ORMEROD, ROGER

The Seven Razors of Ockam

London, Severn House. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0727852809). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine non price clipped dustjacket. Mayor Bert 'Slasher' Harris was used to evading the opposition, as the legendary wing forward for Ockam Cutters, his was the victorious team which had brought home the FA Cup years before. His finest hour was spent on the old Town Hall balcony above a sea of beaming fans, so to him it was the most natural thing to repeat it for the 57 Club charity raffle. Ignoring the town clerk, police, mayoral protocol and any other reasonable argument, Mayor Harris announced the prize-winning tickets in reverse order. Riot ensued, aggrieved ticket holders and a sea of angry populace demanded fair play, and in a tide of violence they laid waste to civic property, personnel and, most worrying of all, stealing the council's unique treaure, the seven razors of Ockam. A1C. Fine/Near Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: 0727852809

PEEL, COLIN D.

Blood of Your Sisters

London, Robert Hale. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709058497). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION. A Fine copy with a Fine dustjacket of Chinese junks which is not price clipped. A powerful novel that starts in the heat and filth of Angola's diamond mines where the presence of a white man is unusual and dangerous and where Mark Rayner has spent two weeks on an assignment. This next leads him to the jungle of ivory smuggling and African terrorism and the stakes are high. His return to Massachusetts is marked by violence and passionate encounters with two women and ultimately his assignment leads him to a fishing village in Hong Kong and to a desolate rain swep river in Taiwan. NOT EX LIB 3. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Mark Rayner, Angola Diamond Mine, Hong Kong 0709058497

READ, MISS

Changes at Fairacre

London, Michael Joseph. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718134966). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Goodall, John S. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a minor indentation to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author is the pseudonym of Dora Saint, a prolific novelist who draws on her own memories of living and teaching in a small English village in Berkshire. A further novel featuring the downland village of Fairacre where familiar and endearing characters are met once again. Wonderfully illustrated by John S. Goodall. NOT EX LIB B2B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Cotswold, Fiction 0718134966 Goodall, John S.

ROBINSON, C. ROBBIE

Meet at Bloom's Corner

Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 086332780X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A novel of Jim Davidson, a lonely child, half Jewish, half Irish Catholic, brought up in London's East End, whose search for a meaning to life brings him to Bloom's Corner, a hotbed of revolutionary socialism. The tiny corner is the starting point of his subsequent adventures in Spain, Palestine and IRA targetted London, from the battle of 'Suicide Hill' to the Western Desert, from the embattled road to Jerusalem to the deceptively peaceful streets of London. A poignant and gripping saga of 20th century life, rich in drama and vivid in it's grasp of the small details within big events. NOT EX LIB D4B. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction, Bloom's Corner, Revolutionary Socialism, Spain, Palestine, Ira 086332780x

SCHOLEY, GRAHAM

Bangers and Mash

Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857760743). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. After stringent times in the Forces, Bob Malone and Hector Britain are finding it difficult to conform to Civvy Street. Their forte is catering, a skill they intend to pursue wherever possible and our two heroes know every aspect of the culinary arts, from RAF canteens and second class hotels to colleges of further education and high class restaurants. The scene is set for an hilarious romp through two decades of English social history in endearingly roistering and boisterous company. A1C. Fine/Near Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction, Catering, Culinary Arts, Raf 1857760743

SMETHURST, WILLIAM

Sinai

London, Headline. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747213178). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author's third novel features a corpse that medical science cannot explain, which is kept in a high security government mortuary in Cairo for over twenty years, an Egyptian army officer locked in an asylum after claiming that he saw soldiers from the Ancient World surround his tank in the Yom Kippur war and a young American physicist, who believes that paranormal forces have unlocked the key to events in the Sinai Desert in 1300 BC. NOT EX LIB 23. Fine/Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction, Egypt, Sinai Desert, Paranormal Forces, Ancient Soldiers Appearance 0747213178

KINSELLA. SOPHIE

Shopaholic to the Rescue

London, Bantam. 2015, First. (ISBN: 9780593074626). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 315 pages. Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises, and now she's on a road trip to Las Vegas to help her friends and family. She's determined to get to the bottom of why her dad has mysteriously disappeared, help her best friend Suze and even bond with Alicia Bitch Long-legs (maybe...). A further book in the Shopaholic series. 14. Fine/Near Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Shopaholic Series, Becky Brandon 9780593074626

TRANFIELD, STELLA AND RAYMOND

Thinking of My Darling

Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 1992, First. (ISBN: 0863327176). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with dustjacket that is not price clipped. 305 pages. The many faces of love - here they are in all their impenetrable multiplicity. Though the cast of this dramatic exploration of the sacred and the profane is small, the scope of the passions is vast, with tragically unforeseen consequences. Raymond Tranfield, antiquarian bookseller, playwright and director died in 1983 and his actress wife adapted the play into this novel. 2. As New/As New.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0863327176

STREET, PAMELA

Late Harvest

London, Robert Hale. 1991, First. (ISBN: 0709046839). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author's fourteenth novel where the chief protagonist, Sally Golightly, does her best, against enormous odds, to care for the unfortunate child of a woman who is more amoral than immoral. She herself is not without a past, from which she is trying to escape and for which she is trying to atone. NOT EX LIB 24. Fine/Near Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction, Sally Golightly 0709046839

SUTHERLAND, TITIA

An Accidental Life

Sutton, Surrey, Severn House. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0727822799). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. On a stark and cold January day, Philip Stavely, successful actor, screenwriter and family man, is killed during a shooting party, and although the inquest records it as accidental, his widow, Ellie, believes it was suicide. Their once happy marriage had disintegrated over the last year and now she finds that she cannot move on, or grieve, until the real reasons for Philip's death are known. NOT EX LIB C3A. Fine/Very Good.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction, Corfu 0727822799

TAYLOR, CATHERINE (COMPILED BY)

Teddy Bear Stories for Grown Ups

London, Michael O'Mara. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 1854791230). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Elias, Gillian. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 214 pages. Illustrations by Gillian Elias. 23 stories by authors which include Jane Beeson, Elisabeth Beresford, Rebeca Fraser, Allan Frewin Jones, Alan Hackney, William Trevor, David Elias, Pat Rush, Dinah Lampitt. Teddy Bears for Grown Ups shows that, contrary to what might be expected, teddy bears can take a very active role in the lives of the people they love. The mutual devotion between bear and owner can lead to delightful results, as in Anne Goring's charming story 'A Friend in Need', but it can sometimes also lead them into the darker side of life, even into crime. In Pauline Macaulay's story 'Harold's Bear', a teddy provides a valuable clue in a murder mystery, while in 'Confessions of a Bad Bear' by Allan Frewin Jones, a bear is driven to desperate measures to protect the girl he loves. C3D. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Teddy Bears in Fiction 1854791230 Elias, Gillian

THORNE, NICOLA

Haunted Landscape

London, Severn House. 1997, First Thus. (ISBN: 072785173x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First published in 1976 under the title 'Hammersleigh' and under the name Rosemary Ellerbeck. The author's novel is one of frightening suspense and psychic force, as Karen Blackwood returns to her family home, Hammersleigh, after the death of her husband and with powerful but misleading memories to guide her, she begins a new life discovering that she has very unusual artistic talents. She meets the master of the Fullerton estate, where at the ruins of Oldham Abbey nearby, she sees the figure of a woman who disappears into the mist, later to reappear in her paintings. A bereaved widow's imagination or a bizarre case of reincarnation? NOT EX LIB D4B. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction, Rosemary Ellerbeck, Karen Blackwood, Hammersleigh, Oldham Abbey 072785173x

THORNE, NICOLA

Rules of Engagement

London, Severn House. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0727851187). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A compelling tale of corporate glamour, deception and love. Rebecca Versey has got engaged to her boss, charismatic advertising executive Max Lavery, to the envy of her colleagues and considerable relief to her parents, Sir John and Lady Versey, who feared that she would abandon all material comfort in favour of her childhood companion, writer and erstwhile gardener, Henry Lamb. When Max's boss flies over from the States to supervise his promotion, Becky finds herself sidelined into the role of trophy wife, alienated and unsure of herself and the man she agreed to marry, suddenly realising the value of her one constant, true friend. NOT EX LIB A1E. Fine/Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0727851187

THORNE, NICOLA

Rules of Engagement

London, Severn House. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0727851187). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a small date in ink to front endpaper) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A compelling tale of corporate glamour, deception and love. Rebecca Versey has got engaged to her boss, charismatic advertising executive Max Lavery, to the envy of her colleagues and considerable relief to her parents, Sir John and Lady Versey, who feared that she would abandon all material comfort in favour of her childhood companion, writer and erstwhile gardener, Henry Lamb. When Max's boss flies over from the States to supervise his promotion, Becky finds herself sidelined into the role of trophy wife, alienated and unsure of herself and the man she agreed to marry, suddenly realising the value of her one constant, true friend. NOT EX LIB A1E. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction, Rebecca Versey, Max Lavery, Henry Lamb 0727851187

TUDOR, C.J.

The Burning Girls

London, Michael Joseph. 2021, First. (ISBN: 9780241371305). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 385 pages. 500 years ago eight martyrs were burnt to death. 30 years ago two teenagers vanished without trace. Two months ago the vicar committed suicide. Welcome to Chapel Croft. For Reverend Jack Brooks and his teenage daughter Flo it's supposed to be a fresh start. New job, new home. But as Jack knows, the past isn't easily forgotten. And in a close-knit community where the residents seem as proud as they are haunted by Chapel Croft's history Jack must tread carefully. Ancient superstitions as well as a mistrust of outsiders will be hard to overcome. Yet right away Jack has more frightening concerns. Why is Flo plagued by visions of burning girls? Who's sending them sinister. threatening messages? And why did no one mention that the last vicar killed himself? L. As New/Near Fine.

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Katalog: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Sonstige Stichworte: 9780241371305