Bernieres, Louis De

Birds without Wings

Near fine/VGC. Secker & Warburg, 2004. First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nicks/dents and crease on the cover) in near fine condition, with Dj(small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover) in VGC. Illustrated with a colour map inside the front and back cover. Nice and clean pages as new with a small colour mark on the outer edges, a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover(small colour mark inside the edges of the Dj cover). 630pp including Postscript. Price un-clipped. First edition-first printing. Heavy book(approx 1. 2 Kg). Product Description: The story of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great love culminating in tragedy and madness; Karatavuk and Mehmet-ik, childhood friends who play in the hills above the town, Mehmet-ik teaching the illiterate Karatavuk how to write Turkish in Greek letters; the two holy men of different faiths, Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, who greet each other with the words 'infidel efendi'; the landlord Rustem Bey, his wife's adultery and stoning, and his journey to Istanbul in search of a Circassian mistress. It tells also of Mustafa Kemal, the man of destiny, who by virtue of military genius and sheer bloody-mindedness defeats the Franks and reshapes the whole region in his image. When jihad is declared against the Allies the young men of the town are sent to war. Karatavuk soon finds himself at Gallipoli where he experiences the intimate brutality of trench warfare, the loss of many comrades and of his own innocence. As the great world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, hunger grips the town and the peaceful fabric of life is destroyed. Near Fine/Very Good. ISBN: 9780436205491

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Book number: 307

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Bernieres, Louis de

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (First UK edition-first printing)

VGC. Secker & Warburg, 1994. First UK edition-first printing. Black hardback (gilt lettering to the spine, two small nicks and crease on the edges of the cover and spine) with protected Dj (a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj/protected cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages with two small marks, ink marks and slightly yellow on the outer edges, small nicks, crease and slightly yellow on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear. 440pp including Author's note. Price un- clipped. A collectable first edition-first printing with the black boards version. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780436201585

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Book number: 10293

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Bernstein, Michael Andre

Conspirators

Near fine condition. Faber and Faber, 2004. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 20. Large format paperback(two small nicks and scratch on the edges of the cover and spine) in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with a couple of small creases and nick on the edges of the pages. 506pp. Heavy book. Near Fine. ISBN: 9780571221332

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Book number: 7414

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Bernstein, Marcelle

Salka

VGC plus. Victor Gollancz, 1986. First UK edition-first impression. Green hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC plus. Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark and light shelf wear on the outer edges, a couple of small creases on the edges of the pages, previous owner's name and date written on the edge of the first blank page of the book. 318pp. Price un-clipped. Heavy book. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780575038295

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Book number: 6690

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Best, Alex

Always Alex: My Story

Near fine condition. Blake Publishing, 2005. First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Purple hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(two creases, scratch and nick on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Illustrated with colour, b/w photos. Nice and clean pages with two small marks and crease on the edges of page 11 and 117, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. 279pp. Price un-clipped. Product Description: Alex Best's remarkable story is one of determination, heartbreak, and ultimately, triumph. From air stewardess to the nation's favourite cover girl, the road to stardom has been a rocky one, paved with obstacles and sometimes disaster. With her steely nerve and stunning good looks, she has nevertheless made it to the top. When she met and married George Best, her life changed forever. Alex stood by her husband throughout their troubled marriage until his alcoholism and infidelity became too much for her to bear and they parted. Alex has now rebuilt her life and, having won the hearts of the nation in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, has forged a successful career for herself in presenting and modeling. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9781844540990

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Book number: 160

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Billingham, Mark

Buried

Near fine condition. Little, Brown, 2006. Reprinted edition. Large format paperback(a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the cover and spine) in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with a couple of small nicks and creases on the edges of the pages, small nick and ink mark on the outer edges. Nice and clean book. 405pp. Review: The fashion in which Mark Billingham has climbed his way to the top of the British crime writing fraternity should cause no one any surprise. His secret (as his latest book, Buried, comprehensively proves) is simple: Billingham's work is always utterly reliable, delivering gritty and authoritative crime fiction writing in which the sense of locale is always spot-on. n nHere, DI Tom Thorne is asked to help in the case of a teenage boy who has disappeared. He is the son of a once high-ranking police officer (now retired), and Thorne's first endeavour is to ask the father, ex DCI-Mullen, to draw up a list of all those in his past who might have reason to hold a grudge. But then Thorne discovers that there is an omission from the list: a man who has made serious threats to Mullen and his family. And as Billingham's beleaguered hero strains every sinew to track down the boy before he is killed, he has to find out why his ex-police colleague has lied to him. n nAs so often before with Billingham, it's the steady accumulation of disturbing detail that makes this novel so compelling. The author eschews easy thrills, and prefers to involve the reader at a more realistic pace. This is not to say that the book lacks excitement (even Billingham's enemies could hardly accuse him of that), but just that the tension is dispensed in a way that never seems meretricious. Another solid entry in the growing Tom Thorne canon. Near Fine. ISBN: 9780316730518

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Book number: 392

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Billingham, Mark

From The Dead: The Tom Thorne Novels: Book 9

Near fine/VGC plus. Little, Brown, 2010. First UK edition-first printing. Red hardback(silver lettering to the spine) in near fine condition, with Dj(small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover) in VGC plus. Nice and clean pages with a small very small tear, crease and nick on the edges of the pages, light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 361pp. Price un-clipped. Heavy book. Near Fine/Very Good. ISBN: 9781408700754

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Book number: 6407

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Billingham, Mark

in the Dark

Near fine/VGC. Little, Brown, 2008. First UK edition-first printing. Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) in near fine condition, with Dj(small stain mark inside the edge of the Dj cover, small nick and crease on the edges of the Dj cover) in VGC. Nice and clean pages as new with a small ink mark on the outer edges, a couple of small nicks and creases on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book except for the small stain mark inside the edge of the Dj cover. 370pp. Price un-clipped. Near Fine/Very Good. ISBN: 9781408700693

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Book number: 1209

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Billington, Rachel

Theo and Matilda

VGC plus. Macmillan, 1990. First UK edition-first impression. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(small tear, small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages with a small nick, ink mark and light shelf wear on the outer edges, a couple of small creases on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 348pp. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. Heavy book. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780333529942

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Book number: 7055

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Binchy, Maeve

Evening Class

Near fine condition. Orion, 1996. First UK edition-first printing. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine with Dj(a couple of creases, nicks and a scratch on the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with a small ink mark and light shelf wear on the outer edges, the corner of the first page is clipped, a couple of creases on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book. 407pp. Price un-clipped. Review: Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. In Evening Class, Binchy zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organizes an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue, an Irishwoman returning home after 26 years in Sicily. When the somewhat squashed-by-life denizens of the surrounding neighborhood take the unexpected step of enrolling in the class, they find their lives transformed. Binchy tells her story from the viewpoints of eight different characters and rewards both them and her readers with happy endings after the requisite rocky road. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780752804514

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Book number: 774

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Binchy, Maeve

Nights of Rain and Stars

Mint condition. Orion. 2004. First UK edition-first printing. Dark blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine)with Dj(two small creases, nick and a scratch on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. Price un-clipped. 327pp. As New/Fine. ISBN: 9780752851662

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Book number: 1699

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Binchy, Chris

People Like Us

Fine condition. Macmillan, 2004. First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Paperback(two small nicks and a crease on the edges of the cover) in fine condition. The book is new with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages, small crease on the edge of the pages. 244pp. Product Description: So when they move to a bigger house on the outskirts of Dublin, Paul hopes that it will give his family the room they need to relieve these tensions. Cleaner air. Bigger gardens. Breathing space. But as his family start to settle in, doubts begin to grow in Paul's mind. Who are the people that they now live among? Who is Joe Mitchell and why is he so afraid? Who are the gang that hang around in front of his house? And why has his eldest daughter grown so secretive? As Paul begins to discover the answers, he is dragged into a situation that escalates beyond his control. People Like Us is a story of a father's ambitions for his family, who when confronted by real and perceived dangers, is forced to question who he can trust and who he can believe. Fine. ISBN: 9781405041621

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Book number: 1840

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Binchy, Maeve

This Year It Will Be Different

VGC. Orion, 2007. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages but with small marks on the edges of the last few pages of the book, two very small tears and nicks on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. 261pp. Price un-clipped. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780752876283

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Book number: 2944

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Binchy, Maeve

This Year it Will be Different

Fine/Near fine. Orion, 2007. First UK edition-12th printing. Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the cover) in fine condition, with Dj(two small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover)in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with a small nick on the outer edges, small crease and nick on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover. 261pp. Price un-clipped. Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780752876283

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Book number: 3964

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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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Book number: 3136

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Keywords: Highway bypasses City and town life Ireland 9780752873350