Search Results: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980 from Goldring Books

London: Severn House, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First published in 1976 under the title 'Hammersleigh' and under the name Rosemary Ellerbeck. The author's novel is one of frightening suspense and psychic force, as Karen Blackwood returns to her family home, Hammersleigh, after the death of her husband and with powerful but misleading memories to guide her, she begins a new life discovering that she has very unusual artistic talents. She meets the master of the Fullerton estate, where at the ruins of Oldham Abbey nearby, she sees the figure of a woman who disappears into the mist, later to reappear in her paintings. A bereaved widow's imagination or a bizarre case of reincarnation? **** NOT EX LIB **** D4B. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 1995. A near Fine copy with a small name on front endpaper else clean and unmarked with dustjacket that is price clipped which has a little wear to top and bottom edges. The author, born in India, educated in England and for more than twenty years the BBC Chief of Bureau in Delhi, noted for his numerous broadcasts has woven together a series of stories of extraordinary depth and eloquence, using his vast experience. All are set in Uttar Pradesh and tell of different lives and show a sympathy for India and the nuances of life. L. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Cresset Press, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with dustjacket which has some fading to spine. Laurie Lee's matchless memories of his childhood, told in glittering prose and with a wicked sense of comedy, first published in 1959, have made it amongst the most famous of all autobiographies, and a modern classic. The illustrations in this beautiful new edition speak for themselves, but among them are some special treasures - a handful of precious photographs of that time and place, preserved by the author for over 50 years, and carefully reproduced in their original sepia tones. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.88 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 16. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author's fourteenth novel where the chief protagonist, Sally Golightly, does her best, against enormous odds, to care for the unfortunate child of a woman who is more amoral than immoral. She herself is not without a past, from which she is trying to escape and for which she is trying to atone. **** NOT EX LIB **** 24. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1988. Gold title on red boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is the usual age fading to page edges else unmarked. SIGNED by author to title page with a fairly undecipherable note and not dated. Second impression. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is VG+ and not price-clipped. The novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism. According to family legend, Davide Pittagora died as a result of a duel. His death is the mysterious pivot around which his grand-daughter, an independent modern woman, constructs an imaginary memoir of her mother's background and life. She follows the family as they emigrate to New York - where they find only humiliation and poverty - and after their return to Italy in the early 1920's. The narrator, Anna, works at a beleagured London museum, gathering and cataloguing contemporary… Read More

New York: Wings, 1996. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from a light crease to front endpaper) with near Fine dustjacket. Five complete and unabridged texts of the original editions brought together under the caption of Love and Luxury from the grand dame of romance. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.15 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** C3C. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1992. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. "Denise Barnclyde was a foundling, abandoned at birth and brought up by nuns, with a secret in her past that even she cannot guess, until her own awakening desire forces it into the light. The diamond brooch that she wears innocently to work behind her bank clerk's counter is a clue to her origins, a jewel of historic interest as well as great value. D4E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1992. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A novel of Jim Davidson, a lonely child, half Jewish, half Irish Catholic, brought up in London's East End, whose search for a meaning to life brings him to Bloom's Corner, a hotbed of revolutionary socialism. The tiny corner is the starting point of his subsequent adventures in Spain, Palestine and IRA targetted London, from the battle of 'Suicide Hill' to the Western Desert, from the embattled road to Jerusalem to the deceptively peaceful streets of London. A poignant and gripping saga of 20th century life, rich in drama and vivid in it's grasp of the small details within big events. *** NOT EX LIB *** D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 2005. A nearFine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 311 pages. Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. 'There's madness in the family' offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John 24. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which has a crease to front inner flap. Fourth impression. The novel is of Bruno Salvador, known as Salvo, 29 years old, the orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Salvo, inspired by his mentor Brother Michael, trains as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages and soon becomes a rising star in his profession, courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts and inevitably the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. By turn thriller, love story and comic allegory of our time, it recounts Salvo's heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness. D4D. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. A Near Fine unmarked copy which has a few spots to top edge with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Silk page marker bound in. New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror ar the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing. A work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times, poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go. D4D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1999. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE without dedication. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some light foxing to closedtop edge) with Fine price clipped dustjacket. 208 pages. 9 colour illustrations. Map drawings to front endpapers. Sean Foster, brilliant RAF pilot seconded to the American airforce to instruct pilots fighting in Vietnam, seems as unlucky in his flying career as he is in his love life. Near-death experiences in the Bermuda Triangle and equally painful love affairs make him redress his life. He has always been interested in UFO's, and it gradually dawns on him that he is being plagued by extra-terrestrial forces, a belief reinforced by a meeting with the sinister Toni Angelini. Pursuit of the truth takes Sean to the Florida swamps, the Grand Canyon, the English South Downs, the western Isles and mountains of Scotland. A persistent and impossible dream lures him to one of the remoter Western Isles of Scotland where, with the woman destined to be… Read More

London: Simon and Schuster, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with a Near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped and which has a small residue of a label to front. Irresistibly charming, and written with great humour, verve and belief in the power of the human spirit, the novel charts one man's eccentric odyssey through the three classic rituals that mark the progress of family life: a funeral, a christening and a wedding. Sir Michael Gough, patriarch of the beleaguered Gough family, is reduced to borrowing a leaky barn for his living quarters, a far cry from his family pile, Sitten Hall, which he was forced to 'gift' to the National Trust twenty three years earlier. And worse is to come when his elderly mother, Granny Banana, falls out of the back of the Land Rover - a funeral is the last thing the Gough family can afford, and her wish was to be buried at Sitten Hall alongside her cherished terrier, Sprocket. C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near… Read More

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy wit near Fine complete dustjacket. It is 1999, and when the pope dies, throwing the Vatican into a welter of subterfuge, the papal prefect Thomas Costello, finds himself at the hub of affairs he doesn't understand and cannot control. Not even he could have predicted the new pope's unexpected approach to church policy or his subsequent battle of conscience between faith, free will and fatalism. It would take him around the world and across the path of his old friend, Robert Paine. The press are soon alerted and as political editor of The Times, Paine is expected to investigate events in Rome, but when he realises the extent of Costello's involvement, he is torn between friendship and his commitment to his paper. What is the reason for the pope's secret meetings, and why is there a sudden, yet concealed meetings between the world's religious leaders? What is the meaning of the unknown word on the lips of the dying pope?… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Sir William Gerald Golding's (1911-1993) novel of fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the border-line into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust, and a ferociously powerful, unpredictable, unclassifiable , idiosyncratic and original work as anything Golding has yet written. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** 24. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price-clipped. The actor and author's novel is a sequel to his Jericho, where William Caldicott has travelled to France to solve the mystery of his brother's disappearance and having learned the truth discovers that he has inherited the lease to his brother's house in Provence - Jericho. A1D. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which has a thin scrape line to back and is not price clipped. A further novel featuring Commander Shaw, where his partner Felicity Mandrake is taken hostage by the notorious 'Polecat Brennan' and his sidekick Steenie Ogmanfiller, a girl with dubious German connections. Shaw is torn between his daredevil urge to rescue her and doing his duty, and in which he unearths a conspiracy involving the threatened assassination of the British and French Foreign Ministers. *** NOT EX LIB *** C3C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Flamingo, 2000. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page with no dedication. A Fine unmarked copy with a Very Good + price clipped dustjacket. Here we have Weldon tackling love, sex, ageing and death with the central character a 34 year old film editor in Soho and her 83 year old grandmother in Connecticut as, she believes, her only living relative. D4B. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author (1914-2000) born Richard Patrick Russ, who later legally changed his name, was famous for his Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels. This novel, first published in 1962 but never published before in America, is of a prisoner of war in France, held captive by the Germans, who conducts a minute examination of his life to keep sane. Escaping from a blighted childhood and his widowed, alcoholic mother thanks to an artistic gift, his life as a painter in the 1930's is cruelly deprived and in order to eat, squanders his asset by becoming a forger, particularly of Utrillo. He is rescued by the love of a beautiful and wealthy woman, and it is the failure of this relationship, coupled with the outbreak of war, that propels him into the world of espionage. An unforgettable tale of art and espionage in World War II. **** NOT EX LIB **** L. First… Read More

London: Severn House, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A compelling tale of corporate glamour, deception and love. Rebecca Versey has got engaged to her boss, charismatic advertising executive Max Lavery, to the envy of her colleagues and considerable relief to her parents, Sir John and Lady Versey, who feared that she would abandon all material comfort in favour of her childhood companion, writer and erstwhile gardener, Henry Lamb. When Max's boss flies over from the States to supervise his promotion, Becky finds herself sidelined into the role of trophy wife, alienated and unsure of herself and the man she agreed to marry, suddenly realising the value of her one constant, true friend. *** NOT EX LIB *** A1E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.