876. McCourt, Frank: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

Published by Fourth Estate, 1996

1st edition thus hardback in fine, as new condition.The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and still retains the original £16.99 net price. The excellent, moving memoirs of Frank McCourt from his poverty stricken childhood in Ireland to his eventual settling in America. Angela's Ashes was turned into a successful film starring Robert Carlyle.

877. McEwan, Ian: The Child in Time

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1987

Very good UK hardback edition with dust wrapper, reprint. The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.

878. McEwen, Ian: The Innocent

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1990

1st edition UK hardback with dust wrapper in fine condition. The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life - and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening - a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

879. McEwen, Ian: Saturday

Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 2005

1st edition UK hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat. Later, Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him. Towards the end of a day rich in incident and filled with Perowne's celebrations of life's pleasures, his family gathers for a reunion. But with the sudden appearance of Baxter, Perowne's earlier fears seem about to be realised.

2114. McGrath, Patrick: The Grotesque

Published by Viking, London, 1989

1st edition UK hardback. The book leans but only very slightly otherwise very good. The unclipped dust wrapper is also very good but is a little rubbed at the edges. This is a disturbing gothic tale set in a manor house in Berkshire in 1949, in which Sir Hugo Coal, amateur palaeontologist, curmudgeon and sexual fantasist, recounts the fall of the House of Crook.

880. McNab, Tom: The Fast Men

Published by Hutchinson, 1986

1st edition hardback with jacket in very good+ condition. Novel set in the American west in the 1870's - a 'sport western' - by an author who has been a runner and Olympic coach.

881. McNab, Tom: Flanagan's Run

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1982

UK hardback edition in very good+ condition, 4th impression. Daunted by the prospect of running a marathon? The 3,000-mile Transamerica epic race that is the subject of this novel puts it very much in perspective. It is depression-era America and notorious huckster, Flanagan, plans the ultimate race, reeling in contestants with the promise of a glittering jackpot prize. At the starting line 2,000 audacious hopefuls line up from every walk of life and all ends of the globe, each with something to prove. As they run themselves ragged across America, they come up against numerous hazards, including the precipitous Rockies, shady mobsters and crooked officials. Their different stories, ambitions and dreams converge through a shared determination which will inspire you to push on to the finishing line.

336. Meades, Jonathan: Filthy English

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1984

1st edition hardback in near fine condition, no previous owner names or inscriptions. Dustwrapper in very good condition, spine faded, slight rubbing to top spine edge, it has not been price clipped. These short stories marked Jonathan Meades's fiction debut. They are black comedies, peopled with the sort of characters who lurk and linger round the back alleys of the mind, such as a dog who stars in bestial pornographic films and describes the slippery slope towards aniseed addiction.

883. Mendelsohn, Jane: I Was Amelia Earhart

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1996

Hardback 1st edition. Fine book and unclipped dust wrapper. A fictitious account of Amelia Earhart's last flight, with flashbacks to her childhood and difficult marriage. Amelia and her raffish, drunken navigator, Noonan, crash-land on a desert island. They fight, touch madness and finally fall in love, before taking off again on only half a tank of petrol.

884. Michener, James A.: Space

Published by Secker & Warburg, 1982

Hardback 1st edition. Very good in very good price clipped d/w with slightly colour faded spine panel. Fiction based on the activities of NASA and the people and machines connected with it since 1944, and solidly built on the factual and possible. James Michener's "Space" is a novel on the scientific development of rocketry and space travel. He begins at the very beginning, with American and Russian interests trying to lure fleeing German V-2 scientists into their war/weaponry programs before the fall of Hitler's Germany. Michener then goes on to chart the developments in the budding space program, from the launch of the Russian satellite "Sputnik", to the space race, to the moon landing, the development of the space shuttle, and finally interplanetary travel to Mars.

162. Middleton, Stanley: In a Strange Land

Published by Hutchinson, London. 1979.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. There is a number stamp to the front end paper and some surface marks to the dust wrapper otherwise fine. Not price clipped.

885. Mitchell, Joseph.: Joe Gould's Secret

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1997

1st UK hardback in fine condition in unclipped dust wrapper. Joe Gould was a Harvard graduate who spent 40 years living as an outcast Bohemian hero in New York. He claimed he lived as he did so he could wander around the city writing down what people said in order to make a book called "An Oral History of Our Time". This book contains two profiles of Gould.

886. Mitchell, Margaret: Lost Laysen

Published by Orion, 1996

1st thus, hardback with dust wrapper in fine condition. Until recently, the odd thought Margaret Mitchell had only one story to tell: Gone with the Wind. Now meet a heroine to match Scarlett: Courtenay Ross, a feisty, independent-minded woman, and the two men -- one a cool-headed, well-heeled gentleman, the other a hot-blooded, pugnacious sailor -- who adore her. A tale of yearning, valor, and devotion, Lost Laysen enthrals from its delightful beginning to its unforgettable end. Equally intriguing is the story behind the story -- the real-life romance that inspired Mitchell: how she gave the original manuscript as a gift to her beau. Henry Love Angel, and how the manuscript, along with Mitchell's intimate letters and treasured photographs, were lovingly safeguarded only to be discovered decades later in a shoebox! Lost Laysen is pure magic, a gift for us to cherish from America's most beloved storyteller.

577. Monsarrat, Nicholas: Three Corvettes

Published by Cassell, 1953

Hardback sixth edition, very good in like unclipped d/w. Some light foxing to page edges and browning to endpapers. A collection of stories comprising H.M. Corvette, East Coast Corvette & Corvette Command.

888. Moody, Ron: The Amazon Box

Published by Robson, 1998

Hardback 1st edition. Very good in like unclipped d/w. Jacket spine is very slightly sunned. Bottom edge of back board has a small chip. Illustrated by the author, this is a cautionary tale for children of all ages. The story of a perilous expedition into the Amazon rainforest in which a group of intrepid searchers must follow a series of clues carved on the mysterious Amazon Box. 3rd novel from the author most famous for acting and his performance as Fagin in the film "Oliver!"

891. Moore, Brian: Lies of Silence

Published by Bloomsbury, 1990

1st edition hardback in very good condition in a very good dust wrapper. When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the car park of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed. Short listed for the Booker Prize 1990.

892. Moore, Robin: The Country Team

Published by W.H.Allen, 1968

1st edition UK hardback. Fine in a fine dust wrapper. End papers are maps. This huge, explosive novel of war, peace and the ever- changing limbo in between is bound to have wide spread repercussions, sure to be one of the most hotly discussed - pro and con - of our day. The Country Team, a dynamic, sweeping panorama of a strategic country in Asia rapidly falling under Communist influence. The country, Mituyan is mythical but typical.

893. Morrow, James: Only Begotten Daughter

Published by Legend, 1991

1st edition hardback with jacket in very good+ condition. Murray Katz makes a sperm donation and unwittingly generates Jesus' half-sister, Julie. Julie feels she can't have special powers without a destiny to fulfill and suspects Andrew Wyvern is the Devil.

Published by Orion, London. 2005

Hardback UK edition, 2nd printing, in very good condition. The book leans slightly due to use and the page edges have browned a little. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also very good, not clipped or faded. The first book in the Languedoc Trilogy series. When Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons during an archaeological dig in southern France, she unearths a link with a horrific and brutal past. But it's not just the sight of the shattered bones that makes her uneasy; there's an overwhelming sense of evil in the tomb that Alice finds hard to shake off, even in the bright French sunshine. Puzzled by the words carved inside the chamber, Alice has an uneasy feeling that she has disturbed something which was meant to remain hidden... Eight hundred years ago, on the night before a brutal civil war ripped apart Languedoc, a book was entrusted to Alais, a young herbalist and healer. Although she cannot understand the symbols and diagrams the book contains, Alais knows her destiny lies in protecting their secret, at all costs.

240. Mowat, Farley: A Whale For The Killing

Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto. 1977.

1st thus, new edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is very good being price clipped and a little rubbed and chipped at the edges and tips. A PLEA TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER NOW...
When an 80-ton Fin Whale became trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon, conservationist Farley Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise. They blasted the whale with rifle fire and hacked open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the police, to marine biologists, finally to the Canadian press. But it was too late. Ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died.

578. Moxon, Oliver: The Last Monsoon

Published by Robert Hale, 1957

Hardback 1st edition. Very good in a good+ unclipped d/w. The jacket front panel having been ripped at the top with approx 1"x1" lost. Based on true experience, The second in the "monsoon" trilogy, continues the story of a beleaguered fighter squadron in the Valley of Imphal in 1944. The story commences at the precise point where "Bitter Monsoon" came to a tense and dramatic end.

894. Murdoch, Iris: The Good Apprentice

Published by Chatto/Hogarth, 1985

Hardback very good/very good 2nd impression. Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world.