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Listing books from publisher: Doubleday

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£25.00

Mutiny on the Bounty

Author: John Boyne

Price: £25.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 05 May 2008

 

Synopsis

December 23, 1787, Portsmouth: A 14-year-old boy, John Jacob Turnstile, has got into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is o ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£150.00

The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition

Author: Dan Brown

Price: £150.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 30 October 2004

 

Synopsis

2While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£12.99

Cradle Song

Author: Robert Edric

Price: £12.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 July 2003

 

Synopsis

Against the backdrop of a world of pornography and child murder, this dark and intense novel reads like a game of chess where every piece is in ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

Seventy-seven Clocks (Bryant & May 3)

Author: Christopher Fowler

Price: £45.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 02 September 2005

 

Synopsis

It was late in 1973. As strikes and blackouts ravaged the country during Edward Heath’s ‘Winter of Discontent’, sundry member ... read more

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£125.00

Full Dark House

Author: Christopher Fowler

Price: £125.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 August 2003

 

Synopsis

When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit and claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant, his surv ... read more

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£15.00

In The Kingdom of Mists

Author: Jane Jakeman

Price: £15.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 July 2002

 

Synopsis

London, 1900: while Monet paints the wintry mists over the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its murky depths arousing fea ... read more

£30.00

The Truth

Author: Terry Pratchett

Price: £30.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 02 November 2000

 

Synopsis

Discworld's first newspaper editor just wants to get at the truth but unfortunately, like other editors before and after him, many people w ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

A Hat Full of Sky

Author: Terry Pratchett

Price: £30.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 29 April 2004

 

Synopsis

Tiffany Aching - a hag from a long line of hags - is trying out her witchy talents again as she is plunged into yet another adventure when she ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£40.00

The Fifth Elephant

Author: Terry Pratchett

Price: £40.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 November 1999

 

Synopsis

Sam Vimes is a man on the run and if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. But there ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

Monstrous Regiment

Author: Terry Pratchett

Price: £30.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 October 2003

 

Synopsis

It begun as a sudden strange fancy ...Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£35.00

The Last Continent

Author: Terry Pratchett

Price: £35.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 May 1998

 

Synopsis

The Discworld's last continent is hot and very dry, and everything is poisonous. All this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is t ... read more

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

£24.99

The Black Tattoo

Author: Sam Enthoven

Price: £24.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 07 September 2006

 

Synopsis

Jack doesn't know what he's got himself into. One minute he and his best friend Charlie were up in Chinatown having crispy duck with Ch ... read more

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£29.99

Deep Trouble

Author: Debi Gliori

Price: £29.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 03 June 2004

 

Synopsis

When the Strega-Borgias return from holiday to find that their faithful family retainer, Latch, has collapsed from unknown causes, it is only t ... read more

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£400.00

Pure Dead Magic, Pure Dead Wicked, Pure Dead Brilliant, Deep Fear, Deep Trouble, Deep Water - SIGNED SET OF 6

Author: Debi Gliori

Price: £400.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 02 April 2001

 

Synopsis

"Pure Dead Magic" includes kidnapping, magic and computer madness, and features a family that makes the Addams family seem almost nor ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

The Scarecrow and his Servant

Author: Philip Pullman

Price: £25.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 November 2004

 

Synopsis

A wonderful new tale of two friends: a scarecrow made of straw and turnip, and his servant, a clever little boy named Jack. Their journey of di ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

Death and the Arrow

Author: Chris Priestley

Price: £25.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 06 February 2003

 

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Tom helps his father run a print shop in London. When he and old Dr Harker hear of a curious murder in the City, with the vict ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£55.00

The Curse of the Gloamgozer

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £55.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 03 September 2001

 

Synopsis

In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme and bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail. They sh ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

The Winter Knights

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £30.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 December 2005

 

Synopsis

In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son ... read more

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£45.00

Vox

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £45.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 September 2003

 

Synopsis

A second title to feature young librarian knight Rook as he and his co-rebels combine forces to challenge the dark might of the Guardians of th ... read more

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£45.00

The Last of the Sky Pirates

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £45.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 September 2002

 

Synopsis

Fifty years after the floating city of Sanctaphrax was swept away, the Edgeworld has changed. For the worse. Cruel shrykes control the great Mi ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£400.00

Stormchaser

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £400.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 November 1999

 

Synopsis

Since his childhood in the Deepwoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a lowly crew-member ... read more

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£15.00

Fergus Crane

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £15.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 April 2004

 

Synopsis

FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP. Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life - ha ... read more

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£24.99

The Golem's Eye

Author: Jonathan Stroud

Price: £24.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 07 October 2004

 

Synopsis

Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks. ... read more

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£20.00

Clash of the Sky Galleons

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £20.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 07 September 2006

 

Synopsis

Quint is travelling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire th ... read more

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£20.00

Freeglader

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £20.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 02 September 2004

 

Synopsis

Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and his colleagues - the librarian knights, Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends - mus ... read more

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£12.99

Dragon Horse

Author: Peter Ward

Price: £12.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 03 January 2008

 

Synopsis

Set in ancient China, two brothers fight the classic battle between good and evil as the Shadow-without-name attempts to break free from an ete ... read more

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£19.99

White Male Heart

Author: Ruaridh Nicoll

Price: £19.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 June 2001

 

Synopsis

Deep in the wilderness of Scotland, Aaron and Hugh have been friends for as long as they can remember. When a woman moves into the area, she dr ... read more

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£15.00

Wide Eyed

Author: Ruaridh Nicoll

Price: £15.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 September 2003

 

Synopsis

A picture-postcard fishing village at the southernmost tip of Scotland appears to be the perfect place for Betsy Gillander to abscond for a few ... read more

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£17.99

Random Acts of Heroic Love

Author: Danny Scheinmann

Price: £17.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 August 2007

 

Synopsis

1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how El ... read more

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£350.00

Q & A (Filmed as Slumdog Millionaire)

Author: Vikas Swarup

Price: £350.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 April 2005

 

Synopsis

Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammed Thomas is in prison after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The ... read more

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£75.00

Brick Lane

Author: Monica Ali

Price: £75.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 02 June 2003

 

Synopsis

Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense ... read more

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

£30.00

The Night Climbers

Author: Ivo Stourton

Price: £30.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 January 2007

 

Synopsis

James, a first-year student at Cambridge, is overwhelmed by the thrill of opportunity and startled by his own hunger for friendship. He finds h ... read more

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£9.99

The Decoy

Author: Tony Strong

Price: £9.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 May 2001

 

Synopsis

There aren't many jobs for young actresses in New York, particularly young British actresses without work permits. Twenty-five-year-old Cla ... read more

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£79.99

Three Bags Full

Author: Leonie Swann

Price: £79.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 05 June 2006

 

Synopsis

On a hillside near the cosy Irish village of Glennkill, a flock of sheep gather around their beloved shepherd George, who lies murdered, his bo ... read more

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£25.00

In The Kitchen

Author: Monica Ali

Price: £25.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 30 April 2009

 

Synopsis

'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?' 'Misfits', he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job& ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£50.00

A Pound of Paper

Author: John Baxter

Price: £50.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 November 2002

 

Synopsis

By the 1960s a copy of Graham Greene's "Brighton Rock" without its dust jacket was worth about #500. But with its dust jacket mor ... read more

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£25.00

Making Love: A Conspiracy of the Heart

Author: Marius Brill

Price: £25.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 May 2003

 

Synopsis

He was out of her league. She was out of her depth. When Miranda, the Miss Lonely Hearts of Shepherd's Bush, suddenly finds herself romance ... read more

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£30.00

Cathedral of the Sea

Author: Ildefonso Falcones

Price: £30.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 24 March 2008

 

Synopsis

A masterful epic of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti-Semitism and the Inquisition 14th-century Spain, the medieval city of ... read more

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

£34.99

The Blasphemer

Author: Nigel Farndale

Price: £34.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 21 January 2010

 

Synopsis

On its way to the Galapagos Islands, a light aircraft ditches into the sea. As the water floods through the cabin, zoologist Daniel Kennedy fac ... read more

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£20.00

Holy Fools

Author: Joanne Harris

Price: £20.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 May 2003

 

Synopsis

Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself ... read more

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£25.00

Jigs and Reels

Author: Joanne Harris

Price: £25.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 01 April 2004

 

Synopsis

Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and ... read more

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£12.99

Coastliners

Author: Joanne Harris

Price: £12.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 March 2002

 

Synopsis

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the ... read more

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£25.00

The Lollipop Shoes

Author: Joanne Harris

Price: £25.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 02 May 2007

 

Synopsis

'Who died?' I said. 'Or is it a secret?' 'My mother, Vianne Rocher.' Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobble ... read more

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£17.99

Mary Ann in Autumn

Author: Armistead Maupin

Price: £17.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 11 November 2010

 

Synopsis

Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New ... read more

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£15.99

The Lazarus Child

Author: Robert Mawson

Price: £15.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 17 August 1998

 

Synopsis

Struggling to cope with a marriage in difficulty, Jack and Alison Heywood suffer every parent's worst nightmare. Their two children are inv ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£40.00

Waiting to Exhale

Author: Terry McMillan

Price: £40.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 17 September 1992

 

Synopsis

At 36 Savannah Jackson seems to have it made. She's attractive, she's got a job in TV, money in the bank and a nice home, in fact she h ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed and Lined by the author

£12.99

Mistress of My Fate

Author: Hallie Rubenhold

Price: £12.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 14 July 2011

 

Synopsis

 SIGNED, LINED & DATED   First book in a historical series set in 18th century England, from Britain's bright ... read more

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£16.99

Bryant and May and the Memory of Blood

Author: Christopher Fowler

Price: £16.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 04 October 2011

 

Synopsis

On a rainswept London night, the wealthy unscrupulous Robert Kramer hosts a party in his penthouse just off Trafalgar Square. But something is ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

Exclusive Signed & Numbered First Edition (500) copies in Slipcase

£40.00

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Exclusive Numbered Slipcase Edition - MARCH 2012 BOOK OF THE MONTH

Author: Rachel Joyce

Price: £40.00

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 15 March 2012

 

Synopsis

When Harold Fry sets out one morning to post a letter to his dying friend Queenie he finds himself at the start of a journey that will have man ... read more

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£12.99

The Light Between Oceans - SIGNED & DATED

Author: M L Stedman

Price: £12.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 26 April 2012

 

Synopsis

A stunning debut novel about a lighthouse keeper and his wife. They break the rules and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed by the author

£18.99

Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

Author: Joanne Harris

Price: £18.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 24 May 2012

 

Synopsis

A welcome return to the village in rural France that was the setting for Joanne Harris's remarkable and much-loved number one bestseller Ch ... read more

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£14.99

The Summer of Dead Toys - JULY 2012 BOOK OF THE MONTH

Author: Antonio Hill

Price: £14.99

Published by: Doubleday

Date Available: 05 July 2012

 

Synopsis

International crime fiction set in Barcelona, introducing Inspector Hector Salgado, whose problematic personal life threatens to destroy his ca ... read more

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The Black Mausoleum (Memory of Flames 4)

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The Black Mausoleum (Memory of Flames 4)

by Stephen Deas

 

Synopsis

Two years have passed since the events of the Order of the Scales. Across the realms, dragons are still hatching. Hatching, and hatching free. ... read more

 

Release 16 August 2012

Publisher Gollancz

ISBN 978-0575100480

The Saint Zita Society

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The Saint Zita Society

by Ruth Rendell

 

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'Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. St ... read more

 

Release 05 July 2012

Publisher Hutchinson

ISBN 978-0091944049

The Falcons of Fire and Ice

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The Falcons of Fire and Ice

by Karen Maitland

 

Synopsis

Karen Maitland, the author of the hugely popular Company of Liars, has written a powerful historical thriller which takes you right back to the ... read more

 

Release 16 August 2012

Publisher Michael Joseph

ISBN 978-0718159962

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Young Sherlock Holmes 1: Death Cloud, Goldsboro Books Limited Exclusive

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Young Sherlock Holmes1: Death Cloud - Goldsboro Exclusive Hardback

by Andrew Lane

 

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The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer’s son: boarding school, good ... read more

 

Release 06 June 2010

Publisher Macmillan

ISBN 978-0-230751965

Rome's Executioner (Vespasian 2)

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£24.99

Rome's Executioner (Vespasian 2) - SIGNED, LINED & PUBLICATION DATED

by Robert Fabbri

 

Synopsis

Thracia, AD30: Even after four years military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an ... read more

 

Release 01 May 2012

Publisher Corvus

ISBN 978-1848879126

The Light Between Oceans

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£12.99

The Light Between Oceans - SIGNED & DATED

by M L Stedman

 

Synopsis

A stunning debut novel about a lighthouse keeper and his wife. They break the rules and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours ... read more

 

Release 26 April 2012

Publisher Doubleday

ISBN 978-0857521002

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