'I love his writing, it's so clever and funny, so deft.' Alan Titchmarsh's 6 B...'I love his writing, it's so clever and funny, so deft.' Alan Titchmarsh's 6 Best Books choice (Daily Express)A Blandings collectionThe ivied walls of Blandings Castle have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories - but there are snakes...more
First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($0.35 price on covers)....First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($0.35 price on covers). Published by Ace, 1954. 12mo. Pictorial wraps. Code of D-53 on cover and spine. Signed by A.E. and Lydia Van Vogt on title page of Weapon Shops of Isher. Book is very good;...more
Autumnal equinox. The End of the World sails on the Aegean Sea. Aboard is Marj...Autumnal equinox. The End of the World sails on the Aegean Sea. Aboard is Marjolaine, a cook who recently lost her job at a greasy spoon. She rubs shoulders with chess players, a bookseller, a retired professor, a romance novelist, a blue-haired smore
The stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse's own happy schooldays at Dul...The stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse's own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more. Although among his earliest attempts at fiction they give fascinating glimpses of a time when motor cars were novelties,...more
Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2018; Longlisted for Th...Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2018; Longlisted for The People's Book Prize 2018; From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela's Elsewhere,...more
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From Troy to Arcadia, on the high road to elsewhere and the low road to therea...From Troy to Arcadia, on the high road to elsewhere and the low road to thereabouts, boarding a ferry 'cross the Mersey and hiking the Jurassic Coast, skating away on Duddingston Loch and dynamiting the frozen rivers of Siberia, lured to the summit and...more
A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intri...A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man's fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de force, alive with wit, eroticism and ideas.more