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Listing books from publisher: Jonathan Cape
UK Unsigned First Edition
£25.00
Author: John Gardner
Price: £25.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 13 September 1982
Synopsis
Bond is back on secret loan to the US government and primed to confront an old and deadly adversary which now has a sinister new leader and a d ... read more
Signed & Dated by the author.
£34.99
Author: Claire Letemendia
Price: £34.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 02 July 2009
Synopsis
It is 1642, and Laurence Beaumont has just returned to England after six long years fighting - and avoiding fighting - in the European Wars. Ha ... read more
Signed by the author
UK First Edition / First Printing
£130.00
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Author: Mark Haddon
Price: £130.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 01 May 2003
Synopsis
'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, th ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£14.99
Author: James Lasdun
Price: £14.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 09 February 2006
Synopsis
Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, "Seven Lies" tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£20.00
Author: Charles Palliser
Price: £20.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 17 January 1991
Synopsis
Written by the author of "The Quincunx", this is the story of an obsession, a bitter love-affair between the narrator, the self-servi ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£17.99
Author: Martin Rowson
Price: £17.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 12 April 2007
Synopsis
One afternoon in the autumn of 2004, in Palermo, Martin Rowson had a dream about his parents' house, just a few months after two of them ha ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£49.99
Author: Anthony Quinn
Price: £49.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 01 January 2009
Synopsis
"Rescue Man" opens on the eve of the Second World War. With uncertainty in the air as the world seems on the brink of disaster, Liver ... read more
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£49.99
Author: Salman Rushdie
Price: £49.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 03 April 2008
Synopsis
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the r ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£25.00
Author: Iain Sinclair
Price: £25.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 18 August 1994
Synopsis
Set in a London full of sinister con-men and vagrant bohemians, this is a novel written by the author of "Lud Heat", "White Chap ... read more
Signed by the author
£12.99
Author: Wesley Stace
Price: £12.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 05 May 2005
Synopsis
Lord Geoffrey Loveall is the richest man in England, reclusive, and heretofore heirless lord of the sprawling manse of Love Hall. He arrives ho ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£19.99
Author: Kit Whitfield
Price: £19.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 25 March 2009
Synopsis
In a tense, divided court, a young princess watches her mother struggle to hold the throne. On a remote coastal estate, a scholar finds a child ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£115.00
Author: Irvine Welsh
Price: £115.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 22 August 2002
Synopsis
Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacul ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£75.00
Author: Alan Warner
Price: £75.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 16 February 1995
Synopsis
Set in a remote Highland sea-port, 21-year old Morvern Callar wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide in their ki ... read more
Signed by the author
£40.00
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Price: £40.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 23 June 1994
Synopsis
A novel by the author of "Oranges are not the Only Fruit", which won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1985, "The Passion" ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£35.00
Author: Tim Willocks
Price: £35.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 03 August 2006
Synopsis
In 1994, Tim Willocks burst onto the scene with an unforgettable novel called "Green River Rising". Hailed as 'the best thriller ... read more
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£25.00
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Price: £25.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 07 September 2000
Synopsis
Twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer ... read more
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£55.00
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Price: £55.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 15 March 1993
Synopsis
A novel of loss and love. The author has also written "Sexing the Cherry" and "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" which won th ... read more
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£15.00
Author: James Wood
Price: £15.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 17 April 2003
Synopsis
Thomas Bunting, the charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful narrator of James Wood's wonderful first novel, is in despair. His marriage is ... read more
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£45.00
Author: Ian McEwan
Price: £45.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 24 January 2005
Synopsis
Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind, a newspaper lawyer, ... read more
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£45.00
Author: Ian McEwan
Price: £45.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 18 March 2010
Synopsis
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends h ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£34.99
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Price: £34.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 01 October 2009
Synopsis
At last - another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of "The Time Traveler's Wife". Julia and Valentina P ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£16.99
Author: Simon Robson
Price: £16.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 07 January 2010
Synopsis
Catharine wakes to an empty bed. Her husband Tom, a human rights lawyer, is away on business in Birmingham. It is the first time she has woken ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£16.99
Author: Kitty Aldridge
Price: £16.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 01 March 2007
Synopsis
Walter Brown went alone to the woodland pond on a July afternoon in 1934. He saw his girl swimming there. She wasn't his girl then, but he ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£75.00
Author: Martin Amis
Price: £75.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 21 September 1989
Synopsis
Set in the pubs and streets of West London, this is a murder story for the end of the millennium. The author has written six novels including & ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£40.00
Author: Martin Amis
Price: £40.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 04 September 2003
Synopsis
When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Lik ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£25.00
Author: Martin Amis
Price: £25.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 02 October 1997
Synopsis
Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman, begins to investigate the suspicious death of a police colleague's daughter, a girl too b ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£75.00
Author: Martin Amis
Price: £75.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 05 March 1983
Synopsis
A metaphysical thriller in which a woman struggles to understand what has happened to her past and wonders what its loss has gained her. From t ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£35.00
Author: Martin Amis
Price: £35.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 30 April 1987
Synopsis
A collection of five stories written over a period of two years with an introductory essay. From the author of HEAVY WATER AND OTHER STORIES, S ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£14.99
Author: David Austin
Price: £14.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 01 January 2004
Synopsis
From the age of 12, Robert Radnor had been in love with the idea of being a sailor. And a sailor he became, as much at home on the sea as other ... read more
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£25.00
Author: Julian Barnes
Price: £25.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 04 January 1996
Synopsis
This is a collection of ten short stories with a linking theme: the British in France through several centuries. It opens with a group of merce ... read more
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£65.00
Author: Julian Barnes
Price: £65.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 07 July 2005
Synopsis
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£80.00
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Price: £80.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 01 January 1987
Synopsis
The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Al ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£17.99
Author: Stephen L. Carter
Price: £17.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 05 July 2007
Synopsis
When "The Emperor of Ocean Park" was published, the "Observer" declared: "The book is superb, both as a thriller and a ... read more
Signed by the author
£18.00
Author: Stephen L. Carter
Price: £18.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 06 June 2002
Synopsis
The most talked about fiction debut in years: a large, suspense-laden thriller that is also a novel of brilliantly astute social observation fo ... read more
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£100.00
Author: Michael Collins
Price: £100.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 07 May 1992
Synopsis
A collection of nine stories. The title story tells of an Irish emigrant travelling to New York with a suitcase of meat. The story conveys all ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£16.99
Author: Roddy Doyle
Price: £16.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 26 August 1999
Synopsis
A historical novel marking a new turn in Doyle's writing. Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer, ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£25.00
Author: Roddy Doyle
Price: £25.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 07 September 2006
Synopsis
When we first met Paula Spencer - in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggli ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£20.00
Author: Roddy Doyle
Price: £20.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 02 September 2004
Synopsis
On the last page of "A Star Called Henry", the first volume of the "The Last Roundup" trilogy, we left Henry Smart on the r ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£29.99
Author: Adam Foulds
Price: £29.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 07 May 2009
Synopsis
Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, "The Quickening Maze" centres on the first incarceration of ... read more
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£35.50
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Price: £35.50
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 02 April 1987
Synopsis
Another of Gordimer's fine, incisive novels that wraps moral and political struggle in elegantly spun incident and luminous prose. Here, 30 ... read more
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£30.00
Author: Mark Haddon
Price: £30.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 31 August 2006
Synopsis
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in igno ... read more
Signed & Dated by the author.
£59.99
Author: Mohammed Hanif
Price: £59.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 05 June 2008
Synopsis
There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. "A Case of Exploding Mangoes" is the story of one such plane ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£12.99
Author: Panos Karnezis
Price: £12.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 05 July 2007
Synopsis
It is the summer of 1975. An Onassis-like tycoon is nearing the end of his life. When he finds out that his daughter, with whom he's having ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£125.00
Author: Rennie Airth
Price: £125.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 03 March 1981
Synopsis
Bill Blaney is an ex-spy who worked in Berlin 17 years ago. One day reading the paper, he reads of the apparent suicide of one of his co-worker ... read more
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£120.00
Author: Salman Rushdie
Price: £120.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 01 October 2010
Synopsis
Shame is a modern Arabian Nights fable set against a thinly disguised real background. The central symbolic figure is the simpleminded Sufiya ( ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£29.99
Author: Julian Barnes
Price: £29.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 06 January 2011
Synopsis
A brilliant, moving, poignant collection of stories, from the author of Cross Channel and The Lemon Table Synopsis The s ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£40.00
Author: Ian McEwan
Price: £40.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 27 August 1998
Synopsis
On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley a ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£125.00
Author: Ian McEwan
Price: £125.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 20 September 2001
Synopsis
story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly cha ... read more
Signed by the author
£150.00
Author: John Fowles
Price: £150.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 07 October 1982
Synopsis
The only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of Tolstoy or James John Fowles is an artist of great imaginative po ... read more
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£150.00
Author: Anne Enright
Price: £150.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 03 May 2007
Synopsis
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn’t the drink that kil ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£1800.00
Author: Ian Fleming
Price: £1800.00
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 08 April 1957
Synopsis
Bond does not himself feature until quite late in this novel - the opening chapters, one of Fleming's most amazing fantasies, creates the n ... read more
Signed & Dated by the author.
£14.99
Author: Tessa Hadley
Price: £14.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 05 January 2012
Synopsis
Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nine ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£24.99
Author: Elanor Dymott
Price: £24.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 05 April 2012
Synopsis
'If you were to ask me to tell you about my wife, I would have to warn you at the outset that I don't know a great deal about her. ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£22.99
The Red House - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Mark Haddon
Price: £22.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 10 May 2012
Synopsis
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's d ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£16.99
Author: Adam Thorpe
Price: £16.99
Published by: Jonathan Cape
Date Available: 24 May 2012
Synopsis
Bob Winrush used to fly passengers, then worked for years as a 'freight dog', flying consignments of goods and sometimes people to all ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£24.99
Kingdom - SIGNED & NUMBERED EDITION
by Jack Hight
Synopsis
1164. The young warrior Saladin joins a Saracen army headed for Egypt. He finds there a land of wonders - from the ancient pyramids and the tow ... read more
Release 19 July 2012
Publisher John Murray
ISBN 978-1848545304
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£14.99
Beautiful Lies
by Clare Clark
Synopsis
London, 1887. In a momentous year dogged by economic crisis, riots and a voracious press hungry for scandal - how can one MP's wife bury th ... read more
Release 07 June 2012
Publisher Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1846556050
Signed by the author
UK First Edition / First Printing
£25.00
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
Signed by the author
£75.00
Room (Orange Prize short-listed 2011)
by Emma Donoghue
Synopsis
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2010 & Short-listed for the Orange Prize 2011. It’s Jack’s birthda ... read more
Release 12 August 2010
Publisher Picador
ISBN 9780330519014
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£19.99
Death on the Marais
by Adrian Magson
Synopsis
FIRST IN A BRAND NEW SERIES. France, 1963. On his first day in the village of Poissons-Les-Marais, the last thing Inspector Lucas Rocco exp ... read more
Release 09 September 2010
Publisher Allison and Busby Publishers
ISBN 978-0749008345
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£20.00
The Flight - January 2012 Book of the Month (Exclusive)
by M. R. Hall
Synopsis
This is an EXCLUSIVE numbered Goldsboro Books hardback. There won't be any other hardback edition in the UK. This i ... read more
Release 21 January 2012
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