Travels With My Aunt - (Vintage Voyages) (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Travels With My Aunt - (Vintage Voyages) (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon

Travels With My Aunt (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul,

Human Factor (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt' The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and

Ways Of Escape (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days of the French, Kenya during the Mau Mau

Confidential Agent (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William GoldingIn a small continental country civil war is

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Classics: Level 16: Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

In Gulliver's Travels Gulliver sets out on a sea voyage hungry for adventure. He is shipwrecked on an island inhabited by tiny people - but every time Gulliver thinks things can't get any stranger, they always do TreeTops Classics are adapted and abridged versions of classic stories to enrich and

Stamboul Train (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naive English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a

Quiet American (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Pyle is a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of

Gran Tour - Travels with my Elders (Aitken Ben)(Paperback / softback)

Travels with Myself and Another (Gellhorn Martha)(Paperback / softback)

Mornings in the Dark - The Graham Greene Film Reader (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Carcanet's Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic, the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of

Rings of Saturn - (Vintage Voyages) (Sebald W.G.)(Paperback / softback)

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad,

In America - Travels with John Steinbeck (Mak Geert)(Paperback / softback)

Burnt-out Case (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENQuerry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper

Sort of Life (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was

Shadow of the Silk Road - (Vintage Voyages) (Thubron Colin)(Paperback / softback)

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and

Tenth Man (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that he sold for his life, where he must face the consequences of his cowardice and seek

Our Man In Havana (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true

A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam (Lewis Norman)(Paperback)

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American. Norman Lewis traveled in Indo-China during the precarious last years of the French colonial regime. Much of the charm and grandeur of the ancient native

End of the Affair (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it

Comedians (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear

Pepper's Travels with Marco Polo (Harris Nancy E. (Educational Consultant))(Paperback / softback)

Follow a young boy as he travels with Marco Polo and encounters new

Third Man and The Fallen Idol (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carre The Third Man, Graham Greene's most iconic tale, takes place in post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the

Man Within (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the house of a young, isolated woman who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in