New York: Bloomsbury, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A very different novel from the author best known as "Lemony Snicket" - a dark comedy, featuring a ragtag crew of pirates. " A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay" SIGNED on the title page and dated in Oct 2014, before publication. 269 pp.

New York: Harper Perennial, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning writer's highly praised first novel. "Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past. . a novel at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind of love story. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 356 pp plus 16 pp of additional material, including an interview with the author. ISBN: 978-0061732850.