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UK softcover edition in very good condition. Covers are clean and unmarked. Pages are free of creasing or marks throughout. A very good copy throughout. Doubleday paperback by Hiro Arikawa, first published in Japan in 2012 and in Great Britain in 2017, this edition reissued in 2019. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, who also translates Haruki Murakami. Nana, a stray cat, narrates a road trip across Japan in a silver van with his owner Satoru, who is visiting old friends from his youth. Friendship, loss and memory shape the story, set against the changing seasons of the Japanese countryside.

A first printing hardcover edition in fine condition. Blue cloth boards are clean and unmarked, with gilt lettering to the spine. Pages are clean and bright throughout, free of marks or annotations. Dust jacket is bright, clean, and unmarked. A tight, square copy with no flaws. Published by Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster Inc.), New York, 1999, this is the first Pocket Books hardcover printing. Somewhere Lies the Moon is the third and concluding novel in Kathryn Lynn Davis's acclaimed Too Deep for Tears trilogy, following the Rose women of Glen Affric, Scotland, across generations. Davis is a New York Times bestselling author. This novel won the 1999 RT (Romantic Times) Reviewers Choice Award for Historical Novel.

A first printing softcover edition in very good condition. Covers show light shelf wear consistent with shelving, the pages are clean and bright throughout, free of marks or annotations. From a private library. Published by Hermes House, London, in 2004, an imprint of Anness Publishing Limited, this is the first printing of a title previously published as The Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Written by Andrew Mikolajski, a British gardening expert and author based in Northamptonshire, with consultant John Swithinbank, a widely respected horticulturist. Mikolajski has served as a horticultural consultant to the RHS and has edited multiple RHS encyclopedias. A thorough, illustrated reference for planting and plant selection.

A 1998 Allison & Busby softcover edition in fine condition. Covers are clean and square throughout, with no creasing to the spine. Pages are crisp and bright, free of marks or annotations. A tight, unmarked copy. Originally published by Chatto & Windus, London, in 1944, this Allison & Busby reprint was issued in Great Britain in 1998. Margaret Irwin was an English historical novelist recognised for well-researched and occasionally heart-breaking historical fiction. Young Bess is the first novel in her Elizabeth I trilogy, followed by Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948) and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain (1953). The novel covers 1545-1553, following the young Princess Elizabeth from age 12 to 19, and focuses on the scandal surrounding her relationship with Thomas Seymour during the latter years of Henry VIII's reign. The novel was later adapted into a film starring Jean Simmons.

A trade paperback in very good condition, first edition, first printing, published by Headline Review (an imprint of Headline Book Publishing, a division of Hodder Headline), London, 2006. Covers are clean, the pages are unmarked throughout, with light age toning consistent with the book's age. The fifth novel by Irish author and journalist Mary Stanley, a story of secrets, self-discovery, and the walls we build to protect ourselves. When Esme Waters' carefully maintained life begins to crack, the truth she has hidden for years threatens everything she holds dear.

A trade paperback in very good condition, published by William Morrow, New York, 2018. Covers are clean and square with light shelf wear to the covers. The pages are clean and unmarked throughout. First edition, first printing. A New York Times bestselling historical novel by Hazel Gaynor, inspired by the true story of Grace Darling, the English lighthouse keeper's daughter celebrated across Britain for her part in rescuing survivors of the shipwrecked Forfarshire off the Northumberland coast in 1838. Told across a dual timeline.