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Will (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. William Shakespeare is on his deathbed, where he receives his lawyer to set out his final will and testament. As he answers his questions the Bard begins to…
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William and A.R.P. (Air Raid Precautions)
- £25.00
- Crompton's William series Book 21. In time of war, William Brown is a force to be reckoned with, with his newly formed band of experts on air raid tactics and his gas mask made from a flower pot. Saving the country should be easy for someone with William's courage and…
- Add to basket
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
- Add to basket
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William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
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William Harvey: Englishman 1578-1657
- £12.00
- William Harvey (1578Ð 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the…
- Add to basket
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William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
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William the Rebel
- £20.00
- Crompton's William series Book 15. Contains: Three dogs and William; A Rescue Party; Mistakes Will Happen; William and Cleopatra; The Outlaws and the Penknife; Wiliam and the Watch and Chain; William's Wonderful Plan; William and the Fisherman; William and the Drug Trafficker; April Fool's Day; William Makes Things Hum; It…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
- Add to basket
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £70.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
- Add to basket
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Wilt on High (Wilt 3)
- £15.00
- Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable…
- Add to basket
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Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
- Add to basket
-
Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
- Add to basket
-
Winged Chariot
- £22.00
- Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, 'Quia Amore Langueo', in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul…
- Add to basket
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Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- From dormouse hibernation to C.S. Lewis and solstice celebrations to Sylvia Plath, May deftly demonstrates how interconnected our personal contentment is with the pattern of the seasons. Wintering is a comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine…
- Add to basket
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
- Add to basket
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With an Eye to the Future
- £18.00
- Lancaster's 2nd autobiographical collection, personally illustrated with 35 b/w drawings and 2 full colour plates
- Add to basket
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With These Hands: a collection of work
- £9.00
- a collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her present busy career as a writer and broadcaster.
- Add to basket
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Wodehouse: A Life (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One hundred years after his first novel was published P.G. Wodehouse still promises a release from everyday cares into a paradise of innocent comic mayhem. His many books are still in print, his characters -Jeeves, Wooster and Lord Emsworth - have passed into the language and his admirers range from…
- Add to basket
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Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy 1)
- £120.00
- The first book in Hilary MantelÕs award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ÔEvery bit as…
- Add to basket
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Woman of the Inner Sea
- £35.00
- A remarkable, powerful novel, all the more exciting for the exotic background so vividly described' Daily Express A young woman once told Thomas Keneally her life story. It was to lodge in his mind and haunt his imagination, becoming the kernel for this enthralling and emotive novel. It tells of…
- Add to basket
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Words for the Wind
- £40.00
- Roethke's 2nd volume of poems published in the UK, a year before the USA edition.
- Add to basket
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World At Risk
- £20.00
- Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism…
- Add to basket
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World Brain
- £180.00
- World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936Ð1938.[1] Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that…
- Add to basket
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Wormwood (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Dr Sabian Blake - astronomer, scientist, and master of the Cabala - is in possession of the Nemorensis, an ancient leather-bound book which holds the secrets of the universe. Its mysterious inscription reads: 'Wormwood...the bright star shall fall from the sky...and many will die from its bitterness'. Deciphering this prophecy…
- Add to basket
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Wounded By God’s People: Discovering How God’s Love Heals Our Hearts
- £7.50
- I believe there are many of us who have been wounded by God's people. And I believe there are those of you who have been so wounded, that you have confused God's people with God, and so have run from Him. The purpose of this book is to help you…
- Add to basket
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Write Better Ð A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
- £12.00
- Christianity Today 2020 Book of the Year Award, Culture and the Arts Writing is not easy. But it can get better. In this primer on nonfiction writing, Andrew Le Peau offers insights he has learned as a published author and an editor for over forty years, training, guiding, and cheering…
- Add to basket
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Writing Home
- £9.00
- Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years…
- Add to basket
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Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish: A Guidebook for the Journey
- £17.00
- Most novelists attempt to write their first novels in small snatches of time_a few hours here, a few hours there. Making Time for Story is designed to accommodate this writing approach, featuring a combination of exercises, how-to instruction, and motivational passages to keep writers moving forward every time they sit…
- Add to basket
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Writings of The Rev. John Knox (British Reformers), minister of God’s word in Scotland
- £12.00
- Various treatises, sermons and letters from Scotland's Reformer
- Add to basket
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Wyntertide (Rotherweird 2) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Welcome back to Rotherweird. The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of…
- Add to basket
-
Will (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. William Shakespeare is on his deathbed, where he receives his lawyer to set out his final will and testament. As he answers his questions the Bard begins to…
- Add to basket
-
William and A.R.P. (Air Raid Precautions)
- £25.00
- Crompton's William series Book 21. In time of war, William Brown is a force to be reckoned with, with his newly formed band of experts on air raid tactics and his gas mask made from a flower pot. Saving the country should be easy for someone with William's courage and…
- Add to basket
-
William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
- Add to basket
-
William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
- Add to basket
-
William Harvey: Englishman 1578-1657
- £12.00
- William Harvey (1578Ð 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the…
- Add to basket
-
William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
- Add to basket
-
William the Rebel
- £20.00
- Crompton's William series Book 15. Contains: Three dogs and William; A Rescue Party; Mistakes Will Happen; William and Cleopatra; The Outlaws and the Penknife; Wiliam and the Watch and Chain; William's Wonderful Plan; William and the Fisherman; William and the Drug Trafficker; April Fool's Day; William Makes Things Hum; It…
- Add to basket
-
Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
- Add to basket
-
Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £70.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
- Add to basket
-
Wilt on High (Wilt 3)
- £15.00
- Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable…
- Add to basket
-
Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
- Add to basket
-
Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
- Add to basket
-
Winged Chariot
- £22.00
- Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, 'Quia Amore Langueo', in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul…
- Add to basket
-
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- From dormouse hibernation to C.S. Lewis and solstice celebrations to Sylvia Plath, May deftly demonstrates how interconnected our personal contentment is with the pattern of the seasons. Wintering is a comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine…
- Add to basket
-
Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
- Add to basket
-
With an Eye to the Future
- £18.00
- Lancaster's 2nd autobiographical collection, personally illustrated with 35 b/w drawings and 2 full colour plates
- Add to basket
-
With These Hands: a collection of work
- £9.00
- a collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her present busy career as a writer and broadcaster.
- Add to basket
-
Wodehouse: A Life (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One hundred years after his first novel was published P.G. Wodehouse still promises a release from everyday cares into a paradise of innocent comic mayhem. His many books are still in print, his characters -Jeeves, Wooster and Lord Emsworth - have passed into the language and his admirers range from…
- Add to basket
-
Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy 1)
- £120.00
- The first book in Hilary MantelÕs award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ÔEvery bit as…
- Add to basket
-
Woman of the Inner Sea
- £35.00
- A remarkable, powerful novel, all the more exciting for the exotic background so vividly described' Daily Express A young woman once told Thomas Keneally her life story. It was to lodge in his mind and haunt his imagination, becoming the kernel for this enthralling and emotive novel. It tells of…
- Add to basket
-
Words for the Wind
- £40.00
- Roethke's 2nd volume of poems published in the UK, a year before the USA edition.
- Add to basket
-
World At Risk
- £20.00
- Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism…
- Add to basket
-
World Brain
- £180.00
- World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936Ð1938.[1] Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that…
- Add to basket
-
Wormwood (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Dr Sabian Blake - astronomer, scientist, and master of the Cabala - is in possession of the Nemorensis, an ancient leather-bound book which holds the secrets of the universe. Its mysterious inscription reads: 'Wormwood...the bright star shall fall from the sky...and many will die from its bitterness'. Deciphering this prophecy…
- Add to basket
-
Wounded By God’s People: Discovering How God’s Love Heals Our Hearts
- £7.50
- I believe there are many of us who have been wounded by God's people. And I believe there are those of you who have been so wounded, that you have confused God's people with God, and so have run from Him. The purpose of this book is to help you…
- Add to basket
-
Write Better Ð A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
- £12.00
- Christianity Today 2020 Book of the Year Award, Culture and the Arts Writing is not easy. But it can get better. In this primer on nonfiction writing, Andrew Le Peau offers insights he has learned as a published author and an editor for over forty years, training, guiding, and cheering…
- Add to basket
-
Writing Home
- £9.00
- Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years…
- Add to basket
-
Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish: A Guidebook for the Journey
- £17.00
- Most novelists attempt to write their first novels in small snatches of time_a few hours here, a few hours there. Making Time for Story is designed to accommodate this writing approach, featuring a combination of exercises, how-to instruction, and motivational passages to keep writers moving forward every time they sit…
- Add to basket
-
Writings of The Rev. John Knox (British Reformers), minister of God’s word in Scotland
- £12.00
- Various treatises, sermons and letters from Scotland's Reformer
- Add to basket
-
Wyntertide (Rotherweird 2) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Welcome back to Rotherweird. The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of…
- Add to basket