Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th anniversary edition)

London, Vintage Classics, 2015

First edition (first thus), First printing.  Fine in fine dust jacket.

Dust jacket is designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood, who has also written the Introduction,  inserted a Climate Map and and her own "End Capitalism" section!

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.

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.

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

Trevor, William.

The Story of Lucy Gault.

London, Viking, 2002.

Uncorrected book proof. Very Near Fine in card wraps. 

Signed by author.

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.

Wilcox, John

Starshine

London, Allison & Busby, 2012

First edition, first printing.  Fine unread in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author to the title page.

Set in 1914, two friends sign up together and embark for France.  The novel follows their conflicting fortunes.

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.

Winspear, Jacqueline

Leaving Everything Most Loved

London, Allison & Busby, 2013

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

Latest mystery novel in the Maisie Dobbs series.  Set in London in the 1930s.

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.