Booth, Pat

Marry Me

VGC. Little Brown & Co, 1996. First UK edition-first printing. White hardback(silver lettering to the spine, very small mark on the front cover and outer edge, small nick on the edge of the cover)with Dj(creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages with two small marks and slightly tainted on the outer edges, pencil mark impression on the edge of the title page, small marks on the last page of the book. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. 378pp. Price un-clipped. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780316912099

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Booth, Stephen

One Last Breath

Near fine condition. HarperCollins, 2004. First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick and light shelf wear on the cover) with Dj(a couple of creases, small nicks and scratch on the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with a small ink mark and nick on the outer edges, small crease on the edge of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the back of the Dj cover. 487pp. Price un-clipped. From Publishers Weekly: British author Booth's fifth crime novel (after Blind to the Bones) is as dark and winding as the labyrinth of caves below its Derbyshire setting. In 1990, Det. Constable Ben Cooper's father arrests Mansell Quinn for the brutal murder of his lover. Thirteen years later, Quinn disappears upon his release from prison, his ex-wife is immediately slain, and another murder soon follows. Convinced they're facing a revenge spree, the police mount a manhunt, probing physical clues and the messy web of relationships that Quinn has not quite left behind. The deeper Cooper and his colleagues probe, the more convinced Cooper becomes that Quinn was innocent of the original crime, a belief that deepens his sense that as the son of the arresting officer, he's personally at risk. Though the pace and focus falter slightly toward the end, this is intelligent, suspenseful reading that should continue to build Booth's U. S. audience. A master of psychological suspense, Booth hauntingly evokes the ambiguities of place and the enduring complexity of human relationships. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780007172023

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Booth, Tony

What's Left? [Illustrated]

Fine condition. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. First edition-first printing. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(two small nicks, scratch and crease on the Dj cover), both in fine condition. Illustrated with b/w photos. The book is new with two small nicks on the edges of the pages, light shelf wear on the back of Dj cover. 216pp including Tony Booth's Family Tree, list of illustrations and index. Price un-clipped. Product Description nTony Booth didn't just hone his political skills arguing the toss with Alf Garnett. He was born in Liverpool, that hotbed of political activism; his uncle was close to Bessie Braddock, MP and de facto uncrowned monarch of the city; and he did his first canvassing (for Philip Voss, the beaten Labour candidate) at the age of 14 in the 1945 General Election. Throughout an incident-packed life, which includes a very cushy National Service in Paris where he became gigolo to a socialist and former resistance leader, a spell in the Merchant Navy, years in rep before sudden ‘overnight' stardom in Till Death Do Us Part, several marriages (including Pat Phoenix, the femme fatale of Coronation Street, who died of cancer) and an alcoholic lost decade, he has clung to the political principles instilled into him in his youth. These have brought him at various times into collisions with Hugh Gaitskill, Wilson, John Prescott and Gordon Brown, and lifelong friendships with the likes of Michael Foot and Tony Benn. n nNone of this, however, could have prepared him for the happenstance which led his daughter Cherie to fall in love with and marry the future Prime Minister. Tony Booth's position as Tony Blair's father-in-law has given him an uniquely privileged insight into the life of the nation's first political family. And he isn't shy of speaking his mind. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9780297829461

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Bourne, Sam

The Righteous Men

Fine condition. HarperCollins, 2006. First edition-first printing. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in fine condition. The book is new with a small pencil mark impression on the edge of the front endpaper, small crease, nick and ink mark on the edges of the pages. 440pp. Price un-clipped. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9780007203284

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Bowling, Harry

The Glory and the Shame

Near fine condition. Headline Book, 1997. First edition-3rd printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3). Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, nick on the back cover) with Dj(two small nicks, crease and scratch on the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with a small nick and slightly yellow on the outer edges, small ink mark on page 146. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. 346pp. Price un-clipped. Product Description: It is 1947 and the inhabitants of Totterdown Street are rebuilding their lives and homes after the war, but for the families of Charlie and Joe the future is inextricably linked to the past. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780747218388

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Book number: 2526

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Bowling, Harry

Paragon Place

VGC. Headline, 1990. First edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Tan hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the cover)with Dj(small crease, nick and a scratch on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages but slightly yellow and tainted on the outer edges, light shelf wear on the Dj cover. Price un-clipped. 377pp. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780747202011

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Bowyer, Alison

Graham Norton Laid Bare

Near fine/VGC. SevenOaks, 2002. First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Pictorial hardback(small nick on the edge of the front cover) in near fine condition, with Dj( watermark inside the edge of the back Dj cover, a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover) in VGC. Illustrated with colour photos. Nice and clean pages as new with two pencil marks impressions on the edge of the first blank page of the book, light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover. Nice and clean book except for the watermark inside the Dj cover. 256pp. Price un-clipped. Near Fine/Very Good. ISBN: 9781862001046

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Boylan, Clare

Emma Brown

Near fine condition. Little, Brown, 2003. First UK edition-first printing. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, crease and nick on the edge of the back cover) with Dj(small tear on the edge of the front Dj cover, a couple of small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with light shelf wear on the outer edges. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 440pp including Afterword. Price clipped. Heavy book. Review: Before she died in 1855, Charlotte Bronte completed two chapters of a new novel with the working title Emma. Boylan has constructed her own novel from this tantalizing fragment, in which a girl is deposited at a provincial boarding school under a cloud of mystery. The melodramatic plot revolves around the girl's search for her true identity. Boylan makes use of the characters introduced by Bronte and attempts to borrow her voice by using lines from her letters. She also plunges her heroine into a Dickensian foray into London's slums on the assumption that Charlotte would have wanted to use her own impressions of London as material for her fiction. Whether this novel is anything like the one Charlotte would have written is beside the point; Boylan's work succeeds on its own as a compelling tale. Though rather tame compared to Sarah Waters' Fingersmith (2002) and Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), it should appeal to readers fascinated by Victorian England and its underside. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780316725477

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Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Heirs of Ravenscar

Mint condition. HarperCollins Publishers , 2007. First edition-first printing. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small crease on the edge of the spine) with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. The book is new with two small nicks on the edges of the pages. 564pp. Price un-clipped. Heavy book. Product Description: The next installment in the dramatic new Ravenscar series from the international bestselling author of Woman of Substance. As Edward Deravenel stands alone on the rocky Ravenscar beach he counts his blessings. The war to end all wars is over; he and his brothers have survived. Now he can build Deravenels, the family business empire, into all he has dreamed of. Yet there is a thorn in his side -- his reckless younger brother, George. George's gambling and unpaid debts are beginning to cause rumours and unease. And Edward realises that his brother is capable of not just recklessness but blackmail and betrayal. The fortunes of the house of Deravenal suffer a terrible reversal as one disaster follows another, and tragedy strikes. Ravenscar A House. A Legacy. A Dynasty. It is Edward's daughter Bess, his golden girl, who carries the family name forward, making an alliance that will secure the empire and the inheritance, and start a new dynasty. And it is Bess's son Harry who stands in his grandfather's shoes at a similar age and vows to rebuild Deravenels to greatness -- as long as he can have the son and heir he longs for. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9780007197637

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Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Just Rewards

Near fine condition. HarperCollins, 2005. First edition-second printing. Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(some creases, scratches and nicks on the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages with a couple ink marks on the outer edges, very small tear, nick and crease on the edges of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. Price un-clipped. 438pp. From Publishers Weekly: Can this be, as advertised, the final episode in the Harte family saga? A Woman of Substance (1979), the story of Emma Harte's triumph over poverty and illegitimacy to found England's greatest department store, and its four sequels were huge bestsellers. Now Emma's great-granddaughter, Linnet O'Neill, must defend the empire and family against evil uncle Jonathan Ainsley. But words such as granddaughter and uncle don't do justice to the complexities. It takes four and a half pages of front matter to enumerate the Harte, Kallinski and O'Neill clans whose intertwining lives drive the saga. Emma's descendants offer a helping hand to new in-laws--and the reader--by uttering sentences such as these: Through his great-grandfather, Winston the First, Emma is Gideon's great-great-aunt. But she is also Gideon's great-grandmother, because Emma was my grandmother. Weddings and funerals keep the local caterer busy and offer crescendos of activity, if scant emotion. Although Ainsley's malevolence hovers behind the story and leads to near disasters, there's never a doubt that the strong women will triumph--though not without struggle. Series devotees will take heart at the ending, which hints that Ainsley's evil will survive his death and the struggles will continue offstage even if Bradford lays down her golden pen. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780007197583

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Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Lady of Avalon

Near fine condition. Michael Joseph, 1997. First UK edition-5th printing. Purple hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the front cover) with Dj(very small tear, a couple of nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Illustrated with a b/w map. Nice and clean pages as new with a couple of small ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges, small nick and crease on the edge of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. 467pp including List of People in the Story, list of Places in the Story. Price un-clipped. From Booklist: Bradley's sensational Arthurian fantasy, The Mists of Avalon (1982), could never have a sequel, not if Bradley wanted to keep women's power as the main theme, because after Camelot, you will recall, things went steadily downhill. So she retreated and wrote The Forest House (1994), a prequel about the struggle between native Celts and invading Romans in Avalon's home world. This sequel to House and prequel to Mists is set close enough to Arthurian times for such important figures as Merlin and Vivianne to appear, yet far enough before them to allow Bradley's imagination ample scope. In it, three characters capable of reincarnation--a priestess, a mother, and a son--appear in similar relationships in episodes set at the turn of the first to the second century A. D. the end of the third century, and the middle of the fifth century. In each time, Avalon is threatened; the mystic isle survives, of course, but only through sacrifice. Bradley's women are, as usual, strong and vibrant, but never before has she so effectively depicted the heroic male. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780718138554

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Rita Bradshaw

The Rainbow Years

Near fine condition. Headline Book, 2006. First edition-first printing. Purple hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases and small nicks on the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages but slightly tainted on the outer edges, small mark and ink mark on the edge of page 332. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. 340pp. Price un-clipped. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780755327102

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Breem, Wallace

Eagle in the Snow: General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand

VGC plus. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine, small dent and crease on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj(a couple of creases and small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Illustrated with a colour map inside the front and back cover. Nice and clean pages with some ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges, small nick and light shelf wear on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover. 384pp including List of principal characters, historical events, principal place names, glossary of tribal peoples, glossary of terms, bibliography. Price un-clipped. A collectable and OOP book. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780297645610

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Bret, David

Valentino: A Dream of Desire

Fine condition. Robson Books, 1998. First UK edition-first printing. Brown hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the Dj cover), both in fine condition. Illustrated with b/w photos. The book is new with a small pencil mark impression on the first blank page of the book, small nick on the outer edges of the pages. 224pp including Appendices I and II, bibliography, index. Price un-clipped. Product Description: In this unique biography of the world's greatest lover, there is much unpublished material to reveal the real Valentino, a man who was sexually attracted to other men and whose relationships with women brought heartbreak and disaster. Valentino was far less ashamed of his sexuality than he was afraid of being trapped by the image of his public persona. Yet it was his persistent need to prove his manhood that contributed to his early death. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9781861051233

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Brett, Peter V.

The Desert Spear (The Demon Cycle, Book 2)

VGC. HarperVoyager, 2010. First edition-first printing (1). Black hardback( small tear/split on the edges of the front cover and spine, silver lettering to the spine, mark on the front cover, some nicks and light shelf wear on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj (small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages with a small mark and a couple of ink marks on the outer edges, a couple of small creases on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC except for the split on the front cover/spine. 585pp. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780007276165

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