New York: Penguin Books, 2018. Circle of Jacques-Louis David (jacket art). First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. ’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. Noma Bar (cover illustration). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows abandons her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can’t afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1980. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1978. First U.K. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a...... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Lester M. Peterson (jacket drawing). Early Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Rare, early U.S. book club edition. More
London: 4th Estate, 2020. Julian Humphries (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of..... More
London: Vintage, 2018. Philip Gabriel (tr), Ted Goossen (tr). Eleventh Printing. Paperback. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2007. Edith Grossman (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics. Florentino Ariza is a hopeless..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2013. Robin Buss (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. With an Afterword by Tony Judt. The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death..... More
London: Bogle L'Ouverture Publications, 1988. Linda Jones (cover illustration), Mervyn Weir (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Inscribed and signed by the author. With an introduction by Valerie Bloom A collection of 61 poems by the poet and performer; his second. More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. Sam Houston (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Rare. No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and..... More
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. Jaya Miceli (jacket design). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. An explosive love story about a marriage interrupted. Could you put your life on hold for twelve years? A stunning love story about family, injustice and marriage..... More
London: Bloomsbury Circus, 1995. Clive Coote (photographs). First Edition. Third Printing. Hardcover. Bringing Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" to the screen was a labor of love for writer/actress Emma Thompson. Featuring the complete award-winning script, "Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay and Diaries" also showcases Thompson's unreserved, often hilarious diaries that..... More
Connecticut: Roundabout Press, 2015. Jeff Williams (cover art). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. This collection of linked stories follows the curses of a father, visited upon the Nash family over the course of three generations, spanning the 1960s to the present. In rich, moving episodes, readers engage the lives of..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. The..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1996. First open market paperback edition. Seventh Printing. Paperback. Rare cover. From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked..... More
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