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Ghost Stories
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not yet lulled...
James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...
The Metropolitan Critic
The Metropolitan Critic was Clive James's first book. Originally published in 1974, by Faber, it is a collection of thirty-seven pieces from his initial period as a literary journalist. He...
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Collecting verse written in the years 2008-2011, Nefertiti in the Flak Tower sees Clive James approach his later years with the same technical versatility, emotional poignancy and lightly-worn erudition as...
Unreliable Memoirs
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew memoirs announce their own fallibility so gleefully — and so honestly — as Clive James's riotous account...
The Metropolitan Critic
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis collection of incisive essays, The Metropolitan Critic, presents Clive James's sharp and often humorous observations on the...
Flying Visits: Postcards From The Observer 1976-83
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsClive James, a master of incisive commentary, presents Flying Visits: Postcards From The Observer 1976-83, a vibrant collection of his...
The End of the Morning
Author: Charmian Clift Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift. 'In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle...
Always Unreliable: Memoirs
Clive James sharp, brilliant and outrageously funny memoirs together in one volume.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet a very young Clive James. One dressed in shorts. His hilarious adventures growing up...
First Reactions: Critical Essays 1968-1979
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Clive James — poet, critic, broadcaster, and...
What Maisie Knew
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the centre of Henry James's masterful 1897 novel stands Maisie Farange,...
Falling Towards England: More Unreliable Memoirs
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May Week Was in June
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North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs
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A Warning to the Curious
The book titled A Warning to the Curious by the author M. R. James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Falling Towards England
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: Clive James Format: Hardback...
The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001-2005
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Sentenced to Life
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Poem Of The Year
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A towering figure of 20th-century wit and...
The Silver Castle
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: Clive James Format: Hardback...
Visions Before Midnight
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Author: Clive JamesBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton , 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsVisions Before Midnight presents a collection of incisive and often humorous essays on television...
Charles Charming's Challenges On The Pathway To The Throne: A Royal Poem In Rhyming Couplets With Illustrations By Marc
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis satirical epic, Charles Charming's Challenges On The Pathway To The Throne: A Royal Poem In Rhyming Couplets...
Brilliant Creatures
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The Admirable Crichton
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Author: J. M. BarrieBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of London Press Ltd., 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Condition as shown in...
Charles Charming's Challenges On The Pathway To The Throne
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. With the wit of a court jester...
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift
Author: Nadia Wheatley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'I know it's a daring suggestion, but I'll make it anyway.' Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical...
Henry James Letters: I. 1843 - 1875
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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. The private voice of one of literature's greatest masters finally speaks...
I Was Monty's Double
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most audacious deception operations of the Second World War comes to life in I Was Monty's Double, the remarkable true account...
Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist
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One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young...
Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland
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The Sins of the Father
Engrossing and memorable, The Sins of the Father is the second novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's celebrated the Clifton Chronicles. It takes us to New York in 1939 where...