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  • Cover image of book When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem
    When I Sing, Mountains Dance - by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783788255 | ISBN 10: 1783788259

    When Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish civil war. ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
    After Sappho - by Selby Wynn Schwartz

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913111397 | ISBN 10: 1913111393

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022  “What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.”   It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who ... more

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  • Cover image of book She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa
    She and Her Cat - by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804993118 | ISBN 10: 1804993115

    On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a neighbourhood crossed by a commuter railway, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times.   A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of courage to a young w ... more

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  • Cover image of book White as Snow by Lilja Sigurdardóttir
    White as Snow - by Lilja Sigurdardóttir

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914585845 | ISBN 10: 1914585844

    Daníel and Áróra hunt a brutal killer when a shipping container with the bodies of five women is found outside Reykjavik, as Áróra continues the search for her missing sister. Book three in the addictive, chilling An Áróra Investigation series ... more

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  • Cover image of book 28 Questions by Indyana Schneider
    28 Questions - by Indyana Schneider

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398501126 | ISBN 10: 1398501123

    They say it takes 28 Questions to fall in love. Then what?  'Funny, clever, sad without self-pity, and with an uplift that is the writing itself' Jeanette Winterson  'If it's an addictive read you're after, consider this your next stop.' Styl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Future Fish by Conor Sneyd
    Future Fish - by Conor Sneyd

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781785633515 | ISBN 10: 1785633511

    Sacked from his first job in Dublin, Mark McGuire arrives in the dismal town of Ashcross to take up a new role as customer service assistant for Ireland’s second-biggest pet food brand, WellCat. From his initial impressions, it’s a toss-up whethe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Elektra by Jennifer Saint
    Elektra - by Jennifer Saint

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472273956 | ISBN 10: 1472273958

    **The spellbinding new retelling of the Trojan War drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all.**  ‘The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ R ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
    Memphis - by Tara M. Stringfellow

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529339253 | ISBN 10: 1529339251

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE   ‘A rhapsodic hymn to Black women’ New York Times Book Review   ‘Epic yet intimate’ Cosmopolitan   ‘Ferocious and comp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
    Death of a Bookseller - by Alice Slater

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529385328 | ISBN 10: 1529385326

    THE MOST ANTICIPATED DEBUT THRILLER OF 2023, WHICH WILL MAKE YOUR SKIN CRAWL AND YOUR HEART POUND.  ‘A confident, sassy, pitch-black debut’ CAROLINE KEPNES ‘Your new obsession’ ERIN KELLY ‘Savage, witty and all-consuming’ ABIGAIL ... more

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  • Cover image of book Companion Piece by Ali Smith
    Companion Piece - by Ali Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241993958 | ISBN 10: 0241993954

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet.  One day in post-Brexit, mid-pandemic Britain, artist Sandy Gray receives an unexpected phone call fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (Editor)
    New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color - by Nisi Shawl (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786188588 | ISBN 10: 1786188589

    Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”  New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking — breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler
    Lady MacBethad - by Isabelle Schuler

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526647252 | ISBN 10: 1526647257

    'Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that Isabelle Schuler conjures up where only the most ruthless can survive' - Jennifer Saint  'Dazzlingly clever and difficult to put down' i  ... more

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  • Cover image of book If the River is Hidden by Cherry Smyth and Craig Jordan-Baker
    If the River is Hidden - by Cherry Smyth and Craig Jordan-Baker

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739188108 | ISBN 10: 1739188101

    If the River is Hidden charts the journey of two writers from the source to the mouth of the Bann, Northern Ireland’s longest river. Through a dialogue of prose and poetry the history, landscape and divisions that have come to define the North are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Utopias Of The Third Kind by Vandana Singh
    Utopias Of The Third Kind - by Vandana Singh

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781629639154 | ISBN 10: 162963915x

    One of contemporary SF’s most original and compelling voices, Vandana Singh is a professor of physics who weaves the ancient wisdom of her native India and the hard truths of quantum science into stories that speak to the complex wonders of today ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Light by Alex Scarrow
    Last Light - by Alex Scarrow

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398710078 | ISBN 10: 1398710075

    SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JOANNE FROGGATT AND MATHEW FOX  A terrifying apocalyptic thriller from the one of the brightest stars of the genre...  ‘Chillingly plausible’ DAILY TELEGRAPH   It seems to be a very normal Monday m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
    Lucy by the Sea - by Elizabeth Strout

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241606995 | ISBN 10: 0241606993

    From the Pulitzer prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author of MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON and OH WILLIAM!  'It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us'  In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York an ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan by Arun Sood
    New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan - by Arun Sood

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912489534 | ISBN 10: 1912489538

    A tale on youth, mis-belonging, music, race, and motley motorcycle rides across Northern India and Skye as four unlikely friends try to reconnect after a decade apart. Four estranged friends reunite for a motorcycle trip up the Isle of Skye, in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
    Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth - by Wole Soyinka

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526638250 | ISBN 10: 1526638258

    'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri   'A lion of African literature' - Financial Times   'Chronicles is many things at once: a caustic political satire, a murder mystery, a conspiracy story and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is by Paul Stanbridge
    My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is - by Paul Stanbridge

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913111267 | ISBN 10: 1913111261

    In My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is, the extraordinary follow-up to his prize-winning novel Forbidden Line, Paul Stanbridge tells us about remarkable things.  He tells us about the plains of Doggerland, lost under the North Sea.  He tells us abou ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
    China Room - by Sunjeev Sahota

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784706364 | ISBN 10: 1784706361

    A story of forbidden love that echoes across generations - from the prize-winning author of The Year of the Runaways.  'A gorgeous, gripping read' Kamila Shamsie 'A multi-generational masterpiece' Daily Mail  * A Book of the Year for The Tim ... more

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  • Cover image of book People Like Them by Samira Sedira
    People Like Them - by Samira Sedira

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526638595 | ISBN 10: 1526638592

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER IN TRANSLATION  'Disturbing and powerful... I loved it' - Leïla Slimani, author of Lullaby 'Icy and chilling... In sharply drawn sentences, Sedira summons the beauty of a small French village, and the shocking act ... more

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  • Cover image of book Saki
    Saki's Cats - by Saki

    £6.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913724177 | ISBN 10: 1913724174

    Saki’s Cats rounds up the tales about cats, big and small, by the undisputed master of the short story.   ‘Tobermory’, one of Saki’s most famous pieces, demonstrates the danger that would ensue from granting cats the power of speech ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great Circle by Transworld Publishers Ltd
    Great Circle - by Transworld Publishers Ltd

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529176643 | ISBN 10: 1529176646

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR  'A gripping historical adventure that feels sharp, fresh and modern' STYLIST  'So beaut ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
    The Country of Others - by Leila Slimani

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571361632 | ISBN 10: 0571361633

    1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here is unrecognisable to this brave and passionate young woman.  Her life is now that of a farmer's wife - with all the sacrifices and vexations that bri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kalmann by Joachim Schmidt
    Kalmann - by Joachim Schmidt

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913394684 | ISBN 10: 1913394689

    A touching and very funny Nordic crime thriller with a difference. No gratuitous violence, no revenge porn. A tightly plotted suspense story based on a mentally challenged character described with empathy, humour and psychological tact.   Sjo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
    Marriage Material - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529156201 | ISBN 10: 1529156203

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD AND LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE  FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOY WITH THE TOPKNOT AND EMPIRELAND  When Arjan returns to the Black Country after his father's death, his family's corne ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
    Sorrowland - by Rivers Solomon

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529118759 | ISBN 10: 1529118751

    A triumphant, genre-bending novel, following a young woman through a nightmarish yet recognisable landscape as she attempts to create a new life for herself and her children.   Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
    Young Mungo - by Douglas Stuart

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529068764 | ISBN 10: 1529068762

    "Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates."(Ob ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
    The Island of Missing Trees - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241988725 | ISBN 10: 0241988721

    A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.  It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex (Author)
    The Lamplighters - by Emma Stonex (Author)

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529047356 | ISBN 10: 1529047358

    As recommended by the BBC Radio 2 Book Club  They say we'll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets...  Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entr ... more

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  • Cover image of book I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
    I, Nerd - by Max Sydney Smith

    £5.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781916413672 | ISBN 10: 1916413676

    Robin plays the Game in a club on the top floor of a converted warehouse. Every week Robin’s Halflings do table top battle against Daemons, Dwarves, Elves, Orcs, Humans and the forces of Undead. And every week he loses.   But when the twin w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Woman in the World by Inga Simpson
    The Last Woman in the World - by Inga Simpson

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780751578584 | ISBN 10: 0751578584

    Award-winning writer Inga Simpson terrifies and enthralls with this truly remarkable novel of a woman who must face her worst fears to survive and find beauty in the Australian bush.  Fear is her cage. But what’s outside is worse...  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
    Daughters of Night - by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781509880843 | ISBN 10: 1509880844

    From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget.. ... more

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  • Cover image of book When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola
    When I Sing, Mountains Dance - by Irene Sola

    £12.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787142 | ISBN 10: 1783787147

    When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish civil war. But t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
    Please Look After Mother - by Kyung-Sook Shin

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474621687 | ISBN 10: 1474621686

    WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE  When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
    Ariadne - by Jennifer Saint

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472273901 | ISBN 10: 1472273907

    A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS.  As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and he ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Crow Folk: The Witches of Woodville 1 by Mark Stay
    The Crow Folk: The Witches of Woodville 1 - by Mark Stay

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781471197970 | ISBN 10: 1471197972

    As Spitfires roar overhead and a dark figure stalks the village of Woodville, a young woman will discover her destiny...  Faye Bright always felt a little bit different. And today she’s found out why. She’s just stumbled across her late m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Most Familiar Face In the World by George Skelly
    The Most Familiar Face In the World - by George Skelly

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781914366949 | ISBN 10: 1914366948

    Young Sheridan is an exceptional kid. Astute beyond his tender years, but trapped in a hard-knock childhood, amidst the squalor and grit of post-war Liverpool - where the grown-ups make no sense. Brutal yet kind, tragic yet funny, happy yet sad. He f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
    The Wife of Willesden - by Zadie Smith

    £5.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241471968 | ISBN 10: 0241471966

    'Married five times. Mother. Lover.Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Year
    The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 2: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021 - by Jonathan Strahan (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781534449626 | ISBN 10: 1534449620

    The most celebrated science fiction short story editor of our time, multi-award-winning editor and Locus Magazine critic Jonathan Strahan presents the definitive collection of best short science fiction of 2021.   With short works from some o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
    Great Circle - by Maggie Shipstead

    £16.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857526809 | ISBN 10: 0857526804

    Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize   For fans of The Goldfinch, All the Light We Cannot See and The Girls: this monumentally powerful epic weaves together the astonishing lives of a daredevil female aviator and the Hollywood rebel who will pla ... more

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  • Cover image of book Karolina, or The Torn Curtain by Maryla Szymiczkowa
    Karolina, or The Torn Curtain - by Maryla Szymiczkowa

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786079299 | ISBN 10: 1786079291

    A thrilling sequel to the critically-acclaimed Mrs Mohr Goes Missing.  Easter, 1895. The biggest event in the Catholic calendar is a disaster in Zofia Turbotynska's household. Her maid Karolina has handed in her notice and worse, gone missing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer
    Children of the Sun - by Max Schaefer

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781916207752 | ISBN 10: 1916207758

    1970. Fourteen year old Tony is seduced by the skinhead movement, sucked into a world of racist violence and bizarre ritual. It is a milieu in which he must hide his homosexuality, in which every encounter is explosively risky.   2003. James a you ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction by Tarun K. Saint (Editor)
    New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction - by Tarun K. Saint (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781473228689 | ISBN 10: 1473228689

    The citizens of Karachi wake up and discover the sea missing from their shores, the last Parsi on Earth must escape to other worlds when debt collectors come knocking, and a family visiting a Partition-themed park gets more entertainment than they ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book Olga by Bernhard Schlink
    Olga - by Bernhard Schlink

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474611152 | ISBN 10: 147461115x

    THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER  Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees ... more

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  • Cover image of book Summer by Ali Smith
    Summer - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241973370 | ISBN 10: 0241973376

    The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer.  In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
    Shuggie Bain - by Douglas Stuart

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529019292 | ISBN 10: 152901929x

    Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2020 A BBC Radio 2 Between the Covers 2021 Book Choice   It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always exp ... more

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  • Cover image of book What
    What's Left of Me is Yours - by Stephanie Scott

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474610896 | ISBN 10: 1474610897

    One of the Observer's Ten Best Debut Novelists of 2020  A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, What's Left of Me Is Yours follows a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life - and her murder.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bina by Anakana Schofield
    Bina - by Anakana Schofield

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349726441 | ISBN 10: 0349726442

    Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020   My name is Bina and I'm a very busy woman. That's Bye-na, not Beena. I don't know who Beena is but I expect she's having a happy life. I don't know who you are, or the state of your life. But if you'v ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
    Grand Union: Stories - by Zadie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241983126 | ISBN 10: 0241983126

    The first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth.  In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else ... more

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  • Cover image of book Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
    Olive, Again - by Elizabeth Strout

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241985540 | ISBN 10: 0241985544

    An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton.   Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spring by Ali Smith
    Spring - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241973356 | ISBN 10: 024197335x

    From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet.  What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
    The Old Drift - by Namwali Serpell

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784703998 | ISBN 10: 1784703990

    Electrifying, playful, ambitious, brilliant – a Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time.  On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majest ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
    The Island of Sea Women - by Lisa See

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471183836 | ISBN 10: 1471183831

    A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.   Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
    Katalin Street - by Magda Szabo

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857058478 | ISBN 10: 0857058479

    BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF NYTBR'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015 WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019   In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Stre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
    Shuggie Bain - by Douglas Stuart

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529019278 | ISBN 10: 1529019273

    Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020.  It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life.  She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought a ... more

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  • Cover image of book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
    10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - by Elif Shafak

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241979464 | ISBN 10: 0241979463

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019  'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity Fair  'Incredibly sens ... more

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  • Cover image of book A People
    A People's History of Heaven - by Mathangi Subramanian

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077615 | ISBN 10: 1786077612

    LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD, 2020  A dazzling tribute to the resilience and determination of a remarkable community of women.  In the sprawling Bangalore slum of Heaven, five girls - Muslim, Christian and Hindu; gay and straight - for ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rosie Result by Graham Simsion
    The Rosie Result - by Graham Simsion

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781405941303 | ISBN 10: 1405941308

    THE WONDERFUL FINAL INSTALMENT TO THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SERIES THAT BEGAN WITH THE ROSIE PROJECT   Big-hearted, hilarious and life-affirming, The Rosie Result is a story of overcoming life's obstacles with a little love and a lot of ov ... more

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  • Cover image of book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
    10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - by Elif Shafak

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241293867 | ISBN 10: 0241293863

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019   'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore...'   For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuo ... more

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  • Cover image of book People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman
    People in Trouble - by Sarah Schulman

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529111361 | ISBN 10: 1529111366

    First published in 1990, a blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis.  It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away.   It is the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
    Once Upon a River - by Diane Setterfield

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784163631 | ISBN 10: 1784163635

    Some say the river drowned her...Some say it brought her back to life.   On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open and in steps an i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman
    Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen - by Alix Kates Shulman

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788163408 | ISBN 10: 1788163400

    The cult classic that defined a generation - first UK publication in 47 years.  Sasha Davis has everything a girl in 1950s suburbia could want: beauty, intelligence and an all-star sports captain boyfriend. All she needs to succeed is to keep ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
    The Faculty of Dreams - by Sara Stridsberg

    £13.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857054722 | ISBN 10: 0857054724

    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019   In April 1988, Valerie Solanas – the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol – was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom
    The Expedition to the Baobab Tree - by Wilma Stockenstrom

    £7.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571347742 | ISBN 10: 0571347746

    Wearily, I take the path to the river, there in the cool to fill my being with the sounds of my sister-being, to refresh myself in the modest scents of pigeonwood and mitzeerie, to let my gaze end in a tangle of monkey ropes and fern arches and the s ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig
    One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century - by Roland Schimmelpfennig

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857056979 | ISBN 10: 0857056972

    One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge.   On an icy m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla
    The One Who Wrote Destiny - by Nikesh Shukla

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786492807 | ISBN 10: 1786492806

    Guardian‘s Best Summer Books 2018  “A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.” Sabrina Mahfouz, Guardian   Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the Rolling Stones and a n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Lily by Philippa Stockley
    Black Lily - by Philippa Stockley

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910258095 | ISBN 10: 1910258091

    In late seventeenth century London two women, one white, one black, stake everything to prevent a manipulative mogul destroying them. Zenobia, born in poverty, grasps that her only hope of controlling her own life is to capitalise on her looks; Lily, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fox 8 by George Saunders, illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal
    Fox 8 - by George Saunders, illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal

    £9.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526606488 | ISBN 10: 1526606488

    An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal.  Fox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by ... more

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  • Cover image of book Winter by Ali Smith
    Winter - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241973332 | ISBN 10: 0241973333

    The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet -- from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both.   Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. T ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
    Frankenstein in Baghdad - by Ahmed Saadawi

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073976 | ISBN 10: 1786073978

    A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set in war-torn Baghdad.  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION   From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Bag ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
    Lullaby - by Leïla Slimani

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571337545 | ISBN 10: 0571337546

    The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.   When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marriage Of A Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
    Marriage Of A Thousand Lies - by SJ Sindu

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781616959470 | ISBN 10: 1616959479

    Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side. It’s not ideal, but for Lucky, it seems to be working. But when Lucky’s grandmo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cow by Beat Sterchi
    Cow - by Beat Sterchi

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786697479 | ISBN 10: 1786697475

    Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lust For Life by Irving Stone
    Lust For Life - by Irving Stone

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787461390 | ISBN 10: 1787461394

    Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh.   “Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world… He was a co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories by Susan Sontag
    Stories - by Susan Sontag

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241982716 | ISBN 10: 0241982715

    The complete short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century - collected together for the first time   Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
    All the Fabulous Beasts - by Priya Sharma

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781988964027 | ISBN 10: 1988964024

    The debut short story collection from acclaimed U.K. writer Priya Sharma, All the Fabulous Beasts collects 16 stunning and monstrous tales of love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality. A heady mix of myth and ontology, horror and the modern macabre. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Other People
    Other People's Houses - by Lore Segal

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908745750 | ISBN 10: 1908745754

    A new edition marking the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport.   Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dunbar: King Lear Retold by Edward St Aubyn
    Dunbar: King Lear Retold - by Edward St Aubyn

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784701697 | ISBN 10: 1784701696

    ‘I really did have an empire, you know,’ said Dunbar. ‘Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?’   Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over ... more

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  • Cover image of book Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
    Home Fire - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408886793 | ISBN 10: 1408886790

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017   Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneek ... more

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  • Cover image of book Phone by Will Self
    Phone - by Will Self

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141046396 | ISBN 10: 0141046392

    'WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button - turn it over and over. . . . . . . . ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black No More by George S. Schuyler
    Black No More - by George S. Schuyler

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780143131885 | ISBN 10: 0143131885

    The landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”  It’s New Year’s Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius Crookman ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
    Anything is Possible - by Elizabeth Strout

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241248799 | ISBN 10: 0241248795

    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017  Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018    An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Flesh and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma
    Flesh and Bone and Water - by Luiza Sauma

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241978146 | ISBN 10: 0241978149

    Brazilian-born doctor André Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about.   The letter prompts And ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
    My Cat Yugoslavia - by Pajtim Statovci

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782273608 | ISBN 10: 1782273603

    Yugoslavia, 1980s: a 16-year-old Muslim girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But what was meant to be a happy match soon goes terribly wrong. Her country is torn apart by war and she flees with her family.   Decades later Emi ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
    A Boy in Winter - by Rachel Seiffert

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781844089994 | ISBN 10: 1844089991

    From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room, an extraordinary new novel.   Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. A Boy In Winter tells of the three ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
    Lincoln in the Bardo - by George Saunders

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408871775 | ISBN 10: 1408871777

    A NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  'It would be an understatement to call this novel an extraordinary tour de force' Sunday Times  The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George S ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Dancer by Richard Skinner
    The Red Dancer - by Richard Skinner

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571333233 | ISBN 10: 0571333230

    A new edition of Richard Skinner's classic novel about the life of Mati Hari, released to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death, October 2017.   When Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts ad ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
    Sweet Bean Paste - by Durian Sukegawa

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071958 | ISBN 10: 1786071959

    ‘I’m in story heaven with this book.’ Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You  A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan.   Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat: And Other Stories from the North by Sjon and Ted Hodgkinson (Editors)
    The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat: And Other Stories from the North - by Sjon and Ted Hodgkinson (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782273820 | ISBN 10: 1782273824

    This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and compelling volume displays the thrillin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
    Fever Dream - by Samanta Schweblin

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786072382 | ISBN 10: 1786072386

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017   A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child.   The two seem anxious and, at Davi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snare by Lilja Sigurdardottir
    Snare - by Lilja Sigurdardottir

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910633809 | ISBN 10: 1910633801

    After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
    Three Daughters of Eve - by Elif Shafak

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241978887 | ISBN 10: 0241978882

    On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party - a night of luxury a far cry from her upbringing. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to doubt how she got here: a traumatic Istanbul childhood, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ernesto by Umberto Saba
    Ernesto - by Umberto Saba

    £10.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786690685 | ISBN 10: 1786690683

    Ernesto is sixteen years old and ready for life to begin. His curiosity leads him into an affair with an older man – the first step on his journey to adulthood.  Full of tenderness, humour and warmth, Ernesto is a beautifully rendered comin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Autumn by Ali Smith
    Autumn - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241973318 | ISBN 10: 0241973317

    A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both.  Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819.  How about Autumn 2016?  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
    Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile - by Adelle Stripe

    £12.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781903110560 | ISBN 10: 1903110564

    “You write what’s said, you don’t lie. Or say it didn’t happen when it did all the time...”   Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is a novel inspired by the life and work of the Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.   Best know ... more

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  • Cover image of book 2020 by Kenneth Steven
    2020 - by Kenneth Steven

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910192559 | ISBN 10: 1910192554

    In 2020, Britain is at breaking point... In a country sorely divided, what happens to empathy and tolerance, to generosity of spirit? And can hope survive?   In 2020, years of economic turmoil, bitter debates over immigration, and anger at the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cry Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre
    Cry Mother Spain - by Lydie Salvayre

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857054524 | ISBN 10: 085705452x

    A powerful account of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of a young girl.  Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard ... more

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  • Cover image of book Swing Time by Zadie Smith
    Swing Time - by Zadie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141036601 | ISBN 10: 0141036605

    An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty.   Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abo ... more

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  • Cover image of book They are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
    They are Trying to Break Your Heart - by David Savill

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408865781 | ISBN 10: 1408865785

    Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 "Moving, tender, thrilling, important. It will stay with me for a very long time"(Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching) DISASTER WILL BRING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER   In 1994, Marko Nova ... more

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  • Cover image of book All That Man Is by David Szalay
    All That Man Is - by David Szalay

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099593690 | ISBN 10: 0099593696

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Winner of the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize   Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving – in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila
    The Ultimate Tragedy - by Abdulai Sila

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910213544 | ISBN 10: 1910213543

    The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule.  Ndani leaves her village to seek a better ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Hid My Voice by Parinoush Saniee
    I Hid My Voice - by Parinoush Saniee

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408707500 | ISBN 10: 1408707500

    A sweet and touching novel which can be read both as a coming of age story, set against a fascinating backdrop, and at a deeper level as a commentary on life in country where there is very little freedom of expression. This is the story, based on ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon
    Leaving Lucy Pear - by Anna Solomon

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349134475 | ISBN 10: 0349134472

    Through the near trees she could see the far ones in the orchard down below. Slowly, her eyes adjusted, and she saw the pears themselves, their waxy orbs glowing greenly in the three-quarter dark. Her mouth watered and Bea, embarrassed by this bodily ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
    My Name is Lucy Barton - by Elizabeth Strout

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241248782 | ISBN 10: 0241248787

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.  An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.  Lucy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Akram
    Akram's War: A Novel of One Young Muslim's Journey to Radicalization - by Nadim Safdar

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782397328 | ISBN 10: 1782397329

    One night, Akram Khan walks out of his house towards an appointed time and place where he is supposed to detonate a bomb that will end his life and that of many innocent bystanders. As he wanders through the town he encounters Grace, whose life has b ... more

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  • Cover image of book 2084: The End of the World by Boualem Sansal
    2084: The End of the World - by Boualem Sansal

    £11.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781609453664 | ISBN 10: 1609453662

    WINNER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY GRAND PRIX   A tribute to George Orwell's 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which religious extremists have established an oppressive cali ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki
    Spring Garden - by Tomoka Shibasaki

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782272700 | ISBN 10: 1782272704

    Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope.   Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon a ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Need toTalk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
    We Need toTalk About Kevin - by Lionel Shriver

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781255674 | ISBN 10: 1781255679

    Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visted in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Fra ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Speech by Andrew Smith
    The Speech - by Andrew Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781911129516 | ISBN 10: 1911129511

    His words threatened rivers of blood... and they fought him with hope...   On April 20th, 1968 Enoch Powell, Member of Parliament in the English town of Wolverhampton, made a speech that shook Britain to its core. The ramifications of wha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Istanbul, Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez
    Istanbul, Istanbul - by Burhan Sönmez

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592058 | ISBN 10: 1846592054

    Istanbul is a city of a million cells, and every cell is an Istanbul unto itself.  Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners – Demirtay the student, the doctor, Kamo the barber and Uncle Küheylan – sit, awaiting their turn at ... more

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  • Cover image of book Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
    Occupy Me - by Tricia Sullivan

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473212978 | ISBN 10: 1473212979

    An Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author, a search not for who you are but what you are, a stunning revelation about the Universe and our place in it.  A woman with wings that exist in another dimension. A man trapped in his own body by a kil ... more

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  • Cover image of book The History of a Town by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
    The History of a Town - by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

    £10.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784975425 | ISBN 10: 1784975427

    The town governors... all flogged the inhabitants, but the first flogged them pure and simple, the second explained their zeal by referring to the needs of civilization, and the third asked only that in all matters the inhabitants should trust in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before the Feast by Saša Stanišic
    Before the Feast - by Saša Stanišic

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782271758 | ISBN 10: 1782271759

    Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize Longlisted for the German Book Prize   It's the evening before the feast in the village of Fürstenfelde (population: declining), but not everyone is asleep. The local artist, wearing an evening dress a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance by Owen Sheers
    Resistance - by Owen Sheers

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571326129 | ISBN 10: 0571326129

    Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley.  In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam (Editors)
    The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction - by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583805 | ISBN 10: 190558380x

    Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets by Khairy Shalaby, translated by Michael Cooperson
    The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets - by Khairy Shalaby, translated by Michael Cooperson

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789774167928 | ISBN 10: 9774167929

    The misadventures of a modern time traveler through Egypt’s recent and medieval past.   Ibn Shalaby, like many Egyptians, is looking for a job. Yet, unlike most of his fellow citizens, he is prone to sudden dislocations in time. Armed with h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Trees by Ali Shaw
    The Trees - by Ali Shaw

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408862308 | ISBN 10: 1408862301

    A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Station Eleven from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet.   There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Days by Gillian Slovo
    Ten Days - by Gillian Slovo

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782116400 | ISBN 10: 1782116400

    It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire.  In this gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories from Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare
    Stories from Other Places - by Nicholas Shakespeare

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784701017 | ISBN 10: 1784701017

    Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face.  The opening novella, ‘Oddfellows’, tells the little-known history of the only e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Owl Song at Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney
    Owl Song at Dawn - by Emma Claire Sweeney

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785079672 | ISBN 10: 1785079670

    Perfect for fans of Karen Joy Fowler, Nathan Filer and Maggie O'Farrell   Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing eighty, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambes 1950s heyday. But now only her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
    Seveneves - by Neal Stephenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008132545 | ISBN 10: 0008132542

    The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction.   THE EARTH WAS A TICKING TIME BOMB.   To ensure the survival they had to look beyond its atmosphere.   So they became pioneers.   Five thousand years later and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa
    Ice Candy Man - by Bapsi Sidhwa

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781907970634 | ISBN 10: 1907970630

    Eight-year-old Lenny is crippled by polio but inquisitive and spirited. She spends her days in the park with her beloved Ayah, surrounded by a plethora of other park-goers: theres the Sikh zoo-keeper, the Pathan, strong Imman Din, and Ice-Candy Man ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers
    I Saw a Man - by Owen Sheers

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571317745 | ISBN 10: 057131774x

    After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London to start again. Living on a quiet street in Hampstead, he develops a close bond with the Nelson family next door: Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters.   The friendship ... more

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  • Cover image of book Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
    Public Library and Other Stories - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241974599 | ISBN 10: 0241974593

    A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.   Why are books so very powerful?   What do t ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Orleans Noir: The Classics by Julie Smith (Editor)
    New Orleans Noir: The Classics - by Julie Smith (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753848 | ISBN 10: 161775384x

    This sequel to the original best-selling New Orleans Noir takes a literary tour through some of the darkest writing in New Orleans history. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brook ... more

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  • Cover image of book Despite the Falling Snow by Shamim Sarif
    Despite the Falling Snow - by Shamim Sarif

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786061072 | ISBN 10: 1786061074

    The enthralling narrative of Shamim Sarif's powerful second novel moves between present day Boston and 1950s Moscow.  After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has built a successful business in the S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Traces of Sandalwood by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir
    Traces of Sandalwood - by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789462380578 | ISBN 10: 9462380570

    Muna, a young Indian orphan, is working in a carpet factory in Bombay. She cannot forget about her sister Sita, from whom she was separated. Sita, who lives in an orphanage in the same city, doesnt remember her older sister and dreams about having a ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
    All Passion Spent - by Vita Sackville-West

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784870553 | ISBN 10: 1784870552

    With an Introduction by Joanna Lumley.   When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
    The Hungry Ghosts - by Shyam Selvadurai

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592003 | ISBN 10: 1846592003

    In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much during their lifetime may be reborn as hungry ghosts spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full.   Six-year-old Shivan is boarded up in his grandmothers mansion in Sri Lanka. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal
    The House of Hidden Mothers - by Meera Syal

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781862300538 | ISBN 10: 1862300534

    How far would you go to get the life you can't have?   Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together.   Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage, introduced by Annie Proulx
    The Power of the Dog - by Thomas Savage, introduced by Annie Proulx

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784870621 | ISBN 10: 1784870625

    Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley.   Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zagreb Noir by Ivan Sren (Editor)
    Zagreb Noir - by Ivan Sren (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753084 | ISBN 10: 1617753084

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.  Featuring brand-new stories translated ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Curator by Jacques Strauss
    The Curator - by Jacques Strauss

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099597728 | ISBN 10: 0099597721

    Longlisted for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize  It's not possible to undo what happened in 1976.  In rural South Africa a family massacre takes place; a bloodbath whose only witness is the familys black maid. Hendrik Deyer is the prin ... 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 Chimes by Anna Smaill
    The Chimes - by Anna Smaill

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444794502 | ISBN 10: 1444794507

    A stunning debut composed of memory, music, love and freedom, The Chimes pulls you into a world that will captivate, enthral and inspire.  A Bookseller Best Debut of 2015 One to Watch 2015 Huffington PostAn Amazon Rising Star "The Chimes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
    The Book of Aron - by Jim Shepard

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784290320 | ISBN 10: 1784290327

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD** 'Powerful . . . shattering . . . a masterpiece' The Times 'Testament of love and sacrifice . . . a masterpiece' Joshua Ferris, Guardian 'Transcendent and timeless . . . masterpiece' Washington Post Aron ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Visitors by Simon Sylvester
    The Visitors - by Simon Sylvester

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848663732 | ISBN 10: 1848663730

    A tale of blossoming love, myth and dark mystery on a remote Scottish island for fans of Matt Haig's The Humans.  The island has always seemed such a safe place, such a friendly community. Now the possibility of a killer on Bancree is dangero ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
    A Whole Life - by Robert Seethaler

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447283904 | ISBN 10: 1447283902

    The 170,000-copy German bestseller Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her han ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boo by Neil Smith
    Boo - by Neil Smith

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099592389 | ISBN 10: 009959238x

    From Neil Smith, author of the award-winning, internationally acclaimed story collection Bang Crunch, comes a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.  When Oliver 'Bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harraga by Boualem Sansal
    Harraga - by Boualem Sansal

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408843994 | ISBN 10: 1408843994

    In a crumbling colonial mansion besieged by slums in the old quarter of Algiers, Lamia lives a life of self-imposed isolation, communing only with her ghosts by day, working as a paediatrician by day. Her family are dead, but for her beloved brother ... more

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  • Cover image of book X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon;
    X: A Novel - by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon;

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780763669676 | ISBN 10: 0763669679

    I am Malcolm. I am my fathers son. But to be my fathers son means that they will always come for me. They will always come for me, and I will always succumb. Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling
    Wailing Ghosts - by Pu Songling

    £0.80   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398167 | ISBN 10: 0141398167

    '...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'  Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'   Introducing Little Black ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
    The Year of the Runaways - by Sunjeev Sahota

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447241645 | ISBN 10: 1447241649

    The heart-stopping new book from one of Granta's Best of British Novelists 2013  Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015  The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by ci ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House on the Hill by Kevin Sampson
    The House on the Hill - by Kevin Sampson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099578253 | ISBN 10: 0099578255

    An escaped runaway, a Moroccan drug dynasty - and a crime that will take DCI Billy McCartney from Merseyside to Marrakech... DCI Billy McCartney has gone to ground, disillusioned with his job. When a runaway turns up on his doorstep, her story plu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Glasgow Coma Scale by Neil Stewart
    The Glasgow Coma Scale - by Neil Stewart

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472113115 | ISBN 10: 147211311x

    Set in Glasgow, this is a bitter-sweet story about two very different people trying to survive very different kinds of crises. Funny, sad and tender, The Glasgow Coma Scale is a richly layered novel: it announces a major new literary talent.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skylight by Jose Saramago
    Skylight - by Jose Saramago

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099581826 | ISBN 10: 0099581825

    In 1953, Jos Saramago submitted a novel to his publishers. Thirty-six years later, he heard back.  Called the book lost and found in time by its author, Skylight is one of Saramagos earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Land Agent by J. David Simons
    The Land Agent - by J. David Simons

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908643964 | ISBN 10: 190864396x

    Set in 1902s Palestine, this compelling novel by the author of bestseller An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful tells a haunting tale of love and finding a home in the world.   Palestine, 1920s. Working as an agent for one of the riches ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal
    The House of Hidden Mothers - by Meera Syal

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780385410731 | ISBN 10: 0385410735

    Little India, East London: Shyama, aged forty-four, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together.   Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape.   When Shyama and M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - by David Shafer

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241972762 | ISBN 10: 0241972760

    David Shafer's acclaimed Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A brilliant, visionary and deeply human cyber-thriller.   Deep in the forest near Burma's border with China, a young woman sees something she wasn't supposed to see.   In Portland, Oregon, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honour by Elif Shafak
    Honour - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241972946 | ISBN 10: 0241972949

    From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures. 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let ... more

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  • Cover image of book Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-yong
    Princess Bari - by Hwang Sok-yong

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781859641743 | ISBN 10: 1859641741

    In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Architect
    The Architect's Apprentice - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241970942 | ISBN 10: 0241970946

    When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift of a white elephant for the sultan, little does he know the journey on which he is about to embark.   As he settles into life in Istanbul, Jahan's fortunes are shaped ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to be Both by Ali Smith
    How to be Both - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141025209 | ISBN 10: 0141025204

    How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. It is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be Both is a nov ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
    The Forty Rules of Love - by Elif Shafak

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241972939 | ISBN 10: 0241972930

    Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
    The Flea Palace - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241201909 | ISBN 10: 024120190x

    Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery.   By tur ... more

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  • Cover image of book A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
    A God in Every Stone - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408847237 | ISBN 10: 140884723x

    July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert
    The Walk Home - by Rachel Seiffert

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781844089956 | ISBN 10: 1844089959

    From the Man Booker shortlisted author of the Dark Room comes a new novel about love and the desire to come home. Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Stevie's been to London, taught himself to get by, ... 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 Shark by Will Self
    Shark - by Will Self

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141046389 | ISBN 10: 0141046384

    Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Some Luck by Jane Smiley
    Some Luck - by Jane Smiley

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447275602 | ISBN 10: 1447275608

    The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.  1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth of Our Power by Victor Serge
    Birth of Our Power - by Victor Serge

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629630304 | ISBN 10: 1629630306

    Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 19171919. Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Adam by Ariel Schrag
    Adam - by Ariel Schrag

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780544142930 | ISBN 10: 0544142934

    When Adam Freedman -- a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California -- goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it sure does.  It is the summer of 2006. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fathers Come First by Rosita Sweetman
    Fathers Come First - by Rosita Sweetman

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781843516347 | ISBN 10: 1843516349

    Rosita Sweetman's Fathers Come First is a coming-of-age classic set against a Dublin-city backdrop. Elizabeth is both gauche and perspicacious, walking the edge of her stereotypes while hobbled by the pressures of acceptance - social, physical and se ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix by Paul Sussman
    The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix - by Paul Sussman

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780552779678 | ISBN 10: 0552779679

    My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old or will be in ten days time, in the early hours of January 1st, 2000, when I kill myself...   Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th cent ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Credit Draper by J. David Simons
    The Credit Draper - by J. David Simons

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908643834 | ISBN 10: 1908643838

    The first book in J David Simons' magnum opus, a loose trilogy following his interconnected cast of characters from Glasgow to Galilee.   In 1911, young Avram Escovitz is shipped off to Scotland to escape conscription into the Russian army. Li ... 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 Tenth of December by George Saunders
    Tenth of December - by George Saunders

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408837368 | ISBN 10: 1408837366

    WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013   George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Night Boat by Alan Spence
    Night Boat - by Alan Spence

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857868541 | ISBN 10: 0857868543

    On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is no ... 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, shes a chef. To make a bchamel sauce, you need the righ ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Killing Pool by Kevin Sampson
    The Killing Pool - by Kevin Sampson

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099470267 | ISBN 10: 0099470268

    Detective Chief Inspector Billy McCartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit a message from the underworld to snitches, cops and rival gangs. One mile a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Interlude by Rupert Smith
    Interlude - by Rupert Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781873262863 | ISBN 10: 1873262868

    A compelling examination of how secrets can tear one family apart and reverberate down the generations.   Helen has always known her grandfather was a famous author, but her parents had severed connections with him whilst she was still young. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Butterfly Wings: An Egyptian Novel by Mohamed Salmawy, translated by Raphael Cohen
    Butterfly Wings: An Egyptian Novel - by Mohamed Salmawy, translated by Raphael Cohen

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9789774166426 | ISBN 10: 9774166426

    The prescient Egyptian novel that described the January 2011 Revolution before it happened.   A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
    The Moon is Down - by John Steinbeck

    £6.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141395371 | ISBN 10: 0141395370

    In this remarkable novel of human courage and defiance, Steinbeck celebrates democracy and the power of the individual against tyranny.   A North European country has been invaded. In one small town the people's initial confusion crystallizes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction by Atef Abu Saif (Editor)
    The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction - by Atef Abu Saif (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781905583645 | ISBN 10: 1905583648

    Featuring Atef Abu Saif, Abdallah Tayeh, Talal Abu Shawish, Mona Abu Sharekh, Najlaa Ataallah, Ghareeb Asqalani, Nayrouz Qarmout, Yusra al Khatib, Asmaa al Ghul & Zaki al 'Ela Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    The Grapes of Wrath - by John Steinbeck

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141394886 | ISBN 10: 0141394889

    'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'   Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to trave ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
    The Light and the Dark - by Mikhail Shishkin, translated by Andrew Bromfield

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780871080 | ISBN 10: 1780871082

    Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
    Marriage Material - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099558675 | ISBN 10: 009955867x

    An epic tale of family, love, and politics spanning the twentieth century, told with humour, tenderness and insight by one of Britains most promising young writers. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award If youve approached Bains Stor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The City of Devi by Manil Suri
    The City of Devi - by Manil Suri

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408833933 | ISBN 10: 140883393x

    Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her q ... more

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  • Cover image of book Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
    Astragal - by Albertine Sarrazin

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846689413 | ISBN 10: 1846689414

    'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.'   At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into ... 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 Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
    Big Brother - by Lionel Shriver

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007271108 | ISBN 10: 0007271107

    The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.  Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were children. Now she revels in the anonymity of her suburban Iowa life, while her brother bas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
    Ghana Must Go - by Taiye Selasi

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780670919888 | ISBN 10: 0670919888

    Electric, exhilarating, and beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go introduces the world to Taiye Selasi, a novelist of extraordinary talent. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from Accra to Lagos to London to New York, it is at once a portrait of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silence and the Roar by Nihad Sirees
    The Silence and the Roar - by Nihad Sirees

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908968296 | ISBN 10: 190896829x

    With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria.   Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran
    The Hope Factory - by Lavanya Sankaran

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780755327898 | ISBN 10: 0755327896

    Where innocence, deceit and love collide. Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that's how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where
    Where'd You Go, Bernadette - by Maria Semple

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780221243 | ISBN 10: 178022124x

    The Curious Incident meets A Visit from the Goon Squad meets The Simpsons - this is a wildly imaginative, laugh-out-loud but also very poignant novel that will generate huge word-of-mouth buzz.   Bernadette Fox is notorious.   To Elgie B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Umbrella by Will Self
    Umbrella - by Will Self

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408831670 | ISBN 10: 1408831678

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012   For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to Encephalitis lethargica, she has languished in Friern Barnet Me ... more

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  • Cover image of book NW by Zadie Smith
    NW - by Zadie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141036595 | ISBN 10: 0141036591

    NW is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life.   Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Penumbra
    Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - by Robin Sloan

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781782391197 | ISBN 10: 1782391193

    Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a Web-design drone and serendipity coupled with sheer curiosity has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.  And it doesn't take long for Clay to rea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather by Pierre Szalowski
    Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather - by Pierre Szalowski

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857861627 | ISBN 10: 085786162x

    Once upon a time in a frozen city . . . strangers fall in love, wishes come true, and lives will never be the same again.   When his parents split up, and his dad leaves home, a ten-year-old boy begs the sky to help him. The next day an ice st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Noah
    Noah's Child - by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848874190 | ISBN 10: 1848874197

    It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides ove ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo
    An Honourable Man - by Gillian Slovo

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086658 | ISBN 10: 1844086658

    From one of Britains most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England. Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
    Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley

    £5.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141198965 | ISBN 10: 0141198966

    'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'   The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his cre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Genie and Paul by Natasha Soobramanien
    Genie and Paul - by Natasha Soobramanien

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908434173 | ISBN 10: 1908434171

    SHORTLISTED FOR AMAZON'S RISING STARS SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANOBII FIRST BOOK AWARD GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 FOYLES BEST FICTION OF 2012 One morning in May 2003, on the cyclone-ravaged island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean, the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Apricot Jam and Other Stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy
    Apricot Jam and Other Stories - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857863195 | ISBN 10: 0857863193

    'No matter what, you cannot change human nature,' exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism.'   Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw
    An Unsocial Socialist - by George Bernard Shaw

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848547292 | ISBN 10: 1848547293

    Witty, exuberant and irresistibly entertaining, Shaw's fifth and most ambitious novel is a brilliant satire on social prejudice.  Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a so ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cain by Jose Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
    Cain - by Jose Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099552246 | ISBN 10: 0099552248

    A controversial book in the mode of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and the last novel to be written before the death of the great Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago. Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Lau ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bunch of Fives by Helen Simpson
    A Bunch of Fives - by Helen Simpson

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099561576 | ISBN 10: 0099561573

    "Lorrie Moore with a BBC accent"(Jay McInerney) Since the publication of Four Bare Legs in a Bed, her first collection, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work today. These are wickedly funny, heartfelt, and se ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
    The Magician of Lublin - by Isaac Bashevis Singer

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141197609 | ISBN 10: 0141197609

    Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
    Please Look After Mother - by Kyung-Sook Shin

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780753828182 | ISBN 10: 0753828189

    Combining a unique setting with universal themes, Please Look After Mother is a beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love.  Please Look After Mother is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has l ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
    The Emperor of Lies - by Steve Sem-Sandberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571259212 | ISBN 10: 0571259219

    In February 1940 the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland, in the city of Lodz. A wire fence was built around the Old City, completely separating Jewish families, some quarter of a million people, from the re ... more

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  • Cover image of book There but for the by Ali Smith
    There but for the - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141025193 | ISBN 10: 0141025190

    Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
    Last Exit to Brooklyn - by Hubert Selby Jr.

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141195650 | ISBN 10: 0141195657

    Those who inhabit Last Exit to Brooklyn are unforgettable: Harry, the strike leader, who during his weeks of power discovers something of his true nature; Tralala, who rejects the only love she is offered and sinks swiftly to the lowest level of pros ... more

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  • Cover image of book The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons
    The English German Girl - by Jake Wallis Simons

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846972089 | ISBN 10: 1846972086

    Fifteen-year-old Rosa Klein slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in England. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war breaks out an ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev
    I Am a Chechen! - by German Sadulaev

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099532354 | ISBN 10: 0099532352

    The first compelling voice in literary fiction to emerge from the Chechen War.  I Am a Chechen! offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mere Future by Sarah Schulman
    The Mere Future - by Sarah Schulman

    £13.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781551524245 | ISBN 10: 1551524244

    Sarah Schulman's acclaimed dystopian satire about urban mores is set in New York sometime in the future, when the city has morphed into an idealized version of itself: rent is cheap, homelessness is nonexistent, and the only job left is in marketing. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
    The Weekend - by Bernhard Schlink

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780753828489 | ISBN 10: 0753828480

    Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgements on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Far South by David Enrique Spellman
    Far South - by David Enrique Spellman

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846688102 | ISBN 10: 1846688108

    Far South is no ordinary novel - but this is no ordinary disappearance... Gerardo Fischer is missing. Can you help? Theater director Gerardo Fischer has vanished from the Argentinian artists' colony where he was rehearsing a pioneering new ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking to Hollywood by Will Self
    Walking to Hollywood - by Will Self

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809945 | ISBN 10: 140880994x

    Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych obsessive, satirical, elegiac in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and ... 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 Ours are the Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
    Ours are the Streets - by Sunjeev Sahota

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780330515818 | ISBN 10: 0330515810

    An electrifying debut novel from a new British voice: the story of a bright young man radicalized after the death of his father. Imtiaz Raina, born in Sheffield, young father, young husband, son of loving parents, has decided to die. He has c ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unfinished Business by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
    An Unfinished Business - by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Frank Wynne

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809440 | ISBN 10: 1408809443

    A major novel that tackles one of the great taboos of Muslim culture the Shoah.  Rachel and Malrich are the sons of a German father and an Algerian mother. Born in a small village in the Algerian hinterland, they are sent to Paris to be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Lives of Baba Segi
    The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives - by Lola Shoneyin

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846687495 | ISBN 10: 1846687497

    To the dismay of her overbearingly ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore a great prize, but even graduates must produce childre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
    The Catcher in the Rye - by J. D. Salinger

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780241950432 | ISBN 10: 0241950430

    The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the ... more

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  • Cover image of book San Marco:  The End of the Road by Margaret Henderson Smith
    San Marco: The End of the Road - by Margaret Henderson Smith

    £10.95   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845494681 | ISBN 10: 1845494687

    Just now Harriet envies the traffic lights outside Starboard Marine North West. Programmed. Devoid of anxiety, turmoil, indecision. Her life? One big hole! How did she manage to dig 3 men in so soon? She's fighting to get back to amber. But can she? ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Help by Kathryn Stockett
    The Help - by Kathryn Stockett

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039282 | ISBN 10: 0141039280

    Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...  There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage
    The Cry of the Sloth - by Sam Savage

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780753826553 | ISBN 10: 0753826550

    Surviving on a diet of fried Spam and vodka, Andrew Whittaker is the editor of a small and slightly dingy literary magazine - Soap: A Journal of the Arts. Through this journal, he hopes to fan the flames of literary excellence, publishing such debuts ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chowringhee by Sankar
    Chowringhee - by Sankar

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781843549147 | ISBN 10: 184354914x

    A much loved and endlessly readable classic of Indian literature, finally available in English for the first time.  Chowringhee, first published in Bengali in 1962, is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky
    The Cowards - by Josef Skvorecky

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141047676 | ISBN 10: 0141047674

    The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication.  In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
    The Earth Hums in B Flat - by Mari Strachan

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847673053 | ISBN 10: 1847673058

    'Has our family got secrets? Every family has, Gwenni. Big secrets, small secrets, silly secrets, bad things we want to hide...   Young Gwenni Morgan has a gift. She can fly in her sleep. Shes also fond of strawberry whip, detective s ... more

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  • Cover image of book May Day by John Sommerfield
    May Day - by John Sommerfield

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780955185182 | ISBN 10: 0955185181

    The country is in turmoil the people are angry at the excesses and corruption of the ruling class; workers are told to increase production for less pay; bosses meet to discuss ways of increasing their profit margins; unions mobilise the masses; a m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (The No.1 Ladies
    Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 10) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349119977 | ISBN 10: 034911997x

    It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswes newest client is the big-shot owner of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Precious (Based on the novel
    Precious (Based on the novel 'Push') - by Sapphire

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099548720 | ISBN 10: 0099548720

    This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
    Once on a Moonless Night - by Dai Sijie

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099521327 | ISBN 10: 0099521326

    A young French woman in Peking in the late 1970s interprets between Chinese professors and Bertolucci for his film The Last Emperor. Afterwards, she follows a disgruntled old professor who tells her about a text believed to be taken directly from Bud ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ne Obliviscaris by Margaret Henderson Smith
    Ne Obliviscaris - by Margaret Henderson Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781845494063 | ISBN 10: 1845494067

    Harriet. Caught between the steady and the charismatic. Wavering. Two very different men. She's trouble. Can't stay out of it. Still digging away. In serious danger of collapsing the fragile corners of her triangular existence into one big hole. &n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
    Burnt Shadows - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781408800874 | ISBN 10: 140880087x

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009, this is a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents. In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantnamo Bay. How did it come ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - by Laurence Sterne

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199532896 | ISBN 10: 0199532893

    Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corpor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mister Roberts by Alexei Sayle
    Mister Roberts - by Alexei Sayle

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340961568 | ISBN 10: 0340961562

    A bright shining star lurches abruptly across the sky. A strong, silent man with blank eyes enters Bar Noche Azul. A thirteen-year-old boy is the only one who knows there is a connection. Wonderfully inventive, darkly funny and thoughtful ... more

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  • Cover image of book Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
    Evening is the Whole Day - by Preeta Samarasan

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007271894 | ISBN 10: 0007271891

    A spellbinding, exuberant first novel, set in Malaysia, that introduces us to a prosperous Indian immigrant family, as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets.  When the family's servant girl, Chellam, is dismissed from the big house ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
    The Age of Shiva - by Manil Suri

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596394 | ISBN 10: 0747596395

    India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reveri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
    Homecoming - by Bernard Schlink

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823286 | ISBN 10: 0753823284

    When thirteen-year-old Peter discovers an old manuscript in his family home it instantly captivates him. The manuscript tells the compelling story of a German soldier's homecoming after escaping from a POW camp, but the document is incomplete, and Pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Firmin by Sam Savage
    Firmin - by Sam Savage

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823392 | ISBN 10: 075382339x

    Firmin is the runt of a litter of rats born in the basement of Pembroke Books, a ramshakle old bookshop run by the equally shambolic owner, Norman Shine. Forced to compete for food, Firmin ends up chewing on the books that surround him. Thanks to his ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
    A Carrion Death - by Michael Stanley

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780755344062 | ISBN 10: 0755344065

    A stunning debut crime novel set in Botswana against a backdrop of poachers, witch doctors, diamond smugglers and corruption... They find the first body near a waterhole considered magical by the local bush people. A string of clues suggests tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
    The Almost Moon - by Alice Sebold

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780330451352 | ISBN 10: 0330451359

    A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.   Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pilgrims of the Mist: The Stories of Scotlands Travelling People by Sheila Stewart
    Pilgrims of the Mist: The Stories of Scotlands Travelling People - by Sheila Stewart

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781841587523 | ISBN 10: 1841587524

    Sheila Stewart, singer, storyteller and author, is one of the last in the line of Scotlands travelling people. The way of life of the old travellers tramping the country roads, camping in the woods, hawking, fortune-telling and temporary work on f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
    Rat Bohemia - by Sarah Schulman

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781551522357 | ISBN 10: 1551522357

    Winner, Ferro-Grumley Award for Women's Fiction. Written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis in the 1990s, Rat Bohemia is a bold, achingly honest story set in the "rat bohemia" of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians ... more

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  • Cover image of book Olivia by Dorothy Strachey
    Olivia - by Dorothy Strachey

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511885 | ISBN 10: 0099511886

    When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. But Madamoiselle Julie's life is not as straigh ... 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 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 8) by Alexander McCall Smith
    The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 8) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780349117737 | ISBN 10: 034911773x

    As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency t ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Adam by Caroline Smailes
    In Search of Adam - by Caroline Smailes

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906321024 | ISBN 10: 1906321027

    Motherless, rootless and unprotected, Jude Williams' childhood is fractured by the horror and experience of sexual abuse, forcing her to exist somewhere and nowhere in-between childhood and adulthood.  Caught within the limitations of her own la ... more

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  • Cover image of book Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
    Absurdistan - by Gary Shteyngart

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080066 | ISBN 10: 1847080065

    Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Animal
    Animal's People - by Indra Sinha

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781416526278 | ISBN 10: 1416526277

    'I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when small say I walked on two feet just like a human being.....' Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (translator: Carol Brown Janeway)
    The Reader - by Bernhard Schlink (translator: Carol Brown Janeway)

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753823293 | ISBN 10: 0753823292

    For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and co ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Man Falling by Mike Stocks
    White Man Falling - by Mike Stocks

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846880360 | ISBN 10: 184688036x

    Police sub-inspector Swami has lost his job after suffering a stroke while beating up a very guilty suspect. He can no longer talk properly, command the respect of his community, or give his six daughters the bankrupting dowries they deserve - and hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge
    The Unforgiving Years - by Victor Serge

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781590172476 | ISBN 10: 1590172477

    Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Memory Dies by A. Sivanandan
    When Memory Dies - by A. Sivanandan

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905147595 | ISBN 10: 1905147597

    Winner of the Sagittarius Prize. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Dave by Will Self
    The Book of Dave - by Will Self

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141014548 | ISBN 10: 0141014547

    What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blue Shoes and Happiness (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 7) by Alexander McCall Smith
    Blue Shoes and Happiness (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 7) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780349117720 | ISBN 10: 0349117721

    Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - by Lisa See

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747583004 | ISBN 10: 0747583005

    Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are to be bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Weeping Women Hotel by Alexei Sayle
    The Weeping Women Hotel - by Alexei Sayle

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340831229 | ISBN 10: 0340831227

    This is a latest novel from highly acclaimed writer Alexei Sayle - bleak, hilarious and completely unique. Northern girl Harriet lives and works on a London estate which is a battleground between the white working class plus the immigrants versus th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empathy by Sarah Schulman
    Empathy - by Sarah Schulman

    £13.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781551522012 | ISBN 10: 1551522012

    Provocative, moving and daring, this new edition of a novel first published in 1992 is a prescient and shattering book about finding personal truths in an age of cynicism and lies. Anna O. is a loner in New York haunted by a past female lover who re ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
    Chicken with Plums - by Marjane Satrapi

    £14.99   hardback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780224080453 | ISBN 10: 0224080458

    In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that li ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accidental by Ali Smith
    The Accidental - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141010397 | ISBN 10: 0141010398

    Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award 2005. Shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006.Arresting and wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. The ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Beauty by Zadie Smith
    On Beauty - by Zadie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141019451 | ISBN 10: 014101945x

    Why do we fall in love with the people we do?Why do we visit our mistakes on our children?What makes life truly beautiful?Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Muo
    Mr Muo's Travelling Couch - by Dai Sijie

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099470182 | ISBN 10: 0099470187

    Dai Sijie's bestselling first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote, following the misadventures of Mr Muo, China's first psychoanalyst. It's been over ten years since Muo lef ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
    An Unfinished Life - by Mark Spragg

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099472193 | ISBN 10: 0099472198

    Jean Gilkyson is floundering in a trailer house in Iowa with yet another brutal boyfriend when she realises that this kind of life has to stop, especially for her nine-year-old daughter, Griff. But the only place they can run to is Ishawooa, Wyoming, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
    Espresso Tales - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780349119700 | ISBN 10: 0349119708

    In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The System of the World (Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    The System of the World (Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099463368 | ISBN 10: 0099463369

    The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs.  As Daniel and Newton c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099410690 | ISBN 10: 0099410699

    Neal Stephenson continues his extraordinary Baroque Cycle in this sequel to his bestselling Quicksilver, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery.   It is the late 1600s on the high se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down for Whatever by Frederick Smith
    Down for Whatever - by Frederick Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780758209795 | ISBN 10: 0758209797

    From the sexy to the sensational, The City of Angels is a city of stories. This one follows the lives of four friends each hoping to realize their dreams. But can true love triumph in the town where all the worlds a stage and everyones a player? ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 6) by Alexander McCall Smith
    In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 6) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780349117423 | ISBN 10: 034911742x

    Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors.  The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
    The Girl Who Married a Lion - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841956299 | ISBN 10: 1841956295

    How can a girl possibly have married a lion? How can a man have a tree growing out of his head? And how can a woman have children made of wax?  The stories in this delightful collection make these questions seem simple, everyday ones - with, as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Venus as a Boy by Luke Sutherland
    Venus as a Boy - by Luke Sutherland

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747569053 | ISBN 10: 0747569053

    In a room in Soho, a man is turning gold. His flesh, his organs, even his beautiful eyes, are being transformed by some shocking human alchemy into precious deadly metal. And the path to this curious and frightening predicament has itself been fill ... more

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  • Cover image of book Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099410683 | ISBN 10: 0099410680

    In this richly imagined follow-up to his bestseller Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery, men and women whose exploits defined the age of the High Baroque...&n ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Kalahari Typing School for Men (The No.1 Ladies
    The Kalahari Typing School for Men (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780349117041 | ISBN 10: 0349117047

    'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Full Cupboard of Life (The No.1 Ladies
    The Full Cupboard of Life (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 5) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780349117256 | ISBN 10: 034911725x

    Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fianc. For indeed he has other ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freshers by Kevin Sampson
    Freshers - by Kevin Sampson

    £6.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099428367 | ISBN 10: 0099428369

    Kit Hannah is about to start university. He's funny, clever and popular, but he's harbouring a dark forboding he dare not share with anyone. And it's with a heavy heart that he leaves home to begin a new life.  At the vast Hall of Residence he c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love Letters in the Sand by Sharon Stone
    Love Letters in the Sand - by Sharon Stone

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781555838522 | ISBN 10: 1555838529

    Two very different women find they have one thing in common: the possibility of loving each other. Sydney Sanders is burnt out on love. Fortunately, her career as a novelist is taking off, and a book tour is just the thing to make her forget her brui ... more

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  • Cover image of book They Say She Tastes Like Honey by Michelle Sawyer
    They Say She Tastes Like Honey - by Michelle Sawyer

    £9.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781555838119 | ISBN 10: 1555838111

    Can love trump sex and tequila in the life of an unruly New York lesbian?   Meet Macy Delongchamp, sophisticated lipstick lesbian and travel entrepreneur. Macy has led a charmed and exciting life, reveling in dozens of noncommitted relationsh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Morality for Beautiful Girls (The No.1 Ladies
    Morality for Beautiful Girls (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 3) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780349117003 | ISBN 10: 0349117004

    In this thrid volume of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe faces surpreme problems at home and at work.With her detective agenct in financial difficulty, Mmma Ramotswe takes the hard decision to share offi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tears of the Giraffe (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2) by Alexander McCall Smith
    Tears of the Giraffe (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780349116655 | ISBN 10: 0349116652

    The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
    The Dark Room - by Rachel Seiffert

    £9.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099287179 | ISBN 10: 009928717x

    The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans : Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastate ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Caucasia, With Love by Danzy Senna
    From Caucasia, With Love - by Danzy Senna

    £6.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780747557500 | ISBN 10: 0747557500

    Growing up amidst the power politics of 1970s America, Birdie and her older sister Cole are so close they speak their own language. Daughters of a white activist mother and a black academic father, Birdie appears white, Cole black, their relationship ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Ralph Parker
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Ralph Parker

    £7.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780141184746 | ISBN 10: 0141184744

    This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ing ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
    The Map of Love - by Ahdaf Soueif

    £9.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780747545637 | ISBN 10: 0747545634

    In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, an Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause.  A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, and American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Second Coming of Curly Red by Jody Seay
    The Second Coming of Curly Red - by Jody Seay

    £11.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781563411144 | ISBN 10: 1563411148

    A heartwarming, fesisty story about the transformative power of love... 'The Liar's Club' meets 'Fried Green Tomatoes' in 'The Second Coming of Curly Red', a story about what hatred can destroy and love rebuild. Seventy-year-old Texan, Jimmy Heron, s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
    The Illuminatus! Trilogy - by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

    £11.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781854875747 | ISBN 10: 1854875744

    It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, has snooped into rumours about an ancient secret society that turned out to be still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's gone missing, and the case has landed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Irish Myths and Legends by Michael Scott
    Irish Myths and Legends - by Michael Scott

    £9.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780751512427 | ISBN 10: 0751512427

    From the epic Irish legend of Cuchulain to tales of banshees, leprechauns and wizards, these short stories and fables cover a wide range of Ireland's mythology and legends, forming a companion volume to Michael Scott's Irish Folk and Fairy Tales. ... more

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  • Cover image of book By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
    By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - by Elizabeth Smart

    £7.99   paperback   (1991) - ISBN 13: 9780586090398 | ISBN 10: 0586090398

    Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as `Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightning... A masterpiece'.   One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, E ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley
    Daughter of Earth - by Agnes Smedley

    £14.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780935312683 | ISBN 10: 0935312684

    In this gritty autobiographical novel (1929) revered writer and activist Agnes Smedley describes her first 33 years, growing up in a mixed-race family on the wrong side of the tracks, teaching at fifteen, going to college at Berkeley, discovering dou ... more

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