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Listing books from publisher: Bloomsbury
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£25.00
Author: Aminatta Forna
Price: £25.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 05 April 2010
Synopsis
Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he struggles with the intensity ... read more
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£19.99
The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge
Author: Patricia Duncker
Price: £19.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 01 March 2010
Synopsis
It was New Year's Day, 2000. Hunters on their way home through a forest in the Jura stumble upon a half-circle of dead bodies lying in the ... read more
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£35.00
Author: James Delingpole
Price: £35.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 20 August 2007
Synopsis
Meet reluctant hero Dick Coward, an ordinary chap in extraordinary circumstances. World War II's answer to Flashman, only much more honoura ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£45.00
Author: William Boyd
Price: £45.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 04 September 2006
Synopsis
'Eva Delectorskaya,' I said mystified. ' Who's that?' 'Me,' she said. 'I am Eva Delectorskaya.' What happen ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£20.00
Author: Herbie Brennan
Price: £20.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 08 May 2000
Synopsis
Zartog is a little alien with enormous eyes and no nose. Rachel is a little girl also with enormous eyes. But she has got a nose and she is als ... read more
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£15.00
Author: Anna Dale
Price: £15.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 07 November 2005
Synopsis
Rustygate Primary School does not teach espionage and sleuthing, so when Dawn Buckle is asked by S.H.H. (Strictly Hush Hush) to become a highly ... read more
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£35.00
Author: Anna Dale
Price: £35.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 September 2004
Synopsis
When Joseph Binks is sent to stay with his mother, stepfather and half-sister Esme for Christmas, he is not at all happy. He would have preferr ... read more
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£12.99
Author: Paul Dowswell
Price: £12.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 October 2005
Synopsis
Sam is desperate to leave his sleepy Norfolk village and see the world. He seizes the chance to join a merchant ship but soon discovers that a ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£10.00
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Price: £10.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 02 June 2003
Synopsis
When Mattie is given the letters by a guest at the hotel in which she has a summer job she thinks that the giver is simply upset. But the next ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£9.99
Author: Odo Hirsch
Price: £9.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 27 September 1999
Synopsis
A young queen who rules seven kingdoms is far too busy and important to leave her palace, so her loyal subjects send gifts from far and wide: m ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£15.00
Bartlett and the City of Flames
Author: Odo Hirsch
Price: £15.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 01 January 2000
Synopsis
When Bartlett, Jacques le Grand and Gozo emerge from the Margoulis Caverns into daylight and the heat of the stonefields, little do they realis ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£14.99
When We Were Young: A Compendium of Childhood
Author: John Burningham
Price: £14.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 18 October 2004
Synopsis
In John Burningham's enchanting and truthful compendium of childhood, the well known and the unknown contribute funny, moving, magical and ... read more
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£12.99
Author: M. I. McAllister
Price: £12.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 January 2005
Synopsis
The island of Mistmantle is in turmoil. The king and queen are loosing authority over their people and behind the scenes a wicked pair are dete ... read more
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£12.99
Author: M. I. McAllister
Price: £12.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 April 2006
Synopsis
A summer day dawns on Mistmantle as it prepares for the coronation of Crispin, the Squirrel. Robes are stitched, cakes baked and wine brought u ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£12.99
Author: Gemma Malley
Price: £12.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 01 September 2008
Synopsis
The year is 2140. Peter and Anna are now living on the Outside as Legals. As an agent in the Underground, Peter is tasked with infiltrating Pin ... read more
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£12.99
Author: P. R. Morrison
Price: £12.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 February 2006
Synopsis
Archie Stringweed lives in the windswept Scottish fishing village of Westervoe. Archie is sure that the wind talks to him; that the wind watche ... read more
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£79.99
Mothstorm - SIGNED, DATED & DOODLED
Author: Philip Reeve
Price: £79.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 October 2008
Synopsis
When the festive season arrives at Larklight, so does some unsettling news. A sinister-looking cloud is fast approaching the outskirts of the K ... read more
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£50.00
Author: Philip Reeve
Price: £50.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 02 October 2006
Synopsis
Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father, Revd Marmaduke Mumby, in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, tr ... read more
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£45.00
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £45.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 05 May 2008
Synopsis
Septimus faces a perilous quest to find Nicko and Snorri, who have been trapped back in time. Everyone at the Castle is slowly beginning to rea ... read more
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£35.00
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £35.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 05 October 2009
Synopsis
In the fifth book of this Magykal series, Septimus and his friends find themselves on an island whose secrets are as dark and dangerous as its ... read more
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£79.99
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £79.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 02 April 2007
Synopsis
When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredd ... read more
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£125.00
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £125.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 March 2006
Synopsis
The evil necromancer DomDaniel has been disposed of, but something Darke is stirring. A shadow pursues extra-ordinary wizard Marcia overstrand ... read more
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£79.99
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £79.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 04 April 2005
Synopsis
A baby girl is rescued from a snowy path in the woods. A baby boy is stillborn. A young Queen is taken ill. An ExtraOrdinary Wizard mysteriousl ... read more
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£20.00
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £20.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 September 2007
Synopsis
Who stole the frogs? When something's amiss in the Spook household, there's usually only one suspect - Araminta. But she swears she had ... read more
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£20.00
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £20.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 September 2007
Synopsis
What's lurking in the basement? Araminta thinks something horrible might be hiding in the deep, secret passages of Spook House. She suspect ... read more
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£25.00
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £25.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 July 2006
Synopsis
What do you buy someone for their 500th birthday? Araminta is desperately trying to think of the perfect gift for her favourite ghost, Sir Hora ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£20.00
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Price: £20.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 01 September 2003
Synopsis
When a greedy king wakes up one morning, everything he owns has gone - blown across the bay to neighbouring Naples. When a poor and humble wash ... read more
£65.00
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - White Dustwrapper Edition, Signed by the Illustrator
Author: Susanna Clarke
Price: £65.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 30 September 2004
Synopsis
This book has been printed with two different dust jackets--one black, one white. This copy has the white jacket and is signed by the illustrat ... read more
£65.00
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Black Dustwrapper Edition, Signed by the Illustrator
Author: Susanna Clarke
Price: £65.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 30 September 2004
Synopsis
This book has been printed with two different dust jackets - one black, one white. This copy has the black dust jacket and is ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£30.00
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Price: £30.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 17 January 2005
Synopsis
'Stop looking to belong, half-and-half child. Stop. There is nothing, there is only me, and I have caught you.' Jessamy Harrison is eig ... read more
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£55.00
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Price: £55.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 08 May 2000
Synopsis
Anil's Ghost is Michael Ondaatje's eagerly awaited follow-up to his classic Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient. Drawing on ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£20.00
Author: William Newton
Price: £20.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 October 2003
Synopsis
"The year was 1937 and Hitler had just walked into Austria. It was also a marvellous year for Clouded Yellow butterflies." Wilfred an ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£17.99
Author: Peter Prince
Price: £17.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 05 September 2005
Synopsis
1721. George I is on the throne and Britain just emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome young Adam Hanaway arrives in L ... read more
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£49.99
Author: Kamila Shamsie
Price: £49.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 02 March 2009
Synopsis
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonde ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£16.99
Author: Jane Rusbridge
Price: £16.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 July 2009
Synopsis
It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on earth, five-year-old Andy has a new sister, Elaine - a baby who, hi ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£50.00
DooDaaa: The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge
Author: Ralph Steadman
Price: £50.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 07 October 2002
Synopsis
Ralph Steadman, the creator of his own inimitable visions of Freud, Dante, Orwell, Alice and the Great Gonzo, now offers the (auto)biography of ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£12.99
Author: Alain Claude Sulzer
Price: £12.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 21 January 2008
Synopsis
Erneste works in the restaurant of a grand hotel in Giessbach in Switzerland. He is the 'perfect waiter', a model of order in every way ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£17.99
Author: Rupert Thomson
Price: £17.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 04 April 2005
Synopsis
And then the night when my life began again A strange beginning. Soldiers, bright lights. The cold. And me being lifted, as if by surgeons, int ... read more
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£100.00
Author: Howard Jacobson
Price: £100.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 02 August 2010
Synopsis
MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2010 !!! He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have be ... read more
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£12.99
Author: Lucie Whitehouse
Price: £12.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 07 January 2008
Synopsis
Even now I can remember the first time I saw the house as clearly as if there were a video of it playing in my head. After the suicide of his u ... read more
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£45.00
Author: Gil Adamson
Price: £45.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 05 January 2009
Synopsis
On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness, one quick step ahead of her pursuers. Mary Bou ... read more
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£25.00
Author: John Banville
Price: £25.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 01 September 2003
Synopsis
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, 'devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art', ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£14.99
Author: Ronan Bennett
Price: £14.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 September 2007
Synopsis
Zugzwang: derived from the German, Zug (move) + Zwang (compulsion, obligation). In chess it is used to describe a position in which a player is ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£12.99
Author: Liam Browne
Price: £12.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 February 2006
Synopsis
In a shocking yet all too prosaic moment Joe and Eileen O'Kane experience a terrible tragedy which leaves them bereft. Winter in Derry sets ... read more
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£24.99
Author: Mary Hoffman
Price: £24.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 15 September 2003
Synopsis
This book is aimed at age-range: 12+. This is the sequel to the international best-selling "City of Masks". The time period is the sa ... read more
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£24.99
Author: Mary Hoffman
Price: £24.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 02 September 2002
Synopsis
'City of Masks is a poignant, touching and exciting novel, difficult to put down. This is one of the best time-slip stories that I have rea ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£19.99
The Night of the Burning - Signed, Lined and Dated
Author: Linda Press Wulf
Price: £19.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 07 May 2007
Synopsis
The book begins in eastern Europe in a little-known period of history - the chaotic years just after World War I. It's the story of Devorah ... read more
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£19.99
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Price: £19.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 02 November 2009
Synopsis
Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden c ... read more
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£45.00
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £45.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 July 2006
Synopsis
Araminta Spook is just like any girl. She likes bats, ghosts, werewolves and vampires. One of Araminta's greatest ambitions is to see a gho ... read more
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£25.00
Author: Philip Reeve
Price: £25.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 01 October 2007
Synopsis
Art and his family are invited on a fantastic free holiday to the exotic Asteroid Belt - in a remote part of space near Mars. Taking the train, ... read more
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£10.99
Author: Ian Beck
Price: £10.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 05 October 2009
Synopsis
Pastworld. A city within a city. A city for excursions and outings. Pastworld is a theme park with a difference, where travellers can travel ba ... read more
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£30.00
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Price: £30.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 September 1990
Synopsis
This novel combines a passionate love story and a haunting portrayal of contemporary South Africa. It describes what it is really like to live ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£70.00
Author: David Guterson
Price: £70.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 25 May 1995
Synopsis
It is 1954, and a Japanese American stands accused of murder. Ishmael Chambers is among the journalists covering the trial, a trial which bring ... read more
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£250.00
A Thousand Splendid Suns + Postcard (signed twice)
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Price: £250.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 22 May 2007
Synopsis
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades l ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£60.00
Author: Liz Jensen
Price: £60.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 21 June 2004
Synopsis
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£20.00
Author: Rebecca Johns
Price: £20.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 01 April 2006
Synopsis
Two friends, Walter Dunmore and Al Clark, are the only members of their bomber crew to survive an airforce plane crash in World War II Canada. ... read more
USA Unsigned First Edition
£30.00
Author: Laleh Khadivi
Price: £30.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 03 March 2009
Synopsis
Kurdistan, Persia. A village high in the Zagros mountains. A small green-eyed boy wrestles free from his mother and climbs atop a straw and mud ... read more
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£19.99
Author: Laleh Khadivi
Price: £19.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 02 November 2009
Synopsis
Kurdistan, Persia. A village high in the Zagros mountains. A small green-eyed boy wrestles free from his mother and climbs atop a straw and mud ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£65.00
Author: William Boyd
Price: £65.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 07 September 2009
Synopsis
It is May in Chelsea, London. The glittering river is unusually high on an otherwise ordinary afternoon. Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£35.00
Author: Madeline Miller
Price: £35.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 05 September 2011
Synopsis
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwa ... read more
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£15.00
Author: Philip Reeve
Price: £15.00
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 06 October 2008
Synopsis
When the festive season arrives at Larklight, so does some unsettling news. A sinister-looking cloud is fast approaching the outskirts of the K ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£19.99
Author: Angie Sage
Price: £19.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 13 October 2011
Synopsis
Septimus is on the threshold of his fourteenth birthday, which falls on the shortest day of the year. While everyone celebrates and the Castle ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£24.99
Painter of Silence - SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED, Shortlisted for the Oranze prize 2012
Author: Georgina Harding
Price: £24.99
Published by: Bloomsbury
Date Available: 01 March 2012
Synopsis
When she leaves the ward she feels the whiteness of the room still inside her, as if she is bleached out inside. It is the shock, she tells her ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£9.99
The Spook's Blood: Book 10 (Wardstone Chronicles)
by Joseph Delaney
Synopsis
The tenth installment in the chilling Wardstone Chronicles. Warning: Joseph Delaney's Spook's tales are not to be read after dark . . . ... read more
Release 25 June 2012
Publisher Bodley Head
ISBN 978-0370331812
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£14.99
The Wolves of the North (Warrior of Rome 5)
by Harry Sidebottom
Synopsis
In the fifth novel in Harry Sidebottom's acclaimed and bestselling Warrior of Rome historical fiction series, Ballista returns in Warrior o ... read more
Release 05 July 2012
Publisher Michael Joseph
ISBN 978-0718155933
Signed by the author
UK First Edition / First Printing
£14.99
The Last Caesar
by Henry Venmore-Rowland
Synopsis
AD 68. The tyrant emperor Nero has no son and no heir. Suddenly there's the very real possibility that Rome might be ... read more
Release 21 June 2012
Publisher Bantam Press
ISBN 978-0593068519
Signed by the author
£24.99
The Lion Wakes: The Kingdom Series - SIGNED, PRE-PUB DATED & DOODLED
by Robert Low
Synopsis
The first novel in a major new series as Robert Low moves from the Vikings to the making of Scotland. It is 1296 and Scotland is in turmoi ... read more
Release 12 April 2011
Publisher Harper Collins
ISBN 978-0-00-733791-0
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£29.99
Those in Peril
by Wilbur Smith
Synopsis
Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Ha ... read more
Release 01 April 2011
Publisher Macmillan
ISBN 9780230529267
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£12.99
Sorry - SIGNED, DATED & DOODLED with a flower
by Zoran Drvenkar
Synopsis
Two editions are available in either Black or White. Please confirm your preference if you have one. Saying you’re sorry ... read more
Release 07 March 2012
Publisher Blue Door
ISBN 978-0007439256
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