Binchy, Maeve

Whitethorn Woods

Fine condition. Orion, 2006. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Pictorial hardback with Dj(small crease and nick on the edges of the Dj cover), both in fine condition. The book is new with light shelf wear. 343pp. Price un-clipped. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9780752873350

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Bingham, Charlotte

Goodnight Sweetheart

Mint condition. Bantam Press, 2007. First UK edition-third printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3). Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(small nick and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. The book is new with two small pencil marks impressions on the edge of the first blank page of the book. 381pp. Price un-clipped. Product Description: A romantic wartime novel encompassing both love and tragedy. n nAs Walter Berrisford paints beautiful Katherine Garland, she asks him to put a ladybird on her finger without his knowing why. He is appalled when he discovers that Katherine is a Nazi. The outbreak of war means that her sister Caro and her friend Robyn join the FANYs, while former maids, Betty and Trixie, work in a factory. n nWar brings frantic romance to all, including their flatmate Edwina O'Brien, but it is Betty, transferred to decode at the Park that alone discovers the truth about the Ladybird. n nFrom the Trade Paperback edition. n nAbout the Author nCharlotte Bingham comes from a literary family. Her father sold a story to H. G. Wells when he was only seventeen and Charlotte wrote her autobiography, Coronet Among the Weeds, at the age of nineteen. Since then, she has written comedy and drama series, films and plays for both England and America with her husband, the actor and playwright Terence Brady. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9780593055939

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Birtwistle, Sue

The Cranford Companion

Fine/Near fine. Bloomsbury, 2010. First UK edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Large format blue hardabck(silver lettering to spine) in fine condition, with Dj(small tear on the edges of the back Dj cover, a couple of small creases, nicks and scratch on the Dj cover) in near fine condition. Illustrated with many colour, b/w photos, drawings, map. Nice and clean pages as new with a small ink mark on the outer edges, two small creases on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 220pp. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. Heavy book. Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9781408809389

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Bissoondath, Neil.

A Casual Brutality

Near fine condition. Bloomsbury, 1988. First UK edition-first printing. Blue hardback(gilt lettering on the front cover including the authors initials N B and to the spine, small nicks on the edges of the cover) with Dj(small creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark, nick and light shelf wear on the outer edges, two small marks and creases on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. Price un-clipped. 378pp. A collectable first edition. Review: Moving between two worlds, Canada and the Caribbean, as he did in his acclaimed story collection (Digging up the Mountains, 1986), Bissoondath uses his first novel to probe the dilemma of the Third World professional, caught between an adopted country that works and a homeland rotted by violence and corruption. Raj Ramsingh is a citizen of Canada but a native of Casaquemada (a thinly disguised version of the author's Trinidad). Raised by his East Indian grandparents, but with no desire to inherit their successful store or their Hindu culture, Raj leaves for Toronto at age 18 to study medicine; in due course, he becomes a doctor, marries a white Canadian (Jan), and has a son (Rohan). Meanwhile, Casaquemada has become oil-rich; though he likes Canada, Raj eventually (he's now 32) returns to Casaquemada with wife and child, in part lured by the prospect of easy money, in part needing the safety net of family. He finds a country grown violent and corrupt: I was seeking protection from people who needed protection. His cousin Surein is importing guns; his uncle Grappler, a decent but bone-weary senior civil servant, is talking about payol solutions (Like Argentina. Like Chile); a former classmate, Madera, has evolved into a sinister hybrid of soldier and policeman, executing criminals on back roads. In the end, a state of emergency is declared; while Raj is away tending his dying grandfather, soldiers come to his house and kill Jan (Rohan, too) when she resists arrest. The men in green arrive in a Grenada-style operation, as Raj takes the last flight out, back to Toronto. Bissoondath has combined a leisurely Bildungsroman with a political thriller; the result, predictably, is a disaster: a sluggish, exasperatingly pretentious work that prates about the destiny of Casaquemada while leaving Raj's professional and marital circumstances shadowy and unrealized; Raj's Toronto practice gets a couple of lines, while wife Jan (as Raj himself says) never really came into focus for me. A major disappointment. (Kirkus Reviews) n nProduct Description nA novel about the quest of one man to comprehend how a national tragedy so cruelly and illogically turned into personal tragedy, while capturing at the same time the laughter and colour of island life as the action moves from Toronto to the Caribbean. By the same author, Digging Up the Mountains. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780747502524

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Bissoondath, Neil.

A Casual Brutality

VGC. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1988. First UK edition-first printing. Blue hardback(gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(small tear and a couple of creases on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages but with some foxing marks and a nick on the outer edges, small creases and nicks on the edges of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first page of the book. The book is in VGC with some small foxing marks inside the edges of the Dj cover. Price un-clipped. 378pp. Review: Moving between two worlds, Canada and the Caribbean, as he did in his acclaimed story collection (Digging up the Mountains, 1986), Bissoondath uses his first novel to probe the dilemma of the Third World professional, caught between an adopted country that works and a homeland rotted by violence and corruption. Raj Ramsingh is a citizen of Canada but a native of Casaquemada (a thinly disguised version of the author's Trinidad). Raised by his East Indian grandparents, but with no desire to inherit their successful store or their Hindu culture, Raj leaves for Toronto at age 18 to study medicine; in due course, he becomes a doctor, marries a white Canadian (Jan), and has a son (Rohan). Meanwhile, Casaquemada has become oil-rich; though he likes Canada, Raj eventually (he's now 32) returns to Casaquemada with wife and child, in part lured by the prospect of easy money, in part needing the safety net of family. He finds a country grown violent and corrupt: I was seeking protection from people who needed protection. His cousin Surein is importing guns; his uncle Grappler, a decent but bone-weary senior civil servant, is talking about payol solutions (Like Argentina. Like Chile); a former classmate, Madera, has evolved into a sinister hybrid of soldier and policeman, executing criminals on back roads. In the end, a state of emergency is declared; while Raj is away tending his dying grandfather, soldiers come to his house and kill Jan (Rohan, too) when she resists arrest. The men in green arrive in a Grenada-style operation, as Raj takes the last flight out, back to Toronto. Bissoondath has combined a leisurely Bildungsroman with a political thriller; the result, predictably, is a disaster: a sluggish, exasperatingly pretentious work that prates about the destiny of Casaquemada while leaving Raj's professional and marital circumstances shadowy and unrealized; Raj's Toronto practice gets a couple of lines, while wife Jan (as Raj himself says) never really came into focus for me. A major disappointment. (Kirkus Reviews) n nProduct Description nA novel about the quest of one man to comprehend how a national tragedy so cruelly and illogically turned into personal tragedy, while capturing at the same time the laughter and colour of island life as the action moves from Toronto to the Caribbean. By the same author, Digging Up the Mountains. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780747502524

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Blackwood, Algernon

Tales of The Mysterious and Macabre

VGC. Spring Books, 1967. First UK edition. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small ink marks and nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC, no Dj cover. Nice and clean pages with small marks and ink marks on the outer edges, small ink marks, foxing marks and creases on the edges of the pages, small foxing marks inside the front and back covers. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear. 400pp. Heavy book. Very Good/No Dj Cover.

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Book number: 8007

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Blair, Emma

Sweethearts

Near fine condition. Sphere, 2007. First UK edition-first printing. Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(two small nicks and creases on the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages with a small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book, name written on the edge of the last blank page of the book, small piece inside the edge of the front Dj cover is chipped. Price clipped. 314pp. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9781847440082

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Blanshard, Audrey

Lydeard Beauty

VGC. Hale, 1979. First edition. Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine, light shelf wear on the cover)with Dj(small nick and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages with light shelf wear on the outer edges, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. Nice & clean book with light shelf wear. Price un-clipped. 192pp. A collectable first edition. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780709173120

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Book number: 1464

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Bleasdale, Faith

Pinstripes

Fine condition. Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine)with Dj(very small nick and crease on the outer edges of the Dj cover), both in fine condition. The book is as new with a ink mark and light shelf wear on the outer edge of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. Price un-clipped. 471pp. Product Description: No evil-doer is safe from these avenging angels! Seymour Forbes Hunt is a British Investment Bank and a British institution. Considering itself the standard bearer for tradition and propriety, SPH demands excellence from its staff. On Black Thursday, the names of three girls dominate the Managing Director's meeting. It transpires one snuck into the system with a fake degree. Another has slept with a client while the other broke the banks stringent rules. All three girls will have to go. The barman in The Bull and Gate cannot believe his eyes when Clara, Ella and Virginia, the holy trinity of disgraced employees, spend the afternoon crying, drinking and getting angry in his usually desolate pub. By the time they leave, the girls have hatched a plan. They intend to seek revenge. They may not be Charlie's Angels, but the girls soon discover a talent for pro-active trouble making as they execute their hilarious revenge. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9780340768167

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Book number: 1856

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Bleasdale, Faith

Pinstripes

Fine condition. Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First Paperback UK edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Large format paperback(two small nicks and scratch on the edges of the cover and spine) in fine condition. The book is new with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages. 471pp. Fine. ISBN: 9780340820421

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Book number: 1857

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Block, Stefan Merrill

The Story of Forgetting

Mint condition. Faber & Faber, 2008. First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. The book is new with a small ink mark on the outer edges of the pages. 314pp. Price un-clipped. As New/As New. ISBN: 9780571237463

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Block, Stefan Merrill

The Story of Forgetting

Fine/Near fine. Faber & Faber, 2008. First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, nick on the cover) in fine condition, with Dj(small tear on the front of the Dj cover, two small nicks, scratches and crease on the edges of the Dj cover)in near fine condition. The book is new with a couple of creases on the edges of the the pages. 314pp. Price un-clipped. Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780571237463

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Blyton, Enid

The Adventures of Binkle and Flip

GC plus. George Newnes. No date given but probably 1950's. Red hardback(black lettering on the front cover and spine, small tear, some nicks and dets on the cover and spine, some pen marks on the back cover) in GC plus, no Dj cover. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Illustrations by Kathleen Nixon. Nice and clean pages with small foxing marks, ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges, small ink marks, creases and nicks on the edges of the pages, small section of the top edges of the first blank page and half-title page are clipped, small pen mark on the edges of the first blank page of the book. The book is in GC for its age with light shelf wear. 160pp. A collectable book. Good/No Dj Cover.

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Book number: 8093

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Blyton, Enid

Amelia Jane Collection

Near fine condition. Egmont, 2012. First edition-2nd printing of this boxed edition(10 9 8 76 5 4 3 2). Box set with 5 paperbacks. Paperbacks(small nicks on the edges of the covers) in near fine condition, with illustrated slipcase(some nicks and small dents on the edges of the slipcase) in near fine condition. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Nice and clean pages as new with a couple of small nicks on the edges of the pages. Very Good. ISBN: 9780603565977

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Book number: 9706

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Blyton, Enid

The Castle Of Adventure

Near fine condition. Macmillan Children's Books, 2006. 8th printing of this edition(9 8). Paperback(small nicks and crease on the edges of the cover and spine) in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages with a very small tear on the edges of page 47, a couple of small creases on the edges of the pages. 263pp. Near Fine. ISBN: 9780330446303

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Book number: 9444

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