Literary Fiction – Doodled Books https://doodledbooks.com Rare Signed & First Edition Books in London Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:31:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/doodledbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-Doodled-Books-favicon-2022.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Literary Fiction – Doodled Books https://doodledbooks.com 32 32 191136237 Reasons to Stay Alive By Matt Haig Signed Doodled First Edition Book 8/15 https://doodledbooks.com/product/reasons-to-stay-alive-by-matt-haig-signed-doodled-first-edition-book-8-15/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/reasons-to-stay-alive-by-matt-haig-signed-doodled-first-edition-book-8-15/#respond Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:30:08 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=3079 Now you can collect a stunning rare collectible book by author Matt Haig. Reasons to Stay Alive is a brilliant book by the winner of the Nestle Book Prize Gold Award (previous winners include JK Rowling, Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen, Lauren Child). These books have been signed, lined, dated, doodled and numbered at the authors home. And the film rights have already sold.

Recently there has been somewhat of a media frenzy surrounding his books by none other than Stephen Fry. The International Publishing Rights have been sold for several of his books and now they have been translated into 30 languages!

Reasons to Stay Alive is already a huge hit – so start your collection now!

Review

“Maybe the most important book I’ve read this year” (SIMON MAYO)

 

“A life-saving book” (AMANDA CRAIG)

 

“Brings a difficult and sensitive subject out of the darkness and into the light” (MICHAEL PALIN)

 

“Full of wisdoms and warmth” (NATHAN FILER)

 

“Matt Haig is a marvellous writer: limpid; tender; passionate. In this memoir (and it’s short, barely 200 pages long), he manages to articulate, both the bleakness of depression and the means of dealing with it, little by little, day by day, without ever sounding maudlin, or self-indulgent, or preachy. For everyone who has ever felt the snap of the black dog’s teeth, this book is wise, funny, affirming and redemptive. Sometimes depression can be like falling into a wordless pit. Matt Haig finds the words. And he says them for all of us” (JOANNE HARRIS)

 

“Reasons to Stay Alive is wonderful. I read it in one sitting. Touching, funny, thought-provoking, with a huge heart. It should be read by anyone who has suffered, or known someone who has suffered (i.e.. everyone)” (S J WATSON)

 

“Fascinating and beautifully written” (IAN RANKIN)

 

“Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin” (JEANETTE WINTERSON)

 

“Thoughtful, honest and incredibly insightful” (JENNY COLGAN)

 

“Brilliant and salutary . . . should be on prescription” (REV. RICHARD COLES)

 

“Matt Haig is astounding” (STEPHEN FRY)

 

“For anyone who has faced the black dog, or felt despair, this marvellous book is a real comfort, dealing sympathetically with depression, written with candour and from first-hand experience. I think it is a small masterpiece. It might even save lives” (JOANNA LUMLEY)

 

“A really great read, and essential to our collective well-being” (JO BRAND)

 

“Warm and engaging, and shot through with humour . . . a valuable contribution to the conversation” (Sunday Times)

 

“Quite simply brilliant” (Bookmunch)

 

“I feel like someone else in the world understands me now. I feel a bit less alone, a bit less scared, a bit less guilty and anxious and burdened” (Little White Library)

 

“A heart-breaking account of a young man experiencing debilitating depression but comes with a surprising light touch” (Sunday Mail)

 

“The amount of passages I’ve underlined is a real testament to his skills as a writer” (The White Journal)

 

“A life-affirming and quietly joyful read” (Connaught Telegraph)

 

“A tender, candid, inspiring book about depression” (Sunday Express)

Book Description

Warm, witty, honest and human, this book is a manifesto for staying alive, whatever your demons

About the Author

Matt Haig is the author of five adult novels including the bestselling The Humans, a World Book Night

title in 2014, and The Radleys, which was selected for Channel 4’s TV Book Club and was voted winner of the series in 2011. He has also written for children and young adults and his work has been translated into thirty languages.

Biography

Matt Haig suffered a breakdown in his early twenties. After battling depression for a long while he turned to writing. He now believes that reading and writing books saved his life, and believes that ‘in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our route to freedom, and to each other’. His novels include the bestsellers The Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans. His books have been translated into 30 languages. All his novels for adults have been optioned for film. He has also written novels for children, including Shadow Forest, To Be A Cat and the new YA novel Echo Boy. His next book is about his experience of depression, called Reasons To Stay Alive.

 

He won the TV Book Club ‘book of the series’, and has been shortlisted for a Specsavers National Book Award. The Humans has been chosen as a 2014 World Book Night title. His children’s novels have won the Smarties Gold Medal, the Blue Peter Book of the Year, been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal three times.

 

His books have received praise from Jeanette Winterson, Joanne Harris, Patrick Ness, Ian Rankin and SJ Watson, among others. The Guardian summed up his writing as ‘funny, clever and quite, quite lovely’ by The Times and the New York Times called him ‘a writer of great talent’.

 

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing

  • Hardcover: 272 pages

  • Publisher: Canongate Books; Main edition (5 Mar. 2015)

  • Language: English

  • ISBN-10: 1782115080

  • ISBN-13: 978-1782115083

  • Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 2.7 x 18.4 cm

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Dial M for Merthyr By Rachel Trezise Signed Doodled First Edition Book (DYLAN THOMAS WINNER) https://doodledbooks.com/product/dial-m-for-merthyr-by-rachel-trezise-signed-doodled-first-edition-book-dylan-thomas-winner/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/dial-m-for-merthyr-by-rachel-trezise-signed-doodled-first-edition-book-dylan-thomas-winner/#respond Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:42:21 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=3015 Amazing book which has all the makings of a runaway success! Rachel Trezise winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize has exclusively doodled, signed, lined and dated 20 books. This author is becoming hot property and it’s rumoured that her next book will be published by a mainstream publishing house. This is a fantastic book with lots of potential.

Review
“A mesmerising and intense read.” Buzz

Product Description
Rachel Trezise grew up listening to the rock behemoths of the late 1980s and harbouring an ambition to write a warts ‘n’ all rockumentary. At a rock gig in a Rhondda pub, she discovered Midasuno; a gaggle of Merthyr kids with a ton of conviction and a penchant for neck breaking guitar riffs. In 2005 she stepped onto the tour bus they call Black Betty and tracked the band as they razed the British toilet circuit. Part reportage, social history and memoir, Dial M For Merthyr tells the story of a band from the wrong side of the tracks trying to stay afloat in an ever changing musical and social climate.

Product Details:

Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Parthian Books; first edition (1 Jun 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1905762127
ISBN-13: 978-1905762125

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Bedlam By Christopher Brookmyre Signed and Doodled Rare First Edition Book 5 https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-5/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-5/#respond Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:33:17 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2853 Brookmyre’s stunning sci-fi debut Bedlam has been tipped as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation! And the author has developed a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM and it is available on PlayStation and Xbox. And it certainly is fast paced, futuristic and full of explosive action!

Christopher has exclusively signed, lined, dated, numbered and doodled first printings of Bedlam for your collection – the signing took place at the authors home in the UK.

Since his award-winning debut crime novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .

Heaven is a prison. Hell is a playground.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game?
A realm where you don’t have to go to work or worry about your health; where you can look like a hero or a goddess; where you can fly space-ships, slay dragons, yet all of it feels completely real. A realm where there are no consequences and no responsibilities.
Or would it be your worst nightmare?
Stuck in an endless state of war and chaos where the pain and fear feels real and from which not even death can offer an escape.
Prison or playground. Heaven or hell. This is where you find out. This is white-knuckle action, sprawling adventure, merciless satire and outrageous humour like you’ve never experienced.
This is Bedlam.
Review
Warm, funny, excellently violent and highly recommended. Game on (SCIFI NOW )

Brain-tickling . . . It is a genuinely engrossing, amusing and intelligent novel. (GUARDIAN )

Riddled with sci-fi in-jokes, humorous bathos and top-notch creative profanity . . . BEDLAM – both a jovial satire and a geeky celebration of gamer culture – is enthralling fun (FINANCIAL TIMES )

Back to his visceral, vicious, jaw-dropping, jobby-on-the-mantlepiece best (SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS )

Full of explosive action – but there are hilarious jokes and proper thoughtful sci-fi too. A gem (THE SUN )

A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller (Iain M. Banks )

Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords (Ed Byrne )

Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare (Charles Stross )
Book Description
Christopher Brookmyre over-clocked and hardware-accelerated, this is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation.
From the Inside Flap
PRISON OR PLAYGROUND?
Ross Baker is an overworked and underpaid scientist developing medical technology for corporate giants Neurosphere, but he’d rather be playing computer games than dealing with his nightmare boss or slacker co-workers.
One rainy Monday morning he volunteers as a test candidate for the new tech – anything to get out of the office for a few hours. But when he gets out of the scanner he discovers he’s not only escaped the office, but possibly escaped real life for good. He finds himself trapped in Starfire – the violent sci-fi video game he spent his teenage years playing – with no explanation, no back-up and most terrifyingly, no way out.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game? Or would it be your worst nightmare? This is where you find out if you’re in a prison or a playground.
This is BEDLAM.
From the Back Cover
PRAISE FOR BEDLAM
‘Christopher Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare’
Charles Stross
‘Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords’
Ed Byrne
‘A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller’
Iain M. Banks
About the Author
Since his award-winning debut novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .
Christopher is developing a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM, due for release in 2014.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (7 Feb 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0356502139
  • ISBN-13: 978-0356502137
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
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Bedlam By Christopher Brookmyre Signed and Doodled Rare First Edition Book 4 https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-4-2/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-4-2/#respond Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:32:06 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2851 Brookmyre’s stunning sci-fi debut Bedlam has been tipped as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation! And the author has developed a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM and it is available on PlayStation and Xbox. And it certainly is fast paced, futuristic and full of explosive action!

Christopher has exclusively signed, lined, dated, numbered and doodled first printings of Bedlam for your collection – the signing took place at the authors home in the UK.

Since his award-winning debut crime novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .

Heaven is a prison. Hell is a playground.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game?
A realm where you don’t have to go to work or worry about your health; where you can look like a hero or a goddess; where you can fly space-ships, slay dragons, yet all of it feels completely real. A realm where there are no consequences and no responsibilities.
Or would it be your worst nightmare?
Stuck in an endless state of war and chaos where the pain and fear feels real and from which not even death can offer an escape.
Prison or playground. Heaven or hell. This is where you find out. This is white-knuckle action, sprawling adventure, merciless satire and outrageous humour like you’ve never experienced.
This is Bedlam.
Review
Warm, funny, excellently violent and highly recommended. Game on (SCIFI NOW )

Brain-tickling . . . It is a genuinely engrossing, amusing and intelligent novel. (GUARDIAN )

Riddled with sci-fi in-jokes, humorous bathos and top-notch creative profanity . . . BEDLAM – both a jovial satire and a geeky celebration of gamer culture – is enthralling fun (FINANCIAL TIMES )

Back to his visceral, vicious, jaw-dropping, jobby-on-the-mantlepiece best (SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS )

Full of explosive action – but there are hilarious jokes and proper thoughtful sci-fi too. A gem (THE SUN )

A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller (Iain M. Banks )

Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords (Ed Byrne )

Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare (Charles Stross )
Book Description
Christopher Brookmyre over-clocked and hardware-accelerated, this is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation.
From the Inside Flap
PRISON OR PLAYGROUND?
Ross Baker is an overworked and underpaid scientist developing medical technology for corporate giants Neurosphere, but he’d rather be playing computer games than dealing with his nightmare boss or slacker co-workers.
One rainy Monday morning he volunteers as a test candidate for the new tech – anything to get out of the office for a few hours. But when he gets out of the scanner he discovers he’s not only escaped the office, but possibly escaped real life for good. He finds himself trapped in Starfire – the violent sci-fi video game he spent his teenage years playing – with no explanation, no back-up and most terrifyingly, no way out.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game? Or would it be your worst nightmare? This is where you find out if you’re in a prison or a playground.
This is BEDLAM.
From the Back Cover
PRAISE FOR BEDLAM
‘Christopher Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare’
Charles Stross
‘Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords’
Ed Byrne
‘A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller’
Iain M. Banks
About the Author
Since his award-winning debut novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .
Christopher is developing a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM, due for release in 2014.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (7 Feb 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0356502139
  • ISBN-13: 978-0356502137
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
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Bedlam By Christopher Brookmyre Signed and Doodled Rare First Edition Book 4 https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-4/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-4/#respond Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:30:54 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2849 Brookmyre’s stunning sci-fi debut Bedlam has been tipped as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation! And the author has developed a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM and it is available on PlayStation and Xbox. And it certainly is fast paced, futuristic and full of explosive action!

Christopher has exclusively signed, lined, dated, numbered and doodled first printings of Bedlam for your collection – the signing took place at the authors home in the UK.

Since his award-winning debut crime novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .

Heaven is a prison. Hell is a playground.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game?
A realm where you don’t have to go to work or worry about your health; where you can look like a hero or a goddess; where you can fly space-ships, slay dragons, yet all of it feels completely real. A realm where there are no consequences and no responsibilities.
Or would it be your worst nightmare?
Stuck in an endless state of war and chaos where the pain and fear feels real and from which not even death can offer an escape.
Prison or playground. Heaven or hell. This is where you find out. This is white-knuckle action, sprawling adventure, merciless satire and outrageous humour like you’ve never experienced.
This is Bedlam.
Review
Warm, funny, excellently violent and highly recommended. Game on (SCIFI NOW )

Brain-tickling . . . It is a genuinely engrossing, amusing and intelligent novel. (GUARDIAN )

Riddled with sci-fi in-jokes, humorous bathos and top-notch creative profanity . . . BEDLAM – both a jovial satire and a geeky celebration of gamer culture – is enthralling fun (FINANCIAL TIMES )

Back to his visceral, vicious, jaw-dropping, jobby-on-the-mantlepiece best (SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS )

Full of explosive action – but there are hilarious jokes and proper thoughtful sci-fi too. A gem (THE SUN )

A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller (Iain M. Banks )

Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords (Ed Byrne )

Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare (Charles Stross )
Book Description
Christopher Brookmyre over-clocked and hardware-accelerated, this is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation.
From the Inside Flap
PRISON OR PLAYGROUND?
Ross Baker is an overworked and underpaid scientist developing medical technology for corporate giants Neurosphere, but he’d rather be playing computer games than dealing with his nightmare boss or slacker co-workers.
One rainy Monday morning he volunteers as a test candidate for the new tech – anything to get out of the office for a few hours. But when he gets out of the scanner he discovers he’s not only escaped the office, but possibly escaped real life for good. He finds himself trapped in Starfire – the violent sci-fi video game he spent his teenage years playing – with no explanation, no back-up and most terrifyingly, no way out.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game? Or would it be your worst nightmare? This is where you find out if you’re in a prison or a playground.
This is BEDLAM.
From the Back Cover
PRAISE FOR BEDLAM
‘Christopher Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare’
Charles Stross
‘Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords’
Ed Byrne
‘A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller’
Iain M. Banks
About the Author
Since his award-winning debut novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .
Christopher is developing a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM, due for release in 2014.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (7 Feb 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0356502139
  • ISBN-13: 978-0356502137
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
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Bedlam By Christopher Brookmyre Signed and Doodled Rare First Edition Book 3 https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-3/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-3/#respond Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:29:30 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2847 Brookmyre’s stunning sci-fi debut Bedlam has been tipped as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation! And the author has developed a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM and it is available on PlayStation and Xbox. And it certainly is fast paced, futuristic and full of explosive action!

Christopher has exclusively signed, lined, dated, numbered and doodled first printings of Bedlam for your collection – the signing took place at the authors home in the UK.

Since his award-winning debut crime novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .

Heaven is a prison. Hell is a playground.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game?
A realm where you don’t have to go to work or worry about your health; where you can look like a hero or a goddess; where you can fly space-ships, slay dragons, yet all of it feels completely real. A realm where there are no consequences and no responsibilities.
Or would it be your worst nightmare?
Stuck in an endless state of war and chaos where the pain and fear feels real and from which not even death can offer an escape.
Prison or playground. Heaven or hell. This is where you find out. This is white-knuckle action, sprawling adventure, merciless satire and outrageous humour like you’ve never experienced.
This is Bedlam.
Review
Warm, funny, excellently violent and highly recommended. Game on (SCIFI NOW )

Brain-tickling . . . It is a genuinely engrossing, amusing and intelligent novel. (GUARDIAN )

Riddled with sci-fi in-jokes, humorous bathos and top-notch creative profanity . . . BEDLAM – both a jovial satire and a geeky celebration of gamer culture – is enthralling fun (FINANCIAL TIMES )

Back to his visceral, vicious, jaw-dropping, jobby-on-the-mantlepiece best (SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS )

Full of explosive action – but there are hilarious jokes and proper thoughtful sci-fi too. A gem (THE SUN )

A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller (Iain M. Banks )

Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords (Ed Byrne )

Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare (Charles Stross )
Book Description
Christopher Brookmyre over-clocked and hardware-accelerated, this is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation.
From the Inside Flap
PRISON OR PLAYGROUND?
Ross Baker is an overworked and underpaid scientist developing medical technology for corporate giants Neurosphere, but he’d rather be playing computer games than dealing with his nightmare boss or slacker co-workers.
One rainy Monday morning he volunteers as a test candidate for the new tech – anything to get out of the office for a few hours. But when he gets out of the scanner he discovers he’s not only escaped the office, but possibly escaped real life for good. He finds himself trapped in Starfire – the violent sci-fi video game he spent his teenage years playing – with no explanation, no back-up and most terrifyingly, no way out.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game? Or would it be your worst nightmare? This is where you find out if you’re in a prison or a playground.
This is BEDLAM.
From the Back Cover
PRAISE FOR BEDLAM
‘Christopher Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare’
Charles Stross
‘Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords’
Ed Byrne
‘A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller’
Iain M. Banks
About the Author
Since his award-winning debut novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .
Christopher is developing a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM, due for release in 2014.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (7 Feb 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0356502139
  • ISBN-13: 978-0356502137
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
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Bedlam By Christopher Brookmyre Signed and Doodled Rare First Edition Book 1 https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-1/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/bedlam-christopher-brookmyre-signed-doodled-rare-first-edition-book-1/#respond Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:25:34 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2842 Brookmyre’s stunning sci-fi debut Bedlam has been tipped as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation! And the author has developed a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM and it is available on PlayStation and Xbox. And it certainly is fast paced, futuristic and full of explosive action!

Christopher has exclusively signed, lined, dated, numbered and doodled first printings of Bedlam for your collection – the signing took place at the authors home in the UK.

Since his award-winning debut crime novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .

Heaven is a prison. Hell is a playground.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game?
A realm where you don’t have to go to work or worry about your health; where you can look like a hero or a goddess; where you can fly space-ships, slay dragons, yet all of it feels completely real. A realm where there are no consequences and no responsibilities.
Or would it be your worst nightmare?
Stuck in an endless state of war and chaos where the pain and fear feels real and from which not even death can offer an escape.
Prison or playground. Heaven or hell. This is where you find out. This is white-knuckle action, sprawling adventure, merciless satire and outrageous humour like you’ve never experienced.
This is Bedlam.
Review
Warm, funny, excellently violent and highly recommended. Game on (SCIFI NOW )

Brain-tickling . . . It is a genuinely engrossing, amusing and intelligent novel. (GUARDIAN )

Riddled with sci-fi in-jokes, humorous bathos and top-notch creative profanity . . . BEDLAM – both a jovial satire and a geeky celebration of gamer culture – is enthralling fun (FINANCIAL TIMES )

Back to his visceral, vicious, jaw-dropping, jobby-on-the-mantlepiece best (SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS )

Full of explosive action – but there are hilarious jokes and proper thoughtful sci-fi too. A gem (THE SUN )

A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller (Iain M. Banks )

Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords (Ed Byrne )

Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare (Charles Stross )
Book Description
Christopher Brookmyre over-clocked and hardware-accelerated, this is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for a new generation.
From the Inside Flap
PRISON OR PLAYGROUND?
Ross Baker is an overworked and underpaid scientist developing medical technology for corporate giants Neurosphere, but he’d rather be playing computer games than dealing with his nightmare boss or slacker co-workers.
One rainy Monday morning he volunteers as a test candidate for the new tech – anything to get out of the office for a few hours. But when he gets out of the scanner he discovers he’s not only escaped the office, but possibly escaped real life for good. He finds himself trapped in Starfire – the violent sci-fi video game he spent his teenage years playing – with no explanation, no back-up and most terrifyingly, no way out.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game? Or would it be your worst nightmare? This is where you find out if you’re in a prison or a playground.
This is BEDLAM.
From the Back Cover
PRAISE FOR BEDLAM
‘Christopher Brookmyre hits another high score with this brilliant, fast-paced nightmare’
Charles Stross
‘Funny jokes, characters you can empathise with and devastatingly employed swearwords’
Ed Byrne
‘A fascinating, fast-paced but thoughtful blend of science fiction and techno-thriller’
Iain M. Banks
About the Author
Since his award-winning debut novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. He says this hasn’t stopped his fans from asking him to write something more futuristic instead, and he hopes they have as much fun reading Bedlam as he did writing it. Life is just a game, after all . . .
Christopher is developing a computer game based on Bedlam with a UK-based games company REDBEDLAM, due for release in 2014.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (7 Feb 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0356502139
  • ISBN-13: 978-0356502137
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
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Relics By Pip Vaughan Hughes Signed and Doodled First Edition Book https://doodledbooks.com/product/relics-by-pip-vaughan-hughes-signed-and-doodled-first-edition-book-2/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/relics-by-pip-vaughan-hughes-signed-and-doodled-first-edition-book-2/#respond Tue, 25 May 2021 20:02:02 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2750 Brilliant debut novel Relics by Pip Vaughan Hughes.  UK first edition first printing signed, lined, dated and doodled with a cross.  This book has also been featured in the Book and Magazine Collector.

Reviews
Susanna Yager, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘An impressive debut, with vivid period atmosphere, colourful personalities and stirring action.’

NEWMARKET JOURNAL
‘It’s a pleasure to discover something so fresh and gripping.’

Product Details

Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Orion (22 Mar 2006)
Language English
ISBN: 0752868616
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.5 inches

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The Key By Simon Toyne Rare Signed Doodled Numbered First Edition Book https://doodledbooks.com/product/the-key-by-simon-toyne-rare-signed-doodled-numbered-first-edition-book/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/the-key-by-simon-toyne-rare-signed-doodled-numbered-first-edition-book/#respond Tue, 25 May 2021 19:29:07 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2738 Conspiracy thrillers don’t come any bigger or better than THE KEY – from the author of this Sunday Times BESTSELLER! Yes Simon Toyne’s new novel has plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and is wonderfully imaginative. Infact author Kate Mosse is quoted to have said it’s the type of book to devour in one sitting!

More about the book…

Hounded. Haunted. Hunted. She is the most important person in the world. She is The Key.

In the ancient Turkish city of Ruin, American journalist Liv Adamsen lies in an isolation ward staring at walls as blank as her memory.

She knows she entered the monumental Citadel at the heart of Ruin but can remember only darkness. Something strange is stirring within her, whispering that she is ‘the key’.  But the key to what?

For the Ghost, a mercenary operating in the Syrian Desert, Liv could unlock one of mankind’s most potent secrets. For the brotherhood in the Citadel – now cursed by a terrible plague – her return is the only way to ensure their survival. And for a powerful faction in Rome, she threatens the very future of the Catholic Church.

Hunted across continents and caught up in events that defy explanation, Liv turns to the only person she trusts – a charity worker named Gabriel Mann. Together their paths lead to a shocking discovery – one that will tear them apart and change the world forever…

Now to date Simon Toyne’s books has been published in more than 40 countries and translated into 23 languages. This stunning new author’s work has been liked to style of Dan Brown (the Da Vinci Code). And already prices of Simons first edition first printings have reached the hundred pound mark on famous book collecting sites. And he has exclusively signed, lined, dated, numbered and doodled just 20 books for Doodled Books collectors.  So start your collection now!

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (12 April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007391595
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007391592
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 4 cm
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Dial M for Merthyr By Rachel Trezise Doodled Signed First Edition Book (DYLAN THOMAS WINNER) https://doodledbooks.com/product/dial-m-for-merthyr-by-rachel-trezise-first-edition-doodled-book-dylan-thomas-winner/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/dial-m-for-merthyr-by-rachel-trezise-first-edition-doodled-book-dylan-thomas-winner/#respond Tue, 25 May 2021 19:19:16 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2736 Amazing book which has all the makings of a runaway success! Rachel Trezise winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize has exclusively doodled, signed, lined and dated 20 books. This author is becoming hot property and it’s rumoured that her next book will be published by a mainstream publishing house. This is a fantastic book with lots of potential.

Review
“A mesmerising and intense read.” Buzz

Product Description
Rachel Trezise grew up listening to the rock behemoths of the late 1980s and harbouring an ambition to write a warts ‘n’ all rockumentary. At a rock gig in a Rhondda pub, she discovered Midasuno; a gaggle of Merthyr kids with a ton of conviction and a penchant for neck breaking guitar riffs. In 2005 she stepped onto the tour bus they call Black Betty and tracked the band as they razed the British toilet circuit. Part reportage, social history and memoir, Dial M For Merthyr tells the story of a band from the wrong side of the tracks trying to stay afloat in an ever changing musical and social climate.

Product Details:

Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Parthian Books; first edition (1 Jun 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1905762127
ISBN-13: 978-1905762125

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