Vintage Fontana Books

Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972

Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society.  Banton spent his long...

Winston Graham / The Walking Stick (Vintage Paperback)

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Hammond Innes / The Strange Land (Vintage Paperback)

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Morris West / The Big Story (Vintage Paperback)

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Anthony Flew / Thinking about Thinking (Vintage Paperback)

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Peter Maas / Serpico (Vintage Paperback)

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Winston Grahame / Warleggan (Vintage Paperback) ( Poldark - Book 4 )

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Winston Graham / Jeremy Poldark (Vintage Paperback) ( Poldark - Book 3 )

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Winston Graham / The Four Swans (Vintage Paperback) ( Poldark - Book 6)

Cornwall 1795 -1799. Although Ross Poldark - now something of a war hero - seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four women - the four swans - whose...

Winston Graham / The Black Moon (Vintage Paperback) ( Poldark - Book 5)

Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. and when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth's eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's...

Evelyn Waugh / Ronald Knox (Vintage Paperback)

  Evelyn Waugh wrote a biography titled "The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox," detailing the life of the Catholic priest, classicist, and prolific writer, Ronald Knox. Knox was known for his conversion to Catholicism, his writings, and his time...

Raymond Williams - Orwell ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971

Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.To become ' Orwell' Eric Blair deliberately exposed himself to the squalor and misery of urban 1930's England, to Spain...

John Gross - Joyce ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971

Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.In the first half of the book Gross provides us more with his own impressions of Joyce than with a straight biography,...

L. Dudley Stamp - Britain's Structure and Scenery - ( Fontana New Naturalist Series ) - PB 1970 ( Originally 1946)

Britains Structure and Scenery deals with the physical background, the stage on which the drama of life is played and which provides the fundamental environment for plants, newnaturalists.com It would be difficult to find an area of comparable size...

Harold Nicolson: Diaries & Letters 1930- 1962 (3 Book Box Set)

Harold Nicolson: Diaries & Letters 1930- 1962 (3 Book Box Set)   Harold Nicolson was one of the three great English political diarists of the 20th century (along with Chips Channon and Alan Clark). Nicolson was an MP (Conservative, 1935-45, who...

Julia Fitzgerald / Taboo

Mishaal was half English but born in an Arabian brothel. Trained for only one purpose--to please men--she had only one dream: to escape the degradation of the life that was her birthright and dance--as an artist. Sizzling romance from the author of Royal...

Ngaio Marsh / Off with his Head (Vintage Paperback)

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Helen Macinnes / The Snare of the Hunter (Vintage Paperback)

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Taylor Caldwell / Captains and the Kings. (Vintage Paperback)

Captains and the Kings was a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who emigrates as a penniless teenager to the United States, along with his younger brother...

Winston Graham / The Black Moon (Vintage Paperback) ( Poldark - Book 5 )

Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. and when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth's eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's...

Michael D. Coe / The Maya (Vintage Paperback)

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Taylor Caldwell / The Arm and the Darkness (Vintage Paperback).

As hostilities flare between Catholic and Huguenot, Cardinal Richelieu relentlessly pursues the favors of Queen Anne Historical fiction, originally 1943.      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book...

Taylor Caldwell / The Arm and the Darkness (Vintage Paperback)

As hostilities flare between Catholic and Huguenot, Cardinal Richelieu relentlessly pursues the favors of Queen Anne Historical fiction, originally 1943.        All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual...

Taylor Caldwell / The Beautiful is Vanished (Vintage Paperback)

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Frederic Raphael / Orchestra & Beginners (Vintage Paperback)

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Stephen Donaldson / The Wounded Land (Vintage Paperback)

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 4 - originally 1980.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Anthony Powell - The Valley of Bones - Vintage PB ( A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 7 )

He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition,...

Morris West / Children of the Sun (Vintage Paperback)

Children of the Sun is a 1957 non-fiction book by West  an investigation into the slums of post-war Naples . It was his first international success. The US title was Children of the Shadows: The True Story of the Street...

John Powell / Why Am I Afraid to Love? (Vintage Paperback)

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Anthony Powell - Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Vintage PB ( A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 5 )

'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it...

Anthony Powell - The Military Philosophers - Vintage PB 1968 ( A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 9 )

Mackie, as ever, presents well-balanced arguments and produces his own views with a degree of clarity and style which makes him stand out amongst the writers of philosophy. His Ethics is no different, presenting a clear refutation of objective morality...

Helen MacInnes - Message From Malaga - Vintage PB -1973 ( Originally 1971)

To the accompaniment of flamenco guitars, a drama of espionage begins in a cafe courtyard in Malaga. For Ian Ferrier, on a vacation visit to his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is more than just a wine exporter...he is in...

Anthony Powell / The Soldier's Art (Vintage Paperback) ( A Dance To the Music of Time Series - Book 8 )

All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. The Soldier's Art is the eighth novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume masterpiece A Dance to the Music of Time, and the second in the war trilogy. It was...

Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966)

A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. 

Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe

 While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During...

C.S Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ( Chronicles of Narnia - Book 5) ( Fontana Lions Edition Cover)

Book five in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior illustrations by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that...

Alistair MacLean- 5 Vintage PB Book Lot - The Dark Crusader, Caravan to Vaccares, The Golden Gate, Floodgate, Athabasca - Fontana PB

A lot of 5 Vintage Fontana paperbacks by Alistair MacLean - most are 1970's reprint editions, all in good unmarked condition, unsual light page tanning and minimal creasing. Classic adventure fiction from an author whao was at the top of bestseller lists...

Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War - Vintage Fontana PB ed 1984

A Fontana Lions edition, Uk, 1984 of the original 1974 bestseller by Robert Cormier, The Chocolate WAR.  Internally as new, no marks or damage, light bumps and edgewear to the cover, nicked bup to base of spine.  The bestselling controversial...