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Ghosts and Marvels (World’s Classics No. 284)
- £35.00
- A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (World's Classic No. 284). Includes stories by M R James, Daniel Defoe, Lord Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W W Jacobs, H G Wells, Algernon Blackwood, Barry Pain and…
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Go Set A Watchman
- £25.00
- Set two decades after Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the…
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Go Set A Watchman
- £15.00
- A landmark late novel from Harper Lee published just months before her death, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch Ð ÔScoutÕ Ð returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the…
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God As Author: A Biblical Approach To Narrative
- £10.00
- God as Author takes a thoughtful literary approach to understanding the Gospel. Gene Fant writes in the preface: "Most of us have heard that Christ is 'the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12:2), so it makes sense that the Gospel would be God's story. As many a church…
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God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer
- £12.00
- God on Mute was written out of Pete's own experience of the miraculous power of prayer alongside the pain of unanswered prayer and the common human struggle to find faith with that paradox. Just after the birth of the 24-7 Prayer Movement and of his second child Pete's wife, Samie…
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God the Invisible King
- £60.00
- Wells sets out his theological beliefs ‘as forcibly and exactly as possible’ clarifying that it is by no means orthodox Christianity.
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God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- £14.00
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21…
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God’s Politics: Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
- £12.00
- Jim Wallis, an evangelical, is the leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today. He is the founder of Sojourners, a US network of progressive Christians working for justice and peace. A bestselling author, his columns appear in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post" and…
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Golden Child (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- It's dark now; the bats are out. Insects knock against the light on the patio and the dog sits at the gate. A boy has not returned home and a family anxiously awaits. A father steps out into the night to search for his son. As the hours turn into…
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Golden Hill (SIGNED – Faber Members)
- £250.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious…
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Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
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Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- £15.00
- December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming…
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Goodbye to all that (Folio)
- £12.00
- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
- £16.00
- Googled is candid, authoritative and based on extensive research, including in-house at Google HQ where Ken Auletta had unprecedented access. He conducted over 150 interviews at Google with the company's founders and executives and also interviewed those in the media who are struggling to keep their heads above water. Crucially,…
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Goon for Lunch (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An hilarious autobiographical collection of stories from Harry Secombe's life covering the whole period from his childhood in Wales to the 1970s
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Gossip from the Forest
- £20.00
- In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides…
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Grace before Ploughing: Fragments of Autobiography
- £15.00
- Written the year before his death and subtitled 'Fragments of Autobiography', the book contains memories of Masefield's early years in Herefordshire, as well as some other key moments of his life.
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Great Meadow: An evocation
- £20.00
- Sequel to the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography "A Postillion Struck by Lightning". Seen through the eyes of a 10-year old in the late 1930s, this novel recaptures an idyllic childhood, a time of love and gentleness with its sounds and scents intact, whilst the world beyond went to…
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Great Morning: Being The Third Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand! (St Martin’s Library)
- £25.00
- The third volume of the author's 4-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume covers the period between 1911 and the First World War, beginning with the author at 18.
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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £12.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 12. The final book in Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious…
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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £20.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 12. The final book in Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious…
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Great Odes, English and American
- £12.00
- Great Odes, English and American, selected, edited and with an introductory note by William Sharp. Includes Spenser, Byron, Wordsworth, Gray, Shelley, Keats, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell etc
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Great Olympic Moments (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Complete with stunning, specially selected photographs, Sir Steve Redgrave recounts his favourite Olympic stories and reveals what it is that makes these moments truly great. All the stars of past and present are here, including Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Nadia Comaneci, Mark Spitz, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Bob Beamon, Ed…
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
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Green Song and other Poems
- £25.00
- One of Edith Sitwell's wartime poetry anthologies: including Heart and Mind; Anne Boleyn's Song; 'O Bitter Love, O DeathÉ'; Girl and Butterfly; Mother to her dead child. Includes her own notes.
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Gregorius
- £18.00
- Ageing and unattractive, the widowed Pastor Gregorius seems to have been granted a second chance at happiness when Helga, the young girl he has been fascinated by since her childhood, accepts his offer of marriage. Yet before long, the relationship turns sour and brutal and Gregorius suspects that his wife's…
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Greta & Cecil
- £15.00
- Greta Garbo was a legend of beauty and elusiveness and Cecil Beaton a leading society photographer and authority on fashion and style. At the time of their first meeting in Hollywood in March 1932 both were involved in turbulent same-sex affairs: Greta with Mercedes de Acosta and Beaton with Peter…
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Growling Over The Oceans: The Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton, the Men, the Missions 1951-1991
- £20.00
- The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler. This book contains stories from the men for whom the aircraft became a way of life. Combining memories and anecdotes from crew members with archive…
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Guide to the Ruins of Uriconium (Wroxeter)
- £25.00
- Full title: Uriconium: A Historical Account Of The Ancient Roman City, And Of The Excavations Made Upon Its Site At Wroxeter, In Shropshire, Forming A Sketch Of The Condition And History Of The Welsh Border During The Roman Period
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Guitar For Dummies (2nd ed), with CD
- £15.00
- Have you always wanted to play guitar? Who wouldn_t? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. . . Chuck Berry duckÐwalking across the stage to "Johnny B. Goode". . .B.B. King making his "Lucille" cry the blues. No doubt about itÑguitars are cool . Guitar For Dummies 2nd…
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Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (Nonesuch Press)
- £35.00
- First published in 1934, this volume gives a representative selection from the whole body of Swift's work. There are selections from such prose as "Directions to Servants", and the verse selections display the many-sidedness of Swift.
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Guns Wanted
- £18.00
- A comic novel, in which a British World War II vet returns home and is erroneously told that he has a year to live by his doctor. So naturally, he decides to pack in as much hunting and shooting as he can.
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Gut Symmetries
- £25.00
- Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright, young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Jove's mistress, an affair…
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H’m
- £8.00
- Small collection of Thomas' poems, including his renowned The Coming, Via Negativa and 35 others.
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Hag-Seed – the Tempest Retold
- £22.00
- reimagines Shakespeare's final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. "A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that's utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original's back…
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Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
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- South Africa's culturally rich and complex Asian community-the birthplace of Gandhiism - is officially subsumed under apartheid's blanket "non-white" category, with the accompanying indignities of forced removals and other restrictions. Now Ahmed Essop gives these other South Africans a literary voice, in stories ranging from the humorous "Hajji Musa and…
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Half Bad (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- n a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both? Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the world's most dangerous witch. Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan…
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Half in Love (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative and his account of the horse in the Boer War. While…
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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 The Film Years
- £60.00
- The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning…
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Handbook of Muslim Jurisprudence (First Steps)
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- First steps in Muslim jurisprudence, consisting of excerpts from B_k_rat-al-sa_d of Ibn Ab_ Zayd, with Arabic text, English translation notes This book, "First steps in Muslim jurisprudence", by Alexander David Russell, Abdullah Al-Ma'Mun Suhrawardy, is a replication of a book originally published before 1906. It has been restored by human…
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
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- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
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Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt
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- ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written.…
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Hangman Blind (An Abbess of Meaux Mystery 1) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace…
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Hard Frost (Jack Frost 4)
- £15.00
- Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time. A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked…
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Harold’s Leap: poems & drawings
- £50.00
- Stevie Smith's 5th published collection of poems
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Hatchet Job: love movies, hate critics (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen FryFor decades, the backbone of film criticism has been the hatchet job - the entertaining trashing of a film by professional reviewers, seen by many as cynical snobs. But with the arrival of the internet, have…
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Hav (comprising Last Letters from Hav, and Hav of the Myrmidons)
- £80.00
- When the world's foremost travel writer describes the small city-state of Hav, it is unlike any of her other books. For Hav exists only in one special place - Jan Morris's imagination. Hav gives us Jan Morris at her most delightful and most suggestive. The city is a magical place…
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Haven (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- The highly anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room 'Haven is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. This is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet 'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning…
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He Came Down from Heaven AND The Forgiveness of Sins
- £75.00
- Charles Williams was one of the finest--not to mention one of the most unusual--theologians of the twentieth century. These two long essays make up, with The Descent of the Dove, Charles Williams' principal theological writing. With these books and with The Figure of Beatrice the reader is as fully equipped…
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He Swore an Oath: Biblical Themes from Genesis 12-50
- £20.00
- The papers in this volume, read at the 1993 meeting of the Tyndale Fellowship Old Testament Study Group in Cambridge, reflect the ethos of Tyndale House: to further appreciation of the Bible as both an outstanding ancient text and inspired divine revelation. Genesis 12-50 is both placed within its Near…
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Headlong
- £25.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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Headlong (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
- £35.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, Nick’s old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
- £40.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, Nick’s old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £50.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £60.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £50.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Heartbreak House et al
- £20.00
- Shaw’s Chekhovian tragicomedy set just before the 1st World War as ‘cultured and leisured Europe was drifting towards destruction’. Also includes Great Catherine and ‘Playlets of the War’.
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Heat and Dust
- £40.00
- The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's…
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Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has…
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Helena
- £17.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £15.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £25.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £15.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £35.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helm (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A wondrous, elemental novel from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian). Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind - a subject of folklore and wonder - who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time. This is Helm's life story, formed from the chronicles…
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (SIGNED Simon Heffer) TRILOGY
- £350.00
- Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by…
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Henry and Cato
- £40.00
- Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and land in England. He is also returning to his mother. His friend Cato is struggling with two ambiguous intermingled passions, one for a God who…
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
- £15.00
- Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion--the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century. Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant outpouring of love. Only twenty-five years old,…
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Hesperides: Poems by Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- In the Canterbury poets series: Poems by Robert Herrick. Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye…
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High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out
- £25.00
- When we are baffled by the insanity of the Òother sideÓÑin our politics, at work, or at homeÑitÕs because we arenÕt seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. ThatÕs what Òhigh conflictÓ does. ItÕs the invisible hand of our time. And itÕs different from the useful friction of healthy…
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Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
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Histoire contemporaine I. L’orme du mail
- £35.00
- Vol. I in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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Histoire contemporaine IV. Monsieur Bergeret à Paris
- £35.00
- Vol. IV in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
- £25.00
- National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of…
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History Has Begun: The Birth Of A New America
- £18.00
- What if America hasnÕt yet peaked? What if a new America has only just begun? Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? HistoryÕs great civilisations have always lasted much longer,…
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History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (vols 1 & II but missing III)
- £50.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (combined vol I-V)
- £100.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History: The Home Movie (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One of England's foremost poets, Craig Raine offers a "bold, ambitious chronicle of life" (New York Times Review) told through the stories of two families, the Pasternaks and the Raines, who touch each other and are touched by history in different ways. Like a home movie, this novel in verse…
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Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARD. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the…
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Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
- £22.00
- The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the…
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Ho Ho Hoffnung
- £25.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung in Harmony
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Acoustics
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Birds, Bees and Storks
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Bookworms
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Constant Readers
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Little Ones
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Musical Chairs
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hold That Thought: Sorting Through the Voices in Our Heads
- £16.00
- "You're not good enough." "You need to try harder." "Everything's fine!" These are the sorts of voices that we all have in our heads, and they often push us to act in ways that are both unhelpful and unsustainable. How do we quiet these narratives? More importantly, amid the chatter,…
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Home Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- £12.00
- Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Spellbinding' Guardian The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares…
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Homeland and other poems (SIGNED)
- £18.00
- Collection of poems rooted in the Ireland of the author's experience.
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Homeward Borne, a novel (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The first novel from Ruth Chatterton, who had been a popular (and twice Oscar-nominated) actress in the 1930s, one of America's first female aviators (a good friend of Amelia Earhart) who flew solo across the US, and novelist of 5 novels.
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Honeymoons through writers’ eyes
- £12.00
- "A brilliant collection of writings on the subject of the honeymoon. Offering context and commentary where necessary, the editors have canvassed history, fact and fiction for the gamut of newlywed experience, from the Brownings' blissful elopement and Napoleon and Marie-Louise's swift exit from the marriage supper, to Charles Kingsley's bizarre…
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- £14.00
- Why do some products capture our attention while others fade into obscurity? What makes us check our phones, open an app, or scroll a feed without even thinking? Is there a repeatable pattern behind how technology hooks us? In Hooked, Nir Eyal reveals the secret psychology behind the worldÕs most…
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Horizon: (Vol XVII, No. 98) The Loved One, By Evelyn Waugh
- £45.00
- The first appearance of Waugh's satire on the ''American way of Death''. In Horizon magazine (pp. 76-159) edited by Cyril Connolly. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely…
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Hornblower in the West Indies
- £35.00
- 10th in Hornblower series. 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas; As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the French wars, Horatio Hornblower, Commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, must still face savage…
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Horse Latitudes
- £14.00
- Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Of their recent pamphlet publication, he remarked that 'the poems have to do with a series of historical battles (all beginning with the letter "B" as if to suggest…
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Ghosts and Marvels (World’s Classics No. 284)
- £35.00
- A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (World's Classic No. 284). Includes stories by M R James, Daniel Defoe, Lord Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W W Jacobs, H G Wells, Algernon Blackwood, Barry Pain and…
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Go Set A Watchman
- £25.00
- Set two decades after Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the…
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Go Set A Watchman
- £15.00
- A landmark late novel from Harper Lee published just months before her death, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch Ð ÔScoutÕ Ð returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the…
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God As Author: A Biblical Approach To Narrative
- £10.00
- God as Author takes a thoughtful literary approach to understanding the Gospel. Gene Fant writes in the preface: "Most of us have heard that Christ is 'the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12:2), so it makes sense that the Gospel would be God's story. As many a church…
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God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer
- £12.00
- God on Mute was written out of Pete's own experience of the miraculous power of prayer alongside the pain of unanswered prayer and the common human struggle to find faith with that paradox. Just after the birth of the 24-7 Prayer Movement and of his second child Pete's wife, Samie…
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God the Invisible King
- £60.00
- Wells sets out his theological beliefs ‘as forcibly and exactly as possible’ clarifying that it is by no means orthodox Christianity.
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God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- £14.00
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21…
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God’s Politics: Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
- £12.00
- Jim Wallis, an evangelical, is the leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today. He is the founder of Sojourners, a US network of progressive Christians working for justice and peace. A bestselling author, his columns appear in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post" and…
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Golden Child (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- It's dark now; the bats are out. Insects knock against the light on the patio and the dog sits at the gate. A boy has not returned home and a family anxiously awaits. A father steps out into the night to search for his son. As the hours turn into…
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Golden Hill (SIGNED – Faber Members)
- £250.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious…
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Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
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Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- £15.00
- December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming…
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Goodbye to all that (Folio)
- £12.00
- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
- £16.00
- Googled is candid, authoritative and based on extensive research, including in-house at Google HQ where Ken Auletta had unprecedented access. He conducted over 150 interviews at Google with the company's founders and executives and also interviewed those in the media who are struggling to keep their heads above water. Crucially,…
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Goon for Lunch (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An hilarious autobiographical collection of stories from Harry Secombe's life covering the whole period from his childhood in Wales to the 1970s
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Gossip from the Forest
- £20.00
- In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides…
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Grace before Ploughing: Fragments of Autobiography
- £15.00
- Written the year before his death and subtitled 'Fragments of Autobiography', the book contains memories of Masefield's early years in Herefordshire, as well as some other key moments of his life.
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Great Meadow: An evocation
- £20.00
- Sequel to the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography "A Postillion Struck by Lightning". Seen through the eyes of a 10-year old in the late 1930s, this novel recaptures an idyllic childhood, a time of love and gentleness with its sounds and scents intact, whilst the world beyond went to…
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Great Morning: Being The Third Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand! (St Martin’s Library)
- £25.00
- The third volume of the author's 4-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume covers the period between 1911 and the First World War, beginning with the author at 18.
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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £12.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 12. The final book in Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious…
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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £20.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 12. The final book in Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious…
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Great Odes, English and American
- £12.00
- Great Odes, English and American, selected, edited and with an introductory note by William Sharp. Includes Spenser, Byron, Wordsworth, Gray, Shelley, Keats, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell etc
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Great Olympic Moments (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Complete with stunning, specially selected photographs, Sir Steve Redgrave recounts his favourite Olympic stories and reveals what it is that makes these moments truly great. All the stars of past and present are here, including Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Nadia Comaneci, Mark Spitz, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Bob Beamon, Ed…
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
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Green Song and other Poems
- £25.00
- One of Edith Sitwell's wartime poetry anthologies: including Heart and Mind; Anne Boleyn's Song; 'O Bitter Love, O DeathÉ'; Girl and Butterfly; Mother to her dead child. Includes her own notes.
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Gregorius
- £18.00
- Ageing and unattractive, the widowed Pastor Gregorius seems to have been granted a second chance at happiness when Helga, the young girl he has been fascinated by since her childhood, accepts his offer of marriage. Yet before long, the relationship turns sour and brutal and Gregorius suspects that his wife's…
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Greta & Cecil
- £15.00
- Greta Garbo was a legend of beauty and elusiveness and Cecil Beaton a leading society photographer and authority on fashion and style. At the time of their first meeting in Hollywood in March 1932 both were involved in turbulent same-sex affairs: Greta with Mercedes de Acosta and Beaton with Peter…
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Growling Over The Oceans: The Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton, the Men, the Missions 1951-1991
- £20.00
- The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler. This book contains stories from the men for whom the aircraft became a way of life. Combining memories and anecdotes from crew members with archive…
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Guide to the Ruins of Uriconium (Wroxeter)
- £25.00
- Full title: Uriconium: A Historical Account Of The Ancient Roman City, And Of The Excavations Made Upon Its Site At Wroxeter, In Shropshire, Forming A Sketch Of The Condition And History Of The Welsh Border During The Roman Period
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Guitar For Dummies (2nd ed), with CD
- £15.00
- Have you always wanted to play guitar? Who wouldn_t? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. . . Chuck Berry duckÐwalking across the stage to "Johnny B. Goode". . .B.B. King making his "Lucille" cry the blues. No doubt about itÑguitars are cool . Guitar For Dummies 2nd…
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Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (Nonesuch Press)
- £35.00
- First published in 1934, this volume gives a representative selection from the whole body of Swift's work. There are selections from such prose as "Directions to Servants", and the verse selections display the many-sidedness of Swift.
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Guns Wanted
- £18.00
- A comic novel, in which a British World War II vet returns home and is erroneously told that he has a year to live by his doctor. So naturally, he decides to pack in as much hunting and shooting as he can.
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Gut Symmetries
- £25.00
- Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright, young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Jove's mistress, an affair…
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H’m
- £8.00
- Small collection of Thomas' poems, including his renowned The Coming, Via Negativa and 35 others.
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Hag-Seed – the Tempest Retold
- £22.00
- reimagines Shakespeare's final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. "A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that's utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original's back…
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Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
- £16.00
- South Africa's culturally rich and complex Asian community-the birthplace of Gandhiism - is officially subsumed under apartheid's blanket "non-white" category, with the accompanying indignities of forced removals and other restrictions. Now Ahmed Essop gives these other South Africans a literary voice, in stories ranging from the humorous "Hajji Musa and…
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Half Bad (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- n a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both? Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the world's most dangerous witch. Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan…
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Half in Love (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative and his account of the horse in the Boer War. While…
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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 The Film Years
- £60.00
- The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning…
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Handbook of Muslim Jurisprudence (First Steps)
- £10.00
- First steps in Muslim jurisprudence, consisting of excerpts from B_k_rat-al-sa_d of Ibn Ab_ Zayd, with Arabic text, English translation notes This book, "First steps in Muslim jurisprudence", by Alexander David Russell, Abdullah Al-Ma'Mun Suhrawardy, is a replication of a book originally published before 1906. It has been restored by human…
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £35.00
- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
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Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt
- £40.00
- ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written.…
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Hangman Blind (An Abbess of Meaux Mystery 1) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace…
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Hard Frost (Jack Frost 4)
- £15.00
- Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time. A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked…
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Harold’s Leap: poems & drawings
- £50.00
- Stevie Smith's 5th published collection of poems
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Hatchet Job: love movies, hate critics (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen FryFor decades, the backbone of film criticism has been the hatchet job - the entertaining trashing of a film by professional reviewers, seen by many as cynical snobs. But with the arrival of the internet, have…
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Hav (comprising Last Letters from Hav, and Hav of the Myrmidons)
- £80.00
- When the world's foremost travel writer describes the small city-state of Hav, it is unlike any of her other books. For Hav exists only in one special place - Jan Morris's imagination. Hav gives us Jan Morris at her most delightful and most suggestive. The city is a magical place…
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Haven (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- The highly anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room 'Haven is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. This is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet 'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning…
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He Came Down from Heaven AND The Forgiveness of Sins
- £75.00
- Charles Williams was one of the finest--not to mention one of the most unusual--theologians of the twentieth century. These two long essays make up, with The Descent of the Dove, Charles Williams' principal theological writing. With these books and with The Figure of Beatrice the reader is as fully equipped…
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He Swore an Oath: Biblical Themes from Genesis 12-50
- £20.00
- The papers in this volume, read at the 1993 meeting of the Tyndale Fellowship Old Testament Study Group in Cambridge, reflect the ethos of Tyndale House: to further appreciation of the Bible as both an outstanding ancient text and inspired divine revelation. Genesis 12-50 is both placed within its Near…
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Headlong
- £25.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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Headlong (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
- £35.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, Nick’s old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
- £40.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, Nick’s old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £50.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £60.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £50.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Heartbreak House et al
- £20.00
- Shaw’s Chekhovian tragicomedy set just before the 1st World War as ‘cultured and leisured Europe was drifting towards destruction’. Also includes Great Catherine and ‘Playlets of the War’.
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Heat and Dust
- £40.00
- The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's…
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Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has…
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Helena
- £17.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £15.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £25.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £15.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £35.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helm (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A wondrous, elemental novel from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian). Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind - a subject of folklore and wonder - who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time. This is Helm's life story, formed from the chronicles…
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (SIGNED Simon Heffer) TRILOGY
- £350.00
- Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by…
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Henry and Cato
- £40.00
- Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and land in England. He is also returning to his mother. His friend Cato is struggling with two ambiguous intermingled passions, one for a God who…
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
- £15.00
- Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion--the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century. Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant outpouring of love. Only twenty-five years old,…
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Hesperides: Poems by Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- In the Canterbury poets series: Poems by Robert Herrick. Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye…
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High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out
- £25.00
- When we are baffled by the insanity of the Òother sideÓÑin our politics, at work, or at homeÑitÕs because we arenÕt seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. ThatÕs what Òhigh conflictÓ does. ItÕs the invisible hand of our time. And itÕs different from the useful friction of healthy…
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Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
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Histoire contemporaine I. L’orme du mail
- £35.00
- Vol. I in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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Histoire contemporaine IV. Monsieur Bergeret à Paris
- £35.00
- Vol. IV in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
- £25.00
- National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of…
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History Has Begun: The Birth Of A New America
- £18.00
- What if America hasnÕt yet peaked? What if a new America has only just begun? Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? HistoryÕs great civilisations have always lasted much longer,…
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History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (vols 1 & II but missing III)
- £50.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (combined vol I-V)
- £100.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History: The Home Movie (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One of England's foremost poets, Craig Raine offers a "bold, ambitious chronicle of life" (New York Times Review) told through the stories of two families, the Pasternaks and the Raines, who touch each other and are touched by history in different ways. Like a home movie, this novel in verse…
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Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARD. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the…
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Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
- £22.00
- The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the…
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Ho Ho Hoffnung
- £25.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung in Harmony
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Acoustics
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Birds, Bees and Storks
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Bookworms
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- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Constant Readers
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Little Ones
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Musical Chairs
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- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hold That Thought: Sorting Through the Voices in Our Heads
- £16.00
- "You're not good enough." "You need to try harder." "Everything's fine!" These are the sorts of voices that we all have in our heads, and they often push us to act in ways that are both unhelpful and unsustainable. How do we quiet these narratives? More importantly, amid the chatter,…
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Home Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- £12.00
- Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Spellbinding' Guardian The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares…
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Homeland and other poems (SIGNED)
- £18.00
- Collection of poems rooted in the Ireland of the author's experience.
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Homeward Borne, a novel (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The first novel from Ruth Chatterton, who had been a popular (and twice Oscar-nominated) actress in the 1930s, one of America's first female aviators (a good friend of Amelia Earhart) who flew solo across the US, and novelist of 5 novels.
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Honeymoons through writers’ eyes
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- "A brilliant collection of writings on the subject of the honeymoon. Offering context and commentary where necessary, the editors have canvassed history, fact and fiction for the gamut of newlywed experience, from the Brownings' blissful elopement and Napoleon and Marie-Louise's swift exit from the marriage supper, to Charles Kingsley's bizarre…
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- £14.00
- Why do some products capture our attention while others fade into obscurity? What makes us check our phones, open an app, or scroll a feed without even thinking? Is there a repeatable pattern behind how technology hooks us? In Hooked, Nir Eyal reveals the secret psychology behind the worldÕs most…
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Horizon: (Vol XVII, No. 98) The Loved One, By Evelyn Waugh
- £45.00
- The first appearance of Waugh's satire on the ''American way of Death''. In Horizon magazine (pp. 76-159) edited by Cyril Connolly. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely…
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Hornblower in the West Indies
- £35.00
- 10th in Hornblower series. 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas; As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the French wars, Horatio Hornblower, Commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, must still face savage…
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Horse Latitudes
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- Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Of their recent pamphlet publication, he remarked that 'the poems have to do with a series of historical battles (all beginning with the letter "B" as if to suggest…
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