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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... 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He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... 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He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3822 Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.36 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: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... 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He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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. 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED3752,MED3753 Henry James - What Maisie Knew - Penguin Modern Classics Edition - 1982 ( Originally 1897) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: VP151 Alan Moorehead / No Room in the Ark (Vintage Paperback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: VP141 Elspeth Huxley / The Mottled Lizard (Vintage Paperback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: VP118 Dan Jacobson / The Beginners (Vintage Paperback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED4041 Frank O'Connor - My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories - Vintage Penguin PB 1963 The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Laurens Van Der Post - The Lost World of the Kalahari - Vintage PB 1973 ( Originally 1958) Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3194,MED3496 Brian Stone ( Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1962 'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3822 Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.36 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: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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. 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3194,MED3496 Brian Stone ( Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1962 'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3822 Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.36 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: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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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Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED4041 Frank O'Connor - My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories - Vintage Penguin PB 1963 The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Laurens Van Der Post - The Lost World of the Kalahari - Vintage PB 1973 ( Originally 1958) Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3194,MED3496 Brian Stone ( Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1962 'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3822 Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.36 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: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Laurens Van Der Post - The Lost World of the Kalahari - Vintage PB 1973 ( Originally 1958) Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3194,MED3496 Brian Stone ( Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1962 'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3822 Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.36 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: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED3194,MED3496 Brian Stone ( Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1962 'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80200H Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3822 Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.36 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: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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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Quick view sku: MED3908 Stephen Potter - 4 BOOK SET - Gamesmanship / One-Upmanship / Lifemanship / Supermanship - Vintage Penguin PB Boxset 1964 Stephen Potter was an interesting writer. He made a name for himself in the 1930s with one of the earliest book-length studies of DH Lawrence, and then as the editor of the prestigious Nonesuch Press edition of the selected works of Coleridge. After that... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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: £5.36 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: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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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Quick view Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 ) This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the London stage. They manage, but only just..... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. 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Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 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... 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Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - 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: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - 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: £5.36 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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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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: £6.70 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: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view France | sku: MED3182 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Louis Bromfield - 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: £5.36 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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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