Search Results: Authors starting with F from Anglophile Books

New York: Vintage Books. Very Good+. (1993) 1997. First Edition Thus. Softcover; Trade PB. ISBN: 0679776818. 483 pages; Light scoring, one corner bent. ; A compelling novel of love and war featuring a British soldier and a French woman set in World War I. . Catalogs: Anglophile Fiction. Keywords: France, World War I.

NY: Vintage Books. Very Good. c1998, 1999. Softcover; Trade PB. ISBN: 0375704558. 399 pages; Faint spine crease, slight edgewear and rubbing, page edges pale yellow. A nice, clean copy.; Charlotte Gray is a young Scottish woman that 'becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis' while searching for her lover, an RAF pilot that has not returned from a mission into France. Basis for the film of the same name starring Cate Blanchett.. Catalogs: Anglophile Fiction. Keywords: British Author, World War II, Novel, England, Resistance, France.

NY: St Martin's Press. Very Good+. 2004. Softcover; Trade PB. 265 pages. No spine creases, a few very light cover creases and faint edgewear. A very nice copy.; <b>The author of 'Gosford Park' and the creator of 'Downton Abbey' gives us a contemporary comedy of manners set in London and rural England.</b> .

NY: Zebra Books. Very Good. 1999. First Paperback Edition. Softcover; Mass Market PB. ISBN: 0821763032. 256 pages; No spine creases, light edgewear, black remainder mark inside front cover, red marks on final page.; "In these three love stories, the lords and ladies of Regency England find their own true loves - with a little help from some feline friends.". Catalogs: Romance. Keywords: Cats, Christmas, Regency England, Great Britain, Short Stories.

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. Very Good-. c1977, 1978. Softcover; Mass Market PB. ISBN: 0140047735. B&W Photographs; 446 pages; Spine and cover creases, light edgewear, pages light yellow, edges darker, remainder mark on bottom edge; pages clean, none loose.; This edition revised from the original. Front panel is a detail from the portrait of Dylan Thomas by Augustus John. The author, the editor of Thomas's collected letters, shares insights into Thomas's childhood and adolescence, his arrival on the London literary scene, his marriage, his wartime career as a film writer, his visits to the United States, and his death. Considered by most to be the definitive biography of Dylan Thomas.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: British Author, Poet, Wales, Poetry.

NY: Kensington Publishing Corp.. Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. Softcover; Mass Market PB. ISBN: 082176201X. 475 pages; Book has faint edgewear, remainder mark on inside front cover; looks unread.; A tale of passion between headstrong Siobhan O'Rourke, Princess of Donegal Keep, and her adversary, the English knight Gaelan PenDragon, set during a fiery war in ancient Ireland.. Catalogs: Romance. Keywords: Ireland, Novel, Fiction, Zebra Historical Romance.

NY: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper. 2004. First US Edition. Hardcover. 375 pages. A lovely copy. Faintly bumped spine tail. Unclipped dust wrapper very lightly rubbed on rear panel. ; <b>In this third book of the series, Thursday Next has to 'lie low in the Well of Lost Plots, inserting herself as a minor character in a third-rate mystery through Jurisfiction's Character Exchange Program. What she discovers is that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where syntax-chomping grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books (like the one she has taken up residence in) are scrapped for salvage in the Text Sea.' Highly recommended.</b> .

NY: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2004. First US Edition. Hardcover. 385 pages. A lovely copy. Spine ends faintly bumped. Unclipped dust wrapper very lightly edgeworn. ; <b>'In this fourth installment of her series, the resourceful literary detective Thursday Next returns to Swindon from the BookWorld accompanied by that dithering prince of Denmark, Hamlet. But returning to her SpecOps office is no snap. As outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, Swindon’s 13th-century patron saint returns to foretell doom, and, if that isn’t bad enough, The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war?'</b> .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2002. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 374 pages. Spine ends very lightly bumped. Skinned area on front free endpaper where previous owner address label removed, circular embossed name and initials of previous owner on title page and on last page of text. Unclipped dustwrapper very lightly edgeworn. A nice copy.; <b> 'Meet Thursday Next, a woman of action who's "part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry," according to The New York Times. She lives in a mid-1980s Britain that is like, but also startlingly unlike, our own: a place where the Crimean War never really ended, dirigibles are the only way to fly, and computers are unknown—but time travel is, as are cloned pets (dodos are currently quite popular), and literature is taken very, very seriously. And thanks to an invention by Thursday's mad-scientist uncle Mycroft, lovers of the written word can literally loose (and lose)… Read More

NY: Viking. Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper. 2003. Third Printing. Hardcover. 399 pages. Spine ends bumped, corners faintly bumped, a few smudges to page edges. A very nice copy. Unclipped dust wrapper has very light edgewear, light soil to rear panel. ; <b>The second book in this wonderful series. Tuesday Next, as apprentice to Miss Havisham from 'Great Expectations', learns the ropes of Jurisfiction as a Prose Resource Operative inside books. Highly recommended.</b> .

London: Century. Very Good+. 2003. First Paperback Edition. Softcover; Trade PB. ISBN: 0712653805. 357 pages; This UK oversized paperback edition, with rather large text, was published at the same time as the hardback. No spine creases, light cover creases and edgewear. A very nice copy. ; "It's not as if Nel hadn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmer's market in the beautiful Paradise Fields and sorting out a house full of animals are quite enough to keep her busy." Sir Gerald has died and his son, with his glamorous American wife, takes over the estate which includes the meadow. It is soon common knowledge that they have other plans for Paradise Fields. "Nel takes up arms, determined to fight for the meadow and the market she loves. She's pretty sure her friends Sacha and Vivian will be on her side. Her sensible boyfriend Simon, a real estate agent, says he wants to help. And then there's Jake, the infuriating yet attractive stranger who kissed her under the mistletoe.". Catalogs:… Read More

New York: St Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1997. First US Edition. Hardcover. 280 pages. Spine ends bumped, bottom corners faintly bumped, top corner of front endpaper clipped, a few smudges on page edges; interior pages clean and bright. Unclipped dust wrapper is very lightly edgeworn and rubbed. A nice copy.; <B>Hetty, freshly dumped, with no job, agrees to look after her great uncle's long abandoned country mansion. She decides to fix up the estate and make it pay for itself. Recommended.</B> .

NY: St Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1999. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312209517. 343 pages; Spine ends bumped and lightly worn, a tiny tear to spine head. Pages and covers clean and bright. Dust wrapper, not price clipped, lightly edgeworn.; Another humorous romance by this author. When thirtysomething Julia Fairfax is replaced by a man in the position she worked for years to develop, she decides to leave the company. She also breaks off her engagement to Oscar as she realizes she is more attracted to his dog and charming Queen Anne House than to him. She decides to go against her usual stable, reliable self and act rashly, signing on for the summer as cook/general helper for two hotel barges that cruise the English canals. . Catalogs: Anglophile Fiction. Keywords: British Woman Author, Canals, Novel, England, Boats.

London: Home & Van Thal. Very Good- in Very Good- dust wrapper 1949. First British Edition. Hardcover. 12mo ; 112 pages; Top edge sunned and soiled. Dust wrapper soiled and edgeworn with chips and small tears.; <B>A biography of the author Elizabeth Gaskell; one of the English Novelists Series.</B> .

New York: Viking. Very Good- in Very Good dust wrapper. 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Spine ends lightly bumped, book is very slightly cocked, small stain on bottom page edges extends to margin on two pages; no remainder mark. Unclipped dust wrapper very lightly rubbed and edgeworn with a faint faded line on top edge of inside flaps.; <B>Humorous account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Basis for the film of the same name. This author described as "a staple of the comfort reading genre" by Jenny Colgan in an April 2020 article in "The Guardian".</B> .

NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust wrapper. 2003. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312312857. 452 pages; Spine tail bumped, a very nice copy indeed. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly edgeworn.; "It is 1587 and the Spanish are planning to launch their Holy Enterprise of England - to rescue the English from heresy and to kill Elizabeth, their Witch-Queen. This brilliant re-working of the Armada story takes us into the heart of the battle and shows how different England's history could have been had the Spanish landed on its shores. It is a tale of love, courage and ultimately, redemption.". Catalogs: Historical Novel. Keywords: Queen Elizabeth I, Armada, England, Spain, Slavery.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Very Good+. c1980, 1990. Paperback; Trade PB. 383 pages. No spine or cover creases, light edgewear, a few faint smudges to page edges. A very nice copy. ; <b>This edition has a foreword by Nadine Gordimer. Olive Schreiner was admired by, and influenced, Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby.</b> .

NY: Random House. Good. 1957. Hardcover. 360 pages; Decorated paper over boards, quarter cloth binding with gilt letters, corners worn to boards, spine bumped. Some soil, binding is good and tight. No dust wrapper.; A new translation by Francis Steegmuller.. Catalogs: Literature. Keywords: France Literature.

NY: St Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust wrapper 2001. First US Edition. Hardcover. Spine ends lightly bumped. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly edgeworn. A lovely copy.; <B>The author was once an au pair in England. In this novel an American woman cancels her wedding to a 'safe' man and goes to the UK to work as an au pair for an aristocratic member of Parliament. Does she live to regret her decision?</B> .

New York: Quality Paperback. Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper. Hardcover; Book Club Edition. 968 pages. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped. A nice copy. Dust wrapper is a bit edgeworn and rubbed. ; <b>All of the novels in this omnibus edition have been made into wonderful movies. In "A Room with a View", 'a young girl, Lucy Honeychurch, and her chaperon—products of proper Edwardian England—visit a tempestuous, passionate Italy. Their “room with a view” allows them to look into a world far different from their own, a world unconcerned with convention, unfettered by social rituals, and unafraid of emotion. Soon Lucy finds herself bound to an obviously “unsuitable” man, the melancholic George Emerson, whose improper advances she dare not publicize. Back home, her friend and mentor Charlotte Bartlett and her mother, try to manipulate her into marriage with the more “appropriate” but smotheringly dull Cecil Vyse, whose surname… Read More