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Listing books from publisher: Michael Joseph
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£24.99
Warrior of Rome III: Lion of the Sun
Author: Harry Sidebottom
Price: £24.99
out of stock
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 22 July 2010
Synopsis
Mesopotamia, AD 260 Betrayed by his most trusted adviser, the Roman Emperor Valerian has been captured by the Sassanid barbarians. The shame of ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£24.99
Author: A. L. Berridge
Price: £24.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 15 April 2010
Synopsis
1636. The height of the Thirty Years War, one of the bloodiest and most destructive conflicts Europe has ever seen. As the campaigning season b ... read more
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UK First Edition / First Printing
£39.99
Author: Danielle Trussoni
Price: £39.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 April 2010
Synopsis
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days Genesis 6:4 When Sister Evangeline finds mysterious correspondence between Mother Innocenta of the ... read more
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UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£12.99
The Collini Case - September 2012 Book of the Month
Author: Ferdinand von Schirach
Price: £12.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 13 September 2012
Synopsis
From one of Europe's bestselling writers comes a spellbinding and utterly compelling court room drama, which will stay with you for a long ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£55.00
Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Price: £55.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 05 September 1996
Synopsis
The continuing story of Arthur, the second in a trilogy which began with THE WINTER KING. The novels bring Arthur and his world to vivid life. ... read more
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£60.00
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Price: £60.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 January 1990
Synopsis
Nick Breakspear has been asked by US Presidential candidate to help in getting his two children off the drugs that are destroying their lives. ... read more
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£90.00
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Price: £90.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 02 October 1997
Synopsis
This novel begins with the failure of Lancelot's rebellion and the ruin of Arthur's marriage to Guinevere. The Saxons, sensing the disu ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£45.00
The Owl Killers - Signed Limited Edition of 250 copies
Author: Karen Maitland
Price: £45.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 26 March 2009
Synopsis
England, 1321. Deep in the heart of countryside lies an isolated village governed by a sinister regime of Owl Masters - theirs is a pagan world ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£12.99
Author: Karen Maitland
Price: £12.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 26 March 2009
Synopsis
England, 1321. Deep in the heart of countryside lies an isolated village governed by a sinister regime of Owl Masters - theirs is a pagan world ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£49.99
Warrior of Rome II: King of Kings
Author: Harry Sidebottom
Price: £49.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 09 July 2009
Synopsis
AD256. The spectre of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman Empire. The sparks of Christian fervour have spread through the empire like wild ... read more
Signed & Dated by the author.
£95.00
Warrior of Rome: Fire in the East
Author: Harry Sidebottom
Price: £95.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 03 July 2008
Synopsis
AD 255 – the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every ... read more
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£17.99
Author: R. S. Downie
Price: £17.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 06 March 2008
Synopsis
N.B. R S Downie is published in the US as Ruth Downie and this book, RUSO AND THE DEMENTED DOCTOR, is published in the US as TERRA INCOGNITA. A ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£50.00
Author: Dick Francis
Price: £50.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 January 1971
Synopsis
Two ruthless men erupt one freezing February night into the orderly life of Neil Griffon and roughly abduct him. When he is set free within hou ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£15.00
Author: Dick Francis
Price: £15.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 January 1976
Synopsis
Charles Todd, an artist specialising in horse paintings visits a friend in Australia and becomes entangled in a conspiracy of racing, wine, wom ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£18.99
Author: Dick Francis
Price: £18.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 04 September 2008
Synopsis
"Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family includin ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Exclusive Signed & Numbered First Edition (500) copies in Slipcase
£350.00
I Am Number Four - Signed, Numbered & Slipcase Edition - Exclusive to Goldsboro Books
Author: Pittacus Lore
Price: £350.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 September 2010
Synopsis
EXCLUSIVE Slipcase Edition to Goldsboro Books. John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to sma ... read more
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£20.00
Author: Jilliane Hoffman
Price: £20.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 10 May 2005
Synopsis
Two years ago a brutal serial killer known as Cupid terrorized Miami, torturing and killing eleven young women. Sociopath William Bantling w ... read more
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£30.00
Author: Jilliane Hoffman
Price: £30.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 06 July 2007
Synopsis
Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious prosecutor facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant David Marquette is a successful Mia ... read more
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£16.99
Author: Jim Kelly
Price: £16.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 05 July 2007
Synopsis
For seventeen years, the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned, requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence for military tr ... read more
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£16.99
Author: Jim Kelly
Price: £16.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 06 July 2006
Synopsis
A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he'll be dead ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£15.00
Author: Peter Kinsley
Price: £15.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 January 1968
Synopsis
This modern, exciting and very topical thriller is by the author of that highly polished and successful comedy THREE CHEERS FOR NOTHING. &n ... read more
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£45.00
Author: Martin Langfield
Price: £45.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 February 2007
Synopsis
When Robert Reckliss is sent what seems to be a copper puzzle box, he has no idea his life is about to undergo violent transformation. That nig ... read more
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£25.00
Author: Mike Phillips
Price: £25.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 January 1989
Synopsis
Black journalist Sam Dean is streetwise to the extent that most private eyes would envy. When a Tory MP enlists Dean's help in finding his ... read more
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£12.99
Author: Caro Ramsay
Price: £12.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 28 June 2007
Synopsis
1984: It looked like a simple job. That was why they gave it to him. Guarding a woman - nameless and almost faceless after a savage acid attack ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£49.99
Author: Paul Hoffman
Price: £49.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 07 January 2010
Synopsis
“Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and l ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£79.99
The Left Hand of God - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Paul Hoffman
Price: £79.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 07 January 2010
Synopsis
"Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there an ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£10.00
Author: John Rickards
Price: £10.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 06 March 2003
Synopsis
As a violent storm rages over the small town of Winter's End, Sheriff Townsend comes upon a chilling scene - a young man, knives in his ... read more
Signed by the author
£45.00
King of Swords - Stamped and Numbered
Author: Nick Stone
Price: £45.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 02 August 2007
Synopsis
Miami, 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like anothe ... read more
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£16.99
Author: Andrew Taylor
Price: £16.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 29 May 2008
Synopsis
‘If Philippa Penhow hadn’t gone to Bleeding Heart Square on that January day, you and perhaps everyone else might have lived happil ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£12.99
Author: P. J. Tracy
Price: £12.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 08 September 2006
Synopsis
When the first snow falls in a small Minneapolis town, the whole community takes part in a carnival of innocent fun. By the end of the day, the ... read more
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£12.99
Author: Francesca Weisman
Price: £12.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 03 July 2003
Synopsis
1980. A rising model is found brutally murdered. Months of detective work lead nowhere. Then an unknown youth steps forward and confesses to th ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£25.00
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Price: £25.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 05 June 2008
Synopsis
Set among the Pacific islands and in the Indian Ocean, The Persimmon Tree tells the very personal and often romantic stories of men and women c ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£35.00
Dolly and the Bird of Paradise
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
Price: £35.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 17 October 1983
Synopsis
"The DOLLY novels are, to put it spontaneously, delicious: funny, ingenious, glamorous, clever." - Marghanita Laski in The Listener read more
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£18.99
Author: Andrew Taylor
Price: £18.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 02 September 2010
Synopsis
01786, Jerusalem College Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumoured to be haunting Jerusalem since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank O ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£12.99
Author: Nicci French
Price: £12.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 18 July 2012
Synopsis
For Frieda Klein the days get longer, the cases darker . . . Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. ... read more
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£25.00
Author: John Boyne
Price: £25.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 05 October 2006
Synopsis
Murder is in his blood ...It is 1936, and London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is no ... read more
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£75.00
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Price: £75.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 05 October 1995
Synopsis
Arthur is set in his true period, the Dark Ages, in this novel. It is not a story of romance, but one of political and religious strife, and wa ... read more
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£75.00
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Price: £75.00
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 17 August 1992
Synopsis
Paul Shanahan, the owner of a yacht delivery business in Belgium, now lives a peaceful existence after a terrorist-active life. An ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£75.00
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Price: £75.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 20 June 1988
Synopsis
This is one of a series of thrillers by the author of the bestselling "Sharpe" novels and "Redcoat". This title features Ni ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£29.99
The Last Four Things - Signed Lined & Dated
Author: Paul Hoffman
Price: £29.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 May 2011
Synopsis
Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell These are the Last Four Things Now there are Five Meet Thomas Cale Returning to the Sanctuary of the Redeemer ... read more
Signed & Dated by the author.
£29.99
Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls
Author: R. S. Downie
Price: £29.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 03 August 2006
Synopsis
Emperor Trajan is dead, long live Emperor Hadrian! Gaius Petreius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash dec ... read more
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£45.00
Author: Nicci French
Price: £45.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 04 May 2000
Synopsis
Zoe, Jenny and Nadia, different ages, different walks of life, all receive anonymous notes saying they are going to be killed. The three lives ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£29.99
The Minutes of the Lazarus Club
Author: Tony Pollard
Price: £29.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 07 August 2007
Synopsis
London, 1857 – the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, most-unconventional minds in Victorian Britain – including Charles Darwin, Cha ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£19.99
Author: Harry Sidebottom
Price: £19.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 14 July 2011
Synopsis
SIGNED, LINED IN LATIN & PUBLICATION DATED AD262 - the Imperium is in turmoil after the struggle for the throne. Furth ... read more
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£12.99
Author: Nicci French
Price: £12.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 20 June 2011
Synopsis
SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets .. ... read more
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UK First Edition / First Printing
£120.00
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Price: £120.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 01 January 1989
Synopsis
Returning home for his mother's funeral, John finds himself playing a game of very high stakes. He finds his family hostile and the police ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£16.99
The Pleasures of Men - Exclusive 250 copies
Author: Kate Williams
Price: £16.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 19 January 2012
Synopsis
Debut Novel from acclaimed historian. ***This hardback will be exclusive to Goldsboro Books and this very small print-run will be onl ... read more
Exclusive to Goldsboro Books, Signed & Numbered First Edition (500) copies.
£35.00
The Rise of Nine - Exclusive Slipcase Limited Edition
Author: Pittacus Lore
Price: £35.00
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 30 August 2012
Synopsis
IN THE BEGINNING WE WERE A GROUP OF NINE. Nine aliens who left our home planet of Lorien when it fell under attack from the deadly Mogodor ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed and Lined by the author
£29.99
The Pleasures of Men - SIGNED, LINED & DATED (Exclusive short print run of 250 copies in hardback)
Author: Kate Williams
Price: £29.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 19 January 2012
Synopsis
Debut Novel from acclaimed historian. ***This hardback will be exclusive to Goldsboro Books and this very small print-run will be only avai ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£24.99
Into the Valley of Death (Harry Ryder 1) - SIGNED, LINED & PUBLICATION DATED
Author: A. L. Berridge
Price: £24.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 10 May 2012
Synopsis
1854 - The Allied armies prepare to besiege the Russian stronghold in the Crimea Harry Ryder is a maverick hero. Resentf ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£12.99
The Falcons of Fire and Ice - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED
Author: Karen Maitland
Price: £12.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 23 August 2012
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
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£24.99
The Wolves of the North (Warrior of Rome 5) - SIGNED, LINED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED
Author: Harry Sidebottom
Price: £24.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 19 July 2012
Synopsis
In the fifth novel in Harry Sidebottom's acclaimed and bestselling Warrior of Rome historical fiction series, Ballista returns in Warrior o ... read more
Signed, Lined & Dated
UK First Edition / First Printing
£29.99
The Rosie Project - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Graeme Simsion
Price: £29.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 11 April 2013
Synopsis
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobsters... Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just d ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£14.99
Queen's Gambit - March 2013 Book of Month - SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED
Author: Elizabeth Fremantle
Price: £14.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 14 March 2013
Synopsis
For fans of Hilary Mantel, Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, Elizabeth Fremantle's first novel, Quee ... read more
Signed, Lined & Dated
UK First Edition / First Printing
£24.99
Queen's Gambit - March 2013 Book of the Month: SIGNED, LINED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED
Author: Elizabeth Fremantle
Price: £24.99
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Published by: Michael Joseph
Synopsis
For fans of Hilary Mantel, Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, Elizabeth Fremantle's first novel, Queen's Gambit, is a riv ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£18.99
Author: Bee Ridgway
Price: £18.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 23 May 2013
Synopsis
An utterly engrossing historical romance from debut novelist Bee Ridgeway, The River of No Return is a must-read. &nbs ... read more
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UK First Edition / First Printing
£12.99
Waiting for Wednesday, Nicci French, signed first edition
Author: Nicci French
Price: £12.99
Published by: Michael Joseph
Date Available: 20 June 2013
Synopsis
Waiting For Wednesday by Nicci French is the thrilling third novel in the highly acclaimed Frieda Klein series. Ruth Lennox, bel ... read more
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UK First Edition / First Printing
£19.99
Death at the Clos du Lac
by Adrian Magson
Synopsis
Picardie, France 1964. Midnight at the exclusive and mysterious Spa St Jean des Eaux, near Poissons-les-Marais. A man is standing in the therap ... read more
Release 26 August 2013
Publisher Allison and Busby Publishers
ISBN 978-0749040161
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£19.99
The Last of Days
by Paul Doherty
Synopsis
The last days of Henry VIII's reign were taut with tension as the Council factions, ruthless and power-hungry, manoeuvred and fought. Not t ... read more
Release 06 June 2013
Publisher Headline
ISBN 978-0755397846
Exclusive to Goldsboro Books, Signed & Numbered First Edition (250) copies.
UK First Edition / First Printing
£18.99
Emperor of Thorns - Goldsboro Books Exclusive 250 Numbered Edition
by Mark Lawrence
Synopsis
Lawrence brings his highly acclaimed epic fantasy series – The Broken Empire – to its devastating conclusion. ... read more
Release 01 August 2013
Publisher Harper Collins
ISBN 978-0007439065
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£39.99
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
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£18.99
Black Jackals
by Iain Gale
Synopsis
The start of a brand new WWII series from Iain Gale, author of Alamein. A masterly portrayal of World War Two heroism, with vivid action a ... read more
Release 17 March 2011
Publisher Harper Collins
ISBN 978-0-00-727864-0
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£16.99
The Woman Who Died a Lot
by Jasper Fforde
Synopsis
The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attemp ... read more
Release 12 July 2012
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 978-0340963111
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