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If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 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... 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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: €6.00 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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... 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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: €5.50 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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: €5.50 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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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If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. 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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: €5.50 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... 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 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... 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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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If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. 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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 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... 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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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If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €5.50 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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. 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. 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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: €5.50 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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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If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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... 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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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: X92304H Louise O'Neill / Idol (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: X92644H,X92649H Sally Rooney / Beautiful World, Where Are You (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X92035H,X92074H,X92165H,X92326H Richard Osman / The Man Who Died Twice (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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: €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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72333H RaeAnne Thayne / Christmas At Holiday House 'A skilled, thoughtful writer, her characters are wonderful' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan A Christmas Wish...Abby Powell needs a fresh start for herself and her son. Agreeing to nurse her best friend's grandmother is the perfect... 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 68203H Holly Webb / The Maskmaker's Daughter An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up - from bestselling author, Holly Webb.Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She's never known her father, and her mother... 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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: 71600H Graham Norton / The Swimmer : Quick Reads 2022 Quick Reads 2022Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and quiet - despite the burden of Margaret, her unpleasant sister. Margaret arrived three years ago for a short holiday, but somehow managed to stay and worm... 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 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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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 Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 71158H Inga Vesper / The Long Long Afternoon A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian'A clever... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73657H Scott Evans / Failing From the Front 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: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 74091H John Grisham / Sooley ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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