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Listing books from publisher: Chatto & Windus

UK Unsigned First Edition

£12.99

Mr Muo's Travelling Couch

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

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, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£16.99

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

Signed & Dated by the author.

£16.99

Ask Alice

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

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 First Edition / First Printing

Signed & Dated by the author.

£19.99

Small Wars

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

Signed & Dated by the author.

£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

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

Signed by the author

£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

Signed by the author

£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

Signed by the author

£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

Signed by the author

£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

Signed by the author

£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 & Dated by the author.

£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

Signed by the author

£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

Signed by the author

£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

Signed by the author

£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

Signed by the author

£225.00

The Kindly Ones

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

Signed & Dated by the author.

£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

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

£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

Signed by the author

£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

Signed by the author

£30.00

Music & Silence

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

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

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

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

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed & Dated by the author.

£12.99

The Land of Decoration

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

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Gods and Warriors (1)

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed by the author

£12.99

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

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed by the author

£16.99

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

Signed by the author

UK First Edition / First Printing

£18.99

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

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All That I Am

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£16.99

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

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed by the author

£35.00

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

The Prisoner of Heaven

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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

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