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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - by Gabrielle Zevin

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529115543 | ISBN 10: 152911554x

    This is not a romance, but it is about love.   Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared w ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
    We Are All Birds of Uganda - by Hafsa Zayyan

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529118667 | ISBN 10: 1529118662

    You can't exactly stop birds from flying, can you? They go where they will...'  1960s UGANDA. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes p ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
    How Much of These Hills is Gold - by C Pam Zhang

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349011455 | ISBN 10: 0349011451

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021   America.  In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs...  Ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel
    Black Shack Alley - by Joseph Zobel

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780143133957 | ISBN 10: 0143133950

    Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy grappling with his identity in colonial Martinique.  As Jose transit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
    Bridge of Clay - by Markus Zusak

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780552774765 | ISBN 10: 0552774766

    THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF "If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life."(Guardian) "This is a tale of love, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
    Sour Heart - by Jenny Zhang

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408892374 | ISBN 10: 1408892375

    Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017  Centred on a community of immigrants precariously balanced on the edge of poverty in 19 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everything Is Awful And You
    Everything Is Awful And You're A Terrible Person - by Daniel Zomparelli

    £13.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781551526751 | ISBN 10: 1551526751

    A YouTube star becomes famous after he documents his breakup online. An anxious, lactose-intolerant office worker obsesses over a stranger who says "Nice shorts, bro" to him in passing. A couple wants to open up their relationship to a ghost. A monst ... more

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  • Cover image of book Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell
    Multiple Choice - by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell

    £12.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783782697 | ISBN 10: 1783782692

    Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache.  Will you choose to cheat (in life, the examination that follows) or will you choose to copy? Will you fall in love? If so, will you remember her name ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kauthar by Meike Ziervogel
    Kauthar - by Meike Ziervogel

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784630294 | ISBN 10: 1784630292

    Lydia, a woman in her early thirties, lives in London. She lacks a purpose and loses herself in a string of affairs. When she meets Rabia, a convert to Islam, the Moslem rituals and the Arabic language offer her a new beginning. Lydia becomes Kauthar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
    The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry - by Gabrielle Zevin

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349141077 | ISBN 10: 034914107x

    The little book with the big heart - the New York Times bestseller that has won passionate fans around the world.  Originally published as The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry.  "Who the hell are you?" A.J. asks the baby. For no appare ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    The Watcher in the Shadows - by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780753829257 | ISBN 10: 0753829258

    A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the mechanical beings he has created... an enigma surrounding strange lights that shine through the mists that envelop the small island on which the old lighthouse stands.. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig, selected by Wes Anderson
    The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig - by Stefan Zweig, selected by Wes Anderson

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782271079 | ISBN 10: 1782271074

    "I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I immediately loved this book, his one, big, great novel — and suddenly there were ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
    The Last Quarter of the Moon - by Chi Zijian

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099555650 | ISBN 10: 0099555654

    In this sweeping epic, full of love and loss, a woman from one of the last remote reindeer-herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her country's history.  ‘A long-time confidante of the rain and sno ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    The Prisoner of Heaven - by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780222851 | ISBN 10: 1780222858

    You've read The Shadow of the Wind - now read what happens next ... Includes Reading Group Notes.  The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop.   It begins just before Christmas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan
    Azazeel - by Youssef Ziedan

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848874299 | ISBN 10: 1848874294

    Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church. The monk, Hypa, embarks on a journey both physical and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eddie the Kid by Leo Zeilig
    Eddie the Kid - by Leo Zeilig

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780993676 | ISBN 10: 1780993676

    Eddie Bereskin wants to change the world and stop the war, instead his life unravels after he is arrested on a Halloween protest in 2002.  An incredible story about loss and hope set in London, Eddie the Kid takes us to the anti-war movement a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
    Beware of Pity - by Stefan Zweig

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908968371 | ISBN 10: 1908968370

    Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity.   In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked he ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wedding Wallah by Farahad Zama
    The Wedding Wallah - by Farahad Zama

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349122687 | ISBN 10: 0349122687

    Mr Ali’s flourishing marriage bureau seems to have chalked up another success when his ward, Pari, receives a surprise proposal from a rich, handsome aristocrat. But why is the boy’s family so keen to get him married to Pari - an orphan, a widow, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
    The Warsaw Anagrams - by Richard Zimler

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849013697 | ISBN 10: 1849013691

    A chilling and stunningly written mystery set in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto.   Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psy ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angel
    The Angel's Game - by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780753826492 | ISBN 10: 0753826496

    In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his night ... more

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  • Cover image of book Germinal by Émile Zola, translated and edited by Peter Collier
    Germinal - by Émile Zola, translated and edited by Peter Collier

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536894 | ISBN 10: 0199536899

    Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which ga ... more

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  • Cover image of book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Natasha Randall
    We - by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Natasha Randall

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099511434 | ISBN 10: 0099511436

    The suppressed work that both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World are based on, and the first modern dystopian novel.  Shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2008. With an introduction by Will Self.   The citizen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women by Edited by Niaz Zaman and Firdous Azim
    Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women - by Edited by Niaz Zaman and Firdous Azim

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565670 | ISBN 10: 0863565670

    This vibrant and thought-provoking anthology of translated short stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in their writings.  It includes stories on the 1971 War of Liberation, women's 'honour', mother ... more

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