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"Fool, are you a fool?" Called down the aged Urdu poet, disturbed by Deven's knock, and, he in joy sang back; "Sir, I am! I am!" He felt "as though God had leaned out of a cloud... more
Product code: 603478
£28.45
Henry Wilt is back. This time he is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed, of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical... more
Product code: 20204501
£15.12
Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a day hospital in North London. N has been a patient here for thirten years. Day after day sits smoking in the common room, swapping medication and... more
Product code: 20690601
£12.99
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis... more
Product code: 21424603
£12.99
Once again, Kingsley Amis invents a hero of many defeats and few hard-won victories. Retired librarian Harry Caldecot struggles with the overwhelming sense of responsibility he... more
Product code: 22615001
£12.95
The book is a satire on corruption. Mr Nanga, a Nigerian politician, is a comic portrait of a fraudulent, ambitious, demagogic universal charmer. Set against him is the... more
Product code: 555857
£11.37
Sleaze, corruption and conceit have been the hallmarks of successive elected Goernments and the Queen has had enough! Convinced that ordinary citizens selected at random by a new... more
Product code: 21937102
£9.99
The sheep who changed the world is an outrageously picaresque black sheep comedy which follows the fortunes and foibles of the crafty ram as he confronts his dual nature as both... more
Product code: 20926601
£8.99
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to... more
Product code: 22201303
£8.99
This book tells the story of Undine Spragg, an exquisitely beautiful but coldly ruthless girl from the American midwest. In a comic drama she achieves her social ambitions, but... more
Product code: 21849302
£7.99
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