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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...

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...

With a new introduction by Gilbert Adair Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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,...

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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...

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Author: Melvin Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Bloods are in control and they're desperate to turn Britain into the world they want to see: right, white, Christian...

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...

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...

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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: 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...

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: 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...

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Author: Melvin Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Bea has started to hear and see things that no one else can - creatures, voices, visions. Then strangers visit Bea...

Step into the ancient fir-tree forests of Scandinavia and bear witness to legends as epic as those of the Greeks and the Romans. Loki, born within the heart of a...

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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...

Bea has started to hear and see things that no one else can - creatures, voices, visions. Then strangers visit Bea and tell her she is different: she has the...

An ability to punish errors in the opening i s an essential aspect of modern opening play. With this book , FIDE Master Graham Burgess presents a comprehensive collec tion...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This book contains a collection of stories of captivity and escape from World Wars I and II, all involving Australian soldiers. The stories tell of capture, imprisonment and escape -...

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...

The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of economic theory and practical understanding, National Income: An Introduction presents a clear and accessible...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the chaos of the world's most brutal conflicts, a breed of Australian journalists risked everything to bring...