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Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
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Voices by the Sea: the story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir
- £12.00
- In 1947, when the UK was deep in the throes of post-war austerity, that the concept of the Aldeburgh festival was first conceived. The prime movers were the singer Peter Pears, the librettist Eric Crozier, and above all, the composer Benjamin Britten.
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Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
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Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
- £8.00
- One of the world's leading voices of faith and social activism also happens to be one of its biggest rock groups. The band members drink, smoke and swear - yet a radical biblical agenda and faith fuel their life and work. Welcome to the dichotomy of U2, arguably the greatest…
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Walking on Sunshine
- £8.00
- Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares the strategies that have helped her stay calm and happy…
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Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
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War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
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War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
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War Lord (The Last Kingdom 13)
- £20.00
- The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom. An impossible choice. The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to hang up his sword. But as long as the kingdom…
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Waterland (SIGNED, Dutch) / Vertaling Rien Verhoef
- £100.00
- In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of…
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Watership Down
- £140.00
- One of the best-loved children's classics of all time, this is the complete, original story of Watership Down. Something terrible is about to happen to the warren - Fiver feels sure of it. And Fiver's sixth sense is never wrong, according to his brother Hazel. They had to leave immediately,…
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Waugh in Abyssinia
- £75.00
- In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent…
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
- Add to basket
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We British: the Poetry of the People
- £20.00
- More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it…
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We British: the Poetry of the People
- £25.00
- More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it…
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We’ve been thinking
- £20.00
- Reminiscences of English Hunts, published after the author's death but edited by Robert Colville, with contributions by Major Guy Paget, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, Brigadier Sir Percy Laurie, Phyllis Hinton, Colonel Charles Rich.
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
- Add to basket
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West of Sunset (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 3rd novel, set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence Ð the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles Ð West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington,…
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What Am I Doing Here
- £35.00
- In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and…
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What art does: an unfinished theory (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring…
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What Do Jewish People Think About Jesus?
- £12.00
- Written in an accessible style, What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus? answers sixty common questions about Jewish people and Jewish culture. Drawn from the steady stream of questions Michael L. Brown's ministry receives every month, the book's questions reflect the perennial Christian fascination with Jewish customs and beliefs. A…
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What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
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What I saw in Russia (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- The account of a British socialist's fact-finding mission to Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Lansbury became leader of the Labour Party in 1932, and was succeeded by his deputy Clement Atlee in 1935. Lansbury's account provides a firsthand view of the nation's efforts to rebuild after the revolution, as…
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What is a Classic?
- £50.00
- The transcript of Eliot's wartime lecture given to the Virgil Society on 16 October 1944 published the following January in London.
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What on earth is heaven?
- £10.00
- What happens to us when we die? Will heaven be a place of fluffy clouds, angels and cherubs playing harps? Is the Christian faith just about securing a place in heaven when we die? In What on Earth is Heaven? James Paul explores the radical truth of what the Bible…
- Add to basket
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What the Dog Saw and other adventures
- £15.00
- In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 'Masterpieces in the art of the…
- Add to basket
-
Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
- Add to basket
-
Voices by the Sea: the story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir
- £12.00
- In 1947, when the UK was deep in the throes of post-war austerity, that the concept of the Aldeburgh festival was first conceived. The prime movers were the singer Peter Pears, the librettist Eric Crozier, and above all, the composer Benjamin Britten.
- Add to basket
-
Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
- Add to basket
-
Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
- Add to basket
-
Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
- £8.00
- One of the world's leading voices of faith and social activism also happens to be one of its biggest rock groups. The band members drink, smoke and swear - yet a radical biblical agenda and faith fuel their life and work. Welcome to the dichotomy of U2, arguably the greatest…
- Add to basket
-
Walking on Sunshine
- £8.00
- Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares the strategies that have helped her stay calm and happy…
- Add to basket
-
Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
- Add to basket
-
War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
- Add to basket
-
War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
- Add to basket
-
War in Heaven
- £15.00
- A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts…
- Add to basket
-
War Lord (The Last Kingdom 13)
- £20.00
- The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom. An impossible choice. The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to hang up his sword. But as long as the kingdom…
- Add to basket
-
Waterland (SIGNED, Dutch) / Vertaling Rien Verhoef
- £100.00
- In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of…
- Add to basket
-
Watership Down
- £140.00
- One of the best-loved children's classics of all time, this is the complete, original story of Watership Down. Something terrible is about to happen to the warren - Fiver feels sure of it. And Fiver's sixth sense is never wrong, according to his brother Hazel. They had to leave immediately,…
- Add to basket
-
Waugh in Abyssinia
- £75.00
- In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent…
- Add to basket
-
Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
- Add to basket
-
Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
- Add to basket
-
We British: the Poetry of the People
- £20.00
- More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it…
- Add to basket
-
We British: the Poetry of the People
- £25.00
- More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it…
- Add to basket
-
We’ve been thinking
- £20.00
- Reminiscences of English Hunts, published after the author's death but edited by Robert Colville, with contributions by Major Guy Paget, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, Brigadier Sir Percy Laurie, Phyllis Hinton, Colonel Charles Rich.
- Add to basket
-
Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
- Add to basket
-
West of Sunset (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 3rd novel, set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence Ð the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles Ð West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington,…
- Add to basket
-
What Am I Doing Here
- £35.00
- In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and…
- Add to basket
-
What art does: an unfinished theory (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring…
- Add to basket
-
What Do Jewish People Think About Jesus?
- £12.00
- Written in an accessible style, What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus? answers sixty common questions about Jewish people and Jewish culture. Drawn from the steady stream of questions Michael L. Brown's ministry receives every month, the book's questions reflect the perennial Christian fascination with Jewish customs and beliefs. A…
- Add to basket
-
What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
- Add to basket
-
What I saw in Russia (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- The account of a British socialist's fact-finding mission to Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Lansbury became leader of the Labour Party in 1932, and was succeeded by his deputy Clement Atlee in 1935. Lansbury's account provides a firsthand view of the nation's efforts to rebuild after the revolution, as…
- Add to basket
-
What is a Classic?
- £50.00
- The transcript of Eliot's wartime lecture given to the Virgil Society on 16 October 1944 published the following January in London.
- Add to basket
-
What on earth is heaven?
- £10.00
- What happens to us when we die? Will heaven be a place of fluffy clouds, angels and cherubs playing harps? Is the Christian faith just about securing a place in heaven when we die? In What on Earth is Heaven? James Paul explores the radical truth of what the Bible…
- Add to basket
-
What the Dog Saw and other adventures
- £15.00
- In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 'Masterpieces in the art of the…
- Add to basket