Search Results: Authors starting with J from BritoBooks

John Murray, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in unread FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED LINED AND DATED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE AT UK EVENT. Review Key reviews for Blood Rock -- - 'This is history - and terrific history - on every page' -- Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal 'Set in a period of unparalleled brutality, and told with drama, sweep and passion, Blood Rock" is fiction on an epic scale' -- Malta Independent 'A good read if you can stand the blood and guts of 16th-century warfare' -- Folkstone Herald & Dover Express

Bantam Press, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED & LINED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Book in as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition.

Harper Collins, 2006. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED & DATED TO TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Book as new, unread, FINE/FINE. Product Description: Spying, lying and dying. Fans of 'Spooks' will be swept away by Steve Jackson's explosive debut novel. They say lightning never strikes twice. They are wrong. London has been bombed for the second time in 2 years, but this time the enemy is a lot closer to home. Paul Aston, a young MI6 Agent, is sent to investigate. But nothing could have prepared him for the scenes of horror and devastation that he sees. Images that will stay with him for the rest of his life. The government blames MI6, MI6 blames the government, but the truth behind what the media are calling 18/8 is more chilling than anyone could have imagined. Slowly, Aston tears away the layers of corruption, betrayal and murder to reveal the real culprit. Someone who knows every trick in the book, because he's played every trick in the book. Someone who has a deep seething hatred of MI6… Read More

Gollancz, 2014. Hardcover. Fine. John Hornor Jacobs- The incorruptibles- Gollancz 2014- First u.k hardback printing. Fine jacket priced £20. Fine book and contents. This was a special ltd and numbered edition of 250 copies with black page edges. Although this has the page denoting this fact,there is no number or signature of the author.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2014. Soft Cover. Fine. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book as new, unread FINE condition. short-listed for 2014 Booker prize.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2006. Hardcover. Fine. Long Listed for the 2006 Booker. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Immaculate, FINE/FINE condition. Synopsis: Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossibility of forgetting. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, marries out, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one, least of all the Jews, is much interested. But it's a life. Or it seems a life until Max's long-disregarded childhood friend, Manny Washinsky, is released from prison. Little by little, as he picks up his old connection with Manny, trying to understand the circumstances in which he made a Buchenwald of his own home,… Read More

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2006. Soft Cover. Fine. Long Listed for the booker Proof Copy of this very funny novel. Immaculate condition . Synopsis: Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossibility of forgetting. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, marries out, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one, least of all the Jews, is much interested. But it's a life. Or it seems a life until Max's long-disregarded childhood friend, Manny Washinsky, is released from prison. Little by little, as he picks up his old connection with Manny, trying to understand the circumstances in which he made a Buchenwald of his own home, Max is drawn into Manny's… Read More

Jonathan Cape, 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF in slipcase. Book in FINE condition.

Bloomsbury, 2021. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in unread FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE.

Macmillan New Writing, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED, STAMPED (fingerprint) and NUMBERED *(37 out of 250) BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. No jckt as published. Book in unread, FINE condition. Product Description: Katrina Marino is about to become America's most infamous murder victim. This is Katrina's story, and the story of her killer. It is also the story of Katrina's neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam draftee; the woman who thinks she's killed a child, and her husband who will risk everything for the truth; the former soldier planning suicide and the man who saves him. And others whose lives are touched by the crime: the elderly teacher whose past is catching up with him; the amateur blackmailer who's about to find out just what sort of people he's been threatening; the corrupt cop who believes he is God's 'red right hand'. Shocking and compassionate, angry and gripping, "Acts of Violence" is a sprawling, cinematic… Read More

Chatto & Windus, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in excellent condition. Jckt not price clipped, good colour, no marks. Book blue cloth, silver lettering spine, no marks, no foxing no inscriptions. SCARCE TITLE. Romantic novel set in 17th century Norfolk.

Sphere, 2014. Soft Cover. Fine. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in unread, FINE condition. Due publicatin June 2014.

hamish hamilton, 2019. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in unread FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Book 1 of The Dark Star Trilogy. May attract extra postage for overseas

Oneworld, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED & DATED SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE EDITION BROUGHT OUT BY PUBLISHER TO CELEBRATE BOOKER PRIZE VICTORY. SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR AT RECENT LONDON EVENT. Book in unread Very Good overall condition, suffers light wear.

Macmillan, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED, LINED & DATED BY AUTHOR DIRECT TO THE TITLE PAGE. Synopsis 'Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else's perfume, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life ...'Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton never-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Five years later the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of… Read More

Macmillan, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. As new, unread, FINE/FINE condition. Book has been SIGNED, LINED & DATED DIRECT TO THE TITLE PAGE BY THE AUTHOR. Publiished June 2009. Product Description Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. 'I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person, even before Caitlin's influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I'm sitting here actually willing some stranger to die'. The body of a teenager, dredged from the seabed off the coast of Sussex, is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more young bodies are found...Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton, will die if she does not receive a liver transplant, urgently. When the health system threatens to let her down, Lynn, her mother turns in panic to the internet and discovers a broker who can provide her with a black-market organ - but at a price. Prepared to do whatever it takes, Lynn scrambles to… Read More

Macmillan, 2022. Soft Cover. Fine. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in unread FINE condition. Due publication Autumn 2022. Roy Grace is back....

Heinemann, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Lamb Lynton. 1ST EDITION. Dust jckt & book in Nr Fine condition. Pen mark on front end-paper. The story is of 8 year old Christina, who when on holiday at the home of her uncle John, squeezes through the quickset hedge at the bottom of the garden, where she meet all kinds of strange and wonderful people. It is a tale of the wonderful imagination of an 8 year old litle girl.

Heinemann, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Ardizzone, Edward. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in super condition. Lyrical adaptations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, lavishly illustrated with the accomplished Ardizzone's line drawings. Includes 'Pyramus and Thisbe', 'Pan and Syrinx', 'Echo and Narcissus', 'Arachne' and 'Callisto'.

Book Guild Publishing, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED, LINED, DATED & LOCATED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Book as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition. Product Description After a short and bloody war on foreign soil, the Expeditionary Army of Ashkent is preparing to return home. Captain Jon Forge and his company, however, are assigned one more task - to oversee a workforce of enslaved Bantusai tribesmen as they rebuild a remote and long-abandoned bridge. With construction already underway, a band of fleeing trappers brings news of a fast-approaching barbarian horde and the Captain quickly realises that his de facto commander, the devious Duke Burns, has sent him and his men into a deadly trap. Should the company stay or retreat? Despite the overwhelming odds stacked against them, Forge - ever the hard-headed professional soldier - decides to stay. With the help of a motley crew that includes the enigmatic Bantusai, the wily trappers, and a lacklustre wizard-cum-bureaucrat named… Read More