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The Ballad of Peckham Ryeby Muriel SparkISBN 0399506500 (0-399-50650-0)
Hardcover, Perigee Books
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles Dickens, Iain McCalman, Jon Mee, Clive HurstISBN 0192840568 (0-19-284056-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Charles Dickenss first historical novelset during the anti-Catholic riots of 1780is an unparalleled portrayal of the terror of a rampaging mob, seen through the eyes of the individuals swept up in the chaos.
Those individuals include Emma, a Catholic, and Edward, a Protestant, whose forbidden love weaves through the heart of the story; and the simpleminded Barnaby, one of the riot leaders, whose fate is tied to a mysterious murder and whose beloved pet raven, Grip, embodies the mystical power of innocence. The story encompasses both the rarified aristocratic world and the volatile streets and nightmarish underbelly of London, which Dickens characteristically portrays in vivid, pulsating detail. But the real focus of the book is on the riots themselves, depicted with an extraordinary energy and redolent of the dangers, the mindlessness, and the possibilitiesboth beneficial and brutalof the mob.
One of the lesser-known novels, Barnaby Rudge is nonetheless among the most brilliantand most terrifyingin Dickenss oeuvre. [via]More editions of Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty:
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Blind Justiceby Bruce AlexanderISBN 0425150070 (0-425-15007-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Justice'Book summary:Falsely charged of theft in 1768 London, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor finds his only hope in Sir John Fielding, the founder of the Bow Street Runners police force, who recruits young Jeremy in his mission to fight crime. Reprint. K. NYT. PW. [via]
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Bluegate Fieldsby Anne PerryISBN 0312087187 (0-312-08718-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluegate Fields'Book summary:[via]Thomas and Charlotte Pitt must discover the truth of a young gentlemans sordid murderor an innocent man will hangThe naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of Londons most notorious slums. But Arthur Waybourne had been drowned in his bath, not in the Thames. More shocking still was that the boy had been sexually violated and infected with syphilis before he was murdered. Despite Inspector Thomas Pitts efforts to fully investigate the crime, the family closes ranks, stonewalling Pitt, leaving him to wonder what they are hiding. All evidence points to Arthurs tutor, Jerome, as the murderer. The courts agree and Jerome is sentenced to hang. Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, dont believe the answer is so simple. But if not Jerome, then who molested and infected the boy?To learn the truth, Charlotte uses her familiarity with the upper classes to draw aside the curtain of lies, while Pitt defies his superior and the boys family to follow a trail that leads him into the foulest streets of London through a web of deceit involving male prostitution and pedophilia. In a race against time, Thomas and Charlotte must find the real killer to save Jerome from the hangmans noose.More editions of Bluegate Fields:
The Cater Street Hangmanby Anne PerryISBN 031212385X (0-312-12385-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Charlotte Grayby Sebastian FaulksISBN 0375704558 (0-375-70455-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte Gray'Book summary:Faulks's first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong is written with the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him--but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life.
Faulks's novel is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason. It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied, so-called Free France. As the men, women and children of Charlotte's small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the truth of what took place in wartime France is finally exposed.
When private lives and public events fatally collide, the roots of the characters' lives are torn up and exposed. These harrowing scenes are presented with the passion and narrative force that readers will recall from Birdsong. Charlotte Gray will attract even more readers to Faulks's remarkable fiction. [via] 
The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0385045913 (0-385-04591-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Convictsby Iain LawrenceISBN 038573087X (0-385-73087-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Convicts'Book summary:After seeing his father hauled off to debtors prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his familys misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasureand wants what Tom digs up; Worms, a body snatcher who reveals a shocking surprise; and a nasty gang of young pickpockets who mistake Tom for someone ominously known as the Smasher. And ultimately, Tom comes up against the cruel hand of the law.
Accused of murder, Tom is given a seven-year sentence. He is to be transported to Van Diemens Land with other juvenile convicts. But Tom cant abide life on the Hulk, the old ship where the boys are temporarily held. He decides to escape. But if hes to succeed, his luck needs to turn. . . . [via] -
A Critical Edition of the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0253328535 (0-253-32853-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Death of the Heartby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0385720173 (0-385-72017-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dining on Stones, Or, The Middle Groundby Iain SinclairISBN 0241142369 (0-241-14236-9)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Maud EllmannISBN 0192833863 (0-19-283386-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Dracula is one of the few horror books to be honored by inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others are Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Metamorphosis.) This 100th-anniversary edition includes not only the complete authoritative text of the novel with illuminating footnotes, but also four contextual essays, five reviews from the time of publication, five articles on dramatic and film variations, and seven selections from literary and academic criticism. Nina Auerbach of the University of Pennsylvania (author of Our Vampires, Ourselves) and horror scholar David J. Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic, The Monster Show, and Screams of Reason) are the editors of the volume. Especially fascinating are excerpts from materials that Bram Stoker consulted in his research for the book, and his working papers over the several years he was composing it. The selection of criticism includes essays on how Dracula deals with female sexuality, gender inversion, homoerotic elements, and Victorian fears of "reverse colonization" by politically turbulent Transylvania. [via]
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- Dracula: ISBN 0312241704 (0-312-24170-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Dracula: ISBN 0316014818 (0-316-01481-8)
Softcover, Back Bay Books - Dracula: ISBN 0375756701 (0-375-75670-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Dracula: ISBN 0393970124 (0-393-97012-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Dracula: ISBN 0192815989 (0-19-281598-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Dracula: ISBN 0192824627 (0-19-282462-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Dracula: ISBN 0307376419 (0-307-37641-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo - Dracula: ISBN 0394600312 (0-394-60031-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Dracula: ISBN 0394604474 (0-394-60447-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library - Dracula: ISBN 0192833863 (0-19-283386-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- Dracula: ISBN 0312241704 (0-312-24170-4)
Draculaby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0385095805 (0-385-09580-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Draculaby Stephanie Spinner, Bram Stoker, Jim SpenceISBN 0394848284 (0-394-84828-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! the most powerful vampire of all time returns in our stepping stone classic adaption of the original tale by bran stoker. Follow johnathan harker, mina harker, and dr. Abraham van helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy count dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of london... And back again [via]
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Dracula : Case Studiesby Bram StokerISBN 0312863586 (0-312-86358-6)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula : Case Studies'Book summary:First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker has become the standard against which all other vampire stories are compare and the inspiration for countless film and stage adaptations. Indeed, the name "Dracula" has been synonymous with the Undead for at least a century, and the original novels till has the power to chill.[via]
Come then to Castle Dracula, hidden in the forbidding peaks of the Carpathian Mountains, where an undying creature of evil casts his sights on unsuspecting England. Voyage on the doomed ship Demeter as it carries a monster out of ancient superstition in search of new life and new blood. Tremble as first one woman, the another succumbs to the unholy thirst of the nosferatu, and as a small band of men and women, horrified by the supernatural forces arrayed against them, risk their lives and their very souls to oppose the evil known only as...Dracula.More editions of Dracula : Case Studies:
English Musicby Peter AckroydISBN 0345376137 (0-345-37613-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Far Cry from Kensingtonby Muriel SparkISBN 0380707861 (0-380-70786-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Five Days in London, May 1940by John LukacsISBN 0300084668 (0-300-08466-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Days in London, May 1940'Book summary:In his six-volume history of World War II, Winston Churchill deemed the year 1942 as "the hinge of fate," the year in which the German and Japanese armies began to be turned back. John Lukacs suggests that the last days of May 1940 were more important still in turning the tide of war in democracy's favor, for it was in those few days that Churchill convinced his cabinet that Britain should fight on, alone, if need be, against Adolf Hitler's regime. Even as a quarter of a million British troops were being evacuated from Dunkirk, Churchill struggled to reverse the British government's policy of appeasement. In this, he faced opposition from several quarters, including prominent figures within his own Conservative Party. Writing with evident admiration for Churchill--who, he points out, was not well liked, and who had been prime minister for only two weeks when war broke out--Lukacs gives his readers a fly-on-the-wall view of the heated conferences between such well-known participants as Harold Nicholson, Lord Halifax, Neville Chamberlain, and Alexander Cadogan.
"Churchill understood something that not many people understand even now," Lukacs writes in the closing pages of his book. "The greatest threat to Western civilization was not Communism. It was National Socialism. The greatest and most dynamic power in the world was not Soviet Russia. It was the Third Reich of Germany. The greatest revolutionary of the twentieth century was not Lenin or Stalin. It was Hitler." By convincing his government that his view was correct, Churchill afforded Western civilization a slim chance at survival--no small achievement, and one well worth honoring with this fine study. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Foreign Affairsby Alison LurieISBN 0380709902 (0-380-70990-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Forsyte Sagaby John Galsworthy, Geoffrey HarveyISBN 0192838628 (0-19-283862-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time. [via]
The Great Plague in London in 1665by Walter George BellISBN 0404132359 (0-404-13235-9)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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A Guide to the Architecture of Londonby Christopher Woodward, Edward JonesISBN 029778188X (0-297-78188-X)
Softcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Guide to the Architecture of London'Book summary:London has an unrivalled richness of architecture, from its squares and houses to its palaces and churches. This is the only guide to cover all of London's building history, from its Roman foundation to the massive expansion of the nineteenth century which made London the largest city on earth. [via]
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The House of Sight and Shadow : A Novelby Nicholas GriffinISBN 0316854441 (0-316-85444-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Insight Guides Great Britainby Roger WilliamsISBN 0395661722 (0-395-66172-2)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, 1766-1776by James Boswell, Elizabeth GoldringISBN 0300079699 (0-300-07969-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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King of the Cityby Michael MoorcockISBN 0380795035 (0-380-79503-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King of the City'Book summary:More than a decade ago, Michael Moorcock's extraordinary Mother London gave stunning new breath and style to contemporary literature. With Bruce Chatwin's Utz and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, the novel was short-listed for Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize. Now, with scathing wit and enthralling vision, the author whom the Washington Post has praised as "one of the most exciting discoveries in the contemporary English novel [in] 40 or so years" returns to a city transformed and transforming, and in peril of its life.These are the times and trials of Dennis Dover, former rock guitarist, photojournalist, and paparazzo. Denny inhabits a world of vibrant color, smell, and sound, where novel experience and unpredictability are anchored by steadfast tradition and history. Mother London's many vagaries give Denny Dover joy and succor, always seducing him home from the Earth's terrible places, where the face of death is as common as the blood that stains the local dirt. And London is where Rosie Beck is, when she isn't off elsewhere combating the planet's great ills.Denny's brilliant, beautiful, socially conscious cousin has always been an indispensable part of his being -- his soul mate and his soul. Since childhood they have been inseparable, delighting in the daily discoveries of a life with no limits. But now the metropolis that nurtured them is threatened by a powerful, unstoppable force that consumes the past indiscriminately and leaves nothing of substance in its wake.The terminator is named John Barbican Begg. A hanger-on from Denny and Rosie's youth, he has become the morally corrupt center of their London and the richest, most rapacious creature in the Western Hemisphere. Now, as their cherished landmarks tumble, conspiracy, secrets, lies, and betrayal become the centerpieces of Rosie and Dennis's days. For Barbican has but one goal: to devour the entire world. And the only choice left is to join in, drop out ... or plot to destroy. [via]
Lempriere's Dictionaryby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0345384237 (0-345-38423-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Life of Johnsonby James Boswell, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192835319 (0-19-283531-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life of Johnson'Book summary:James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson, for example, memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in sonorous, balanced sentences. Early on in his massive Life, he puts all manner of ideas into our heads with his boobish attempts to clear the youthful Johnson of potential impropriety: "His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever." And while it's often tempting to ignore Boswell's more personal intrusions and delight solely in the melancholic master's words and deeds, there are suchdelightful admissions as, "I was at this time so occupied, shall I call it? or so dissipated, by the amusements of London that our next meeting was not till Saturday, June 25..."
Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. On April 20, 1764, for example, he declared, "I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits." Many of the quotes Boswell includes are a sort of greatest hits: Johnson's definitions of oats and lexicographer, his love for his cat Hodge, as well as thousands of bon, and mal, mots. ("Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.") But there are also many unfamiliar pleasures--Boswell's accounts of Johnson's literary industry, including the Dictionary, The Rambler, and Lives of the Poets; Johnson's singular loathing for Scotland and France; and the surprising hints of revelry. Awakened at 3 AM by friends, he greets them with, "What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you." This at age 42. Johnson's final years were marked by pain and loneliness but certainly no loss of wit. [via]
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Little Dorrit: Library Editionby Charles Dickens, Harvey Peter SucksmithISBN 0192835661 (0-19-283566-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Dorrit: Library Edition'Book summary:Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickenss previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickenss other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857 edition. [via]More editions of Little Dorrit: Library Edition:
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LondonISBN 0394484517 (0-394-48451-7)
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London 1945: Life in the Debris of Warby Maureen WallerISBN 031233804X (0-312-33804-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London 1945: Life in the Debris of War'Book summary:[via]When Hitler unleashed a fierce barrage of weapons on the defiant capital of England, Londons resilient citizens were undaunted. With colorful detail and rich insight, historian Maureen Waller takes readers through London in the last year of war. She reveals the magnificence of human spirit that carried a besieged people through agonizing travails and the long, giddy transformation the metropolis made as it passed through battle, to celebration, and back to life as usual.
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The London Embassyby Paul TherouxISBN 0395331072 (0-395-33107-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The London Embassy'Book summary:London today, dangerous and antique - where once-elegant districts decay into slums jammed with former colonials, where economic disaster settles like fog, where terrorist's bombs rip holes in historic stone, & football graffiti read like a veiled threat. [via]
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The London Encyclopaediaby Christopher Hibbert, Ben WeinrebISBN 0333300246 (0-333-30024-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan London
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Long Spoon Laneby Anne PerryISBN 0345469283 (0-345-46928-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Spoon Lane'Book summary:Anne Perrys bestselling Victorian novels offer readers an elixir as addictively rich as Devonshire cream or English aleenticing millions into a literary world almost as real as the original. While flower sellers, costermongers, shopkeepers, and hansom drivers ply their trades, the London police watch over all. Or so people believe. . . .
Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. Bombs explode, destroying the homes of many poor people. After a chase, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom?
As Pitt delves into the case, he finds that there is more to the terrorism than the destructive gestures of misguided idealists. The police are running a lucrative protection racket, and clues suggest that Inspector Wetron of Bow Street is the mastermind. As the shadowy leader of the Inner Circle, Wetron is using his influence with the press to whip up fears of more attacksand to rush a bill through Parliament that would severely curtail civil liberties. This would make him the most powerful man in the country.
To defeat Wetron, Pitt finds that he must run in harness with his old enemy, Sir Charles Voisey, and the unlikely allies are joined by Pitts clever wife, Charlotte, and her great aunt, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. Can they prevail? As they strive to prevent future destruction, nothing less than the fate of the British Empire hangs in precarious balance.
From the first sentence to the last, Long Spoon Lane is a miracle of suspense, of plot and counterplot, bluff and counterbluff, in a take-no-prisoners battle between good and evil. It is possibly the very best of all the wonderful Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels. [via]-
Lord John And The Private Matterby Diana GabaldonISBN 0385337485 (0-385-33748-5)
Softcover, Delacorte Pr
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon weaves a dazzling tale of history, intrigue, and suspense in this first novel featuring one of her most popular characters from the Outlander saga: Lord John Grey.
The year is 1757. On a clear morning in mid-June, Lord John Grey emerges from Londons Beefsteak Club, his mind in turmoil. A nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majestys army, Grey has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor. Obliged to pursue two inquiries at once, Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of treachery and betrayal that touches every stratum of English societyand threatens all he holds dear. [via]More editions of Lord John And The Private Matter:
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Magician's Wardby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0312853696 (0-312-85369-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magician's Ward'Book summary:One year after Richard Merrill promised to make young Kim a lady and a magician in MAIRELON THE MAGICIAN, Kim is discovering that magic can be harder than it looks--and being a lady in Regency London is even harder. When disaster strikes, Kim must negotiate the hazards of London society, and she finds that her abilities as a magician and a lady are a matter of life and death . [via]
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The Misallianceby Anita BrooknerISBN 0224024035 (0-224-02403-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 039608575X (0-396-08575-X)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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The Murder Roomby P. D. JamesISBN 037543223X (0-375-43223-X)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murder Room'Book summary:Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. Jamess formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919 -- 1939, is in turmoil. As its trustees argue over whether it should be closed, one of them is brutally and mysteriously murdered. Yet even as Commander Dalgliesh and his team proceed with their investigation, a second corpse is discovered. Someone in the Dupayne is prepared to kill and kill again. Still more sinister, the murders appear to echo the notorious crimes of the past featured in one of the museums galleries: the Murder Room.
The case is fraught with danger and complications from the outset, but for Dalgliesh the complications are unexpectedly profound. His new relationship with Emma Lavenham -- introduced in the last Dalgliesh novel, Death in Holy Orders -- is at a critical stage. Now, as he moves closer and closer to a solution to the puzzle, he finds himself driven further and further from commitment to the woman he loves.
The Murder Room is a powerful work of mystery and psychological intricacy from a master of the modern novel.
You cant possibly know him.
I can know enough, Emma said. I cant know everything, no one can. Loving him doesnt give me the right to walk in and out of his mind as if it were my room at college. Hes the most private person Ive ever met. But I know the things about him that matter.
But did she? Emma asked herself. Adam Dalgleish was intimate with those dark crevices of the human mind where horrors lurked which she couldnt begin to comprehend. Not even that appalling scene in the church at St. Anselms had shown her the worst that human beings could do to each other. She knew about those horrors from literature; he explored them daily in his work. Sometimes, waking from sleep in the early hours, the vision she had of him was of the dark face masked, the hands smooth and impersonal in the sleek latex gloves. What hadnt those hands touched? She rehearsed the questions she wondered if she would ever be able to ask. Why do you do it? Is it necessary to your poetry? Why did you choose this job? Or did it choose you?
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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Editionby Charles Dickens, Paul SchlickeISBN 0192836234 (0-19-283623-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinkingby Zoe HellerISBN 0312426097 (0-312-42609-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking'Book summary:Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them. Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an affair with 15-year-old pupil Connolly; part of what is admirable about this novel is that there is no real attempt to extenuate this--it's wrong and she knows this from the start, enough to lie to herself and others about it. It's an abuse of her very limited power--he is one of the few of her pupils interested in art, not interested in perpetually disrupting her lessons.
Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Offshoreby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395478049 (0-395-47804-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoeby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425105709 (0-425-10570-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Oxford Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195090888 (0-19-509088-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Mark Twain'Book summary:Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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The Patriotic Murderby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425089002 (0-425-08900-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Patriotic Murders'Book summary:There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover; and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill; then who will Victim C be? [via]
A Philosophical Investigationby Philip KerrISBN 0385254563 (0-385-25456-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Philosophical Investigation'Book summary:A powerful, thought-provoking thriller set in London in 2013 with a difference that takes the reader on a terrifying journey into the head of a serial killer and to the heart of murder itself. Kerr has produced an unusual work of suspense which puts him at the front ranks in the genre. Movie rights optioned by Paramount Pictures. [via]
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0375761128 (0-375-76112-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:The Prince and the Pauper is one of Twain's best-known and best-loved books throughout the world. In this historical tale set in mid-nineteenth-century England, the Prince of Wales and a lookalike pauper exchange places by accident just days before Henry VIII's death. Each boy finds that his "father" believes him to be mad; each is befriended by his "sister;" and each wakes from sleep thinking that his trying experiences have been just a bad dream. Along the way each learns crucial lessons about manners, morals, justice, and compassion. Mark Twain immersed himself in English history to write this novel and passed on reference books to the artists so that their illustrations could be historically accurate. He was "enchanted" with the pictures they produced. His daughter Susy was convinced that The Prince and the Pauper, a book her father subtitled, "a tale for young people of all ages" was "the best book he has ever written." [via]
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Ragged London in 1861by John HollingsheadISBN 0318203375 (0-318-20337-5)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Sour Sweetby Timothy MoISBN 039473680X (0-394-73680-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Southampton Rowby Anne PerryISBN 0345440048 (0-345-44004-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Southampton Row'Book summary:Thomas Pitt prefers the grim routine of murder investigations to the riskier probing of Victorian governmental intrigues. Yet Anne Perry's Southampton Row again finds him displaced from his police command, this time to foil the political ambitions of a ruthless republican.
Charles Voisey, leader of a powerful secret society known as the Inner Circle, was defeated by Pitt when he tried (in The Whitechapel Conspiracy) to abolish the British monarchy. Only months later, though, he's back on top, running for a seat in Parliament. Under the auspices of the newly created Special Branch, Pitt is charged with learning whether Voisey has any "unguarded vulnerabilities." The odds against Pitt succeeding are high; Voisey may be "shallow, self-important [and] condescending," but he impresses voters as more charismatic and less controversial than his opponent, Aubrey Serracold, who's also hobbled by his connection to the recent slaying of a popular spiritualist. While Pitt's wife, Charlotte, and their family are safely out of London on vacation, Pitt, aided by the gruff but dogged Inspector Samuel Tellman, his politically astute sister-in law, and Charlotte's resourceful great-aunt Vespasia, seeks to solve the medium's murder before it can derail Aubrey Serracold's campaign.
Perry expertly portrays the volatile British political climate of the 1890s, and by making Pitt and Tellman rivals in their investigation, she further illuminates both men's characters. However, Southampton Row reduces the usually intrepid Charlotte to a hand-wringing irrelevance, and the novel feels too much like an intermediate and inconclusive chapter in a longer story arc. Like Holmes and Moriarty, Thomas Pitt and Charles Voisey appear destined to grapple once more. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Successby Martin AmisISBN 0224015710 (0-224-01571-0)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Success'Book summary:Success is Martin Amis' third novel, published in 1978 by Jonathan Cape. PlotSuccess tells the story of two foster brothers-Terence Service and Gregory Riding, narrating alternate sections-and their exchange of position during one calendar year as each slips towards, and away from, success. ThemesSuccess is Amis' first statement of the doppleganger theme that would also preoccupy the novels Money, London Fields, and, especially, 1995's The Information. [via]
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The Swimming-Pool Libraryby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0394570251 (0-394-57025-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Swimming-Pool Library'Book summary:A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.
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Tirra Lirra by the Riverby Jessica AndersonISBN 0333251334 (0-333-25133-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Un Lun Dunby China MievilleISBN 0345495160 (0-345-49516-0)
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Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century Londonby Lynda NeadISBN 0300107706 (0-300-10770-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victorian Babylon: People, Streets And Images In Nineteenth-century London'Book summary:In this fascinating and innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a new account of modernity and metropolitan life. She charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organized city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture. She considers the role visual images played in the creation of a vibrant and diverse urban culture and how new kinds of publics were created for these representations. Shifting the focus of the history of modernity from Paris to London, Nead here argues for a different understanding of gender and public space in a society where women joined the everyday life of city streets and entered the debates concerning morality, spectacle, and adventure.
The book draws on texts and images of many kinds -- including acts of Parliament, literature, newspaper reports, private letters, maps, paintings, advertisements, posters, and banned obscene publications. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead explores such intriguing topics as the efforts of urban improvers to move water, air, traffic, goods, and people in the Victorian metropolis; the impact of gas lighting and glass on urban leisure; and the obscenity legislation that emerged in response to new forms of visual mass culture that were perceived as dangerous and pervasive. [via]
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Voyage in the Darkby Jean RhysISBN 0393311465 (0-393-31146-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0375759239 (0-375-75923-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The Way We Live Nowby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0192835610 (0-19-283561-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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What Was She Thinkingby Zoe HellerISBN 0312421990 (0-312-42199-0)
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