Prisma, Stockholm, 2002. 8o. Förlagsinbunden med illustrerat skyddsomslag. Mycket fint skick. Översatt av Cecilia Franklin. 328 sid. 234x162 mm.

Pan, Stockholm, 2003. 8o. Pocketbok. Fint skick. Översatt av Eva Johansson. 332 sid.

Pan, Stockholm, 2003. 8o. Pocketbok. Fint skick. Översatt av Cecilia Franklin. 328 sid.

Pan, Stockholm, 2003. 8o. Pocketbok. Fint skick. Översatt av Manni Kössler. 311 sid.

C O N D I T I O N : Very Good. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : (Originally £6.99) ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Very Good. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Very Good. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : (Originally £6.99) ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Near Fine - in Near Fine DJ. N O T E S: Hardback. DJ. 1st Ed. C O N T E N T S : In One for My Baby Hong-Kong-based language teacher Alfie Budd is about to ingest several gallons of the stuff. Returning to London to nurse a broken heart, he finds a world he barely recognises. Terry Wogan plays REM on Radio Two, there are Tai Chi classes on Highbury Fields and the England of Alfie's youth seems a distant dream. Alfie's father is now sporting disco gear and pitifully clinging onto his relationship with a Czech au pair half his age. Alfie's mother, meanwhile, cares a great deal about her rose bushes and not at all about getting her husband back.Dazed by these changes, Alfie drifts--on a cloud of Tsingtao beer and Sinatra-fuelled reverie--into a new teaching job and into a string of pointless affairs with his students. But a man can only drift for so long before he starts to sink--and Alfie must learn some bitter lessons before he can regain the happiness he once knew in Hong Kong. Tony Parsons' second novel deserves to match the phenomenal success of his first, Man and Boy--although there are reasons why it might not. One for My Baby lacks the cutesy appeal of single fathers bringing up sons and some readers may find it--with its double portion of deaths and mid-life depressions--a more demanding read altogether. The book deals with tough realities, with people who have ceased to love themselves and each other, with snobbery and prejudice and the acute loneliness of city life. But the tale is redeemed, ultimately, because humour and warmth pervade even its darkest corners. The laughable antics of Alfie's father are balanced beautifully by George Chang, Alfie's serene and dignified Tai Chi instructor. And while our hero's journey is an arduous one, we are invited to laugh with and at him and never to pity him. Mr Parsons deserves praise for creating a book that is not merely different to his first but also bigger, tougher and cleverer. --Matthew Baylis(Originally £15.99) 336pp. ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Good+ - in Good+ DJ. DJ slightly ruffled along edges. Leans. N O T E S: Hardback. DJ. C O N T E N T S : Man and Wife, Tony Parsons' third novel, is the sequel to his bestselling debut Man and Boy. Like its predecessor, it traces the marital and parental misadventures of Harry Silver, a mawkish North London television producer--whose life bares a passing resemblance to Parsons' own. Harry has remarried. Second wife, Cyd, and her feisty daughter, Peggy; provide him and his Phantom Menace obsessed son, Pat, with a family. Harry's luck couldn't be better. His television show, "Fish on Friday", is a hit and Cyd's posh catering company, "Food Glorious Food", is thriving. However, Harry is not the only one starting again. His ex-wife Gina has also remarried. Her partner Richard (who must be the only thirtysomething male on the planet who hates Star Wars) is Pat's "new father". When the couple announce they are moving to America--taking Pat with them--Harry reacts, in time-honoured fashion, by attacking Richard. Separated from his son by the Atlantic and struggling as Peggy's stepfather, Harry begins to yearn for a good old-fashioned "normal, family life"--the kind his lovely old mum and dear departed dad enjoyed. Rather surprisingly, he decides that Kazumi, an attractive Japanese photographer friend of Gina's, could be the answer to his prayers. Male frailty and the perils of modern parenting are Parsons forte but this book, although occasionally touching, is overburdened by plot twists, unlikely conceits and whiffs of reactionary sentimentality. (Originally £16.99)304pp. ||| || |