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The Voyage of the Arctic Tern - First Trade Hardback Edition |
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Montgomery, Hugh.The Voyage of the Arctic TernLondon, Walker Books, 2002Fine in Fine dustjacket.
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Item code: FE134 |
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Eaglet at The Battle of Minorca |
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Marriner, John. Eaglet at The Battle of Minorca Sussex, Book Guild, 2001. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Signed by author on title page. First book in a proposed trilogy.
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Item code: FE364 |
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The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and other stories |
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Martel, Yann. The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios Edinburgh, Canongate, 2004. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Signed by author. These stories were published in 1993 by Faber, but the Booker-prizewinning author has added a new introduction to this latest edition.
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Item code: FE269 |
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The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs |
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McCall Smith, Alexander The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs Edinburgh, Polygon, 2003 Second in the Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment series.
Fine, paperback original (no hardback edition) in Fine dustjacket.
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Item code: FE270 |
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At The Villa of Reduced Circumstances |
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McCall Smith, Alexander At The Villa of Reduced Circumstances Edinburgh, Polygon, 2003. Fine paperback original (no hardback edition) in Fine dustjacket.
Third in the Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment series.
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Item code: FE133 |
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That They May Face The Rising Sun |
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McGahern, John. That They May Face The Rising Sun. Uncorrected book proof. Very Good (slightly scuffed).
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Item code: FE514 |
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That They May Face The Rising Sun |
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McGahern, John. That They May Face The Rising Sun. Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket. London, Faber & Faber, 2002.
Shortlisted for the prestigious Dublin IMPAC Award.
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Item code: FE136 |
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Oxygen |
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Miller, Andrew. Oxygen. London, Sceptre, 2001. Fine in Fine dustjacket. SIGNED by author. A novel that has attracted much praise - shortlisted for both the Booker and Whitbread Awards.
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Item code: FE138 |
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Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About |
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Millington, Mil. Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About. London, Flame (Hodder) 2002. Uncorrected proof. Fine (unread) in wraps..
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Item code: FE139 |
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Tulip Fever |
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Moggach, Deborah. Tulip Fever . London, Heinemann, 1999, Fine in Fine protected dustjacket. Spielberg has bought the option on the film rights of this acclaimed novel set in 17th century Amsterdam.
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Item code: FE256 |
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Astonishing Splashes of Colour |
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Morrall, Clare
Astonishing Splashes of Colour.
Birmingham, Tindal Press, 2003.
Paperback original (no hardback edition). Fine (unread) in wraps.
Clare Morrall's first novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and now into multiple reprints.
Signed "Clare Morrall Lympstone" .
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Item code: FE145 |
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Wainewright The Poisoner |
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Motion, Andrew.
Wainewright The Poisoner.
London, Faber, 2000. Near Fine (spine mildly bumped) with sickly orange endpapers in Near Fine dustjacket.
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Item code: FE739 |
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In The Country of Men |
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Matar, Hisham In The Country of Men London, Viking, 2006 Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket. Man Booker shortlisted. Laid in is Man Booker bookmark.
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Item code: FE713 |
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So Many Ways to Begin |
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McGregor, Jon. So Many Ways to Begin London, Bloomsbury, 2006 Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket. Signed by the author. Second novel - by the author of "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things". BOOKER LONG LISTED 2006.
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Item code: FE498 |
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The People's Act of Love |
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Meek, James The People's Act of Love Edinburgh, Canongate, 2005. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Signed by the author. Described by Philip Pullman as "A quite extraordinary novel. The language is so fresh and crisp and sparkling" ; and by Anthony Beevor: "a truly Russian novel, with its huge horizons... an exceptional event in English literature" . Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Winner of the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award and the 2006 Ondaatje Prize.
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Item code: FE634 |
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Black Swan Green |
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Mitchell, David Black Swan Green London, Sceptre, 2006 Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket. Signed by the author. Reported to be reprinted before publication, so first edition copies are in demand. ".... thirteen year old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest place on earth." 14th August 2006: Booker Long-listed.
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Item code: FE549 |
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Natural Flights of the Human Mind |
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Morrall, Clare. Natural Flights of The Human Mind London, Sceptre, 2006. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Second novel from the author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, published by a small press in Birmingham, which made national news when it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003. Peter Straker lives in a disused lighthouse on the Devon coast, his routines dictated by the sea and weather. He speaks to no one - except in his dreams. There he converses with some of the seventy-eight people he believes he killed twenty-four years ago.
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Item code: FE491 |
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After The Armistice Ball |
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McPherson, Catriona. After The Armistice Ball. London, Constable & Robinson, 2005 Fine in Fine dustjacket. First novel in a new crime series tipped for success in this month's Book and Magazine Collector. Signed by author. Laid in is signed promotional card containing a printed invitation to the book launch in Castle Douglas in July 2005. (see photo).
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