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9781784782061 | New upd edition (Verso Books, June 2, 2015), cover price $16.95
9781781682906 | Verso Books, October 7, 2014, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: A RICHLY IMAGINED NOVEL OF FAMILY, LOVE AND SCIENCE SET IN MODERN-DAY LONDON, FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVERitchie Shepherd, aging former pop star and wildly successful producer of a reality teen talent show, is starting to trip over the intricacy of his own lies...read more

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9780374168711 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 2, 2012), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: From James Meek, the award-winning author of the international bestseller The People's Act of Love, comes a rich and intricate novel about everything that matters to us now: children, celebrity, secrets and shame, the quest for youth, loyalty and betrayal, falls from grace, acts of terror, and the wonderful, terrible inescapability of family.
9780857862907 | Canongate Books Ltd, August 30, 2012, cover price $30.40 | About this edition: Would you betray your lover to give them what they wanted?
9780857869180 | Signed edition (Canongate Books Ltd, August 30, 2012), cover price $27.80

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9781250037770 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, October 1, 2013), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A RICHLY IMAGINED NOVEL OF FAMILY, LOVE AND SCIENCE SET IN MODERN-DAY LONDON, FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVERitchie Shepherd, aging former pop star and wildly successful producer of a reality teen talent show, is starting to trip over the intricacy of his own lies.

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Product Description: Esta es la historia de Adam Kellas, un corresponsal britanico que cubre el conflicto afgano. La novela empieza con un criptico mail que Adam recibe. Astrid, la mujer que amo, le escribe pidiendo ayuda y el no duda en dejarlo todo para ir a buscarla, olvidando en su ansia por que acabo su relacion...read more

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9788493662837 | Italian edition edition (Roca Editorial, April 1, 2009), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Esta es la historia de Adam Kellas, un corresponsal britanico que cubre el conflicto afgano.

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Product Description: James Meek’s masterful historical novel, The People’s Act of Love received accolades around the world, earning Meek comparisons to Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Conrad, and Greene. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is a tour de force of storytelling, furthering his reputation as one of the most exciting and original young novelists writing today...read more

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9781847671769 | Canongate Books Ltd, May 13, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: From the author of the best-selling, universally acclaimed The People’s Act of Love comes the incisive and timeless story of a globe-trotting journalist’s perils in the pursuit of love, set against the war zones and dinner parties of today’s discordant and bewildering world stage.

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9781847671912 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, July 8, 2009), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: James Meek’s masterful historical novel, The People’s Act of Love received accolades around the world, earning Meek comparisons to Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Conrad, and Greene.
9781554684014 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Canada, March 16, 2009), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: At the dawn of the 21st century, Adam Kellas finds himself hurled on a journey between continents and cultures.

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9781847670298 | Canongate Books Ltd, August 21, 2008, cover price $18.95

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Long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, the story of a Russian prison camp escapee who makes his way to a remote Siberian village recounts his fantastical adventures as imparted to the megalomaniac captain of a Czech regiment and a self-reliant widowed mother. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

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9781841957302 | Canongate Books Ltd, December 30, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In a remote Siberian town torn apart by civil war and inhabited by a small Christian sect, Anna Petrovna, a beautiful photographer, becomes involved in the fate of Samarin, an escapee from Russia's northernmost prison camp.

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9781841958774 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, December 4, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, the story of a Russian prison camp escapee who makes his way to a remote Siberian village recounts his fantastical adventures as imparted to the megalomaniac captain of a Czech regiment and a self-reliant widowed mother.

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A collection of short stories from an award-winning writer. The characters in these stories are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.

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9781841958088 | New edition (Canongate Books Ltd, August 3, 2006), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories from an award-winning writer.

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Product Description: He is quite simply a major contemporary Scottish writer' - The Herald Two British travellers, Donald Kemp and Margaret Duncan, have disappeared in the wild mountainous region of northern Afghanistan; a terrain into which western Europeans seldom penetrate...read more
By Robin Jenkins and James Meek (introduced by)

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9781904598190 | Birlinn Ltd, April 7, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: He is quite simply a major contemporary Scottish writer' - The Herald Two British travellers, Donald Kemp and Margaret Duncan, have disappeared in the wild mountainous region of northern Afghanistan; a terrain into which western Europeans seldom penetrate.

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Reprinted to tie in with the sequel, this collection of novellas from Scotland's emerging writers of the 90s contains the first sci-fi story by Irvine Welsh, and a bizarre tread through Scottish surrealism in the form of spaced-out crematorium attendants and vengeful traffic-wardens.

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9780862417314 | New edition (Canongate Books Ltd, January 1, 2001), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Reprinted to tie in with the sequel, this collection of novellas from Scotland's emerging writers of the 90s contains the first sci-fi story by Irvine Welsh, and a bizarre tread through Scottish surrealism in the form of spaced-out crematorium attendants and vengeful traffic-wardens.

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9780748661275 | Small Pr Distribution, December 1, 1992, cover price $16.95

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Introduces the history, geography, people, culture, government, and economy of Scotland.

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9780397323326 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, March 1, 1990, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A native Scot recounts his country's troubled history and its efforts to preserve its independence while remaining part of the United Kingdom, and describes the varied life of his countrymen today

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9780397323333 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, March 1, 1990, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A native Scot recounts his country's troubled history and its efforts to preserve its independence while remaining part of the United Kingdom, and describes the varied life of his countrymen today

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