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Two Caravans (signed)
- £25.00
- A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There…
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Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006
- £8.00
- The idea for this book - a new selection of her poems with notes - grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and…
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
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U2: Past, Present, Future
- £30.00
- U2 remains deeply rooted in tradition while still looking toward the future and pushing boundaries. Follow this popular Irish band from its formation and early years through the release of its milestone albums and arena-packed shows. Explore, also, the challenges raised by the group s unwavering political and social commitment.…
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Ukridge
- £12.00
- First published in 1924, these short stories had previously appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US and in the Strand Magazine in the UK. There are 10 included, relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
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Ultimatum (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . . They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within IranÕs Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose objective is to transform their country into a nuclear-armed nation, and so seal its domination of the…
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Uncle
- £200.00
- The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A classic in the great English nonsense tradition - Observer. Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He…
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Uncle Dynamite
- £85.00
- Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened…
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
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Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
- £10.00
- Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author. Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry. To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life's most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
- Add to basket
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Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
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Unpresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 'Feb 26, White House briefing room: the coronavirus feels like it is changing everything.... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign.... ' Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon…
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Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported
- £18.00
- Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' Ð Giles Foden, The Guardian A critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson. Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable…
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
- Add to basket
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Untold Stories
- £12.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
- Add to basket
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Untold Stories
- £15.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
- Add to basket
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Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from “the New Yorker”
- £16.00
- The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan. Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink…
- Add to basket
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Up with Authority: Why We Need Authority to Flourish as Human Beings
- £25.00
- Authority is something we experience every day, but is it necessary? Many think that it is not, and that it exists only as a remedy for some defect in us. Victor Lee Austin sets about exploring the higher and nobler functions of authority, and in doing so reveals its human…
- Add to basket
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Up, up and away: The biography of Be Fair
- £40.00
- With complete frankness, and a definite touch of humour, Lucinda Prior-Palmer offers the biography of her remarkable horse, Be Fair. This timeless story begins back in 1968, when Lucinda acquired Be Fair for her fifteenth birthday. That day the problems began; but it was also the start of an extraordinary…
- Add to basket
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Us and our Donkey
- £15.00
- Amy Le Feuvre (1861 – 1929) was a prolific writer of Christian fiction
- Add to basket
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Us Four
- £40.00
- The story of Cyril and his 3 brothers, growing up on a large estate in Edwardian England. It is a world in itself, with its large house, outdoor and indoor staffs, forestry, gardens and animals. But the Great War breaks across this carefree life.
- Add to basket
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Usain Bolt: 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Eight days É É three gold medals É three world records É one amazing reputation firmly established. Usain Bolt's life Ð and the world of sport Ð would never be quite the same again. 16 August 2008 É Beijing, China É the Bird's Nest stadium É 91,000 spectators and an…
- Add to basket
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V-U2: an immersive concert film at Sphere Las Vegas
- £100.00
- Official record of the film made of the Sphere Las Vegas's first residency of U2.
- Add to basket
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Vagabond
- £20.00
- A witty page-turner, full of life. Come for the career, stay for the celebrity encounters: impromptu dinners with David Bowie after stage performances of The Rocky Horror Show; working through bowls of cocaine at Studio 54 with Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, and a hilariously catty encounter with Donald Trump…
- Add to basket
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Van Gogh: From the Early Gloom-laden Paintings to the Works of His Final Years
- £20.00
- Vincent Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the work of his final…
- Add to basket
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Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- This autobiography chronicles the career and life of one of Britain's leading actresses, telling of her performances on stage and screen, her political beliefs and her family, up until 1991.
- Add to basket
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Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Luscious Substance (SIGNED)
- £32.00
- The locations read like the contents of an exotic holiday brochure: Tahiti, Madagascar, Reunion, Seychelles and the Gulf Coast of Mexico - all of them inextricably linked with the story of Vanilla - the world's most versatile flavour. Vanilla is a botanical mystery - a uniquely sensual plant who's secret…
- Add to basket
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Venice
- £300.00
- Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its…
- Add to basket
-
Two Caravans (signed)
- £25.00
- A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There…
- Add to basket
-
Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006
- £8.00
- The idea for this book - a new selection of her poems with notes - grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and…
- Add to basket
-
Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
- Add to basket
-
U2: Past, Present, Future
- £30.00
- U2 remains deeply rooted in tradition while still looking toward the future and pushing boundaries. Follow this popular Irish band from its formation and early years through the release of its milestone albums and arena-packed shows. Explore, also, the challenges raised by the group s unwavering political and social commitment.…
- Add to basket
-
Ukridge
- £12.00
- First published in 1924, these short stories had previously appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US and in the Strand Magazine in the UK. There are 10 included, relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
- Add to basket
-
Ultimatum (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . . They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within IranÕs Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose objective is to transform their country into a nuclear-armed nation, and so seal its domination of the…
- Add to basket
-
Uncle
- £200.00
- The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A classic in the great English nonsense tradition - Observer. Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He…
- Add to basket
-
Uncle Dynamite
- £85.00
- Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened…
- Add to basket
-
Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
- Add to basket
-
Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
- £10.00
- Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author. Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry. To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life's most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to…
- Add to basket
-
Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
- Add to basket
-
Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
- Add to basket
-
Unnatural Causes
- £15.00
- Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long windswept walks, tea in front of a crackling wood fire and hot-buttered toast, Dalgliesh…
- Add to basket
-
Unpresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 'Feb 26, White House briefing room: the coronavirus feels like it is changing everything.... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign.... ' Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon…
- Add to basket
-
Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported
- £18.00
- Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' Ð Giles Foden, The Guardian A critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson. Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable…
- Add to basket
-
Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
- Add to basket
-
Untold Stories
- £12.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
- Add to basket
-
Untold Stories
- £15.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
- Add to basket
-
Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from “the New Yorker”
- £16.00
- The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan. Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink…
- Add to basket
-
Up with Authority: Why We Need Authority to Flourish as Human Beings
- £25.00
- Authority is something we experience every day, but is it necessary? Many think that it is not, and that it exists only as a remedy for some defect in us. Victor Lee Austin sets about exploring the higher and nobler functions of authority, and in doing so reveals its human…
- Add to basket
-
Up, up and away: The biography of Be Fair
- £40.00
- With complete frankness, and a definite touch of humour, Lucinda Prior-Palmer offers the biography of her remarkable horse, Be Fair. This timeless story begins back in 1968, when Lucinda acquired Be Fair for her fifteenth birthday. That day the problems began; but it was also the start of an extraordinary…
- Add to basket
-
Us and our Donkey
- £15.00
- Amy Le Feuvre (1861 – 1929) was a prolific writer of Christian fiction
- Add to basket
-
Us Four
- £40.00
- The story of Cyril and his 3 brothers, growing up on a large estate in Edwardian England. It is a world in itself, with its large house, outdoor and indoor staffs, forestry, gardens and animals. But the Great War breaks across this carefree life.
- Add to basket
-
Usain Bolt: 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Eight days É É three gold medals É three world records É one amazing reputation firmly established. Usain Bolt's life Ð and the world of sport Ð would never be quite the same again. 16 August 2008 É Beijing, China É the Bird's Nest stadium É 91,000 spectators and an…
- Add to basket
-
V-U2: an immersive concert film at Sphere Las Vegas
- £100.00
- Official record of the film made of the Sphere Las Vegas's first residency of U2.
- Add to basket
-
Vagabond
- £20.00
- A witty page-turner, full of life. Come for the career, stay for the celebrity encounters: impromptu dinners with David Bowie after stage performances of The Rocky Horror Show; working through bowls of cocaine at Studio 54 with Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, and a hilariously catty encounter with Donald Trump…
- Add to basket
-
Van Gogh: From the Early Gloom-laden Paintings to the Works of His Final Years
- £20.00
- Vincent Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the work of his final…
- Add to basket
-
Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- This autobiography chronicles the career and life of one of Britain's leading actresses, telling of her performances on stage and screen, her political beliefs and her family, up until 1991.
- Add to basket
-
Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Luscious Substance (SIGNED)
- £32.00
- The locations read like the contents of an exotic holiday brochure: Tahiti, Madagascar, Reunion, Seychelles and the Gulf Coast of Mexico - all of them inextricably linked with the story of Vanilla - the world's most versatile flavour. Vanilla is a botanical mystery - a uniquely sensual plant who's secret…
- Add to basket
-
Venice
- £300.00
- Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its…
- Add to basket