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Listing books from publisher: Chatto & Windus
Author: Anna Lawrence Pietroni
Price: £12.99
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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
Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Price: £30.00
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Published by: Chatto & Windus
Date Available: 01 January 1994
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The tale of Edward Manners read more
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Price: £25.00
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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
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
Author: D. J. Taylor
Price: £16.99
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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: Colin Thubron
Price: £25.00
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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
Author: Sue Peebles
Price: £12.99
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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
Author: Gerard Woodward
Price: £12.99
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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
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
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Price: £20.00
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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
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: Peter Ackroyd
Price: £16.99
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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
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: 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
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
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
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: Michael Ignatieff
Price: £15.00
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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
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: 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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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SIGNED & NUMBERED ( X of 1000) LIMITED EDITION ISSUED WITH A SLIPCASE read more
Author: Rose Tremain
Price: £30.00
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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: A. S. Byatt
Price: £20.00
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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
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: 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
Author: Philip Kerr
Price: £35.00
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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
Author: Philip Kerr
Price: £30.00
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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
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
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
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
out of stock
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
Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Price: £55.00
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Other Typist
by Suzanne Rindell
Synopsis
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell is a thrilling tale of the intoxicating and dark side of friendship. New York Cit ... read more
Release 06 June 2013
Publisher Fig Tree
ISBN 978-0241002889
The Serpent's Tooth
by Alex Rutherford
Synopsis
The Moghul emperors are still bloodthirsty and entirely ruthless; they control a quarter of the world's population and have wealth beyond i ... read more
Release 31 May 2013
Publisher Headline
ISBN 978-0755347636
Paris
by Edward Rutherfurd
Synopsis
City of love. City of splendour. City of terror. City of dreams. Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of ... read more
Release 20 June 2013
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 978-1444736793
UK First Edition / First Printing
Exclusive Signed & Numbered First Edition (500) copies in Slipcase
£40.00
The Power of Six - Exclusive Slipcase Edition - September Book of the Month 2011
by Pittacus Lore
Synopsis
We are the last defence. I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened to John Smith. To the world he's a mys ... read more
Release 01 September 2011
Publisher Penguin
ISBN 978-0718156480
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 10 August 2012
Publisher Little, Brown
ISBN 978-1847444219
A Man Without Breath: A Bernie Gunther Novel
by Philip Kerr
Synopsis
It is winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther has left the Criminal Police and is working for the German War Crimes Bureau based in Berlin. Reports have b ... read more
Release 14 March 2013
Publisher Quercus
ISBN 978-1780876245