Uncorrected Proof Copies from Diversity Books, IOBA

London: Quercus, 2008. 346pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated soft card wrapper very good, small mark to rear cover. From the rear panel: "The border collie leapt over the picket fence and raced past the barn, a blur of black and white, barking a belated warning . . . He smiled at us from the… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. xxv, + 560 pages. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Printed card wrapper negligibly edge-bumped only. "Although personally responsible for the deportation of thousands of French Jews, Darquier was never brought to justice and spent the years after the war in Madrid. In Carmel Callil's masterful account Darquier's ascent to power during the… Read more about this item

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Flamingo/Harper Collins, 2001. 231pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper near fine. "Elli has been dumped by Ben, so she's fragile to say the least. Certainly in no mood for a new relationship . . . " Book weight approx. 260g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g.… Read more about this item

Sydney: Harper Collins, 2009. Uncorrected proof copy. 367pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. "In 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. Here they settled on the lush but wild coast . . . a darkly comic but moving historical… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2007. 219pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a soft corner crease to rear panel. "When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he can't bear to hand them all over to the RSPCA . . . Patrick christens his puppy Best Mate, and that's what he becomes… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2006. 328pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a very small, soft corner crease to front panel. "In this spellbinding tale filled with humour, adventure, romance and song, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine invites you to join Aza as she discovers how exquisite she truly is." Book weight approx.… Read more about this item

London: Fig Tree / Penguin, 2010. xiii, + 364pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, light reading crease there-on. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper near fine. "On the eve of the American Civil War, a brilliant, headstrong midwife from New York is dreaming of becoming a surgeon. Eager to escape the pains of a broken heart and a life in the… Read more about this item

Pymble, N.S.W., Australia: HarperCollins, 2006. 168pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper negligibly marked. "Eleven-year-old Thor is the lowest of the low at a subantarctic whaling station. As a whaler's boy, he spends long, hard days loading coal . . . Until the day a ghostly ship emerges from the mists. It is 'Endurance', carrying Shackleton… Read more about this item

North Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Vintage Books (Random House Australia), 2007. 203pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and crisp. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed. " . . . a meditation on the themes of exile and return, homesickness and not knowing where home really is. It is suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour, knowingness… Read more about this item

Great Britain: Orion Children's Books, 2005. 278pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and crisp. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed. "It is 1915. Sasha Fox is seventeen years old and she has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, corpse worms crawling over the faces of the… Read more about this item

London: Atom (Imprint: Time Warner), 2006. 343pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped only. " . . . Steve Cockayne's first novel for younger readers is both a spellbinding adventure story, and an extraordinarily powerful novel of growing up . . . " Deep in the English countryside, Kenneth Storey and his older… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2007. 209pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Advance Uncorrected Proof 'Solicitation Art' gloss wrapper (design by Richard Marchand) lightly edgeworn only. " . . . a stunning collection of 13 stories of the fantastic. Critics have called Pratt's short fiction 'quite Gaiman-esque . . . ' and this comparison is not… Read more about this item

London: Picador, 2003. 476pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated, printed card wrapper undamaged. An Advance Reading Copy from uncorrected proofs, with a provisional publication date of 18 July, 2003. "Josh starts his first year at Oxford bursting with hopes, ambitions and ludicrously unrealistic expectations. 'Thinly Disguised Autobiography' is the story of his rude awakening, from the… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. 310pp., book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Gloss card wrapper undamaged. An uncorrected bound proof copy of the author's first novel. The story is relationship-based, featuring 'Summer', whose promising dance career is ended by injury and, finds her settling reluctantly into an unwanted career as a school teacher. Her long-term relationship with Nicholas becomes… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. 375pp. Book clean, spine nominally concave. Leaves clean. Gloss, pictorially-illustrated card wrapper trivially splayed and bumped on lower front foredge corner. In the style of Cathy Kelly and Charlotte Bingham, this ADVANCE READING COPY is a relationship-based story of Sophie Winter, five years after her marriage ends with a terrible accusation, now happy in a… Read more about this item

London: The Women's Press, 2002. vii, 273pp., clean, tight pages. Heavy paper wrapper has negligible bump top foredge, else unmarked. Author's first full length novel, having had a previously published short story, and a trilogy of stories adapted and performed at the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Book weight approx. 330g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton 310pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed limp wrappers creased on rear, short closed tears and fingermarks. Relationship-based novel, set in 'Victorian' England . . . Book weight approx. 420g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Book Proof [1985].. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected Book Proof.