Fiction - English Authors Post 1980 from Goldring Books

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… Read more

London: Bantam, 2015. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 315 pages. Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises, and now she's on a road trip to Las Vegas to help her friends and family. She's determined to get to the bottom of why her dad… Read more

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1992. An As New copy with dustjacket that is not price clipped. 305 pages. The many faces of love - here they are in all their impenetrable multiplicity. Though the cast of this dramatic exploration of the sacred and the profane is small, the scope of the passions is vast,… Read more

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 440 pages. How do you describe the indescribable? Polyphonic and schizophrenic, Simon Louvish's book is in your hands. Beware. In it Richard the Lionheart rises from his tomb in the Abbey of Fontrevaud, minus his heart and his guts, to mingle… Read more

London: Simon and Schuster, 2014. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 389 pages. A family rocked by tragedy, a love that lives through time, a story that will stay in your heart....Dorset, 1932:Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of… 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… Read more

London: Michael Joseph, 1991. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a minor indentation to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author is the pseudonym of Dora Saint, a prolific novelist who draws on her own memories of living and teaching in a small English village in Berkshire. A further novel featuring the downland… Read more

London: Michael O'Mara, 1993. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 214 pages. Illustrations by Gillian Elias. 23 stories by authors which include Jane Beeson, Elisabeth Beresford, Rebeca Fraser, Allan Frewin Jones, Alan Hackney, William Trevor, David Elias, Pat Rush, Dinah Lampitt. Teddy Bears for Grown Ups shows that, contrary to what… Read more

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 778 pages. There are rich pickings for spies in post-war Germany, and maverick intelligence officer Johnny Marlowe is determined to bring in as much information as he can for the elite group within MI6 that he works for. Johnny's methods… Read more

Brighton: Book Guild Publishing, 2008. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page 'To Virginia, Every good wish from Penelope (Ann Allestree), November 2008'. (Ann Allestree is the pseudonym of the journalist Penelope Ann Craig). Nominated for the Literary Review's annual 'Bad Sex in Fiction Award' in 2008. It is the story of the wolf cub Louis-Loup, abandoned on the… Read more

Sutton, Surrey: Severn House, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. On a stark and cold January day, Philip Stavely, successful actor, screenwriter and family man, is killed during a shooting party, and although the inquest records it as accidental, his widow, Ellie, believes it was suicide. Their once… Read more

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… 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… Read more

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. After stringent times in the Forces, Bob Malone and Hector Britain are finding it difficult to conform to Civvy Street. Their forte is catering, a skill they intend to pursue wherever possible and our two heroes know every aspect… Read more

London: Severn House, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine non price clipped dustjacket. Mayor Bert 'Slasher' Harris was used to evading the opposition, as the legendary wing forward for Ockam Cutters, his was the victorious team which had brought home the FA Cup years before. His finest hour was spent on the old Town Hall balcony above a… 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… Read more

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Over the centuries the reputation of more than one family has been tarnished by illicit desire, such a family are the Wakehursts of Blakely Manor, but the vigilant Sir Julian is determined that the shame that the fourth Baronet brought upon… Read more

London: Severn House, 1997. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a small date in ink to front endpaper) with near 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… Read more

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… Read more

Leatherhead, Surrey: Ashford, Buchan & Enright, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy free from inscription with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel set in the early 1990's in South Africa, Europe and the Falkland Islands. The rare pair of Caracara birds of prey on Sea Lion Island in the Falklands face environmental catastrophe hatched continents away in… Read more