948. Smith, Rosamond: Soul/Mate

Published by Andre Deutsch, 1990

1st edition hardback in fine condition with dust wrapper also fine. Soul-mate was Shelley's word, soul-mate the word of the poets. Mate of one's soul, and it is through the eyes the souls initially declare themselves, while words, groping, barely adequate, can only follow.

949. Smith, Sadie: Flies

Published by Bantam Press, 1990

1st edition hardback in very good condition with a very good dust wrapper. Nothing is going right for Noreen Spink - her adored daughter Dorelia has left home to marry Wayne, her husband Stanley is carrying on with the little madam from the model railway shop and Plum the cat has been flattened by a passing car. Her only consolation is writing in her diary.

183. Smith, Wilbur: A Time to Die

Published by Heinemann, London. 1989.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not clipped. The fifth book in the Courtney's of Africa series. As the world around him burns with passion and death, professional hunter and guerrilla fighter Sean Courtney is trapped between his worst enemies, an overwhelming love for a woman, and his instincts to survive -- and kill.

2134. Smith, Wilbur: Golden Fox

Published by Macmillan, London. 1990

1st edition UK hardback. The book is very good in a very good unclipped dust wrapper. She felt Ramón come awake and spring from the bed, naked and lithe as a jungle cat. She heard the metallic snicker of a firearm as he snatched the pistol from the holster. In the darkness a yellow flower of gun-flamed bloomed, and a single bullet whiplashed across twenty yards of open ground... In the searing heat of a divided Africa two decades of bitter dynastic conflict explode with terrifying ferocity. To Gary and Sean Courtney it is a struggle to the end; brother pitted against brother as they are dragged unwittingly into the lair of an international terrorist. Only Isabella Courtney stands between them and the mutual destruction they have willed for so long. Beautiful, headstrong Isabella; the link to 'Golden Fox' - a man whose alias hides a sinister and deadly secret... Traversing a vast panorama, from the heart of London society to the grandeur of Spain, from parched Ethiopia to war-torn Angola and on to the blazing hunting grounds of South Africa and Zimbabwe, Golden Fox is masterful storytelling from the arena of war; an adventure of stirring, irresistible intensity.

950. Smith, Wilbur: The Triumph of the Sun

Published by Macmillan, London. 2005

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper( very good condition) has not been price clipped and still retains the original £18.99 net price. In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, The Mahdi or "Expected One". The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman, Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum. It is here that he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars, as well as the British Consul, David Benbrook and his three beautiful daughters. Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum, in which British General Charles George Gordon is killed and the British retreat, these three powerful men fight to survive.

951. Smith, Wilbur: The Seventh Scroll

Published by Macmillan, 1995

Hardback 1st edition. Near fine book and unclipped d/w. A fading papyrus, nearly four thousand years old. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time . . . a riddle that becomes a savage battle across the unforgiving terrain of North Africa. When her husband is brutally murdered, beautiful half-English, half-Egyptian Royan Al Simmu is forced to seek refuge in England. With eminent archaelogist Nicholas Quenton-Harper, she can pick up the pieces of her shattered life and find the courage to return to Ethiopia. For Duraid. And for the dreams of an ancient Pharoah . . . Because others will stop at nothing to claim the prize as their own.

952. Smith, Wilbur: The Quest

Published by Macmillan, London. 2007

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There page edges are yellowed otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa from where the mighty river springs. In desperation Pharoah sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. None of them can have any idea of what a terrible enemy lays in ambush for The Warlock in those mysterious lands at the end of their world.

2433. Smith, Wilbur: The Dark of the Sun

Published by Heinemann, London. 1987

UK hardback, reprint in very good condition. There is browning of the paper but no previous owner names or marks. Only very slight rubbing at the dust wrapper edge with a small chip lost otherwise fine. Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas and hostile tribes that infest the land. But there is another, even deadlier enemy - one of his own men...

953. Smith, Zadie: On Beauty

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London. 2005

1st edition, later printing 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 price. Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

954. Snow, C.P.: Corridors of Power

Published by Macmillan, 1964

Hardback 1st edition. Very good book in a like d/w which is a little rubbed and chipped at the edges but not price clipped. Roger Quaife, not long Parliament, becomes one of the first of the last intake of Tory MPs to make the cabinet, in his case as Secretary of State for Defence. He seems perfect for the job, being knowledgable, capable, well-liked and well connected. Roger's political life is made difficult by two factors: a long-running affair which and his conversion to the belief that Britain's nuclear deterrent is useless. As the story evolves both his private and political lives become more complicated, with Roger playing for the highest stakes. This is an absorbing novel written by someone who knows government from the inside (Snow was himself a minister in Harold Wilson's government).

955. Stanley, Guy: The Ivory Seal

Published by Bantam Press, 1991

1st edition hardback in fine condition with dust wrapper, also fine. A second novel featuring the investigative skills of ex-newspaperman Araki, who first appeared in "A Death in Tokyo". Aided by his English sidekick, Chris Bingham, Araki sets out to find the missing mother of a beautiful young girl from one of Japan's wealthiest families.

956. Steinbeck, John: The Pearl

Published by Heinemann, 1974

Hardback reprint in very good condition, clean and tight with a very good dust wrapper. Kino is a desperately poor Mexican-pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours - and himself. A haunting and timeless tale of wealth and the evil it can bring.

957. Steinbeck, John: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

Published by Heinemann, 1961

Hardback reprint in very good condition in a good but slightly worn dust wrapper. This volume of six shorter novels of the author is an ideal introduction to Steinbeck.

Published by World Publishing, Cleveland, 1947

1st thus, Tower Books edition, US hardback in good condition. The pages are quite browned at the edges. There are some marks at the front endpaper. The dust wrapper is also good; a bit rubbed with some small tears at the edges and tips, there is stain at the front panel and is faded at the spine, slightly soiled with some small chips lost at the corners, top and toe of the spine. Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn't know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss's daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector George may not be able to save him ...

958. Stevens, Gordon: Kara's Game

Published by Harper Collins, 1996

1st edition hardback with dust wrapper in fine condition. An SAS group is operating in Bosnia, directing air strikes against Serb positions. They are attacked, but their lives are saved by a Muslim woman, Kara. She is recruited by a group of Muslim fundamentalists, but Kara's game is altogether bigger, more shocking and more important.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 2001

UK hardback 1st edition in fine condition. The dust wrapper too is fine and not clipped. There are no other marks or inscriptions. The first book in the Thomas Kydd series. Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Royal William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen - taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor.

426. Stockwin, Julian: Mutiny

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 2003.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions, just a small chip to the cloth of the rear board inside the top edge. The dust wrapper is in fine condition, it has not been price clipped and still retains the original £14.99 net price.The fourth book in the Thomas Kydd series

959. Stone, Robert: Outerbridge Reach

Published by Andre Deutsch, 1992

1st UK hardback. Very good book in a very good dust wrapper. A novel about going to sea and the difficulty of trying to find a way back again. If one half of the characters live their secret, interior lives apart from society, then the other half are looking for their own ways out: drugs, murder, revolution, betrayal and infidelity.

296. Styles, Showell: Centurion Comes Home

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1980

First edition hardback in fine condition, no previous owner names or inscriptions, dust wrapper in fine condition, it has not been price clipped and still retains the £5.95 net price. A historical novel based on fact, the round the world voyage of HMS Centurion, captained by George Anson. Scarce.

2429. Sutton, Henry: The Voyeur

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1969

Hardback 1st UK edition in very good condition. The dust wrapper is not clipped just a little worn at the edges but is otherwise very good. There are no previous owner names or other marks. Who is Irvin Kane, this eccentric genius who has ripped away the last Victorian veils in his Tomcat Magazine?

962. Swift, Graham: Waterland

Published by Heinemann, 1983

Hardback reprint. Near fine in a very good price clipped dust wrapper which is only very slightly sunned at the spine. Shortlisted for the Booker, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize. A visionary tale of England's Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of history; and a family story startling in its detail and universal in its reach.

963. Swift, Graham: Last Orders

Published by Picador, 1996

Hardback reprint. A fine book in a fine unclipped dust wrapper. Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack and their favourite pub. When one of them dies, the survivors drive his ashes from London to a seaside town where they will be scattered, compelling them to take stock of who they are today, who they were before and the shifting relationships in between. Both funny and moving, this won the Booker Prize in 1996.

964. Swift, Graham: The Light of Day

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2003

Hardback 1st edition. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits - and the days between - lead George back into Sarah's past and into events he can picture only too well, while bringing him ever closer to a time he can't quite imagine - when she will once again step out into the clear light of day...

965. Talese, Gay: Unto the Sons

Published by Alfred Knopf, 1992

1st US edition hardback with dust wrapper in fine condition. "An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World. At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.

966. Tan, Amy: The Hundred Secret Senses

Published by Flamingo, London. 1999

1st thus, hardback with dustwrapper in very near fine condition. The book has had a slight knock at the top of the spine and the jacket is very slightly rubbed at the edges. Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to lead a normal American life. For the next thirty years, Olivia endures visits from Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But just when she cannot bear it any more, the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world.

969. Taylor, Domini: Not Fair

Published by Little Brown, 1992

1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. An "accident" has left a woman confined to a wheelchair and her fiancé dead. As she begins to rebuild her life, a friend persuades her that his love is true, and she agrees to marry him. As soon as the news is out, odd events begin to occur, as though someone is arranging another "accident".

967. Taylor, Domini: Mother Love

Published by Hamish.Hamilton, 1983

A fine 1st edition hardback in a fine dust wrapper. Domini Taylor's novel of a mother's obsessive love, twisted notions of loyalty, and the fight for control over the lives of the people around her (family and friends) comes alive here in the creepiest, most chilling ways imaginable.

968. Taylor, Domini: Suffer Little Children

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1987

1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. Domini Taylor, in her previous books has shown a fine eye for the horror that lurks behind apparent innocence, the savagery aroused in the most insignificant of human beings. Suffer Little Children, so deceptive, so blood-chilling, is a brilliant successor.

100. Theroux, Paul: Picture Palace

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London. 1978.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The dust wrapper is price clipped otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names or marks. World-famous photographer Maude Coffin Pratt has pointed her lens at the beautiful, obscure, and obscene, and at the private places and public parts of the famous, from Gertrude Stein to Graham Greene. When the seventy-year-old Maude rummages through her archives in preparation for a triumphant retrospective, the resurrected images unleash a flood of suppressed memories -- of her extraordinary life, her celebrated subjects, and the dark, painful secret at the core of her existence.

970. Theroux, Paul: Chicago Loop

Published by Random House, 1991

1st US edition, fine in a fine dust wrapper. Set during a hot Chicago summer this is a deeply disturbing portrait of a psychopathic killer who is murdering female victims in a particularly gruesome manner by tying them up and mauling them in a wolf-like manner.

971. Theroux, Paul: My Secret History

Published by Putnam, 1989

1st edition US hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. 'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History . . . Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno . . . He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' Jonathan Raban, Observer

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978

1st thus, the uniform edition. Hardback in fine condition. Paul Theroux's novel takes place in Malawi. The shambling, disturbed republic in Central Africa is tottering between dictator and agitator. Here the ideals of two men - a life insurance salesman fired with missionary zeal and a messianic revolutionary whose speciality is bombs - are tested. When Calvin Mullet of Homemakers Mutual is taken prisoner by the ruthless Marais and attempts to sell him a policy their lives become strangely interwoven.

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1976

1st edition hardback. The book leans very slightly otherwise very good. The dust wrapper is a little sunned at the spine otherwise very good and unclipped. There are no previous owner names. The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux and one of the most memorable novels about urban violence since Brighton Rock.

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982

Hardback, third impression. Both book, and dust wrapper are in very good condition. The jacket is unclipped. There are no previous owner names. The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.

972. Thomas, Craig: Winter Hawk

Published by Collins, 1987

A fine hardback 1st edition in a fine dust wrapper. In this third Mitchell Gant novel, the Russians are ready to launch a devastating star wars weapon on the eve of a sweeping disarmament treaty between the U.S.S.R. and the United States. Gant flies into central Russia to rescue a scientist who can save America from sure disaster.

973. Thomas, Craig: Playing With Cobras

Published by Harper Collins, 1993

1st edition hardback, fine in a fine dust wrapper. It was to be a small and simple task, a matter of two or three days - something Patrick Hyde could do by stopping over in Delhi on his way back to Australia. All he had to do was to make certain that Philip Cass, to whom he owed his life, really had committed murder.