Cat O' Nine Tales

by Jeffrey Archer  

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once.   
* Hard cover, large print edition. 
* Interesting collection on short stories with illustrations by Ronald Searle.  

Product Description (via amazon.com)

An English lord requires one more chess piece to complete a set that would be worth a fortune. Another man, an accountant, realizes he’s achieved nothing in his life—and sets out to make a fortune before he retires. And then there is the author’s own favorite, “In the Eye of the Beholder,” about a star athlete who has a fateful run-in with a three-hundred-pound woman. Some of these twelve stories were inspired by the two years Jeffrey Archer spent in prison, including “Don’t Drink the Water,” the tale of a company chairman who tries to poison his wife while on a trip to St. Petersburg—with unexpected consequences. Witty, suspenseful, sad, surprising, and unforgettable, Cat O’Nine Tales is Jeffrey Archer at his best.

Book Quote:

“ Whether you are a peer or a pirate depends on whom you share your spoils with.” ― Jeffrey Archer

RM 8

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Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy

Edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

A collection of short stories by renown fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Eoin Colfer and others. 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 

*Good Condition.

*This is a collection of short fantasy stories (a total of 18).  

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

In Wizards, today's master fantasists turn their hands to tales of these magical beings, living in both ancient and modern times, as well as in fantasy realms that never were.

Featuring stories by New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer and Garth Nix as well as tales from Kage Baker, Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, Orson Scott Card, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Elizabeth Hand, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, Patricia A. McKillip, Mary Rosenblum, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, and Jane Yolen.

RM10  NOW RM8

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Taking Pictures

by Anne Enright

*Condition of book is as seen in the picture. Click for better view.

*Firsthand copy. Read once almost to the end.
*Large print.
*Some smoothed-out dog-ears. Some age spots on the sides of the book otherwise still good and sturdy.

Product Description (via amazon.co.uk)

The stories in "Taking Pictures" are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed. From Dublin to Venice, from an American college dorm to a holiday caravan in France, these are stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright's women are haunted by children, and by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out.A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by a swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. These are sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.

RM 5   Now RM 3

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