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| to select author names starting with A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z back to page 1 of full catalog (starting with NO authornames) | This selection contains 180 title(s) on 8 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| GQ Anthology Of New Fiction HarperCollins. 1999. (ISBN: 0583452809) Soft Cover, B Format. The finest new writing from ten of our best storytellers. Good/Good. GBP 0.50 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 US$ 0.83 | JP¥ 74] Book number: 010290 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ADAIR, GILBERT Love and Death on Long Island Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Random House of Canada, Limited. 1997. (ISBN: 0749391456) Soft Cover, B Format. A wealthy and renowned author in his middle fifties becomes obsessed with a young American star. One afternoon, a series of seemingly unrelated and insignificant irritants contrives to destroy his cool, Olympian existence and he is forced to confront a long dormant truth about his nature. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 | JP¥ 370] Book number: 005063 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ADAIR, JOHHNY Sons, Lovers, Etcetera 1997. (ISBN: 0747255016) Soft Cover, B Format. Kate flees from Rome and personal meltdown to a chilly basement off the Holloway Road. Here her survival techniques are pyrotechnics of the imagination. Rome's markets and cafes insert themselves into her solitary new world and her fantasies audaciously flesh out and take control. Good/Good. GBP 0.50 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 US$ 0.83 | JP¥ 74] Book number: 010386 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ADEBAYO, DIRAN My Once upon a Time Abacus. 2000. (ISBN: 0349112371) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Seven days to find a bride in the city for a mysterious millionaire from the country. It sounds like a lucrative, straightforward case for Private Investigator Boy, an above-average sinner if a less than successful Private Eye. But as Boy searches through the different sides of a dark city on behalf of his client, he discovers that his quest is as much about himself, and exorcising the demons in his past, as it is about finding the 'woman in a thousand'. When the legendary Race Man intervenes, Boy's investigations propel all parties to a stunning climax. Rich, poignant, and brimming with invention, Diran Adebayo's MY ONCE UPON A TIME is a remarkable fable for ours. Good/Good. GBP 0.50 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 US$ 0.83 | JP¥ 74] Book number: 008661 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| D'AGUIAR, FRED Feeding the Ghosts Vintage. 1998. (ISBN: 009976511x) Soft Cover, B Format. Returning from its last African mission, the slave ship "Zong" falls prey to disease which quickly spreads through the human cargo. Captain Cunningham orders 132 slaves to be thrown overboard. One woman, Minta, survives to tell a story which reclaims the lives of those drowned without ceremony. Good/Good. GBP 0.51 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 US$ 0.85 | JP¥ 76] Book number: 013311 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| D'AGUIAR, FRED Feeding the Ghosts Vintage. 1998. (ISBN: 009976511x) Soft Cover, B Format. Returning from its last African mission, the slave ship "Zong" falls prey to disease which quickly spreads through the human cargo. Captain Cunningham orders 132 slaves to be thrown overboard. One woman, Minta, survives to tell a story which reclaims the lives of those drowned without ceremony. Good/Good. GBP 0.51 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 US$ 0.85 | JP¥ 76] Book number: 013312 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| D'AGUIAR, FRED Feeding the Ghosts Vintage. 1998. (ISBN: 009976511x) Soft Cover, B Format. Returning from its last African mission, the slave ship "Zong" falls prey to disease which quickly spreads through the human cargo. Captain Cunningham orders 132 slaves to be thrown overboard. One woman, Minta, survives to tell a story which reclaims the lives of those drowned without ceremony. Good/Good. GBP 0.51 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 US$ 0.85 | JP¥ 76] Book number: 013313 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ALDERMAN, NAOMI Disobedience Penguin. 2006. (ISBN: 9780141025957) Soft Cover, B Format. By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind. New/New. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 | JP¥ 370] Book number: 009721 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ALEXIS, ANDRE Childhood 1999. (ISBN: 0747544069) Soft Cover, B Format. This novel is set in a small town in Canada, close to the US border, in the 1950s and 60s. The unsentimental narrator Thomas introduces an unusual group of characters: Edna MacMillan, Thomas's volatile Trinidadian grandmother; Katarina, his elusive mother; and Henry, a black Chinese man. Good/Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 | JP¥ 296] Book number: 009151 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ANDERSON, ROY M.; TAYLOR, L. R.; TURNER, B. D. Red Moon London, United Kingdom, Hodder Children's Books. 2006. (ISBN: 0340799404) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Hamish, angry, father murdered, mother mugged - victim of the world's troubles, until he meets another victim..who needs his help. Hamish is sensible, conscientious, and respectable, friends with the good boys, stays away from the bad ones. When his father is murdered in an act of random violence, Hamish's world turns upside down. Angry and alienated, Hamish begins to lose his tolerant beliefs and is drawn towards racist reactions. A move to France promises a much needed new beginning, but only builds Hamish's new attitudes as he becomes embroiled in the narrow-minded views of the locals. But then, a boat of North-African refugees founders on the coast and Hamish encounters the sole survivor. Now, his world is turned upside down again, caught between the violence of his past experiences and new realities unfolding in front of him. As New/As New. GBP 1.50 [Appr.: EURO 1.75 US$ 2.5 | JP¥ 222] Book number: 001066 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ANSCOMBE, RODERICK Shank Bloomsbury. 1997. (ISBN: 0747530955) Soft Cover, B Format. Dan loved his wife Janie; he loved her so much that he killed her, because she was HIV positive. Or so he says. Now, Dan's on the run with the newest object of his obsession: Carol the prison nurse. Their daring breakout has made the evening news, and Dan wants to set the record straight. Good/Good. GBP 0.50 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 US$ 0.83 | JP¥ 74] Book number: 009200 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ANSCOMBE, RODERICK Shank Bloomsbury. 1997. (ISBN: 0747530955) Soft Cover, B Format. Dan loved his wife Janie; he loved her so much that he killed her, because she was HIV positive. Or so he says. Now, Dan's on the run with the newest object of his obsession: Carol the prison nurse. Their daring breakout has made the evening news, and Dan wants to set the record straight. Good/Good. GBP 0.50 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 US$ 0.83 | JP¥ 74] Book number: 009201 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ANTRIM, DONALD Verificationist, The London, United Kingdom, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. 2001. (ISBN: 074755286x) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Twenty psychoanalysts and a narrator meet for dinner in a pancake house. The narrator, Tom, finds himself locked in a bear hug by Bernhardt, the father figure of the group. The effects are disastrous as he is forced into an out-of-body experience and watches as his friendships and marriage unravel. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 | JP¥ 296] Book number: 011577 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ANTRIM, DONALD Verificationist, The London, United Kingdom, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. 2001. (ISBN: 074755286x) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Twenty psychoanalysts and a narrator meet for dinner in a pancake house. The narrator, Tom, finds himself locked in a bear hug by Bernhardt, the father figure of the group. The effects are disastrous as he is forced into an out-of-body experience and watches as his friendships and marriage unravel. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 | JP¥ 296] Book number: 004942 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ANTRIM, DONALD Verificationist, The London, United Kingdom, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. 2001. (ISBN: 074755286x) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Twenty psychoanalysts and a narrator meet for dinner in a pancake house. The narrator, Tom, finds himself locked in a bear hug by Bernhardt, the father figure of the group. The effects are disastrous as he is forced into an out-of-body experience and watches as his friendships and marriage unravel. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 | JP¥ 296] Book number: 004943 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ARMSTRONG, ADAM E. Cry of the Panther 2000. (ISBN: 059304682X) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. A childhood tragedy drives two people to seek solitude and solace in the wilderness some 4000 miles apart until a common bond brings them together again allowing the memories which haunt them to be fully understood and their solitude to end. Good/Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 | JP¥ 296] Book number: 009244 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ARNOTT, JAKE Johnny Come Home London, United Kingdom, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 2006. (ISBN: 0340840358) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. It's 1972 and as the dreams of the sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O'Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson and fellow squatter Nina to try to make sense of what has happened. Enter Sweet Thing, a streetwise rent boy, who has an uncanny hold over glam rock star Johnny Chrome; and in the wings lurks Detective Sergeant Walker of the newly formed Bomb Squad, who knows more about O'Connell than anyone ever suspected. The course of all their lives is about to change forever -- for better and for worse. In this taut, powerful novel, Jake Arnott portrays four people searching for a sense of identity, their emotional and sexual turmoil mirrored by the turbulence of the times. Bringing that era vividly to life, he captures the mood of Britain at a turning point in history. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 | JP¥ 370] Book number: 004099 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| ARNOTT, JAKE Johnny Come Home London, United Kingdom, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 2006. (ISBN: 0340840358) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. It's 1972 and as the dreams of the sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O'Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson and fellow squatter Nina to try to make sense of what has happened. Enter Sweet Thing, a streetwise rent boy, who has an uncanny hold over glam rock star Johnny Chrome; and in the wings lurks Detective Sergeant Walker of the newly formed Bomb Squad, who knows more about O'Connell than anyone ever suspected. The course of all their lives is about to change forever -- for better and for worse. In this taut, powerful novel, Jake Arnott portrays four people searching for a sense of identity, their emotional and sexual turmoil mirrored by the turbulence of the times. Bringing that era vividly to life, he captures the mood of Britain at a turning point in history. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 | JP¥ 370] Book number: 004098 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| MACHADO DE ASSIS, JOAQUIM MARIA Philosopher or Dog? 1997. (ISBN: 0747533547) Soft Cover, B Format. The rich and eccentric philosopher Quincas Borbas names his dog after himself because he knows his pet will outlive him. Quincas does die first, leaving his fortune to his friend Rube provided that he takes care for the dog. The dim-witted friend is hardly prepared for the life that awaits him. Fine/Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 | JP¥ 296] Book number: 009186 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| BANKS, RUSSELL The Sweet Hereafter 1998. (ISBN: 0099268809) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Written by the author of "Continental Drift", this novel explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. Good/Fine - Some Marking. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 008488 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| BANKS, RUSSELL The Sweet Hereafter 1998. (ISBN: 0099268809) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Written by the author of "Continental Drift", this novel explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. Good/Fine - Some Marking. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 005654 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| BANKS, RUSSELL The Sweet Hereafter 1998. (ISBN: 0099268809) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Written by the author of "Continental Drift", this novel explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. Good/Fine - Some Marking. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 005658 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| BANKS, RUSSELL The Sweet Hereafter 1998. (ISBN: 0099268809) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Written by the author of "Continental Drift", this novel explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. Good/Fine - Some Marking. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 005059 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| BANKS, RUSSELL The Sweet Hereafter 1998. (ISBN: 0099268809) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Written by the author of "Continental Drift", this novel explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. Good/Fine - Some Marking. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 004983 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. | ||
| BANKS, RUSSELL The Sweet Hereafter 1998. (ISBN: 0099268809) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Written by the author of "Continental Drift", this novel explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. Good/Fine - Some Marking. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 008489 Click here to order or inquire at Bargain Bookstore. |
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