full title: British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830. 'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.' Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen,…
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British Columbia in the Making
- £100.00
- Account of the history, geography and economy of Canada's Western-most province. With many b/w photographs and diagrams
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Britten (The Composer as Contemporary)
- £10.00
- An illustrated biography of composer Benjamin Britten, which charts the composer's success with works such as Billy Budd, Peter Grimes and the War Requiem.
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Britten (The Dent Master Musicians)
- £12.00
- Part of the Master Musicians series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Benjamin Britten and includes his posthumously published works and new biographical material. All the reference sections have been updated, including the discography of Britten's performances of his own…
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Britten (The Dent Master Musicians)
- £12.00
- Part of the Master Musicians series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Benjamin Britten and includes his posthumously published works and new biographical material. All the reference sections have been updated, including the discography of Britten's performances of his own…
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Britten (The Great Composers – 3rd Edition)
- £20.00
- This revised third edition of Holst's profile of Britten describes the final years leading up to Britten's death in 1976. Holst had worked with him for 24 years and thus able to write with insight and sympathy. 'An essential book for anyoneÉ who wants to get a clearer, more personal…
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Britten (The Great Composers) SIGNED
- £65.00
- First edition of Imogen Holst's celebrated profile of Britten. Holst would work with him for 24 years by the time of his death and thus well qualified to write with insight and sympathy. Includes b/w phots throughout, and 16 pages of music examples.
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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Britten’s Gloriana: essays and sources (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)
- £22.00
- This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Gloriana has been a source of controversy since its premire as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953. It was planned as…
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BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission
- £12.00
- BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-ChiefÕs Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind Ôenemy linesÕ ten months after the Second World War had ended and continued with their intelligence-gathering missions until the fall…
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Broome Stages
- £25.00
- A biography of this theatrical family, opening with the first Richard Broome born in 1715 who seemingly made brooms during his childhood. Follows the lives of the rest of the Broome family.
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Bruce Chatwin
- £15.00
- In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that…
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Bruno’s Dream
- £40.00
- Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid, one of Murdoch's finest comic creations; creepy Nigel the…
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Buff
- £20.00
- One of two poetry volumes Fuller published in 1965. He would become Oxford's Professor of Poetry in 1968, held until 1973. In 1966, Anthony Powell would dedicated the 8th volume of his masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, The Soldier's Art, to Fuller.
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Bunga Emas: contemporary Malaysian Literature (1930-1963)
- £25.00
- Bunga Emas means Golden Flower in Malay, and this anthology includes many pieces originally written in English as well as those translated from Chinese and Tamil, by 22 Malaysian writers.
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Byron: The Last Journey April 1823-April 1824
- £35.00
- Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First written in 1924, this is an acclaimed narrative of the final months of Lord Byron's life when he…
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C. S. Lewis (Writers and their Work)
- £10.00
- The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents…
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C. S. Lewis trilogy: Becoming C. S. Lewis; The Making of C. S. Lewis; The Completion of C. S. Lewis (3 vols)
- £95.00
- Becoming C. S. Lewis (3-Volume Set) by scholar Harry Lee Poe represents a landmark achievement in the study of one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the modern era. This groundbreaking trilogy provides an in-depth look into literary scholar, novelist, and apologist C. S. Lewis. Each book painstakingly unfolds Lewis's…
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C. S. Lewis: a life – eccentric genius, reluctant prophet
- £75.00
- ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)
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Cahokia Jazz (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a…
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Cairn (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer. Cairn: A marker on open land, a…
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Caledonian Road (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as…
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Calendar Girl, in which a Lady of Rylstone Reveals All (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- When John Baker died of cancer, many of his friends in the small Yorkshire village of Cracoe were devastated. During his illness Tricia Stewart had joked with him about creating an 'alternative' W.I. calendar - she and his wife Angela were members - and after his death they were determined…
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Called to Serve: ministry and minsters in the church
- £12.00
- From the EFAC Christian Foundations series which sought to recover the church's dynamic witness, scriptural teaching and fellowship in worship. Michael Green's contribution on ministry.
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Calvin and Culture, Exploring a Worldview (Calvin 500)
- £20.00
- No other Christian teachings in the past five hundred years have affected our Western culture as deeply as the worldview of John Calvin. It extends far beyond the theological disciplines as demonstrated by the list of contributors and subjects below. They have inspired a large number of followers to apply…
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Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
- £18.00
- Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from "natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses;…
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Captain Margaret, a romance
- £35.00
- For most of the book the five main characters are shut together in the confined space of the cabin quarters on a 500 ton ship, The Broken Heart, sailing from Salcombe to Virginia and then on to the Spanish Main. They are Captain Margaret, a practical idealist with a commission…
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Captives in Space (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #2)
- £25.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Caravan I: A Stoic
- £15.00
- No 16 in Grove series. First published in 1918.
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Caravan III: The First and the Last
- £10.00
- No 18 in Grove series. This collection of short stories were first publishied between 1910 and 1923.
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Caravan of Dreams
- £12.00
- Caravan of Dreams distills the essence of Eastern thought in a feast of stories, sayings, poems and allegories, collected by one of the worldÕs leading experts in Oriental philosophy. Idries Shah builds up a complete picture of a single consciousness, relating mythology to reality, illuminating historical patterns, and presenting philosophical…
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Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant [Dance to the Music of Time 5]
- £60.00
- 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. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance…
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Cast in the Fire. Poems
- £30.00
- The first collection of Irish poet Greg Delanty. Irish novelist Colum McCann, who has himself resettled in America, described Delanty as the "poet laureate of the contemporary Irish-in-America". McCann said: "Delanty has catalogued an entire generation and its relationship to exile. He is the laureate of those who have gone".
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Caught in the Quiet
- £9.00
- Rodney Marvin McKuen (1933Ð2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned…
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Cecil Roberts: Selected Poems 1910-1960
- £18.00
- Cecil Roberts was born in Nottingham in 1892. He began his career as a civil servant, then moved into journalism at The Evening Post. From 1915 Ð 1919 he was literary editor of the Liverpool Post. During the Great War. He was also a special correspondent for the British services.…
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Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
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Chance
- £100.00
- Published following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication. Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, along with other narrators, who take up the complex narrative…
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Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- In this surprising and eccentric autobiography from a former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris writes of his personal and political life with equal candour. With a First from Cambridge and the possibility of working for the Foreign Office, he decided instead to apply to be an apprentice diesel-fitter with London Transport.…
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