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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O
    Just By Looking at Him - by Ryan O'Connell

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780751585469 | ISBN 10: 0751585467

    ‘A horny romp that makes you think, laugh, and feel. O’Connell is one of my favourite writers’ MONICA HEISEY, author of Really Good, Actually   ‘A very funny novel about falling for a fantasy and finding love for one’s own self’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Easy Reading by Cristina Morales
    Easy Reading - by Cristina Morales

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787332676 | ISBN 10: 1787332675

    An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina Morales.  Angela, Patricia, Marga and Nati are cousins living together in Barcelona. As women branded as disabled who shar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Overstory by Richard Powers
    The Overstory - by Richard Powers

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784708245 | ISBN 10: 1784708240

    Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.   A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.   The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables ... more

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  • Cover image of book Census by Jesse Ball
    Census - by Jesse Ball

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783783779 | ISBN 10: 178378377x

    "Census is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches."(David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas) "A humane, surreal novel that in terms of its own art form embraces, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic
    And Fire Came Down - by Emma Viskic

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782274551 | ISBN 10: 1782274553

    A SILENT SCREAM The woman can only sign two words: help... family. And then she is gone - a body lying dead in the street.   A TOWN READY TO BURN Caleb's search for her killer takes him back to his hometown of Resurrection Bay. Centuries of raci ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man on the Middle Floor by Elizabeth Moore
    The Man on the Middle Floor - by Elizabeth Moore

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910453544 | ISBN 10: 1910453544

    Mark Haddon meets Elizabeth Haynes in this unforgettable debut novel.   Despite living in the same three-flat house in the suburbs of London, the residents are strangers to one another. The bottom floor is home to Tam, a recent ex-cop who spen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ismael and His Sisters by Louise Stern
    Ismael and His Sisters - by Louise Stern

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847089465 | ISBN 10: 1847089461

    Siblings Ismael, Rosie and Cristina are deaf, and so are many in their Maya village. The deaf and hearing alike communicate in sign language, forming a tightly-knit community with an unsophisticated, simple lifestyle. But when Ismael gets into a figh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
    The Rosie Effect - by Graeme Simsion

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781405918060 | ISBN 10: 1405918063

    The Rosie Effect is the wonderfully charming and hilarious sequel to Graeme Simsion's bestselling debut novel The Rosie Project.   Until a year ago, forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date. Until he met Rosie, 'the wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Someone to Watch Over Me by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
    Someone to Watch Over Me - by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444734447 | ISBN 10: 144473444x

    Chilling Icelandic crime from the internationally bestselling author of Last Rituals and Ashes to Dust.  A creepy, compelling thriller, Someone to Watch Over Me is the fifth Thora Gudmundsdottir novel from Yrsa, 'Iceland's answer to Stieg Larss ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mouseproof Kitchen by Saira Shah
    The Mouseproof Kitchen - by Saira Shah

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575146 | ISBN 10: 0099575140

    A heartbreakingly honest and funny autobiographical novel about family, love and life in rural France  Anna knows that if you want something really badly, you have to plan it. After all, she’s a chef. To make a béchamel sauce, you need the righ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Magnificent Joe by James Wheatley
    Magnificent Joe - by James Wheatley

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780743691 | ISBN 10: 1780743696

    What Joe needs is a friend. What Jim needs is a fresh start.   Living in a former pit village in the North of England, Joe's learning difficulties have left him isolated, his only contact with the community playing the back-end of the horse in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
    The Rosie Project - by Graeme Simsion

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781405912792 | ISBN 10: 1405912790

    The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday...  Meet Don Tillman.   Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
    Rubbernecker - by Belinda Bauer

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780552779494 | ISBN 10: 0552779490

    Patrick didn’t care what made people work. He was only interested in what happened when they stopped.   Life is strange for Patrick Fort - being a medical student with Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t come without its challenges. And that’s before ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Folded Man by Matt Hill
    The Folded Man - by Matt Hill

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908737342 | ISBN 10: 1908737344

    In 2018, Manchester is a rotten city propped up by a few bad men. After the cuts, the toppling of its flagship tower, the riots and the terror, the promise of a prosperous North is gone. The first industrial city is dying – its people left to fend fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wonder by R.J. Palacio
    Wonder - by R.J. Palacio

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780552778626 | ISBN 10: 0552778621

    'My name is August. I won't describe to you what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'   Ten-year-old August Pullman wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things. He eats ice-cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ru by Kim Thuy
    Ru - by Kim Thuy

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846685484 | ISBN 10: 1846685486

    A book of rare beauty: Ru is a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.   Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, and money. Kim Thuy's Ru is literature a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective by Alexei Maxim Russell
    Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective - by Alexei Maxim Russell

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849052627 | ISBN 10: 184905262x

    Trueman Bradley is a genius detective with a difference, he has Asperger's Syndrome (AS).  Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrives in New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming a private detective, like ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chattering by Louise Stern
    Chattering - by Louise Stern

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847081773 | ISBN 10: 1847081770

    Louise Stern's stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out from their peers is that they have grown up deaf. They communicate with the outside world via a complic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blue Fox by Sjon
    The Blue Fox - by Sjon

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846590375 | ISBN 10: 184659037x

    The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox.  We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge ... more

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  • Cover image of book Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls by Lois Keith
    Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls - by Lois Keith

    £11.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780704346512 | ISBN 10: 0704346516

    'Bow we shall be able to come up here together every day, and just go where we like; and you will be able all your life to walk about as I do, and not be pushed about in a chair ... it is the greatest happiness we could have had!' (from Heidi, Joanna ... more

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