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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 62 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke
    The Ghost Woods - by C.J. Cooke

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008515942 | ISBN 10: 0008515948

    ‘Haunting’ Sara Sheridan  ‘Intriguing, atmospheric, thought-provoking’ Alexandra Bell   ‘Beautifully crafted, thrilling and atmospheric’ Rebecca Netley   In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall.   This pla ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman
    The Witches of Vardo - by Anya Bergman

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786581952 | ISBN 10: 1786581957

    They will have justice. They will show their power. They will not burn.   'Three women's fight for survival in a time of madness' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies   Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story by Tony Fairweather
    Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story - by Tony Fairweather

    £11.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913109196 | ISBN 10: 1913109194

    After World War Two England was on her knees, so the call went out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the ‘Mother Country’.   Young men and women from different Caribbean islands were quick to respond, paying the consider ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Attic Child by Lola Jaye
    The Attic Child - by Lola Jaye

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529064582 | ISBN 10: 1529064589

    ‘An incredibly important book... a beautifully crafted, compelling story... which will undoubtedly break your heart but also make it sing’ - Mike Gayle   Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret. & ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
    The Night Watchman - by Louise Erdrich

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472155368 | ISBN 10: 147215536x

    It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before C ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
    The Shadow King - by Maaza Mengiste

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838851170 | ISBN 10: 1838851178

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020  ETHIOPIA. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid.   Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pursuit Of William Abbey by Claire North
    The Pursuit Of William Abbey - by Claire North

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780356507446 | ISBN 10: 0356507440

    ‘I was cursed in Natal, in 1884. Cursed by truth and by blood. The shadow took to me, and we have been together since.’  From the bestselling and award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K comes a powerful new ... 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 People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman
    People in Trouble - by Sarah Schulman

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
    The Confessions of Frannie Langton - by Sara Collins

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241984017 | ISBN 10: 0241984017

    'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?'   1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book A River in the Trees by Jacqueline O’Mahony
    A River in the Trees - by Jacqueline O’Mahony

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787473553 | ISBN 10: 1787473554

    Two women. Two stories. One hundred years of secrets.  A sweeping novel of love, loss, family and history for readers who love Maggie O’Farrell, John Boyne and Donal Ryan.   1919 Ireland is about to be torn apart by the War of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Kintu - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786074430 | ISBN 10: 1786074435

    An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda's troubled history through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan.   The breathtaking debut from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
    White Chrysanthemum - by Mary Lynn Bracht

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784705459 | ISBN 10: 1784705454

    'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'   Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grace by Paul Lynch
    Grace - by Paul Lynch

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073464 | ISBN 10: 1786073463

    An epic story of a young girl on a life-changing odyssey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine.   SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION & THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
    The Patriots - by Sana Krasikov

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783781829 | ISBN 10: 1783781823

    Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good People by Hannah Kent
    The Good People - by Hannah Kent

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781447233367 | ISBN 10: 1447233360

    Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2017   County Kerry, Ireland, 1825.   Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak and cannot w ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Segu by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray
    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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  • Cover image of book The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
    The Vanishing Futurist - by Charlotte Hobson

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571234875 | ISBN 10: 0571234879

    When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic inventor ... more

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  • Cover image of book In a Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie
    In a Land of Paper Gods - by Rebecca Mackenzie

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472224224 | ISBN 10: 1472224221

    A gorgeous literary debut in the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible about a school for the children of British missionaries in China, at the top of a mountain, at the edge of the Second World War  Jiangxi Province, China, 1941  Atop th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boxcar of Fun by Chris England
    The Boxcar of Fun - by Chris England

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910400272 | ISBN 10: 1910400270

    It’s 1910. Arthur Dandoe is heading for the brave New World of American vaudeville with the famous Karno music hall company, along with his great rival, Charlie Chaplin, and Tilly Beckett, the girl who has captured both their hearts. And what better ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Whispering City by Sara Moliner
    The Whispering City - by Sara Moliner

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349139951 | ISBN 10: 0349139954

    An intricate, atmospheric and utterly gripping mystery in the vein of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's novels, in the 1950s Barcelona of The Whispering City violence and rumour are rife, and every secret can be lethal.  Winner of an English PEN 'PEN Transla ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
    The Wake - by Paul Kingsnorth

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783520985 | ISBN 10: 1783520981

    Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2014 and The Bookseller Industry Book of the Year Award 2015. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.   A post-apocalyptic nov ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book See Out the Crazy Times by Sylvia Hikins
    See Out the Crazy Times - by Sylvia Hikins

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784622831 | ISBN 10: 1784622834

    Winter, 1939. Edna and Lucy, along with new-born babies Jack and Lily, return to London during the war to a world gone mad. Forced to live underground, sleeping on the dark and dingy platforms of the Underground, they emerge each day to be confronted ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Can
    I Can't Begin to Tell You - by Elizabeth Buchan

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780718158002 | ISBN 10: 0718158008

    Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story of courage, love and lies in wartime Europe in her heart-breaking new novel I Can't Begin to Tell You.   When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville
    Gretel and the Dark - by Eliza Granville

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241146460 | ISBN 10: 0241146461

    Gretel and the Dark is Eliza Granville's dazzling novel of darkness, evil - and hope.  For fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.  Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to enco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vixen by Rosie Garland
    Vixen - by Rosie Garland

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007492800 | ISBN 10: 0007492804

    DEVON, 1349  In Brauntone, where seagulls screech across the fields and the wind has a mind to change, Father Thomas arrives as the new priest. Determined to impress his congregation, he quells fears of the coming pestilence with promises of protect ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
    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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  • Cover image of book The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
    The Orenda - by Joseph Boyden

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780744407 | ISBN 10: 1780744404

    1640s, The New World   In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl’s captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation’s great warriors and s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Longbourn by Jo Baker
    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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  • 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 Valentine Grey by Sandi Toksvig
    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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  • Cover image of book The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
    The Last Runaway - by Tracy Chevalier

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007350353 | ISBN 10: 000735035x

    The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.  Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines an ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Mill for Grinding Old People Young by Glenn Patterson
    The Mill for Grinding Old People Young - by Glenn Patterson

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571281855 | ISBN 10: 0571281850

    In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85-years-old and in failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change.   Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an incr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucinda Sly: A Woman Hanged by Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé, translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice
    Lucinda Sly: A Woman Hanged - by Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé, translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907593581 | ISBN 10: 1907593586

    The year is 1835 and local woman Lucinda Singleton is publicly hanged alongside her lover, John Dempsey, in front of Carlow Gaol. This, the first ever translation of Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé’s historical novel, tells the story of the last woman to be hange ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book 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 woman’s gra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amy
    Amy's Diary - by Maureen Lee

    £1.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781409137382 | ISBN 10: 1409137384

    Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a brand new Maureen Lee - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.  On 3rd September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start writing a diary. It was a momentous day ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Stranger
    The Stranger's Child - by Alan Hollinghurst

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780330483278 | ISBN 10: 0330483277

    Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize.  In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at ‘Two Acres’, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil
    Mendelssohn is on the Roof - by Jiri Weil

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907970016 | ISBN 10: 1907970010

    The third Daunt Books publication is a deeply moving novel by a remarkable yet neglected chronicler of the Holocaust.   Full of dark humour and bitter irony, Weil's novel traces the transformation of ordinary lives during the Nazi occupation ... more

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  • Cover image of book Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
    Absolute Beginners - by Colin MacInnes

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780749009984 | ISBN 10: 0749009985

    London, 1958 - Soho, Notting Hill... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless – the absolute beginners – were creating a world as different as they dared from ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
    The Dead Republic - by Roddy Doyle

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099546894 | ISBN 10: 0099546892

    A magnificent, epic novel that explores the history of modern Ireland - the sequel to the bestselling A Star Called Henry and Oh, Play That Thing.   We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Ut ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O
    The Hand That First Held Mine - by Maggie O'Farrell

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780755308460 | ISBN 10: 0755308468

    A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our best loved novelists. When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by Glenn Taylor
    The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart - by Glenn Taylor

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007339549 | ISBN 10: 0007339542

    There’s little room in this world for a moral man.  Meet Early “Trenchmouth“ Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teache ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
    Shanghai Girls - by Lisa See

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801123 | ISBN 10: 1408801124

    Two sisters, a world at war and one life-changing secret.  Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different – Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true ... more

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  • Cover image of book Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar
    Needle in a Haystack - by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781904738565 | ISBN 10: 1904738567

    Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Two are clearly t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Salt Blue by Gillian Morgan
    Salt Blue - by Gillian Morgan

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906784157 | ISBN 10: 1906784159

    It is the reds, more than any other colour, that vibrate. Cochineal, verbena, magenta, carmine, fuchsia, flaunting crocosmia, Chinese laquer red, Marilyn Monroe lipstick red, and all the geranium combinations that lead to the deep red oxblood, the sa ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
    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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  • Cover image of book The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
    The Vagrants - by Yiyun Li

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007196654 | ISBN 10: 0007196652

    The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.  In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty- ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, edited by Emory Elliott
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain, edited by Emory Elliott

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536559 | ISBN 10: 0199536554

    You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter.   So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
    Our Mutual Friend - by Charles Dickens

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536252 | ISBN 10: 0199536252

    Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boff ... more

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  • Cover image of book People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
    People of the Book - by Geraldine Brooks

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007177424 | ISBN 10: 0007177429

    The new novel from the author of March and Year of Wonders takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.  When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cinder by Albert French
    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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  • Cover image of book Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
    Thirteen Moons - by Charles Frazier

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340826638 | ISBN 10: 0340826630

    At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it ... more

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  • Cover image of book As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    As I Lay Dying - by William Faulkner

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099479314 | ISBN 10: 0099479311

    The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.  And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacula ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
    The Final Solution - by Michael Chabon

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007196036 | ISBN 10: 0007196032

    In retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely remembered by villagers as a once famous detective, is more concerned with his bees than with the outside world. When a serious young boy called Linus Steinman (and his belove ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce
    The Limits of Enchantment - by Graham Joyce

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780753819296 | ISBN 10: 0753819295

    This is the story of a young woman growing up in the Midlands in 1966 - a woman who may be a witch.  As a baby, Fern was taken in by Mammy Cullen who schooled her in the art of old hedgerow medicine, of traditional midwifery, herbs, folk songs and ta ... 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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