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  • Cover image of book Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth
    Bitter Orange Tree - by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781471193927 | ISBN 10: 1471193926

    Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2023 Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award  An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wind Knows My Name by Isabelle Allende
    The Wind Knows My Name - by Isabelle Allende

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526660312 | ISBN 10: 1526660318

    THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' - KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' - DAILY MAIL 'What a joy it must be to come upon Allende ... more

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  • Cover image of book Normal Rules Don
    Normal Rules Don't Apply - by Kate Atkinson

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529183 | ISBN 10: 0857529188

    The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life.   In this first full collection si ... more

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  • Cover image of book What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
    What You Are Looking for is in the Library - by Michiko Aoyama

    £12.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529121 | ISBN 10: 0857529129

    THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL  For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams.  'I definitely want to visit ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs
    The Language of Food - by Annabel Abbs

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398502253 | ISBN 10: 1398502251

    ‘Exhilarating to read - thoughtful, heart-warming and poignant, with a quiet intelligence and elegance that does its heroine proud’ Bridget Collins  Two women Ten years A recipe for success  Eliza Acton, despite never having boi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love Marriage by Monica Ali
    Love Marriage - by Monica Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349015507 | ISBN 10: 0349015503

    TWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE.  THE NEW INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF BRICK LANE.  Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a char ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
    Our Wives Under The Sea - by Julia Armfield

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529017250 | ISBN 10: 1529017254

    ‘A gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness’ - Florence Welch   Our Wives Under The Sea is the huanting debut novel Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
    Shrines of Gaiety - by Kate Atkinson

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804991053 | ISBN 10: 1804991058

    'Atkinson on her finest form. A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow, a peak performance of consummate control.' OBSERVER  'This is the perfect novel for uncertain times.' THE TIMES   'I can think of few writers other than Dicken ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Power (TV tie-in cover) by Naomi Alderman
    The Power (TV tie-in cover) - by Naomi Alderman

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241547953 | ISBN 10: 0241547954

    WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION  THE ICONIC BESTSELLING NOVEL, WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE, AND NOW AMAZON TV SERIES STARRING TONI COLLETTE AND AULI'I CRAVALHO  'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge ... more

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  • Cover image of book Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
    Old Babes in the Wood - by Margaret Atwood

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784744854 | ISBN 10: 1784744859

    New stories of love and mischief from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale.  Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that follows a marr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Violeta by Isabel Allende
    Violeta - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526648365 | ISBN 10: 1526648369

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   'Epic, beautifully crafted... Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews
    The Leviathan - by Rosie Andrews

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526637369 | ISBN 10: 1526637367

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  'It's hard to believe that such an accomplished novel could be a debut - The Leviathan is a gloriously dark story that sweeps you along to its harrowing yet satisfying conclusion. Superb' Susan Stokes-Chapman, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blink That Killed The Eye by Anthony Anaxagorou
    The Blink That Killed The Eye - by Anthony Anaxagorou

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914344145 | ISBN 10: 1914344146

    A stunningly crafted debut short story collection, The Blink That Kills the Eye takes a poetic torch to the shadows of daily life, illuminating the characters, situations, emotions and dilemmas that pour into even the most ordinary existences.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Stars Are Not Yet Bells by Hannah Lillith Assadi
    The Stars Are Not Yet Bells - by Hannah Lillith Assadi

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529370645 | ISBN 10: 1529370647

    ‘An unusual, intense, experimental novel’ Daily Mail   In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Elle Ranier marries Simon to escape a life of destitution. She leaves New York City for Lyra, a remote, wooded island off the south-eastern co ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bad Immigrant by Sefi Atta
    The Bad Immigrant - by Sefi Atta

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781623718442 | ISBN 10: 1623718449

    “Atta is unflinching in her portrayal... This is a trenchant and notable take on the immigrant experience.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review   An account of an immigrant family's struggle and the lessons learned about diversity.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pharmacist by Rachelle Atalla
    The Pharmacist - by Rachelle Atalla

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529342147 | ISBN 10: 1529342147

    ‘There are shades of George Orwell in this stunning writing debut, but Rachelle Atalla’s voice is highly original. And wholly her own’ THE HERALD   ‘A compulsive, claustrophobic but wonderfully compassionate read, beautifully written a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
    The Republic of False Truths - by Alaa Al Aswany

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571347612 | ISBN 10: 0571347614

    ‘Glorious’ Observer ‘Amazing‘ André Aciman ‘Masterly‘ Sunday Times ‘Blistering‘ Financial Times  General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.  Under the regime ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mothers Don
    Mothers Don't - by Katixa Agirre

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739823603 | ISBN 10: 1739823605

    ‘I was those hands. The hands that drowned the babies. The mother’s hands. The hands that had no mercy.’  ‘A lover while pregnant, I broke a big taboo there, didn’t I? Maybe the biggest taboo.’  A mother kills her twins. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Farewell Fountain Street by Selcuk Altun
    Farewell Fountain Street - by Selcuk Altun

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781846592164 | ISBN 10: 184659216x

    Translated by Nilgün Dungan and Mel Kenne  Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business affairs and say goodbye to the people he cherish ... more

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  • Cover image of book Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander
    Meredith, Alone - by Claire Alexander

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241542408 | ISBN 10: 0241542405

    For anyone who has lost hope, Meredith will help you find it... Discover the most uplifting and unforgettable debut of the summer.  NAMED 'ONE TO WATCH' IN GRAZIA, CULTUREFLY, THE BOOKSELLER AND BY THE BBC   'Gorgeous. I shed tears. Ve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moldy Strawberries: Stories by Caio Fernando Abreu
    Moldy Strawberries: Stories - by Caio Fernando Abreu

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781953861207 | ISBN 10: 1953861202

    Translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato   In eighteen exhilarating stories, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the ’80s.  Suspended between fear and longin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz
    Tasting Sunlight - by Ewald Arenz

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914585142 | ISBN 10: 1914585143

    An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal... the sublime, achingly beautiful debut that everyone is talking about...  ‘A stupen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
    Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead - by Emily Austin

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838953751 | ISBN 10: 1838953752

    ‘Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most’ Emma Gannon, author of Olive  ‘So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling D ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
    The Startup Wife - by Tahmima Anam

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838852528 | ISBN 10: 1838852522

    ‘Poignant as well as savagely witty’ Observer ‘Stylish and funny’ Sunday Times ‘Hits every note perfectly’ Kamila Shamsie   A life-changing app. The woman who created it. And the man who took the credit.  When Asha starts work ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi
    A Bookshop in Algiers - by Kaouther Adimi

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788164702 | ISBN 10: 1788164709

    On a quiet backstreet in Algiers is an unremarkable building with a remarkable history...  'A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature.' Nick Hornby  'Truly potent ... Adimi confronts us w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cwen by Alice Albinia
    Cwen - by Alice Albinia

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788166614 | ISBN 10: 1788166612

    'Fantastic - a wonderful book' Lily Cole 'Magical, rich and magnificent' Maxine Peake 'A wild ride! She sees Graves' White Goddess and raises 50 with female magic and transformations' Margaret Atwood 'A rare book, bold and powerful' Xiaolu Guo 'W ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghosted: A Love Story by Jenn Ashworth
    Ghosted: A Love Story - by Jenn Ashworth

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529336788 | ISBN 10: 1529336783

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE 2022 "Unnerving, absorbing... Laurie is a miraculous creation... Piercingly human and darkly funny, Ghosted is a tender, beautifully controlled account of expectations knocked off course"(Sunday Times) One or ... more

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  • Cover image of book With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
    With Teeth - by Kristen Arnett

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472156518 | ISBN 10: 147215651x

    LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE 2022  ‘With Teeth is a wonderfully sticky novel about motherhood, partnership, sex and love. Kristen Arnett lets her characters have the run of the place, and it’s delicious fun to watch them do, say ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zainab Takes New York by Ayesha Harruna Attah
    Zainab Takes New York - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472288394 | ISBN 10: 1472288394

    ***INCLUDED IN THE AFRICA CENTER’S ROUND-UP OF 50 NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2021***   Zainab Sekyi is on a quest to find herself...  She’s moving to New York City to pursue her lifelong dream to become an illustrator, but she does ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
    A Passage North - by Anuk Arudpragasam

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783786961 | ISBN 10: 1783786965

    Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize   It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother”s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
    The Other Half of You - by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

    £13.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780733639036 | ISBN 10: 0733639038

    'I only ever asked you for one thing,' my father said, a quiver in his voice. 'Just this one thing.' It was as though I had smashed the Ten Commandments. 'Oh father,' I cried, grovelling at his ankles while my mother and siblings looked on. 'The one ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
    Leave the World Behind - by Rumaan Alam

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526633101 | ISBN 10: 1526633108

    **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***  A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.   Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holid ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Mountain and Other Stories by Gerry Adams
    Black Mountain and Other Stories - by Gerry Adams

    £11.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781847176301 | ISBN 10: 1847176305

    In this collection, one of Ireland's best-known political figures brings us new and selected stories of politics, of family, of love and of friendship.  These are portraits of Ireland, and especially Belfast, old and new, in times of struggle and in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
    Conjure Women - by Afia Atakora

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008293956 | ISBN 10: 0008293953

    You're free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past?   A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and Sara Collins' The Confessions of Frannie Langton.   The pale-skinned, black-eyed b ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Long Petal Of The Sea by Isabel Allende
    A Long Petal Of The Sea - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526615947 | ISBN 10: 1526615940

    'September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.  Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fat ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction by Maya Abu Al-Hayat (Editor)
    The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction - by Maya Abu Al-Hayat (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912697427 | ISBN 10: 1912697424

    Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Anas Abu Rahma, Liana Badr, Ahlam Bsharat, Ameer Hamad, Khaled Hourani, Ahmad Jaber, Ziad Khadash, Ibrahim Nasrallah & Mahmoud Shukair   A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, u ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
    The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree - by Shokoofeh Azar

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787703100 | ISBN 10: 178770310x

    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020* *LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020*  A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead.  Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Isl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hashim & Family by Shahnaz Ahsan
    Hashim & Family - by Shahnaz Ahsan

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781473665255 | ISBN 10: 1473665256

    An Observer Best Book of 2020  It is New Year's Eve, 1960. Hashim has left behind his homeland and his bride, Munira, to seek his fortune in England. His cousin and only friend, Rofikul, introduces Hashim to life in Manchester - including Rof ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
    The Testaments - by Margaret Atwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784708214 | ISBN 10: 1784708216

    Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.  More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theoc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blackbird by Claire Allen
    The Blackbird - by Claire Allen

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999797409 | ISBN 10: 199979740x

    It is 1941. Hope’s father, Jenner, builds Liverpool Cathedral while the Luftwaffe’s bombs fall. It is 2014, and Hope cares for her husband Robert as Alzheimer’s destroys his personality.   Hope’s husband Robert is a retired civic sculpto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Find Me by André Aciman
    Find Me - by André Aciman

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571356508 | ISBN 10: 0571356508

    Elio believes he has left behind his first love – but as an affair with an older man intensifies, his thoughts turn to the past and to Oliver.   Oliver, a college professor, husband and father, is preparing to leave New York. The imminent tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
    The City in the Middle of the Night - by Charlie Jane Anders

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781789093568 | ISBN 10: 1789093562

    Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel Finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel  "If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And ... more

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  • Cover image of book Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
    Salt Slow - by Julia Armfield

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529012590 | ISBN 10: 1529012597

    THE ELECTRIFYING DEBUT FROM THE WINNER OF THE WHITE REVIEW SHORT STORY PRIZE 2018   In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of her character ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
    A Golden Age - by Tahmima Anam

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786898623 | ISBN 10: 1786898624

    A mother struggles to protect her children as Bangladesh fights for independence; winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.   Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Apples Fell From The Sky by Narine Abgaryan, translated by Lisa C. Hayden
    Three Apples Fell From The Sky - by Narine Abgaryan, translated by Lisa C. Hayden

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077301 | ISBN 10: 1786077302

    An unforgettable story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village.  In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bird Summons by Leila Aboulela
    Bird Summons - by Leila Aboulela

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474600934 | ISBN 10: 147460093x

    Salma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts her, she is tempted to risk it all and return to Egypt. Moni gave up a career in banking to care for her disabled son, but now her husband wants to move ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
    Big Sky - by Kate Atkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780552776660 | ISBN 10: 0552776661

    Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. It’s a picturesque setting, b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughters Of Nri by Reni K Amayo
    Daughters Of Nri - by Reni K Amayo

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781916042919 | ISBN 10: 1916042910

    A gruesome war results in the old gods' departure from earth. The only remnants of their existence lie in two girls. Twins, separated at birth. Goddesses who grow up believing that they are human. Daughters Of Nri explores their epic journey of self- ... more

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  • Cover image of book Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
    Second-Hand Time - by Svetlana Alexievich

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781913097219 | ISBN 10: 1913097218

    Translated by Bela Shayevich Winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature   Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Occasional Virgin by Hanan al-Shaykh
    The Occasional Virgin - by Hanan al-Shaykh

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408895689 | ISBN 10: 1408895684

    Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from Lebanon, and each other.   Now it's only on their rarely snatched holidays that the friends can catch up. As they swim, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Festive Spirits: Three Christmas Stories by Kate Atkinson
    Festive Spirits: Three Christmas Stories - by Kate Atkinson

    £6.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857527127 | ISBN 10: 0857527126

    'Lucy would have challenged anyone not to cry at the sight of their child in a Nativity Play. Even a sheepish Maude, even a scowling Beatrice - currently attempting a Chinese burn on an adjacent angel. A shepherd shouted something incomprehensible to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    Friday Black - by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787476004 | ISBN 10: 1787476006

    Racism, but “managed” through virtual reality  Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng  Happiness, but pharmacological  Love, despite everything  Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
    The Next Person You Meet in Heaven - by Mitch Albom

    £7.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780751571905 | ISBN 10: 0751571903

    ‘No act done for someone else is ever wasted...‘  At eight years old, Annie was saved from a tragic accident by a complete stranger and her life changed forever. Her mother, ravaged with guilt, whisked Annie away from the world she once k ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
    How to Love a Jamaican - by Alexia Arthurs

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509883622 | ISBN 10: 1509883622

    "In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love."(Zadie Smith) Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret – these are the tensions at the heart of Alexia Arthurs’ debut book about Jamaican im ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi
    The Baghdad Clock - by Shahad Al Rawi

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786074867 | ISBN 10: 1786074869

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION 2018   For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE.  It's 1991 and the Gulf War is raging. Two girls, h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Transcription by Kate Atkinson
    Transcription - by Kate Atkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780552776653 | ISBN 10: 0552776653

    The magnificent new novel by award-winner Kate Atkinson.   In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of Brit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amsterdam Noir by René Appel and Josh Pachter (Editors)
    Amsterdam Noir - by René Appel and Josh Pachter (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781617756146 | ISBN 10: 1617756148

    Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.  Brand-new st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Enigma Variations by André Aciman
    Enigma Variations - by André Aciman

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571349692 | ISBN 10: 0571349692

    From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man’s path throug ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews
    The Word for Woman is Wilderness - by Abi Andrews

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781781259092 | ISBN 10: 1781259097

    Funny, frank and tender, The Word for Woman is Wilderness is an adventure novel with a difference.   Erin is 19. She's never really left England, but she has watched Bear Grylls and wonders why it's always men who get to go on all the cool ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lagos Noir by Chris Abani (Editor)
    Lagos Noir - by Chris Abani (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115731 | ISBN 10: 1911115731

    An uncompromising anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos, written by some of the most versatile and fascinating Nigerian authors working today. Fans of the darker side of literature will revel in these tales from Nigeria’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Checkpoint by David Albahari
    Checkpoint - by David Albahari

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781632061928 | ISBN 10: 1632061929

    From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating, darkly funny Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold
    Slip of a Fish - by Amy Arnold

    £10.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911508526 | ISBN 10: 1911508520

    Ash collects words, climbs trees and swims in a deserted lake with her beloved seven-year-old, Charlie. Bemused by everyday life, she has a rich and singular interior world. Over the course of a relentlessly hot summer, Charlie begins to pull away, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The President
    The President's Gardens - by Muhsin Al-Ramli

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857056801 | ISBN 10: 0857056808

    Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.  On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop.  One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vintage Minis: Freedom by Margaret Atwood
    Vintage Minis: Freedom - by Margaret Atwood

    £3.50   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784874117 | ISBN 10: 1784874116

    Can we ever be wholly free?  In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia
    Silence is My Mother Tongue - by Sulaiman Addonia

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999683320 | ISBN 10: 1999683323

    A searing novel of love, judgement and sacrifice and the powerful bonds forged in the crucible of refugee camp life from an internationally-acclaimed writer.   Saba, the novel’s heroine, arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young gi ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
    In the Midst of Winter - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471166907 | ISBN 10: 1471166902

    New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds.   Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms ... more

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  • Cover image of book Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    Friday Black - by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787476011 | ISBN 10: 1787476014

    Friday Black heralds the arrival of a thrilling new American literary star.   A Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2018   Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explores the many ways we fight fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah
    The Hundred Wells of Salaga - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115519 | ISBN 10: 1911115510

    Aminah lives an idyllic life in the village of Botu, until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that will turn her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the wilful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an im ... more

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  • Cover image of book Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
    Salt Houses - by Hala Alyan

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099510932 | ISBN 10: 0099510936

    Where do you go when you can’t go home?   On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs.  Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they soon come to pass in the w ... more

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  • Cover image of book What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
    What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky - by Lesley Nneka Arimah

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472239631 | ISBN 10: 1472239636

    A stunning collection of short stories from Caine-Prize shortlisted and Commonwealth Writer's Prize winner Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky has been described as 'luminous' (Roxane Gay) 'mesmerising' (Ayobami Adebayo) ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
    The Penelopiad - by Margaret Atwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786892485 | ISBN 10: 1786892480

    For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan war was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away due to the shocking behaviour of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope mus ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
    The Golden Legend - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571330751 | ISBN 10: 0571330754

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018   For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minarets of the city’s mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike. Then when shots ring out on the Grand ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
    Stay With Me - by Ayobami Adebayo

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782119609 | ISBN 10: 1782119604

    “If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking”   Shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize, this Nigerian debut is the heart-breaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person, a mar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lime Tree by César Aira
    The Lime Tree - by César Aira

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911508120 | ISBN 10: 1911508121

    Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator – who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by César Aira – suddenly recalls the Sunday mornin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best European Fiction 2018 by Alex Andriesse (Editor)
    Best European Fiction 2018 - by Alex Andriesse (Editor)

    £13.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781943150366 | ISBN 10: 1943150362

    Since its inaugural appearance in 2010, Best European Fiction has become an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the ninth installment of the series, the anthology continues ... more

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  • Cover image of book Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
    Call Me By Your Name - by Andre Aciman

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786495259 | ISBN 10: 1786495252

    Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar Nominee James Ivory.  Nominated for Four Oscars  A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Lo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden
    The Bear and The Nightingale - by Katherine Arden

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785031052 | ISBN 10: 1785031058

    ** Voted Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2017 **   'Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.'   In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
    The Travelling Cat Chronicles - by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857524195 | ISBN 10: 0857524194

    Recommended by thousands of international readers - the tender feelgood story of a man's journey around Japan with a streetcat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami.  Includes specially commissioned line-drawings  It's not t ... more

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  • Cover image of book 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
    4 3 2 1 - by Paul Auster

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571324651 | ISBN 10: 0571324657

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017   On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
    The Angel of History - by Rabih Alameddine

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472152381 | ISBN 10: 1472152387

    Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval.   Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Harvest of Thorns by Corban Addison
    A Harvest of Thorns - by Corban Addison

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784295257 | ISBN 10: 1784295256

    A gripping new thriller that blends the nailbiting courtroom drama of John Grisham with the moral heart of Khaled Kosseini,   A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selection Day by Aravind Adiga
    Selection Day - by Aravind Adiga

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509806492 | ISBN 10: 1509806490

    Selection Day is a captivating, witty novel by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga.   'The most exciting novelist writing in English today' A. N. Wilson   Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is goo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taduno
    Taduno's Song - by Odafe Atogun

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118138 | ISBN 10: 1782118136

    “When music is silent you hear the laughter of the tyrant”   A powerful debut from a new voice in contemporary African writing.   The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Taduno’s homeland, he knows that the time has come ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood
    Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold - by Margaret Atwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099594024 | ISBN 10: 0099594021

    ‘It’s got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.’   Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no oth ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Power by Naomi Alderman
    The Power - by Naomi Alderman

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780670919963 | ISBN 10: 0670919969

    WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE   What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?   Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they ... more

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  • Cover image of book News from Nowhere by Jane Austin
    News from Nowhere - by Jane Austin

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910836545 | ISBN 10: 1910836540

    Inspired by letters from family members who served on the Western Front and written home to Bangor, News From Nowhere describes the impact of war on a family, including Bronwyn, the sister coming of age as her brothers and father endure the torments ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam
    The Bones of Grace - by Tahmima Anam

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781847679789 | ISBN 10: 1847679781

    Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. H ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
    The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto - by Mitch Albom

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780751541212 | ISBN 10: 0751541214

    From number one New York Times bestseller, Mitch Albom, author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays With Morrie, comes his latest inspirational, moving and heart-warming novel.   At nine years old, Frankie Presto is sent to Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
    The Automobile Club of Egypt - by Alaa Al Aswany

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857862211 | ISBN 10: 0857862219

    Inside the walls of the Automobile Club of Egypt two very different worlds collide - Cairo's European elite and the Egyptian staff who wait on them.   The servants, a squabbling, humorous and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir by Lesley Allen
    The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir - by Lesley Allen

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785770388 | ISBN 10: 1785770381

    A charming and uplifting story, perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove or Jonas Jonasson. 'If you're a bit of a weirdo you will love Biddy Weir' - Ian Sansom, bestselling author of The Norfolk Mystery.  Biddy Weir is a quirky girl.  Abandoned b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fear of Mirrors by Tariq Ali
    Fear of Mirrors - by Tariq Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786939 | ISBN 10: 1784786934

    The story of a family whose life mirrors the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.  With the fall of Communism, East German dissident Vlady Meyer’s life begins to fall apart. As the German nation unifies, his wife splits up with him. He loses hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Stared at the Night of the City by Bakhtiyar Ali, translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman
    I Stared at the Night of the City - by Bakhtiyar Ali, translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781859641255 | ISBN 10: 1859641253

    Iraqi Kurdistan at the turn of the twenty-first century is a territory ruled by strongmen, revolutionaries, fixers, bureaucrats and the “Barons” who control everything from livestock and land to Kurdish cultural life.   Defying the absolut ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taduno
    Taduno's Song - by Odafe Atogun

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782118053 | ISBN 10: 1782118055

    "Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno's Song is a colossal epic, disguised as a small novel"(Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History Of Seven Killings) The day a stained brown envelope ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
    The Heart Goes Last - by Margaret Atwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349007298 | ISBN 10: 0349007292

    A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, The Heart Goes Last is Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping best.   Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking the Lights by Deborah Andrews
    Walking the Lights - by Deborah Andrews

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910449882 | ISBN 10: 1910449881

    A feminist Withnail and I. Recently graduated, young actor Maddie lives the slacker life in mid-90s Glasgow with deadbeat boyfriend Mike. Estranged from her mother due to a violent step-dad, most of the young couple's meagre resources go on drin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
    The Kindness of Enemies - by Leila Aboulela

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781474600927 | ISBN 10: 1474600921

    For fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a sweeping new novel from the three times Orange Prize longlisted, Scottish Book Award and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela. Natasha Wilson knows how difficult it is t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
    The Japanese Lover - by Isabel Allende

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471152191 | ISBN 10: 1471152197

    From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Seamstress and the Wind by Csar Aira
    The Seamstress and the Wind - by Csar Aira

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781908276841 | ISBN 10: 1908276843

    "Once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop."(Roberto Bolao) In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chas ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Song for Night by Chris Abani
    A Song for Night - by Chris Abani

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592041 | ISBN 10: 1846592046

    Even with the knowledge that there are some sins too big for even God to forgive, every night my sky is still full of stars; a wonderful song for night.   Trained as a human mine detector, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong
    Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals - by Jesse Armstrong

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099578741 | ISBN 10: 0099578743

    From the creator of Peep Show.   Its 1994 and a gang of good-hearted young people set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. Their aim is to light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very pro ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Birth by Elisa Albert
    After Birth - by Elisa Albert

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099590149 | ISBN 10: 009959014x

    Sometimes Im with the baby and I think: youre my heart and my soul, and I would die for you. Other times I think: tiny moron, leave me the fuck alone.   A year has passed since Ari gave birth and still she cant locate herself in her altered ... more

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  • Cover image of book Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)
    Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara - by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408869024 | ISBN 10: 1408869020

    Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin F ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock
    Blood Relatives - by Stevan Alcock

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780007580866 | ISBN 10: 000758086x

    An incredible debut novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders, full of daring, authenticity and wit (Rachel Cusk).  'The milkman found her. On Prince Philip Playing Fields. He crossed the dew-soake ... more

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  • Cover image of book A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
    A God in Ruins - by Kate Atkinson

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552776646 | ISBN 10: 0552776645

    Kate Atkinsons dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson tu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moon Country by Peter Arnott
    Moon Country - by Peter Arnott

    £9.95   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908251473 | ISBN 10: 1908251476

    Fifteen years ago, Tommy Hunter committed a terrible crime. Now pursued by his own bad memories and the attentions of his criminal companions of the past (as well as the present-day curiosity of the boys and girls in blue), Tommy is trying to put his ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Harlequin by Nina Allen
    The Harlequin - by Nina Allen

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124383 | ISBN 10: 1910124389

    Winner of the Novella Award 2015  The armistice is months past but the memories wont go away.  A harlequin, leaning against a tree stump and with a goblet of ale clasped in one outstretched hand. Beaumont felt chilled suddenly, in ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
    An Unnecessary Woman - by Rabih Alameddine

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472119209 | ISBN 10: 1472119207

    Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller The Hakawati with an enchanting story of the life of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old, blue-haired 'unnecessary woman', living in Beirut. This is a novel to savour.  Aaliya Sal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hurma by Ali al-Muqri
    Hurma - by Ali al-Muqri

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781850772774 | ISBN 10: 1850772770

    Denied her voice, even the freedom to ask questions, al-Muqris ill-fated heroine remains nameless. As a female she is simply a Hurma literally sanctity, an entity to be protected from violation. Growing up in the stifling and oppressive atmos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales by Margaret Atwood
    Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales - by Margaret Atwood

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349006536 | ISBN 10: 0349006539

    A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen
    The Tinderbox - by Hans Christian Andersen

    £0.80   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398044 | ISBN 10: 0141398043

    'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels'   Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the hearts of children and adults for their be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam
    Season of the Rainbirds - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571313303 | ISBN 10: 0571313302

    The highly acclaimed and Betty Trask Award winning debut from the author of Maps for Lost Lovers.   A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants of a small town in Pakistan ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
    The Heart Goes Last - by Margaret Atwood

    £18.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408867785 | ISBN 10: 1408867788

    Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs, and in a rather de ... more

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  • Cover image of book Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
    Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - by Jesse Andrews

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781760290443 | ISBN 10: 1760290440

    A hilarious, outrageous, and truthful look at friendship, high school - and death - from a talented debut author. Film to be produced by Dan Fogelman.   Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will int ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero
    The Neruda Case - by Roberto Ampuero

    £12.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780285643123 | ISBN 10: 0285643126

    In 1970s Chile Pablo Neruda, the Nobel-prize winning poet, is close to death, and he senses the end of an era in Chilean politics but there is one final secret he must resolve.   He recruits Cayetano Brul, a young Cuban rogue, as his own pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
    The Zone of Interest - by Martin Amis

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099593683 | ISBN 10: 0099593688

    There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didnt show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul it showed you who you really were. But the king couldnt look into the mirror ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong
    Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals - by Jesse Armstrong

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780224097345 | ISBN 10: 0224097342

    A group of well-intentioned students head into a war zone, armed only with 'the power of theatre' - the first novel from the BAFTA Award-winning writer of Peep Show and The Thick of It.  Its 1994 and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breaking Light by Karin Altenberg
    Breaking Light - by Karin Altenberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780877174 | ISBN 10: 178087717x

    Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he lost as a boy so ... more

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  • Cover image of book The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
    The First Phone Call from Heaven - by Mitch Albom

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780751541199 | ISBN 10: 0751541192

    One last chance.   What would you say?   When the residents of a small town on Lake Michigan start receiving phone calls from the afterlife, they all become the subject of widespread attention. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a mas ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta
    A Bit of Difference - by Sefi Atta

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007536108 | ISBN 10: 0007536100

    Deola Bello is tired of London, but shes not ready to give up on life. When her charity job takes her home to Nigeria, her thoughts turn to the future, as she questions whether her peripatetic existence is still right for her.   Deola encount ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pig
    Pig's Foot - by Carlos Acosta, translated by Frank Wynne

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408833728 | ISBN 10: 1408833727

    Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales some taller than others. But one day Oscar wakes to find himself utterly alone, the sole descendant of his family line. H ... more

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  • Cover image of book Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
    Untouchable - by Mulk Raj Anand

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393605 | ISBN 10: 0141393602

    Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi. Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outca ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blind Man
    The Blind Man's Garden - by Nadeem Aslam

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571287949 | ISBN 10: 0571287948

    From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.   Jeo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maya
    Maya's Notebook - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007482856 | ISBN 10: 000748285x

    The author of The House of the Spirits returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. But at school, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
    Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - by Margaret Atwood

    £18.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408857168 | ISBN 10: 1408857162

    A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gat ... more

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  • Cover image of book MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
    MaddAddam - by Margaret Atwood

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844087877 | ISBN 10: 1844087875

    A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
    Five Star Billionaire - by Tash Aw

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007494187 | ISBN 10: 0007494181

    Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to Chinas most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel.   Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Americanah - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007356348 | ISBN 10: 000735634x

    From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.   As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
    Life After Life - by Kate Atkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780552776639 | ISBN 10: 0552776637

    WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD  What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?  During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
    The Year of the Flood - by Margaret Atwood

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780349004075 | ISBN 10: 0349004072

    Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, the preservation of all species, the tending of the Earth, and the cultivation of bees and organic crops on flat rooftops - has long predi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy
    Brooklyn Heights - by Miral al-Tahawy

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571280056 | ISBN 10: 0571280056

    A novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices.   Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight-year-old son after the painful bre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lionel Asbo: State Of England by Martin Amis
    Lionel Asbo: State Of England - by Martin Amis

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099565680 | ISBN 10: 0099565684

    Why arent you out smashing windows? Its not healthy   Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice (carry a knife) and introduces him ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lady from Tel Aviv by Raba
    The Lady from Tel Aviv - by Raba'i al-Madhoun

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846590917 | ISBN 10: 1846590914

    Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010 Winner of the English Pen Award In the economy class of a plane, the lives of two passengers intersect: Walid Dahman, a Palestinian writer, is returning to his family in Gaza for t ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
    One Thousand and One Nights - by Hanan Al-Shaykh

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408827765 | ISBN 10: 140882776x

    One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies, King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To su ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
    The Time Keeper - by Mitch Albom

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780751541175 | ISBN 10: 0751541176

    The inspirational author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven returns with his most heartfelt novel yet, The Time Keeper.   Man alone measure time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington
    Death of a Hero - by Richard Aldington

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780143106876 | ISBN 10: 0143106872

    One of the great World War I antiwar novels honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical.   Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classic ... more

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  • Cover image of book American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
    American Dervish - by Ayad Akhtar

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780220710 | ISBN 10: 1780220715

    A stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family's struggling with faith and belonging.  Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant friend is a family legend. When he learns t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Liars
    The Liars' Gospel - by Naomi Alderman

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780670919918 | ISBN 10: 0670919918

    Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story - the story of Jesus - entirely new. 'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.' Now, a year after Yehoshuah ... more

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  • Cover image of book Me and You by Niccolo Ammaniti
    Me and You - by Niccolo Ammaniti

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857861986 | ISBN 10: 0857861980

    Everybody needs somebody, sometimes...   Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, but, in fact, he has stowed away in a forgotten cellar. He plans to live in perfect isolation for ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Land without Jasmine by Wajdi al-Ahdal
    A Land without Jasmine - by Wajdi al-Ahdal

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781859643105 | ISBN 10: 1859643108

    A Land without Jasmine is a sexy, satirical detective story about the sudden disappearance of a young female student from Yemens Sanaa University. Each chapter is narrated by a different character beginning with Jasmine herself. The mystery surround ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
    Hope: A Tragedy - by Shalom Auslander

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781447207665 | ISBN 10: 1447207661

    Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened.  Sadly, Kugels life isnt that simple. His family soon find them ... more

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  • Cover image of book Untold Story by Monica Ali
    Untold Story - by Monica Ali

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781471100086 | ISBN 10: 1471100081

    An Englishwoman named Lydia is living in a small, nondescript town somewhere in the American Midwest. She has a circle of friends: one owns a dress shop; another sells houses; another is a frenzied stay-at-home mother. Lydia works at an animal shelte ... more

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  • Cover image of book The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean by David Almond
    The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean - by David Almond

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780670919062 | ISBN 10: 0670919063

    For fans of Room by Emma Donoghue, an extraordinary novel about a child who is kept incarcerated - from the bestselling, prizewinning author of Skellig.   Billy Deane is the child of an illicit relationship between a priest and a young hai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leela
    Leela's Book - by Alice Albinia

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099548492 | ISBN 10: 0099548496

    Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York. She knows her return will disrupt precariously balanced lives. Twenty years ago her sister M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green
    Blooms of Darkness - by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846882111 | ISBN 10: 1846882117

    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012.   The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven- year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Great Night by Chris Adrian
    The Great Night - by Chris Adrian

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847083210 | ISBN 10: 1847083218

    On Midsummer's Eve three heartsick lovers are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park. Ill met by moonlight, they are stalked by a psychopathic Puck, in thrall to a beautiful Titania, and ambushed by a homeless musical theatre troupe. Together th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cruising: Gay Erotic Stories by Shane Allison (Editor)
    Cruising: Gay Erotic Stories - by Shane Allison (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781573447867 | ISBN 10: 1573447862

    Homemade glory holes in a stall wall, steamy shower trysts, truck stop rendezvous...According to Gaybie award-winning editor Shane Allison, "There's nothing that gets the adrenaline flowing and the muscle throbbing like public sex."   Two bear ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jubilate by Michael Arditti
    Jubilate - by Michael Arditti

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908129406 | ISBN 10: 1908129409

    Jubilate is a love story unlike any other.   A woman wakes in a Lourdes hotel room beside her lover of just two days. She has brought her brain-damaged husband on a pilgrimage to seek a miracle cure; her lover is making a TV documentary to ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo
    Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories - by Ama Ata Aidoo

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780956240194 | ISBN 10: 0956240194

    Ama Ata Aidoo is an iconic African writer who has inspired generations of black and other women writers on the continent and in the Diaspora. Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories, her latest collection of short stories brings together diverse themes t ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein
    From the Land of the Moon - by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781609450014 | ISBN 10: 1609450019

    An young unnamed woman reflects the life of her grandmother, a bewitching and eccentric figure whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century.   In 1943, as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari, the young womans gra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
    Last Man in Tower - by Aravind Adiga

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848875180 | ISBN 10: 1848875185

    The magnificent new novel from the million-selling Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger: one of the most eagerly anticipated literary novels of 2011, 'a kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Mumbai' Guardian Best Books of 2011 As ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sarmada by Fadi Azzam
    Sarmada - by Fadi Azzam

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906697341 | ISBN 10: 1906697345

    Three women struggle against the forces of society, family, and passion in a small Druze village in the south of Syria as the country itself struggles against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, and then the Baath.   The v ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things We Didn
    Things We Didn't See Coming - by Steven Amsterdam

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099547044 | ISBN 10: 009954704x

    A mesmerising debut set in a not-too-distant future, in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and strangely familiar.  Richly imagined, dark, and darkly comic, Things We Didn't See Coming follows a man over three decades as he tries to su ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
    The House of the Spirits - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099528562 | ISBN 10: 0099528568

    Allendes magical realist epic is an international classic - thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative of inescapable power' (El Pais)   As a girl, Clara del Valle ... more

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  • Cover image of book Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
    Island Beneath the Sea - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007348657 | ISBN 10: 0007348657

    From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Room and the Chair by Lorraine Adams
    The Room and the Chair - by Lorraine Adams

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846272387 | ISBN 10: 1846272386

    A jet aircraft falls straight out of the sky into an island park in the heart of Washington, DC. But no-one seems to have noticed. Well, almost no-one...   At the capital's paper, the staff are in a frenzy, and the news, and ambition, can ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse
    Hotel Bosphorus - by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781904738688 | ISBN 10: 1904738680

    Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbuls only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own maverick inv ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
    The Pregnant Widow - by Martin Amis

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099488736 | ISBN 10: 0099488736

    Amis on top form. An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.  An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyones mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on ac ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under an Emerald Sky by Olukemi Amala
    Under an Emerald Sky - by Olukemi Amala

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780955961854 | ISBN 10: 0955961858

    Two babies are born five minutes apart in a UK hospital.  Immersed in her rich Nigerian heritage, Yewande grows up able to hear her ancestors voices a double edged sword that heightens her spiritual awareness, but alienates her sister ... more

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  • Cover image of book Somewhere, Home by Nada Awar Jarrar
    Somewhere, Home - by Nada Awar Jarrar

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007221943 | ISBN 10: 0007221940

    This remarkable novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for somewhere that can be called home.  Maysa returns to the house th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
    Started Early, Took My Dog - by Kate Atkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780552772464 | ISBN 10: 0552772461

    A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and dan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pagan and Her Parents by Michael Arditti
    Pagan and Her Parents - by Michael Arditti

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906413743 | ISBN 10: 1906413746

    Michael Arditti's moving, passionate and provocative novel was hugely acclaimed on its first appearance in 1996.  Candida Mulliner and Leo Young have been the closest of friends since university, living together but loving separately. Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada, translated by Martha Tennent
    The Auschwitz Violin - by Maria Angels Anglada, translated by Martha Tennent

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849019811 | ISBN 10: 1849019819

    An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The Auschwitz Violin is the unforgettable story of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history's greatest atrocity. In the winter of 1991, at a concert in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Handmaid
    The Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099511663 | ISBN 10: 0099511665

    The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spectres by Radwa Ashour
    Spectres - by Radwa Ashour

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697259 | ISBN 10: 1906697256

    Spectres tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born on the same day. The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their days at work, their married and unmarried lives, and the two books they are writing, both called Spectres.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason
    Mammoths of the Great Plains - by Eleanor Arnason

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860757 | ISBN 10: 1604860758

    When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected - he hoped! - that they might still roam the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Outlander by Gil Adamson
    The Outlander - by Gil Adamson

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780747598770 | ISBN 10: 0747598770

    A brooding, compelling, fugitive-on-the-run story.   Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers Dashiell Hammett Prize, Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
    In the Kitchen - by Monica Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780552774864 | ISBN 10: 0552774863

    'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?' 'Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.'At the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    The Thing Around Your Neck - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007306213 | ISBN 10: 0007306210

    From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.  In ' ... more

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  • Cover image of book One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lairi and 21 other authors
    One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lairi and 21 other authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906523138 | ISBN 10: 1906523134

    A teenage Nigerian girl struggles to shed her cultural roots in the US... An Inuit girl is rowed by her parents to the shore, unaware of the fate that awaits her... A Filipina maid in Hong Kong gets entangled with her employer... The lover of an Afri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
    Chicago - by Alaa Al Aswany

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007286249 | ISBN 10: 0007286244

    Sex, money and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany.  A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book Say You
    Say You're One of Them - by Uwem Akpan

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780349120645 | ISBN 10: 0349120641

    'I see dirty water dripping down the white wall beside me. It is coming from the ceiling. At first, it comes down in two thin lines. The the lines widen and swell into one. Then two more lines come down, in spurts, like little spiders gliding down on ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
    The Wasted Vigil - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571238804 | ISBN 10: 0571238807

    'This land and its killing epochs.' Nadeem Aslam's dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
    Call Me By Your Name - by Andre Aciman

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843546535 | ISBN 10: 1843546531

    Set during a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, Call Me By Your Name tells the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest Oliver. Currents of obsession and fear, fascinati ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
    Girls of Riyadh - by Rajaa Alsanea

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030616 | ISBN 10: 0141030615

    Can you be a twenty-first century girl and a Saudi girl?   Gamrahs faith in her new husband is not exactly returned... Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fianc... Michelle is half-American and the wrong class for her boyfriends f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Act of Roger Murgatroyd by Gilbert Adair
    The Act of Roger Murgatroyd - by Gilbert Adair

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571226382 | ISBN 10: 0571226388

    Boxing Day circa 1935. A Christmas party at a snowed-in manor on the edge of Dartmoor. Overhead, in the attic, lies the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the insid ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Mysterious Affair of Style by Gilbert Adair
    A Mysterious Affair of Style - by Gilbert Adair

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571239474 | ISBN 10: 0571239471

    London, 1946: An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive.Luckily, Evadne Mount, the irrespressible autho ... more

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  • Cover image of book For One More Day by Mitch Albom
    For One More Day - by Mitch Albom

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780751537505 | ISBN 10: 0751537500

    This is the story of a man named Charley who loses his job, leaves his family, and decides, one night, to end his life. Somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother, who died years ago, and he spends one last day with her - a d ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
    One Good Turn - by Kate Atkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552772440 | ISBN 10: 0552772445

    It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved: the wife of an unscrupulous property developer, a crime writer, a was ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Father
    My Father's Notebook - by Kader Abdolah

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781841959276 | ISBN 10: 1841959278

    Ishmael is a man separated from his history. As a young man he was driven out of his home, exiled from all he loved most by the tumultuous revolution that overwhelmed his country. Years later, thousands of miles away, his father dies. His legacy is a ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Life Elsewhere by Segun  Afolabi
    A Life Elsewhere - by Segun Afolabi

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099485186 | ISBN 10: 0099485184

    For the characters in Segun Afolabi's debut collection, 'elsewhere' is a place they must transform into home. The Far East, Europe, the Americas, Africa - the stories are as varied as their geographical settings. In the award-winning 'Monday Morning' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
    Disobedience - by Naomi Alderman

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141025957 | ISBN 10: 0141025956

    By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.   But when Ronits father dies she is called back into the very diff ... more

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  • Cover image of book Johnny Come Home by Jake Arnott
    Johnny Come Home - by Jake Arnott

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340818596 | ISBN 10: 034081859x

    It's 1972 and as the dreams of the Sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O'Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson amd fellow squatter Nina to try and make sense of what has happened.Enter Sw ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Half of a Yellow Sun - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007200283 | ISBN 10: 0007200285

    The highly anticipated new novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of the vicious Nigeria-Biafra war in which more than a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.During this turbulen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
    Moral Disorder - by Margaret Atwood

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844080335 | ISBN 10: 1844080331

    Margaret Atwood has frequently cited as one of the foremost writers of our time. Moral Disorder, her new work of fiction, could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel... or a novel broken up into eleven stories. It resembles ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
    Things Fall Apart - by Chinua Achebe

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141023380 | ISBN 10: 0141023384

    Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan.But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Love Stories: An Anthology by Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo
    African Love Stories: An Anthology - by Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780954702366 | ISBN 10: 0954702360

    "African love stories? Is that not some kind of anomaly? This radical collection of short stories, most published in this edition for the first time, aims to debunk the myth about African women as impoverished victims. With origins that span the cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
    Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon - by Jorge Amado

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747573715 | ISBN 10: 0747573719

    When Gabriela came to the Brazilian town of Ilheus, things would never be the same again... In 1925, the town's cacao plantations are flourishing and progress reigns. However, Nacib the Arab is desperately worried as his cook has walked out of h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
    Ten Little Indians - by Sherman Alexie

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099464563 | ISBN 10: 009946456x

    Sherman Alexie offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads. In The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above, an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shumaisi by Turki al-Hamad
    Shumaisi - by Turki al-Hamad

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863569111 | ISBN 10: 0863569110

    The second volume in al-Hamad's explosive coming-of-age trilogy.  The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he's enrolled at university to study po ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende
    Forest of the Pygmies - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007199648 | ISBN 10: 0007199643

    From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When National Geographic commissions ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sabine by A.P.
    Sabine - by A.P.

    £6.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747578567 | ISBN 10: 0747578567

    It is the 1950s and it is Existentialist time in Paris. But Viola, a seventeen-year-old English girl is languishing in a chaotic finishing school in the dull French countryside. Under the distrait tutelage of Tante Aimee, the pupils lounge about the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires by Gilbert Adair
    Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires - by Gilbert Adair

    £6.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571206117 | ISBN 10: 0571206115

    Gideon is a lonely, horny young Englishman who arrives in Paris to take up a teaching post in the local Berlitz, and becomes increasingly fascinated by the intoxicating atmosphere of erotic banter and bragging in the school's all-male and virtually a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven - by Mitch Albom

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780751536829 | ISBN 10: 0751536822

    From the author of the phenomenal number one bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, comes this enchanting, beautifully written novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold.  Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brick Lane by Monica Ali
    Brick Lane - by Monica Ali

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780552771153 | ISBN 10: 0552771155

    At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years he elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
    Oryx and Crake - by Margaret Atwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781844080281 | ISBN 10: 1844080285

    Pig might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, now calls himself Snowman and lives in a tree, wrapped in old bed sheets. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
    The Dreamers - by Gilbert Adair

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571216260 | ISBN 10: 0571216269

    Gilbert Adair's novel is set in Paris in the Spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Theo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, and American student th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Belt by Ahmed Abodehman
    The Belt - by Ahmed Abodehman

    £7.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780863563072 | ISBN 10: 0863563074

    Ahmed grows up in a small Saudi village steeped in the family ties, legends, poetry and songs of traditional tribal culture. As he becomes a man, the cataclysmic changes of modernity spring up around him. Islam is imposing itself more and more strong ... more

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  • Cover image of book Broken Dreams by Jideofor Adibe
    Broken Dreams - by Jideofor Adibe

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780954503703 | ISBN 10: 0954503708

    Amid the smouldering tension of impending civil war, Pete Ogwu an his wife Teresa are forced to flee their home in western Nigeria, leaving behind a baby son and their housemaid. Adpoted by Madam Cash, Femi grows upto be an idealistic socialist write ... more

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  • Cover image of book Adama by Turki al-Hamad
    Adama - by Turki al-Hamad

    £9.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780863563119 | ISBN 10: 0863563112

    Turki al-Hamad's explosive novel Adama Became an unlikely bestseller in the Middle East, selling more than 20,000 copies despite being officially banned in several countries, including the author's native Saudi Arabia. A compelling coming-of-age stor ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
    City of the Beasts - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780007146376 | ISBN 10: 000714637x

    With his mother in hospital, Alex Cold is sent to his fierce, wonderful grandmother Kate - a pipe-smoking, vodka-drinking old reporter with blue eyes "as sharp as daggers' points". Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
    Not the End of the World - by Kate Atkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780552771054 | ISBN 10: 0552771058

    Not the End of the World is Kate Atkinson's first collection of short stories. Playful and profound, they explore the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
    Anthills of the Savannah - by Chinua Achebe

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186900 | ISBN 10: 0141186909

    'Worshipping a dictator is such a pain in the ass.' Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppressi ... more

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  • Cover image of book They Die Strangers; A Novella and Short Stories from Yemen by Mohammad Abdul-Wali
    They Die Strangers; A Novella and Short Stories from Yemen - by Mohammad Abdul-Wali

    £11.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780292705081 | ISBN 10: 0292705085

    These stories, filled with nostalgia and the bitterness of exile, deal with Yemenis caught between differing cultures. Civil war and labor migration affect men abroad, women left behind, and children raised without fathers. The richness of Yemeni cul ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dear Mr Kawabata by Rashid Al-Daif, translated by Paul Starkey
    Dear Mr Kawabata - by Rashid Al-Daif, translated by Paul Starkey

    £7.00   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780704381131 | ISBN 10: 0704381133

    As a young Lebanese man lies dying in a makeshift mortuary in Beirut during the last days of the civil war in 1991, thoughts of his past life flood through his mind. In his disorded imagination, he writes to the Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
    Human Croquet - by Kate Atkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780552996198 | ISBN 10: 055299619x

    The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson.   'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' Observer   Once it had been the great forest of Lythe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo
    Some Kind of Black - by Diran Adebayo

    £10.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780349108728 | ISBN 10: 0349108722

    Dele is a young student who glides through violence, love and politics, with his sister Dapo. He comes of age in Black London with its world of Afro-bohos, Nubians and the Love Has No Colour Brigade, to the soundtrack of pirate radio. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum - by Kate Atkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780552996181 | ISBN 10: 0552996181

    Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but he was all that ... more

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