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Segu - by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray

£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241293515 | ISBN 10: 0241293510

The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty. It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika ... more
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The Invention of Wings - by Sue Monk Kidd

£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472212771 | ISBN 10: 1472212770

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah Grimk is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkab ... more
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Longbourn - by Jo Baker

£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780552779517 | ISBN 10: 0552779512

'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.' It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic ... more
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Valentine Grey - by Sandi Toksvig

£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844088331 | ISBN 10: 1844088332

From one of the nation's best-loved writers and performers comes a wonderful novel about a spirited young girl who goes to war as a young man. London 1897 and a young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in the r ... more
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The Lacuna - by Barbara Kingsolver

£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571252671 | ISBN 10: 0571252672

The Lacuna is the story of a man�s search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. � Born in the US, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harr ... more
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Life Class - by Pat Barker

£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141019475 | ISBN 10: 0141019476

In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville � himself not long out of the Slade bu ... more
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Cinder - by Albert French

£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099273271 | ISBN 10: 0099273276

Banes, Mississippi, 1938. The Catfish creek separates the Patch from the town, black from white. These worlds and their prejudices are hauntingly evoked in the rich accents of the American South. Cinder is a woman who belongs to neither, her beauty m ... more
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Confessions of a Mask - by Yukio Mishima

£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780720612851 | ISBN 10: 0720612853

This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishima�s finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boy�s development toward a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War. Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood thro ... more
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The System of the World (Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

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

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