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Hot Six (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back - and, boy, has she got man trouble . . . First there's fellow bounty hunter Ranger, currently on the run from a murder rap and requesting Stephanie's help. Trouble is she can't decide if she should turn him in or keep him…
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
- £16.00
- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
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How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence
- £15.00
- LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021. 'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. 'An invaluable guide to avoiding self-deception and fake news'…
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How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
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How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
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How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
- £20.00
- Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York Times The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by…
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Howard & Oberlin: The Great Philanthropists
- £35.00
- From Chambers' Popular Biographies series. John Howard was an English prison reformer (1726-1790); John Frederick Oberlin (1740-1826) was a pastor and philanthropist in Alsace, after whom Oberlin, Ohio and Oberlin College in the USA are named.
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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel…
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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk.' Kit Fan, Guardian A 'howdie-skelp' is the…
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Hume’s History of England (vols I & II only)
- £75.00
- Hume set out at first only to write a history of England under the Stuart monarchs James I and Charles I, which appeared in 1754. He followed this with a second history that continued to the Revolution of 1688. With the relative success of these two volumes, Hume researched the…
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Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
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Hush-A-Bye (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- In 1983, Susan Moody (pen name of Susan Elizabeth Horwood) published her first novel, A Distant Shore, and one other historical novel under the pen name Susannah James before she turned to the genre of crime and suspense literature. More recently, she has also used the pen name Susan Madison.…
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Hyde (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD. IAN RANKIN'S CHOICE FOR BOTH BEST MYSTERY BOOK OF 2021 (PBS), AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (NEW STATESMAN) 'Russell writes a pacy, ever-twisting mystery that will keep you turning the pages.' - Ian Rankin 'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is…
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I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
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I Remember (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Memoirs of a chartered accountant who worked for the British Empire Cancer Campign, but who had been in the British army, and most interestingly, in China around the time of the fall of the Chinese Monarchy. 6 b/w plates.
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I Thought There Would Be Cake
- £10.00
- EVER THOUGHT LIFE ISNÕT TURNING OUT QUITE AS YOU EXPECTED? Growing up, Katharine Welby-Roberts imagined that being an adult was one big party. But depression, anxiety and crippling self-doubt led her to alienate herself from others. To replay events and encounters as nightmares. Occasionally, to be unable to leave the…
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I Want! I Want!
- £15.00
- The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.
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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
- £9.00
- I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in…
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I, Brother Stephen (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The 2nd of St Beuno's Hand-printed limited editions (only 150 made) of verse from Irish poet Robert Greacen. His 1994 anthology won the 1995 Irish Times Award for Literature.
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Ice in the Bedroom
- £30.00
- Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie's neighbour in the suburb of Valley Fields. When…
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Ice in the Bedroom
- £25.00
- Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie's neighbour in the suburb of Valley Fields. When…
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Icon
- £12.00
- It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed. The only rule is imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. And a visionary patriot whose voice rises above it all: Igor Komarov. It is in to this world that former CIA agent Jason…
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Identity of England
- £20.00
- The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early…
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If I Don’t Know
- £25.00
- Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil our futures, or allow us to realize the…
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If Prison Walls Could Speak (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- In If Prison Walls Could Speak, Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond - and remaining unbroken. D.L. Moody stated that the Christian on his…
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If Thou Wilt Be Perfect… Talks on spiritual philosophy
- £20.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. This book articulates his theology of sanctification which lay at the heart of the holiness movement.
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Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
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- A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as Ôcompletely and utterly marvellousÕ. ÔPainting É exists and exults in immortal thoughtsÕ William Blake. In 2020, as the spread of Covid-19 causes pandemonium worldwide, an elderly artist returns to his childhood…
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Immortality: the quest to live forever
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- Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every…
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Imperial Bedrooms (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero, his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' (New Yorker), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters --…
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Impossible People: Christian Courage And The Struggle For The Soul Of Civilization
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- The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the Gospel is exploding throughout the global South, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever Christians must resist the negative cultural…
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In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
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- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
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In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
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- Previously unpublished journals recording his African travels to the Belgian Congo in 1959 and an earlier wartime convoy to West Africa in 1941. Some of the raw material wound up in "A Burnt-Out Case" and "The Heart of the Matter."
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In Search Of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City
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- No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It…
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In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
- £150.00
- Bubbling with gaiety and humour, these letters will delight Leigh Fermor and Mitford fans alike
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In the Battle Silences: Poems written at the Front
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- Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (1861-1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic…
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In The Enemy’s House
- £21.00
- In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet…
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In the Holocaust of Autumn
- £30.00
- Egan is an Irish poet who has published 24 collections and whose work has been translated into multiple languages. In this sequence of poems, he meditates on the parallels between the Irish and Jewish experience and considers some character traits resulting from and common to each race.
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In the Meantime
- £10.00
- Elizabeth Jennings turned seventy the year this was published. This book of poems is graced by a firm wisdom and achieves moments of religious and individual serenity. "In the Meantime" strives to come to terms with losses, with failure, loves, and most of all with time. It celebrates, too, the…
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In the Midst of Winter
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- In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from…
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In the Wet
- £40.00
- It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the…
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In-laws & Outlaws
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- Parkinson's advice for how to succeed in the world. Step one is finding the right father-in-law…
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Inadmissable Evidence
- £30.00
- I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, he puts himself on trial to fight for his sanity. John Osborne's poignant, witty and…
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Inés of My Soul
- £15.00
- A real historical figure, Inés Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540, helping to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this remarkable novel, Isabel Allende – one of the world's most spellbinding storytellers – re-imagines Inés's life and that…
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £15.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Injury Time
- £12.00
- Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted - choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his socks - he wants to give her a chance to…
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Ink (Ink Trilogy 1)
- £9.00
- The page-turning, heart-in-mouth first book in the bestselling INK trilogy. Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. When Leora's father dies, she is determined to see her father remembered forever. She knows he deserves to have all his tattoos removed and made into…
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Innocent Blood
- £20.00
- Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that…
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Inside Australia
- £30.00
- Antony Gormley Inside Australia showcases Turner Prize-winning artist Gormley's stunning 51-statue installation on Lake Ballard, a 10 square kilometre dry salt lake in a remote region of Western Australia. Photographs, maps and drawings present the entire creative process in detail, while commentaries explain its different stages and place the work…
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Inside Russian Politics (Inside Global Politics)
- £5.00
- Is there more to Russian politics than Putin? Revealing the Russia beyond Moscow and the West s sensational headlines about Putin, Edwin Bacon Reader in Comparative Politics at Birkbeck, University of London offers a succinct yet thorough exploration of power politics in and beyond the Kremlin. Inside Russian Politics is…
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Inside the Kingdom
- £10.00
- Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have…
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Inside, Outside
- £25.00
- Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery…
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Intelligent Church, a journey towards Christ-centred Community
- £6.00
- ‘As St. John of the Cross said: “Mission is putting love where love is not.” This book is full of ideas. It should prompt us all to examine the effectiveness of the way local churches are organized.’—The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York ‘Everything that…
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Introduction to Cambridge
- £11.00
- Introductory guide to the University of Cambridge; 9 b/w photographic plates; 1 pull-out map.
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In "Inventing a Nation", Vidal transports the reader into the…
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Inversions (Culture: Book 5) (SIGNED)
- £135.00
- The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson In the winter…
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Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
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Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
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Is a River Alive? (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book Ð which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings Ð who should be recognized as such…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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It Can’t Happen Here
- £75.00
- Published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, It Can''t Happen Here is a chilling cautionary tale by one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, which is still startlingly relevant almost a century later.Charting the rise to power of Berzelius ''Buzz'' Windrip, who whips his supporters into…
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It ends with Magic: a Milligan Family Story
- £30.00
- The story is based on the lives of Spike Milligan's own parents and of other members of his family. Set in the late Victorian era and illustrated with photographs from the family albums, it describes their life in India.
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It’s a Battlefield (Uniform edition)
- £12.00
- Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist…
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It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
- £20.00
- ÒBoydÕs new book is layered and smart . . . ItÕs Complicated will update your mind.Ó_Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review ÒA fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today's tech-savvy teenagers are using social media.Ó_People ÒThe briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isnÕt.Ó_Andrew…
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It’s a Battlefield
- £135.00
- A book that Greene later described as his 'first overtly political novel' (rather than just an entertainment).
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It’s a Battlefield
- £85.00
- A book that Greene later described as his 'first overtly political novel' (rather than just an entertainment).
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Italian Journeys
- £25.00
- This personal travel book about Italy is written by the author of the prize-winning "Allegro Postillions" and "The Strangers' Gallery". The author's travels take him to an Italy of neglected grandeur, hidden beauty and preposterous paradox - where the past lies in wait for the present and where history is…
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Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
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Ivanhoe
- £50.00
- Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel "Ivanhoe" is the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his father due…
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Ivanhoe
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel, the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his…
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J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
- £40.00
- In lucid and engaging style, Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide range of historical and analytical perspectives, including the models used by Bach in conceiving the individual pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection,…
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J’accuse
- £30.00
- In both English and French, on the Dark Side of Nice
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J’accuse
- £30.00
- In both English and French, on the Dark Side of Nice
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Jack Hinton, The Guardsman
- £12.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, his 3rd novel, was first published in 1843.
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Jacko: the Great Intruder (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- With his genial air of an Australian innocent, Jacko Emptor is New York's most public trespasser, invading people's homes at random for a live television show. Until he undertakes the televised hunt for a missing woman and, finally, meets a barrier even he will not transgress. The dramatic tale of…
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Jacob Faithful
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #618. A rags to riches story of Jacob Faithful born in dire poverty, from the great Royal Navy captain turned writer Frederick Marryat (famed for his beloved Children of the New Forest).
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Jane Austen (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)
- £13.00
- This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu…
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Jeeves in the Offing
- £25.00
- Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that situation when he goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court. So much is obvious. Why celebrated loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop should be there too, masquerading as a…
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Jericho
- £20.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 4th novel. With his divorce proceedings looming, writer William Caldicott is in desperate need of some respite. As fate would have it, he receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James, along with the keys to James' house France. Sensing the potentially reformative aspect of…
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Jesus and the Pharisees
- £40.00
- A study of the Pharisees, in particular as they appear in the New Testament and in relation to Jesus. The main part of the book brings together the most important Greek and Semitic source material in translation. This facilitates reference, and it makes possible group and seminar discussion of documents…
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Jesus Christ the only Way – Christian responsibility in a multicultural society
- £6.50
- Essays developed out of an Evangelical Alliance commission to assess the impact of other faiths on contemporay Britain. Includes responses from representatives of other faith groups.
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Jesus on Thyface: Social Networking for the Modern Messiah
- £20.00
- Ever wanted to know why Mary and Joseph settled on the name Jesus? And have you ever wondered what really happened at The Last Supper? Or how Jesus managed to feed 5,000 people with two fishes and fives loaves of bread? Well, Jesus on Thyface finally reveals the true story.…
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Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
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Jim Davis
- £8.00
- Masefield's novel for children
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John (SIGNED & Limited)
- £210.00
- Cynthia and John Lennon's relationship spanned ten crucial years of the Beatles phenomenon. But as well as new insight into the Beatles years, Cynthia has a compelling personal story of marriage, motherhood and the man who was to become the most idolised and admired of all the Beatles. Cynthia is…
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John Aubrey and his Friends
- £30.00
- This is a portrait of John Aubrey, one of Britain's greatest eccentrics and authors by one of Britain's greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Best known for his "Brief Lives", Aubrey was a man interested in everything from mathematics to folklore and from heraldry to horticulture. This study of Aubrey's…
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John Betjeman (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £14.00
- Lord Birkenhead's famous compilation made publishing history when first published, has sold over two million copies.
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John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
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John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), a short biography
- £6.00
- Written by Sir Marcus Loane, who would go on to be Archbishop of Sydney, this brief biography tells the story of J. C. Ryle, first bishop of Liverpool and pioneering evangelical Anglican of the Victorian era.
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John Cleese: And Now For Something Completely Different
- £40.00
- llustrated throughout using classic and rare images from television, stage and the big screen, this is the first comprehensive, full-colour biography of an extraordinary and singularly English comic talent.'
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John Keats (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to KeatsÕs major poems and letters, from a perspective which aims to counter the historical emphasis of recent critical work.
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John Masefield, O.M.: a Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Tribute to the Poet Laureate John Masefield with a bibliography for his 81st Birthday in 1960. A limited signed edition of 999 copies.
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John Mason Neale, Priest Extraordinary
- £15.00
- Lough notes Neale's accomplishments, which included being a key figure in the Oxford Movement as an ordained Anglican, cofounding the Sisterhood of Saint Margaret, and the writing of many hymns.
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John Stott (vol 2): A Global Ministry
- £15.00
- Timothy Dudley-Smith's authorised biography continues the story begun in 'John Stott: the making of a leader'. This second volume encompasses the last forty years of the twentieth century. It begins in 1960 when John Stott, the established Rector of All Souls Church, author of several books, and already something of…
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John Stott: The Making of a Leader (Biography vol 1) (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- This biography, the first volume of a two-part work, portrays the formative period of John Stott's life 1921 - 1960 in its social and theological context.
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John Wyclif, last of the Schoolmen and First of the English Reformers
- £40.00
- Lewis Sergeant (1841-1902) was an English journalist and writer; this biography of the English proto-reformer John Wyclif was acclaimed. With 31 b/w plates & illustrations
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Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
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Hot Six (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back - and, boy, has she got man trouble . . . First there's fellow bounty hunter Ranger, currently on the run from a murder rap and requesting Stephanie's help. Trouble is she can't decide if she should turn him in or keep him…
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
- £16.00
- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
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How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence
- £15.00
- LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021. 'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. 'An invaluable guide to avoiding self-deception and fake news'…
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How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
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How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
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How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
- £20.00
- Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York Times The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by…
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Howard & Oberlin: The Great Philanthropists
- £35.00
- From Chambers' Popular Biographies series. John Howard was an English prison reformer (1726-1790); John Frederick Oberlin (1740-1826) was a pastor and philanthropist in Alsace, after whom Oberlin, Ohio and Oberlin College in the USA are named.
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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel…
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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk.' Kit Fan, Guardian A 'howdie-skelp' is the…
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Hume’s History of England (vols I & II only)
- £75.00
- Hume set out at first only to write a history of England under the Stuart monarchs James I and Charles I, which appeared in 1754. He followed this with a second history that continued to the Revolution of 1688. With the relative success of these two volumes, Hume researched the…
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Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
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Hush-A-Bye (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- In 1983, Susan Moody (pen name of Susan Elizabeth Horwood) published her first novel, A Distant Shore, and one other historical novel under the pen name Susannah James before she turned to the genre of crime and suspense literature. More recently, she has also used the pen name Susan Madison.…
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Hyde (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD. IAN RANKIN'S CHOICE FOR BOTH BEST MYSTERY BOOK OF 2021 (PBS), AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (NEW STATESMAN) 'Russell writes a pacy, ever-twisting mystery that will keep you turning the pages.' - Ian Rankin 'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is…
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I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
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I Remember (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Memoirs of a chartered accountant who worked for the British Empire Cancer Campign, but who had been in the British army, and most interestingly, in China around the time of the fall of the Chinese Monarchy. 6 b/w plates.
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I Thought There Would Be Cake
- £10.00
- EVER THOUGHT LIFE ISNÕT TURNING OUT QUITE AS YOU EXPECTED? Growing up, Katharine Welby-Roberts imagined that being an adult was one big party. But depression, anxiety and crippling self-doubt led her to alienate herself from others. To replay events and encounters as nightmares. Occasionally, to be unable to leave the…
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I Want! I Want!
- £15.00
- The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.
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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
- £9.00
- I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in…
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I, Brother Stephen (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The 2nd of St Beuno's Hand-printed limited editions (only 150 made) of verse from Irish poet Robert Greacen. His 1994 anthology won the 1995 Irish Times Award for Literature.
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Ice in the Bedroom
- £30.00
- Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie's neighbour in the suburb of Valley Fields. When…
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Ice in the Bedroom
- £25.00
- Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie's neighbour in the suburb of Valley Fields. When…
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Icon
- £12.00
- It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed. The only rule is imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. And a visionary patriot whose voice rises above it all: Igor Komarov. It is in to this world that former CIA agent Jason…
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Identity of England
- £20.00
- The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early…
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If I Don’t Know
- £25.00
- Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil our futures, or allow us to realize the…
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If Prison Walls Could Speak (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- In If Prison Walls Could Speak, Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond - and remaining unbroken. D.L. Moody stated that the Christian on his…
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If Thou Wilt Be Perfect… Talks on spiritual philosophy
- £20.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. This book articulates his theology of sanctification which lay at the heart of the holiness movement.
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Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
- £12.00
- A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as Ôcompletely and utterly marvellousÕ. ÔPainting É exists and exults in immortal thoughtsÕ William Blake. In 2020, as the spread of Covid-19 causes pandemonium worldwide, an elderly artist returns to his childhood…
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Immortality: the quest to live forever
- £9.00
- Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every…
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Imperial Bedrooms (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero, his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' (New Yorker), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters --…
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Impossible People: Christian Courage And The Struggle For The Soul Of Civilization
- £15.00
- The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the Gospel is exploding throughout the global South, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever Christians must resist the negative cultural…
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In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
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In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
- £12.00
- Previously unpublished journals recording his African travels to the Belgian Congo in 1959 and an earlier wartime convoy to West Africa in 1941. Some of the raw material wound up in "A Burnt-Out Case" and "The Heart of the Matter."
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In Search Of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City
- £20.00
- No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It…
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In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
- £150.00
- Bubbling with gaiety and humour, these letters will delight Leigh Fermor and Mitford fans alike
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In the Battle Silences: Poems written at the Front
- £35.00
- Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (1861-1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic…
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In The Enemy’s House
- £21.00
- In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet…
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In the Holocaust of Autumn
- £30.00
- Egan is an Irish poet who has published 24 collections and whose work has been translated into multiple languages. In this sequence of poems, he meditates on the parallels between the Irish and Jewish experience and considers some character traits resulting from and common to each race.
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In the Meantime
- £10.00
- Elizabeth Jennings turned seventy the year this was published. This book of poems is graced by a firm wisdom and achieves moments of religious and individual serenity. "In the Meantime" strives to come to terms with losses, with failure, loves, and most of all with time. It celebrates, too, the…
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In the Midst of Winter
- £20.00
- In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from…
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In the Wet
- £40.00
- It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the…
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In-laws & Outlaws
- £10.00
- Parkinson's advice for how to succeed in the world. Step one is finding the right father-in-law…
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Inadmissable Evidence
- £30.00
- I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, he puts himself on trial to fight for his sanity. John Osborne's poignant, witty and…
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Inés of My Soul
- £15.00
- A real historical figure, Inés Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540, helping to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this remarkable novel, Isabel Allende – one of the world's most spellbinding storytellers – re-imagines Inés's life and that…
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £15.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Injury Time
- £12.00
- Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted - choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his socks - he wants to give her a chance to…
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Ink (Ink Trilogy 1)
- £9.00
- The page-turning, heart-in-mouth first book in the bestselling INK trilogy. Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. When Leora's father dies, she is determined to see her father remembered forever. She knows he deserves to have all his tattoos removed and made into…
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Innocent Blood
- £20.00
- Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that…
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Inside Australia
- £30.00
- Antony Gormley Inside Australia showcases Turner Prize-winning artist Gormley's stunning 51-statue installation on Lake Ballard, a 10 square kilometre dry salt lake in a remote region of Western Australia. Photographs, maps and drawings present the entire creative process in detail, while commentaries explain its different stages and place the work…
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Inside Russian Politics (Inside Global Politics)
- £5.00
- Is there more to Russian politics than Putin? Revealing the Russia beyond Moscow and the West s sensational headlines about Putin, Edwin Bacon Reader in Comparative Politics at Birkbeck, University of London offers a succinct yet thorough exploration of power politics in and beyond the Kremlin. Inside Russian Politics is…
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Inside the Kingdom
- £10.00
- Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have…
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Inside, Outside
- £25.00
- Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery…
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Intelligent Church, a journey towards Christ-centred Community
- £6.00
- ‘As St. John of the Cross said: “Mission is putting love where love is not.” This book is full of ideas. It should prompt us all to examine the effectiveness of the way local churches are organized.’—The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York ‘Everything that…
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Introduction to Cambridge
- £11.00
- Introductory guide to the University of Cambridge; 9 b/w photographic plates; 1 pull-out map.
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In "Inventing a Nation", Vidal transports the reader into the…
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Inversions (Culture: Book 5) (SIGNED)
- £135.00
- The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson In the winter…
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Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
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Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
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Is a River Alive? (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book Ð which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings Ð who should be recognized as such…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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It Can’t Happen Here
- £75.00
- Published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, It Can''t Happen Here is a chilling cautionary tale by one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, which is still startlingly relevant almost a century later.Charting the rise to power of Berzelius ''Buzz'' Windrip, who whips his supporters into…
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It ends with Magic: a Milligan Family Story
- £30.00
- The story is based on the lives of Spike Milligan's own parents and of other members of his family. Set in the late Victorian era and illustrated with photographs from the family albums, it describes their life in India.
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It’s a Battlefield (Uniform edition)
- £12.00
- Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist…
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It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
- £20.00
- ÒBoydÕs new book is layered and smart . . . ItÕs Complicated will update your mind.Ó_Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review ÒA fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today's tech-savvy teenagers are using social media.Ó_People ÒThe briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isnÕt.Ó_Andrew…
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It’s a Battlefield
- £135.00
- A book that Greene later described as his 'first overtly political novel' (rather than just an entertainment).
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It’s a Battlefield
- £85.00
- A book that Greene later described as his 'first overtly political novel' (rather than just an entertainment).
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Italian Journeys
- £25.00
- This personal travel book about Italy is written by the author of the prize-winning "Allegro Postillions" and "The Strangers' Gallery". The author's travels take him to an Italy of neglected grandeur, hidden beauty and preposterous paradox - where the past lies in wait for the present and where history is…
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Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
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Ivanhoe
- £50.00
- Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel "Ivanhoe" is the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his father due…
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Ivanhoe
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel, the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his…
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J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
- £40.00
- In lucid and engaging style, Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide range of historical and analytical perspectives, including the models used by Bach in conceiving the individual pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection,…
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J’accuse
- £30.00
- In both English and French, on the Dark Side of Nice
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J’accuse
- £30.00
- In both English and French, on the Dark Side of Nice
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Jack Hinton, The Guardsman
- £12.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, his 3rd novel, was first published in 1843.
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Jacko: the Great Intruder (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- With his genial air of an Australian innocent, Jacko Emptor is New York's most public trespasser, invading people's homes at random for a live television show. Until he undertakes the televised hunt for a missing woman and, finally, meets a barrier even he will not transgress. The dramatic tale of…
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Jacob Faithful
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #618. A rags to riches story of Jacob Faithful born in dire poverty, from the great Royal Navy captain turned writer Frederick Marryat (famed for his beloved Children of the New Forest).
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Jane Austen (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)
- £13.00
- This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu…
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Jeeves in the Offing
- £25.00
- Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that situation when he goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court. So much is obvious. Why celebrated loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop should be there too, masquerading as a…
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Jericho
- £20.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 4th novel. With his divorce proceedings looming, writer William Caldicott is in desperate need of some respite. As fate would have it, he receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James, along with the keys to James' house France. Sensing the potentially reformative aspect of…
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Jesus and the Pharisees
- £40.00
- A study of the Pharisees, in particular as they appear in the New Testament and in relation to Jesus. The main part of the book brings together the most important Greek and Semitic source material in translation. This facilitates reference, and it makes possible group and seminar discussion of documents…
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Jesus Christ the only Way – Christian responsibility in a multicultural society
- £6.50
- Essays developed out of an Evangelical Alliance commission to assess the impact of other faiths on contemporay Britain. Includes responses from representatives of other faith groups.
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Jesus on Thyface: Social Networking for the Modern Messiah
- £20.00
- Ever wanted to know why Mary and Joseph settled on the name Jesus? And have you ever wondered what really happened at The Last Supper? Or how Jesus managed to feed 5,000 people with two fishes and fives loaves of bread? Well, Jesus on Thyface finally reveals the true story.…
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Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
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Jim Davis
- £8.00
- Masefield's novel for children
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John (SIGNED & Limited)
- £210.00
- Cynthia and John Lennon's relationship spanned ten crucial years of the Beatles phenomenon. But as well as new insight into the Beatles years, Cynthia has a compelling personal story of marriage, motherhood and the man who was to become the most idolised and admired of all the Beatles. Cynthia is…
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John Aubrey and his Friends
- £30.00
- This is a portrait of John Aubrey, one of Britain's greatest eccentrics and authors by one of Britain's greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Best known for his "Brief Lives", Aubrey was a man interested in everything from mathematics to folklore and from heraldry to horticulture. This study of Aubrey's…
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John Betjeman (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £14.00
- Lord Birkenhead's famous compilation made publishing history when first published, has sold over two million copies.
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John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
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- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
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John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), a short biography
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- Written by Sir Marcus Loane, who would go on to be Archbishop of Sydney, this brief biography tells the story of J. C. Ryle, first bishop of Liverpool and pioneering evangelical Anglican of the Victorian era.
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John Cleese: And Now For Something Completely Different
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- llustrated throughout using classic and rare images from television, stage and the big screen, this is the first comprehensive, full-colour biography of an extraordinary and singularly English comic talent.'
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John Keats (Writers and their Work)
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- This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to KeatsÕs major poems and letters, from a perspective which aims to counter the historical emphasis of recent critical work.
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John Masefield, O.M.: a Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute (SIGNED)
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- A Tribute to the Poet Laureate John Masefield with a bibliography for his 81st Birthday in 1960. A limited signed edition of 999 copies.
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John Mason Neale, Priest Extraordinary
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- Lough notes Neale's accomplishments, which included being a key figure in the Oxford Movement as an ordained Anglican, cofounding the Sisterhood of Saint Margaret, and the writing of many hymns.
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John Stott (vol 2): A Global Ministry
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- Timothy Dudley-Smith's authorised biography continues the story begun in 'John Stott: the making of a leader'. This second volume encompasses the last forty years of the twentieth century. It begins in 1960 when John Stott, the established Rector of All Souls Church, author of several books, and already something of…
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John Stott: The Making of a Leader (Biography vol 1) (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- This biography, the first volume of a two-part work, portrays the formative period of John Stott's life 1921 - 1960 in its social and theological context.
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John Wyclif, last of the Schoolmen and First of the English Reformers
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- Lewis Sergeant (1841-1902) was an English journalist and writer; this biography of the English proto-reformer John Wyclif was acclaimed. With 31 b/w plates & illustrations
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Johnson at 10
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- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
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