Modern Fiction

78. Hefner, Hugh M.: The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader

Published by Souvenir Press Ltd. 1966.

Fine 1st British edition in a very good unclipped printed acetate dust wrapper. The jacket has a tape repaired tear to the front panel (see image) and a couple of small chips lost otherwise very good and rather rare. There are no previous owner names or marks. With 874 pages and measuring 7 inches x 10 inches this is a heavy book weighing over 1500g unpacked. A compilation of selected stories and Interviews from Playboy Magazine, 1953 - 1965. Included on page 345 is Ian Fleming's "The Hilderbrand Rarity", a James Bond novelette written for Playboy Magazine in March 1960. A spectacular copy in the original fragile jacket of this collection of writings by Hemingway, Baldwin, Fleming, Nabokov, Huxley, Jones, Roth, Sandburg, Shaw, Malamud, Saroyan, Kerouac, Greene, Wodehouse, Steinbeck, Thurber, Miller, etc, etc.

 

29. Hemingway, Ernest: True at First Light

Published by Heinemann, London. 1999.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. The great author's final novel.

 

793. Hemingway, Ernest: Islands in the Stream

Published by Collins, 1970

1st edition hardback in very good+ condition. The jacket is also very good. In many respects, this book in unique amongst Hemingway's works because of its variety of themes and moods. It contains the uncanny sense of life and action that has been characteristic of his writings since his earliest stories. Another charm of this book is that has been relatively rare in his published works, although it is never wholly absent, is a rich and relaxed sense of humour that enlivens scene after scene: sometimes ironical, sometimes ribald, always contagious. This tale describes a 1930's painter, Thomas Hudson, on the island of Bimini in the Gulf Stream.

 

2067. Hewson, David: Epiphany

Published by HarperCollins, London, 1996

1st edition hardback, both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. The page edges are slightly darkened otherwise fine. In the 1970s, a group of Californian university drop-outs live in a grungy house and take drugs. One of them, Quinn, abducts an English child and commits a horrible crime. In the 1990s Quinn is let out of prison and gradually the truth of what he did is revealed.

 

795. Higgins, Jack: Cold Harbour

Published by Simon & Schuster, 1990

1st edition hardback in very good+ condition, so is the jacket. An explosive World War Two adventure from the author of The Eagle Has Landed set on the eve of D-Day. A routine mission ends in icy terror for OSS agent Craig Osborne, as he floats helplessly in the sea off the coast of Brittany. The rumble of engines should signal rescue… But it is a German warship which appears out of the fog - hauling Osborne to safety and preparing him for the fight. As the time of invasion approaches, the Allies are ready to play their dirtiest trick: dispatching a highly trained killer behind German lines - in a disguised E-boat with the name Lili Marlene emblazoned on its prow…

 

2058. Highsmith, Patricia: Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1987

1st edition hardback, both book and dust wrapper are in fine condition. Based on natural and unnatural catastrophes and exploring the macabre and its meaning. The stories range from midnight revelling in an East Austrian cemetery to a picnic for "crackpots" on the White House lawn. They also include the source of the tell-tale smells of Nabuti, the unsporting hiding place chosen by the Nuclear Control Committee for radio-active waste, and the crumbling defence tactics of a luxury high-rise against a crawling army that fumigation cannot kill. Other tales tell of how magic and horror stories followed in the wake of a furious whale, how miracle and revolution were launched when a Pope stubbed his toe, and how happiness came to a woman who thought she was Cleopatra.

 

796. Hill, Reginald: The Collaborators

Published by Collins, 1987

Hardback 1st edition. Very good+ book and unclipped d/w. Jacket has a small closed tear and creasing to top front. Pages slightly browned. No previous owner names or marks. With thoughtfulness and insight that call to mind le Carre, Hill reconsiders an aspect of the German occupation of France during WW II that many Frenchmen would prefer to forget--the collaboration. Set primarily in Paris, the novel follows the lives of Jean-Paul and Janine Simonian, he a Jew, she a boulanger 's daughter married against her parents' wishes. Upon his release from a military hospital after France's humiliating defeat in 1940, Jean-Paul joins the Resistance. For her part, Janine worries--about her two children and the husband who has become emotionally so dark and distant. Gunther Mai, an otherwise kindly German officer in the Abwehr , befriends Janine and uses her as a source of information on her husband's activities--a relationship that works well until he falls in love with her. What Hill portrays so successfully is the conflict between social and personal responsibility. Through a wonderful range of secondary characters, he skilfully characterizes the collaborator in his various guises--from the self-serving black marketeer to the loving mother and wife. Best of all, Hill captures the collapse of morality in occupied France.

 

2605. Hill, Tobias: Underground

Published by Faber and Faber, London. 1999

Paperback original, UK 1st edition, in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also fine, not clipped or faded. London Underground worker Casimir is jolted out of his somnambulant routine when he realises, from the evidence on his monitor, that a young woman's supposed accident or suicide attempt is in fact attempted murder. At the same time he becomes particularly obsessed by fleeting glimpses of Walkmaned tube dweller Alice, whose otherworldly beauty haunts the tunnels. Like Neil Bartlett, Hill uses London's hidden history to explore London's hidden present and like Bartlett he does it through the eyes of an outsider. The story unfolds in counterpoint to the childlike telling of Casimir's troubled childhood in Poland, his own underground life, with which he's slowly forced to come to terms.

 

797. Hilton, James: Good-Bye Mr. Chips

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1948

Hardback, twenty-third impression. Very good+ in a very good unclipped d/w. Jacket is very slightly soiled and edge worn. End papers a little foxed. H&S yellow jacket. A bit of a classic. This is a simple story of the life of an English boarding school teacher, a reminiscence from the vantage point of old age, where the accomplishments and disappointments of his life can be properly seen in their entirety. Source for Frank Capra's 1937 movie.

 

816. Hoeg, Peter: The Woman and the Ape

Published by The Harvill Press, 1996

1st edition hardback in fine condition, the dust wrapper is also very good +. The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Høeg's novels takes us from Society London, across its roof-tops to a forest idyll, to make for a fable at once hilarious and thought-provoking.

 

2095. Hoffman, Jilliane: Last Witness

Published by Michael Joseph, London. 2005

1st edition hardback in fine, unmarked condition. The unclipped dust wrapper is also fine. Two years ago a brutal serial killer known as Cupid terrorized Miami, torturing and killing eleven young women. Sociopath William Bantling was arrested by police and Assistant State Attorney CJ Townsend put him on Florida's death row, where he waits to pay for the crimes with his life. But now a new terror stalks Miami Beach. Three cops are dead savagely mutilated while out on patrol. The killer's apparently motiveless attacks horrify the public and leave law enforcement officials shaken. And when it becomes clear that all three dead cops worked on the Cupid investigation, it seems the killer has an even more terrifying agenda. CJ Townsend is worse than shaken. She shares a secret with three colleagues that may go right to the heart of this and the Cupid case, a secret that her colleagues have just taken to the grave. CJ knows that she must keep that secret from the law and her friends, from all scrutiny. But she also knows that to do so means she will be its only living witness and perhaps the next to die.

 

817. Hook, Philip: The Stonebreakers

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1994

1st edition hardback in fine condition, in a fine dust wrapper. 1945, an art historian leads a convoy towards Dresden. Fifty years later, Oswald Ginn is sent a photograph of a masterpiece presumed destroyed in the bombing of Dresden. As the art world speculates, three people are propelled on an international search, and someone sits back and watches.

 

818. Hook, Philip: The Island of the Dead

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1995

1st edition hardback in very good+ condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. While investigating the mutilation of a painting in a London gallery, journalist Minto Maitland finds himself drawn into a horrific story of brutality and betrayal during the Hungarian revolution. Exposing odd connections to art dealer Alexander Courtney, Maitland suspects an appalling secret.

 

819. Hornby, Nick: How to Be Good

Published by Penguin/Viking, 2001

Hardback 1st edition. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions.

 

820. Hornby, Nick: High Fidelity

Published by Gollancz, 1995

3rd impression hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is very good. Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it's hardly surprising that his girlfriend decides that enough is enough.

 

2281. Hornby, Nick: Fever Pitch

Published by Gollancz, London. 1993

Hardback, eighth impression of the 1992 1st edition. The book and dust wrapper are in very good condition. The book leans very slightly and the dust wrapper is price clipped. Authors first novel and scarce in hardback. This is a book about identity, belonging, obsession. About afternoons in the driving rain and bitter cold and glorious, unforgettable goals; getting your head read in Hampstead and punched at Highbury; the dazzling skills of the gods of football and leaving your girlfriend lying fainted on the terraces because Arsenal are about to score. It's about the moments of ecstasy in one man's life. And his pain. And it's about the only true question there is: Which comes first, Football or Life?

 

193. Horowitz, Anthony: The Killing Joke

Published by Orion, London. 2004.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. There is a faint water stain along the inside bottom edge of the unclipped dust wrapper. The book also has a faint stain at the bottom of the boards. There are no previous owner names or other marks.

 

821. Horwood, William: The Stonor Eagles

Published by Country Life, 1982

Hardback, fine 2nd impression in a fine d/w. In 1917, Cuillin, the last great sea eagle, abandons her home on Skye to fly to Norway where she finds others of her kind, but they too are torn by conflict and perhaps extinction, but sculptor James Stonor has a vision left by his father who watched Cuillin depart the Isles all those years before.

 

822. Horwood, William: Duncton Quest

Published by Century Hutchinson, 1988

Hardback reprint. Near fine in a like unclipped dust wrapper. Second book of the Duncton Chronicles, an epic saga of moles.

 

823. Horwood, William: Duncton Rising

Published by Harper Collins, 1992

Hardback 1st edition. Very good+ in a like unclipped d/w. This novel continues the story of a community of moles in Duncton which featured in the books "Duncton Wood", "Duncton Quest" and "Duncton Found". As Privet, scholar and scribemole, and her adopted son Whillan, escape from Duncton Wood, the Newborn Inquisitors seek to take over the system.

 

824. Horwood, William: The Wolves of Time 1: Journey to the Heartland

Published by Harper Collins, 1995

Hardback 1st edition. Near fine. But for a tidy previous owner name and date at the top of the title page the book would be fine. The dust wrapper is fine and unclipped retaining the original £14.99 price at the front flap. In this first of three volumes, wolves driven out of remote regions of Europe set out for the mountains of Czechoslovakia, the mythical heartland of wolfkind, summoned by the fallen gods. They seek to re-establish the position they held long ago, before Man set out to hunt them to extinction.

 

81. Horwood, William: Toad Triumphant

Published by Harper Collins, London. 1995.

1st edition in near fine condition. Previous owners sticker at the front end paper and a tidy inscription at the half title page otherwise fine. The further adventures of Toad, Ratty, Badger and Mole from Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows".

 

2110. Hosp, David: Dark Harbour

Published by Simon & Schuster, London, 2005

Hardback 1st UK edition. The front end paper, unfortunately, has been removed from the book otherwise near fine. There are no previous owner names or marks and the dust wrapper is unclipped and just slightly rubbed at the top edge. August 2006. The disembowelled body of a young woman is fished out of Boston harbour. The distinctive mutilations to the corpse bear all the hallmarks of the killer they call Little Jack. But unlike the six previous victims, Natalie Caldwell was no prostitute, but a highflying lawyer. As the last person to see her alive, Scott Finn, her colleague and ex-lover, comes under intense scrutiny in the subsequent investigation. Finn is also struggling to pick up the pieces of the high-profile case Natalie was involved in before she died. On September 11th 2005, a packed commuter train was targeted in an atrocity that became known as the Anniversary Bombing. Now the widow of one of the victims is suing the company in charge of security on the rail line. The more Finn uncovers about Tannery vs. Huron Security, the murkier the case appears. As revelation follows revelation, Finn begins to harbour a dark suspicion. Was Natalie the random victim of a deranged psychopath? Or could the case she was working on have some connection with her death? Meanwhile, the city is terrorised by a vicious serial killer. And Finn begins to fear for his own survival.

 

155. Houellebecq, Michel: The Possibility of an Island

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 2005.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The boards have been bumped at the bottom corners otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is unclipped and there are no previous owner names or marks. 'Who is it among you who deserves eternal life?' Houellebecq's dazzling new novel, which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarotte, is a thought provoking, sometimes shocking, and ultimately moving examination of the modern world, the trials of old age and the death of love. Written with the ferocity and candour that has characterised all his work, it will delight Houellebeq's fans, and win him many thousands more.

 

2631. Houellebecq, Michel: Platform

Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London. 2002

UK hardback, 1st edition in fine condition. The dust wrapper is not clipped and is only very slightly rubbed at the edges. There are no previous owner names or other marks. Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers, only the awkward Valerie attracts his attention. Too bashful to pursue her, Michel prefers the uncomplicated pleasures of Thai massage parlours and sex with local women. Back in Paris, he calls Valerie and they plunge into a passionate affair, which strays into S&M, partner-swapping and sex in public. Michel quits his job, and tries to help Valerie and her boss, Jean-Yves, in their ailing travel business, by offering travel packages based on sex tourism in the third world. When their project comes to fruition and the three return to Thailand, Michel discovers that sex is neither the most consuming nor the most dangerous of human passions...

 

80. Hough, Richard: The Fighter

Published by Michael Joseph, London. 1963.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. There is a scratch at the dust wrapper spine which has cut through the paper but without loss. There is also a tiny nick at the bottom rear edge otherwise the jacket is fine and unclipped. The book is unmarked and probably unread. Authors first novel based on his own experiences in the RAF during WWII.

 

269. Howard, Richard: Bonaparte's Avengers

Published by Little, Brown and Company, London, England. 2001

1st edition hardback. Very slight lean to the book otherwise fine in a fine unclipped dustwrapper. 5th Alain Lausard adventure.

 

1177. Hunt, David: The Magician's Tale

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1997

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. There is a previous owners stamp to the half-title page otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Photographer Kay Farrow sees the world in black and white - literally: she has a rare eye condition that makes her unable to discern colours. The brutal murder of street hustler Tim, the beautiful boy who is the subject of Kay's latest book of photographs, sends her on a dark voyage into San Francisco's erotic underbelly - she's sure this is not just a routine street killing. Moving with her camera among the sexual outlaws, both male and female, who populate San Francisco's gay bars and SM clubs, Kay pieces together Tim's bizarre life and mysterious death - and confronts her own demons in a shattering climax ...

 

825. Hunter, Stephen: Black Light

Published by Century, 1996

A fine 1st edition hardback in a fine dust wrapper. Bob Lee Swagger, one of the deadliest snipers the US has ever produced, has put most of the demons of his past behind him, but not the forty-year-old killing of his father in a sensational shoot out. He returns to his roots, to find out exactly what happened that night in 1955 in Blue Eye, Arkansas. Against him is a shadowy enemy, corrupted by the secret of the older Swagger's death. As the two circle each other they close, inevitably, to a final explosive confrontation that will blast the secrets of two generations wide open.

 

1540. Iggulden, Conn: Emperor: The Gates of Rome

Published by HarperCollins, London, 2003

1st edition hardback. The book leans slightly and the pages are a little yellowed at the edges. Otherwise a near fine copy in an unclipped dust wrapper. Emperor: The Gates of Rome is an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal, from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction. From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate, from the foreign wars that created an empire to the betrayals that almost tore it apart, the Emperor novels tell the remarkable story of the man who would become the greatest Roman of them all: Julius Caesar. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, The Gates of Rome introduces an ambitious young man facing his first great test. In the city of Rome, a titanic power struggle is about to shake the Republic to its core. Citizen will fight citizen in a bloody conflict - and Julius Caesar will be in the thick of the action.

 

1541. Iggulden, Conn: Emperor: The Gods of War

Published by HarperCollins, London, 2006

1st edition hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. 4th in the series. It looked as if it would be war. The strife between that great figure, Pompey, the Dictator of Rome, and the young general fresh from his triumphant conquests of Gaul and Britain, had come to a head. So Julius Caesar, with all his generals and his four veteran legions, had crossed the Rubicon and was marching towards Rome. But in the wide-reaching Roman Empire there are many more legions, and many loyal to Pompey, and to fight against and kill your own people will never be easy. So even when Julius Caesar, accompanied by Brutus, Mark Antony and Octavian, rode into Rome, the first time they had been back in their home town for over ten years, his path to success would not be easy. His uncanny ability at picking the right notes in his speeches from the Senate steps and his brilliance at communication made him sure of his role, sure of his rightfulness for command, sure that power was his alone. But the power he could achieve in Rome itself was not repeated across the empire - and in Spain, in Africa, in Greece, in all Asia Minor, there were officials, commanders, legions loyal to Pompey and the Roman state. And would the friends who had fought at his side for so long continue to do so, to follow his star? How could Caesar succeed against such odds?

 

1634. Iggulden, Conn: Empire of Silver

Published by HarperCollins, London, 2010

1st edition UK hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine/as new condition. The 4th novel in the bestselling Conqueror series, continuing the life and adventures of the mighty Khan dynasty. Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend and his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain and made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis' sons has the strength to be khan. The Mongol empire has been at peace for two years, but whoever survives will face the formidable might of their great enemy, China's Song dynasty. The great leader Tsubodai sweeps into the west: through Russia, over the Carpathian Mountains and into Hungary. The Templar knights have been broken and there is no king or army to stop him reaching France. But at the moment of Tsubodai's greatest triumph, as his furthest scouts reach the northern mountains of Italy, Tsubodai must make a decision that will change the course of history forever.

 

376. Irving, John: The Hotel New Hampshire

Published By Jonathan Cape, London, 1982

Reprint. Hardback book in VG+ condition, very slight foxing to top page edges, there are no previous owner names or inscriptions, the dustwrapper is in VG+ condition with general shelfwear, it has not been price clipped.Quirky, bizarre, tragic, fiendishly funny, The Hotel New Hampshire is anything but a conventional family saga, though a family saga it certainly is. The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he does, with dubious success, in both a former girls' school in New Hampshire, and in Vienna. It is the Berry children who grab the readers' attention, sympathies and love - all five of them: Frank (the eldest), Franny (the weirdest), John (the narrator), Lily (the writer) and Egg (the youngest). When Irving, or rather John, writes 'Frank's queer, Franny's weird, Lily's small and Egg is Egg' the initiated reader can do no other than shout a deafening 'yes, I know what you mean!' From there on, the reader is held spellbound as the family Labrador, Sorrow, is first stuffed then becomes the cruel victim of a plane crash; and as John and Franny realise their incestuous desires.

 

826. Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Published by Bloomsbury, 1994

Bloomsbury Modern Library Edition. A fine hardback, 1st thus, in a fine dust wrapper. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire in 1953, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen does not believe in accidents and is convinced he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that is both extraordinary and terrifying.

 

2071. Irving, John: The Fourth Hand

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 2001

Hardback 1st edition. Both the book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. There is some darkening of the page edges but no previous owner names or other marks. While reporting from India, a journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness it. In Boston a surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant, and a woman in Wisconsin wants to give the journalist her husband's hand - but he is still alive.

 

2325. Irving, John: The Cider House Rules

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1985

1st edition hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in very good condition. The pages are a little browned otherwise very good. Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest un-adopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder - a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory and a strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend...

 

2635.  Jackson, Mick: The Underground Man

Published by Picador, London. 1997

UK hardback, 1st edition, in very good condition. Flat signed at the title page by the author. The unclipped fold-out dust wrapper has a tear at the top front fore edge but no loss, with some creasing otherwise very good. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The author's debut novel takes the form of journal entries interspersed with eyewitness accounts from servants and neighbours. The "Underground Man" portrayed in the novel, William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, the Duke of Portland and a resident of Nottinghamshire, is mightily eccentric; the man was real (1800-1879), as was his eccentricity. In the last few days of the Duke's life, eccentricity burgeons and madness follows. The reader learns that his odd view of the world was shaped by early tragedy, the full truth of which is withheld until the last few pages.

 

127. Jackson, Mick: Five Boys

Published by Faber and Faber, London. 2001.

1st edition paperback in dust wrapper in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The jacket is not price clipped. Something strange is going on in the village. A dead pig is carried through the lanes in a coffin, a heap of signposts are buried in a field and a mummy walks the streets late at night, scaring the local ladies half to death. Things have never been the same since the evacuee arrived and the Five Boys mistook him for a Nazi spy. It is as if someone is out for revenge. The village has had a whole host of visitors since: the Americans are down the road preparing for D-Day and a deserter is hiding out in the woods. But it is the arrival of the Bee King which makes the biggest impression. He is a law unto himself, has his own strange rituals and the villagers fear that he is beginning to exert the same charm over their boys as he does over his bees. The second novel by the highly acclaimed author of The Underground Man confirms Mick Jackson's originality and talent.

 

827. Jacobson, Howard: Redback

Published by Bantam, 1986

Fine 1st edition hardback in a fine dust wrapper. Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge. Sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary on a mission to teach the Australians how to live, Leon quickly discovers that there are some natives who believe that they have an education to pass on in return. But it is at the hands of the women in Australia that Leon receives his most painful, and on occasions his most pleasurable, lessons. Meanwhile, in a foul, dilapidated bush privy, way up in the Bogong high plains, the Redback sucks her teeth and waits her turn-

 

828. Jakes, John: Homeland

Published by Doubleday, 1993

1st edition hardback in very good condition in a very good dust wrapper. The start of a cycle featuring an immigrant Chicago dynasty. Spanning the last decade of the 19th century, the action moves from Berlin to America and across a nation exploding with technological change, rapacious greed, social protest and political corruption.

 

829. James, Donald: The House of Janus

Published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1990

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is also fine. Set in Europe and America just after World War II, this is a story of lost identity. A GI is injured by a land mine near the German-Austrian border. When he wakes from his coma his memory has gone. Back in USA he puts together the truth about his identity and the horrific secret of his past.