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Adebayo, Diran.
My Once Upon a Time.
Abacus Uncorrected Proof. 336pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Aksyonov, Vassily.
The Island of Crimea.
Abacus 1986 Trans. from the Russian by
Michael Henry Heim. 335pp., card covers, sl.
spotted else good. 3.50
Alexander, Lynne.
Adolf's revenge.
Abacus. 278pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Alexander, Lynne.
Safe Houses.
King Penguin 1986 261pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Allen, Walter.
All in a Lifetime.
New intro. by Alan Sillitoe.
The Hogarth P. 1986 241pp., card covers, good. 4.50
Allende, Isabel.
Daughter of Fortune.
Trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Flamingo. 350g. 399pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Amis, Martin.
Money: A Suicide Note.
Penguin 1985 394pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Amis, Martin.
Time's Arrow. QPD. 176pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Allende, Isabel.
Daughters of Fortune.
Flamingo. Trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 399pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Ashworth, Andrea.
Once in a house on fire.
Picador 330pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Barfoot, Joan.
Family News.
The Women's Press 1990 267pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Barnes, Julian.
England, England.
QPD. 266pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Bateman, Colin.
Maid of the Mist.
Harper Collins 250pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Berendt, John.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Vintage. 388pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Binding, Tim. Island Binding.
Picador. 360pp., card covers, vg. 3.50
Bingham, Kate.
Mummy's Legs.
Vintage rep. 292pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Bowen, John.
The Birdcage.
Penguin 1964 191pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Bradbury, Malcolm.
Stepping Westward.
Arena 1986 rep. 415pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Brady, Joan.
Theory of War.
Abacus 1993 rep. 208pp., card covers, vg. 1.50
Brink, Andre.
A Dry White Season.
Flamingo 1989 rep. 316pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 2.00
Brink, Andre.
States of Emergency.
Fontana 1989 Glossary, 248pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Brink, Andre.
The Wall of the Plague.
Fontana 1985 447pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Brophy, Catherine.
The Liberation of Margaret McCabe.
Wolfhound Press. 165pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Bryson, Bill.
Notes from a Big Country.
Black Swan 398pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Cafferky, Tony.
Baulox.
Brandon 1983 175pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Calmann, Marianne.
Avignon.
Allison and Busby.
447pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 4.00
Campion, Jane; Pullinger, Kate.
The Piano.
Bloomsbury 1994 214pp., card covers, vg. 2.00
Carson, Michael.
The Knight of the Flaming Heart.
Black Swan. 300g. 271pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Chevalier, Tracy.
Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Harper Collins. 248pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Clewlow, Carol.
One for the Money.
Penguin 374pp., card covers, sl. torn else good. 2.00
Coetzee, J.M. Life and Times of Michael K.
Secker and Warburg 1983 rep. 249pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 4.50
Coleman, Vernon.
The Man Who Inherited a Golf Course.
Chilton Designs Pub. rep. 237pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Colter, Cyrus.
A Chocolate Soldier.
Nia rep. 277pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Connolly, Joseph.
This Is It.
Faber. 300g. 310pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Cossery, Albert.
Men God Forgot.
Trans. from the French by H.E.
San Francisco: City Lights 1968 rep. 100g. 102pp., card covers, sl. sticker marked else good. 2.50
Cunha, Helena Parente.
Woman Between Mirrors.
Trans. from the Portoguses by Fred P. Ellison and Naomi Lindstrom.
Polygon 1989 300g. 132pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Dalton, David.
Been Here and Gone: A Memoir of the Blues.
Methuen. 500g. 386pp., paperback, good. 2.00
Daly, Ita.
Ellen.
Black Swan 1987 rep. 140pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Desai, Anita.
Baumgartner's Bombay.
Penguin 1989 229pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Donner, Florinda.
Shabono.
Triad Paladin 1984 Glossary, 305pp., card covers sl. creased else good. 5.00
dos Passos, John.
Midcentury.
Andre Deutsch 1961 First UK Edition. 140mm. by 205mm., 600g. 496pp., good in sl. torn/frayed and chipped d/w. 10.00
Doyle, Paddy.
The God Squad.
Dublin: Raven Arts P. 1988 191pp., sl. thumbed, inscr., else good in d/w. 5.00
Doyle, Paddy.
The God Squad.
Corgi rep. 203pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Dufort, Nina.
Defrosting Edmund.
Sceptre. 292pp., card covers, sl. torn/rubbed else good. 2.00
Dunn, Suzannah.
Venus Flaring. Flamingo. 358pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Dunmore. Helen.
Zennor in Darkness.
Penguin. 314pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Duras, Marguerite.
The Square.
Trans. by Sonia Pitt-Rivers and Irina Morduch.
John Calder 1965 103pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 3.00
Duras, Marguerite.
The Lover.
Trans. by Barbara Bray.
Bloomsbury Classics rep. Small 8vo. 122pp., good in d/w. 4.00
Ekman, Kerstin.
Blackwater.
Trans. from the Swedish by Joan Tate.
Vintage. 444pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 3.50
Ekman, Kerstin.
Under the Snow.
Trans. from the Swedish by Joan Tate.
Vintage. 150g. 164pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Ellmann, Lucy.
Varying Degrees of Hopelessness.
Penguin 1992 182pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Ellroy, James.
L.A. Noir.
The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy.
Arrow Books. 848pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Ende, Michael.
Momo.
Trans. from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn.
King Penguin 1987 rep. 201pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Evanovich, Janet.
Two for the Dough.
Penguin rep. 326pp., card covers, corners creased
else good. 2.50
Faulks, Sebastian.
Charlotte Gray.
Vintage. 496pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Feinstein, Elaine.
Lady Chatterley's Confession.
MacMillan. 314pp., good in d/w. 2.50
Fell, Alison.
The Mistress of Lilliput, or The Pursuit.
Doubleday. 350pp., good in d/w. 3.00
Fielding, Helen.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
Picador 422pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Fitch, Janet.
White Oleander.
Virago rep. 390pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Flint, James.
Habitus.
Fourth Estate. 545pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Forster, Margaret.
The Battle for Christabel.
Penguin 266pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Forster, Margaret.
Georgy Girl.
Penguin 170pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Forster, Margaret.
Private Papers.
Penguin. 251pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Francis, Richard.
Swansong.
Flamingo 1987 304pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Fredriksson, Marianne.
Hanna's Daughters.
Trans. by Joan Tate.
Phoenix rep. 314pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Freud, Esther.
Peerless Flats.
Penguin. 218pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Friedman, Kinky.
Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola.
Faber. 179pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Friedman, Kinky.
Roadkill.
Faber. 252pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Frisch, Max.
I'm Not Stiller.
Trans. by Michael Bullock.
Penguin 1961 360pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Gaarder, Jostein.
The Solitaire Mystery.
Phoenix House. Illus., 292pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Gale, Patrick.
Tree Surgery for Beginners.
Flamingo. 275pp., good in d/w. 6.00
Gambotto, Antonella.
The Pure Weight of the Heart.
Phoenix House 356pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Gardam, Jane.
Bilgewater.
Abacus rep. 200pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Gardner, Martin.
Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.
Penguin 186pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Gibbons, Stella.
Cold Comfort Farm.
Penguin rep. 232pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Gibson, William.
Virtual Light.
Penguin 295pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 2.50
Gombrowicz, Witold.
Ferdydurke.
Penguin 1986 rep. 290pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Grass, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
Penguin 1981 rep. Glossary, 585pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Grass, Gunter.
Die Blechtrommel.
Hermann Luchterand Verlag 1960 900g. 736pp. Good in sl. ragged d/w. 8.00
Grimsley, Jim.
My Drowning.
Fourth Estate. 257pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Grisham, John.
The Brethren.
Century. 366pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Guterson, David.
Snow Falling on Cedars.
Bloomsbury 404pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Hamilton, Jane.
The Short History of a Prince.
Black Swan 431pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Harris, Joanne.
Blackberry Wine.
Black Swan, 333pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Harris, Wilson.
The Four Banks of the River of Space.
Faber 1990 400g. 160pp., good in frayed d/w. 3.50
Harrison, Colin.
Manhattan Nocturne.
Bloomsbury 355pp., card covers, vg. 3.50
Haruf, Kent.
Plainsong.
QPD 301pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Hawes, James.
Rancid Aluminium.
Vintage 313pp., card covers sl. creased else good. 2.50
Hawkes, John.
An Irish Eye.
Penguin. 160pp., card covers, ffep. sl. torn else good. 2.50
Hazzard, Shirley.
People in Glass Houses.
King Penguin 1988 159pp., card covers, god. 2.50
Heath, Roy.
From the Heat of the Day.
Allison and Busby 1979 159pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Heath, Roy.
The Murderer.
Flamingo 1984 189pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Heller, Zoe.
Everything You Know.
Penguin. 197pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Hewat, Alan V.
Lady's Tide.
Flamingo 1986 338pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Hickey, Christine Dwyer.
The Dancer.
Marino Books. 367pp., card covers, inscr., else good. 5.00
Hill, Rebecca.
Blue Rise.
Abacus 1985 242pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Hines, Joanna.
Autumn of Strangers.
Sceptre. 378pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Hoban, Russell.
Turtle Diary.
Picador. 189pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 2.50
Hoeg, Peter.
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.
Trans. from the Danish by F. David.
409pp., card covers, vg. 2.00
Hoeg, Peter.
The Woman and the Ape.
The Harvill P. Trans. from the Danish by Barbara Haveland.
228pp., card covers, sl creased else good. 2.00
Holman, Sheri.
The Dress Lodger.
Sceptre. 400pp., card covers, good. 1.00
Hornby, Nick.
About a Boy.
Penguin. 278pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Horwood, William.
Duncton Wood.
Hamlyn 400g. 733pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Hughes, Richard.
A High Wind in Jamaica.
Penguin Modern Classics 1971 rep. 150g. 191pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Hughes, Richard.
The Wooden Shepherdess.
Penguin 1975 250g. 395pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Hutchinson, R.C.
Johanna at Daybreak.
Zenith 1983 313pp., card covers, good. 1.00
Irving, John.
The Water-Method Man.
Black Swan rep. 412pp., card covers, good.
3.50
Jacq, Christian.
Ramses: The Son of the Light.
Trans. by Mary Feeney.
Simon and Schuster. 360pp., card covers, good. 5.00
James, Sian.
Two Loves.
Judy Piatkus 218pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Janowitz, Tama.
A Cannibal in Manhattan.
Picador 1988 Illus., 287pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Jennings, Kate.
Snake.
Fourth Estate. 153pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Jin, Ha.
Waiting.
Vintage 308pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Johnston, Jennifer.
The Invisible Worm.
Penguin. 150g. 181pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 2.00
Joyce, Joe.
Off the Record.
Heinemann 1989 343pp., sl. marked else good. 3.00
Kanon, Joseph.
Los Alamos.
Abacus 400g. 566pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Kay, Jackie.
Trumpet.
Picador. 200g. 278pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Keane, Molly.
Good Behaviour.
Abacus rep. 245pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Kingsolver, Barbara.
The Poisonwood Bible.
Faber and Faber. Biblio., 616pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
China Men.
Picador 1980 300pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Kitchen.
Banana Yoshimoto.
Trans. from the Japanese by Megan Backus.
Faber. 100g. 150pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Koning, Christina.
Undiscovered Country.
Penguin 308pp., card covers, creased else good. 3.00
Kosinski, Jerzy.
Blind Date.
Corgi 1978 249pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Kowalski, William.
Eddie's Bastard.
Black Swan. 479pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Kundera, Milan.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
Faber.
Trans. from the Czech by Hans Michael Heim.
228pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Kundera, Milan.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
Trans. from the French by Aaron Asher.
Faber. 250g. 312pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 2.00
Kureisha, Hanif.
The Buddha of Suburbia.
Faber. 300g. 284pp., card covers, sp. sl. creased else good. 2.00
Lanchester, John.
The Debt to Pleasure.
Picador. 231pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Lanchester, John.
Mr Phillips.
QPD. 245pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Landesman, Peter.
Blood Acre.
Flamingo 260pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Langley, Lee.
False Pretences.
Chatto and Windus. 289pp., good in d/w. 6.00
Lette, Kathy.
The Llama Parlour.
Picador rep. 243pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Lette, Kathy.
Mad Cows.
Picador. 294pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Lish, Gordon.
Peru.
Sceptre 1987 153pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Llosa, Mario Vargas.
The War of the End of the World.
Faber 568pp., lacks tp. else good card covers; reading copy. 1.00
Lock, Samuel.
The Whites of Gold.
Vintage. 175pp., card covers, good. 1.00
McCabe, Patrick.
The Dead School.
Picador. 344pp., card covers, good. 2.00
McCabe, Patrick.
Mondo Desperado.
Picador 228pp., card covers, good. 2.50
McCarten, Anthony.
Picador 263pp., card covers, good. 1.50
McCullers, Carson.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics rep. 311pp., card covers, good. 2.00
McGuane, Thomas.
To Skin a Cat.
Arena 1989 212pp., card covers, rear marked else good. 2.00
McHugh, Maureen F.
China Mountain Zhang.
Orbit. 313pp., card covers, good. 2.00
MacInnes, Colin.
Absolute Beginners.
Allison and Busby. 300g. 203pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Mackay, Shena.
The Artist's Widow.
Vintage. 169pp., card covers, good. 1.00
Maalouf, Amin.
Samarkand. Abacus rep. 309pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Madden, Deirdre.
The Birds of the Innocent Wood.
Faber 1989 rep. 147pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Mailer, Norman.
Tough Guys Don't Dance.
Michael Joseph 1984 First edition. 231pp., edge sl marked else good in d/w. 6.00
Malamud, Bernard.
Pictures of Fidelman.
NEL. 1969 208pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Mallory, Agnes.
Andrew Klavan.
Little Brown & Co. 248pp., good in d/w. 2.00
Manning, Olivia.
The Great Fortune.
Mandarin 287pp., card covers, good. 1.00
Mantel, Hilary.
The Giant.
Fourth Estate. 210pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 2.50
Menasse, Robert.
Wings of Stone.
Trans. by David Bryer.
Calder Publications. 267pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Mills, Magnus.
The Restraint of Beasts.
Flamingo. 215pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Moggach, Deborah.
Tulip Fever.
Vintage. Plates, 259pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Moore, Brian.
Catholics.
Vintage. 102pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Moore, Brian.
The Colour of Blood.
Paladin 1988 191pp., card covers, good.
2.50
Moore, Brian.
The Feast of Lupercal.
Paladin 1990 200g. 219pp., card covers, rear marked else good. 2.00
Moore, Brian.
Lies of Silence.
Bloomsbury 1990 First edition. 194pp., good in good d/w. 8.00
Morris, Kate.
Single Girl's Diary.
Heinemann. 231pp., good in d/w. 1.50
Morris, Rachel.
The Fringe Orphan.
Heinemann. 450g. 234pp., good in d/w. 2.00
Murakami, Haruki.
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
Trans. from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Harvill. 607pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Ninh, Bao.
The Sorrow of War.
English version by Frank Palmos based on the translation from the Vietnamese.
Secker and Warburg. 216pp., card covers, vg. 2.00
O'Carroll, Brendan.
The Mammy.
Dublin: The O'Brien Press rep. 174pp., card covers good. 1.50
O'Connor, Joseph.
Desperadoes.
Flamingo. 425pp., card covers, good. 1.50
O'Flaherty, Liam.
The Assassin.
Cape Florin Books 1935 rep. 400g. 286pp., good in dusty d/w. 1.50
Oakley, Ann.
Matilda's Mistake.
Flamingo. 167pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Okpewho, Isidore.
The Last Duty.
Longman African Classics 1986 246pp., card covers, good. 1.00
Palmer, Elizabeth.
The Stainless Angel.
Arrow 266pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Phillips, Caryl.
A State of Independence.
Picador. 158pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Proulx, Annie.
Close Range, Wyoming Stories.
Fourth Estate. 318pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Ray, Jeanne.
Julie and Romeo.
Pocket Books. Plates, 227pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Rayner, Richard.
The Elephant.
Jonathan Cape. 276pp., good in d/w. 2.50
Ryan, Chris.
Zero Option.
Arrow. 374pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Sandel, Cora.
Alberta and Jacob.
Trans. by Elizabeth Rokkan. Intro. by Solveig Nellinge.
The Women's Press rep. 233pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Scott, Manda.
Night Mares.
Headline. 308pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Self, Will.
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys.
Bloomsbury First edition. 244pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Shange, Ntozake.
Betsey Brown.
Methuen 1985 206pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Shaw, Irwin.
Evening in Byantium.
Phoenix rep. 312pp., card covers,
corner sl. creased else good. 2.00
Shields, Carol.
Happenstance: The Wife's Story.
Happenstance: The Husband's Story.
Flamingo. 197pp., 193pp., card covers sl. creased/ rubbed else good. 2.00
Shields, Carol.
The Stone Diaries.
Penguin. 361pp., card covers, good. [Winner 1995 Pulitzer Prize] 2.00
Shreve, Anita.
Fortune's Rocks.
Abacus rep. 453pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Shreve, Anita.
The Pilot's Wife.
Abacus rep. 293pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Sontag, Susan.
In America.
Vintage 587pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Statler, Oliver.
Japanese Inn.
Picador 1985 Illus., 365pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Suskind, Patrick.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
King Penguin 1987 Trans. from the German by John E. Woods. 263pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Thomas, D.M.
Summit.
Abacus 1988 160pp., card covers, sl.
marked else good. 2.50
Thomas, D.M.
The White Hotel.
King Penguin 1984 rep. 200g. 240pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Thompson, Hunter S.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Flamingo rep. 200g. 204pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Thompson, Kate.
Down Among The Gods.
Virago 281pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 2.00
Toibin, Colm.
The Blackwater Lightship.
Picador 273pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Tolkin, Michael.
The Player.
Faber 1989 193pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Trapido, Barbara.
Brother of the More Famous Jack.
Black Swan rep. 223pp., card covers, corner of ffep. cut-off else good. 2.00
Trapido, Barbara.
Juggling. Penguin 316pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Tulloch, Jonathan.
The Bonny Lad.
Vintage. 311pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Tyler, Anne.
Breathing Lessons.
Vintage. 327pp., card covers sl. creased else good. 1.50
Vilmure, Daniel.
Toby's Lie.
Bloomsbury. 272pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Walsh, Jill Paton.
A School for Lovers.
Black Swan rep. 200g. 201pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Waterfield, Giles.
The Long Afternoon.
R. Review. 241pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Waterhouse, Keith.
Bimbo.
Sceptre. 223pp., card covers, inscr., else good. 2.00
Waterhouse, Keith.
Jubb.
Sphere 1980 220pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Wesley, Mary.
Second Fiddle.
Black Swan rep. 237pp., card covers, inscr., else good. 3.00
McKinney-Whetstone, Diane.
Tumbling.
Black Swan 411pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Wickham, Madeleine.
The Wedding Girl.
Black Swan. 319pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Williams, Nigel.
Star Turn.
Faber 1986 314pp., card covers. sl. marked else good. 2.00
Wilson, A.N.
Who Was Oswald Fish.
Penguin 1987 rep. 283pp., card covers, sp. sl. creased else good. 2.00
Yan, Mo.
The Garlic Ballads.
Trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.
Penguin. 250g. 286pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Young, Louisa.
Tree of Pearls.
Flamingo 228pp., card covers, good. 2.00