2017, ISBN: 9780316113694

An Indie Next Pick"Mr. Eternity will be sizzling in my brain for a long time." -Lauren GroffA Thurber Prize Finalist of exuberance and ambition, spanning one thousand years of high-seas a… More...

An Indie Next Pick"Mr. Eternity will be sizzling in my brain for a long time." -Lauren GroffA Thurber Prize Finalist of exuberance and ambition, spanning one thousand years of high-seas adventure, environmental and cultural catastrophe, and enduring love.Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to hell. It's here that two young filmmakers find something to believe in: an old sailor who calls himself Daniel Defoe and claims to be five hundred and sixty years old.In fact, old Dan is in the prime of his life--an incredible, perhaps eternal American life. The story unfolds over the course of a millennium, picking up in the sixteenth century in the Viceroyalty of New Granada and continuing into the twenty-sixth, where, in the future Democratic Federation of Mississippi States, Dan serves as an advisor to the King of St. Louis. Some things remain constant throughout the centuries, and being on the edge of ruin may be one. In 1560, the Spaniards have destroyed the Aztec and Inca civilizations. In 2500, we've destroyed our own: the cities of the Atlantic coast are underwater, the union has fallen apart, and cars, plastics, and air conditioning are relegated to history. But there are other constants too: love, humor, and old Dan himself, always adapting and inspiring others with dreams of a better life. An ingenious, hilarious, and genre-bending page-turner, Mr. Eternity is multiple novels in one. Together they form an uncommon work--about our changing planet and its remarkable continuities., Bloomsbury Usa, 2017, 3, UsedGood. Clean, great binding. Cover shows light wear from reading/handling. Dog-Eared Books is a small, women owned and operated business. There a small crease on the cover. Some of the pages have been dog-eared by the previous owner., 0, O'Brien Press, Ireland, 2001. First Edition. Medium Trade Paperback. Good (ex-library). Medium Trade Paperback. 64 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: O'Brien Press, Ireland, 2001. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. Clear, self-adhesive laminate to covers/boards. Moderate spine lean. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers.. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: It's Danny's Mum's birthday, and Granny has made a cake, She has hidden it in Danny's room. Granny warns Danny to keep Keeno, the dog, out of the room. What? But Keeno always sleeps in Danny's room. Danny looks for a hiding place for Keeno - so that Granny won't find him. Then he looks for a hiding place for the cake - so that Keeno won't find that. He shoves the cake under the bed. But Mum comes and throws the empty suitcase under the bed too! The cake is moved from one hiding place to another, and becomes a right mess along the way. When Granny finally reveals her secret there's an old shoe sticking out of it, two of Susie's bricks are stuck on to it, and Keeno has eaten half of it! What can Danny do? He just has to run away! *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Children's Picture Books; ISBN: 0862787262. ISBN/EAN: 9780862787264. Inventory No: 13110461.. 9780862787264, O'Brien Press, 2001, 2.5, US: Crimeline, 1994. Very Good. Thanks to her recent adventures in Dying for Chocolate, Goldy Bear, the pre mier caterer of Aspen Meadow, Colorado, is no stranger to violence--or sudd en death. But when she agrees to cater the first College Advisory Dinner fo r Seniors and Parents at the exclusive Elk Park Preparatory School, the las t thing she expects to find at the end of the evening is the battered body of the school valedictorian. Who could have killed Keith Andrews, and why? Goldy's hungry for some answe rs--and not just because she found the corpse. Her young son, Arch, a stude nt at Elk Park Prep, has become a target for some not-so-funny pranks, whil e her eighteen-year-old live-in helper, Julian, has become a prime suspect in the Andrews boy's murder. As her investigation intensifies, Goldy's anxiety level rises faster than homemade doughnuts. . .as she turns up evidence that suggests that Keith knew more than enough to blow the lid off some very unscholarly secrets. And then, as her search rattles one skeleton too many, Goldy learns a crucial fact: a little knowledge about a killer can be a deadly thing., Crimeline, 1994, 3, London: Puffin, 1966. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good Minus. VG-; PB, 247 p.Pages age darkened, minor rubbing. Many B & W sketches by the author enliven the text and show details from the story. "This is the story of a load of paper that the scriveners - the men who lived by copying books by hand in the fifteenth century - tried to keep from Caxton, the master printer; the story of old John Goodrich who loved the fine individual craftsmanship of the past but knew that the future too had treasures to offer; and the story of John's boy, young Bendy, who threw in his lot with Caxton, and would have followed him through storm and hail." Cynthia Harnett has captured the spirit of the medieval world on the cusp of a technological change that would transform it. A truly delightful work. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Puffin, 1966, 3, No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Paperback) Sept. 2008Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire familymother, father,brotherhad vanished. No note, no trace, no return. Ever. Now, twenty-five years later, she'll learn the devastating truth. Sometimes it's better not to know. . . .Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isn't over. A strange car in the neighborhood, untraceable phone calls, ominous "gifts"someone has returned to her hometown to finish what was started twenty-five years ago. And no one's innocence is guaranteed, not even her own. By the time Cynthia discovers her killer's shocking identity, it will again be too late . . . even for goodbye.Book Like New 468 pages., Random House Publishing Group, 2008-08-26, 4, Grafton, 1997. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- Berlin, 9th November, 1938.The infamous Kristallnacht - the sound of breaking glass pierces the air, old men are clubbed to death because they wear skull caps, the sky glows with the flames of burning synagogues.The final purge of the Jews is under way... Eva Koehn`s family is wealthy and respected - protected by their position from the madness taking place around them. But then it is discovered that they too are tainted with Jewish blood, and the family decides that Eva must be smuggled out to London.There she meets a young American physicist who takes pity on her. The passion born of their meeting flowers in the besieged city and for a while their love is joyous. But with his abrupt disappearance, Eva must face the war alone carrying an illegitimate child who grows up with revenge in her heart. Eva`s daughter`s search for her father leads her across continents and ideologies and makes her question her very existence.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Grafton The date of this copy is 1997 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Grafton, 1997, 2.5, Avon (UK), 2011. Standard. Paperback. Acceptable. Outline:- Whoever said life began at 40 was dead right A riotous romantic comedy about never-ending motherhood, second chances and growing old disgracefully. What do you do when: Mr Could Do Worse dumps you on the very night you think he`s going to propose? Your twenty-something son turns up on your doorstep, with a broken heart and dirty washing in tow? You find out you`re going to be a granny - at 45? Your son`s maybe ex-girlfriend`s father starts making wickedly naughty suggestions? Your ex`s new bit of stuff wants to become your new best friend? Your 70-year-old father is dating someone young enough to be your sister? You make the same mistakes you made in your twenties two whole decades later? You can`t get the one person you want out of your head? You grab the vodka and wonder if you`re too old for all this crap-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Avon (UK) The date of this copy is 2011 booksalvation have grade it as Acceptable and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Avon (UK), 2011, 2.5, Orion Books Limited, 2009. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- On the day Karen Sharpe is promoted to Detective Sergeant she loses control and attacks a prisoner she is interrogating. Duly suspended, Karen is investigated and seemingly cleared, but more than a year later the incident still casts a long shadow. When the battered body of a young girl is discovered, it kicks off an inquiry which pushes Karen and a trainee DC, Marcus Roth, too close for comfort, both on and off-duty. The investigation leads to Mary Bradley, currently the carer for a helpless six-year-old boy, Andrew Farrar. As the truth of Mary Bradley`s violent past emerges, the inquiry becomes a race against time before Andrew becomes just another one of her child victims. Meanwhile, with the case holding more and more personal resonance for Karen, Marcus discovers that when threatened she has a tendency to ignore the rule book and act on instinct. Before the scores are finally settled Marcus will be wondering whether Karen`s legitimate world and Mary Bradley`s illegitimate one are really any different...-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Orion Books Limited The date of this copy is 2009 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Orion Books Limited, 2009, 2.5, Corgi, 1996. Standard. Paperback. Acceptable. Outline:- Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton, a professional soldier, would always carry with him the memory of the night he was on leave, when his timely intervention rescued fourteen-year-old Lizzie from the oldest of perils for a young girl, and thereby began to change her life. Lizzie came from a desperately poor home, ruled by a slatternly stepmother only too ready to profit from setting the girl along the same sordid road as her elder sister had been made to take. The year was 1937 and the place a rural enclave of County Durham, where Geoff had been born and raised in the old farmhouse that remained the home of his parents, even though most of its land had been sold off to neighbouring Low Tarn Hall. There his father still worked as estate manager for the demanding Ernest Bradford-Brown, self-made owner of this and many another property. Anxious about his increasingly handicapped mother and seeing in Lizzie a girl of spirit, Geoff concluded that she might, with care and training, solve his problem and benefit herself. So, after a quick visit to outface the protesting Mrs Gillespie, he was soon back home with his willing protegée. Then, in 1943, when Geoff returned wounded from the desert war, it was to find a Lizzie he hardly recognised - mature and highly attractive. For her part, she soon came to realise that he too had changed. Embittered by his experiences at war and rejected by Ernest Bradford-Brown`s daughter Janis after a lengthy relationship long opposed by her irascible father, to Lizzie he now showed a ruthless streak that was at considerable odds with the caring man who had, all those years ago, rescued her from poverty and deprivation.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Corgi The date of this copy is 1996 booksalvation have grade it as Acceptable and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Corgi, 1996, 2.5, Sceptre Publishers, 1999. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- For travelers, history has a way of appearing crystallized. It`s all too easy, when visiting someone else`s country, to discern the links between the ideas of the past and the way people live now. And in Justin Cartwright`s Leading the Cheers, London ad man Dan Silas is happy to make such links. British by birth, he attended high school briefly in Michigan, then returned to his native soil. Now his class has asked him to be the keynote speaker at their 30th reunion. Dan is in just the right mood to make such a trip; he`s recently sold his wildly successful agency and broken up with his young girlfriend. "What carried me far in advertising was a glib up-to-dateness, and its roots obviously go back a long way. It is this cheapness which I am endeavouring to slough off. I will avail myself, without cynicism, of the offer to buy a commemorative brick from the old high school." For Dan, America has come to represent a kind of lost, earnest innocence: you can practically hear the fife-and-drum music in the background as he rolls into town for the reunion. No less rosy are his memories of his best friend, Gary, and his high-school sweetheart, Gloria, with whom he first coupled on Thomas Jefferson`s bed at Monticello on a class field trip. "In my memory, Gloria and Monticello are for ever joined." But now she claims he fathered a daughter that fateful afternoon, a daughter who`s been murdered by a serial killer. Meanwhile, Gary has gone off the deep end, convinced he`s an Ojibway Indian and leading ceremonies in a tipi in his mom`s backyard. Dan`s attempt to reconcile his Edenic memories with the bitter realities wrought by 30 years of history yield a singularly woeful comic novel. At times Justin Cartwright`s narrative seems filigreed with ideas and ironies; at other times it seems concerned, quite simply, with one man who learns that his "version of what goes on is certainly faulty." --Claire Dederer After Dan Silas`s advertising company is bought out, his invitation to his thirty-year high school reunion arrives with perfect timing, and he leaves London to return to the small Michigan town he has not seen since 1968. With wit, humor, and compassion, Whitbread Award-winner and Booker Prize-nominee Justin Cartwright takes Dan through the mounting stages of both culture shock and mid-life crisis. Back in Michigan, he discovers his best friend now believes he is a reincarnated Shawnee Indian and his high school sweetheart claims she had a daughter by him - who has just been murdered by the Hollybush`s new celebrity, a small-town serial killer. With brilliantly evoked characters and crackling dialogue, Leading the Cheers comically explores what people want out of life - and what they get instead. --> Genre: Literary Fiction Literary Works-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Sceptre Publishers The date of this copy is 1999 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Sceptre Publishers, 1999, 2.5, Pan, 1993. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- My name is Kinsey Millhone. Im a private investigator, licensed by the state of California. Im thirty-two years old, twice divorced, no kids. The day before yesterday I killed someone and the fact weighs heavily on my mind . . . When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. A slick divorce attorney with a reputation for ruthlessness, Fife was also rumoured to be a slippery ladies man. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. The Jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her husband. But the trail has gone cold and there is a chilling twist even Kinsey didnt expect . . . Skilful and ingenious Irish Times I love Sue Graftons Kinsey Millhone novels . . . you are never disappointed Guardian Will keep you awake until the last page has been turned Daily Mail-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Pan The date of this copy is 1993 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Kinsey Millhone Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Pan, 1993, 2.5, Times Business, 1996. Trade paperback. New. brand new. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 528 p. Audience: General/trade., Times Business, 1996, 6, Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And he certainly wouldn't want you to know about the hair-raising adventures that follow and the nefarious villains they face. You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a secret. A Big Secret., Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, 2008-09, 5<

2017, ISBN: 9780316113694

An Indie Next Pick"Mr. Eternity will be sizzling in my brain for a long time." -Lauren GroffA Thurber Prize Finalist of exuberance and ambition, spanning one thousand years of high-seas a… More...

An Indie Next Pick"Mr. Eternity will be sizzling in my brain for a long time." -Lauren GroffA Thurber Prize Finalist of exuberance and ambition, spanning one thousand years of high-seas adventure, environmental and cultural catastrophe, and enduring love.Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to hell. It's here that two young filmmakers find something to believe in: an old sailor who calls himself Daniel Defoe and claims to be five hundred and sixty years old.In fact, old Dan is in the prime of his life--an incredible, perhaps eternal American life. The story unfolds over the course of a millennium, picking up in the sixteenth century in the Viceroyalty of New Granada and continuing into the twenty-sixth, where, in the future Democratic Federation of Mississippi States, Dan serves as an advisor to the King of St. Louis. Some things remain constant throughout the centuries, and being on the edge of ruin may be one. In 1560, the Spaniards have destroyed the Aztec and Inca civilizations. In 2500, we've destroyed our own: the cities of the Atlantic coast are underwater, the union has fallen apart, and cars, plastics, and air conditioning are relegated to history. But there are other constants too: love, humor, and old Dan himself, always adapting and inspiring others with dreams of a better life. An ingenious, hilarious, and genre-bending page-turner, Mr. Eternity is multiple novels in one. Together they form an uncommon work--about our changing planet and its remarkable continuities., Bloomsbury Usa, 2017, 3, UsedGood. Clean, great binding. Cover shows light wear from reading/handling. Dog-Eared Books is a small, women owned and operated business. There a small crease on the cover. Some of the pages have been dog-eared by the previous owner., 0, O'Brien Press, Ireland, 2001. First Edition. Medium Trade Paperback. Good (ex-library). Medium Trade Paperback. 64 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: O'Brien Press, Ireland, 2001. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. Clear, self-adhesive laminate to covers/boards. Moderate spine lean. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers.. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: It's Danny's Mum's birthday, and Granny has made a cake, She has hidden it in Danny's room. Granny warns Danny to keep Keeno, the dog, out of the room. What? But Keeno always sleeps in Danny's room. Danny looks for a hiding place for Keeno - so that Granny won't find him. Then he looks for a hiding place for the cake - so that Keeno won't find that. He shoves the cake under the bed. But Mum comes and throws the empty suitcase under the bed too! The cake is moved from one hiding place to another, and becomes a right mess along the way. When Granny finally reveals her secret there's an old shoe sticking out of it, two of Susie's bricks are stuck on to it, and Keeno has eaten half of it! What can Danny do? He just has to run away! *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Children's Picture Books; ISBN: 0862787262. ISBN/EAN: 9780862787264. Inventory No: 13110461.. 9780862787264, O'Brien Press, 2001, 2.5, US: Crimeline, 1994. Very Good. Thanks to her recent adventures in Dying for Chocolate, Goldy Bear, the pre mier caterer of Aspen Meadow, Colorado, is no stranger to violence--or sudd en death. But when she agrees to cater the first College Advisory Dinner fo r Seniors and Parents at the exclusive Elk Park Preparatory School, the las t thing she expects to find at the end of the evening is the battered body of the school valedictorian. Who could have killed Keith Andrews, and why? Goldy's hungry for some answe rs--and not just because she found the corpse. Her young son, Arch, a stude nt at Elk Park Prep, has become a target for some not-so-funny pranks, whil e her eighteen-year-old live-in helper, Julian, has become a prime suspect in the Andrews boy's murder. As her investigation intensifies, Goldy's anxiety level rises faster than homemade doughnuts. . .as she turns up evidence that suggests that Keith knew more than enough to blow the lid off some very unscholarly secrets. And then, as her search rattles one skeleton too many, Goldy learns a crucial fact: a little knowledge about a killer can be a deadly thing., Crimeline, 1994, 3, London: Puffin, 1966. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good Minus. VG-; PB, 247 p.Pages age darkened, minor rubbing. Many B & W sketches by the author enliven the text and show details from the story. "This is the story of a load of paper that the scriveners - the men who lived by copying books by hand in the fifteenth century - tried to keep from Caxton, the master printer; the story of old John Goodrich who loved the fine individual craftsmanship of the past but knew that the future too had treasures to offer; and the story of John's boy, young Bendy, who threw in his lot with Caxton, and would have followed him through storm and hail." Cynthia Harnett has captured the spirit of the medieval world on the cusp of a technological change that would transform it. A truly delightful work. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Puffin, 1966, 3, No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Paperback) Sept. 2008Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire familymother, father,brotherhad vanished. No note, no trace, no return. Ever. Now, twenty-five years later, she'll learn the devastating truth. Sometimes it's better not to know. . . .Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isn't over. A strange car in the neighborhood, untraceable phone calls, ominous "gifts"someone has returned to her hometown to finish what was started twenty-five years ago. And no one's innocence is guaranteed, not even her own. By the time Cynthia discovers her killer's shocking identity, it will again be too late . . . even for goodbye.Book Like New 468 pages., Random House Publishing Group, 2008-08-26, 4, Orion Books Limited, 2009. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- On the day Karen Sharpe is promoted to Detective Sergeant she loses control and attacks a prisoner she is interrogating. Duly suspended, Karen is investigated and seemingly cleared, but more than a year later the incident still casts a long shadow. When the battered body of a young girl is discovered, it kicks off an inquiry which pushes Karen and a trainee DC, Marcus Roth, too close for comfort, both on and off-duty. The investigation leads to Mary Bradley, currently the carer for a helpless six-year-old boy, Andrew Farrar. As the truth of Mary Bradley`s violent past emerges, the inquiry becomes a race against time before Andrew becomes just another one of her child victims. Meanwhile, with the case holding more and more personal resonance for Karen, Marcus discovers that when threatened she has a tendency to ignore the rule book and act on instinct. Before the scores are finally settled Marcus will be wondering whether Karen`s legitimate world and Mary Bradley`s illegitimate one are really any different...-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Orion Books Limited The date of this copy is 2009 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Orion Books Limited, 2009, 2.5, Grafton, 1997. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- Berlin, 9th November, 1938.The infamous Kristallnacht - the sound of breaking glass pierces the air, old men are clubbed to death because they wear skull caps, the sky glows with the flames of burning synagogues.The final purge of the Jews is under way... Eva Koehn`s family is wealthy and respected - protected by their position from the madness taking place around them. But then it is discovered that they too are tainted with Jewish blood, and the family decides that Eva must be smuggled out to London.There she meets a young American physicist who takes pity on her. The passion born of their meeting flowers in the besieged city and for a while their love is joyous. But with his abrupt disappearance, Eva must face the war alone carrying an illegitimate child who grows up with revenge in her heart. Eva`s daughter`s search for her father leads her across continents and ideologies and makes her question her very existence.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Grafton The date of this copy is 1997 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Grafton, 1997, 2.5, Avon (UK), 2011. Standard. Paperback. Acceptable. Outline:- Whoever said life began at 40 was dead right A riotous romantic comedy about never-ending motherhood, second chances and growing old disgracefully. What do you do when: Mr Could Do Worse dumps you on the very night you think he`s going to propose? Your twenty-something son turns up on your doorstep, with a broken heart and dirty washing in tow? You find out you`re going to be a granny - at 45? Your son`s maybe ex-girlfriend`s father starts making wickedly naughty suggestions? Your ex`s new bit of stuff wants to become your new best friend? Your 70-year-old father is dating someone young enough to be your sister? You make the same mistakes you made in your twenties two whole decades later? You can`t get the one person you want out of your head? You grab the vodka and wonder if you`re too old for all this crap-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Avon (UK) The date of this copy is 2011 booksalvation have grade it as Acceptable and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Avon (UK), 2011, 2.5, Corgi, 1996. Standard. Paperback. Acceptable. Outline:- Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton, a professional soldier, would always carry with him the memory of the night he was on leave, when his timely intervention rescued fourteen-year-old Lizzie from the oldest of perils for a young girl, and thereby began to change her life. Lizzie came from a desperately poor home, ruled by a slatternly stepmother only too ready to profit from setting the girl along the same sordid road as her elder sister had been made to take. The year was 1937 and the place a rural enclave of County Durham, where Geoff had been born and raised in the old farmhouse that remained the home of his parents, even though most of its land had been sold off to neighbouring Low Tarn Hall. There his father still worked as estate manager for the demanding Ernest Bradford-Brown, self-made owner of this and many another property. Anxious about his increasingly handicapped mother and seeing in Lizzie a girl of spirit, Geoff concluded that she might, with care and training, solve his problem and benefit herself. So, after a quick visit to outface the protesting Mrs Gillespie, he was soon back home with his willing protegée. Then, in 1943, when Geoff returned wounded from the desert war, it was to find a Lizzie he hardly recognised - mature and highly attractive. For her part, she soon came to realise that he too had changed. Embittered by his experiences at war and rejected by Ernest Bradford-Brown`s daughter Janis after a lengthy relationship long opposed by her irascible father, to Lizzie he now showed a ruthless streak that was at considerable odds with the caring man who had, all those years ago, rescued her from poverty and deprivation.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Corgi The date of this copy is 1996 booksalvation have grade it as Acceptable and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Corgi, 1996, 2.5, Sceptre Publishers, 1999. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- For travelers, history has a way of appearing crystallized. It`s all too easy, when visiting someone else`s country, to discern the links between the ideas of the past and the way people live now. And in Justin Cartwright`s Leading the Cheers, London ad man Dan Silas is happy to make such links. British by birth, he attended high school briefly in Michigan, then returned to his native soil. Now his class has asked him to be the keynote speaker at their 30th reunion. Dan is in just the right mood to make such a trip; he`s recently sold his wildly successful agency and broken up with his young girlfriend. "What carried me far in advertising was a glib up-to-dateness, and its roots obviously go back a long way. It is this cheapness which I am endeavouring to slough off. I will avail myself, without cynicism, of the offer to buy a commemorative brick from the old high school." For Dan, America has come to represent a kind of lost, earnest innocence: you can practically hear the fife-and-drum music in the background as he rolls into town for the reunion. No less rosy are his memories of his best friend, Gary, and his high-school sweetheart, Gloria, with whom he first coupled on Thomas Jefferson`s bed at Monticello on a class field trip. "In my memory, Gloria and Monticello are for ever joined." But now she claims he fathered a daughter that fateful afternoon, a daughter who`s been murdered by a serial killer. Meanwhile, Gary has gone off the deep end, convinced he`s an Ojibway Indian and leading ceremonies in a tipi in his mom`s backyard. Dan`s attempt to reconcile his Edenic memories with the bitter realities wrought by 30 years of history yield a singularly woeful comic novel. At times Justin Cartwright`s narrative seems filigreed with ideas and ironies; at other times it seems concerned, quite simply, with one man who learns that his "version of what goes on is certainly faulty." --Claire Dederer After Dan Silas`s advertising company is bought out, his invitation to his thirty-year high school reunion arrives with perfect timing, and he leaves London to return to the small Michigan town he has not seen since 1968. With wit, humor, and compassion, Whitbread Award-winner and Booker Prize-nominee Justin Cartwright takes Dan through the mounting stages of both culture shock and mid-life crisis. Back in Michigan, he discovers his best friend now believes he is a reincarnated Shawnee Indian and his high school sweetheart claims she had a daughter by him - who has just been murdered by the Hollybush`s new celebrity, a small-town serial killer. With brilliantly evoked characters and crackling dialogue, Leading the Cheers comically explores what people want out of life - and what they get instead. --> Genre: Literary Fiction Literary Works-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Sceptre Publishers The date of this copy is 1999 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Sceptre Publishers, 1999, 2.5, Pan, 1993. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- My name is Kinsey Millhone. Im a private investigator, licensed by the state of California. Im thirty-two years old, twice divorced, no kids. The day before yesterday I killed someone and the fact weighs heavily on my mind . . . When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. A slick divorce attorney with a reputation for ruthlessness, Fife was also rumoured to be a slippery ladies man. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. The Jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her husband. But the trail has gone cold and there is a chilling twist even Kinsey didnt expect . . . Skilful and ingenious Irish Times I love Sue Graftons Kinsey Millhone novels . . . you are never disappointed Guardian Will keep you awake until the last page has been turned Daily Mail-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Pan The date of this copy is 1993 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Kinsey Millhone Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Pan, 1993, 2.5, Times Business, 1996. Trade paperback. 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