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£39.99

Young Sherlock Holmes1: Death Cloud - Goldsboro Exclusive Hardback

Author: Andrew Lane

Price: £39.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 06 June 2010

 

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

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£24.99

The Rising

Author: Brian McGilloway

Price: £24.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 02 April 2010

 

Synopsis

When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn, he finds inside the charred remains of a man who is quickly identified ... read more

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£12.99

Cobras of Calcutta: The Decipherer's Chronicles

Author: Grant Sutherland

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 02 April 2010

 

Synopsis

In the fifty years between 1757 and 1815, Britain lost an empire, won another and emerged from the epic Napoleonic wars as the greatest pow ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

Storming Party (Shadow on the Crown - Book 2)

Author: Nicholas Carter

Price: £25.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 24 May 1996

 

Synopsis

Set in the English Civil War, this is a tale of two heroes, William Sparrow, for parliament, and Hugo Telling, for King. While they are involve ... read more

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£25.00

King of Ithaca

Author: Glyn Iliffe

Price: £25.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 06 June 2008

 

Synopsis

Greece is a country in turmoil, divided by feuding kingdoms desiring wealth, power and revenge. When Eperitus, a young exiled soldier ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£12.99

Foxbat

Author: James Barrington

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 September 2007

 

Synopsis

A mysteriously empty aircraft hangar in the middle of Algeria. The crash of a transport plane in northern Russia. A violent robbery at a disuse ... read more

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£14.99

Sea Robber: The Pirate Adventures of Hector Lynch

Author: Tim Severin

Price: £14.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 May 2009

 

Synopsis

In his latest adventure Hector Lynch follows his quest for the young Spanish woman, Maria, with whom he has fallen in love. His search take ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

Viking 1: Odinn's Child

Author: Tim Severin

Price: £45.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 21 January 2005

 

Synopsis

Our story begins in the year 1001 and the toddler, Thorgils Leiffson, son of Leif the Lucky and Thorgunna, arrives on the shores of Brattah ... read more

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£16.99

Cast Not the Day

Author: Paul Waters

Price: £16.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 06 February 2009

 

Synopsis

By the middle of fourth century AD, Britain and the Roman Empire had been ruled for a generation by Christian emperors. Now, at last, with ... read more

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£30.00

The Blood-Dimmed Tide

Author: Rennie Airth

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 October 2004

 

Synopsis

It is 1932 and John Madden, former Scotland Yard Inspector, is now a farmer in the peaceful Surrey countryside. However his peace is about to b ... read more

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£25.00

Bird

Author: Jane Adams

Price: £25.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 September 1997

 

Synopsis

Bird's grandfather is dying, haunted by the image from his youth of a woman hanging from a tree. Before he dies, Bird vows to uncover the t ... read more

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£20.00

Cast the First Stone

Author: Jane Adams

Price: £20.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 23 August 1996

 

Synopsis

Eric Pearson claims he is being persecuted because he has the journal of the late Simon Blake JP, which exposes a child pornographic ring that ... read more

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£35.00

Mortal

Author: Andrea Badenoch

Price: £35.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 21 August 1998

 

Synopsis

Imogen Webb is determined to track down the killer of her friend, Camilla. But as she slowly peels back the layers of Camilla's life, she m ... read more

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£10.00

Meltdown

Author: Martin Baker

Price: £10.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 04 January 2009

 

Synopsis

Samuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive ... read more

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£12.99

This Perfect World

Author: Suzanne Bugler

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 March 2010

 

Synopsis

  Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that.   Heddy Partridge was never my friend becaus ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£15.00

Framed

Author: Whitney Chadwick

Price: £15.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 23 January 1998

 

Synopsis

This novel introduces Charlotte Whyte - a San Francisco art historian whose research takes her from art to murder - in a mystery of lost wartim ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

Death Is Now My Neighbour

Author: Colin Dexter

Price: £25.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 24 September 1996

 

Synopsis

A crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Morse, in which Morse and his assistant Sergeant Lewis are called upon to investigate the murder of a y ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£10.00

Inspector Proby's Christmas

Author: John Gano

Price: £10.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 22 April 1994

 

Synopsis

A young woman is found savagely murdered in Hampton and Detective Inspector Jim Proby is assigned to the case. As he tries to unmask the killer ... read more

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£400.00

O is for Outlaw

Author: Sue Grafton

Price: £400.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 January 1999

 

Synopsis

Carrying on in the tradition of previous novels including "M is for Malice", and "N is for Noose", this is the next Kinsey ... read more

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£30.00

S is for Silence

Author: Sue Grafton

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 May 2006

 

Synopsis

The nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton's ever popular 'alphabet' series featuring PI Kinsey Millhone. Just after Independenc ... read more

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£30.00

N is for Noose

Author: Sue Grafton

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 August 1998

 

Synopsis

Two unsolved murders on opposite sides of California are linked by a drawing of a hangman's noose, and nearly prove fatal for Kinsey Milhon ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£100.00

The Zero Trap

Author: Paula Gosling

Price: £100.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 18 October 1979

 

Synopsis

Crime story in the setting of a remote Arctic hideaway where nine sky-jack hostages await their fate. read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£150.00

A Is For Alibi

Author: Sue Grafton

Price: £150.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 03 April 1986

 

Synopsis

A mystery novel featuring Kinsey Millhorne, a wise cracking female detective.   Book has shelf wear, yellowed pages, some ink stai ... read more

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£12.99

Q is for Quarry

Author: Sue Grafton

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 February 2003

 

Synopsis

Based on an unsolved homicide that occured in 1969 "Q is for Quarry", and Sue Grafton's interest in the case, has generated renew ... read more

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£30.00

The Nightspinners

Author: Lucretia Grindle

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 March 2003

 

Synopsis

Twins Marina and Susannah used to spend their nights 'nightspinning', talking to each other telepathetically through until their teens ... read more

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£30.00

Michaelmas Tribute (Burren Series)

Author: Cora Harrison

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 02 May 2008

 

Synopsis

Mara, Brehon of the Burren returns in another wonderful historical tale of murder and intrigue.   The Michaelmas Fair is a ... read more

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£30.00

My Lady Judge: The First Burren Mystery

Author: Cora Harrison

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 04 May 2007

 

Synopsis

In the sixteenth century, as it is now, the Burren, on the western seaboard of Ireland, was a land of grey stone forts, fields of rich gree ... read more

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£35.00

The Sacred Cut

Author: David Hewson

Price: £35.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 April 2004

 

Synopsis

For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. And a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon - one of Rome&# ... read more

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£45.00

The Villa of Mysteries

Author: David Hewson

Price: £45.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 16 April 2004

 

Synopsis

"The Villa of Mysteries", the second novel in the Italian crime series set in Rome, features Caravaggio-loving Detective Nic Costa. I ... read more

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£24.99

The Promised Land

Author: David Hewson

Price: £24.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 04 May 2007

 

Synopsis

Ex-cop Bierce has been in prison for over twenty years following his conviction for the murders of his wife and son. He has no memory of th ... read more

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£12.99

The Blue Demon

Author: David Hewson

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 February 2010

 

Synopsis

Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the l ... read more

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£14.99

Lowlife - Exclusive Signed and Numbered Edition of 150 copies

Author: Ryan David Jahn

Price: £14.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 02 July 2010

 

Synopsis

When Simon Johnson is attacked in his crummy LA apartment, he knows he must defend himself or die. Turning on the lights after the scuffle, Sim ... read more

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£16.99

Riptide

Author: James Humphreys

Price: £16.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 10 August 2001

 

Synopsis

The new novel by the author of the acclaimed SLEEPING PARTNER. Young female police officer is forced to confront the ghosts of her tr ... read more

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£45.00

The Waking

Author: T. M. Jenkins

Price: £45.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 May 2006

 

Synopsis

Los Angeles, 2006: Dr Nate Sheehan is casually murdered in a parking lot. His wife, also a doctor, hopes to rescue at least a part of him for c ... read more

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£20.00

The Coffin Lane Murders

Author: Alanna Knight

Price: £20.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 22 May 1998

 

Synopsis

News of the first killing in Coffin Lane is brought to Inspector Faro one winter morning. Is Molly Blaith's death the beginning of a reign ... read more

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£10.00

The Bull Slayers

Author: Alanna Knight

Price: £10.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 21 July 1995

 

Synopsis

Travelling incognito on a secret mission to the Borders to clear the name of the Prince of Wales (in a scandal which could jeopardize his futur ... read more

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£60.00

A Deepe Coffyn

Author: Janet Laurence

Price: £60.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 April 1989

 

Synopsis

One of the leading lights of the Society of Historical Gastronomes is found stabbed to death during a Society symposium. Despite a police inves ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£10.00

Fiddleback

Author: J. M. Morris

Price: £10.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 22 March 2002

 

Synopsis

'...how do you describe that moment when the lights go out in someone's eyes and the darkness takes over? They become something you can ... read more

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£20.00

The Desire of the Moth

Author: Margaret Murphy

Price: £20.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 24 October 1997

 

Synopsis

Could the disappearances of social workers Dorothy Hardy and Ann Lee have anything to do with the child abuse scandal centred around the Calder ... read more

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£100.00

the Ill-Made Mute

Author: Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Price: £100.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 September 2001

 

Synopsis

A landmark publication in the world of Fantasy writing In a world where creatures of legend haunt the lands of men, and to be caught outside af ... read more

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£35.00

The Lady of the Sorrows

Author: Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Price: £35.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 09 August 2002

 

Synopsis

Outstanding imaginative writing from a welcome new talent in fantasy fiction. Though her memory remains clouded by sorcery, Imrhien must take v ... read more

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£15.00

The Courtship Gift

Author: Julie Parsons

Price: £15.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 12 November 1999

 

Synopsis

It was Anna who found her husband David's body in his study late at night. He died of anaphylactic shock, from a bee sting. Anna can't ... read more

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£15.00

Eager to Please

Author: Julie Parsons

Price: £15.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 January 2001

 

Synopsis

'Are you listening, outside world? I'm coming back. Are you listening?' For twelve long years Rachel Beckett has been in prison ... read more

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£12.99

Framed

Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 02 September 2005

 

Synopsis

Dylan is the only boy living in the tiny Welsh town of Manod. His parents run the Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel garage - and when he's not tr ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Author: Georgia Byng

Price: £25.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 10 May 2002

 

Synopsis

Molly Moon has spent all her life in Hardwick House, a miserable orphanage run by hairy-faced Miss Adderson whose favourite punishment is makin ... read more

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£15.00

Molly Moon Stops The World

Author: Georgia Byng

Price: £15.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 September 2003

 

Synopsis

The follow-up novel to Georgia Byng's bestselling debut MOLLY MOON'S INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM. Molly Moon, the funny-looking orphan ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£65.00

An Excellent Mystery: The Eleventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Author: Ellis Peters

Price: £65.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 20 June 1985

 

Synopsis

Ellis Peters is the pseudonym of Edith Pargeter. 1992 is the 15th anniversary of the first Brother Cadfael book, "A Morbid Taste for Murde ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£150.00

Dead Man's Ransom: The Ninth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Author: Ellis Peters

Price: £150.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 January 1984

 

Synopsis

In the February of the year of our Lord 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured Sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not amon ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£85.00

The Pilgrim of Hate: The Tenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Author: Ellis Peters

Price: £85.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 20 September 1984

 

Synopsis

Pilgrims are gathering from far and wide to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the translation of Saint Winifred's bones to the Benedictin ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£100.00

The Leper of Saint Giles: The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Author: Ellis Peters

Price: £100.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 27 August 1981

 

Synopsis

Brother Cadfael sets out to visit the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, knowing that a grand wedding is due to take place at the Abb ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£50.00

The Rose Rent: The Thirteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Author: Ellis Peters

Price: £50.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 02 October 1986

 

Synopsis

When Judith Perle's husband dies, the young widow bestows one of her properties a house in the Monk's Foregate on the Abbey of Shrewsbu ... read more

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£50.00

The Black Book of Secrets

Author: F. E. Higgins

Price: £50.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 January 2007

 

Synopsis

'Wonderful. Anyone looking for the next big thing has come to the right place. Higgins has created a uniquely grim fantasy world that more ... read more

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£24.99

The Bone Magician

Author: F. E. Higgins

Price: £24.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 March 2008

 

Synopsis

The Silver Apple Killer preys on the people of Urbs Umida, a rotten and wretched city. Two things connect the victims – they all had a sm ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£12.00

On The Edge

Author: Jenny Pitman

Price: £12.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 January 2002

 

Synopsis

Jan Hardy is left to look after her two young children, and to face her bitter mother-in-law alone. But she cannot continue to make a succe ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£14.99

The Trade Mission

Author: Andrew Pyper

Price: £14.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 23 August 2002

 

Synopsis

Deliverance meets Heart of Darkness for the Generation X reader. Imagine your job is to translate for a pair of arrogant technology whizzkids o ... read more

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£25.00

Muddle Earth

Author: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Price: £25.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 March 2003

 

Synopsis

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Muddle Earth...As the third moon rises over Muddle Earth's Perfumed Bog, the twinkling lights a ... read more

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£9.99

The Magician of Samarkand

Author: Alan Temperley

Price: £9.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 17 January 2005

 

Synopsis

A smashing, fun, exciting adventure of good against evil in the rich and colourful setting of ancient India. Anahita is the beautiful, gentle d ... read more

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£12.99

Fire Dreamer

Author: Beth Webb

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 September 2007

 

Synopsis

Tegen, headstrong druid-in-training, has struck out alone – but the world beyond her village is a dangerous place. The Roman invaders are ... read more

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£12.99

Star Dancer

Author: Beth Webb

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 September 2006

 

Synopsis

A great and terrible evil threatens the druids' future. Their only hope is the Star Dancer: a child who will be born under an untimely come ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£50.00

The Abbess of Crewe

Author: Muriel Spark

Price: £50.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 12 December 1974

 

Synopsis

Muriel Spark conjures a world within a world in this satire on the American Watergate scandal of the early seventies.     ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

The Takeover

Author: Muriel Spark

Price: £45.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 06 June 1976

 

Synopsis

In the cool, historic sanctuary of Nemi rests the spirit of Diana, the Benevolent-Malign Goddess whose priests once stalked the sacred grove. N ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£30.00

A Coat of Varnish

Author: C. P. Snow

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 13 September 1979

 

Synopsis

Humphrey Leigh, retired resident of Belgravia, pays a social visit to an old friend, Lady Ashbrook. She is waiting for her test results, fearin ... read more

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£12.99

Young Sherlock Holmes 2: Red Leech - Goldsboro Exclusive Hardback

Author: Andrew Lane

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 November 2010

 

Synopsis

Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hang ... read more

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£95.00

Revelation

Author: C. J. Sansom

Price: £95.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 04 April 2008

 

Synopsis

Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections i ... read more

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£125.00

Winter in Madrid

Author: C. J. Sansom

Price: £125.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 06 January 2006

 

Synopsis

1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Eur ... read more

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£200.00

Sovereign

Author: C. J. Sansom

Price: £200.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 01 January 2006

 

Synopsis

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subj ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£16.99

Spin

Author: Martin Sixsmith

Price: £16.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 16 April 2004

 

Synopsis

Coruscating and scintillating, SPIN is a novel that cuts behind the headlines and those who make them - a stiletto-sharp, hilarious satire that ... read more

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£20.00

Wringland

Author: Sally Spedding

Price: £20.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 21 September 2001

 

Synopsis

A novel of chilling menace and powerful atmosphere set in haunted fen country. Her new job negotiating sales for Holtbury Prestige Homes takes ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£17.99

Cloven

Author: Sally Spedding

Price: £17.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 20 September 2002

 

Synopsis

In a picturesque Northamptonshire village, a cold evil has thrived unhindered for centuries; In February 1830, surly Tomos Richards is ordered ... read more

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£50.00

Virgin Territory: A Roman Mystery

Author: Marilyn Todd

Price: £50.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 22 November 1996

 

Synopsis

Claudia jumps at the chance to leave Rome and chaperone, Sabina, back to Sicily, after 30 years as a Vestal Virgin. Unfortunately, Sabina is an ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£35.00

The Scold's Bridle

Author: Minette Walters

Price: £35.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 06 May 1994

 

Synopsis

An old woman is found dead in her bath, her wrists slashed: an apparent suicide. But she is wearing a scold's bridle on her head, adorned w ... read more

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£30.00

The Echo

Author: Minette Walters

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 21 February 1997

 

Synopsis

Why was Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, found dead from starvation in one of the richest areas in one of the richest capitals in the world? ... read more

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£30.00

Fox Evil

Author: Minette Walters

Price: £30.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 08 November 2002

 

Synopsis

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, ... read more

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£25.00

Acid Row

Author: Minette Walters

Price: £25.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 29 October 2001

 

Synopsis

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless childr ... read more

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£17.99

The Devil's Feather

Author: Minette Walters

Price: £17.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 08 September 2005

 

Synopsis

Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it?   With private security firms supplyi ... read more

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£17.99

The Chameleon's Shadow

Author: Minette Walters

Price: £17.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 20 September 2007

 

Synopsis

When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an ap ... read more

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£18.00

Touching Distance

Author: Rebecca Abrams

Price: £18.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 04 July 2008

 

Synopsis

It is 1790. After ten years’ training in the great medical schools of Europe, Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of ... read more

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£19.99

The Olive Readers

Author: Christine Aziz

Price: £19.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 October 2005

 

Synopsis

I cannot recall the exact moment when I decided to become a Reader. This is unusual for me, as I am always precise about beginnings . . . & ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£29.99

The Eyeball Collector

Author: F. E. Higgins

Price: £29.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 June 2009

 

Synopsis

When his butterfly-collector father is swindled to within an inch of his life, a vengeful Hector leaves the city of Urbs Umida in pursuit of a ... read more

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£29.99

Fly By Night

Author: Frances Hardinge

Price: £29.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 17 October 2005

 

Synopsis

In a fractured realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and religious tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan and her l ... read more

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£12.99

Out of a Clear Sky

Author: Sally Hinchcliffe

Price: £12.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 02 May 2008

 

Synopsis

Those overcast dawns are the best, the truest light. There's no false colour, no shadows or glare. People talk about the cold, hard lig ... read more

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£18.99

The Evolutionary Void

Author: Peter F. Hamilton

Price: £18.99

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 03 September 2010

 

Synopsis

Peter F. Hamilton’s startling perspectives on tomorrow’s technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his ... read more

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£40.00

The Dead of Winter

Author: Rennie Airth

Price: £40.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 05 February 2010

 

Synopsis

During a blackout on the streets of London on a freezing evening in late 1944, a young Polish land girl, Rosa Nowak, is suddenly and brutally k ... read more

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UK First Edition / First Printing

£125.00

Walking on Glass

Author: Iain Banks

Price: £125.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 07 March 1985

 

Synopsis

Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. ... read more

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£40.00

Millions

Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Price: £40.00

Published by: Macmillan

Date Available: 06 February 2004

 

Synopsis

Damian and Anthony are faced with one almighty dilemma when they discover a bag stuffed with cash. Will the brothers be led into retail temptat ... read more

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