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Abracadaverby Peter LoveseyISBN 0333135911 (0-333-13591-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eyeby Christopher BrookmyreISBN 0316725234 (0-316-72523-4)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye'Book summary:As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James Bond, but in her punk phase she'd got herself pregnant and by the time she reaches forty-six she's a grandmother, her dreams as dry as the dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall carpet every day. Then her son Ross, a researcher working for an arms manufacturer in Switzerland, is forced to disappear before some characters cut from the same cloth as Blofeld persuade him to part with the secrets of his research. But they are not the only ones desperate to locate him. A team of security experts is hired by Ross's firm: headed by the enigmatic Bett, his staff have little in common apart from total professionalism and a thorough disregard for the law. Bett believes the key to Ross's whereabouts is his mother, and in one respect he is right, but even he is taken aback by the verve underlying her determination to secure her son's safety as she learns the black arts of quiet subterfuge and violent attack. The teenage dreams of fast cars, high-tech firepower and extreme action had always promised to be fun and games, but in real life it's likely someone is going to lose an eye... [via]
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Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecastby Charlie ConnellyISBN 0316724742 (0-316-72474-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Battle for the Falklandsby Max Hastings, Simon JenkinsISBN 0330352849 (0-330-35284-9)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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The Battle of Britain: The Making of a Filmby Leonard MosleyISBN 0316847321 (0-316-84732-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Blitzcatby Robert Westall, Sophy WilliamsISBN 0330310402 (0-330-31040-2)
Hardcover, Pan Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blitzcat'Book summary:Winner of the Smarties Award in 1989, and set in World War II, this is the story of a courageous cat who led the way to safety out of the blazing ruins of blitz-torn Coventry. People touched her for luck, yet feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went, she changed lives. [via]
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The Body of a Girlby Michael GilbertISBN 0340156848 (0-340-15684-8)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926345 (0-316-92634-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brideshead Revisited'Book summary:A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book. [via]
Burma Questby Sue ArnoldISBN 0340416092 (0-340-41609-2)
Hardcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Chindits--Long Range Penetrationby Michael CalvertISBN 0345235029 (0-345-23502-9)
Hardcover, B[allantine] B[ooks
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Churchill, the End of Glory: A Political Biographyby John CharmleyISBN 034048795X (0-340-48795-X)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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The Cloud Atlasby David MitchellISBN 0340832371 (0-340-83237-1)
Softcover, Sceptre
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Coleridge: Early Visionsby Richard HolmesISBN 0340283351 (0-340-28335-1)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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The Country Lifeby Rachel CuskISBN 0330349228 (0-330-34922-8)
Hardcover, Picador
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Culture Smart Britain: A Quick Guide to Costums & EtiquetteISBN 0316599085 (0-316-59908-5)
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The Dark Side of Geniusby Donald SpotoISBN 0316808156 (0-316-80815-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Daughters of Cainby Colin DexterISBN 0330341634 (0-330-34163-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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Dear Meby Peter UstinovISBN 0316890510 (0-316-89051-0)
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Death Is Now My Neighborby Colin DexterISBN 033035034X (0-330-35034-X)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Is Now My Neighbour'Book summary:Inspector Morse, the slightly cantankerous Oxford detective of BBC (& PBS) fame returns in Colin Dexter's intellectual thriller Death is Now My Neighbor. When the Master of Lonsdale College retires, two senior dons are left competing for the single spot that will be the penultimate position of their academic careers. A seemingly unrelated murder takes Morse and his partner Lewis from the strip clubs of Soho on a case that leads unexpectedly back to the manicured grounds of the Oxford college. This puzzling, stimulating, and thoroughly enjoyable British mystery, is chock full of antiquarian clues and literate allusions, making it a rewarding, stimulating read. [via]
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The Detective Wore Silk Drawersby Peter LoveseyISBN 0333125789 (0-333-12578-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Developments in British Politics 6by Ian Holliday, Patrick Dunleavy, Gillian Peele, Andrew Gamble, Richard HeffernanISBN 0333973895 (0-333-97389-5)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Devil's Noviceby Ellis PetersISBN 0333351703 (0-333-35170-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Disco Biscuitsby ChampionISBN 0340682655 (0-340-68265-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disco Biscuits'Book summary:Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the birth of Acid House, this anthology of new stories includes works by Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeff Noon. [via]
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The Economic Behaviour of Industrial Corporations: An Econometric Study of Four Indian Industriesby Jagdish Handa, Chandra Prakash Khetan, Ramesh R. WaghmareISBN 0333904745 (0-333-90474-5)
Hardcover, Macmillan India
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Emerald Decisionby Craig Thomas, David GrantISBN 0345296451 (0-345-29645-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Falklands Conflictby Christopher Dobson, Ronald Payne, John MillerISBN 0340324082 (0-340-32408-2)
Softcover, Coronet Books
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A Feast of Scotlandby Janet WarrenISBN 0316923486 (0-316-92348-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries, 1939-1955by John Rupert ColvilleISBN 0340382961 (0-340-38296-1)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Gallipoliby Alan MooreheadISBN 0345330889 (0-345-33088-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War, 1900-86by Nigel WestISBN 034041197X (0-340-41197-X)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Gormenghastby Mervyn Laurence PeakeISBN 034527699X (0-345-27699-X)
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The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919by Dan Van Der VatISBN 0340275804 (0-340-27580-4)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Christopher FoxISBN 0333634381 (0-333-63438-1)
Hardcover, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Gulliver's Travels remains one of the most popular and widely-studied of literary classics. This edition reprints an authoritative text together with five newly-commissioned essays designed to introduce the text to students from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives. [via]
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Nigel AlexanderISBN 0333015150 (0-333-01515-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Hand Of Ethelbertaby Thomas HardyISBN 0333177614 (0-333-17761-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Hard Timesby Charles Dickens, George Lewis LevineISBN 0330251910 (0-330-25191-0)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Hard Times: A Longman Cultural Editionby Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeenyISBN 0321107217 (0-321-10721-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The House: A Portrait of Chatsworthby Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish DevonshireISBN 0333444817 (0-333-44481-7)
Softcover, Papermac
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Intrepid's Last Caseby William StevensonISBN 0345300912 (0-345-30091-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: A Longman Cultural Editionby Marilyn GaullISBN 0321202082 (0-321-20208-2)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Jellicoe:a Biography: A Biographyby Alfred Temple PattersonISBN 0333040686 (0-333-04068-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Julius Caesarby Richard WilsonISBN 0333754662 (0-333-75466-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:This new critical edition of Julius Caesar provides a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first "Globe" play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation, and political crisis speaks to 21st-century concerns about democracy, the medi,a and communication.[via]More editions of Julius Caesar:
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King Learby Claire McEachernISBN 0321107225 (0-321-10722-5)
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Philip EdwardsISBN 0333155882 (0-333-15588-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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King Richard II: The Life and Death of King Richard the Second the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Editionby William Shakespeare, Richard AdamsISBN 0333176537 (0-333-17653-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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King Richard III: The Tragedy ofby William Shakespeare, Richard AdamsISBN 0333149394 (0-333-14939-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard III: The Tragedy of'Book summary:"Now is the winter of our discontent," intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard III, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that "I am determined to prove a villain". Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of Richard III, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Legends of the Celtsby Frank DelaneyISBN 0340416106 (0-340-41610-6)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Ian GregorISBN 0330344684 (0-330-34468-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Michael Henchard is the respected mayor of Casterbridge, a thriving industrial town--but years ago, under the influence of alcohol, he sold his wife Susan to a sailor at a country fair. Although repentant and sober for 21 years, Henchard cannot escape his destiny when Susan and her daughter return to Casterbridge. [via]
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Lost in a Good Bookby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340733578 (0-340-73357-8)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost In A Good Book'Book summary:Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do almost anything to achieve this - but bribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible? Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan. But whose? and why? [via]
The Major Nation-States In The European Unionby J. Richard PiperISBN 0321106423 (0-321-10642-3)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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A Man Called Intrepidby William StevensonISBN 0345310233 (0-345-31023-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beerby Pete BrownISBN 0330412205 (0-330-41220-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0330029487 (0-330-02948-7)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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The March of Follyby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0345308239 (0-345-30823-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The March of Folly'Book summary:Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance Popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain's George III, and the United States' persistent folly in Vietnam. THE MARCH OF FOLLY brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today's reader. [via]
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas HardyISBN 0333172663 (0-333-17266-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Middle Class: A Historyby Lawrence JamesISBN 0316861200 (0-316-86120-0)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Norman SandersISBN 0333026721 (0-333-02672-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Mists of Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0345333853 (0-345-33385-3)
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Monk's Hoodby Ellis PetersISBN 0333294106 (0-333-29410-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monk's Hood'Book summary:A reissue of the third chronicle of Brother Cadfael. [via]
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Morbid Taste for Bonesby Ellis PetersISBN 0333223241 (0-333-22324-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morbid Taste for Bones'Book summary:A delightful detective makes his appearance in the person of Brother Cadfael, in charge of the herb-gardens in the Benedictine Monastery of Shrewsbury. Cadfael is not very unwordly, since he entered the cloister late in life. But his role becomes a very vital one when his superiors become obsessed with the notion of acquiring the bones of an obscure saint from a remote Welsh village. Miraculous powers had been attributed to this saint, and it is thought the possession of her remains will add much to the prestige of the Shrewsbury Foundation - and of its prior. The ambitious prior leads a delegation into Wales to acquire these relics. They encounter many obstacles - the worst of them murder. Dissention, the tangled affairs of two pairs of lovers, a surfeit of unwelcome miracles and visitations plague them. But in the end Brother Cadfael gets all the bones and all the bodies into the most appropriate places and makes all the survivors happy. [via]
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Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Storiesby Colin DexterISBN 0333596900 (0-333-59690-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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The Naive and Sentimental Loverby John Le CarreISBN 0340156503 (0-340-15650-3)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Outpostsby Simon WinchesterISBN 0340337729 (0-340-33772-9)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outposts'Book summary:This is the reissue of a Simon Winchester classic. In 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. His adventures in these distant and forgotten ends of the earth make compelling and often funny reading. With a new introduction and additional material in many of the chapters, this revised edition tells us what has happened while the author's been away. [via]
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A Perfect Spyby John Le CarreISBN 034038784X (0-340-38784-X)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIby Robert LaceyISBN 0316859400 (0-316-85940-0)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Royal Subjects: A Biographer's Encountersby Theo AronsonISBN 0330480529 (0-330-48052-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Saint Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0333310500 (0-333-31050-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Scaredy Catby Mark BillinghamISBN 0316859540 (0-316-85954-0)
Softcover, Little, Brown
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scaredy Cat'Book summary:Mark Billingham's Scaredy Cat is as inventive his previous serial killer novel a Sleepyhead. Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has the job of watching out for patterns and thinks he spots one--two similar killings on the same day; women followed from a mainline station and then strangled. Rapidly, though, it becomes clear that the methods differed in all sorts of ways--one killing was controlled, the other frenzied--and the timings do not work out. On a hunch, Thorne checks for other such pairings and finds them--this time two killers are working as a team, one setting the other challenges.
We know what Thorne does not, that all of this has to do with things that happened at school years ago; we also know a lot more than Thorne about the demons that drive some of his own investigating team. Billingham sets himself some complicated technical challenges here--flashes back and forwards, and closeups of killers' minds that keep crucial information from us--and some of the complications don't quite work. Overall, though, this is a terrifying exploration of brutal madness, made all the more so by touches of compassion for the killer's victims--the killer may think this a game, but we and Thorne know it is not.--Roz Kaveney [via]
Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0330029495 (0-330-02949-5)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, W.G. Ingram, Theodore RedpathISBN 0340090804 (0-340-09080-4)
Hardcover, Holmes & Meier
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - the Problems Solved: A Modern Edition with Prose Versions, Introduction and Notesby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0333147332 (0-333-14733-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Speaker of Mandarinby Ruth RendellISBN 0345302745 (0-345-30274-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaker of Mandarin'Book summary:Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. After their return to England, one of his fellow tourists is found murdered. As he questions other members of the group, Wexford finds secrets of greed, treachery, theft, and adultery, leading the distressed inspector to ask not who is innocent, but who is least guilty . . . [via]
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0340188790 (0-340-18879-0)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Titus Aloneby Mervyn Laurence PeakeISBN 0345281934 (0-345-28193-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Titus Groanby Mervyn Laurence PeakeISBN 0345270967 (0-345-27096-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Top Bananaby Bill JamesISBN 0333670590 (0-333-67059-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Tracing Your Family Historyby Stella ColwellISBN 0340859733 (0-340-85973-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, D. R. EllowayISBN 0333089537 (0-333-08953-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Trumpet-majorby Thomas HardyISBN 0330344722 (0-330-34472-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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The Vaultby Peter LoveseyISBN 0316646466 (0-316-64646-6)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Vile Bodiesby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926116 (0-316-92611-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0330237128 (0-330-23712-8)
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Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet. [via]More editions of Villette: Library Edition:
Whit, or Isis amongst the Unsavedby Iain BanksISBN 0316914363 (0-316-91436-3)
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The Wicked Dayby Mary StewartISBN 0340322373 (0-340-32237-3)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince Of Denmarkby Constance JordanISBN 0321317297 (0-321-31729-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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[via]From Longman's new Cultural Edition series, Hamlet, edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare.
This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies students with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in a section entitled Contexts; which will help students understand the historical setting and cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, students can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world.
The Longman Cultural Edition series is composed of teaching texts edited by prominent scholars. In addition to the recently published Cultural Editions Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, and Othello, titles in the series for this year include Dickens' Hard Times, Beowulf, and Oscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray.
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, Constance JordanISBN 032114922X (0-321-14922-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'Book summary:From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hamlet, edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies readers with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in a section entitled Contexts ; these will help readers to understand the historical setting and the cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, readers can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world. Readers interested in Shakespeare's Plays and the time they were written Jordan Hamlet SMP.doc Page 1 of 1 [via]
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