Fiction

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: dj: chipped and worn with moderate loss. Doctor in the House is a riotously funny and warmly observed comic novel that...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingWhat happens when the most lovably hapless doctor in British fiction trades his stethoscope for the pursuit of romance?...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: fep clipped; dj clipped.Fresh out of medical school and brimming with misplaced confidence, young Dr. Simon...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedWhat happens when a landlubbing doctor trades the safe predictability of his surgery for the rolling, unpredictable expanse of the open ocean? Doctor...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedAll the pomp, pretension, and sheer absurdity of ocean liner society collide in Richard Gordon's uproariously funny novel, The Captain's Table, in which...

Edition: bceCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the comic genius behind Doctor in the House comes another riotously funny chapter in the misadventures of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhat begins as a seemingly innocent seaside holiday quickly unravels into a wickedly observed comedy of desire, manipulation, and human frailty in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA razor-sharp comedy of plutocratic excess, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich transports readers to the fictional Plutoria...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj; minor foxing along the book block; boards remain square and tight; In a darkly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the grand tradition of British satirical fiction, Sir Michael and Sir George skewers the pomp and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the grand tradition of English comic fiction, Let the People Sing is a boisterous, warm-hearted romp...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of England's most beloved and versatile literary minds comes a delightful double volume that showcases...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeet Colonel Pewter — pompous, preening, and utterly convinced of his own importance — as he stumbles through...

When a lovable green monster decides to celebrate Christmas in the most monstrous way possible, the result is a gloriously chaotic holiday adventure that will have young readers giggling from...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodThere is a particular art to the after-dinner story — the perfectly timed anecdote, the slow-burn wit, the punchline that lands like a well-placed...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when a newlywed husband, desperate to conceal his innocent but compromising predicament from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the golden age of British comic writing comes What A Scream! And Other Stories,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeet Pilkie — the kind of kid whose best intentions have a spectacular talent for going spectacularly wrong....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a perfectly ordinary fog-bound evening descends into gloriously anarchic chaos in Thorne Smith's The Bishop's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHorace Rumpole, the rumpled, claret-loving Old Bailey hack, is back — and London's criminal courts will never be...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works in the Western canon match the anarchic brilliance and riotous ambition of François Rabelais's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodBeneath the blazing sun of the Spanish countryside lives Ferdinand, the most unusual bull in all of Spain — a gentle giant...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj with moderate wear along the edges; What happens when Australia's most persistent agricultural pest mutates into...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: clipped; worn with some loss; some stains on the rear panel....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSomewhere in the labyrinthine corridors of a modern bureaucracy, a man needs a permit — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded facade of mid-century American prosperity lurks George Smith, a mysteriously wealthy recluse obsessed with building himself the grandest mausoleum the world has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: First Ed. Age tanning throughout, price clipped inside front dust jacket.Nancy Mitford's Don't Tell Alfred is a sparkling...

Edition: 16th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when a hapless, pleasure-seeking young man stumbles into the brutally competitive world of 1950s British medical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the bustling, wig-wearing world of the Old Bailey, Horace Rumpole — barrister, claret enthusiast, and devoted reader...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: stained book block. price clipped dj. San Francisco, 1942: C. Card is the worst private detective in the city...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels capture the quiet terror of suburban alienation quite like Stern, Bruce Jay Friedman's darkly comic debut...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched, shadow-filled streets of pre-revolutionary Havana, a hapless vacuum cleaner salesman named James Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service —...

Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn a small, stubbornly ordinary village in the Po Valley of post-war Italy, a battle of wills unfolds between two...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the polished façade of civic power lies a labyrinth of ambition, incompetence, and cheerful corruption — and Mayor's Nest by Tony Morphett throws...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the pen of J. Jefferson Farjeon — master of the light touch and the wry aside — comes The Works of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the anarchic, gloriously misspelled world of Nigel Molesworth, self-proclaimed goriller of 3B at St....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: minor rubbing on corners; heavy; slipcase NOT included. Two decades of cubicle warfare, corporate absurdity, and passive-aggressive...

Few comic creations have endured quite like the gloriously hapless Bertie Wooster and his unflappable manservant in Right Ho, Jeeves — a masterwork of British humour that remains as irresistible...

A high school romantic comedy with five times the cute girls! A high school boy must work part-time to help five sisters study so they can graduate, but the only...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew writers captured the rhythms of English rural life with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAll aboard for the funniest voyage on the high seas — The Captain's Table is Richard Gordon's irresistible comic novel that chronicles the misadventures...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the rolling, rain-soaked landscapes of rural Ireland, young Reginald Darcy Thurmond Dancer Kildare — known to all simply as Darcy Dancer — cuts a...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Spine is sun faded, minor chipping to edges of DJ, tanning and light...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedIn the sun-drenched streets of a small American town, twelve-year-old Penrod Schofield and his irrepressible companion Sam...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen romance curdles into catastrophe, Wendy Harmer is the wickedly sharp chronicler you want by your side. Love Gone Wrong presents a hilariously incisive collection...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when an Italian family's dream of building their own home collides with the glorious chaos of postwar Italian...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingWelcome to the gloriously sunlit world of Blandings Castle, where the cabbages are...

Edition: 8th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFrom the undisputed master of British comic fiction comes a collection of short stories that transforms the genteel absurdity of the golf course into...