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The Secret Rituals of the O. T. O.

By Francis King

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9781499692877 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 27, 2014, cover price $13.75

The Book of Life

Product Description: 'One must admire the perfectly done thing, and this evocation of the late Edwardian age, told with ironic grace and subtlety, is the best thing of its kind since L. P. Hartley's The Go-Between.' - Vogue 'Worldly, wise, mild, funny, and tender, written in constantly felicitous prose...read more

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9781939140821 | 2 edition (Valancourt Books, December 31, 2013), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: 'One must admire the perfectly done thing, and this evocation of the late Edwardian age, told with ironic grace and subtlety, is the best thing of its kind since L.

Prodigies

Product Description: Three women-daughter, mother and aunt-abandon their pampered, privileged lives in The Hague of the 1860s, to set off on an epic journey to the heart of Africa. Since the daughter, Alexine, has inherited a vast fortune from her mysterious tycoon father, the women take with them the family butler and nurse and each her own personal maid...read more

By Francis King

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9781447258544 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: Three women-daughter, mother and aunt-abandon their pampered, privileged lives in The Hague of the 1860s, to set off on an epic journey to the heart of Africa.

The Sunlight on the Garden

By Francis King

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9781447258568 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $25.35

A Game of Patience

By Francis King

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9781447258292 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $28.70

The Widow

Product Description: When her husband, an Indian Civil Servant, dies on his way to take up a new and important post, Christine Cornwell is left with a son and daughter, and a small pension on which to support them. She is a woman of unusual toughness and resilience, and she adapts herself quickly to the difficulties of her new life as a widow in England in the mid 1930s; to the war; and, finally, to the mutilation of her son, a bomber pilot...read more

By Francis King

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9781447258261 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: When her husband, an Indian Civil Servant, dies on his way to take up a new and important post, Christine Cornwell is left with a son and daughter, and a small pension on which to support them.

With My Little Eye

Product Description: Born in Switzerland, Francis King spent his childhood in India, where his father was a government official. While still an undergraduate at Oxford he published his first three novels. He then joined the British Council, working in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Finland and Japan, before he resigned to devote himself entirely to writing...read more

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9781447258599 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: Born in Switzerland, Francis King spent his childhood in India, where his father was a government official.

9781905147274 | Arcadia Books Ltd, September 28, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An elderly gentleman confronts the darker forces beneath his seemingly tranquil existence in this novel of hindsight and self-awareness.

The One and Only

Product Description: The Press could make Mervyn's life a misery, if they knew where he lived. But they don't. Mervyn has adopted an assumed name and established a quiet life for himself in a small town near Brighton. Then the typescript arrives. It is the autobiography of Mervyn's former school friend Bob, and it reveals not merely everything about their relationship but also Mervyn's new name and his whereabouts...read more

By Francis King

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9781447258490 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: The Press could make Mervyn's life a misery, if they knew where he lived.

The Nick of Time

Francis King's provocative and adventurous novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young Kosovar- an illegal immigrant - finds himself in London. Mehmet leads a double life befriending and lodging with an elderly woman who suffers from MS, while at the same time having an affair with a woman doctor and throwing himself onto the London gay scene. Disaster looms when he begins a relationship with a gay protector - and is arrested because of his illegal status.

By Francis King

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9781447258148 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $28.70

9781908129000 | Reprint edition (Arcadia Books Ltd, September 30, 2012), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Francis King's provocative and adventurous novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young Kosovar- an illegal immigrant - finds himself in London.

9781900850780 | Reprint edition (Arcadia Books Ltd, August 30, 2004), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Mehmet, a young Kosovan and illegal immigrant, arrives in London, where he embarks on a complicated and confusing life, befriending an elderly woman with MS, having an affair with a female doctor, and enjoying his experiences in the London gay scene, but disaster strikes when he begins a new relationship and is promptly arrested because of his illegal status.

The Firewalkers

Product Description: First published in 1956, under the pseudonym "Frank Cauldwell", this accomplished comedy of manners is set among British expatriates and exotic locals in a Greece still undiscovered by tourism. Written with an infectious enjoyment and good humour, the story of the flamboyant and temperamental Colonel Theodore Grecos and his devotion to the completely unsophisticated GÃ¶tz Joachim provides Francis King with ample scope for his mastery of ironic observation...read more

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9781447258377 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: First published in 1956, under the pseudonym "Frank Cauldwell", this accomplished comedy of manners is set among British expatriates and exotic locals in a Greece still undiscovered by tourism.

9780907040712 | Alyson Pubns, March 1, 1985, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: First published in 1956, under the pseudonym "Frank Cauldwell", this accomplished comedy of manners is set among British expatriates and exotic locals in a Greece still undiscovered by tourism.

Secret Lives: a Novella

Product Description: One ordinary afternoon, Anna Clive finds her apparently neatly-ordered life unravelling when she answers the phone to an acquaintance, Ossie, who tells her that his lover has died - before begging for her help. What follows is an extraordinary glimpse into the private hopes and fears of a group of characters bound inextricably to one another by their humanity, their secrets - and their love...read more

By Francis King

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9781447258339 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: One ordinary afternoon, Anna Clive finds her apparently neatly-ordered life unravelling when she answers the phone to an acquaintance, Ossie, who tells her that his lover has died - before begging for her help.

Last of the Pleasure Gardens

Product Description: A child is born . . . Even when it comes late in life, after the rest of the family has grown up and gone away, you cannot fail to feel a flush of pleasure and hope. But when the child shows little inclination to speak and seems unable to grasp the rudiments of walking, when your fears slowly and horribly mount, the awful truth must be faced and hope crashes to tragedy and pain...read more

By Francis King

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9781447258353 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: A child is born .

The Dividing Stream

Product Description: Was it simply, in the coroner's words, a stupid and tragic accident? Sybil Crawfurd would never have expected her brother, Hugo, to die like that, so suddenly, in a fall from the balcony of a Brighton hotel . . . The handsome, intelligent headmistress of a girls' school on the south coast, Sybil is not alone in desperately wanting 'but two hours converse with the dead'...read more

By Francis King

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9781447258438 | Pan Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: Was it simply, in the coroner's words, a stupid and tragic accident?

Cold Snap

Product Description: From master storyteller and psychologist, Francis King (1923-2011), comes this powerful drama of continuing antagonisms, nascent reconciliations, and obsessive love. Set in post-World War II Oxford, cousins Michael and Christine befriend a group of German prisoners camped on the outskirts of town...read more

By Francis King

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9781906413958 | Arcadia Books Ltd, January 30, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: From master storyteller and psychologist, Francis King (1923-2011), comes this powerful drama of continuing antagonisms, nascent reconciliations, and obsessive love.

9781906413590 | Arcadia Books Ltd, July 1, 2010, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: For innumerable people in Great Britain, the second half of the forties was a period of return to homes and former occupations after the volcanic dislocations of the war.

The Little Garden

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

By Francis King

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9781444619010 | Waldo Specthrie Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

How I Became a Holy Mother

Product Description: Set, of course in India, these stories are concerned not so much with Europeans in India as with Indians themselves.Â They are about universal human passionsâyet interwoven with India itself.Â The heat, the vastness, the loneliness of India are all reflected in the lives of the people living in a country that is not so much an additional character as, often, the most central one...read more

By Francis King (foreword by)

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9780955731235 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, February 1, 2009, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Set, of course in India, these stories are concerned not so much with Europeans in India as with Indians themselves.

Pages from a Garden Notebook

By Francis King

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9781437120103 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2008, cover price $30.95

Pages from a Garden Note-book

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

By Francis King

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9780559371035 | Bibliobazaar, October 30, 2008, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9780559371028 | Bibliobazaar, October 30, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

An Air That Kills

Product Description: Mark Langworthy has just returned home after a stint as a colonial administrator in India. Once a promising writer, his dreams and idealism have been extinguished, and he returns stricken with malaria and fatigued in both body and spirit...read more

By Francis King

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9781934555279 | Valancourt Books, January 30, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Mark Langworthy has just returned home after a stint as a colonial administrator in India.

Studies In Gardening

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By Francis King (contributor)

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9780548551257 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 30, 2007, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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9780548480946 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 30, 2007, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Scriptural Prayers Designed for Family Worship

By Francis King

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9781432683450 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

The Sunlight on the Garden: Stories

Product Description: This collection of short stories exemplifies Francis King's mastery of place and the remarkable emotional range that he expresses in his writings. The poignant title story is an unflinching examination of the relationship between a tough, self-willed elderly man and the young woman determined to exploit him...read more

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9781900850995 | Arcadia Books Ltd, April 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This collection of short stories exemplifies Francis King's mastery of place and the remarkable emotional range that he expresses in his writings.

Megatherion: The Magickal World of Aleister Crowley

By Francis King

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9781840681802 | Reprint edition (Creation Books, January 1, 2012), cover price $19.95

9781840680867 | Creation Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $17.95

Sexuality, Magic and Perversion

Product Description: Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion surveys such outre subjects as sex magic, left-hand Tantrism, and the initiates of Aleister Crowleyâs Order of Oriental Templars. This fascinating and highly readable book also discusses the role of magical fantasy in contemporary pornography...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Francis King

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9780806502892 | Lyle Stuart, June 1, 1972, cover price $6.95

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9780922915743, titled "Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion" | Feral House, April 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion surveys such outre subjects as sex magic, left-hand Tantrism, and the initiates of Aleister Crowleyâs Order of Oriental Templars.

9780806504544 | Carol Pub Group, September 1, 1974, cover price $3.45 | About this edition: Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion surveys such outre subjects as sex magic, left-hand Tantrism, and the initiates of Aleister Crowleyâs Order of Oriental Templars.

Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve

By Francis King

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9780749002442 | New edition (Gardners Books, August 4, 2000), cover price $14.50

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