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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1995
ISBN 10: 0747513945ISBN 13: 9780747513940
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. A very cean tight copy.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2002
ISBN 10: 0747550360ISBN 13: 9780747550365
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: nrFine DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very fine condition with virtually no signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Page / text edges lightly browned. Signed by Author.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747577129ISBN 13: 9780747577126
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: nrFine. Reprint. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747534438ISBN 13: 9780747534433
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: nrVG DW. 1st Edition. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1996
ISBN 10: 0747529566ISBN 13: 9780747529569
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1st Thus. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near fine condition BUT is stained on the inside.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2003
ISBN 10: 0747559503ISBN 13: 9780747559504
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine DW. 1st Edition. Signed by author in pale pink on title page. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very fine condition with virtually no signs of wear and/or age. In loose polythene protector. Signed by Author.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1995
ISBN 10: 074751979XISBN 13: 9780747519799
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ Pc DW. 1st Edition. Large format. Blue cloth, silver gilt. Very light speckling to top text edge OTHERWISE Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped and is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Small grey mark to base of front cover. In loose polythene protector. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1400g.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1992
ISBN 10: 0747508844ISBN 13: 9780747508847
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: nrFine DW. 1st Edition. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1100g.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1988
ISBN 10: 0747502668ISBN 13: 9780747502661
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1400g.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1998
ISBN 10: 0747536716ISBN 13: 9780747536710
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Book is in very fine condition with virtually no signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1995
ISBN 10: 0747521352ISBN 13: 9780747521358
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: nrVG DW. 1st Edition. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1500g.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2003
ISBN 10: 0747561230ISBN 13: 9780747561231
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author "Keep looking up and you will always see stars. best wishes Mary Hoffman" on title page and "For now, all she wanted to do was fly forever." on verso of publication page. Book is in fine condition BUT page edges are lightly browned. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very fine condition with virtually no signs of wear and/or age. In loose polythene protector. Inscribed by Author.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2014
ISBN 10: 0747591849ISBN 13: 9780747591849
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Black cloth, silver gilt. Book is in very fine condition with virtually no signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Very small closed tear to base of spine. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1050g.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1993
ISBN 10: 0747513813ISBN 13: 9780747513810
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G++ DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Front endpaper slightly marked. Entire DW has inch scar across spine. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1988
ISBN 10: 0747500916ISBN 13: 9780747500919
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Grey cloth, silver gilt. Book is in very fine condition with virtually no signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in fine condition BUT spine a bit faded.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 1992
ISBN 10: 0747512558ISBN 13: 9780747512554
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1st Edition. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Spine ends very lightly bumped. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in excellent condition BUT very small closed tear to bottom edge of back cover. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1050g.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, England, GB U.K, 1996
ISBN 10: 0747528365ISBN 13: 9780747528364
Seller: Bildungsbuch, Flensburg, Germany
Book First Edition
Cloth/ Leinen. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. mit Lesebändchen, schwarz-lila Schutzumschlag, sofort lieferbar.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2020
ISBN 10: 1408886863ISBN 13: 9781408886861
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
Book Signed
soft. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed by the author (Signed by the author) _______________'If you love the TV series Grantchester, don’t miss this captivating prequel. It reveals the backstory of how a young Sidney Chambers, carefree in London just before the Second World War, came to be the charming crime-fighting clergyman we know today' - Yours'Charming, clever and warm: perfect comfort food for the soul' - Joanne Harris, Daily Telegraph'An engaging and witty prequel' - Washington Post'Hugely enjoyable … Some of the finest writing I have ever read about the sorrow and the pity of war' - Herald_______________The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert’s birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross, and lost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. The carefree youth that he and his friends were promised has been blown apart, just like the rest of the world – and Sidney, carrying a terrible, secret guilt, must decide what to do with the rest of his life. But he has heard a call: constant, though quiet, and growing ever more persistent. To the incredulity of his family and the derision of his friends – the irrepressible actor Freddie, and the beautiful, spiky Amanda – Sidney must now negotiate his path to God: the course of which, much like true love, never runs smooth. The touching, engaging and surprising origin story of the Grantchester Mysteries’s beloved Archdeacon, Sidney Chambers, The Road to Grantchester will delight new and old fans alike.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2024
ISBN 10: 1526647931ISBN 13: 9781526647931
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
Book Signed
soft. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed by the author (Signed by the author) WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK AWARDS - FIRST BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, SCOTSMAN AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A beautiful book . It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER'Electrifying . A pocket epic' GUARDIANAn astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talentIn the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in Norwich.Before they part, Julian will entrust Margery with a secret – one that will change the course of history.‘You will read it in no time but be thinking about it for ages after’ FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, GUARDIAN, Book of the day'Miraculously conjured . Brilliantly done' THE TIMES, Book of the Month'The best first novel I've read in years . So full and so vivid; it is amazing' RODDY DOYLE'A vibrant portrait of female courage' OBSERVER‘A novel of rare brightness and clarity, concise and yet capacious: it illuminates like a shaft of sunlight’ IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2024
ISBN 10: 1526619814ISBN 13: 9781526619815
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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soft. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed by the author (Signed by the author) 'A magnificent, sweeping epic' JENNIFER SAINT, Sunday Times-bestselling author of ARIADNE'Shannon is simply a master of the genre' C. S. PACAT, New York Times-bestselling author of DARK RISE'A tremendous triumph' LONDON SHAH, award-winning author of the LIGHT OF THE ABYSS series____________________A return to the world of Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree ____________________Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat.Intricate and epic, A Day of Fallen Night sweeps readers back to the world of A Priory of the Orange Tree, showing us a course of events that shaped it for generations to come.**Chosen as a book of 2023 by the Metro, Cosmopolitan, Nerd Daily, PinkNews and Waterstones**.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2019
ISBN 10: 1526602539ISBN 13: 9781526602534
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) 'Du Maurier-tastic' GUARDIAN'Deliciously sinister' HEAT 'A clever, creepy read' SUNDAY EXPRESS Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home. Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804545430ISBN 13: 9781804545430
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) 'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take immediate action' New Yorker 'An artist's ardent plea for change' Kirkus This earth that we love is in grave danger because of us. Forests are becoming legends, rare as unicorns.If we continue to live as we do now, there will be no world left for us to fix, Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri argues in this evocative collection. He imagines messages – sent to us from beyond the end, from those who saw it coming – exhorting us to change now.Combining fiction, essay and poetry, Tiger Work displays Okri’s classic blend of storytelling, fantasy and magic.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2024
ISBN 10: 1526622556ISBN 13: 9781526622556
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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soft. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed by the author (Signed by the author) THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times------From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilisations across time.When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time. In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world’s leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history – and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming. Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind’s continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.-----'This is epic, gripping, original history that leaps off the page' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland'All Historians aiming to tell a narrative face the problem of when exactly to start it. Only Peter Frankopan would go back 2.5 billion years to the Great Oxidation Event' Tom HollandA 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * NEW EUROPEAN * GUARDIAN * NEW STATESMAN * THE TIMES * THE WEEK * WATERSTONES * BLACKWELL'S.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2019
ISBN 10: 1408886855ISBN 13: 9781408886854
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross, and lost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. The carefree youth that he and his friends were promised has been blown apart, just like the rest of the world - and Sidney, carrying a terrible, secret guilt, must decide what to do with the rest of his life. But he has heard a call: constant, though quiet, and growing ever more persistent. To the incredulity of his family and the derision of his friends - the irrepressible actor Freddie, and the beautiful, spiky Amanda - Sidney must now negotiate his path to God: the course of which, much like true love, never runs smooth. The touching, engaging and surprising origin story of the Grantchester Mysteries's beloved Archdeacon, Sidney Chambers, The Road to Grantchester will delight new and old fans alike.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408879026ISBN 13: 9781408879023
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved series, adapted for ITV's Grantchester which stars James Norton as Sidney Chambers. Perfect for fans of M. C. Beaton.It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna and their ageing Labrador Byron when they stumble upon a body. Plunged into another murder investigation, Sidney discovers a world of hippies and psychedelic plants, where permissive behaviour seems to hide something darker.This is the first of many disturbing secrets that Sidney unearths beneath the tranquil surface of the diocese: a celebrated photographer is accused of rape; a priceless religious text vanishes from a Cambridge college; the authentication of a lost masterpiece proves a slippery business; and Sidney's own nephew goes missing.Endeavouring to fit in his clerical duties around sleuthing, Sidney continues to reflect on the divine mysteries of love, life and faith, while wrestling with the earthly problems of parish scandals, a progressive new secretary, the challenges of parenthood, and a great loss.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2023
ISBN 10: 1408897415ISBN 13: 9781408897416
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed by the author (Signed by the author) 'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.' – Michael Morpurgo‘Rundell’s first foray into fantasy is both a deft, rich homage to the greats of children’s literature and an absorbing, profoundly poignant quest story for those aged 9+ – quite possibly her best yet’ – The Guardian'A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight, and a world of richly imagined wonder' – Cressida Cowell* WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER * BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS' AWARD WINNER * FOYLES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR * SHORTLISTED FOR AMAZON KIDS AND YA BOOK OF THE YEAR* THE TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThere’s a place where all the wildest stories began … From Katherine Rundell, winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize comes the first novel in a landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark MaterialsChristopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil – before it's too late. 'A marvellous, imaginative fantasy told with great style and sparkle – a book to race through in a day and keep for a lifetime' – Jacqueline Wilson'The world of this new book is so intriguing and so well put together that I couldn’t resist it. Readers who already know her books will seize this with delight, and new readers will love it and demand all her others at once' - Philip Pullman'Katherine Rundell is a phenomenon.' – Neil Gaiman‘A masterpiece to rival Tolkien and Pullman’ – The Daily Telegraph'Fantastically exuberant, wildly imaginative, impossibly brilliant. Rundell’s best, which is something to be marvelled at' – Kiran Millwood Hargrave'Between the covers of Impossible Creatures is a world as enchanting, as perilous, as richly imagined as Narnia or Middle Earth' – Frank Cottrell-Boyce‘Rundell's book packs a punch with imagination and creativity in its purest form. She has created a story with potential to be adored by fantasy lovers for years to come’ – The Independent'With a delightful cast of characters, breathless adventure, and an abundance of myth and magic, Impossible Creatures offers the very best of fantasy' – Aisha Bushby'A fierce, fantastic, wild-hearted adventure that roars and bristles with imagination. I devoured it like a hungry dragon' – Sam Sedgman'A rare and remarkable feat of glittering imagination from a truly masterful storyteller' – Catherine Doyle'The action is gripping. Every sentence sparkles. You can feel the flutter of griffin feathers and the menace of strange poisonous shrews. Magnificent’ – The Times‘Surely the next classic’ – The I'My Book of the Year' – Lauren St. John.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2021
ISBN 10: 1526629763ISBN 13: 9781526629760
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) ‘Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation’ Namita Gokhale‘A masterpiece’ Guardian‘I really admire and love this book’ Sally Rooney ‘An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster’ Daily Mail ‘I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book’ David Sedaris‘A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits’ Douglas Stuart* WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 ** A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *______________________________________________This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.______________________________________________‘An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour’ Rowan WilliamsA 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2023
ISBN 10: 1526663597ISBN 13: 9781526663597
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed by the author (Signed by the author) THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSCronyism, nepotism, conflicts of interest, misconduct, lying. Is this the worst parliament in history? Leading MP Chris Bryant tells the inside story of misconduct in parliament, and shows how we can help solve it.'Takes a bulldozer to the crumbling edifice of parliamentary standards' JAMES O'BRIEN'Absolutely riveting. I read, I blink, I gasp' REVEREND RICHARD COLES'Vital. It should serve as a wake-up call to all of us' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'A lively, forensic, engrossing, sometimes entertaining, often disturbing and always unflinching interrogation of what's gone wrong with our legislature' ANDREW RAWNSLEY, OBSERVER The extraordinary turmoil we have seen in British politics in the last few years has set records. We have had the fastest turnover of ministers in our history and more MPs suspended from the House than ever. Rules have been flouted repeatedly, sometimes in plain sight. The government seems unable to escape the brush of sleaze. And just when we think it’s all going to calm down a bit, another scandal breaks. Having spent years as Chair of the Committees on Standards and Privileges, Chris Bryant has had a front-row seat for the battle over standards in parliament. Cronyism, nepotism, conflicts of interest, misconduct and lying: politicians are engaging in these activities more frequently and more publicly than ever before. The result? The work of honest and accountable MPs is tarnished. Public trust is worn thin. And when nearly two thirds of voters think that MPs are out for themselves, democracy is in trouble. It is time for a better brand of politics. Taking us inside the Pugin-carpeted corridors of Westminster, from the prime minister’s office to the Strangers’ Bar, Code of Conduct examines how parliament has got into this mess and suggests how it might – at last – get its house in order.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2021
ISBN 10: 152663094XISBN 13: 9781526630940
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) 'Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her' ELIZABETH DAY 'So insanely good and true and twisted it'll make your teeth sweat' OLIVIA WILDE 'One of my favourite writers of all time' DUA LIPA 'Like a series of grenades exploding' MARIAN KEYESI drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That's a cruel thing to think, I know. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man.Do you see how this is going? But I wasn't always that way. I am depraved. I hope you like me. ------------ A 2021 Highlight for: Guardian - Sunday Express - Independent - New Statesman - Evening Standard - Cosmopolitan - Red - Grazia - Daily Mail - Daily Express - The Week - Irish Times - i - The Sun.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2023
ISBN 10: 1526654407ISBN 13: 9781526654403
Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United Kingdom
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) BOOK OF THE YEAR - EVENING STANDARD, THE OBSERVER and THE TIMES ‘Beautifully written and completely convincing’ Observer‘An excellent novel – riotous and abundant, full of vivid, dirty life’ Guardian 'Osman brings the underworld of Elizabethan London to life' Sandra Newman, author of JuliaOn a rooftop in Elizabethan London two worlds collide. Shay is a messenger-girl and trainer of hawks who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled child theatre scene, as famous as royalty yet lowly as a beggar. Together they create The Ghost Theatre: a troupe staging magical plays in London's hidden corners. As their hallucinatory performances incite rebellion among the city's outcasts, the pair's relationship sparks and burns against a backdrop of the plague and a London in flames. Their growing fame sweeps them up into the black web of the Elizabethan court, where Shay and Nonesuch discover that if they fly too high, a fall is sure to come…Fantastical and captivating, The Ghost Theatre charts the rise and dramatic destruction of a dream born from love and torn apart by betrayal.'Wildly inventive and full of fantastical elements jostling alongside gritty realism’ The Times 'Rich and evocative with shades of Angela Carter' Ever Dundas'A story of rebellion and magic, of mysticism and broken love in the streets and theatres and rooftops of Elizabethan London. Beautifully written, delicate and sad. I'm still haunted by it' Mariana Enriquez'Brings the underworld of Elizabethan London to life with its child theatres, rioting apprentices and anarchic world, its jumble of squalor and glamour. larger-than-life heroes raise child rebellions; pursue exalted, treacherous love affairs. Glorious!' Sandra Newman ‘Hauntingly beautiful … Thrilling and thought-provoking’ IndependentReaders LOVE The Ghost Theatre‘An incredible novel that completely transported me’‘Mat Osman is a magical writer’‘One of those books you find yourself thinking about long after the final page’‘A captivating and brilliant novel’‘Mesmerising… I didn’t want it to end’‘A magical flight across Elizabethan England’‘An enthralling read from beginning to end’