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A Man of Contradictions - A Life of A. L. Rowse - Bok av Richard Ollard - Häftad

He proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars; he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People'; he could be generous yet hurled insults at his friends; he inveighed against Puritanism but was himself in many ways a Puritan: A L Rowse was a man of many contradictions. This book tells his story.

SEK 387.00

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Three Plays - A Month in the Country; A Provincial Lady; A Poor Gentleman - Bok av Ivan Turgenev - Häftad

Translated by Constance Garnett Three Plays by Turgenev includes A Month in the Country, A Provincial Lady and A Poor Gentleman. Turgenev wrote A Month in the Country in France between 1848 and 1850.

SEK 316.00

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Innocents - Variations on a Theme - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

There is little pity here, but - if restrained - considerable terror and tragedy, and a precision of observation and treatment which qualify this collection for a critical, fastidious audience.' Kirkus Reviews

SEK 256.00

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A Heavy Feather - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

'You start alone, you finish alone,' she says: 'It's fine to be alone, it's a revelation, truth at last.'This is the story of Almayer Jenkin's progress through life, from a motherless childhood through adult love affairs and her own experience of motherhood.

SEK 276.00

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A Classical Education - Bok av Richard Cobb - Häftad

At the centre is a murder committed by a school friend of Richard Cobb's. 'What gives A Classical Education its fascination is the author's description of how he himself, a shy and introverted schoolboy from Tunbridge Wells, is drawn into a nightmarish melodrama from which it seems he was lucky to escape...

SEK 240.00

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Becoming a Composer - Bok av Errollyn Wallen - Inbunden

'I am a composer. Part memoir, Becoming a Composer offers an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of a composer and covers aspects of Wallen's sometimes troubled childhood, and her experiences of growing up as a black composer in the UK.

SEK 270.00

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A Source of Embarrassment - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

Edith Trembath's charming inability to cope with problems of everyday life is a constant source of embarrassment to her friends and family.

SEK 256.00

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Benjamin Britten - A Biography - Bok av Humphrey Carpenter - Häftad

A biography of Benjamin Britten which presents a panorama of British musical life since the 1920s.

SEK 376.00

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Death of a Polaroid - A Manics Family Album - Bok av Nicky Wire - Inbunden

For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the band in their various stages from Generation Terrorists through Holy Bible and right up to last year's remarkable album, Postcards from a Young Man.

SEK 380.00

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Apology for a Hero - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

She's a spiritual hobo - independent, erratic, rootless and romatic - and Charles finds himself inexplicably attracted to her, and having to face up to the truth about who he really is.

SEK 286.00

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A House in Order - Bok av Nigel Dennis - Häftad

An antiseptic little man, a cartographer by profession, a horticulturist by avocation, he spends a first night in an abandoned, mucky greenhouse and is very happy to be permitted to stay on there, tending his 283 plants...

SEK 234.00

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A Case Examined - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

But the situation isn't as simple as all that, and soon it causes unexpceted ructions and confrontations - and Rose finds herself turning back the clock to remember a childhood vacation spent at the Marigny chateau in France ...

SEK 256.00

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Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays 1 - New Anatomies; Grace of Mary Traverse; Our Country's Good; Love of a Nightingale; Three Birds Alighting on a Field -

New Anatomies, Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country's Good, Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field

SEK 249.99

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A Wavering Grace - A Vietnamese Family in War and Peace - Bok av Gavin Young - Häftad

As an Observer correspondent in Vietnam before the American withdrawal in 1975, Gavin Young met many courageous Vietnamese people. A Wavering Grace could be described as a love story [and] tells the story of Vietnam and Mme Bong's family in its many conflicting complexions.' Andrew Barrow, Spectator

SEK 320.00

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Queen Victoria - A Portrait - Bok av Giles St Aubyn - Häftad

Giles St Aubyn's masterly and critically acclaimed biography is above all a study of her personality, focusing on her family life, her relations with Ministers and servants, her tastes, beliefs and character traits, to give a fresh understanding of a remarkable woman and a great monarch. 'Long, thorough and penetrating ...

SEK 496.00

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A Young Girl's Touch - Bok av Barbara Skelton - Häftad

Melinda Paleface is a heart-throb: a high official in the Foreign Service, a French sailor, two English captains, an American airman, even the celebrated native King, Yoyo of Jubaland fall under her spell. And yet, among the other girls in the cypher department she is, as the original blurb, said 'as quiet as an Amanita in a basket of mushrooms'.

SEK 260.00

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A House of Gentlefolk - Bok av Ivan Turgenev - Häftad

A sequel to Rudin, A House of Gentlefolk was originally published in 1858 and was translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett in 1894.

SEK 306.00

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A Love Match - Bok av Barbara Skelton - Häftad

It had a brief life, falling foul of a libel threat, and for a long time was very scarce. Beneath its surface blacknesses of mood and double-dealing, what makes this book more diverting than painful is the amused unblinking eye the author brings to bear on an unusually wide range of characters.

SEK 260.00

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A Signal Victory - Bok av David Stacton - Häftad

First published in 1960, A Signal Victory was David Stacton's eighth novel, and the first in what he envisaged as an 'American Triptych.' In this opening panel Stacton paints a vivid picture of the impact of two great civilisations upon each other. Guerrero was a Spanish soldier, shipwrecked on the shores of Yucatan.

SEK 290.00

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Something in Linoleum - A Thirties Education - Bok av Paul Vaughan - Häftad

As a boy in 1934 Paul Vaughan unwittingly became part of a social trend - a great mass migration to the outskirts of London - as his family moved from Brixton to booming New Malden, where their new semi was a mere stroll away from countryside.

SEK 260.00

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The Gooseboy - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

At the centre of events, is the Gooseboy, a creature with a double face, half faun, half deformed horror...The Gooseboy questions the relations between flesh and spirit, the ridiculous and the terrible.

SEK 240.00

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John Brown's Body - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

Nevertheless, Marise encourages Ralph's attentions, intoxicated by a heady mix of passion and fear. 'She is formidable, and from a bare corner of human relations gathers a rich harvest.' Adam Mars-Jones'It would be hard to find anyone who chooses words more exactly or constructs with more precision.' Penelope Fitzgerald

SEK 260.00

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A Fox Inside - Bok av David Stacton - Häftad

On a chill Northern Californian evening, high on a cliff in lagoon township of Bolinas, a woman is running, barefoot, toward her open convertible. Behind her in the dark is summer house where her reclusive husband now lies dead. She will drive to San Francisco, there to break the news to her domineering mother, since she has nowhere else to go.

SEK 270.00

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Strawberry Roan - Bok av A. G. Street - Häftad

' \Strawberry Roan\, the title-part of the story, is a splendid heifer, round whose career, from her calfhood, through her various changes of ownership to her achievement of renown as a champion milker and her final return to the little farmer who bred her, are woven the fortunes of a crowd of Wiltshire folk and the troubles of the land.

SEK 276.00

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The Haunt - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

Originally published in 1999, The Haunt, set in a seedy, decaying hotel on the Cornish coast, was to be the final entry in A. Barker's brilliant fifty-year writing career. Barker had just finished [in 1998] when she was struck down by a disabling illness... Barker is saying this too - and I think she is - she doesn't say it grimly.

SEK 250.00

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A Man of Contradictions - A Life of A. L. Rowse - Bok av Richard Ollard - Häftad

Three Plays - A Month in the Country; A Provincial Lady; A Poor Gentleman - Bok av Ivan Turgenev - Häftad

Innocents - Variations on a Theme - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

A Heavy Feather - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

A Classical Education - Bok av Richard Cobb - Häftad

Becoming a Composer - Bok av Errollyn Wallen - Inbunden

A Source of Embarrassment - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

Benjamin Britten - A Biography - Bok av Humphrey Carpenter - Häftad

Death of a Polaroid - A Manics Family Album - Bok av Nicky Wire - Inbunden

Apology for a Hero - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

A House in Order - Bok av Nigel Dennis - Häftad

A Case Examined - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays 1 - New Anatomies; Grace of Mary Traverse; Our Country's Good; Love of a Nightingale; Three Birds Alighting on a Field -

A Wavering Grace - A Vietnamese Family in War and Peace - Bok av Gavin Young - Häftad

Queen Victoria - A Portrait - Bok av Giles St Aubyn - Häftad

A Young Girl's Touch - Bok av Barbara Skelton - Häftad

A House of Gentlefolk - Bok av Ivan Turgenev - Häftad

A Love Match - Bok av Barbara Skelton - Häftad

A Signal Victory - Bok av David Stacton - Häftad

Something in Linoleum - A Thirties Education - Bok av Paul Vaughan - Häftad

The Gooseboy - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

John Brown's Body - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad

A Fox Inside - Bok av David Stacton - Häftad

Strawberry Roan - Bok av A. G. Street - Häftad

The Haunt - Bok av A. L. Barker - Häftad