New York: Harper & Row, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating book contrasting the disintegration of society in two different centuries: the early 18th c of Nicholas Dyer, architect, and the 20th c of Nicholas Hawksmoor, senior police officer involved in a murder investigation. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0155035.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly acclaimed first book, a novel in the form of seven interrelated stories, winner of the David Higham and Whitbread awards for best first fiction and of the Guardian prize for fiction upon its appearance in England. 138 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0157240.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly acclaimed first book, a novel in the form of seven interrelated stories, winner of the David Higham and Whitbread awards for best first fiction and of the Guardian prize for fiction upon its appearance in England. ISBN: 0-06-0157240.

London: Faber & Faber, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning writer in which a child's game has disastrous consequences. "An old man returns to the scene of his seemingly ordinary suburban childhood. . . It is wartime and Stephen's friend Keith makes the momentous announcement that his mother is a German spy. The two boys begin to spy on the supposed spy, following her on her trips to the shops and to the post office, and reading her diary. Keith's mother does have secrets to conceal but they are not the ones the boys suspect." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Whitbread Best Novel Award. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-571212867.

London: Faber & Faber, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning writer in which a child's game has disastrous consequences. "An old man returns to the scene of his seemingly ordinary suburban childhood. . . It is wartime and Stephen's friend Keith makes the momentous announcement that his mother is a German spy. The two boys begin to spy on the supposed spy, following her on her trips to the shops and to the post office, and reading her diary. Keith's mother does have secrets to conceal but they are not the ones the boys suspect." Winner of the Whitbread Best Novel Award. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-571212867.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical novel for older children in which mystery, romance, horror, and adventure overlap. Beginning in England in 1741, this is the story of the brutal work of the "Coram man," a monstrous character who pretends to be a representative of the famous Coram foundling hospital, but who either abandons, buries, or sells into slavery the unwanted children he takes. Winner of the Whitbread 2000 Children's Book of the Year Award, this is the first book by Gavin to be published in the US. vii, 327 pp. ISBN: 0-374315442.

London: Hamish Hamilton, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An award winning novel by this highly praised Scottish writer about "the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves." This was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and won the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year award. SIGNED on the title page. Frontispiece. 303 pp plus final 2 pp. ISBN: 0-241141907.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book (published after 30 years, when Torrington was 58), winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award in Great Britain. First hardcover edition (published in paper only in the UK.) Set in Glasgow during a single week in the 60's, this is the story of a writer with no job and still unpublished. ISBN: 0-15-1874271.