Divorcing Jack ***SIGNED***

Bateman, Colin

ISBN 10: 0006479030 / ISBN 13: 9780006479031

Published by HarperCollins, London, 1995

About this Item

Very good unread first edition/first printing signed by author o title page. Contains full numberline. Free of owner's marks and spine/coverwrap creases. Binding very tight. Dings to condition include some rubbing edges coverwraps, a few smudges base textblock, and some blue patches on opening edge texblock (not from a pen).

Seller Inventory # 3418

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Divorcing Jack ***SIGNED***
• Publisher: HarperCollins, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006479030
• ISBN 13: 9780006479031
• Binding: Softcover/Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: signed by author or artist
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.

About the Author

Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and educated at Bangor Grammar School before joining the ‘County Down Spectator’, where he became the deputy editor until 1996. In 1990 he received a Journalist’s Fellowship to Oxford University for his reports from Uganda and has received a Northern Ireland Press Award for his weekly satirical column. He won the Betty Trask Award in 1994.