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Light Perpetual: 'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
Author: Francis Spufford (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are...
Cahokia Jazz: From the prizewinning author of Golden Hill 'the best book of the century' Richard Osman
Author: Francis Spufford (author)Format: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 733g, 496 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run...
Light Perpetual: 'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
Author: Francis Spufford (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures...
Golden Hill: 'Best book of the century' Richard Osman
Author: Francis Spufford (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young...
Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin
From the author of The Child that Books Built , a rapturous history of the amazing achievements of British engineers. Britain is the only country in the world to have...
Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make
But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the...
Nonesuch: The Sunday Times bestseller
'ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL MINDS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE' - NICK HORNBY 'A TREMENDOUSLY VARIED AND SURPRISING WRITER' - GUARDIAN It's the summer of 1939. London is on the brink...
Red Plenty: 'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, host of
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things...
All the Water in the World: Shortlisted for the COSTA First Novel Award
Author: Karen Raney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2020. Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2021. Runner up for The Paul Torday Memorial...
Transparent Traitor
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: A clean, well-preserved copy with no major faults. Jacket: Original pictorial dust jacket present, price clipped. Vivid colours...
Nonesuch: The Sunday Times bestseller
'ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL MINDS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE' - NICK HORNBY 'A TREMENDOUSLY VARIED AND SURPRISING WRITER' - GUARDIAN It's the summer of 1939. London is on the brink...
Nonesuch: The Sunday Times bestseller
'ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL MINDS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE' - NICK HORNBY 'A TREMENDOUSLY VARIED AND SURPRISING WRITER' - GUARDIAN It's the summer of 1939. London is on the brink...
Dark Horse: The brand new 2025 novel from the master of the racing
Imogen Duffy is a young Irish jockey, whose fledgling career is given a huge boost when she wins a prestigious horse race at the Cheltenham Steeplechasing Festival. But all is...
Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)
The new Discworld novel from the master sees Sam Vimes investigating a countryhouse murder, and is Terry Pratchett's fiftieth book. Eighth book of the original and best CITY WATCH series,...
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to
An extraordinarily ambitious, surprising and enjoyable book, the first of two volumes, celebrating the British short story This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and...
Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)
Now published in the Discworld Collectors Library hardback, the penultimate adult Discworld novel from the master, Terry Pratchett, sees Sam Vimes investigating a country house murder. It is a truth...
San Francisco Stories: Great Writers on the City
It falls down. It burns up. It goes Beatnik in the fifties and crazy in the sixties. It stays elegant throughout. Every city has its stories, but San Francisco seems...
The Poems Of Francis Thompson
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in the Victorian literary canon burn with such desperate, luminous intensity as that of Francis Thompson — a poet who transformed personal...
The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G.Wodehouse - A Conducted Tour
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The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of nineteenth-century French literature stands...
The Postmodern Condition: A Report On Knowledge
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to know something in a world where grand narratives have lost their...
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City. 'The...
Puff Piece
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Francis Bacon's Essays
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew works in the English literary canon have endured with such penetrating relevance as Francis Bacon's Essays —...
Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words
A new selection of letters, statements and interviews reveal the preoccupations, thoughts and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century's most influential and important artists. The documents selected...
Field of Thirteen: Short Stories
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The Poems Of Francis Thompson
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Author: Francis ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press,, 1948Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection, The Poems Of Francis Thompson, presents the profound and often mystical verse of a significant late...
Francis Thompson And Wilfrid Meynell: A Memoir By Viola Meynell
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Author: Viola MeynellBinding: HardbackPublished: London: Hollis & Carter, 1952Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis poignant memoir, penned by a close family member, chronicles the intertwined lives...
Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words
A new selection of letters, statements and interviews reveal the preoccupations, thoughts and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century's most influential and important artists. The documents selected...
How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
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Joseph Furphy: The Legend Of A Man And His Book
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Sticker remnant on fep. Otherwise internally sound. In the tradition of great literary biography,...
From Beowulf To Virginia Woolf: An Astounding And Wholly Unauthorized History Of English Literature
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a scholar with a razor-sharp wit decides to throw decorum out the window and drag the entire canon of English literature...
All the Water in the World: Shortlisted for the COSTA First Novel Award
Author: Karen Raney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2020. Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2021. Runner up for The Paul Torday Memorial...
Essays and Aphorisms
A collection of Schopenhauer's powerful and inventive philosophy One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by...
Contemporary Writers: Essays On Twentieth-Century Books And Authors
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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — paperback with visible creasing and wear on cover. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding:...
The Story And Its Writer: An Introduction To Short Fiction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary forms distill the human experience as powerfully as the short story, and The Story and Its...
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Author: Annie ProulxFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 190g, 208 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Magnificent' Guardian'Remarkable ... A compact classic!' Bill McKibben'I learned...
The Advancement Of Learning
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Author: Francis BaconBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer chronicles the spirited escapades of a young boy growing up on the banks of the...
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to
An extraordinarily ambitious, surprising and enjoyable book, the second of two volumes, celebrating the British short story This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and...
The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan
Author: Richard Speer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 One of the twentieth century's leading Abstract Expressionists, Sam Francis (1923-94) was one of the few visual artists who traversed the...
Strafford
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Author: C. V. WedgwoodBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1949, reprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is a detailed biography of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, who played a significant...
The Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich and entertaining anthology, The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes presents a carefully curated collection of stories drawn from...