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Listing books from publisher: Chatto & Windus
Author: Dai Sijie
Price: £12.99
Published by: Chatto & Windus
Date Available: 02 June 2005
Synopsis
Dai Sijie's bestselling and much loved first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, was a delightful fable. His second is a ... read more
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
Hammer - Signed, Lined and Dated
Author: Sara Stockbridge
Price: £16.99
Published by: Chatto & Windus
Date Available: 05 March 2009
Synopsis
Grace Hammer lives a sweet enough life with her four children in London's dank and dirty East End, dipping the pockets of wealthy strangers ... read more
Author: D. J. Taylor
Price: £16.99
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
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
Author: Sadie Jones
Price: £19.99
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Author: Jonathan Littell
Price: £225.00
Published by: Chatto & Windus
Date Available: 05 March 2009
Synopsis
This Faustian story with a terrifying twist is the fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former SS intelligence officer, who has reinvented hi ... read more
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
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
Author: Ferdinand Mount
Price: £20.00
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
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
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
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
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
Author: Rose Tremain
Price: £30.00
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
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
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
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
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
Author: Grace McCleen
Price: £12.99
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
Gods and Warriors (1)
by Michelle Paver
Synopsis
In the turbulent world of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, long before the Greek myths, a boy and a girl battle for survival. With the help of thr ... read more
Release 28 August 2012
Publisher Puffin
ISBN 978-0141339269
Rush of Blood
by Mark Billingham
Synopsis
The new standalone from the No.1 bestselling author Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect mur ... read more
Release 02 August 2012
Publisher Little, Brown
ISBN 978-1847444219
The Yips
by Nicola Barker
Synopsis
A new novel of the pre-Olympic moment from the Booker-shortlisted author of ‘Darkmans’, Nicola Barker. 2006 is a foreign countr ... read more
Release 05 July 2012
Publisher Fourth Estate
ISBN 978-0007476657
All That I Am - October Book of the Month 2011
by Anna Funder
Synopsis
One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being delivered to her door. Inside she finds a tattered little not ... read more
Release 01 October 2011
Publisher Viking
ISBN 978-0670920396
Song of Achilles - Special Edition (500 numbered copies with gold-edged pages) - Shortlisted for the Oranze prize 2012
by Madeline Miller
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
Release 05 September 2011
Publisher Bloomsbury
ISBN 978-1408826423
Exclusive to Goldsboro Books, Signed & Numbered First Edition (250) copies.
UK First Edition / First Printing
£18.99
The Prisoner of Heaven - Numbered Limited Edition of 250 copies
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Synopsis
The third in the cycle of novels that began with THE SHADOW OF THE WIND and THE ANGEL'S GAME. THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world o ... read more
Release 21 June 2012
Publisher Weidenfeld Nicolson
ISBN 978-0297868095