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$38The Greek Myths (2 volumes) by Robert GravesA reduced size reprint of the first edition of 1996, divided into two volumes in a two-volume slipcase. Vol.1 342pp, 12 leaves of plates. Vol.2 357pp, 4 leaves of plates. Map endleaves. Quarter-bound in brown cloth with image printed brown and black covers. Orange slipcase with gilt title. Each book...Visit Store 0 0 -
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$14Travels With a Donkey by Robert Louis StevensonIn 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troubles—poor health, tormented love, inadequate funds—by embarking on a journey through the Cévennes in France, accompanied by Modestine, a rather single-minded donkey. The notebook Stevenson kept during this time became Trave...Visit Store 0 0 -
$12A Month in the Country by J. L. CarrIn J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent count...Visit Store 0 0 -
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$18Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le FanuOne of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthy...Visit Store 0 0 -
$25Jessica Mitford by Hons and Rebelsessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head over in heels...Visit Store 0 0 -
$33Traitor's Purse by Margery AllinghamCelebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of vital importance to His Majesty’s government before his accident. On the run from the police and unable to r...Visit Store 0 0 -
$40Reach for the Sky : the life story of Douglas Bader by Paul BrickhillThe inspirational story of Douglas Bader, DSO, DFC.Visit Store 0 0 -
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$55The Life of Thomas More by Peter AckroydPeter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a literary genre and a worldview (Utopia); and...Visit Store 0 0 -
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$22The Floating Admiral by Members of the Detection ClubInspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat th...Visit Store 0 0 -
$22Once There Was a War by John SteinbeckNobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatche...Visit Store 0 0 -
$22My family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellWhen the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as...Visit Store 0 0 -
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