Search Results: Titles starting with W from Interesting Tomes

London: Harper Collins, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Mint in mint jacket. No inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: "Billy Lucas confesses to a shocking crime. He’s only fourteen years old... Billy is a sadistic killer and proud of it. He’s in the secure wing of the state hospital but he seems too wise for his age, not crazy, too knowing. About the nature of evil, and whether it lives on beyond death. Too knowing about other crimes that took place before he was born... Other murders from twenty years ago surface in the mind of Detective John Calvino as he interviews young Billy Lucas. Calvino carries away a signed confession... and a sense of great danger. That night he feels that somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Over the next weeks, this haunted feeling does not go away. It only gets worse. Then another killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded it would. Billy is safely locked away, but not the ghost,… Read More

London: Doubleday, 2006. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Paul Kidby. Some creasing to top of spine on DJ. TIght white pages and dj is unclipped. No markings or inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: " Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake... And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit... cool!... And just because the Wintersmith wants to marry you is no excuse for neglecting the chores. So she must look after Miss Treason, who's 113 and has far too many eyes, learn the secret of Boffo, catch Horace the cheese, stop Annagramma Hawkin from becoming an embarrassment to all witches, avoid Nanny Ogg giving her a lecture on sex, stop the gods from seeing her in the bath - Crivens! - oh, yes, and be helped by the Nac Mac Feegles, whether she wants it or not. It's unfair, but as Granny Weatherwax… Read More