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A hardcover copy in very good condition. Boards are clean with a light bump to the bottom edge. Dust jacket is very good, with a light stain to the back bottom edge. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. First printing. Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson. Bond Street Books / Penguin Random House Canada, 2024. The sixth novel in the Jackson Brodie series. Atkinson won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her debut Behind the Scenes at the Museum and two Costa Novel Awards for Life After Life and A God in Ruins.

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Boards and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket is fine, with a light mark to the lower left. An essentially unread, clean copy. Benedictus: A Book of Blessings by John O'Donohue. Bantam Press / Transworld Publishers, London, 2007. A collection of blessings for the significant thresholds of human life, written in O'Donohue's characteristic language of Celtic landscape and contemplative spiritual attention. O'Donohue worked on this collection for many years, and it was published just two months before his sudden death in January 2008 at the age of fifty-two, making it both his final complete work and his most intimate. Irish poet, priest, and philosopher from County Clare, he completed his doctorate in Philosophical Theology at the University of Tübingen. A rare copy in exceptional condition of a book that has brought solace and beauty to readers around the world.

Hardcover, fine condition, almost new. Boards clean and unmarked. Pages entirely unmarked and appear unread. Dust jacket likewise unmarked. Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1987. First published in the United States in 1987 by St. Martin's Press, this novel quickly became a major international bestseller, selling over 10 million copies and being translated into more than 40 languages. Rosamunde Pilcher had a long and distinguished career as a novelist and short story writer, but it was this novel, written in her early sixties, that captured the hearts of readers worldwide and won her international recognition as one of the best-loved storytellers of her time. This listing includes one additional Rosamunde Pilcher hardcover title as a bonus item.

Hardcover in good condition. boards shows some staining. Pages are fine, and the copy reads beautifully throughout. Dust jacket in good condition, bright and intact, with light tears to the top and bottom edges. Printing not stated on copyright page. A solid reading copy of a substantial and deeply satisfying novel. Published by St. Martin's Press, 1995. Rosamunde Pilcher was a British novelist born in Cornwall, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall and Scotland, whose books sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Her best-known novel, The Shell Seekers, was published in 1987, with Coming Home following in 1995 as one of her most ambitious works. Set between 1935 and 1945, the novel spans Cornwall, Scotland, Singapore, and the theatres of the Second World War, following young Judith Dunbar from her boarding school years through her service in the Women's Royal Naval Service and beyond, as she searches for family, love, and a home to call her own.

A Little, Brown and Company first United States edition, first printing hardcover in fine condition. Boards are clean, bright, and square throughout with absolutely no wear to the spine, corners, or edges. Dust jacket is bright, crisp, and undamaged, fine in all respects with no tears, chips, fading, or soiling. Pages are fresh and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. A pristine, unread copy in like-new condition throughout. Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York, in June 2019, and originally published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Doubleday, this first United States edition, first printing hardcover presents Big Sky, the fifth novel in Kate Atkinson's celebrated Jackson Brodie series, arriving nine years after Started Early, Took My Dog (2010). Kate Atkinson, who lives in Edinburgh, won the Whitbread Book of the Year for her debut Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

A William Morrow trade paperback in very good condition. Covers are clean and square with light creasing to the spine. Pages are bright and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. Published by William Morrow (HarperCollins), New York, in 2012, this trade paperback presents Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie as the second title in her Tommy and Tuppence series. First published in magazines between 1923 and 1928 and collected in book form in 1929, the stories represent Christie at her most playful and self-aware. Agatha Christie, the first ever recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and the world's bestselling novelist, remains as essential and as entertaining as ever.