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£12.99

The Scholar of Extortion

Author: Reg Gadney

Price: £12.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 05 June 2003

 

Synopsis

Winston Lim, an incorruptible inspector in the Hong Kong police force, receives a tip that a major act of maritime terrorism is about to happen ... read more

Signed & Dated by the author.

£45.00

The Bellini Card ('Yashim the Eunuch' Mystery)

Author: Jason Goodwin

Price: £45.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 03 July 2008

 

Synopsis

The third book in Jason Goodwin’s celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venic ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

Underground

Author: Tobias Hill

Price: £25.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 March 1999

 

Synopsis

A literary thriller in which, in a sense, the London Underground becomes the central character. Someone is pushing women under trains, and a Po ... read more

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£35.00

The Murder Room

Author: P. D. James

Price: £35.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 January 2003

 

Synopsis

Commander Dalgliesh investigates a horrible death at the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, dedicated to the years 1919- ... read more

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£130.00

Innocent Blood

Author: P. D. James

Price: £130.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 January 1980

 

Synopsis

Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she e ... read more

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£85.00

A Certain Justice

Author: P. D. James

Price: £85.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 January 1997

 

Synopsis

Veneti Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one ... read more

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£30.00

The Lighthouse

Author: P. D. James

Price: £30.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 January 2005

 

Synopsis

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stresse ... read more

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£125.00

The Skull Beneath the Skin

Author: P. D. James

Price: £125.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 January 1982

 

Synopsis

Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysteri ... read more

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£135.00

Death of an Expert Witness

Author: P. D. James

Price: £135.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 January 1977

 

Synopsis

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's ... read more

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£12.99

The Salati Case

Author: Tobias Jones

Price: £12.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 02 July 2009

 

Synopsis

Castagnetti is a private detective who lost his parents and his optimism long ago. He’s impatient with the world of appearances and decei ... read more

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£30.00

Dreadful Acts

Author: Philip Ardagh

Price: £30.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 04 September 2003

 

Synopsis

Eddie Dickens continues his hilarious adventures in the second book in this best-selling trilogy, hailed by the Guardian as 'a scrumptious ... read more

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£15.00

Heir of Mystery

Author: Philip Ardagh

Price: £15.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 07 April 2003

 

Synopsis

Book Two in Philip Ardagh's darkly hilarious new trilogy, 'Unlikely Exploits', charting the extraordinary change in fortunes of the ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£15.00

The Fall of Fergal

Author: Philip Ardagh

Price: £15.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 04 June 2001

 

Synopsis

The setting is an unidentified country, suffering from an unexpected outbreak of very large holes. The McNally children find themselves in The ... read more

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£15.00

Terrible Times

Author: Philip Ardagh

Price: £15.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 07 October 2002

 

Synopsis

In this final book in the trilogy, Eddie had been given the task of travelling to America to look after his family's interests there. But h ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

Fugue for a Darkening Island

Author: Christopher Priest

Price: £45.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 21 February 1972

 

Synopsis

A powerhouse of a near-future dystopia, unrelenting in its grim intensity. This amazing novel by Christopher Priest is a glimpse into the futur ... read more

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£15.00

The Dreamwalker's Child

Author: Steve Voake

Price: £15.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 20 July 2005

 

Synopsis

'When the Dreamwalker's Child walks in Aurobon, then shall the East be in the ascendant; a plague shall descend from the sky and the Ea ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed and Lined by the author

£25.00

The Web of Fire

Author: Steve Voake

Price: £25.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 05 January 2006

 

Synopsis

Skipper and Sam are back, four years after they vanquished Odoursin and saved humankind from his terrifying plans. But the Aurobon they return ... read more

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£6.99

Wormwood

Author: G. P. Taylor

Price: £6.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 03 June 2004

 

Synopsis

Wormwood . . . the bright star shall fall from the sky . . . and many will die from its bitterness . . . It is London, 1756. In his Bloomsbury ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£16.99

Personality

Author: Andrew O'Hagan

Price: £16.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 07 April 2003

 

Synopsis

Maria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£20.00

The Nature of Blood

Author: Caryl Phillips

Price: £20.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 05 June 1997

 

Synopsis

A novel which explores some of the most dangerous and nightmarish aspects of our identity by interlinking the stories of, among others, a Jewis ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

Vernon God Little

Author: D. B. C. Pierre

Price: £45.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 20 January 2003

 

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. So ... read more

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£45.00

Resistance

Author: Owen Sheers

Price: £45.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 07 June 2007

 

Synopsis

This story is set in the year 1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied...Young farmer's wi ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£14.99

Castro's Dream

Author: Lucy Wadham

Price: £14.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 21 April 2003

 

Synopsis

Waiting anxiously for the release from prison of her one-time lover, Lola sits in her apartment, willing the phone to ring with some word from ... read more

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£60.00

Other Colours

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Price: £60.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 06 September 2007

 

Synopsis

Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and cult ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£39.99

Never Let Me Go

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Price: £39.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 03 May 2005

 

Synopsis

Kazuo Ishiguro has been acclaimed in the Sunday Times for 'extending the possibilities of fiction'. In Never Let Me Go he has fashioned ... read more

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£12.99

Bears of England

Author: Mick Jackson

Price: £12.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 02 July 2009

 

Synopsis

Bears of England is another eccentric delight from the author of The Underground Man and Ten Sorry Tales, with illustrations by David Roberts. ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£35.00

The Burial at Thebes

Author: Seamus Heaney

Price: £35.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 04 March 2004

 

Synopsis

‘The Burial at Thebes' is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, ‘Antigone' - whose epo ... read more

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£45.00

Bunker 13

Author: Aniruddha Bahal

Price: £45.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 05 June 2003

 

Synopsis

Minty Mehta (aka MM) likes to play dangerously. When shooting a documentary in Kashmir about the Indian army and their conflict with the Pakist ... read more

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£45.00

The Secret Scripture

Author: Sebastian Barry

Price: £45.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 May 2008

 

Synopsis

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she’s spe ... read more

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£25.00

His Illegal Self

Author: Peter Carey

Price: £25.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 07 February 2008

 

Synopsis

Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his fa ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

Celia's Secret: The Copenhagen Papers

Author: Michael Frayn

Price: £30.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 22 May 2000

 

Synopsis

One day during the run of Michael Fryan's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded ... read more

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£35.00

Spies

Author: Michael Frayn

Price: £35.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 04 February 2002

 

Synopsis

In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single ra ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£15.00

Ellis and the Hummick

Author: Andrew Gibson

Price: £15.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 04 April 1989

 

Synopsis

One night the Hummick appears in Ellis' bed needing help. Ellis is not sure he wants to give it. But when the Hummick disappears, he tunnel ... read more

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£50.00

The Coma

Author: Alex Garland

Price: £50.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 July 2004

 

Synopsis

Carl is brutally assaulted in an underground train while protecting a young woman from a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious, he lies for day ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£55.00

Darkness Visible

Author: William Golding

Price: £55.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 October 1979

 

Synopsis

A chilling mystery from the master of disturbing suggestion. read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

Fire Down Below

Author: William Golding

Price: £30.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 21 June 1989

 

Synopsis

An old ship rolls and pitches towards her destination. She still contains - precariously at times - her cosmos of human beings. There are panic ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£14.99

The Carhullan Army

Author: Sarah Hall

Price: £14.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 16 August 2007

 

Synopsis

The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain – now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy – i ... read more

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£30.00

The Observations

Author: Jane Harris

Price: £30.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 06 April 2006

 

Synopsis

So there I was with two pens, my two titties, Charles Dickens, two slice of bread and a blank book at the end of my first day in the middle of ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

Season Songs

Author: Ted Hughes

Price: £45.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 17 May 1976

 

Synopsis

Collection of poems and songs read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£35.00

Mr. Phillips

Author: John Lanchester

Price: £35.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 April 2000

 

Synopsis

Mr Phillips is an accountant who lies in bed with his wife and dreams of other women. When he loses his job and tells no one, his first day out ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

The Snake Stone

Author: Jason Goodwin

Price: £30.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 05 July 2007

 

Synopsis

Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find ... read more

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£40.00

Death in Holy Orders

Author: P. D. James

Price: £40.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 05 March 2001

 

Synopsis

With Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James makes a triumphant return to the genre for which she is best known - the classic English detective story ... read more

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£85.00

Original Sin

Author: P. D. James

Price: £85.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 02 November 1994

 

Synopsis

Set in a publishing firm housed in a mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The chairman has died and the brilliant but ruthless Gerard Etienne ha ... read more

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£19.99

A Gentle Axe

Author: R. N. Morris

Price: £19.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 01 February 2007

 

Synopsis

St Petersburg. Winter. 1867. Two frozen bodies are found in an isolated corner of Petrovsky Park. The first – that of a dwarf – has ... read more

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£69.99

Parrot and Olivier in America

Author: Peter Carey

Price: £69.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 04 February 2010

 

Synopsis

Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted ... read more

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£55.00

Private Patient

Author: P. D. James

Price: £55.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 28 August 2008

 

Synopsis

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a di ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£24.99

Gillespie and I - Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012

Author: Jane Harris

Price: £24.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 05 May 2011

 

Synopsis

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, ne ... read more

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£40.00

Blood Rain

Author: Michael Dibdin

Price: £40.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 20 September 1999

 

Synopsis

Inspector Zen receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily. Against the backdrop of the 300 ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£16.99

On Canaan's Side - LONGLISTED FOR BOOKER PRIZE 2011

Author: Sebastian Barry

Price: £16.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 04 August 2011

 

Synopsis

‘As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.’ Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan’s Side opens as sh ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£17.99

The Chemistry of Tears

Author: Peter Carey

Price: £17.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 05 April 2012

 

Synopsis

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the world are all brought to life in this hauntingly m ... read more

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£24.99

Death Comes to Pemberley

Author: P. D. James

Price: £24.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 03 November 2011

 

Synopsis

P. D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted c ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£25.00

Smut: Two Unseemly Stories

Author: Alan Bennett

Price: £25.00

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 07 April 2011

 

Synopsis

Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction   Synopsis The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£14.99

Skios

Author: Michael Frayn

Price: £14.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 24 May 2012

 

Synopsis

A story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences, from the master of farce Michael Frayn.   Syn ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£12.99

The Expats

Author: Chris Pavone

Price: £12.99

Published by: Faber & Faber

Date Available: 18 April 2012

 

Synopsis

Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play da ... read more

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The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

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The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

by Frank McLynn

 

Synopsis

Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years, has it known a true revolution -- one that brings radical, sy ... read more

 

Release 05 July 2012

Publisher Bodley Head

ISBN 978-0224072939

Joy

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UK First Edition / First Printing

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Joy

by Jonathan Lee

 

Synopsis

‘Did she jump? Did she fall? Will she wake?’   On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Jo ... read more

 

Release 07 June 2012

Publisher William Heinemann

ISBN 978-0434020423

Meltwater (Fire and Ice)

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Meltwater (Fire and Ice)

by Michael Ridpath

 

Synopsis

Operation Meltwater: FreeFlow, a group of internet activists committed to the freedom of information have video evidence of a military atrocity ... read more

 

Release 01 June 2012

Publisher Atlantic Books

ISBN 978-0857896445

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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

 

Synopsis

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

Red Runs the Helmand

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£18.99

Red Runs the Helmand - SIGNED, LINED & DATED

by Patrick Mercer

 

Synopsis

Set in the 1870s, this is a gripping adventure in which Mercer brilliantly reenacts the lives of soldiers in the Second Anglo-Afghan War. ... read more

 

Release 28 April 2011

Publisher Harper Collins

ISBN 978-0-00-730275-8

Advent

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£19.99

Advent - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED

by James Treadwell

 

Synopsis

For centuries it has been locked away Lost beneath the sea Warded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight. But now ma ... read more

 

Release 12 January 2012

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN 978-1444728460

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