Published by Random House UK|Chatto & Windus, 2023
ISBN 10: 1784745200 ISBN 13: 9781784745202
Seller: Antiquarische Fundgrube e.U., Wien, Austria
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Published by Chatto & Windus, Penguin Random House, 2022
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
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Condition: 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.
Published by London//Sydney, Chatto & Windus/Random House 1996., 1996
First Edition
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.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House London, 2005
ISBN 10: 0701178949 ISBN 13: 9780701178949
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: 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.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, 2008
ISBN 10: 0701181451 ISBN 13: 9780701181451
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Sydney, Chatto & Windus/ Random House Australia 1993., 1993
First Edition
First edition. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Published by Chatto & Windus - Part of the Penguin Random House Group, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1784740519 ISBN 13: 9781784740511
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kennedy, Martha - Jacket Design (illustrator). 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.
Published by Chatto & Windus (Random House), London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0701173823 ISBN 13: 9780701173821
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House Group Ltd. London, 2009
ISBN 10: 0701184132 ISBN 13: 9780701184131
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Random House - Chatto & Windus, 1993
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Australian hardback first impression. INSCRIBED at title page by Malouf. Has a card laid-in for a 1993 Sydney Morning Herald Literary Luncheon with Malouf as guest speaker. Fine in fine jacket. Signed by Author.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House 2003, 2003
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Chatto & Windus [an imprint of Vintage / Penguin Random House], London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1784742678 ISBN 13: 9781784742676
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Chatto & Windus, Random House, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0701182954 ISBN 13: 9780701182953
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good - Age Marks, Browned. First Edition.
Published by Chatto & Windus/Random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Miller's Point NSW,, 1998
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First edition. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 435pp., with 16pp. of colour and monochrome plates. Minor wear. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 0701181656 ISBN 13: 9780701181659
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket by Jarrod Taylor (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Sadly jacket quite marked with tea cup rings and splashes to front jacket and spine, some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, small closed tear to top of spine. Not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a good reading copy only, although book itself looks almost unread. 983pp. This Faustian story with a terrifying twist is the fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former SS intelligence officer, who has reinvented himself as a family man and owner of a lace factory in post war France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat, who speaks out now not in self justification but to set the record straight. He looks back at his life with cool eyed precision: from a disrupted childhood and a turning point in his student days, to his role as observer and then participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, from Poland to the Caucasus, he is present at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, and finally caught up in the rout of the Nazis and the nightmarish fall of Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures such as Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself. Massive in scope, terrifying in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell's masterpiece is intense, hallucinatory, and terrifyingly compelling. Described by Le Figaro as 'a monument of contemporary literature', this transgressive work has been compared to classics of world literature, including War and Peace. A huge novel about the seductive enormity of evil, the ineffable horror of war, man's inhumanity and the malevolence of the Furies, this is a book that every thinking person should read and to which no one can be indifferent. A huge heavy book, extra postage may be required.
Published by Chatto & Windus/Random House, London,, 2009
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 305pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; a promotional sticker to the upper panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd./random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Milson's Point NSW,, 1993
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 472pp., top edges dyed green. Mild wear; some bumps to the upper board; light dusting to the text block top edge. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel lightly sunned; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Published by Chatto & Windus, Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London . London 2002., 2002
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 63 printed pages of text. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'For Geraldine with best wishes at Penshurst Ruth Padel September 2007'. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9780701173012 POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.
Published by London, Chatto & Windus [Random House Ltd]. 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0701169656 ISBN 13: 9780701169657
Seller: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands
Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: [vi], 260pp. Very fine copy - as new.,
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0701163941 ISBN 13: 9780701163945
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Graham Evenden (illustrator). 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.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 070118910X ISBN 13: 9780701189105
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket and endpapers by Lizzy Stewart (illustrator). 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.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0701173742 ISBN 13: 9780701173746
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0701134291 ISBN 13: 9780701134297
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket after Channel 4 of Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Madrigal (illustrator). 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.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0701160306 ISBN 13: 9780701160302
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket after Rembrandt (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, not price clipped (£15.99), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy. 472pp. Lucas Graffe a reclusive academic, kills a man in self defense and disappears immediately after the trial, leaving his brother, the charismatic actor Clement Graffe, tortured by his absence. Their friend Bellamy James rids himself of all ties and possessions, even giving away his beloved dog. Yearning for simplicity and purification, he prepares himself for a monastic life. And outside Clifton, the house where the widowed Louise Anderson lives with her three eccentric daughters, a very peculiar man is watching. Lucas finally returns, and during his reunion with his brother they happen to receive a surprising visitor. It soon becomes clear to the Graffes and their friends that there is a complex mission to fulfill, of revenge, but also of transformation. Rich, enthralling, full of humor and suspense, Iris Murdoch's magnificent novel illuminates the complexities of guilt and innocence, malice and compassion.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1784740667 ISBN 13: 9781784740665
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket by Annie Griffiths Belt (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '5 7 9 10 8 6 4'. Some minuscule edge wear to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 250pp. Tara Fraser leaves London to start a new life in a Cumbrian town selected at random. She plans to obliterate her past, which contains a shocking event that had serious consequences, by becoming a completely different personality from her previous volatile self. She is going to be quiet, even dull, and very private. But one of her new neighbours, Nancy, is intrigued by her. She wants to become her friend. Equally determined not to be discarded are three old friends who Tara feels let her down when she most needed them. Tara fights to keep herself to herself, but can she do it? And does she really want to? Slowly, reluctantly, she discovers the dangers of trying to suppress the past and reject other people.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0701186488 ISBN 13: 9780701186487
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Chatto & Windus/ Random House, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0701175087 ISBN 13: 9780701175085
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Martin Scott-Jupp (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, subsequent impression with number line '6 8 10 9 7'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some yellowing to page block, top corners very slightly bruised, price clipped, a signature to title page but not I think that of Hazel Rowley, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 429pp, illustrated. They are one of the world's legendary couples. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Startre, those passionate, free thinking Existentialist philosopher writers, had a committed but notoriously open union that generated no end of controversy. Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Hazel Rowley portrays them up close. We witness Beauvoir and Sartre with their circle, holding court in Paris cafes. We learn the details of their infamous romantic entanglements with the young Olga Kosakiewicz and others, of their efforts to protest the wars in Algeria and Vietnam, and of Beauvoir's tempestuous love affair with Nelson Algren. We hear the anguished discussions that would lead to Sartre's refusal of the Nobel Prize, and listen in on the couple as they comment on each other's great works. The impact of their writings on modern thought can hardly be overestimated, but Beauvoir and Sartre are remembered just as much for the lives they led. Theirs is a great story, and a great story is precisely what Beauvoir and Sartre most wanted their lives to be. Hazel Joan Rowley (1951-2011), was a British born Australian author and biographer, she sadly died young from a stroke in New York.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 1856197883 ISBN 13: 9781856197885
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket after The Royal Photographic Society (illustrator). 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.
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Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0701182539 ISBN 13: 9780701182533
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by James Munro (illustrator). 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.
Published by Random House UK, Chatto & Windus, 2012
ISBN 10: 0701186720 ISBN 13: 9780701186722
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung - The prizewinning and No 1 bestselling author Sadie Jones moves to a gorgeous and bewitching historical setting in a blissful new novel full of surprises. One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savoury survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor - and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief.