This section is a convenient record of some of my books; it may be useful to others. It only includes books i like. More recent additions are at the top. Many of the books have links to Amazon or the Folio Society and so provide reviews. I have just started star ratings: ***is the highest.
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NOTE: Folio Society Books are all listed separately.
| The Natural World & Science See also Birds; Folio Society | |||
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| Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare By Imogen Evans etc P 2011 | |||
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| Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life [H] by
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Wonders of the Solar System [H] by Brian Cox and Cohen |
The Great Naturalists [H] Ed by Robert Huxley | Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life[P] by Richard Cohen |
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History [H 1989] Stephen Jay Gould |
How to Know the Protozoa (Pictured Key Nature) [Spiral-bound 2nd. 1979]. Jahn, T.L. |
Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind: Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn (H 2003) by John Prebble and Bruce Weber | The Biology of Protozoa [P 1973/1981] |
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Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England (H, 2009) |
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (H, 2007) |
Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore (P) | Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren and Richard Mabey (H) |
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| Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial (P) by Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst. 2009.*** | The Oxford Companion to the Mind (H) by Richard L. Gregory (Editor) | The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (H) by Richard Dawkins*** | Bad Science (P) by Ben Goldacre*** |
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Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind (P) by V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee. 2005. |
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (H) by Richard Dawkins***
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (P)by Oliver Morton***
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| The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (H) by Richard Holmes | WHITE, Gilbert: The Natural History of Selborne. The Cresset Press, 1947. Ed. by James Fisher. Illus by Claire Oldham. (H). | Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees (Hardcover) by Richard Mabey |
Birds Britannica (Hardcover) by Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey |
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| Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (P) by Richard Mabey |
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (Hardcover) by Richard Dawkin |
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (H) by Richard Dawkins |
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| Audubon's Birds of America John James Audubon | A Brief History of Time (Illustrated) (H) by S.W. Hawking | Eight Little Piggies 1ST Edition (H) by StephenJay Gould. Picture is of paperback edition |
The Universe: A Biography (P) by John Gribbin |
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| Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time (P) by Kitty Ferguson |
The Nature of Britain (H) by Alan Titchmarsh |
The Earth: An Intimate History (P) by Richard Fortey |
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity (P) by James Lovelock |
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| The Oxford Companion to the Mind (H) by Richard L. Gregory (Editor) | Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind (P) by V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee |
The Emerging Mind: The BBC Reith Lectures 2003 (P) by Vilayanur Ramachandran |
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Before the Fall-out: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (P) |
Medicine Balls: Consultations with the World's Greatest TV Doctor (P) by Phil Hammond |
Feynman Lectures on Computation |
AN ENGLISH FOREST Richard Kraus. 1982 |
Celestial objects for common telescopes |
Lectures on Biostatistics: Introduction to Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine (P) by D. Colquhoun. 1971 | Microbe Hunters |
A Green History of the World (Paperback) by Clive Ponting |
| The origin of species, by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Darwin, Charles. Murray 1902. |
Elementary Treatise on the Wave Theory of Light
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Popular lectures on scientific subjects by Hermann von Helmholtz. Translated by Atkinson. Longmans 1873.
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Microbes, Ferments And Moulds. (Hardcover) by E L. Trouessart. 1886. 1st Edition. |
| MANUEL D HISTOIRE NATURELLE MÉDICALE.LANESSAN, J. L. de. Ist part, Botanique generale. 1879. | Evolution of Man and Society by Cyril Dean Darlington. (H). 1969. | Microbes, Ferments and Moulds. (H).
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| Collins New Naturalist Library (113) - Bird Migration by Ian Newton (H) 2010. | The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee (P) | While Flocks Last by Charlie Elder (P) | The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2010 Hilary and David Cromack. Buckingham Press |
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| Thorburn's Birds (Hardcover) by Archibald Thorburn |
Birds Britannica (Hardcover) by Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey |
Collins Pocket Guide to British Birds (H)1952 by R. S. R. Fitter & R. A. Richardson |
Birds of Europe: With North Africa and the Middle East (Helm Field Guides) (P) by Lars Jonsson |
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Audubon's Birds of America John James Audubon |
THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON FOR THE BIRDS OF AMERICA (H). 2 Vols. by John Audubon |
National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North America (Paperback, 2nd edition) |
BRITISH BIRDS (H)
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Familiar Wild Birds [4 volumes] By |
British birds and their Eggs. T.A. Coward. Illustrated Thornurn and others. vol 2. 5th edition. 1932 | ||
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| Birds of India Woodcock paperback |
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Helm Identification Guides) (Hardcover) by Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp |
Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Helm Field Guides) (Paperback) by Carol Inskipp, Richard Grimmett, Tim Inskipp |
How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher: To the Greater Glory of Life (Paperback) by Simon Barnes |
A Natural History of British Birds |
The Charm of Birds (Hardcover) |
A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Collins Field Guide) (Hardcover, 1980) by Roger Tory Peterson (Author), Guy Mountfort (Author), P. A. D. Hollom |
Birds & Men |
A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan (Hardcover) |
The Birds of China (Hardcover) |
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| Audubon: a biography (Hardcover) by John Chancellor |
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS (East of the Rockies) |
The World of Roger Tory Peterson: An Authorized Biography (Hardcover) |
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| India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy By Ramachandra Guha H 2008 | |||
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (Hardcover) |
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity (Paperback) by Amartya Sen |
India: A History (Paperback) |
India Discovered: The Recovery of a Lost Civilization (Paperback)by John Keay |
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| The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company (Paperback) by John Keay | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple |
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India (Paperback) by William Dalrymple |
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (Paperback) by William Dalrymple |
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The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India (Paperback) |
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover) by Alex von Tunzelmann |
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Hardcover) |
India: A Million Mutinies Now (Hardcover) by V.S. Naipaul |
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| India's Unending Journey: Finding Balance in a Time of Change (Hardcover) by Mark Tully |
India in Slow Motion (Hardcover) by Mark Tully |
India Britannica (Hardcover) 1983 by Geoffrey Moorhouse Brilliant book on influence of British on India and of India on British | |
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The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi Reminiscences (Hardcover) by Lady Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, Sir Thomas Metcalfe. Ed by Kaye, M. M |
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named (Hardcover) by John Keay |
The Seige of Delhi (Hardcover) Folio society 1984by Richard Barter
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Tirumula, Tirupati |
Traveller's India An Anthology. (H) KAUL, H.K. 1979 |
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| I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis (P) by Frank Wynne | Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind: Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn (H 2003) by John Prebble and Bruce Weber |
The Great Naturalists [H] Ed by Robert Huxley | Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia [H] by Michael Korda |
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| Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Wilson | Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: an Autobiography (Paperback) by J.G. Ballard | Nothing to be Frightened of (Paperback) by Julian Barnes | Unimagined: A Muslim Boy Meets the West (Paperback) by Imran Ahmad |
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The World Is What It Is:The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Hardcover) |
Darwin by Adrian Desmond, James R. Moore |
Indian Summer:The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover) by Alex von Tunzelmann |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Paperback) by Mohsin Hamid |
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| Force of Nature: Life of Linus Pauling (Hardcover) by Tom Hager |
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Eminent Lives) by Matt Ridley |
Double Helix: Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Hardcover) |
Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA (Hardcover) by Jan Witkowski, John Inglis, J. Sambrook |
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| Einstein: His Life and Universe (Paperback) by Walter Isaacson |
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (Paperback) by Clive James |
Untold Stories (Hardcover) by Alan Bennett |
Writing Home by Alan Bennett |
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| Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future (Paperback) by Jennifer Uglow |
Benjamin Britten: A Biography (Paperback) by Humphrey Carpenter |
A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Hardback) |
Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics (Paperback) by Matthew Parris |
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| Line of Fire (P) by Brian Paddick
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Previous Convictions: Writing with Intent (Paperback) by A.A. Gill |
Edith Sitwell: Taken Care Of, an Autobiography by Edith Sitwell (Hardcover 1965) |
Potter on Potter Ed. by Graham Fuller. 1976. |
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| Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph (Hardcover) by T.E. Lawrence | LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS (Hardcover) by ROBERT GRAVES illustrations edited by Eric Kennington. Jonathan Cape 1927 | ||
T. E. Lawrence: A New Biography (Hardcover) |
Revolt in the Desert by T E Lawrence 1927 Folio Society 1986/2007 |
The Letters of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia (Hardcover) |
Autobiography G. K. Chesterton H 1936 |
E.M. Forster: A Life |
Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton, with portraits in photogravure by G. K. Chesterton |
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (Hardcover) Folio Society 1968 2 volumes |
Looking back; An autobiographical excursion |
Paul Scott: A Life |
Pasternak: A Biography |
Beethoven and the Age of Revolution by Frida Knight |
Great Morning - Being the Third Volume of Left Hand, Right Hand! - an Autobiography |
The life and travels of General Grant (H) by Joel Tyler Headley 1979 1st edn. |
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I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis (P) by Frank Wynne |
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The Oxford Companion to Art (H) by Harold Osborne (Editor) |
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble (Editor) |
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy. |
British Architects & Craftsmen; a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600-1830 by Sacheverell Sitwell |
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ARCHITECTURE IN BRITAIN TODAY (H) by Michael Webb 1969
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Stanley Spencer; a Biography
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| The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (illustrated)Shelley, Percy Bysshe ; Scott, William B. (ed). 1880s. | Pizarro in Peru, or the Death of Rolla by Augustus von Kutzebue. Translated from the last German edition ... with notes, etc. by T. Dutton. 1799. |
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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it (H, 2009) by Philip Ball |
Journeying Boy; the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (P) ed by John Evans |
Britten's Children (P) by John Bridcut |
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| Benjamin Britten: A Biography (Paperback) by Humphrey Carpenter |
The Oxford Companion to Music by Alison Latham (Editor) H |
Tchaikovsky. A Biographical And Critical Study. To The Crisis (1840-1878) The Crisis Years (1874-78) by David Brown P1986/1981; P 1992 |
Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend (H) by Elizabeth Wilson |
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Chats on Violoncellos |
Beethoven and the Age of Revolution by Frida Knight |
The Violoncello And Its History by Wasielewski W.J.V. |
The Beethoven quartets by Joseph Kerman |
| Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865, comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England; translated by Rachel (Scott Russell) Holmes and Eleanor Holmes; annotated, and the translation revised, by Ernest Newman (H) by Hector (1803-1869) Berlioz. 1932. | |||
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Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay [P] By John Lanchester |
HERO The life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda 2010 | All Hell Let Loose; The world at war 1939-1945 by Max Hastings | ||
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Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire (P& H). by Tim Harper & Christopher Bayly |
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 (H,2009) |
Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem) by David Kynaston (P) | The Worst Date Ever: or How It Took a Comedy Writer to Expose Africa's Secret War: War Crimes, Hollywood Heart-throbs and Other Abominations by Jane Sussmann (P 2009) |
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| D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Hardcover) by Antony Beevor | Berlin: the Downfall, 1945 (Hardcover) by Antony Beevor |
Stalingrad (Paperback) by Antony Beevor |
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (Hardcover) by David Aaronovitch | |
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone (Hardcover) |
Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq (Paperback) by Rory Stewart |
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Hardcover) |
Vietnam: A Historyby Stanley Karnow P 1994 |
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| A History of Britain Volume 3 Simon Schama BBC 2002 |
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Paperback)by Simon Schama | The Ascent of Man |
The Hutchinson History of the World (H) by J.M. Roberts. 1987. | |
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| Essays in English History by A.J.P. Taylor H 1976 |
Evolution of Man and Society by Cyril Dean Darlington. (H). 1969. | China: 100 Years of Revolution (H) 1983. Harison E. Salisbury & J-C Suares |
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The Discovery of France (Hardcover) |
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon (Hardcover) by John Hemming |
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (H) by Vincent Virga Library of Congress. 2007 | The Great Explorers [H 2010] Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
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| Shenfan - The continuing revolution in a Chinese village (H) by William Hinton. 1983. | THE CHINESE HERITAGE. WU, K. C. 1982 (H). | ||
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| Prodigal Summer By Barbara Kinsolver P 2001 | The Dealer and the Dead By Gerald Seymour P 20111 | Telescope By Jonathan Buckley P 2011 | Land of Marvels By Barry Unsworth P 2010 | ||
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| Inheritance [P] by Nicholas Shakespeare | Parrot and Olivier in America [P] by Peter Carey |
Started Early, Took My Dog [P] by Kate Atkinson |
Some Hope [P] by Edward St Aubyn |
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Field Grey: A Bernie Gunther Mystery[P] by Philip Kerr |
Alone in Berlin[P] by Hans Fallada |
Our Kind of Traitor[P] by John Le Carre |
Jump! [P] by Jilly Cooper |
Great House[P] by Nicole Krauss |
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| Never Let Me Go by K. Ishiguru | Serious Men by Manu Joseph | The Stranger's Child [H] by Alan Hollinghurst | The Finkler Question[P] by Howard Jacobson |
We Need To Talk About Kevin [P] by Lionel Shriver |
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| Boxer, Beetle [P] by Ned Beauman | The Confessions of Edward Day [P] by Valerie Martin | One Day by David Nicholls | The Book of Dave [P] by Will Self | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo etc (Millennium Trilogy) [P] by Stieg Larsson | |
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| The Complaints by Ian Rankin(P) |
Last Night in Twisted River (P) by John Irving | A Son Of The Circus [H] by John Irving |
Wolf Hall [H] by Hilary Mantel
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The Road (P) by Cormac McCarthy |
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks (P) | The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (P) | Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (P) by Sue Townsend |
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver |
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| The Story of the Night (P) By Colm Toibin |
The Children's Book (P) By A.S. Byatt |
The Family Man (P) By elinor Lipman |
The Angel's Game (P) By Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
The Help (P) by kathryn Stockett |
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| Berlin Noir ('March Violets', 'The Pale Criminal' and 'A German Requiem') (P) by Philip Kerr | Asta's Book (Paperback) by Barbara Vine | A Male Child (P) By Paul Scott |
A Bit on the Side (P) By william Trevor |
Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories (P) By Annie Proulx |
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Child 44 (P) by Tom Rob Smith*** |
Burnt Shadows (P) by Kamila Shamsie |
Absurdistan (P)by Gary Shteyngart** |
Solar (H) by Ian McEwan |
A Most Wanted Man (P) By John le Carré | |
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The Gathering (P) by Anne Enright** |
Day (P) by A.L. Kennedy** |
The Millstone (P) by Margaret Drabble ** |
44 Scotland Street (P)by Alexander McCall Smith ** |
Portobello (P) by Ruth Rendell *** |
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Dreams of Rivers and Seas (P) by Tim Parks |
Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories (P) by Annie Proulx |
Indignation (P) by Philip Roth |
The Point of Rescue (P)by Sophie Hannah *** |
The City and the Pillar (P) by Gore Vidal |
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The Book Thief (P) by Markus Zusak 2007. | His Illegal Self (H) by Peter Carey | The Secret Scripture (P) by Sebastian Barry | The Clothes on Their Backs (P) by Linda Grant | |
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Three Great Novels: Capital Crimes: Dead Souls, Set In Darkness, The Falls: Capital Crimes - "Dead Souls"," Set in Darkness"," The Falls" ()by Ian Rankin |
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House (P) by Kate Summerscale | The Believers (H) by Zoë Heller |
The Northern Clemency (P) by Philip Hensher |
The 19th Wife (P) by David Ebershoff | |
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When Will There be Good News? (Paperback) by Kate Atkinson |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Paperback) by Mohsin Hamid |
The Good Doctor (Paperback) by Damon Galgut | The Impostor (Paperback) by Damon Galgut | Brandenburg (Paperback) |
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| Restless (Paperback) by William Boyd |
Two Caravans (Paperback) by Marina Lewycka |
Engleby (Paperback) by Sebastian Faulks |
Birdsong (Paperback) by Sebastian Faulks |
Signs of the Heart: Love and Death in Languedoc (Paperback) by Christopher Hope |
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| In the Dark (Paperback) by Deborah Moggach |
Zugzwang (Paperback) by Ronan Bennett |
Darkmans (Paperback) by Nicola Barker |
Vonnegut Omnibus: "Welcome to the Monkey House", "Palm Sunday" (Paperback) by Kurt Vonnegut |
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Paperback) by Susanna Clarke (Author), Portia Rosenberg (Illustrator) |
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| Life of Pi (Man Booker Prize) (Hardcover) by Yann Martel |
Everyman (Paperback) by Philip Roth |
Against the Day (Paperback) by Thomas Pynchon |
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback) by Alaa Al Aswany |
A Spot of Bother (Paperback) by Mark Haddon |
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| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Hardcover) by Mark Haddon |
Notes on a Scandal (Paperback) by Zoe Heller |
My Life as a Fake (Hardcover) by Peter Carey |
Theft: A Love Story (Paperback) by Peter Carey |
Carry Me Down (Paperback) by Maria Hyland |
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| Flawed Angel (Paperback) by John Fuller |
Winter in Madrid (Paperback) by C.J. Sansom |
Be Near Me (Paperback) by Andrew O'Hagan |
Cooking with Fernet Branca (Paperback) by James Hamilton-Paterson |
Amazing Disgrace (Paperback) by James Hamilton-Paterson |
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| Half of a Yellow Sun (Paperback) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Steal You Away (Paperback) by Niccolò Ammaniti (Author), Jonathan Hunt (Translator) |
Reading in the Dark (Paperback) by Seamus Deane |
Revolutionary Road (Paperback) by Richard Yates |
The Swimming-pool Library (Paperback) by Alan Hollinghurst |
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| The Line of Beauty (Paperback) by Alan Hollinghurst |
When We Were Orphans (Paperback) by Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Children of Men (Paperback) by P.D. James |
The Accidental (Paperback) by Ali Smith |
The Death of Achilles (Hardcover) by Boris Akunin |
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| The Victim (Paperback) by Saul Bellow |
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (Paperback) by Paulo Coelho |
A Wedding in December (Paperback) by Anita Shreve |
Angle of Repose (Paperback) by Wallace StegnerMy copy also has The Spectator Bird, and Crossing to Safety |
The Blood Doctor (Paperback) by Barbara Vine |
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| At Swim, Two Boys (Paperback) by Jamie O'Neill |
The Night Watch (Paperback) by Sarah Waters |
The Ruby in Her Navel (Paperback) by Barry Unsworth |
Tales of the City (Paperback) by Armistead Maupin |
Vernon God Little (Paperback) by DBC Pierre |
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| Going Under (Paperback) by Ray French |
Cloud Atlas (Paperback) by David Mitchell |
Gathering the Water (Paperback) by Robert Edric |
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| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang(H). 1991. | Just Above My Head by James Baldwin(H). 1979. 1st. edn | Jack Maggs (H) by Peter Carey 1997. 1st. | |||
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| The Mission Song by John le Carré (H). 2006. 1st. | The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré (H). 1996. 1st. | Cities of the Plain by Cormak McCarthy(H) 1998. 1st. | |||
| Lenin in Zurich - Chapters. by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.Translated By H.T. Willetts)(H). 1976. | Maurice by E.M. Forster. H.1971. | Humboldt's Gift (H). by Saul Bellow 1975. | The Redundancy of CourageTimothy Mo. 1991. 1st edn. | ||
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Between the Assassinations (H) by Aravind Adiga |
Tales from Firozsha Baag By Rohinton Mistry 1992 P | Such a long journey byRohinton Mistry , 1992 P | Six Suspects By Vikas Sarup 2009 P |
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Chowringhee (Hardcover) by Sankar |
The White Tiger (Hardcover) |
Animal's People (Paperback) |
Q and A (filmed as Slumdog Millionaire) (Paperback) by Vikas Swarup |
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Sea of Poppies (Paperback) by Amitav Ghosh |
In the Country of Men (Paperback) |
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The Kite Runner (Paperback) |
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Paperback) by Khaled Hosseini |
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback) |
The King's Last Song (Paperback) by Geoff Ryman |
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The Perfect Man (Paperback) |
Home (Paperback) by Manju Kapur |
Anil's Ghost (Hardcover) |
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Family Matters (Paperback) by Rohinton Mistry |
The Hungry Tide (Paperback) |
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| Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie(H). 1982 BCA edn. | The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (H) 1988. 1st ed. | The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (H). 1995. 1st edn. | Shame by Salman Rushdie (H). 1983. | |
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| RACKHAM, Arthur / SHAKESPEARE, William A MIDSUMMER NIGHt'S DREAM Heinemann, 1908 | Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles. RACKHAM / CARROLL (Lewis). 1907. NB Illustration is same as the English version shown here. |
RACKHAM , Arthur / IRVING, Washington RIP VAN WINKLE Heinemann, 1907 | Winnie the Pooh: Complete Collection of Stories and Poems (Hardcover) by A.A. Milne (Author), E.H. Shepard (Illustrator) |
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| Paradise Lost. By JohnMilton. Edited, with Notes and Life of Milton By Robert Vaughn. 1880. Illustrated by Gustav Dore. Elephant folio size. | |||
| FOLIO SOCIETY | History, Travel and World Affairs | India | Biography | The Arts | Natural World & Science |
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Folio 60: A Bibliography 1947 - 2006. 2007. |
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Crusader Castles by T. E. Lawrence |
Revolt in the Desert by TE Lawrence | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby |
Five Days in London, May 1940 John Lukacs |
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| THE SILK ROAD by FRANCES WOOD |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: 2 sets Vol. 1-4; vol. 5-8. |
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James |
The Pax Britannica Trilogy: Heaven's Command; Pax Britannica; Farewell the Trumpets [3 volumes] by James Morris |
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| A History of England 1945-2000 By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | Winston S. Churchill: The second World War. Two 3-Volume Boxed Sets |
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark 1999 |
Rights of Man Thomas Paine |
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The Victorians |
William Russell: Special Correspondent of the Times by William Howard RussellEd. by Roger Hudson. 1995 |
From Atlanta to the SeaSherman, William T. 1961 | At the Court of the Borgia.By His Master of Ceremonies Johann Burchard. Edited and Translated By Geoffrey Parker. 1963. |
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| The Twelve Caesars Translated by Robert Graves. Wood engravings by Raymond Hawthorn. 1957 |
Barrow, Sir John - The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical seizure of HMS Bounty, its causes and consequences. 1976 | Firmont Abbe De - A Journal of the Terror. 1955. | Defoe Daniel - A Journal of the Plague Year. 1960 |
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo. 1968. |
Paris in the Revolution by Reay Tannahill. 1966 | The Private the Lives of the Tudor Monarchs Falkus Christopher. 1974. |
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge Of Courage. 1964. |
| A HISTORY OF CHINESE CIVILISATION 2 VOLUMES By JACQUES GERNET TRANSLATED BY J.R. FOSTER & CHARLES HARTMAN Folio society 2002 |
Revolt in the Desert by T E Lawrence 1927 Folio Society 1986/2007 |
The Third Crusade: An Eye Witness Account of the Campaigns of Richard Coeur-de-Lion in Cyprus and the Holy Land. Edited and Introduced By Kenneth Fenwick. 1961 |
Scott's Last Expedition. The Personal Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, on his Journey to the South Pole. Introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs.SCOTT, Captain R.F. 1964 |
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| The Raj: An Eye-Witness History of the British in India by Roger Hudson (Editor), Raleigh Trevelyan (Introduction) | Myths and Legends of India [Folio Society] (Hardcover) Selected and re-told by William Radice. Includes the Mahabharata | India: A History by John Keay. 2 vols. 2003 |
The Seige Of Delhi Mutiny Memories Of An Old OfficerRichard Barter. 1984 |
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| The Natural History of Selborne Gilbert White 1789/2009 | The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins |
The ten most beautiful experiments by George Johnson 2011 | The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins 2011 |
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| Life: An Unauthorised biography; A natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on earth. Richard Fortey, 2008 | The Earth - An Intimate History Richard Fortey 2004/2011 | The Voyage of HMS Beagle Charles Darwin | History of Western Science John Gribbin |
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| Relativity Albert Einstein | The Secret Life of Trees Colin Tudge | Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. 2000 |
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals |
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Colour Victoria Finlay |
The Nude Kenneth Clark 1956/2010 |
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| Michelangelo Howard Hibbard |
Leonardo da Vinci by Kenneth Clark |
The Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Paintings by Martin Bailey |
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin Introduction by Jan Morris 2001 |
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| Painter of Passion; the Journal of Eugene Delacroix Ed. by Hubert Wellington 1995 |
The Arabian Nights. Tales from the thousand and one nights Illustrated by E J DETMOLD. 1999 | The Itinerants Society for circulating art exhibitions (1870-1923)H. | |
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| If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf (Translator), Jane Joseph (Illustrator) |
Klemperer, Victor - The Diaries of Victor Klemperer: I Shall Bear Witness 1933-1941, To the Bitter End 1942 - 1945. 2006. | Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson |
Allingham; The diaries |
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Painter of Passion; the Journal of Eugene Delacroix. Ed. by Hubert Wellington. 1995 |
The trial and execution of Socrates by Plato. 1972 |
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey.1967 | My Life on the Plains or Personal Experiences with Indians by Custer General G A. 1963. |
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The Life of Admiral Christopher Columbus By His Son Ferdinand Translated and Annoted By Benjamin Keen. 1959 |
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Drawings by Edward Ardizzone) by Robert Louis STEVENSON. 1967.
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The Life and Death of Thomas Becket. William FitzStephen his clerk. Ed by Georg eGreenaway. 1962 |
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| Beyond the Pale & Other Stories [2010] By William Trevor |
On the Road [2010] By Jack Kerouac |
The jewel in the Crown [1966/2009] 4 volumes Paul Scott | The Periodic Table byPrimo Levi |
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| CATCH 22 by Joseph Heller, iLLUSTRATIONS, Neil Packer Folio Society H 2004 |
Rudyard Kipling Collected Short Stories Folio Society |
Le Grand Meaulnes |
Lark Rise to Candleford |
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo. 1975 |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Illustrated by Lambourne, Nigel - The Brothers Karamazov. 1964 |
Goodbye to Berlin Christopher Isherwood, |
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| A Passage to India (Hardcover) by E M Forster. 1983. | Arnim Elizabeth von - The Enchanted April 2002 | GODDEN, Rumer - The Greengage Summer. 2000 | MIDDLEMARCH (folio society) (Hardcover) by GEORGE ELIOT (Author), robin jacques (Illustrator). 1972 |
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| The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 2006. | Bronte, Ann - The tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1966. | Scarlet and BlackStendahl. 1965. | The Disinherited by Benito Perez Galdos. 1976. |
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| The Magic Mountain. By Thomas Mann. Illustrated by Leonard rosoman. 2000. | Slaughterhouse-Five. By Kurt Vonnegut 2006. Illustrations by john Holder | ||
| I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Folio Society Edition (Hardcover) by Maya Angelou. 2000. | Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.1964.
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Three Stories Bartleby Benito Cereno Billy Budd by Herman Melville Garrick Palmer (Illustrator). 1967 | Les Enfants terribles by Jean Cocteau ; translated by Rosamond Lehmann ; with, Soixante dessins pour 'Les Enfants terribles' by Jean Cocteau. 1976. |
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| The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Trans. by K. R Mackenzie. Engravings by John Flaxman. 1979 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems by Samuel Taylor. Folio Poets. Engravings by Mirian Macgregor. 2003 |
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