Search Results for: “Alan Burgess”

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the chaos and dust of wartime China, one extraordinary woman carved out a legend that would outlast...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006 Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider...

In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light...

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is the shocking seminal novel that spawned one of the most notorious films ever made. Fifteen-year-old Alex and his thrill-seeking gang regularly indulge in ultra-violence,...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the twentieth century's most audacious literary achievements opens with a line that immediately signals its ambition: an eighty-one-year-old homosexual novelist,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAnthony Burgess's Shakespeare stands as one of the most audacious and brilliantly conceived biographical studies of the English language's greatest...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

A delightful and uniquely imaginative tribute to the Bard, incorporating biography, theatrical history, and a vivid recreation of the Elizabethan age. Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject...

The delirious kaleidoscope of a book is the culmination and distillation of twenty years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), the author who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the...

'Lewis' eccentric memoir-cum-biography will be read long after Burgess' own works have vanished into oblivion.' Mail on Sunday 'There are passages of such brilliance - especially when he rails against...

Author: Anthony BurgessBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Soe minor tears to back of DJ.The novel reimagines the...

Keith Richards meets Blur - a startlingly revealing memoir by the frontman of The Charlatans The Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs, the lows, the...

Author: Anthony BurgessBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson & Co, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Kingdom Of The Wicked by Anthony Burgess presents a compelling narrative that reimagines the early...

In these previously uncollected essays written over the past two decades by Anthony Burgess, the masterful English novelist and elegant stylist contemplates topics as various as oranges, Marilyn Monroe, Yiddish...

Author: Matthew Burgess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 This moving and radiant story of the relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter, and the joy and promise passed down between...

Author: Alan Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen...

Author: J. Mordaunt CrookBinding: PaperbackPublished: John Murray, London, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Extensive pencil underlining of internal pagesThis authoritative volume chronicles the extraordinary career...

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends...

20 September. Have a notion for a radio series - Awkward Conversations. Enough Said is Alan Bennett's fourth collection of diaries and prose. Covering the turbulent years 2016 to 2024,...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

Author: Alan Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules. A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the...

The book titled Coastwise Lights by the author Alan Ross. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Fall out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey across Russia by the author Alan Cheuse. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsUnknown

Author: Tim Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 380 Tim Burgess was born in Salford but grew up in a village near Northwich, Cheshire. Leaving school at 16 to work...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA witty and erudite work of cultural history and personal essay, On Going to Bed presents Anthony Burgess's characteristically irreverent...

Author: Colin Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944...

In this warm, wonderfully evocative and often hilarious memoir one of the best-loved men in Britain, Alan Titchmarsh, brilliantly recalls his childhood in 1950s Yorkshire. Alan Titchmarsh grew up, and...

Author: Alan Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen...

A TELEGRAPH AND LONDON STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Alan is such a wonderful storyteller' Debbie Harry 'If you love music, you should definitely read this book' Nihal Arthanayake,...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Fewster, Alan Format: Hardback...

Author: Alan MooreheadBinding: HardbackPublished: The Adventure Library, 2001Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAlan Moorehead's Cooper's Creek chronicles the harrowing 19th-century Burke...

Author: Alan JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Headline Wildfire, 2024Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn 'Death on the Thames', Alan Johnson crafts a gripping narrative that combines mystery and intrigue against the backdrop...