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Listing books from publisher: Sceptre
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£80.00
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Author: David Mitchell
Price: £80.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 13 May 2010
Synopsis
David Mitchell s novels have captivated critics and readers alike, as his Man Booker shortlistings and Richard & Judy Book of the Year ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£12.99
Author: David Benioff
Price: £12.99
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 26 June 2008
Synopsis
Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the bo ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author
£35.00
The Marlowe Papers - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Ros Barber
Price: £35.00
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 01 June 2012
Synopsis
On May 30th, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now Christop ... read more
Signed by the author
£16.00
Author: Gregory Norminton
Price: £16.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 09 May 2005
Synopsis
This intimate and compelling novel deftly interweaves three periods in the life of 17th-century painter Nathaniel Deller: in 1650, just after C ... read more
Signed by the author
£20.00
Author: Gregory Norminton
Price: £20.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 21 March 2002
Synopsis
The characters on the purgatorial "Ship of Fools" - a ship that's going nowhere very fast - bicker and struggle for attention: te ... read more
Signed & Dated by the author.
£25.00
Author: Jem Poster
Price: £25.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 13 February 2006
Synopsis
When past indiscretions catch up with Charles Redbourne, a minor English landowner, he is propelled from England to Australia, where he plans t ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£16.99
Author: Elizabeth H. Winthrop
Price: £16.99
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 10 July 2008
Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Isabelle hasn't spoken in nine months, and as December begins the situation is getting desperate. Her mother has stopp ... read more
£17.99
Author: Glen David Gold
Price: £17.99
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 25 June 2009
Synopsis
From the author of the acclaimed CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL comes a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£25.00
Author: David Wishart
Price: £25.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 21 November 1996
Synopsis
A view of Emperor Nero is presented by Titus Petronius, Nero's pleasure-loving "Advisor on Taste", who illustrates how tumultuous ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£75.00
Author: David Wishart
Price: £75.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 16 February 1995
Synopsis
The tale of a brilliant man, Virgil, author of "The Aeneid", struggling to find his Muse in a turbulent period in history. ... read more
Signed by the author
£40.00
Author: David Wishart
Price: £40.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 21 August 1997
Synopsis
Set in Ancient Rome. When Marcus Corvinus is summoned by the Empress Livia he fears the worst: age has not sweetened her. But Livia has a favou ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£129.99
The Other Hand - Signed and Dated Limited Slipcase Edition of 250 copies
Author: Chris Cleave
Price: £129.99
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 01 January 2008
Synopsis
We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need t ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£49.99
Author: Chris Cleave
Price: £49.99
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 07 August 2008
Synopsis
We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need t ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£20.00
Author: Jill Dawson
Price: £20.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 13 March 2006
Synopsis
By the author of "Fred and Edie", this is a subtle, superbly written psychological chiller about desire both innocent and warped. Tin ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£25.00
Author: Peter Ho Davies
Price: £25.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 03 May 2007
Synopsis
In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fier ... read more
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£12.99
Author: Ned Beauman
Price: £12.99
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 05 August 2010
Synopsis
This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£20.00
Author: Andreï Makine
Price: £20.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 10 April 2006
Synopsis
When a young dissident writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has be ... read more
Signed by the author
£25.00
Author: Allan Massie
Price: £25.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 20 July 1995
Synopsis
As in the Roman novels "Augustus", "Tiberius" and "Caesar", the author explores the complexity of King David: she ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£85.00
Author: David Mitchell
Price: £85.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 08 May 2006
Synopsis
David Mitchell comes home - to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring famil ... read more
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£60.00
Author: David Mitchell
Price: £60.00
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 15 March 2001
Synopsis
Eiji Miyake arrives in a sprawling Japanese metropolis to track down the father he has never met, but the city is a mapless place if you are 18 ... read more
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£16.99
Author: Andrew Miller
Price: £16.99
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 21 March 2005
Synopsis
Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, fired by his conviction that only photographs could capture the world's true face. Then, in Af ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£45.00
Author: Andrew Miller
Price: £45.00
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 20 February 1997
Synopsis
The rise, fall and redemption of an extraordinary man born unable to feel pain. Growing up in the West Country in the mid-18th century, James D ... read more
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£12.99
Author: Clare Morrall
Price: £12.99
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 06 March 2008
Synopsis
The world is a puzzling, sometimes frightening place for Jessica Fontaine. As a child she only finds contentment in playing the piano and w ... read more
UK Unsigned First Edition
£450.00
Cloud Atlas - Complete with wrap-around band as published.
Author: David Mitchell
Price: £450.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 01 March 2004
Synopsis
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high- ... read more
Signed & Dated by the author.
£30.00
Author: Andrew Miller
Price: £30.00
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 09 June 2011
Synopsis
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of frie ... read more
Slipcase Limited Edition Hardback
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£30.00
Author: Chris Cleave
Price: £30.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 07 June 2012
Synopsis
Usually, this is where we'd tell you what this book is about. But with Chris Cleave, it's a bit different. Because if you' ... read more
UK First Edition, Signed and Lined by the author
£22.99
Author: Chris Cleave
Price: £22.99
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 07 June 2012
Synopsis
Usually, this is where we'd tell you what this book is about. But with Chris Cleave, it's a bit different. Because if you' ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£29.99
The Yellow Birds - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED
Author: Kevin Powers
Price: £29.99
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 06 September 2012
Synopsis
An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hai ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£24.99
Author: Thomas Keneally
Price: £24.99
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 25 October 2012
Synopsis
In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a g ... read more
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£19.99
Murder By The Book (The Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew)
Author: Susanna Gregory
Price: £19.99
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 07 June 2012
Synopsis
It is drawing near to the end of term, and the University at Cambridge is in turmoil over the opening of a new Common Library. There is an atta ... read more
Signed by the author
UK First Edition / First Printing
£45.00
Author: Thomas Keneally
Price: £45.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 02 March 1995
Synopsis
Tim Shea, a young Irishman, supports his family by running a general store in a remote New South Wales town. But his generosity gets him into d ... read more
Signed by the author
UK First Edition / First Printing
£50.00
Author: Thomas Keneally
Price: £50.00
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 17 September 2009
Synopsis
Artem Samsurov, a protégé of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon d ... read more
Signed by the author
UK First Edition / First Printing
£450.00
Author: David Mitchell
Price: £450.00
out of stock
Published by: Sceptre
Date Available: 01 March 2004
Synopsis
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars B ... read more
Signed by the author
UK First Edition / First Printing
£18.99
All in Scarlet Uniform
by Adrian Goldsworthy
Synopsis
The year is 1809, and the recruiting sergeants are hard at work, as the British army gathers strength for the next phase of the ... read more
Release 08 August 2013
Publisher Orion
ISBN 978-0297866664
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£19.99
The Christmas Wassail (A Roger the Chapman Mystery)
by Kate Sedley
Synopsis
*** PLEASE NOTE: SIGNING IS DELAYED INDEFINITELY DUE TO AUTHOR'S RECENT INJURY.*** Christmas, 1483: Roger the Chapman is loo ... read more
Release 31 May 2013
Publisher Severn House
ISBN 978-0727882752
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£12.99
The Other Typist
by Suzanne Rindell
Synopsis
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell is a thrilling tale of the intoxicating and dark side of friendship. New York Cit ... read more
Release 06 June 2013
Publisher Fig Tree
ISBN 978-0241002889
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£18.99
The Fear Index
by Robert Harris
Synopsis
Dr Alex Hoffman is a legend. An American physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, he now uses a revolutionary and h ... read more
Release 04 October 2011
Publisher Hutchinson
ISBN 978-0091936969
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£12.99
The Falcons of Fire and Ice - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED
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 23 August 2012
Publisher Michael Joseph
ISBN 978-0718159962
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£9.99
Cold Killing - SIGNED & DATED WITH SALUTATION
by Luke Delaney
Synopsis
Terrifyingly authentic, London-set debut crime novel with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark ... read more
Release 25 April 2013
Publisher Harper Collins
ISBN 978-0007486069
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