Resultados de búsqueda: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980 from Goldring Books

London: Harper Collins, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 330 pages. In 1945, Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Hoke, an American pilot and one of a tiny minority with a rare blood group unaffected by the deadly disease, has survived alone among the debris and the dead of London for three years. Now, in '48, a slow-dying group of Fascist Blackshirts believe their only hope is a complete transfusion of blood from one of Hoke's kind. Ever more desperate as their deaths approach, they're after his blood. 12. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sutton, Surrey: Severn House, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. On a stark and cold January day, Philip Stavely, successful actor, screenwriter and family man, is killed during a shooting party, and although the inquest records it as accidental, his widow, Ellie, believes it was suicide. Their once happy marriage had disintegrated over the last year and now she finds that she cannot move on, or grieve, until the real reasons for Philip's death are known. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 2019. An As New copy with an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 282 pages. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them… Leer más

London: Michael Joseph, 2023. An As New unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 412 pages. Kola Peninsula, 1987. High in the Soviet Arctic, a tiny village houses an apocalyptic secret ...When research zoologist Dr. Amelia Blackburn ventures north to investigate the ravages of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, she stumbles on the evidence of another sinister disaster on the Norway-Russia border - one that appears far from innocent. Russia will stop at nothing to prevent this information from being revealed, putting Amelia and her team in grave danger from the moment they leave the site. When news reaches London, the eyes of British intelligence turns to the one man with the knowledge and skills to bring her back to safety - Major Tom Fox and to find out what has really happened in the frozen north. D4D. First. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Over the centuries the reputation of more than one family has been tarnished by illicit desire, such a family are the Wakehursts of Blakely Manor, but the vigilant Sir Julian is determined that the shame that the fourth Baronet brought upon them in the previous century would never return. However when his eldest son dies, it was probably shortsighted of him to invite the attractive Ilse Schultz to work as an au pair in close proximity to his youngest son, who is quickly discovering the benefits of money, privilege and boyish good looks. Sir Julian's worst fears are soon realized, the scandal escalates, and enigmatic Ilse finds herself at the centre of a family in chaos, as her influence extends to Sir Julian himself. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. After stringent times in the Forces, Bob Malone and Hector Britain are finding it difficult to conform to Civvy Street. Their forte is catering, a skill they intend to pursue wherever possible and our two heroes know every aspect of the culinary arts, from RAF canteens and second class hotels to colleges of further education and high class restaurants. The scene is set for an hilarious romp through two decades of English social history in endearingly roistering and boisterous company. A1C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Simon and Schuster, 2014. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 389 pages. A family rocked by tragedy, a love that lives through time, a story that will stay in your heart....Dorset, 1932:Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of the beekeeper, she knows her place and her future - until her father dies unexpectedly and leaves her bereft and alone. Alone, that is, except for the man she loves, whom she knows she can never have. Massachusetts, 1973:Grace's beautiful, impetuous daughter Trixie Valentine is in love. Jasper is wild and romantic, a singer in a band on the brink of stardom. Then tragedy strikes and he must return to his home in England, promising to come back to Trixie one day, if only she will wait for him...Weighed down by memories, unaware of the secrets that bind them, both mother and daughter are searching for lost love. To find what they are longing for they must confront the… Leer más

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a very small mark to top edge) with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel of a man who leads a quiet life in a quietly frozen past and by the loss of his closest friend, a well known female barrister, by a senseless murder he is stirred into finding out what has happened. He finds that her murder was not a gratuitous crime and sees the motives multiply - money, passion, betrayal to finally vengeance. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1996. FIRST EDITION. A Fine copy with a Fine dustjacket of Chinese junks which is not price clipped. A powerful novel that starts in the heat and filth of Angola's diamond mines where the presence of a white man is unusual and dangerous and where Mark Rayner has spent two weeks on an assignment. This next leads him to the jungle of ivory smuggling and African terrorism and the stakes are high. His return to Massachusetts is marked by violence and passionate encounters with two women and ultimately his assignment leads him to a fishing village in Hong Kong and to a desolate rain swep river in Taiwan. **** NOT EX LIB **** 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael Joseph, 2021. An As New unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 385 pages. 500 years ago eight martyrs were burnt to death. 30 years ago two teenagers vanished without trace. Two months ago the vicar committed suicide. Welcome to Chapel Croft. For Reverend Jack Brooks and his teenage daughter Flo it's supposed to be a fresh start. New job, new home. But as Jack knows, the past isn't easily forgotten. And in a close-knit community where the residents seem as proud as they are haunted by Chapel Croft's history Jack must tread carefully. Ancient superstitions as well as a mistrust of outsiders will be hard to overcome. Yet right away Jack has more frightening concerns. Why is Flo plagued by visions of burning girls? Who's sending them sinister., threatening messages? And why did no one mention that the last vicar killed himself? L. First. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

Leatherhead, Surrey: Ashford, Buchan & Enright, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy free from inscription with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel set in the early 1990's in South Africa, Europe and the Falkland Islands. The rare pair of Caracara birds of prey on Sea Lion Island in the Falklands face environmental catastrophe hatched continents away in South Africa, where Nick van Koetzee, an internationally known South African conservationist and businessman, is prepared to go to any lengths to prevent his beloved country sliding into chaos and bloodshed, even forming an alliance with the power hungry leader of the People's African Party. Sir Peter Kirkwood is Her Majesty's Governor of the Falklands with a past that makes him a pawn in van Koetzee's audacious plan to hold the world to ransom. SCARCE D4C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael Joseph, 1991. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a minor indentation to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author is the pseudonym of Dora Saint, a prolific novelist who draws on her own memories of living and teaching in a small English village in Berkshire. A further novel featuring the downland village of Fairacre where familiar and endearing characters are met once again. Wonderfully illustrated by John S. Goodall. *** NOT EX LIB *** B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Goodall, John S.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Montano Books, 2003. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page and with dedication. A Fine copy with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author's FIRST NOVEL. A fascinating and compelling debut novel that takes the reader on a journey filled with philosophical twists and turns. If you have ever questioned the concept of choice and moral responsibility, or wondered about the possibility of an after-life, or wanted to believe in God and His angels, or queried the relationship between good and evil, this is the book for you. C3B. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1990. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page with dedication. A near Fine copy with a touch of foxing to front endpaper with a complete dustjacket which has creasing to front. A humorous novel of King Fadl who wants part of the neighbouring kingdom of Zibda, which intrudes into his kingdom. He telephones Sultan Nabil of Zibda to make him an offer he can't refuse but GCHQ are listening in and a disgraced MI42 agent, Charlie Hammond, is sent to gather information. Hammond meets an English teacher, Armitage, there and when the Ministry for the Suppression of Vice and the Encouragement of Virtue orders the circumcision of all expatriates, Hammond and Armitages's troubles are just beginning, then they are caught in flagrante by Abdul Wahhab Higgins, Jesuit turned Muslim zealot, can they escape the lash? A glorious black comedy. *** NOT EX LIB *** A1D. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1990. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. A near Fine copy with a small mark to front endpaper caused by the erasing of a name with a complete dustjacket which has a small indentation to front VG+. A humorous novel of King Fadl who wants part of the neighbouring kingdom of Zibda, which intrudes into his kingdom. He telephones Sultan Nabil of Zibda to make him an offer he can't refuse but GCHQ are listening in and a disgraced MI42 agent, Charlie Hammond, is sent to gather information. Hammond meets an English teacher, Armitage, there and when the Ministry for the Suppression of Vice and the Encouragement of Virtue orders the circumcision of all expatriates, Hammond and Armitages's troubles are just beginning, then they are caught in flagrante by Abdul Wahhab Higgins, Jesuit turned Muslim zealot, can they escape the lash? A glorious black comedy. *** NOT EX LIB *** A1D. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989. A near Fine copy with Fine pictorial dustjacket which is not price clipped. Credited as the authors last novel it was in fact unfinished at his death in 1988 and was finished by Alan Wykes who had worked with him on ideas and research for many previous novels. The novel is set in Italy just prior to World War II and is a moving story of the art world and captures the times and places admirably. *** NOT A BOOK CLUB COPY *** 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 440 pages. How do you describe the indescribable? Polyphonic and schizophrenic, Simon Louvish's book is in your hands. Beware. In it Richard the Lionheart rises from his tomb in the Abbey of Fontrevaud, minus his heart and his guts, to mingle with the tourists of early 1990's Europe. Eventually he finds a job as a pastry chef in a Beirut night=club. Meanwhile back in a sanatorium in East Lothian, failed novelist Danny Hohenlohe contemplates murderous revenge against his publisher, McTeague. Also in residence is Avram Blok, the ex-lunatic, emigre-Israeli and hero of three previous Louvish novels, who has begun a new life as a lay therapist. However, the grey calm of East Lothian is about to be shattered. The arrival of Doctor Petros Angelopoulis, war surgeon and Fallen Angel of Beirut, is followed soon after by his mysterious disappearance. And the Western powers are about to embark on… Leer más

London: Michael Joseph, 1989. A Very Good + copy with a stamp of a publisher's agent to front pastedown. Reprint July 1989 (first was also 1989). Dustjacket has a small closed tear to back a little creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. Internally thre is some age darkening to page edges. INCLUDED are two AUTHOR SIGNED photographsr, one colour and one black and white. Sinister goings on abound from sleepy fishing villages on the south coast of England to the glamorous hideaways of international criminals on the Costa Del Sol. Martin Devereux, one of the worlds great helmsmen, runs a boatyard and charter fleet on the south coast and while away in Australia for the America's Cup, a series of sinister accidents take place at the boatyard. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3B. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Little Brown, 2013. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. 391 pages. Dublin, 1984, Ireland is a divided country, the Parish Priest remains a figure of immense authority who commands absolute respect, and Jim Finnehan is 13 years old, the youngest in a family of five sisters. Life in Jim's world consists of dealing with the helter-skelter intensity of his rumbustious family, taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend, and quietly coveting the local girls from afar. But after a drunken yet delicate rendition of 'The Fields of Athenry' at the Donohue's raucous annual party, Jim captures both the attention of the beautiful Saidhbh Donohue and the unwanted desires of the devious and dangerous Father Luke O'Culigeen. 14. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: B & W Publishing, 2000. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page with dedication " To Clifford - One of my dearest friends". A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A novel set in Glasgow in the 1930's of Nicholas Cartwright, successful novelist, who lives in a splendid home in the West End with his beautiful wife Virginia and their two children, where everything is perfect in their comfortable, privileged lives. Until one dreadful day, when their world is touched by tragedy and they find themselves struggling to come to terms with a mystery that will haunt them for years to come. Meanwhile in the run down tenements of Springburn, the Gourlay family are battling to make ends meet, the Depression has hit Glasgow hard and Erchie Gourlay is unemployed ,and only the long hours spent sewing and dressmaking by his three daughters keeps the spectre of poverty at bay. The future looks bleak for them until the arrival of a destitute young girl on their doorstep brings them new… Leer más