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ISBN: 0-330-33175-2 
Condition: Good. Page edges are yellowed. No crease in spine. Normal discolouration and spotting with age. 
Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance comes an hilarious handbook on coping with domestic life. "This is a book about cooking, cleaning and housekeeping for people who don't know how to do any of these things and aren't about to learn"   P.J. O'Rourke's Helpful Household Hints include: "How often does a house need to be cleaned anyway? As a general rule, once every girlfriend. After that she can know the real you."  'Sheets can be kept clean by getting drunk and falling asleep with your clothes on."  "Salt keeps your blood pressure up to the pitch of modern life and improves all food. Use salt on everything." 
Page count: 145 
Publisher: Picador 
Print Year: 1993 
Printed in: UK

The Bachelor Home Companion by P.J. O'Rourke [Paperback]

ISBN: 978-1-4767-5391-1 
Condition: Very good. Slight ceasing of cover corners. No spine creases. Pages not discoloured. 
Synopsis: The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegans posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.

Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story Cold Pastoral was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay Even Artichokes Have Doubts was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times. Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media.

As Marina wrote: We can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. We're so young. We cant, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, its all we have. The Opposite of Loneliness is an unforgettable collection of Marinas essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to impact the world. How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, Keegan could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful (People). 
Page count: 208 
Publisher: Scribner 
Print Year: 2015 
Printed in: USA

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan [Paperback]

ISBN: 0-552-15169-6 
Condition: Very good. Slight spotting of page edges. No spine creases. 
Synopsis: When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine - encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it will cripple U.S. intelligence. 
Page count: 512 
Publisher: Corgi Books 
Print Year: 2004 
Printed in: UK

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown [Paperback]

ISBN: 0-552-14951-9 
Condition: Very good. Slight spotting of page edges. Spine creased. Cover edges slightly worn. 
Synopsis: Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed his life to keep secret the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. It appears that the clandestine Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect Opus Dei has now made its move. Unless Landon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever. 
Page count: 605 
Publisher: Corgi Books 
Print Year: 2004 
Printed in: UK

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown [Paperback]

ISBN: 0-140-43606-5 
Condition: Good. Pages with some spots and yellowed but uncreased. Edges of cover worn. Spine with multiple creases. 
Synopsis: The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Snobbery and hypocrisy are also laid bare in Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, while in Salome and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde uses historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde's delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveals the pretensions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzling and precarious part. 
Page count: 432 
Publisher: Penguin Books 
Print Year: 2000 
Printed in: UK

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde [Paperback]

ISBN: 1-85326-731-7 
Condition: Very good. Expected yellowing of pages with age. Small blemish on front cover. No creases on spine. 
Synopsis: A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is most revealing. 
Page count: 157 
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics 
Print Year: 1998 
Printed in: UK

Bliss & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield [Paperback]

ISBN: 0-486-28759-9 
Condition: Acceptable. Expected yellowing and spotting of pages from age. Cover in good condition. Highlights and annotations by previous owner. Synopsis: The originality, concentrated power and "fierce indignation" of his satirical writing have earned Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) a reputation as the greatest prose satirist in English language.
Gulliver's Travels is, of course, his world-renowned masterpiece in the genre; however, Swift wrote other, shorter works that also offer excellent evidence of his inspired lampoonery. Perhaps the most famous of these is "A Modest Proposal," in which he straight-facedly suggests that Ireland could solve its hunger problems by using its children for food. Also included in this collection are "The Battle of the Books," "A Meditation upon a Broomstick," "A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit," and "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England." This inexpensive edition will certainly be welcomed by teachers and students of English literature, but its appeal extends to any reader who delights in watching a master satirist wield words as weapons. 
Page count: 59 
Publisher: Dover Publications 
Print Year: 1996 
Printed in: USA

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works - Unabridged by Johnathan Swift [Paperback]

ISBN: 0-486-26478-5 
Condition: Acceptable. Expected yellowing and spotting of pages from age. Spine slightly worn. 
Synopsis: Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating epigrams still savored by all who enjoy artful conversation.
From the play's effervescent beginnings in Algernon Moncrieff's London flat to its hilarious denouement in the drawing room of Jack Worthing's country manor in Hertfordshire, this comic masterpiece keeps audiences breathlessly anticipating a new bon mot or a fresh twist of plot moment to moment. 
Page count: 54
Publisher: Dover Publications 
Print Year: 1990 
Printed in: USA

The Importance of Being Earnest - Unabridged by Oscar Wilde [Paperback]

ISBN: 1-4209-2596-2 
Condition: Like New 
Synopsis: Originally published in "Cornhill" magazine, "Unto This Last" is a series of four essays on the politics of economics. Considered by Ruskin as one of his most important works, "Unto This Last" argues that economics, art and science must have a foundation in morality. Ruskin, who cannot be strictly labeled as a liberal or conservative in his political ideology, crafts a thought-provoking exposition of prevailing economic theories that is as relevant today as when first written. 
Page count: 96 
Publisher: Digireads.com 
Print Year: 2005
Printed in: USA

Unto This Last by John Ruskin [Paperback]

ISBN: 1-85326-043-6 
Condition: Very good. Cover and spine without creases, except for some edges worn. Expected yellowing of pages with age. 
Synopsis: Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks her growing understanding of the world about her. 
Page count: 179 
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics 
Print Year: 2000 
Printed in: UK

Northanger Abbey - Unabridged by Jane Austen [Paperback]

ISBN: 0-14-118255-5 
Condition: Acceptable. Creases on cover and spine. Some annotations and highlights by previous owner. Expected yellowing of pages with age. 
Synopsis: Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations. 
Page count: 126 
Publisher: Penguin Books 
Print Year: 2000 
Printed in: UK

The Crucible by Arthur Miller [Paperback]

ISBN: 0-752-81040-5 
Condition: Good. Usual wearing and yellowing if jacket/page edges with time. 
Synopsis:  
Page count: 112 
Publisher: Orion Media 
Print Year: 1997 
Printed in: UK

Oscariana - The Wit and Maxims of Oscar Wilde by Stephen Colloway and David Colvin [Hardcover]