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Welcome to AbeBooks.co.uk's Christmas Room - this season we are showcasing the countless signed books offered for sale by our booksellers. A book is always the ideal Christmas present but a signed edition makes that gift extra special. Have your nearest and dearest unwrapping a book signed by the big names of literature. Happy hunting.

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The Harmony Silk Factory

Tash Aw

The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.

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Glue

Irvine Welsh

Glue has all Irvine Welsh's usual pace and vigour, crackling dialogue, scabrous set-pieces and black, black humour, but it is also a book about growing up - about the way we live our lives, and what happens to us when things come unstuck.

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The Villa

Nora Roberts

Set in beautiful Napa Valley, California, Nora Roberts's latest novel portrays a rich world of family-owned wineries, complete with enough romance, sophisticated business intrigue, betrayal, and murder to cow the Medicis of Florence.

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Original Sin

P.D. James

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary ingenuity as they begin to probe the dark, private tragedies of Etienne's mistress and colleagues. But the mystery at Innocent House may prove too deep, too old, and too evil to stop at just one death....

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The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to help people with problems in their lives.

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Vector

Robin Cook

New York City cab driver Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian immigrant poised to lash out at the adoptive nation he believes has denied him the American Dream. Vector is all-too-plausible fiction at its terrifying best.

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Cat and Mouse

James Patterson

That monstrous villain Gary Soneji is back in Cat & Mouse, the fourthbook in James Patterson's series about Alex Cross, a police forensic psychologist.

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Lasher

Anne Rice

"Steamy . . . fast-paced and hugely engrossing . . . . Rice's title character -- a seductive, evil highly sexual and ultimately tragic creature -- is fascinating." -- The Miami Herald

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Lost Boys

Orson Scott Card

For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an unending parade of misery and disaster.

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The Falls

Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin's John Rebus, arguably the most realistic detective in crime fiction, is a brilliant but troubled man. When a young woman goes missing near his native Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebus finds himself just one small cog in the huge wheel of an inquiry set in motion by her powerfully rich father.

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Thud!

Terry Pratchett

In his 34th Discworld novel, Terry Pratchett is at the top of his game, taking on honest cops, vampires, loyalty, fatherhood, and, of course, historic battlefield re-enactments to create yet another irreverent, adventure-filled yarn.

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The Welsh Girl

Peter Ho Davies

Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales, Peter Ho Davies's profoundly moving first novel traces the intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a POW camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old Esther finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its captives.

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Charlotte Gray

Sebastian Faulks

From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.

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The Enchantress of Florence

Salman Rushdie

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers.

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True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

Ned Kelly speaks for himself. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives.

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The Porcupine

Julian Barnes

In his latest novel, Julian Barnes, author of Talking It Over and A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.

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Dead Air

Iain Banks

Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. His new novel displays his trademark dark wit, buoyancy and momentum.

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Hong Kong

Jan Morris

World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and comprehensive study of the fascinating enigma of Hong Kong to date.

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The Outcast

Sadie Jones

It is 1957, and Lewis Aldridge, straight out of prison, is journeying back to his home in Waterford, a suburban town outside London. He is nineteen years old, and his return will have dramatic consequences not just for his family, but for the whole community.

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Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.

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The Boleyn Inheritance

Philippa Gregory

The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.

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On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

In 1962, Florence and Edward celebrate their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties weighs over them. And unbeknownst to both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives.

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The Folks That Live On The Hill

Kingsley Amis

He expected the freedoms of age and of the 1980s. Instead, he gets something like bondage: responsibility for everyone he knows -- his grown children, his brother, even worse his sister, who arrives to keep house. How can Harry mount his amorous adventures with time and privacy shorn away?

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Little Wilson and Big God

Anthony Burgess

Filled with epigrammatic wit, written with seemingly total recall, this first instalment of Burgess's autobiography is a thoroughly delightful memoir, the mellow recollections of a man who has come to terms with himself.

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Absolute Friends

John Le Carre

This epic tale of loyalty and betrayal spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances.

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Only Problem

Muriel Spark

Studious, rich Harvey Gotham has retired to France to write a monograph on the Book of Job. When the police call and tell him that his estranged wife is a dangerous terrorist he refuses to believe them, and thus throws suspicion upon himself.

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Restless

William Boyd

Someone is trying to kill Sally Gilmartin. It is the summer of 1976, and the only person she can trust is her daughter, Ruth, a young single mother struggling with her own demons. Now Sally must tell her daughter the truth: She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited for the British Secret Service in 1939.

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Then We Came to the End

Joshua Ferris

With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

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Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

A story of depth and emotion, hilarity and imagination, The Inheritance of Loss tells a story of love, family, and loss.

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Magic Seeds

V.S. Naipaul

A rich and complex novel of India and of modern man's search for identity thrusts the listener into the myriad experiences of Willie Chandran, the everyman of this expansive journey.

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Once Upon a Time in the North

Philip Pullman

Texas aeronaut Lee Scoresby becomes embroiled in local politics when he lands his balloon in the Arctic town of Novy Odense in this prequel to The Golden Compass.

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The Book and the Brotherhood

Iris Murdoch

Years ago, a group of friends bonded together to finance a political and philosophical book to be written by one of them. Now, amidst a midsummer ball at Oxford, a crisis occurs, and the vindictive ghosts of the past invade the present.

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Eldest

Christopher Paolini

A satisfying Tolkeinesque tale and the second installment in the Inheritance trilogy.

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Sharpe's Battle

Bernard Cornwell

As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of terror.

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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle

Life as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old Irish boy, Patrick Clarke, is a poignant voyage through a bewildering, ever-changing world of family, friends, dreams, and growing up.

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Electric Light

Seamus Heaney

Powerful collection from the bestselling translator of Beowulf. Arguably the finest poet now writing in English.

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Mr. Pip

Lloyd Jones

On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.

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Disgrace

J.M Coetzee

Disgrace: set in post-apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape - is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter. Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about grace and love.

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2010: Space Oddyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer for clues to what went wrong... and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.

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The Stand

Stephen King

It's the end of the world as only Stephen king could imagine it. Humanity has been all but wiped out by a lethal virus. But the survivors are divided by light and darkness, and must face a final battle that will decide the fate of more than their lives: their very souls...

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Statecraft

Margaret Thatcher

Statecraft is an incisive treatise on power in the age of globalism, written by a legendary world statesman with a matchless combination of principles, experience, and shrewdness.

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High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

In a candid, engaging narrative voice, 35-year-old pop-music fanatic Rob, the owner of a vintage record shop who has just broken up with his longtime girlfriend, attempts to ease his misery by giving an account of his top-five most memorable split-ups.

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Mostly Harmless

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors.

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The Sea

John Banville

John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife.

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Flashman on the March

George MacDonald Fraser

It's 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover.

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