"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

London: Fourth Estate, 2012. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 410; [1], Acknowledgements; [2], blank. SIGNED by the author to a promotional 'Falcon' bookplate on title page. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Andy Bridge, priced at £20, illustrated endpapers. Author's..... More