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Here is the story of the inimitable... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Spota, Luis - The Wounds of Hunger ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) Translated from the original Spanish by Barnaby Conrad , Penguin Number 1623. Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (Mexico City, 1925 - 1985), was a self-taught Mexican writer and journalist, author of more than 30... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... 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Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... 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MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Spota, Luis - The Wounds of Hunger ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) Translated from the original Spanish by Barnaby Conrad , Penguin Number 1623. Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (Mexico City, 1925 - 1985), was a self-taught Mexican writer and journalist, author of more than 30... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Spota, Luis - The Wounds of Hunger ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) Translated from the original Spanish by Barnaby Conrad , Penguin Number 1623. Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (Mexico City, 1925 - 1985), was a self-taught Mexican writer and journalist, author of more than 30... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Spota, Luis - The Wounds of Hunger ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) Translated from the original Spanish by Barnaby Conrad , Penguin Number 1623. Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (Mexico City, 1925 - 1985), was a self-taught Mexican writer and journalist, author of more than 30... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED18 Carson McCullers - The Member of the Wedding - Vintage Penguin PB 1985 ( Originally 1946) The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is a 20th century classic American novel. Here is the story of the inimitable... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Spota, Luis - The Wounds of Hunger ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) Translated from the original Spanish by Barnaby Conrad , Penguin Number 1623. Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (Mexico City, 1925 - 1985), was a self-taught Mexican writer and journalist, author of more than 30... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Spota, Luis - The Wounds of Hunger ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) Translated from the original Spanish by Barnaby Conrad , Penguin Number 1623. Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (Mexico City, 1925 - 1985), was a self-taught Mexican writer and journalist, author of more than 30... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Spota, Luis - The Wounds of Hunger ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) Translated from the original Spanish by Barnaby Conrad , Penguin Number 1623. Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (Mexico City, 1925 - 1985), was a self-taught Mexican writer and journalist, author of more than 30... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Spota, Luis - The Wounds of Hunger ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) Translated from the original Spanish by Barnaby Conrad , Penguin Number 1623. Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (Mexico City, 1925 - 1985), was a self-taught Mexican writer and journalist, author of more than 30... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Patti, Ercole - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Lawrence, D.H - Love Among the Haystacks & Other Stories ( Vintage Penguin PB 1960 Collects the title story ( almost a novella length story) and 5 other short stories from D.H Lawrence, published in this edition in 1960, most of teh original stories were published between 1926 and 1930. Previous owner's name to the front cover,... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Wilson, Angus - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( Vintage Penguin PB 1958) ( Originally 1956) The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 56176H Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 62476H Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 49479H Conor Bowman / Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings... Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.And, with his father more distant than ever, how can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 63084H Hazel Prior / Away with the Penguins **Don't miss Granny McCreedy's brand-new adventure in Call of the Penguins - available now!**A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and audio!'This year's Eleanor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 84030M Martin Baker / A Fool and His Money A FOOL AND HIS MONEY reveals the world financial markets as a disparate group ofhighly-paid people with a common economic purpose and the collective intelligence of a trout. Martin Baker's thesis is that the financial markets are useful but crazy... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 62142H Jessica Redland / Starry Skies Over The Chocolate Pot Cafe All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 84026M Kate Ling / The Glow of Fallen Stars Love brought them together - life is pulling them apart ... Seren and Dom's epic love story is the perfect read for fans of Beth Revis and Meg Rosoff. 'I longed so hard for all the things that make life life, and I never thought they'd be mine... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 58350H Jim Yates / Oh! Pere Lachaise : Oscar's Wilde Purgatory At the beginning of Oh! Pere Lachaise, Oscar Wilde has been dead for years. His corrupted body has been lain to rest first at the Bagneaux Cemetary in Paris and later disinterened and reburied at the Parisians most favourite place: the cemetery of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 56053H Philip Oltermann / How to Write "The Guardian's" 2008 "How to Write" supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screen writing, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Updike, John - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958) Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view France Racine, Jean - Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah ( 3 Plays ) - Vintage Penguin PB Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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