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Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present
- £30.00
- Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History…
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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African Nights (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Kuki Gallmann, whose bestseller "I Dreamed of Africa" captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven episodes the magic that touches all African life. Whether the adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island, or the pleasure of building a unique…
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After many a Summer
- £12.00
- Huxley's 7th novel, the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California, the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture, particularly what he…
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
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After Rain
- £10.00
- After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano…
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
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Afternoon Men
- £130.00
- Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity…
- Add to basket
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Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios won’t open (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Richard Ayoade has set down his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. Thoughts like . . . "TV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it. If, when one door shuts, another door opens, there's something wrong with your…
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Agent Running in the Field
- £30.00
- Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take…
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Agents and Patients
- £60.00
- Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for FreudÑsuch are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between…
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Agents and Patients
- £45.00
- Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for FreudÑsuch are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between…
- Add to basket
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Alaa, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
- £14.00
- At the beginning of the 21st century genes are used to explain almost every aspect of human life, from social inequalities to health, sexuality and criminality. This book offers a crticism of this so called evolutionary psychology, arguing that it rests on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises and unexamined political…
- Add to basket
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Alexandria (Falco 19: SIGNED)
- £35.00
- I came fully equipped with the old prejudice that anything to do with Egypt involved corruption and deceit.' AD 77. Egypt was the destination of choice for Roman tourists, being home to not one but two Wonders of the Ancient World, a Centre of Culture, and people with exotic habits.…
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Alice’s Masque
- £10.00
- It is September 1991, three days before the autumnal equinox. Ronan is driving westwards into Cornwall, looking for the lover he has lost, and desperate to reclaim her. The search will bring him to Roseleye -the gull-coloured house by the sea where Alice has lived for almost fifty years since…
- Add to basket
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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45
- £20.00
- From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five…
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All that I am
- £15.00
- Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit…
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All That’s Dead (Logan McRae 12) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- There s a darkness in the heart of Scotland... The stunning new Logan McRae thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. Scream all you want, no one can hear... Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case something to ease him back into work after…
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All The Devils Are Here
- £10.00
- Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad artists crawl the streets. Septuagenarian rent…
- Add to basket
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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
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Alleluia (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend…
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Almayer’s Folly: the story of an Eastern river
- £10.00
- Conrad's 1st novel (1895) Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina.
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Almayer’s Folly: the story of an Eastern river
- £25.00
- Conrad's 1st novel (1895) Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina.
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Alone Together
- £20.00
- The author has become almost as well known as her husband, Andrei Sakharov. In her memoir she relates "what has happened in the last three years" to the two of them. The book is mostly about Bonner. It tells of her trials at the hands of the KGB (she must…
- Add to basket
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Alternative Values: poems & paintings (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Frieda Hughes's poems and paintings reflect her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, and her later experiences when living in London, Australia, and most recently, Wales. From childhood, writing and painting have been the two driving forces behind her commitment to life. They first came together in her illustration of…
- Add to basket
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Amelia
- £20.00
- One of Fielding's great novels in the 1995 Folio Society edition. Illustrations by Simon Brett.
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America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, And The Bridge To A New America
- £12.00
- America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty…
- Add to basket
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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
- £15.00
- Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales s riveting…
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
- £15.00
- American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. In the…
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Among The Mountains: Travels Through Asia: Travels In Asia
- £60.00
- Wilfred Thesiger, this centuryÕs greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled extensively at intervals, over the years, among mountains and mountain people in other remote…
- Add to basket
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present
- £30.00
- Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History…
- Add to basket
-
Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
- Add to basket
-
African Nights (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Kuki Gallmann, whose bestseller "I Dreamed of Africa" captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven episodes the magic that touches all African life. Whether the adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island, or the pleasure of building a unique…
- Add to basket
-
After many a Summer
- £12.00
- Huxley's 7th novel, the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California, the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture, particularly what he…
- Add to basket
-
After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
- Add to basket
-
After Rain
- £10.00
- After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano…
- Add to basket
-
Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
- Add to basket
-
Afternoon Men
- £130.00
- Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity…
- Add to basket
-
Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios won’t open (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Richard Ayoade has set down his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. Thoughts like . . . "TV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it. If, when one door shuts, another door opens, there's something wrong with your…
- Add to basket
-
Agent Running in the Field
- £30.00
- Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take…
- Add to basket
-
Agents and Patients
- £60.00
- Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for FreudÑsuch are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between…
- Add to basket
-
Agents and Patients
- £45.00
- Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for FreudÑsuch are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between…
- Add to basket
-
Alaa, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
- £14.00
- At the beginning of the 21st century genes are used to explain almost every aspect of human life, from social inequalities to health, sexuality and criminality. This book offers a crticism of this so called evolutionary psychology, arguing that it rests on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises and unexamined political…
- Add to basket
-
Alexandria (Falco 19: SIGNED)
- £35.00
- I came fully equipped with the old prejudice that anything to do with Egypt involved corruption and deceit.' AD 77. Egypt was the destination of choice for Roman tourists, being home to not one but two Wonders of the Ancient World, a Centre of Culture, and people with exotic habits.…
- Add to basket
-
Alice’s Masque
- £10.00
- It is September 1991, three days before the autumnal equinox. Ronan is driving westwards into Cornwall, looking for the lover he has lost, and desperate to reclaim her. The search will bring him to Roseleye -the gull-coloured house by the sea where Alice has lived for almost fifty years since…
- Add to basket
-
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45
- £20.00
- From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five…
- Add to basket
-
All that I am
- £15.00
- Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit…
- Add to basket
-
All That’s Dead (Logan McRae 12) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- There s a darkness in the heart of Scotland... The stunning new Logan McRae thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. Scream all you want, no one can hear... Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case something to ease him back into work after…
- Add to basket
-
All The Devils Are Here
- £10.00
- Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad artists crawl the streets. Septuagenarian rent…
- Add to basket
-
All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
- Add to basket
-
Alleluia (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend…
- Add to basket
-
Almayer’s Folly: the story of an Eastern river
- £10.00
- Conrad's 1st novel (1895) Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina.
- Add to basket
-
Almayer’s Folly: the story of an Eastern river
- £25.00
- Conrad's 1st novel (1895) Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina.
- Add to basket
-
Alone Together
- £20.00
- The author has become almost as well known as her husband, Andrei Sakharov. In her memoir she relates "what has happened in the last three years" to the two of them. The book is mostly about Bonner. It tells of her trials at the hands of the KGB (she must…
- Add to basket
-
Alternative Values: poems & paintings (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Frieda Hughes's poems and paintings reflect her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, and her later experiences when living in London, Australia, and most recently, Wales. From childhood, writing and painting have been the two driving forces behind her commitment to life. They first came together in her illustration of…
- Add to basket
-
Amelia
- £20.00
- One of Fielding's great novels in the 1995 Folio Society edition. Illustrations by Simon Brett.
- Add to basket
-
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, And The Bridge To A New America
- £12.00
- America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty…
- Add to basket
-
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
- £15.00
- Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales s riveting…
- Add to basket
-
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
- £15.00
- American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. In the…
- Add to basket
-
Among The Mountains: Travels Through Asia: Travels In Asia
- £60.00
- Wilfred Thesiger, this centuryÕs greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled extensively at intervals, over the years, among mountains and mountain people in other remote…
- Add to basket