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The World of Simon Raven(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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08/07/2002
It was said of Simon Raven that "he had the mind of a cad but the pen of an angel". This selection of his journalism contains an array of pieces on army life, cricket (another obsession), sex, schoo...
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The Eliza Stories(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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01/02/2002
Eliza is long-suffering and intelligent, her husband a pompous prig and a self-regarding idiot. Their life together is described through everyday incidents by the never-named husband, who reveals hi...
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The Unspeakable Skipton(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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09/01/2002
Daniel Skipton is an English author living in Bruges. He lives in an attic, nursing innumerable, imaginery grievances. Unable to get his second book published, he lives by his wits. He meets a group...
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A Melon for Ecstasy(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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09/01/2002
This novel by the two subsequently famous humourists was written in 1971. It hero is one Humphrey Mackevoy who takes a love of nature rather too far. He is passionate about trees. In particular one ...
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A Touch of Daniel(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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09/11/2001
The Brandon family inhabit an absurd Northern world where the men say nowt if they can help it and the women carp endlessly without ever getting anywhere. Yet it soon becomes clear that in the Brand...
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The Marsh-Marlowe Letters(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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09/11/2001
This is a series of spoof letters between two denizens of the literary world. It takes the form of a correspondence between Gerald Marsh, a retired literary man and teacher and his ex-pupil Sir Harv...
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The Freaks of Mayfair(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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02/06/2001
In a series of dry fictional sketches, E.F. Benson introduces the reader to some of the more bizarre inhabitants of Mayfair's Edwardian high society - a world he knew intimately. Each is a distinct ...
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The English Gentleman(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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13/03/2001
Originally written for Debrett's Peerage, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was intended as an antidote to all the endless, dull little books on manners a...
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