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UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£12.99

Ruby's Spoon

Author: Anna Lawrence Pietroni

Price: £12.99

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 04 February 2010

 

Synopsis

This is the tale of three women - one witch, one mermaid and one missing - and how Ruby was caught up in between. When Isa Fly appears in the d ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

The Folding Star

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

Price: £30.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 January 1994

 

Synopsis

The tale of Edward Manners read more

Signed by the author

£25.00

The dogs and the Wolves

Author: Irene Nemirovsky

Price: £25.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 October 2009

 

Synopsis

This wonderful, panoramic novel goes right back to Irene Nemirovsky's roots, sweeping the reader from the Jewish quarter of a Ukrainian cit ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£65.00

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Author: Dai Sijie

Price: £65.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 14 June 2001

 

Synopsis

Two boys, both sons of doctors, are sent to the top of a mountain for "re-education" in Mao's China. An education that involves c ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed & Dated by the author.

£16.99

Ask Alice

Author: D. J. Taylor

Price: £16.99

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 April 2009

 

Synopsis

1904. A pretty young woman travels apprehensively across the American prairies; on a whim she makes a bold decision, grabbing her future with b ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£16.99

Kept

Author: D. J. Taylor

Price: £16.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 February 2006

 

Synopsis

Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens...Captivating and ingeniou ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

Shadow of the Silk Road

Author: Colin Thubron

Price: £25.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 07 September 2006

 

Synopsis

There was never one Silk Road - but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran ... read more

Signed & Dated by the author.

£12.99

The Death of Lomond Friel

Author: Sue Peebles

Price: £12.99

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 06 May 2010

 

Synopsis

When Rosie, a successful radio presenter, hears that her father has had a stroke, her life is thrown into disarray and she finds herself making ... read more

Signed by the author

£12.99

A Curious Earth

Author: Gerard Woodward

Price: £12.99

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 March 2007

 

Synopsis

You don't need to have read Gerard Woodward's previous two novels, "August" and "I'll Go To Bed At Noon", to fa ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed & Dated by the author.

£19.99

Small Wars

Author: Sadie Jones

Price: £19.99

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Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 27 August 2009

 

Synopsis

Hal Treherne is a young and dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other deep commitment is to Clar ... read more

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£20.00

The Plato Papers

Author: Peter Ackroyd

Price: £20.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 April 1999

 

Synopsis

Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London on ritual occasions to impart the ancient history of their city. He dwells particularly on th ... read more

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£12.99

The Captain's Table: A Bella Wallis Mystery

Author: Brian Thompson

Price: £12.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 04 June 2009

 

Synopsis

London, 1875. At Lady Cornford's famous soiree (sugared almonds and tittle-tattle) everyone is gossiping about Henry Ellis Margam's lat ... read more

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£16.99

The Fall of Troy

Author: Peter Ackroyd

Price: £16.99

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 07 September 2006

 

Synopsis

'I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. ... read more

Signed by the author

£21.99

Trespass

Author: Rose Tremain

Price: £21.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 04 March 2010

 

Synopsis

In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past th ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

Two Is Lonely

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Price: £45.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 21 March 1974

 

Synopsis

Now living with her son in the country, Jane is a long way from the l-shaped room. The last novel in a trilogy which began when Jane, pregnant ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

£55.00

Still Life

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £55.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 24 June 1985

 

Synopsis

Much concerned with the fear of the female and with the fragility of life - death intrudes in a particularly shocking form - STILL LIFE is a ma ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

£30.00

Angels and Insects

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £30.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 19 October 1992

 

Synopsis

A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts.   About the Author A.S. ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£100.00

The Virgin in the Garden

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £100.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 November 1978

 

Synopsis

Brought together for the first time, two early novels from this author, set in Yorkshire, Cambridge and London between 1953 and 1959, and follo ... read more

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£25.00

The Fire Fighter

Author: Francis Cottam

Price: £25.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 29 March 2001

 

Synopsis

Autumn, 1940, and the Luftwaffe is firebombing London. Jack Finlay, a man already notorious for his capacity to fight fires, and men, is hauled ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£16.99

Mortmain

Author: Judy Corbalis

Price: £16.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 08 March 2007

 

Synopsis

This is a novel of small-town life. In Castletown, New Zealand, the stifling culture of 'the correct way to behave' crushes the unortho ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£35.00

The Lost Dog

Author: Michelle de Kretser

Price: £35.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 May 2008

 

Synopsis

Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote cottage in the bush, trying to finish a book on Henry James and the Uncanny when his dog goes missing, trail ... read more

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£12.99

The Wonder

Author: Diana Evans

Price: £12.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 06 August 2009

 

Synopsis

As a child Lucas assumed that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the West Lo ... read more

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£12.99

26a

Author: Diana Evans

Price: £12.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 24 March 2005

 

Synopsis

Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£16.99

Over

Author: Margaret Forster

Price: £16.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 May 2007

 

Synopsis

This is a novel about what happens after a tragedy in a family. Not the tragedy itself but its aftermath, what's left when the tide recedes ... read more

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£25.00

Flawed Angel

Author: John Fuller

Price: £25.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 03 November 2005

 

Synopsis

Once upon a time in a Middle Eastern land, the ruler had two sons, the first still-born, so they said. The younger, a fat, thoughtful, sweet-na ... read more

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£12.99

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

Author: Xiaolu Guo

Price: £12.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 03 January 2008

 

Synopsis

'So I was the 6787th person in Beijing wanting to act in the film and TV industry. There were 6786 young and beautiful, or ugly and old ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers

Author: Xiaolu Guo

Price: £25.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 February 2007

 

Synopsis

Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. When the book begins she can barely ask for a cup of tea, ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£12.99

UFO in Her Eyes

Author: Xiaolu Guo

Price: £12.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 05 February 2009

 

Synopsis

Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicy ... read more

Signed by the author

£15.00

Scar Tissue

Author: Michael Ignatieff

Price: £15.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 15 April 1993

 

Synopsis

A report from that other country called illness. At its heart is a son's memoir of his mother's voyage into the world of neurological d ... read more

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£25.00

In Lucia's Eyes

Author: Arthur Japin

Price: £25.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 07 July 2005

 

Synopsis

Amsterdam 1758, and a man is artfully seducing a woman. He is, to all appearances, Monsieur le Chevalier de Seingalt, a French government envoy ... read more

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£70.00

Peeping Tom

Author: Howard Jacobson

Price: £70.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 11 October 1984

 

Synopsis

Barney Fugleman's problems started when Sharon had him hypnotized - or did they begin when he spied on Rabika Flatman in a hammock? Either ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

Charlie Johnson in the Flames

Author: Michael Ignatieff

Price: £25.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 04 September 2003

 

Synopsis

Intense, visceral and moving novel from Booker-shortlisted author of Scar Tissue, about what war does to us all - like a modern-day Graham Gree ... read more

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£79.99

The Outcast

Author: Sadie Jones

Price: £79.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 07 February 2008

 

Synopsis

1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£50.00

The Spell

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

Price: £50.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 July 1998

 

Synopsis

A comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties living with his ... read more

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£35.00

The Other Side of the Bridge

Author: Mary Lawson

Price: £35.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 14 September 2006

 

Synopsis

Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another World War is looming. Arthur is ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

Crow Lake

Author: Mary Lawson

Price: £45.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 28 February 2002

 

Synopsis

Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story set in the rural 'badlands' of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the l ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£225.00

The Kindly Ones

Author: Jonathan Littell

Price: £225.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 05 March 2009

 

Synopsis

COPIES ARE SIGNED ON A TIP-IN PAGE. This Faustian story with a terrifying twist is the fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former SS i ... read more

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£24.99

Moths

Author: Karl Manders

Price: £24.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 03 May 2007

 

Synopsis

Opening in the 1930s, this stunning novel tells the parallel stories of a father and son whose lives take the reader through critical moments o ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

The View from Castle Rock

Author: Alice Munro

Price: £25.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 November 2006

 

Synopsis

'Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America... She is speaking to you and to me right ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£20.00

The Condor's Head

Author: Ferdinand Mount

Price: £20.00

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Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 05 July 2007

 

Synopsis

A fair-haired young man from Virginia sees a dark girl rowing on the lake at Versailles and he falls in love. She turns out to be the Duchess d ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

South of the River

Author: Blake Morrison

Price: £25.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 29 March 2007

 

Synopsis

Intimate and disconcerting, compelling and comic, an anatomy of the way things are, "South of the River" is the big British novel ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

£30.00

David Golder - signed by the translator

Author: Irene Nemirovsky

Price: £30.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 February 2007

 

Synopsis

This title is translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham. In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky shot to fame in France ... read more

£45.00

All Our Worldly Goods - signed by the translator

Author: Irene Nemirovsky

Price: £45.00

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Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 October 2008

 

Synopsis

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequen ... read more

£250.00

Suite Francaise - Double Signed by Irene Nemirovsky's daughter and translator

Author: Irene Nemirovsky

Price: £250.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 March 2006

 

Synopsis

In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and ... read more

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£24.99

Dr Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physician

Author: Judith Cook

Price: £24.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 18 January 2001

 

Synopsis

Charismatic and ambitious, Simon Forman rose from a poor upbringing in Wiltshire to become one of the wealthiest doctors in London. This accoun ... read more

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£45.00

Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities

Author: Nigella Lawson

Price: £45.00

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Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 October 2008

 

Synopsis

SIGNED & NUMBERED ( X of 1000) LIMITED EDITION ISSUED WITH A SLIPCASE read more

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£30.00

Music & Silence

Author: Rose Tremain

Price: £30.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 September 1999

 

Synopsis

This treasure house of delights, as haunting as it is pleasurable, teems with characters, real and imagined; with intrigues, searches, betrayal ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£20.00

Elementals

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £20.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 12 November 1998

 

Synopsis

A volume of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. In the same delectable format as THE MATISSE STORIE ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£40.00

Bruno's Dream

Author: Iris Murdoch

Price: £40.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 January 1969

 

Synopsis

Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relat ... read more

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£12.99

Tides of War

Author: Stella Tillyard

Price: £12.99

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Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 05 May 2011

 

Synopsis

Book Description An epic romance - a sweeping, panoramic novel by the best-selling historian, set in Regency England and Spain during the P ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed and Lined by the author

£35.00

Esau

Author: Philip Kerr

Price: £35.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 10 October 1996

 

Synopsis

Mountaineer Jack Furness comes across a fossilized fragment of skull in Nepal which defies classification. With Stella, he sets off to discover ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

Dead Meat

Author: Philip Kerr

Price: £30.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 05 August 1993

 

Synopsis

Set in Leningrad in 1993, this book features a hard-bitten detective called Grushko. The background is the chaos that follows the collapse of t ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed by the author

£14.99

The Wine of Solitude

Author: Irene Nemirovsky

Price: £14.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 20 October 2011

 

Synopsis

***SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR*** Introspective, intense and poignant, The Wine of Solitude is the most autobiographical of all Irène N ... read more

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Signed & Dated by the author.

£12.99

The Uninvited Guests - SIGNED, PUBLICATION DATED & LOCATED

Author: Sadie Jones

Price: £12.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 22 March 2012

 

Synopsis

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington' ... read more

UK Hardback Exclusive to Goldsboro Books

Exclusive to Goldsboro Books, Signed & Numbered First Edition (500) copies.

UK First Edition / First Printing

£125.00

Incendiary - Goldsboro Exclusive UK Hardback

Author: Chris Cleave

Price: £125.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 07 July 2005

 

Synopsis

UK Hardback Edition was published exclusively for Goldsboro Books in the UK. A print run of only 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author. ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

£25.00

The Fool's Run

Author: John Camp

Price: £25.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 January 1990

 

Synopsis

    On the cuttingOn the cutting edge of high-tech corporate warfare, two state-of-the-art con artists find the noose tighten ... read more

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£12.99

The Land of Decoration

Author: Grace McCleen

Price: £12.99

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Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 08 March 2012

 

Synopsis

Blissfully inventive, brilliantly written, with a huge heart, and a tense, pulsing plot: The Land of Decoration introduces a young heroine who ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£55.00

The Swimming-Pool Library

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

Price: £55.00

out of stock

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 22 February 1988

 

Synopsis

A novel concerned with the gay relationship between William Beckwith (rich, unemployed, in his early twenties) and Lord Nantwich (comfortable, ... read more

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£18.99

Merivel: A Man of His Time

Author: Rose Tremain

Price: £18.99

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Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 20 September 2012

 

Synopsis

The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his ability to ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

£24.00

Sugar and Other Stories

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £24.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 06 April 1987

 

Synopsis

The constant theme running through this collection of short stories, the first collection by A.S. Byatt, is that of repetition, taking the form ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

£15.00

The Little Black Book of Stories

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £15.00

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Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 06 November 2003

 

Synopsis

This title contains five stories, which are funny, spooky, sparkling and sad. Two women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, c ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

£30.00

Passions Of The Mind: Selected Writings

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £30.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 08 August 1991

 

Synopsis

A selection reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S. Byatt, this work sweeps from the Romantics and Victorians to modern British writers, from ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

£110.00

Possession: A Romance

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £110.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 01 March 1990

 

Synopsis

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two bio ... read more

Signed by the author

UK First Edition / First Printing

£55.00

Babel Tower

Author: A. S. Byatt

Price: £55.00

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 02 May 1996

 

Synopsis

In BABEL TOWER a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring language ... read more

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£16.99

The Dark Road

Author: Ma Jian

Price: £16.99

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Date Available: 09 May 2013

 

Synopsis

SIGNED IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH. Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a ... read more

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