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Reaveley Recommends for 2008 - September (14 books)
Here are our recommendations of literary fiction modern first editions for September:
 
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The Behaviour of Moths  **signed first edition**

Item code: FE700
The Behaviour of Moths **signed first edition**
£18.00

Adams, Poppy

The Behaviour of Moths

London, Virago, 2008

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

First novel - scheduled for BBC's Book at Bedtime.  Foreign rights sold in Europe and U.S.A.

The Secret Scripture  **signed first edition - Booker longlisted**

Item code: FE759
The Secret Scripture **signed first edition - Booker longlisted**
£25.00

Barry, Sebastian

The Secret Scripture

London, Faber & Faber, 2008

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Latest novel from the Man Booker and IMPAC- shortlisted author of A Long, Long Way.

July 2008  Booker longlisted

In The Dark  **signed first edition**

Item code: FE781
In The Dark **signed first edition**
£14.99

Billingham, Mark

In The Dark

London, Little Brown, 2008

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Mark Billingham's newly-published first stand-alone novel.

The Other Hand  **signed first edition**

Item code: FE782
The Other Hand **signed first edition**
£16.00

Cleave, Chris

The Other Hand

London, Sceptre, 2008

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author.

Chris Cleave's last novel, Incendiary, which hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons when it was released on the day of the July 7th bombings, is being made into a film.

Submarine  **signed first edition**

Item code: FE690
Submarine **signed first edition**
£22.00

Dunthorne Joe

Submarine

London, Hamish Hamilton, 2008

Signed by the author

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket

Devil May Care  **first edition**

Item code: FE765
Devil May Care **first edition**
£16.99

Faulks, Sebastian

Devil May Care

London, Penguin, 2008

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.  Latest Bond novel  -  commissioned to commemorate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth on 28th May 1908.

Sea of Poppies  **first edition Man Booker longlist**

Item code: FE784
Sea of Poppies **first edition Man Booker longlist**
£24.00

Ghosh, Amitav

Sea of Poppies

London, John Murray, 2008

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

First novel in a projected trilogy.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Warrior  **signed first edition**

Item code: FE766
Warrior **signed first edition**
£16.99

Mallinson, Allan

Warrior

London, Bantam Press, 2008

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author on the title page.

Matthew Hervey takes on the Warrior King of the Zulus.

The Affinity Bridge  **signed, limited, slipcased first edition**

Item code: FE786
The Affinity Bridge **signed, limited, slipcased first edition**
£30.00

Mann, George

The Affinity Bridge

London, Snowbooks, 2008

Signed, limited (500 copies) and slipcased first edition. Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket and slipcase.  Also included is promotional coin in velvet drawstring bag.

Described as "an adventure like no other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of Newbury and Hobbes investigations".  Looks promising.

 

Oath Breaker . Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Book 5 **signed first edition**

Item code: FE785
Oath Breaker . Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Book 5 **signed first edition**
£11.99

Paver, Michelle

Oath Breaker

London, Orion, 2008

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Fifth novel in this collectable series.

Once Upon A Time in The North  **first edition**

Item code: FE699
Once Upon A Time in The North **first edition**
£10.99

Pullman, Philip. (Lawrence, John - illustrator)

Once Upon A Time in The North

Oxford, David Fickling, 2008

Fine in cloth boards without dustjacket as issued.  Also included in a pocket at the rear of the book are two inserts: Peril of The Pole (a game) and a card press-out wind compass.

Queste.  Septimus Heap Book 4  **signed first edition**

Item code: FE756
Queste. Septimus Heap Book 4 **signed first edition**
£16.99

Sage, Angie

Queste.  Septimus Heap Book 4

London, Bloomsbury, 2008

Fine with printed boards in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Spare dustjacket for Queste included.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society  **first edition**

Item code: FE787
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society **first edition**
£12.99

Shaffer, Mary Ann

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

London, Bloomsbury, 2008

First UK edition, first printing.  Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.

An epistolary novel, set in Nazi-occupied Guernsey.  Mary Shaffer, the novelist, died shortly before publication, but not before she learned that the book, her only novel, was to be published in 13 countries.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher **signed first edition - winner of Samuel Johnson Prize**

Item code: FE753
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher **signed first edition - winner of Samuel Johnson Prize**
£28.00

Summerscale, Kate

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House

London, Bloomsbury, 2008.

Fine (unread in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author on the title page.

A true story which inspired writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle and now Kate Summerscale.  The author untangles the facts behind this notorious murder case of 1860.

Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 for a work of non-fiction.

 

 


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