Tallis, Frank

Mortal Mischief, Book 1, The Liebermann Papers

London, Century, 2005

First edition. Fine (unread) in Fine loosely protected dust jacket. Signed, dated (5.05.05) with the addition of the psi symbol. Book 1 of the Liebermann Papers, set in Vienna in 1902.

Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst who is called on to help his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate the death of a beautiful medium.

Sarah Waters

The Night Watch.

London, Virago, 2006.

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket (please note the distressed look of the dustjacket is part of the artwork!).

Signed by author.

The latest eagerly-awaited novel -  by the author of "Fingersmith". Shortlist for the Orange Prize.

Booker long listed 2006.

Taylor, D. J.

Derby Day

London, Hamish Hamilton, 2011

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

Author's second novel, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.  A Victorian mystery.

Taylor, D. J.

Kept.  A Victorian Mystery

London, Chatto & Windus, 2006

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dustjacket with wraparound band

Tyler, L. C.

Crooked Herring

London, Allison & Busby, 2014

First edition.  Fine as issued in Fine dust jacket.

Crime writer and reluctant sleuth Ethelred Tressider is handed his strangest case yet.  Short, plump and ultra-conservative crime reviewer Henry Holliday is convinced he has murdered somebody but he does not know who or when.  The trail leads to a downland village in Chichester.

Welsh, Louise

A Lovely Way to Burn

London, John Murray, 2014

First edition, first printing.  Fine (unread) in Fine dust jacket with sticker 'As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime'.  Signed by the author to the title page.

First novel in the projected Plague Trilogy, by the author of The Cutting Room.

Winspear, Jacqueline

The Mapping of Love and Death

London, Allison & Busby, 2011

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author to the title page.

Crime fiction novel set in the 1930s featuring investigator Maisie Dobbs.

Yates, Christopher J

Black Chalk

London, Harvill Secker, 2013

First edition, first printing.  Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.   Debut crime novel attracting good reviews.

Zafon, Carlos Ruiz

The Angel's Game

London, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2009

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by author on personalised bookplate loosely laid in.

Prequel to the international bestseller,  The Shadow of The Wind.  Small print run, quickly reprinted.

Talbot, Bryan

Alice in Sunderland

London, Jonathan Cape, 2007

Fine in pictorial boards without dustjacket as issued.  First printing  -  first printings are scarce.

Described variously as a graphic novel or, more accurately by the author as "an entertainment including numerous interesting diversions and digressions".  The pastedown and endpaper at the front and rear of the book appropriately take the form of safety curtains for the entertainment within.

Trevor, William.

The Story of Lucy Gault.

London, Viking, 2002.

Uncorrected book proof. Very Near Fine in card wraps. 

Signed by author.

Vaughan, Sarah

Anatomy of a Scandal

London, Simon & Schuster, 2018

First edition, first printing.  Fine as issued in Fine dust jacket.  Unsigned.

Latest psychological thriller, set against Houses of Parlliament, The Old Bailey and Oxford University, published to good reviews.

Winman, Sarah

A Year of Marvellous Ways

London, Tinder Press, 2015

First edition, first printing.  Fine as issued in Fine dust jacket. Unsigned. 

Second novel from the author of When God was a Rabbit.