Paperback books

601. HARTLAND Michael Down Among the Dead Men. A stunning novel of far eastern
espionage. Signed. Sphere 1984, Very Good 4.00
602. .. .. The Year of the Scorpion. An explosive novel packed with action,
courage, love and betrayal in Communist China.
Coronet 1992, Fine 4.00
603. .. .. Frontier of Fear. Spy drama set against Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme. Coronet 1990, Very Good 4.00
604. .. .. The Third Betrayal. Is there a spy in British Intelligence ?
Sphere 1987, Fine 4.00

605. KYLE Duncan Stalking Point. The year is 1941 and a battleship races across the Atlantic
with a secret cargo. Will the Nazi’s get it ? Fontana 1989, Very Good 3.50
606. .. .. Green River High. A quest through the guerilla infested jungles of Borneo
in search of a crashed bomber that had a cargo of Rubies.
Fontana 1989, Fine 3.50
607. .. .. A Raft of Swords. An International Peace Conference attracts some unsavoury characters. Fontana 1990, 3.50
608. .. .. A Cage of Ice. A KGB plot to change the world. Fontana 1989, Fine 3.50
609. .. .. The Semonov Impulse. An ex-concentration camp survivor wants
revenge. Fontana 1983, Very Good 3.00
610. .. .. The King’s Commissar. Royal Gold for Bolshevik guns. A marvellous
thriller. Fontana 1989, Fine 3.50
611. .. .. Terror’s Cradle. A journalist battles the KGB and CIA. Fontana 1989, Fine 4.00

612. LEE Stan Dunn’s Conundrum. Sphere 1986, Fair 2.00

613. LYALL Gavin Judas Country. A thriller about gun running to the Middle East.
Coronet 1990, Fine 4.00
614. .. .. Midnight Plus One. Half the hit men in Europe are after them...
Coronet 1990, Fine 4.00
615. .. .. The Secret Servant. Suicide, hand grenades at No.10 and a Czech
defector with a file worth killing for. Pan 1982, Good (slanted spine) 4.00
616. .. .. The Conduct of Major Maxim. A murderer deserts with information of national importance. Pan 1983, 3.00
617. .. .. Shooting Script. An ex U.S. flyer, starts work for a film company, flying a
B-52. Coronet 1989, Fine 4.00
618. .. .. The Most Dangerous Game. 3 men are murdered, 2 planes have crashed
and British SIS are involved. Finnish security were a trifle upset.
Coronet 1990, Fine 4.00

619. MCCARRY Charles The Miernik Dossier. An intelligent and gripping espionage
story for the connoisseur. Sheridan 1993, Very Good 3.50

620. MACINNES Helen Pray for a Brave Heart. A tale of espionage, jewel robbery and political kidnapping, set in Switzerland. Fontana 1968, Good 3.00
621. .. .. Pray for a Brave Heart. Anger, raging anger was not the way to deal with kidnappers and torturers. Cold, determined purpose, that was
the way. Fontana 1970, Good 4.00
622. .. .. Assignment in Brittany. An intensely exciting story of treachery and
intrigue set in occupied France. Fontana 1969, Very Good 4.00
623. .. .. The Salzburg Connection. Twenty years ago, the Nazi’s hid a sealed
chest in the waters of the Finstersee. Now a British agent is sent to
find it. Fontana 1971, Good 4.00
624. .. .. Decision at Delphi. A monstrous and terrifying conspiracy which
may affect all mankind. Fontana1967, Very Good 4.00
625. .. .. North from Rome. A kidnapping in a silent street...Fontana 1970, Good 4.00 626. .. .. The Hidden Target. A round the world cruise turns into a
terrorist nightmare. Fontana 1982, Good 4.00
627. .. .. I and My True Love. An impressive story of love and betrayal in
contemporary America. Fontana 1977, Good 4.00

628. MATHER Berkely The Pass Beyond Kashmir. An ambush in the Himalayas.
Fontana 1975, Good 3.00

629. MITCHELL James Red File for Callan. The most efficient killer in Europe is working as a book keeper, until he is called back into action. Corgi 1972, Good 4.00

630. MONTEFIORE - Sebag Hugh Enigma: The Battle for the Code. The full story of the Enigma Code. Includes photographs.
Phoenix 2001, Very Good 5.00

631. NEAVE Airey Saturday at M.I.9. One of the great untold stories of
World War II. Coronet rep 1978, Near Fine 5.00

632. SEALE Patrick and MCCONVILLE Maureen Philby: The Road To Moscow. The story of
double agent Kim Philby who fled to Moscow in January 1963. Includes photographs. Penguin 1978, Very Good 3.00

633. SINGH Simon The Code Book. The secret history of codes and code breaking.
Fourth Estate 2000, Fine 5.00

634. WELCHMAN Gordon The Hunt Six Story. The author worked at Bletchley Park,
the British de-ciphering centre in WW2.
M&M Baldwin 1998, Fine/New 8.50

636. WEST Nigel Mole Hunt
Who was the "fifth man" ? Since the early 1960's, counter-intelligence
experts have feared that their agencies in London, Montreal and
Washington had been penetrated by the KGB. Now, for the first time,
the story of this international mole hunt is revealed in full. Berkely Edition October 1991, Very Good 7.00
637. .. .. Counterfeit Spies. An astonishing investigation into secret agents of WW2.
Includes photographs. Warner 1999, Fine 6.00

638. WRIGHT Peter Spy Catcher. The candid autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer.
Stoddart 1988, Good (but spine bent) 3.00

ADVENTURE

639. FRASER George MacDonald Flashman. Years 1839 - 1842. the first of the series.
Harper Collins 1993, Very Good 4.00
640. .. .. .. Royal Flash. Years 1842-43 and 1847-48.
Harper Collins 1993 rep, Very Good 5.00
641. .. .. .. Royal Flash. Pan rep 1970's, Near Fine 5.00
642. .. .. .. The Pyrates. Swashbuckling fun. Corner of half-title cut off.
Harper Collins large format 1996, Very Good 4.00

643. HAGGARD H. Rider King Soloman’s Mines. One of the most famous adventure stories.
About 3 men searching for the legendary treasure, in uncharted
Africa. Pan 1951, Good 3.00

644. KYLE Duncan The Honey Ant. An Australian adventure. Fontana 1988, Good 3.00

645. LOVELACE Delos E. King Kong (novelisation from the story by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper) A heart rending love story. A thrilling
adventure. A spellbinding monster tale. Ace 1976, Very Good 3.00

NAVAL FICTION

646. KENT Alexander Richard Bolitho - Midshipman. It is October 1772 and the sixteen year
old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon, a seventy-four gun ship
of the line. Arrow 1977, Very Good 3.50
647. .. .. Sloop of War. April 1778, Richard Bolitho is given his first command,
Sparrow, a fast, well-armed fighting sloop. Arrow 1974, Very Good 4.00
648. .. .. Passage to Mutiny. 1789, Richard Bolitho has to deal with policing the
Southern trade route, pirates, savage islanders, talk of mutiny
and the French Revolution. Arrow 1977, Very Good 4.00
649. .. .. Enemy in Sight. 1794, Richard Bolitho is ordered to join the blockade
off the French coast. Arrow 1977, Good 3.50
650. .. .. The Flag Captain. Richard Bolitho becomes involved in the
Great Mutiny of 1797. Arrow 1974, Good 3.50

651. O’BRIAN Patrick Post Commander. It is 1803 and Napoleon shatters the fragile peace
between England and France. A war that will bring danger, action
and glory to Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N. Fontana 1974, Very Good 4.00
652. .. .. Desolation Island. Captain Jack Aubrey carries a cargo of convicts,
a beautiful and dangerous woman, a killer disease and his ship is
being pursued by a Dutch man-of-war. Fontana 1978, Good 3.50 653. .. .. The Surgeon’s Mate. Stephen Maturin’s past in the French intelligence
catches up with him. Fontana 1981, Very Good 4.00
654. .. .. Treason’s Harbour. Captain Jack Aubrey and ships surgeon
Stephen Maturin explore the delights of Malta, but danger is never
very far away. Fontana 1984, Good 3.50

BIOGRAPHY/WAR

655. FARRELL J.G. The Siege of Krishnapur. European civilisation confronts the world it
thinks it rules, in a novel of the violent and bloody mutiny.
Penguin 1975, Good 3.00

656. FORESTER C.S. Hunting the Bismark. One of the greatest stories of the British Navy.
Mayflower 1974, Fair 3.00

657. JOAD C.E.M. Why War ? Ruminations on war and pacifism. Penguin Special 1939, Fair 3.00

658. STEVENSON William A Man Called Intrepid. the secret war 1939-45. Sphere 1984,
Near Fine 4.50

659. WILLIAMS Eric Great Escape Stories. 12 true stories of escape from German occupied
Europe in WW2. Puffin 1983, Good 3.00

HORROR

660. GALLAGHER Stephen Follower. Werewolves are out and about.
By the author of Chimera. NEL 1993, Very Good 2.50
661. .. .. The Boat House. A new novel of terror and suspense.
NEL 1992, Good 2.50

WESTERNS

662. L’AMOUR Louis Hondo. Long acknowledged as a classic novel of the american west.
Corgi 1983, Special 30th Anniversary Edition, Very Good 4.00
663. .. .. Sitka. The explosive novel of Jean Barge - hunter, sailor,
and adventurer. Corgi 1973, Good 4.00

664. EDSON J.T. To Arms! To Arms in Dixie! Belle Boyd of the U.S. Secret Service.
Corgi 1972, Very Good 3.00
665. .. .. Young Ole Devil. Jackson Baines Hardin is a fighting man, even when
entrusted with a dangerous war mission.
Corgi 1975, Number 76, Very Good 3.50 666. .. .. Doc Leroy, M.D.. A cowhand who wants to be a doctor, must first avenge
the death of his parents. Corgi 1977, Number 80, Very Good 3.50
667. .. .. Set A - Foot. A cowhand is ‘set a-foot’ (left without a horse) and left in
disgrace. He also happens to be a fast gun and he wants revenge.
Corgi 1978, Number 82, Good 3.00
668. .. .. You’re a Texas Ranger, Alvin Fog. Alvin Fog joins the Texas Rangers.
Corgi 1979, Number 87, Very Good 3.50

669. GREY Zane Captives of the Desert. Thrown by his horse, John Curry is brought face
to face with gun play, danger and a deadly enemy. Pictorial cover of a
western horse chase. Great name! Hodder 1957, Good 4.00
670. .. .. Code of the West. The King of Western Writers. Hodder 1955, Good 4.00
671. .. .. The Spirit of the Border. A story of frontier life in 1777. Hodder 1952, Good 4.00
672. .. .. The Last Trail. A tale of pioneers. Hodder 1956, Good 8.00

673. GULIK Bill Northwest Destiny: Distant Trails. Volume One. The saga of 2 brothers and
the struggle of the Nez Perces to keep their homeland.
Jove 1992, Very Good (remainder hole on front cover) 3.00

674. PRONZINI Bill Firewind. When you’re trapped in a burning race through hell, to lose is to
die. Signed. Ballantine 1989, Fine 4.00

675. PRONZINI Bill and Greenberg Martin The Lawmen. Fourteen classic short stories about
the sheriffs, deputies, bounty hunters and peace officers of the old west.
Signed. Fawcett 1984, Very Good 4.00

SCIENCE FICTION

676. ASHLEY Mike ed The Best of British SF 2. Futura 1977, Science Fiction was born in
Britain and shows the development of the genre from the
1960's and 70's. Good 4.00

677. ASIMOV Isaac Buy Jupiter. A collection of Asimov's shorter science fiction. Cover
illustration by Peter Jones. Panther Science Fiction 1977, Good 3.00
678. .. .. Foundation. A million worlds made up their society, now the threat of
thirty thousand years of anarchy loomed large. Pictorial cover.
Panther Edition July 1960, Good 3.00
679. .. .. Foundation and Empire. Second volume of Asimov's world-famous trilogy,
one of the great classics of science fiction. Cover illustration by Chris
Foss. Panther Science Fiction 1973, Good 3.00
680. .. .. Second Foundation. Third Volume of Asimov's world-famous trilogy.
Panther Science Fiction 1969, Good 3.00
681. .. .. I, Robot. When Earth is ruled by master-machines, when robots are
more human than mankind. Panther 1968, Very Good 4.00
682. .. .. The Bicentennial Man. A classic collection of short stories.
Gollancz 1990, Very Good 4.00

683. CLARKE Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. An enigma is uncovered on the moon...
A classic science fiction novel. Orbit 2000, Fine 5.19
684. .. .. 2010: Odyssey 2. What happened to the spaceship Discovery ?
Orbit 2000, Fine 1997 5.89
685. .. .. 3001: The Final Odyssey. The terrifying truth of the monoliths mission...
Orbit 1997, Fine 5.89

686. BANKS Iain M. Use of Weapons. Changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture,
through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. Orbit 2000, Fine/New 6.59
687. .. .. Feersum Endjinn. A crumbling empire at war, in a distant world.
Orbit 2001, Fine/New 6.59
688. .. .. Excession. The artefact is back in this bestselling new culture novel.
Orbit 1999, Very Good 3.00
689. .. .. The Player of Games. A master of every board, computer and strategy game, travels to far away world to play a game that challenges his life,
very possibly to the death. Orbit 2000, Very Good 4.00
690. .. .. Inversions. This is a spectacular work of sci-fi, built around a central core
of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal. Orbit 2000, Fine/New 5.89

691. BALLARD J.G. The Drowned World. Civilisation lies beneath the stagnant seas of...
Berkely Medallion Edition July 1966, Good 6.00
692. .. .. .. The Wind From Nowhere. A super hurricane that blasts around the
globe at hundreds of miles an hour Cover illustration by Alan
Aldridge. Penguin Science Fiction 1967, Very good 4.00
693. .. .. .. The Drought. Water replaces currency. Cover illustration by
David Pelham Penguin Books, 1974. Very good 4.50
694. .. .. .. The Terminal Beach. A collection of short stories. Cover illustration by
Roy Colmer. Carroll and Graf Edition 1987, Fine 4.00

695. BRADBURY Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes. What if someone knew your secret
dream, that one great wish you would give anything for... Bantam edition June 1983, Good 3.00
696. .. .. The Illustrated Man. A collection of short stories. 1st UK Paperback
Edition, Corgi Books 1955, Good 7.00

697. COLLINS Warwick Computer One. A compelling novel and a terrifying scientific treatise
of the near future. No Exit Press 1994, Good 3.00

698. DICK Philip K. The Variable Man. Five short novels in one volume, including Minority
Report, which was recently made into a film staring Tom Cruise.
Sphere science fiction 1969, Good 5.00
699. .. .. The Man In The High Castle. Hugo Award - Winning Novel Imagine the
world if the Allies had lost the Second World War. Cover illustration by
Chris Moore. Roc Penguin Books Edition, Tenth printing since 1965,
Very good 4.00
700. .. .. Flow My Tears. The Policeman Said. Jason Taverner's adventures in an
American police state, that makes 1984 look like the Age
of Enlightenment. Panther Science Fiction 1984, Very good 4.00
701. .. .. The Zap Gun. The terrifying arms race roared on. Cover illustration by
Peter Jones Panther Science Fiction 1986, Very good 5.50
702. .. .. A Scanner Darkly. ‘A marvellous book, marvellous and terrible...’ Brian
Aldiss, Oxford Mail. One of his best novels...Ming Books. Cover
illustration by Trevor Webb. Panther Books 1985, Good 4.75

LITERATURE

703. ALLBEURY Ted The Choice. Ted Albury turns aside from the harsh world of espionage
to the world of ordinary men, which can be no less unforgiving.
NEL 1987, 4.00

704. AUEL Jean M. The Clan of the Cave Bear. The sweeping saga of one remarkable
woman that begun at the dawn of man. Coronet 1985, Very Good 2.50

705. BACH Richard The Bridge Across Forever. A love story. Dell 1986, Very Good 2.50
706. .. .. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. People who know that there is more to this whole living thing than meets the eye. Pan 1973, Good 3.00

707. BALLARD J.G. Empire of the Sun. The story of the authors internment in a Japanese
prisoner of war camp. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.
Granada 1985, Very Good 3.00

708. BANKS Ian Complicity. Complicity is a stunning exploration of the morality of
greed, corruption and violence...probably his best novel to date.
Abacus 1994, Very Good 3.00
709. .. .. A Song of Stone. Addresses timeless questions of truth, betrayal,
duty and loyalty. Abacus 1998 Very Good 3.00
710. .. .. The Business. A trans-global organisation wants to buy it’s own state.
Abacus 2000, Very Good 3.50

711. BENEDICTUS David Local Hero. The richly comic story of the might of America
meeting the guile of Scotland. Penguin 1983, Good 4.00

712. BERNIERES Louis De Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. WW2 love story set on the Greek
island of Cephallonia. Vintage 1998, Very Good 3.50

713. BLYTHE Ronald Akenfield. Famous portrait of an English village. Penguin 1972, Very Good 3.00

714. BURRROUGHS William S. Exterminator ! A mosaic like, experimental novel.
Penguin 1993, Very Good 9.00

715. CAMUS Albert The Outsider. A man who lacks the basic emotions, reactions and
hypocrisy’s that his society requires of him. Penguin 1961, Very Good 3.00

716. CAPOTE Truman In Cold Blood. It began as a documentary study of a brutal,
senseless murder, it became a tragic masterpiece,
a classic of our time. Penguin 1971, Good 3.00

717. COBB Richard Still Life. Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells childhood.
Hogarth 1984, Very Good 4.00

718. COOK Kenneth Three novels about life on the edge. Set in Australia:
Bloodhouse, Tuna and Pig. Penguin 1988, Fine 4.00

719. COOPER Jilly The British in Love. An amorously autobiographical anthology.
Penguin 1981, Very Good 3.00

720. COOPER William Scenes from a Married Life. That rarity in life, a happy marriage.
Penguin 1963, Good 3.00

730. CONRAD Joseph Victory. A man turns his back on humanity and goes to live on a desert island. But he is brought back by a girl that he saves.
Penguin 1966, Very Good 4.00
731. .. .. Tales of Unrest. 5 short stories, including The Lagoon,
the authors first. Penguin 1977, Very Good 4.00

732. D’ALPUGET Blanche Turtle Beach. A novel of passion, conflict and tragedy set
on Malaysia’s exotic shores. Penguin 1981, Fine 3.00

733. DEEPING Warwick Sorrell and Son. A novel of loyalty, dedication and passion.
Penguin 1984, Very Good 4.00

734. DICKENS Charles Bleak House. An extraordinary, panoramic example of
Dicken’s creative power. Penguin 1985, Good 3.00

735. DOCTOROW E.L. The Waterworks. 1870's New York, a journalist finds out that his
father faked his own death. Picador 1994, Fine 4.00
736. .. .. Ragtime. Brilliantly captures a hectic age of dire poverty and fabulous wealth...of murderers and millionaires...of scandals
and passions. A brilliant book. Pan 1976, Good 3.00

737. III DUBUS Andre House of Sand and Fog. Combines the excitements of a thriller
with the desolating force of tragedy. Vintage 2001, Fine 3.50

738. ECO Umberto Foucault’s Pendulum. The novel zooms across continents,
the centuries, in and out of the wisdom of the Cabala and the occult, of physics, of computer technology, of political foresight and hindsight.
A brilliant story. Picador 1990, Very Good 3.00

739. EIDSON Thomas The Last Ride. A story set in the haunting landscape of the American
west. Penguin 1996, Very Good 2.50
740. .. .. St. Agnus’ Stand. An outlaw whilst heading for freedom comes
across 3 nuns and 7 orphan children. Penguin 1995, Very Good 2.50

741. EVANS Nicholas The Loop. Helen Ross a young biologist is sent to protect a pack
of wolves. From the author of the Horse Whisperer.
Corgi 1999, Very Good (slanting spine) 3.00

742. EXLEY Frederick A Fan’s Notes. An effort to defeat the American dream of intellectual
conformity and material success. Winner of the William Faulkner
Foundation Award 1968. Penguin 1970, Good 4.00

743. FABER Michel Under the Skin. Isserly is obsessed with picking up hitch hikers.
Canongate 2000, Very Good (a little misshapen) 2.50

744. FAULKNER William As I Lay Dying. Successive episodes in the death and burial of
Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the
family circle. Considered by many to be his masterpiece.
Penguin 1982, Very Good 3.00
745. .. .. The Sound and the Fury. An imaginative creation of the degenerate and disintegrating Compson family. Penguin Modern Classics 1964 #2087, Good 3.00

746. FITZGERALD F. Scott The Great Gatsby. Only one person knew who Gatsby was, but
she was married to a rich good for nothing. So all that Gatsby
had were dreams which had little connection with reality.
Penguin Modern Classics 1961 #746, Good 3.00

747. FLEMING H.K. The Day They Kidnapped Queen Victoria. Penguin 1973, Very Good 4.00

748. FORSTER E.M. A Passage to India. A novel about British rule in India and reveals the conflict of temperament and tradition involved in that relationship.
Penguin Modern Classics 1970, Very Good 4.00
749. .. .. Where Angels Fear to Tread. A novel which takes a group of well-bred English people and exposes them to a situation which rouses each of them to violent and unexpected reactions.
Penguin Modern Classics 1974, Good 4.00

750. GARY Romain Lady L. Sophia Loren and Paul Newman stared in the film that was
made from this book. Penguin 1965, Good 3.00

751. GILLIATT Penelope Nobody’s Business. A collection of short stories that first
appeared in the New Yorker. Penguin 1972, Good 3.00

752. GODDEN Rumer Breakfast with the Nikolides. An Indian romance.
Pan 1965, Very Good 4.00

753. GOLDING William Lord of the Flies. An aeroplane crash-lands on a coral island and the survivors, a party of schoolboys, find themselves cast-away in ideal surroundings. At first all goes well...
Penguin Modern Classic 1963 #1471, Very Good 3.00

754. GOUDGE Elizabeth The White Witch. Set in the English Civil War. Hodder 1967, Good 3.00

755. GRAVES Robert Goodbye to All That. This autobiography appeared in 1929 and is
indispensable for the historian of the First World War or of modern
English poetry. A classic. Penguin 1979, Very Good 3.00

756. GREENE Graham Twenty One Stories. Includes The Basement Room (filmed as The
Fallen Idol). Penguin 1974, Good 4.00
757. .. .. The Man Within. Betrayal, pursuit and the search for love.
Penguin 1971, Good 4.00
758. .. .. Journey Without Maps. A West African journey. Penguin 1987, 4.00
759. .. .. It’s a Battlefield. A communist bus driver is sentenced to death
for killing a policeman...Penguin 1971, Good 4.00
760. .. .. Stamboul Train. Lust, murder and revolution on the Orient Express.
Penguin 1971, Good 4.00 761. .. .. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol. The stories from which Carol
Reed and the author made 2 classic films. Penguin 1971, Good 4.00

762. GUNN Neil M. Highland River. A prize winning novel of a Scottish childhood.
Arrow 1975, Very Good 3.00

763. HELLER Joseph Catch 22. The bombing missions keep increasing...’ if he flew them
he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane
and had to. ’ That is Catch 22. A brilliant novel. Corgi 1964,
Very Good in all respects! 3.00

764. INGE William Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff. A moving compassionate study of loneliness
and repressed sensuality. Penguin 1973, Good 3.00

765. JAMES Henry The Turn of the Screw. His supernatural work and most popular novel.
Penguin 1946, Good 4.00

766. JENNINGS Paul The Jenguin Pennings. Humour. Penguin 1964, Good 3.00

767. KENNEDY Robert F. 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. Tells the full
story of the most dangerous diplomatic confrontation in
human history. Illustrated with black & white photographs.
Pan 1969, Fine 3.00

768. KEROUAC Jack The Dharma Bums. Kerouac living his dream as a Zen lunatic and
rucksack wanderer on the fabled golden shores of west coast
America. Penguin, Fine 10.00

769. KUNDERA Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. A novel of fantasy, eroticism
and fun. King Penguin 1983, Good 3.00

770. LEE Harper To Kill a Mocking Bird. Pulitzer Prize Winner. A black man is charged
with the rape of a white girl in the deep south of America.
An excellent book. Arrow 1997, Fine/New 5.99

771. LEE Laurie Cider with Rosie. Excellent prose novel of life in a 1920's Cotswold village.
A classic. Penguin 1975, Good 3.00

772. LEWIS Sinclair Babbit. One of the ugliest, but most convincing figures in American
fiction - the total conformist. Signet Classics 1962, Good 3.00

773. MALAMUD Bernard The Fixer. A Jewish man is charged with a murder in pre - first
world war Kiev. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Penguin 1969, Good 3.00
774. .. .. The Magic Barrel. Winner of the National Book Award.
A collection of short stories. Penguin 1968, Good 3.00
775. .. .. Rembrandt’s Hat. Eight short stories about hope
and disappointment. Penguin 1980, Very Good 4.00
776. .. .. The Assistant. The story of a Gentile and a Jew.
Penguin 1977, Good 3.00

777. MARIUS Richard The Coming of Rain. A novel set in Tennessee in 1885; of harsh
ways, bitter sun and drought. Penguin 1974, Very Good 3.00

778. MARLOWE Derek The Rich Boy from Chicago. Freddie Geddes was talented, privileged, breathtakingly successful - and tragic.
Penguin 1982, Very Good 4.00

779. MARNHAM Patrick Fantastic Invasion. Explored and exploited, Africa has carried a
different meaning for each wave of foreign invaders. Dispatches
from Africa. Penguin 1987, Very Good 3.00

780. MARSHALL Robert Shadow Makers. The story of a General and a genius in the
search to develop the world’s first atomic bomb.
Penguin 1990, Good 3.00

781. MASON Simon Death of a Fantasist. A well crafted comedy, that gets blacker and
blacker. Abacus 1995, Fine 5.99

782. MAUGHAM Robin Somerset and all the Maughams. A biographical quest for the roots
of this family which included a Lord Chancellor of England and a
great writer Penguin 1975, Good 4.00

783. MAXWELL Gavin The Rocks Remain. The follow up to Ring of Bright Water. Includes
a set of black & white photographs. Penguin 1976, Very Good 4.00
784. .. .. Raven Seek Thy Brother. More otters and anecdotes. Includes a
set of black & white photographs. Penguin 1975, Very Good 4.00

785. MCCAUGHREN Tom Run with the Wind. ‘ Don’t forget ’ said the old fox, ‘ if danger
threatens, run with the wind ’. Evil vermin or lovable
characters for a Watership Down style novel ? Penguin
1989, Very Good 3.00

786. MCCARTHY Mary The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed. Two brilliantly witty
travel books. Penguin 1972, Good 3.00

787. MCCULLERS Carson Reflections in a Golden Eye. A novel of explosive power set in
a peace time army camp. Penguin 1968, Very Good 3.00

788. MOODY Rick The Ice Storm. Nixon and ‘Nam, pet rocks and shag rugs, wife-swapping
and party hopping. Suburban New England, 1973, and the Hood family
are about to wish they stayed at home. The decade that taste forgot.
Abacus 1995, Fine 4.99

789. ORWELL George Nineteen Eighty-Four. A frightening vision of the future, where society
is under the control of Big Brother. Every aspect of life is closely monitored, whilst any hint of the unorthodox is ruthlessly
suppressed. A classic. Penguin 1989 (30), Fine 5.99
790. .. .. Decline of the English murder and Other Essays. The authors lament
on the inferior quality of modern murderers and his comments on
the changing face of fictional crime. Plus essays on Dali, Dickens,
Kipling, Nationalism and even seaside postcards.
Penguin 1965, Good 4.00

791. PEAKE Mervyn The Gormenghast Trilogy. A master of the macabre and a traveller
through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination.
Vintage Edition 1999, Good 7.00

792. SALINGER J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. The comic and touching novel about a raw
American adolescent. A classic. Penguin 1958, Very Good 5.00

793. SHUTE Nevil On the Beach. Tells of the final months in the lives of five people living in
a world doomed to die of radiation. Pan 1966, Good 5.00
794. .. .. No Highway. This novel blends romance, suspense and high-tension
drama in this great story about the air. Pan 1963, Very Good 10.00
795. .. .. Landfall. Novel about the bitter air-sea battles of WW2. Pan 1966,
Good 4.00
796. .. .. A Town Like Alice. A story of courage, enterprise and love, in war and
the aftermath of war. Pan 1961, Good 4.00

797. STRIEBER Whitley Communion. Man gets taken away to the stars by little green men.
A true story (apparently). Arrow 1987, Fine 3.00

798, THOMSON Rupert Soft. A story of advertising, consumerism and murder.
Bloomsbury 1999, Very Good 3.50

799. UNSWORTH Barry Mooncranker’s Gift. Farnaby undertakes a reunion with
Mooncranker in Istanbul after an interval of ten years.
Penguin 1977, Very Good 2.50
800. .. .. Pascali’s Island. Life on an Aegean Island for a Turkish spy.
Penguin 1988, Good 3.00

801. VIDAL Gore Empire. A novel about the beginnings of the American empire.
Grafton 1989, Fine 4.00

802. WILDE Oscar The Picture of Dorian Grey. Why should a portrait keep what the
subject will lose through aging ? What if it was the other way around ?
A classic. Penguin 1972, Good 3.00

803. WODEHOUSE P.G. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. A mad Duke plans to kidnap the
Empress of Blandings, Uncle Fred is called upon to help.
Penguin 1981, Very Good 4.00