Chatto windus random house (141 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 2005 hardcover release) first printing of a near fine softcover with one spine crease, with no jacket as issued. The 2nd novel in the Simon Serrailler mystery series, a Chief Inspector with the Lafferton England U.K. police force.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket with the publishers "'Glorious' John Harvey 12.99 pounds" sticker present. The 2nd novel in the Bella Wallis mystery series, a novelist published under male pseudonym Henry Ellis Margam, in 1870s London England U.K.…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Printing. 274 Pages. Interior text pages are white and tight. Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement. This is a story from the winter days of the end of 1959 and the beginning of 1960. It is a story of error and desire, of unrequited love, and of a religious question that remains unresolved. Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him to a strange house, where an elderly invalid man requires a paid companion, to argue with and read to him. But there is someone else in the house, too. A woman, who is trailed by ghosts from her past. Shmuel is captivated by her, a sexual obsession which evolves into gentle love and devotion; and he is pulled to the old man, an intellectual obsession which also evolves into gentle love and devotion. Shmuel begins to uncover the house's tangled history and, in doing so, reaches an understanding that harks back not only to the beginning of the Jewish-Arab conflict, but also the beginning of Jerusalem itself - to Christianity, to Judaism, to Judas. Set in the still-divided Jerusalem of 1959-60, Judas is an exquisite love story and coming-of-age tale, and a radical rethinking of the concept of treason. It is a novel steeped in desire and curiosity from one of Israel's greatest living writers. Kennedy, Martha - Jacket Design (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a mild skew starting to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a small ding to the head of the front cover, and a brief notation in blue ink to the upper corner of the first free end page, otherwise a solid, tight, bright Very Good copy in an unclipped Very Good+ dust jacket, which has very minor bumps to the spine ends and corners, and a hint of faint rubbing. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.…

Zustand: Very Good. 2022. First Edition Thus. 244 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over white cloth. Flatsigned by the author to title page. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Panels have light edge wear with some creases. Minor markings to all surfaces. Sticker to front cover. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardback book and as shown by the retailers stamp "damaged in transit" however the book remains in fair condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint . Reprint 2008. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: [vi], 260pp. Very fine copy - as new..

Soft cover. Zustand: Good - Age Marks, Browned. First Edition.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with the complete number string on the printer's page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. A paperback original (PBO) pamphlet. ***A very good copy in dark-blue stapled card covers with French-flaps, with gilt titles and decoration on the front and back covers. The covers are clean and unmarked, but with some rubbing at the edges and a little creasing at the spine. No tears. No bumps. Corners sharp. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No marks, creases or tears. Paper stock clean - just slightly tanned. ***26 pages. 170 mm x 123 mm. ***'In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times - when a new life arrives, and everything changes.' [Quote taken from the front flap. ***'Liz Berry (born 1980) is a British poet. She has published two pamphlets and one full-length poetry collection. Her poetry collection, "Black Country", was named poetry book of the year by several publications, including The Guardian.' [Wiki] ***'I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.' ***A true first edition, first impression of this small pamphlet. Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some edge wear, short closed tears and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 732pp, illustrated. A history of Ireland in the nineteenth century. The book traces the three causes of the halving of the Irish population in that century, the famine, the subsequent Irish emigrations to American and Canada, and the transportation of political activitists to Australia. A quest for Australian Irish author's Thomas Keneally (author of Schindler's Ark) ancestors. Jacket after The Royal Photographic Society (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 178pp. This devastating dossier of savage stories takes us to the crimes that never reach the newspapers: small-town atrocities where the mundane lurches into the macabre and ordinary people find themselves at the heart of horrific crimes, all the more compelling on account of their truth. Opening with an attack on a waitress by a band of musicians in a beer tent, we are led through the rituals of the Illuminati by a violent schoolboy sect, and invited to look into a briefcase full of photographs of mutilated corpses. There is the saga of a bungled drug heist involving a stolen car and a dog full of laxatives; the jealous husband who almost bludgeons his wife's lover to death; and the final chilling story of an eccentric madman who cleverly turns the tables on his own defense lawyer.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '4 6 8 10 9 7 5'. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 264pp. Margaret Forster (1938-2016), was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel 'Georgy Girl', made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. This memoir details Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes, from blacking grates and outside privies to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings, to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home. Jacket and endpapers by Lizzy Stewart (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression with full number line. Not ex library but a somewhat worn and much read volume. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some overall wear and creasing to largely white jacket, corners bruised, grubby fingerprints to page fore edges, contents shaken, some lean, price clipped, gift inscription to ffep, internally clean, overall a good reading copy only. 755pp. Published to mark the first of the tv series, broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993, starring Laura Linney as Mary Ann Singleton, Olympia Dukakis as Anna Madrigal, and Barbara Garrick as DeDe Halcyon-Day. Quite scarce in this first impression, even in this worn condition. Jacket after Channel 4 of Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Madrigal (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, tiny closed tear to top of spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 224pp, illustrated. Richard Mabey began experimenting with cooking as soon as he was big enough to clamber to the cupboard where the powdered chocolate was kept. At scout camp he learned how to cook a Sussex Pond Pudding in a billycan, and thirty years ago he permanently broadened the nation's palate with his guide to edible wild plants 'Food For Free'.This book is a joyous exploration of local ingredients, broadening your horizons by travelling, vernacular heritage, and making use of everything except, as the saying goes 'the pig's squeal'. It includes: Collecting Corsican chestnut receipes and American mushroom ideas, and meditating on what a forest food culture would have been like, Cooking eggs in nothing but the sun, Making bread the prehistoric way with old beer, Exploring the outer limits of apple cusine (i.e. the outer limit is making leather out of apples), 'Cooking against the grain', if we didn't have access to wheat, what could we make with nuts? How to deal with gluts, those autumn mountains of beans and courgettes, Making-do the wartime way, canny tricks his mother taught him, and re introducing his father's passion for offals. Jacket and illustrations by James Munro (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight lean, corners very slightly bruised, price clipped, small previous owner's sticker to bottom front pastedown, internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy. 284pp, illustrated. In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world and is a byword for biscuits to this day. Following his trail to Carlisle (where she herself was born and grew up), Margaret Forster (1938-2016), brings 19th century daily life into vivid focus and charts the rise and rise of a middle class family like the Carrs, ambitious, innovative yet sternly religious. This is history as it was lived by the men and women both above and below stairs, from the shop floor to the comfortable bourgeois homes of the paternalistic Carrs. We see the conflict between religion and profit, the family feuds and the changing face of a city through this compelling historical narrative, told with Margaret Forster's characteristic blend of scholarship, readability and marvellous attention to the texture of everyday life. Jacket by Graham Evenden (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, slight lean. Not price clipped (£14.99), gift inscription on ffep, internally clean and tight overall a vg copy. 414pp. The story of three women, whose lives criss-cross between Paris in the 1890s, at the height of the Dreyfus affair, France again in 1941 and Canada today. The first-person narrator, a contemporary Canadian simultaneous translator, goes to Paris to research Proust and escape an unrequited love, and finds instead Mme Proust's 'unpublished diary' in the archives. Then there is Sarah, a Jewish French girl whose parents send her out of Paris in WWII to escape the round-ups; she ends up in Canada and never sees them again. She marries into an orthodox Jewish family and becomes more kosher than they are, constantly consoling herself with cooking - and we finally discover that it's her son with whom our narrator is unrequitedly in love.and he's gay. The third woman is Mme Proust herself, whose 'diaries' are fictionalised in a wonderful pastiche by Taylor, with irresistible and impecccably researched details of the mother's worries about Marcel, his late-night habits, his diet and his friends, and about the Dreyfus affair - being Jewish though completely assimilated she observes it with very different eyes from her husband's. Everything comes together poignantly and satisfyingly: the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders both Jewish and homosexual, and finally redemption through literature and cooking. …

First edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise very fine in very fine dustjacket (Australian $ price on flap). Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $5, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards before the order is processed by the bookseller.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -From the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread: an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days running errands for work - his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof of his car - maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life.But then the order of things starts to tilt. His woman friend Cassia (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a 'girlfriend') tells him she's facing eviction because of a cat. And when a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son, Micah is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle. Redhead by the Side of the Road is an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of reach - and a love story about the differences that make us all unique. 192 pp. Englisch.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by author on title page.Spine of dj is sunned (faded) else vg in dj. Faint remainder of one word prev. owner name Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lovely first edition of this work by Byatt, signed to title page. No inscriptions or other markings, in bright dust jacket based on commissioned work by Norman Adams. With first edition first printing marks and red ribbon sewn in bookmark. 292 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1" on the publisher's copyright prelims-page: 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. Although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of leading feminist writer Germaine Greer, and includes a loosely inserted card with a handwritten note from Becky Hardie at Random House to Germaine Greer (please see scans). ***Near fine in cream cloth-covered boards, with black titles on the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Binding straight with no reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Paper slightly tanned. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £16.99. The dustwrapper is just slightly rubbed at the edges. No tears. No chips. No fading. Dustwrapper clean and bright. ***264 pages, including a Postscript, detailed Bibliography, Acknowledgements and a detailed Index at the back of the book. 222 mm x 142 mm. ***'Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre? Petrova or Osy? Scarlett or Melanie? "Lace" or "Valley of the Dolls"? On a pilgrimage to "Wuthering Heights", Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild, free, passionate Cathy, but her friend found Cathy silly, a snob who betrays Heathcliff for Edgar and makes them all unhappy -- while courageous Jane makes her own way. And that's when Samantha realised that all her life she'd been trying to be Cathy when she should have been trying to be Jane. "How to be a Heroine" is a funny, touching, inspiring exploration of the role of heroines, and our favourite books, in all our lives -- and how they change over time, for better or worse, just as we do.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper]. ***A near fine copy of this interesting study of the role of heroines in literature - from the library of eminent feminist and professor Germaine Greer. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '4 6 8 10 9 7 5'. Some very slight edge wear to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 289pp. Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70, and went on to write 9 more bestsellers before her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mary Farmar, descended from the Duke of Wellington, and grew up a rebel who believed that she was her mother's least favourite child. Like many girls of her background, she married for escape, but her first marriage to Lord Swinfen was conventional. Her second husband, Eric Siepmann, a writer who never managed to make any money at all, was feckless and bohemian. In between Swinfen and Siepmann, she had a love affair with Czech war hero, Heinz Ziegler, and possibly with his brother at the same time, and in her later years enjoyed a torrid relationship with Robert Bolt. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was, as she put it, 'roped into intelligence', where she worked on breaking codes. Her experiences in MI5 and her many wartime love affairs, which form the core of this biography, also formed the cores of her novels. She wrote about the atmosphere of the home front, and how war dislocates families, and how a sense of the imminence of death loosens the inhibitions, her novels are sexy and witty. She also drew on her love and knowledge of Cornwall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression with full number line. Some very very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unopened, unread. 981pp. Bella Wallis is a glamorous widow with a secret identity. In an office buried deep within the seedy back streets of Victorian London, she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam. With dodgy deals, scheming aristocrats and stolen kisses behind closed doors, prize winning author Brian Thompson conjures up an irresistible quartet filled top to toe with Dickensian glamour. We start with The Widow's Secret, an effervescent romp to Paris on the trail of the owner of a mysterious cigar case, then The Sailor's Ransom, a tale of pearls and swine, set on the Cornish coast and the high seas, and The Player's Curse, where kidnap, cricket and cross dressing coincide in a riotous mystery. We end with the previously unpublished The Whole Story, in which Bella is caught up in an anarchist bomb attack at her favourite restaurant, Fracatelli's on the Strand, and only just survives to tell the tale. Jacket by Chris Wormell (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '6 8 10 9 7'. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLUE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, contents shaken with first few pages loose, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean, overall a reasonable copy. 368pp. In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys, he has found a friend and shelter. However constricted his life in England remains he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker (and dodging the attentions of other women), and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious old friend Rudi who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country but can he really go home again? Quite scarce signed. Jacket by Corbis (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 852pp, illustrated. THE QUEENS OF HENRY V111. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. CATHERINE OF ARAGON the Catholic Spanish Princess, who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a son. She was the mother of Mary Tudor. ANNE BOLEYN, the pretty, clever, French educated Protestant with whom Henry Vlll was madly in love for a brief period. She was the mother of Elizabeth I. JANE SEYMOUR the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's vampish style. She died soon after giving birth to the longed for son Edward VI. ANNE OF CLEVES 'the Flanders mare' he was horrified because she was so plain and she was appalled because he was so fat. CATHERINE HOWARD the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king. CATHERINE PARR the shrewd Protestant bluestocking who outlived him. A huge heavy book, extra postage may be required. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. With scarce publishers' band. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight lean, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 431pp. Egg stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, 'Kept' is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. August 1863. Henry Ireland, a failed landowner, dies unexpectedly in a riding accident, leaving a highly strung young widow. Not far away lives Ireland's friend James Dixey, a celebrated naturalist who collects strange trophies, a stuffed bear, a pet mouse, and a wolf that he keeps caged in the grounds of his decaying house, lost in the fog on the edge of the fens. The poachers, Dewar and Dunbar, with their cargo of pilfered eggs, Esther the observant kitchen maid, pining to be reunited with her vanished admirer; the ancient lawyer Mr Crabbe made careless by snobbery; John Carstairs, in search of his cousin, the elusive widow; an enigmatic debt collector, busily plotting an audacious robbery; various lowlife henchmen; and Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard, patiently investigating the circumstances of the Mr Ireland's death and many other things besides, all are drawn into a net of intrigue with wide and sinister implications. Ranging from the loch sides of Scotland to the slums of Clerkenwell, and from the gentlemen's clubs of St James's to the Yukon wilds, 'Kept' is a gorgeously intricate novel about the urge to possess, at once a gripping investigation of some of the secret chambers of the human heart and a dazzling re invention of Victorian life and passions. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -\*\*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023\*\*\*\*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022\*\*An exhilarating Animal Farm-inspired novel about power and corruption set in an animal nation trapped in a cycle as old as time, by one of the most exciting voices writing today.'Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny'New York Times Book ReviewNarrated by a vivid chorus of animal voices that unveil the tyranny and ruthlessness required to uphold absolute power, Glory is the tale of an uprising and a country's implosion. And at the centre of it all, a young goat named Destiny, returning home to bear witness to a revolution.Urgent, wild, dazzling with life and an irrepressible wit, Glory is a razor-sharp satire that unpicks power and shows how history can be halted in a moment.'Glory is a masterpiece for our times. Gripping and exhilarating' Observer\*\* SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023\*\*\*\*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 VISIONARY ARTS AWARDS\*\* 416 pp. Englisch.…