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1	Hopeful Monsters more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist This Whitbread Book of The Year Award winner for 1990 is the final novel of the "Catastrophe Practice" series. Set in the 1920s and 30s it tells the story of two young radicals, Max and Eleanor, who meet, love, separate and come together again during the maelstrom of the Spanish Civil War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Hesperides Tree more books like this by Mosley add to wishlist An eighteen-year-old boy goes with his parents to the west coast of Ireland where, by chance, he witnesses terrorist gun-running activity. His father is involved with a local wildlife station where biologists are studying the causes of variations among birds. On the off-shore island where this research has centred, there are ruins of the cells in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
3	Experience & Religion: A Lay Essay in Theology more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist This is a fascinating meditation on faith and hope from one of Britain's most important writers. "Religion", this book begins "is a mistrusted word now", and Nicholas Mosley, in this engaging meditation, seeks to repair that trust. Rather than trying to compel or convince the reader to accept his beliefs, he describes how religion functions in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
4	Look at the Dark more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist 'On a dark night a person searches on the brightly-lit ground under a lamp-post. A passer-by asks - For what are you searching? The person says - For the keys to my house. The passer-by says - Is this where you lost them? The person says - No I lost them in the dark, but this is where the light is.' A retired academic and writer lies in a New York ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Inventing God more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist Hafiz is a twenty-five year old Muslim doing post-graduate work in genetics a the University of Beirut. He is one of a team working on the possibility of fashioning a biological weapon that would be effective against some ethnic groups and not others. This project seems to him impossible, but still highly dangerous. Lisa is a sixteen year old ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Julian Grenfell, his life and the times of his death 1888-1915 more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist This biography of the First World War poet Julian Grenfell, first published in 1976, is, we believe, one of the best biographies of recent times - partly because so much of it is about his mother, the fascinating but maddening Ettie Desborough. It is quite short compared with many modern biographies, and very readably written: Nicholas Mosley's ... see all copies from $3.59! new only from $38.29! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist Including pieces on Gregory Bateson, William Faulkner, Philip Pullman, Sir Oswald Mosley's politics, religion and stammering, this diverse collection gathers essays written by Nicholas Mosley over the past forty years. Resembling the behaviour of slime mould - a strange organism made up of separate amoebae that temporarily form a single pillar ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98!
8	Children of Darkness and Light more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist Reports are reaching London that a group of children in Cumbria have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary. Harry, a journalist with a drink problem, is sent to investigate. What he finds defies comprehension, but most bafflingly, Harry's visit seems to have been expected. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
9	God's Hazard more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist God is said to have given humans freedom. Yet in the story of Genesis God is a punishing father-figure. Why have humans portrayed him like this? Here, a contemporary writer called Adam imagines God behaving as a good father should, seeing it is time for his children to leave home. Adam writes an account of this, and the story of his own child ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The assassination of Trotsky more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist see all copies from $4.50! first editions
11	Rules of the Game; Beyond the Pale: Memoirs of Sir Oswald Mosley and Family more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist This single-volume edition of Nicholas Mosley's account of the life of his father, Oswald, is both a biography and a study of father-son relations. Once known as the most hated man in England, Mosley founded the British Union of Fascists. His activities eventually led to his imprisonment in 1940. see all copies from $12.50! first editions
12	Paradoxes of Peace: Or, the Presence of Infinity more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this. But what should inform themâ custom? need? duty? ambition? desire? Forces pull in different directionsâ ... see all copies from $8.04! new only from $8.96! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Hopeful monsters : a novel more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist This Whitbread Book of The Year Award winner for 1990 is the final novel of the "Catastrophe Practice" series. Set in the 1920s and 30s it tells the story of two young radicals, Max and Eleanor, who meet, love, separate and come together again during the maelstrom of the Spanish Civil War. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist The shadow of Oswald Mosely hangs over this autobiography of his son, novelist Nicholas Mosely. Sir Oswald, a Nazi sympathizer and founder of the British Union of Fascists, was arrested in 1940 after war had been declared, and was not released until 1943. His son, Nicholas, served as a platoon commander in Italy during the war. Deeply ashamed of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.56! \| first editions
15 view cover	Catastrophe Practice: Plays for Not Acting, and Cypher, a Novel more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist A novel in the form of three plays with a preface, and a novella in which six character try to find their way through a catastrophe that is less a part of the outer world than in their minds. In "Catastrophe Practice", both the characters and the author try to move away from tragic or comic models that have dominated literature and replace it with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.91! \| first editions
16 view cover	Catastophe Practice by Nicholas Mosely, Johns Banks (Introduction by), Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist A novel in the form of three plays with a preface, and a novella in which six character try to find their way through a catastrophe that is less a part of the outer world than in their minds. In "Catastrophe Practice", both the characters and the author try to move away from tragic or comic models that have dominated literature and replace it with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Unfair Preference? more books like this by Albert G Mosley, Nicholas Capaldi add to wishlist Two philosophers discuss public policy issues relating to social justice in the late 20th century. Each begins by making a case for or against affirmative action, laying out the major arguments on both sides. Each author then responds to the other's essay. see all copies from $3.89! new only from $26.23!
18	Rules of the game : Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist see all copies from $14.76! first editions
19	Children Darkness & Light by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist When reports reach London that a group of children in Cumbria have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary, Harry, a journalist with a drink problem, is sent to investigate. What he finds defies comprehension and his visit seems to have been expected, his presence necessary for whatever is to follow. see all copies from $2.53! first editions
20 view cover	Impossible Object more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist Eight stories which appear independent, joined by brief interludes that emphasize recurring themes and tie the stories together into a cohesive whole. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Review of Contemporary Fiction No.2: New Japanese Fiction-Vol.22 more books like this by Louis Zukofsky, Nicholas Mosley, Coleman Dowell add to wishlist Dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has featured the most influential authors of the twentieth century for over twenty years. This summer, with the issue on New Japanese Fiction, RCF will return to featuring interesting new fiction from around the world. This issue builds on a ... see all copies from $2.22! new only from $29.59!
22	Imago bird : a novel more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist A witty exploration of the interface of the personal and the political and the relationship between public face and private experience. Bert, the young nephew of the prime minister, attempts to make sense of the adult world and a gallery of types including pop stars, television journalists, politicians, and young Trotskyites. Part of the ... see all copies from $11.50! first editions \| SVS
23	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Vol.22 No.3 more books like this by Louis Zukofsky, Nicholas Mosley, Coleman Dowell add to wishlist Dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has featured the most influential authors of the twentieth century for over twenty years. This summer, with the issue on New Japanese Fiction, RCF will return to featuring interesting new fiction from around the world. This issue builds on a ... see all copies from $1.99!
24 view cover	Time at War more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.14! \| SVS
25 view cover	Accident more books like this by Nicholas Mosley add to wishlist This novel, set in Oxford and its surroundings, is a study of the games academics play with themselves, their wives, and their students. Central to the book and the reason for its title is the reflections of one of the central characters, philosoper-don Stephen, on what constitutes an "Accident." Written in an intensely poetic prose, the "Accident ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $7.60! \| first editions

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