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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£6.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099455172 | ISBN 10: 009945517x
In this masterly and unforgettable evocation of childhood and adolescence, Marse paints a picture of family life in a suburb of Barcelona at the end of World War II and in the aftermath of Spain's harrowing Civil War. David's alcoholic father, w ... more
View book details£2.50 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853267390 | ISBN 10: 1853267392
This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fer ... more
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