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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...

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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...

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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,...

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,...

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...

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'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...

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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...

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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 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: 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...

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

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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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A heartbreakingly moving memoir proves that it is better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all. '... all I had ever felt about love's ability to...

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...

The book titled Here Comes Everybody: Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary by the author Anthony Burgess. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

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...

Photographs by Chip Clark. Main Selection of the Natural Science Book Club. This book provides the first comprehensive set of illustrations of the life forms revealed in the Burgess Shale....

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...

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...