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(Edited to add some extras for sale)


Sit back and enjoy an escape through books - ?1 each unless otherwise specified. There are some good books here but I've decided to part with some of my collection. You'll find a mix of fiction (some crime/thriller and modern American and other stuff) and popular(ish) non-fiction.


From travelogues about beer and adventures with a fridge to tales of beauty queens, wise-cracking journalists, dysfunctional families, corrupt cops, politicians, drug-dealers...


Very happy to suggest a book you might enjoy if you want to give something a try but are not sure what might suit.


BOOKS AVAILABLE...


Pete Brown - Three Sheets to the Wind (travelogue about beer)


Bill Bryson - Neither Here nor There (travel)

Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods (travel)


Peter Carey - Jack Maggs (fiction set in 1837 London)


Mark Childress - Crazy in Alabama (fiction, set in 1965 Alabama)


Tom Drury - The End of Vandalism (fiction, set in the American midwest)


Tony Hawks - Round Ireland with a Fridge (travel/comedy, man hitchhikes round Ireland, with a fridge, nobody bats an eyelid)


Peter Hedges - An Ocean in Iowa (fiction - small boy determines to stay aged 7 for ever)


Garrison Keillor - Love Me (fiction, author gets wrtier's block, set in New York)


Ivan Klima - My First Loves (short stories set from Prague Spring to 1980s by Czech author who was banned from being published under the Czechoslovakian Communist regime)


Kathy Lette - The Llama Parlour (fiction)

Kathy Lette - Foetal Attraction (fiction, signed by the author)


Howard Marks - Mr Nice (autobiography of a drug dealer)


Franz Kafka - The Trial (50p - magazine copy - fiction, set in Central Europe in early 20th Century)


John O'Hara - Butterfield 8 (fiction set in early 1930s Manhattan)


Thomas Pynchon - Vineland (literary fiction set in 1980s USA)


Dylan Winter - AS Hack Goes West - on horseback along the Oregon trail (travelogue)


CONDITION

No missing pages - all are complete.

None are pristine - all been read after all. Some have a little discolouration round the edges of the pages due to sunlight, some have a bit of spotting round the page edges - but nothing major.


COLLECTION

Forest Hill, SE23.





HERE'S WHAT YOU COULD HAVE HAD...


Anonymous - Primary Colors (political intrigue based on the Clinton campaign) **TAKEN**


Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy **TAKEN**


Suzanne Berne - A Crime in the Neighborhood **TAKEN**


T. Coraghessan Boyle - The Tortilla Curtain **TAKEN**


Zoe Bran - Enduring Cuba (travel/society) **TAKEN**


Christopher Brookmyre - Country of the Blind (leading 'Tartan noir' author) **TAKEN**

Christopher Brookmyre - Not the end of the world **TAKEN**

Christopher Brookmyre - All fun and games until somebody loses an eye **TAKEN**

Christopher Brookmyre - The sacred art of stealing **TAKEN**

Christopher Brookmyre - Quite ugly one morning **TAKEN**


Bill Bryson - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (autobiography) **TAKEN**


Ethan Coen (film writer/producer) - Gates of Eden (short stories) **TAKEN**


Douglas Coupland - Miss Wyoming **TAKEN**


James Hawes - Rancid Aluminium **TAKEN**

James Hawes - A White Merc with Fins **TAKEN**


Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed **TAKEN**


Peter Hedges - What's Eating Gilbert Grape **TAKEN**


Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow **TAKEN**


Hanif Kureishi - The Black Album **TAKEN**


John Lanchester - Mr Phillips **TAKEN**


Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses (50p - magazine copy) **TAKEN**


Spike Milligan - Small Dreams of a Scorpion **TAKEN**


Michael Moore - Stupid White Men (non-fiction) **TAKEN**


Susan Swan - The Wives of Bath **TAKEN**

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