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A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
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A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
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A Preface to Paradise Lost (‘revised and enlarged’ from lectures, not a previous publication)
- £140.00
- In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own work. Lewis a revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's masterpiece,…
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A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham)
- £25.00
- An exceptional historical crime novel' C.J. Sansom. India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note left in…
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A River Town
- £25.00
- In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea, supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing…
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A Row of Pharaohs
- £30.00
- Patrick Creagh was a British poet and translator who lived for many years in Italy. This is his first volume of poems, and was a choice of the Poetry Book Society
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A Rumour of War
- £85.00
- In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A…
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A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
- £12.00
- Expand your definition of worship. ItÕs easy to praise God when things in your life are going well, but what about the other times? What happens when mountaintop experiences cascade into seasons of struggling, suffering, and loss in the valley? God desires for us to pour out our hearts to…
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A Sailor Hat In The House Of The Lord: The Autobiography Of A Rebellious Victorian
- £20.00
- Therese la Chard was a Victorian cageling par excellence, the motherless child of a wealthy Anglo-German family living on the rural fringe of London, a home in which 'system' was the only ogre, involving obsessions with health and music which became a tyranny and caused her to revolt. Midway through…
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A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
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A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance
- £13.00
- The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted…
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A Sense of Place
- £25.00
- A collection of three essays about France by the renowned Oxford professor of history: 1. Becoming a historian; 2. 'L'Affaire Perken'; 3. Seduction and Pregnancy in Revolutionary Lyon.
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A Sense of Reality
- £60.00
- A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy,…
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
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A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
- Add to basket
-
A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
- Add to basket
-
A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
- Add to basket
-
A Preface to Paradise Lost (‘revised and enlarged’ from lectures, not a previous publication)
- £140.00
- In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own work. Lewis a revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's masterpiece,…
- Add to basket
-
A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham)
- £25.00
- An exceptional historical crime novel' C.J. Sansom. India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note left in…
- Add to basket
-
A River Town
- £25.00
- In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea, supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him emigrate from Ireland, and suffers a series of misfortunes which take him to the brink of disaster. Capturing…
- Add to basket
-
A Row of Pharaohs
- £30.00
- Patrick Creagh was a British poet and translator who lived for many years in Italy. This is his first volume of poems, and was a choice of the Poetry Book Society
- Add to basket
-
A Rumour of War
- £85.00
- In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A…
- Add to basket
-
A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
- £12.00
- Expand your definition of worship. ItÕs easy to praise God when things in your life are going well, but what about the other times? What happens when mountaintop experiences cascade into seasons of struggling, suffering, and loss in the valley? God desires for us to pour out our hearts to…
- Add to basket
-
A Sailor Hat In The House Of The Lord: The Autobiography Of A Rebellious Victorian
- £20.00
- Therese la Chard was a Victorian cageling par excellence, the motherless child of a wealthy Anglo-German family living on the rural fringe of London, a home in which 'system' was the only ogre, involving obsessions with health and music which became a tyranny and caused her to revolt. Midway through…
- Add to basket
-
A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
- Add to basket
-
A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance
- £13.00
- The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted…
- Add to basket
-
A Sense of Place
- £25.00
- A collection of three essays about France by the renowned Oxford professor of history: 1. Becoming a historian; 2. 'L'Affaire Perken'; 3. Seduction and Pregnancy in Revolutionary Lyon.
- Add to basket
-
A Sense of Reality
- £60.00
- A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy,…
- Add to basket
-
A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
- Add to basket