London: Cape, 1998. Octavo, black boards. Fine in fine jacket, and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (simple ink signature to the title page). This is the first issue of the jacket, with no mention of the book being on the Booker shortlist. A satirical novel "about the idea of England - and about the search for authenticity and truth amid the fabulation and bogusness that is 'England'.; Signed by Author