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First American hardcover edition, first printing, in fine condition. The green cloth boards are clean and unmarked, with silver lettering along the spine. The dust jacket is clean and free of marks. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Appears unread. First American edition, first printing, following the earlier UK Picador edition of the same year. Irish writer Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. He has twice won the Costa Book of the Year, and served as Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2018 to 2021. The first of three McNulty family novels. The second, The Secret Scripture, won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year. The third is The Temporary Gentleman. Each can be read on its own.

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.

Softcover, fine condition, first printing. No creasing to the spine. Boards are clean and unmarked, and the pages are clean and unmarked throughout. First Back Bay paperback printing of The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, published by Back Bay Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company in 2006, following the novel's original hardcover publication by Little, Brown and Company in 2005. A multigenerational Gothic tale of a scholar's search for the truth behind the Dracula legend, It was the first debut novel to reach number one on the New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author and the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year for Best Adult Fiction.

A hardcover in fine condition, first edition, first printing. Boards and dust jacket are clean and unmarked. Pages are crisp and unmarked, with deckle edges throughout. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin. Harcourt Publishing Company, Orlando, 2008. First edition, first printing. In Virgil's Aeneid, Lavinia, the Latin princess who becomes Aeneas's wife, never speaks a single word. In this, her final novel, Le Guin gives her a voice and a life, imagining the woman behind the epic. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, 2009. Le Guin received six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, a National Book Award, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

A softcover edition in fine condition. Light shelf wear to the bottom edge. Boards are unmarked. Pages are clean and appear unread. Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson. Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2004. First Back Bay paperback edition. A collection of interconnected short stories. Atkinson won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her debut literary novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and two Costa Novel Awards for Life After Life and A God in Ruins. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and MBE. Other titles by Kate Atkinson are available in our shop.

A softcover copy in fine condition. No creasing to the spine. Pages and boards are clean and unmarked throughout. Die Vermessung der Welt von Daniel Kehlmann. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 2008. In deutscher Sprache. A fictionalised double portrait of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, tracing their parallel obsessions with measuring and understanding the world. One of the most successful German novels. Winner of the Kleist Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.