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William Gerhardie

Pending Heaven

PaperbackEngels9780571248933 19-2-2009

To quote William Gerhardie's own synopsis this work is 'a novel about two men treading the donkey-round of paradise deferred, their literary friendship strained to breaking-point by rivalry in love'. Meer

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Angus Wilson

Setting the World on Fire

PaperbackEngels9780571248971 19-2-2009

At the end of the Second World War Piers and his younger brother Tom are growing up at Tothill House, the family home with its magnificent baroque hall by Vanbrugh. Meer

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Angus Wilson

The Wild Garden

PaperbackEngels9780571248988 19-2-2009

The Wild Garden is both an autobiographical essay on the creative process and a remarkable personal account of the circumstances surrounding the nervous crisis that impelled Angus Wilson to become a writer at the age of thirty-six. Meer

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Angus Wilson

As If By Magic

PaperbackEngels9780571248995 19-2-2009

With a wry wit Angus Wilson brings into focus their separate adventures (Quixotic in Hamo's case, dreamlike in Alexandra's) until the tragic denouement when they meet in Goa. Meer

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Angus Wilson

Such Darling Dodos

PaperbackEngels9780571249008 19-2-2009

Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. Faber Finds are reissuing these original selections. Angus Wilson made his initial reputation by his short stories, The Wrong Set and Such Darling Dodos being his first two published books, appearing in 1949 and 1950 respectively. Meer

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Andrew Sinclair

The Breaking of Bumbo

PaperbackEngels9780571251162 16-4-2009

The Breaking of Bumbo was first published fifty years ago when the author was twenty-two. it continues to read freshly. 'This bitter, ironical and very clever first novel paints a devastating portrait of an upper-class misfit, half clown, half Hamlet . Meer

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Paul Binding

The Still Moment

PaperbackEngels9780571251179 16-4-2009

First published in 1994, Paul Binding's portrait of Eudora Welty is being reissued to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her birth. Meer

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David Means

The Spot

PaperbackEngels9780571251339 4-11-2010

THE SPOT is an old blacksmith shed in which a gang of men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. THE SPOT is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the tangled currents of her own tragic story. Meer

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Lord David Cecil

Two Quiet Lives

PaperbackEngels9780571251421 21-5-2009

The two quiet lives are Dorothy Osborne, writer of the famous love letters to William Temple, and Thomas Gray, poet, Cambridge don and friend of Horace Walpole. Meer

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Evelyn Sharp

Unfinished Adventure

PaperbackEngels9780571251445 21-5-2009

Born in 1869, Evelyn Sharp was the sister of the folk song and dance expert, Cecil Sharp. A journalist, writer, pacifist and suffragist, Evelyn Sharp writes about various aspects of her life: her school-days, Paris in 1890 , the "Yellow Book", the "Manchester Guardian", her conversion to Suffragism, her imprisonment in Holloway and her war work. Meer

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Julian (Comedy Reviewer) Hall

The Senior Commoner

PaperbackEngels9780571251957 18-6-2009

Set in Eton College, this book presents a structure of tiny episodes that portray a complex institution at different levels. Meer

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A. G. Street

Farmer's Glory

PaperbackEngels9780571251971 12-6-2009

Presents a picture of farming life in Southern England and Western Canada. Meer

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Lt. Commander Showell Styles F.R.G.S.

Mr Fitton in Command

PaperbackEngels9780571251995 18-6-2009

After a disastrous and dangerous encounter with a French frigate Michael Fitton, master's mate, finds himself in charge of the Courier's few survivors. Meer

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C. H. B. Kitchin

Death of My Aunt

PaperbackEngels9780571252053 12-6-2009

Malcolm Warren, a young but valetudinarian stockbroker, is looking forward to a dull weekend when a telegram summons him to stay with his capricious old Aunt Catherine, who has shocked the family by marrying Hannibal Cartwright, a muscular garage owner many years her junior. Meer

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C. H. B. Kitchin

Mr Balcony

PaperbackEngels9780571252077 18-6-2009

Bored with the London summer, this enigmatic man fills his yacht with assorted socialites, chief among them the beautiful, restless Gloria Swing, and heads for the torrid coast of Africa, where fate, they discover can certainly prove worse than death. Meer

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William Palmer

The Good Republic

PaperbackEngels9780571252558 12-6-2009

The Baltic country itself - the capital with its Old Town and Jewish Shops, the coast with its pine-fringes and little islands - is palpably there, and makes the moral drama of Jacob and his associates the more compelling. Meer

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William Palmer

The Pardon of Saint Anne

PaperbackEngels9780571252565 18-6-2009

Working as a news photographer in 1930s Berlin, Walther Klinger becomes, by a vicious twist of fate, a society photographer for the new aristocracy of the Nazi party. Meer

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William Palmer

Four Last Things

PaperbackEngels9780571252572 18-6-2009

Four Last Things is a collection of short stories, a brilliant collection of short stories. Meer

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A. G. Street

A Crook in the Furrow

PaperbackEngels9780571252701 16-7-2009

Believing that 'Coincidence' Charles is onto their scheme, Larne persuades the couple to move to the country and set up as 'honest' farmers in order to continue their growing business away from the prying eyes of 'Coincidence' Charles. Meer

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Hugh Kingsmill

Johnson Without Boswell

PaperbackEngels9780571252749 16-7-2009

It is for that reason Hugh Kingsmill hit upon the idea of assembling this alternative anthology: Samuel Johnson as recalled diversely by those including Johnson himself, Mrs Piozzi, Sir John Hawkins, Anna Seward (not flattering) and Miss Reynolds, Sir Joshua's sister. Meer

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