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THE MAP OF ALL THINGS

First UK edition trade (larger sized 152 x 230 mm) paperback.  Unread.

Book Two of Terra Incognita.

SYNOPSIS:  “After terrible atrocities by both sides, the religious war between Tierra and Uraba has spread and intensified – the series of skirmishes erupting into a full-blown crusade.”

Packed weight 850 gms.  IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH

THE PRODIGIOUS PHYSICIAN

This is a first printing of the Dedalus new translation (by Margaret Jull Costa) of this novella which was originally published in Portuguese in 1966 and is now regarded as a classic of Portuguese literature.  Unread.  B format (130 x 198 mm) sized paperback.

SYNOPSIS:  “A young gentleman is travelling on horseback, and stops by a river to rest and bathe.  As he is lying there ....

MONSTROUS LITTLE VOICES

First UK edition B format paperback (130 x 198 mm) with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.

New tales from Shakespeare’s Fantasy World.  Mischief, magic, love and war.

SYNOPSIS:  “It is the Year of Our Lord 1601.  The Tuscan War rages across the world, and every lord from Navarre to Illyria is embroiled in the fray.  Cannon roar, p....

BESIDE THE SEASIDE

First UK edition B format (130 mm x 198 mm) paperback.   Unread.   A collection of thriller, SF and horror stories set around the Yorkshire Coast.  Edited by Scott Harrison.  Introduction by David Nobbs.

SYNOPSIS:  “These stories are about an exciting region.  In an increasingly global world the sense of local place is more important than ever.  In a world increasingly impr....

BESIDE THE SEASIDE

First UK edition B format (130 mm x 198 mm) paperback.   Unread.   A collection of thriller, SF and horror stories set around the Yorkshire Coast.  Edited by Scott Harrison.  Introduction by David Nobbs.

SYNOPSIS:  “These stories are about an exciting region.  In an increasingly global world the sense of local place is more important than ever.  In a world increasingly impr....

HELL’S DITCH

First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback.  Unread.

Book One of The Black Road.

SYNOPSIS:  “In dreams and nightmares, Helen walks the Black Road.  It leads her back from the grave, back from madness, back through the ruins of a deserted Britain.  On her journey, she gathers her allies, among them her old mentor, Darrow, and Gevaudan Shoal, last of the geneticall....

HELL’S DITCH

First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback.  Unread.

Book One of The Black Road.

SYNOPSIS:  “In dreams and nightmares, Helen walks the Black Road.  It leads her back from the grave, back from madness, back through the ruins of a deserted Britain.  On her journey, she gathers her allies, among them her old mentor, Darrow, and Gevaudan Shoal, last of the geneticall....

THE BONE PALACE

First UK edition paperback.  Unread. Light crease to top edge of front cover.   The Necromancer Chronicles.

SYNOPSIS:  “Death is no stranger in the city of Erisin, but some deaths attract more attention than others.  When a prostitute dies carrying a royal signed, Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and agent of the Crown is called to investigate.  Her search leads to desecrated tomb....

THE RESTORATION GAME

First UK mass market paperback edition.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS:  “There is no such place as Krassnia.  Lucy Stone should know – she was born there.  In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing.  Its organisers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual space of an online game?”

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DARK HEAVENS

This is a mass market paperback edition.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS:  “Our planet is dying, literally falling apart.  Our attempts to colonise Dirangesept, the one other habitable world we’ve found, have been bloody failures.  all that’s left now is to wait for one last desperate effort to slaughter the beasts of Dirangesept.  Or to Leave…

The Leavings.  Conse....

THE POISON THRONE

First UK edition paperback.  Unread.  The Moorehawke Trilogy Book One.

SYNOPSIS:  “Young Wynter Moorehawke returns to court with her dying father.  But her old home is cloaked in fear.

Once benevolent King Jonathon is now a violent despot, terrorising his people while his son Alberon plots a coup from exile.  Then darkness spreads as the king appoints Alberon’s ha....

THE LONG UTOPIA

This hardback is a 4th impression with a 4-10 number sequence.  Unread.  Price still on dust jacket.

SYNOPSIS:  “After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth.  Socity, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve.  And new challenges emerge…”

Packed weight 790 gms.  ....

HERRING ON THE NILE

This is a B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this Allison & Busby edition. Unread.

An Ethelred and Elsie novel.

SYNOPSIS: “In an effort to rejuvenate his flagging career, crime novelist Ethelred Tressider decides to set his new book in Egypt and embarks on a ‘research trip’ with his literary ag....

A BED OF SCORPIONS

A First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  Unread.

A Sam Clair novel.

SYNOPSIS: “What’s an editor to do with so many demands? Do you deal with the morning’s pile of manuscript submissions first? Or the swine from sales who steals all the chocolate digestives? Or do you concentrat....

A BED OF SCORPIONS

A First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  Unread.

A Sam Clair novel.

SYNOPSIS: “What’s an editor to do with so many demands? Do you deal with the morning’s pile of manuscript submissions first? Or the swine from sales who steals all the chocolate digestives? Or do you concentrat....

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE LADY IN BLACK

A First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS: “The infamous Sherlock Holmes, now in his retirement, has turned his attention to his beekeeping hobby. But when a shadowy figure is seen walking below the cliffs one night, Holmes cannot resist the temptation of solving one more ....