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Listing books from publisher: Sceptre
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£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
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£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
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
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£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
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
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£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
Signed & Dated by the author.
£29.99
Author: David Mitchell
Price: £29.99
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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£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
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
UK Unsigned First Edition
£250.00
Author: David Mitchell
Price: £250.00
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
Slipcase Limited Edition Hardback
UK First Edition / First Printing
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£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 / First Printing
Signed by the author
£16.99
Author: Chris Cleave
Price: £16.99
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
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£20.00
The Marlowe Papers - JUNE 2012 BOOK OF THE MONTH
Author: Ros Barber
Price: £20.00
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
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£12.99
Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London 3)
by Ben Aaronovitch
Synopsis
Doctor Who Screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch's superbly entertaining supernatural crime series has, with its witty one-liners and wonderfully er ... read more
Release 21 June 2012
Publisher Gollancz
ISBN 978-0575097643
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£14.99
The Imperial Banner ( Agent of Rome 2.)
by Nick Brown
Synopsis
272 AD The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and crushed the Palmyran revolt. Faridun's Banner, hallowed battle s ... read more
Release 07 June 2012
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 978-1444714883
Signed by the author
UK First Edition / First Printing
£20.00
Trinity Moon (Wild Hunt Trilogy 2)
by Elspeth Cooper
Synopsis
Gair's battle has only just begun, and yet his heart has already been lost. As he struggles with a crippling grief, still outwardly functio ... read more
Release 19 July 2012
Publisher Gollancz
ISBN 978-0575096189
Signed by the author
£19.99
Deception (Harry Tate)
by Adrian Magson
Synopsis
Former MI5 officer Harry Tate's skill at tracking down runaways is second to none - and the Security Services need his help. When MI6 ask h ... read more
Release 25 November 2011
Publisher Severn House
ISBN 978-0-7278-8130-4
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed by the author
£18.99
The Black Mausoleum (Memory of Flames 4)
by Stephen Deas
Synopsis
Two years have passed since the events of the Order of the Scales. Across the realms, dragons are still hatching. Hatching, and hatching free. ... read more
Release 16 August 2012
Publisher Gollancz
ISBN 978-0575100480
UK First Edition / First Printing
Signed & Dated by the author.
£12.99
The Key - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED
by Simon Toyne
Synopsis
Conspiracy thrillers don’t come any bigger or better than THE KEY – from the author of Top 5 Bestseller SANCTUS: ‘Plenty of a ... read more
Release 12 April 2012
Publisher Harper Collins
ISBN 978-0007391592
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