Hussey, Charmian.

The Valley of Secrets

Cornwall, St. Piran Press, 2003

First printing of the small press paperback edition published simultaneously with the limited edition hardback and launched, appropriately, at Cornwall's Eden Project.
Very Near Fine (minor surface mark on rear cover)

Christopher Crump's illustrations enhance the head of each chapter.

SIGNED by author on title page.

Small print run (3000)and scarce.
Hodder has  published the first trade edition of this book to good reviews.

Langrish, Katherine.

Troll Fell

London, Collins, 2004.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

SIGNED by author. Launched in the wake of much publicity, this first novel by a Yorkshire-born novelist features "Adventure, gold and troublesome trolls".

Reeve, Philip.

Mortal Engines

London, Scholastic, 2001.

Simultaneous paperback edition. Signed by author Fine in printed wraps.

Reeve, Philip.

Mortal Engines

London, Scholastic, 2001. Fine in Fine dustjacket.
Signed  by author. Promotional postcard laid in.

Much acclaimed mechanistic fantasy winner of Gold Smarties Award and shortlisted for Whitbread award. First in a series of four books (one yet to be published).

Kessler, Liz

A Year Without Autumn

London, Orion, 2011

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author to the title page.

Gardner, Sally

I, Coriander

London, Orion, 2005.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author.

"The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher."

16th December 2005.  I, Coriander announced as Winner of the Nestle Gold Medal (formerly Smarties Gold Award) for 9 - 11 year olds.

Harris, M. G.

The Joshua Files.  The Invisible City

London, Scholastic, 2008

Paperback original.  Fine in striking orange fluorescent plastic sleeve.

Scholastic secured the option on this first novel in a two-book deal, fighting off bidding from four other publishers.

 One Boy - One Deadly Prophecy  -  One Heart-Stopping Adventure.  Set in the Mexican jungle.

Recommended.

For more info, see the Book Trailer for The Joshua Files on YouTube

Hastings, Hugh

High Tide

Plymouth, Mabrecon Books, 2012

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author.

Children's novel, first in a series of the Lighthouse Gang, described as "MI5 meets Famous Five"  -  set on the Cornish coast.

Hill, Stuart

The Cry of The Icemark

Frome, Chicken House, 2005.

Signed, slipcased, limited and numbered edition. 

 Fine as issued in fine dustjacket and slipcase  - only 1,000 copies in this edition.

Winner of the First Ottakar's Children's Book Award

Recently published in the United States to critical acclaim.

Ibbotson, Eva

The Star of Kazan

London, Macmillan, 2004.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

Silver Smarties Award Winner 2004. Gold Smarties Award Winning author of Journey to the River Sea.

Review of the Star of Kazan by Alex Ford, aged 8

A little girl is found near the mountains with a note saying to take her to the nuns.  The nuns refuse to take her in and she is taken back to the house of the professors in Vienna. They name her Annika. She grows up there, with a wish of finding her long-lost mother. After quite a few years she befriends an old woman who has a mysterious past full of plays, gems and mystery.  Suddenly, the old woman dies. What will happen? Will Annika’s wish come true? Annika is about to learn a very important lesson of caution.

This book was very exciting and I couldn’t put it down.

Ibbotson, Eva

One Dog and his Boy

London, Marion Lloyd Books (Scholastic), 2011

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Final novel completed a few weeks before the author's death in 2010 at the age of 85.  Delightful illustrations by Sharon Rentta.

Iggulden, Conn.  Iggulden, Hal

The Dangerous Book for Boys

Harper Collins, 2006

Fine in red boards as issued.   Small print run and now hard to find as a first printing.

Jarvis, Robin

Deathscent

London, Collins, 2001

First edition, first printing.

Fine in Fine dustjacket. 

Signed by the author.  

Book 1 of the Intrigues of the Reflected Realm.  (Teenage fiction)

Julia Golding

Secret of The Sirens.

Book 1 of the Companions Quartet.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006

New children's series set in Dartmoor.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author in her customary gold ink.   Hatchard's bookshop bookmark laid in (where the signing took place).   Looks good.

Kieve, Paul

Hocus Pocus.  A Tale of Magnificent Magicians and Their Amazing Feats.

London, Bloomsbury, 2007.

Fine in illustrated boards (no dustjacket as issued).   Introduction by Daniel Radcliffe.

Signed by the author.

Paul Kieve is the magician/illusionist who acted as magic consultant for the film of Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

The book is inspired by master magicians from the past with hints and tips for magic tricks included - for a young audience.

Lane, Andrew

Young Sherlock Holmes. Fire Storm

London, Macmillan, 2011

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Fourth novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series.

Malley, Gemma

The Declaration

London, Bloomsbury, 2007

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author.

First novel (young adult fiction) set in the near future -  receiving good reviews.  The sequel, The Resistance,  has recently been published.

McCaughrean, Geraldine

Peter Pan in Scarlet

Oxford University Press, 2006

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Laid in is promotional bookmark.  PLEASE NOTE that this is a SECOND PRINTING (the first printing comprised the limited edition of 1500 copies) and it is reported that there were 3,000 copies of the second printing.

Morpurgo, Michael (illustrator Michael Foreman)

Kaspar, Prince of Cats

London, Harper Collins, 2006

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed to the title page by the author.

Morpurgo, Michael

Toro!  Toro!

Collins, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2001.

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed to the title page by both the author and the illustrator (Michael Foreman).

Morpurgo, Michael

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

London, Harper Collins, 2006

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author to the title page.

A six-year-old orphan is shipped to Australia, losing his sister, his country and everything he knows.

Morpurgo, Michael

Shadow

London, Harper Collins, 2010

First edition, First printing.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.   

Morpurgo, Michael

The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

London, Harper Collins, 2005

First edition, first printing. Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author to the title page.

Morpurgo, Michael

The War of Jenkins' Ear

London, Heinemann, 1993

First edition.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Set in the 1950s in a prep school in Sussex.

Morpurgo, Michael

Born To Run.  The many lives of one incredible dog.

London, Harper Collins Children's Books, 2007

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Paver, Michelle.

Spirit Walker.  Book 2 in The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series.

London, Orion, 2005.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by author.

Paver, Michelle.

Wolf Brother.  Book 1, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness,

London, Orion, 2004

Fine in Fine dustjacket. 

 Signed by the author by means of an attached publisher's bookplate.

Paver, Michelle

Wolf Brother, Book 1 Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

London, Orion, 2004

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author to the title page.

Paver, Michelle

Ghost Hunter.  Book 6, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author on title page in purple ink.  Sixth and last novel in this popular series.

Peet, Mal

Tamar

London, Walker Books, 2005.

Fine as issued.  Paperback original - no hardback edition.

Second novel from the award-winning author of "Keeper".   Explores the world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland in the Second World War.  Published to excellent reviews.

 May 2006:  shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

7 July 2006:  Winner of the Carnegie Medal, beating four former winners of the Medal (David Almond, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Jan Mark and Geraldine McCaughrean).

Pullman, Philip

The Amber Spyglass

London, Fickling/Scholastic 2000

First edition.  Very Good+ in Fine dustjacket.

Publisher's promotional postcard signed by the author laid in loosely.

Rosoff, Meg

How I Live Now.

London, Puffin, 2004.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

Signed by author on title page at last year's Cheltenham Festival event.
Outstanding first novel of US-born author who now lives in London.

Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Winner of Michael L. Printz Award for Excellent in Junior Adult Literature. June 2005:  Winner of Branford Boase Award for best first children's novel.

Author is writing the screenplay for the film.

Said, S.F.

Outlaw Varjak Paw

Oxford, David Fickling, 2005.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author.

The sequel to Gold Smarties Award Winning Varjak Paw, once again with brilliant illustrations by Dave McKean.

Walden, Mark

H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute for Villainous Education)

London, Bloomsbury, 2006

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Webb, Catherine

The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle.

London, Atom, 2006.

Signed by author.

Horatio Lyle is described as "crossed with Sherlock Holmes and Thomas Edison as described by Terry Pratchett."  Catherine Webb is a student at the London School of Economics.  First in a projected series.

Winterson, Jeanette

Tanglewreck

London, Bloomsbury, 2006

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

First novel for children from a Whitbread Award-winning author.

Nobody knows what to do when the Time Tornadoes start.  Some days are long, some are short.  Time stops, then jerks forward.  People are getting caught in Time Traps - locked in the past, then pushed into the future.

Wooding, Chris.

Poison

London, Scholastic, 2003.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

Signed by author on title page.

Winner of the Dracula Society Children of The Night Award 2003 for the best novel published in the Gothic genre.