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 Jonathan Cape, 1977 1st edition. G/G HB with DJ. Pages yellowing and some foxing. corners bumped. Otherwise tight. 384 pp.

Soft cover book, 1st 2010. Very good condition. No inscription.390  pages. Biography of Arthur Ransome, who is best know as the author of SWALLOWS and AMAZONS. classic children,s serirs thet captures an idyllic version of childhood in England.

Publisher: Faber & FaberPublication date:2004Pages: 335Weight: 450g

Publisher: DoubledayPublication date:1997Pages: 316Weight: 620g

Author - Hubertus Elffers Binding - Hardcover. Green cloth boards with edge-wear and abrasions. Book Condition - Good to fair. Light foxing from title page to page 9. Split to the front and rear paste-downs. Long split between pages 14 and 15. Age-toning to page 104. Book Number - QB-008969 Edition - Fourth edition. Location - Kalk Bay Shop Published Year - 1908 Published Place - Cape Town Publisher - J C Juta & Co. Size - 12mo. 13cm x 19.2cm    Previous owner's name of front paste-down.   

About the product The jacket is a touch edge worn. It presents excellently in cellophane. The boards are handsome with slight edge wear. There is tape residue on the front and back end pages. There are no inscriptions and the binding is superb. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days This is the first critical edition of the original 1625 travel account by Anthony Knivet, an Englishman who spent nine years in Brazil in the last decade of the sixteenth century. His is the oldest extensive account of Brazil written by an Englishman, but despite its historical, geographical, and ethnographic relevance it has never merited an annotated (or even a separate) edition in English. This edition, which includes a detailed introduction and extensive notes, allows the English-speaking public to follow Knivet's compelling tale. The account describes Knivet's incredible adventures, experienced roughly between 1592 and 1601, which include working as a drudge for the governor of Rio de Janeiro, escaping into the hinterland to live with native tribes and joining in expeditions of conquest and gold-seeking. The story provides a unique insight into early colonial Brazil and the myriad of people occupying its territory: Portuguese settlers, mixed-race servants, Indians, slaves, and European travellers. Features Summary This is the first comprehensive, annotated edition in English of Anthony Knivet's 1625 travel account. Author Anthony Knivet (Author), Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (Editor) Publisher Cambridge UniversityPress Release date 20150917 Pages 238 ISBN 1-107-46300-9 ISBN 13 978-1-107-46300-4

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Katrijn van der Caab, freed slave and wigmaker¿s apprentice, travels with her eccentric employer from Cape Town to Vogelzang, a remote farm where a hairless girl needs their services. The year is 1794, it is the age of enlightenment, and on Vogelzang the master is conducting strange experiments in human breeding and classification. It is also here that Trijn falls in love. Two hundred years later and a thousand miles away, Sister Vergilius, a nun at a mission hospital, wants to free herself from an austere order. It is 1961 and her life intertwines with that of a gentleman farmer ¿ an Englishman and suspected Communist ¿ who collects and studies insects and lives a solitary life. While a group of Americans arrive in a cavalcade of caravans and a new republic is about to be born, desire is unfurling slowly. In Claire Robertson¿s majestic debut novel, two stories echo across centuries to expose that which binds us and sets us free. Format:paperback Pages:288

The 2007 novel Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes, the bestselling author of Me Before You and two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. Liza McCullen will never escape her past. But the unspoilt beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she craves - if not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah. Until Mike Dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt's hotel, and the peace of Silver Bay is shattered. The mild-mannered Englishman with his too-smart clothes and disturbing eyes could destroy everything Liza has worked so hard to protect: not only the family business and the bay that harbours her beloved whales, but also her conviction that she will never love - never deserve to love - again. Format:Paperback Pages:416

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days "Birdsong" is a novel about the tenderness and the limits of human flesh, it is about men and women living at the edge. Set mostly in France spanning the years before and during the First World War, it captures the drama and destruction of that era as it tells the story of Stephen, a young Englishman who is impelled through a series of extreme experiences, from a traumatic clandestine love affair which rips apart the bourgeois French family he lives with, through grim insanity of the Great War. In the vast scenes of suffering and the tender depiction of human love, "Birdsong" is at times almost unbearably moving to read. Features Summary Set mostly in France spanning the years before and during the First World War, this book presents the drama and destruction of that era as it tells the story of Stephen... Author Sebastian Faulks Publisher Vintage Release date 20050901 Pages 503 ISBN 0-09-949692-5 ISBN 13 978-0-09-949692-2

Hardcover/First Edition: The book tells the story of golf year-by-year, starting with the ascendancy of the men of the Scottish linkland in the 1860's followed by that of the Englishman gentle amateur in the late Victorian era. Then the domination of the American professionals between the wars, the impact of television and sponsorship in the 1960's and 1970's and finally golfs evolution into an integral part of the global entertainment industry at the onset of the 21st Century. 

 Hardcover / Good condition Wilbur Smith's adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In   SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, the   New York Times   bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization's war.   They couldn't be any more different: an earnest young Englishman named Sebastian Oldsmith and an Irish American adventurer named Flynn O'Flynn who never encounters a rule he doesn't break. Fate brings them together in Zanzibar. A sadistic German turns them into allies, then into warriors. From the sound and sight of a charging bull elephant to ships ablaze on the Indian Ocean, this is a full throttle saga of survival—against nature, man, and the devil himself.  

Paperback. English. Publisher: Penguin. 1976. In good condition. 2 Volumes: Vol 1 A Sahib's War and Other Stories; Vol 2 Friendly Brook and Other Stories 1888. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, he was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

Paperback. English. Vintage. 1993. In fair/used condition Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 10 - 17 working days Held up by rebel forces in a brutal siege, John Porter is tested to the limit in the African jungle. Strikeback hero John Porter is sent on a mission with Regimental scallywag John Bald. Where Porter plays it by the book, Bald will always want to break the rules.They are sent to Sierra Leone to extract Ronald Soames, a former CO of the Regiment and now right-hand man to the President. But when Porter and Bald arrive the Englishman has disappeared, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Rebels are threatening to take over the country and its diamond mines - and to massacre all foreigners.Porter and Bald find themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Regiment psychopath who is already embedded in the country.But it soon becomes clear that the Firm has lied to them about the true nature of the mission.What seems at first to be a battle to control Sierra Leone's diamond mines will turn out to about a much greater evil - and with a trail that leads back to both Westminster and the Kremlin. Features Summary Held up by rebel forces in a brutal siege, John Porter is tested to the limit in the African jungle. Author Chris Ryan Publisher Coronet Books Release date 20170921 Pages 320 ISBN 1-4736-4323-6 ISBN 13 978-1-4736-4323-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize ! This special once-off award crowns the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man Booker Prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public. The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes detailing a tragic love affair. Features Summary Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize! This special once-off award crowns the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man Booker Prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public... Author Michael Ondaatje Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Release date 20180615 Pages 324 ISBN 1-5266-0590-2 ISBN 13 978-1-5266-0590-0

Paperback. English. Publisher: Penguin. 1976. In fair/good condition. 2 Volumes: Vol 1 A Sahib's War and Other Stories; Vol 2 Friendly Brook and Other Stories 1888. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, he was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Born in Stockport, William Garbutt was a reasonably successful winger with Blackburn Rovers, having first played for Woolwich Arsenal, when injury finished his career at the age of 29.He was good enough to have played for the Football League against the Scottish League. The usual route for ex-professionals was to become a publican but in 1912 Garbutt moved to Italy and took charge of Genoa Cricket and Football Club. In doing so he became the first professional football manager in Italian football. His professionalism and revolutionary ideas had a great impact on the club and under his guidance Genoa won the Italian League Championship three times - in 1915, 1923 and 1924. Garbutt is still considered an icon in Genoese football circles and is the reason why, to this day, Italian players call their manager 'Mister'. In 1927 he joined the newly formed AS Roma and guided them to a cup win in his first season. He then moved to Napoli for six seasons, taking them to third position in the league - the highest spot they had ever enjoyed and which they only bettered many years later. Garbutt repeated his remarkable success on moving to Spain in 1935, where he guided Athletic Bilbao to the championship of the Spanish League before returning to his first love, Genoa, shortly afterwards. As a British citizen he was an exile under Mussolini's fascists and was interned in Imola when his wife was killed by American bombing. He returned to England in the late 1940s and died in 1964 in Warwick. Author Paul Edgerton traced his adopted daughter Maria for a unique insight into an extraordinary man. Features Summary An Englishman abroad. The former Blackburn footballer who blazed a trail in Italian management. Author Paul Edgerton Publisher Sportsbooks Release date 20091001 Pages 224 ISBN 1-899807-82-9 ISBN 13 978-1-899807-82-6

 Early One Morning by Robert Ryan   In the flamboyant Twenties, Englishman William Grover-Williams and Frenchman Robert Benoist were fierce rivals racing their elegant Bugattis on the glittering European race circuits. Not only is the World Championship in their sights, but they have both fallen for the sensuous charms of the extravagantly beautiful Eve Aubicq.  But when war breaks out, everything changes. Paris is in the iron-grip of German occupation and Robert and William join the Special Operations Executive to help the French Resistance undermine the brutal occupying regime. Their missions involve utmost courage and daring in the face of the horrors of war. Based on a true story of British covert activity and the French Resistance during the Second World War, this is a gripping novel of heroism, self-sacrifice, love and betrayal    

 Merde Actually by Stephen Clarke   'Edgier than Bryson, hits harder than Mayle'  The Times   A year after arriving in France, Englishman  Paul West  is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French  nudist  beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss's  mistress ? Paul opens his  English tea room, and mutates (temporarily) into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French hotel-room afternoons; and, on a return visit to the UK, sees the full horror of a  British office party  through Parisian eyes. Meanwhile, he continues his search for the perfect French mademoiselle. But will Paul find  l'amour éternel, or will it all end in  merde   ? MERDE ACTUALLY   In his second comedy of errors, Paul West continues to sabotage the entente cordiale. Author's apology:  'I'd just like to say sorry to all the suppository fans out there, because in this book there are no suppositories. There are, however, lots of courgettes, and I see this as progress. Suppositories to courgettes - I think it proves that I'm developing as a writer.' Stephen Clarke  

A masterly, haunting novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as "the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe," Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, and the chilling violence that followed. Published in 2006, Half of A Yellow Sun garnered numerous accolades and was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor's beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna's twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and they must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another. Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race--and the ways in which love can complicate them all.

One of the classic volumes of autobiography, My Early Life is a lively and colourful account of a young man's quest for action, adventure and danger. Churchill's schooldays are undistinguished, but he is admitted to Sandhurst and embarks on a career as a soldier and a war correspondent, seeing action in Cuba, in India, in the Sudan—where he took part in the battle of Omdurman, of which he gives us a stirring account—and finally in South Africa. Taken prisoner by the Boers, Churchill makes a daring escape. Back home he embarks on the political career that is to make him one of Britain's most distinguished parliamentarians. First published in 1930, when Churchill's most testing time still lay ahead of him, My Early Life is memorable both as an adventure-story and as an account of the events and influences that helped to shape the career of a great Englishman. Paperback in good condition. No shipping outside the borders of South Africa

 Birdsong (Paperback) Sebastian Faulks (Paperback)     Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day The wartime classic behind the BBC drama starring Eddie Redmayne THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 1910. Amiens, Northern France. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in the French city to stay with the Azaire family. He falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle and the two enter a tempestuous love affair. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters. With his love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart, Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front and enters the unimaginable dark world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. From award-winning writer Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong is an exceptionally moving and unforgettable portrait of the ruthlessness of war and the indestructability of love. `Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times ---- Also available by Sebastian Faulks as part of the French trilogy series: The Girl at the Lion d'Or Charlotte Gray  

India, 1803.  Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the Mahratta Confederation.  In the hunt for the renegade Englishman, Sharpe penetrates deep into the enemy's territory where he faces temptations more subtle than he has ever dreamed of.  And behind him, relentlessly stalking him, comes his worst enemy, the baleful, twitching Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill who is determined to break Sharpe once and for all. The paths of treachery all lead to the small village of Assaye, where Sir Arthur Wellesley, with a tiny British army, faces the Mahratta hordes.  Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley decides to fight, and Sharpe is plunged into the white heat of a battle that will make Wellesley's reputation.  It will make Sharpe's name too, but only if he can survive the carnage and killing frenzy, for it is at Assaye that he at last realises his ambition and has a chance to seize it. Soft cover, good condition.  381 pages.

About the product Brenthurst Second Series, number 2. Standard edition limited to 850 copies. Large 4to; original crimson cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; tinted top edge; silk markers; pp. 275 + (i), incl. index; several reproductions of contemporary illustrations, in monochrome and full colour. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A few fox spots to fore-edge, else fine."The name of John Blades Currey (1829-1904) is seldom mentioned in histories of southern Africa. Indeed, the young Englishman who arrived at the Cape in 1850 made little direct impact on its story. He was nonetheless to become a profound influence on some of the Cape's most famous men and an astute chronicler of the political and social events of his time. His memoirs, published here for the first time, cover half a century of Cape history, from 1850 to 1900. Soldiering, farming, copper-mining - Currey tried all these; then, on the advice of governor Sir George Grey he joined the Cape civil service. While in its employ in the late 1860s he was entrusted with the task of introducing to a sceptical Europe southern Africa's first diamond, the'Eureka'. Later, as secretary to the government of Griqualand West, he chose the new name of' Kimberley 'for the burgeoning diamond-fields town of New Rush. But in 1875 Currey was blamed for the diggers'rebellion there, and this led to his dismissal from office and blighted his subsequent public career. While he was in Kimbeley Currey befriended two young fortune-hunters, both of whom were to become renowned premiers of the Cape: Cecil John Rhodes and John X. Merriman. To both of them Currey was to remain a lifelong friend and counsellor.. He is revealed in the account not as a politician but as a man who helped to shape politicians, not as a man who made history but rather as one who was passionately part of it. The manuscript forms part of The Brenthurst Collection, as do the majority of the contemporary illustrations which complement the text." Books: John Blades Currey 1850 to 1900: Fifty Years in the Cape Colony