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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 266 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The House of Marvellous Books by Fiona Vigo Marshall
    The House of Marvellous Books - by Fiona Vigo Marshall

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914148231 | ISBN 10: 1914148231

    Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the centre of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan
    Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662279 | ISBN 10: 1526662272

    There was only one thing on her mind.  'I must start a bookshop.'  Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, qui ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book Lover
    The Book Lover's Quiz Book 2: More Quizzes for Book Whizzes - by Gary Wigglesworth

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472148285 | ISBN 10: 1472148282

    Put your bookworm reputation on the line and prove your literary knowledge with this collection of quizzes for book whizzes.  Book lovers can answer questions by themselves or host a quiz among friends with twenty-four quizzes to keep you gue ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
    Bookshops & Bonedust - by Travis Baldree

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781035007356 | ISBN 10: 1035007355

    'Glorious' - Ben Aaronovitch, author of the Rivers of London series.   A standalone cosy fantasy about the power of good bookshops, great friends and the unexpected choices along the way from the bestselling author of BookTok sensation Legends & L ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
    Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - by Satoshi Yagisawa

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786583239 | ISBN 10: 1786583232

    Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.   Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
    Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - by Glory Edim

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781409189282 | ISBN 10: 1409189287

    Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives – but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book. ... 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 Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
    Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown - by Shaun Bythell

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800812437 | ISBN 10: 1800812434

    Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown.  The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log ... more

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  • Cover image of book Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
    Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography - by Rob Wilkins

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529176902 | ISBN 10: 1529176905

    WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION   'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman   'Sometimes joyful ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Language of Languages by Ngugi Wa Thiong
    The Language of Languages - by Ngugi Wa Thiong

    £13.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781803090719 | ISBN 10: 1803090715

    With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.   Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ... more

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  • Cover image of book Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
    Yellowface - by Rebecca F. Kuang

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008532772 | ISBN 10: 000853277x

    The new book from no. 1 New York Times and no. 2 Sunday Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang  ‘A riot’ PANDORA SYKES  ‘Razor-sharp’ TIME  ‘A wild ride’ STYLIST  ‘Darkly comic’ GQ  ‘Satirical an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann
    The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War - by Philip Oltermann

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571331208 | ISBN 10: 0571331203

    The extraordinary true story of the Stasi’s poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.   Berlin, 1982. Morale is at rock bottom in East Germany as the spectre of an all-out nuclear war looms. The Ministry ... more

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  • Cover image of book No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
    No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader - by Mark Hodkinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838850012 | ISBN 10: 1838850015

    This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens.  Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
    Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers - by Emma Smith

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141991931 | ISBN 10: 0141991933

    'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times  Most of what we say about books is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
    Death of a Bookseller - by Alice Slater

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529385328 | ISBN 10: 1529385326

    THE MOST ANTICIPATED DEBUT THRILLER OF 2023, WHICH WILL MAKE YOUR SKIN CRAWL AND YOUR HEART POUND.  ‘A confident, sassy, pitch-black debut’ CAROLINE KEPNES ‘Your new obsession’ ERIN KELLY ‘Savage, witty and all-consuming’ ABIGAIL ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
    The Sentence - by Louise Erdrich

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472157010 | ISBN 10: 147215701x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN   In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny gh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Undersong by Kathleen Winter
    Undersong - by Kathleen Winter

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780735278240 | ISBN 10: 0735278245

    A vibrant novel about misunderstood Romantic-Era genius Dorothy Wordsworth, from Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter. "A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." —Toronto Star  When young James Dixon, a local jack-of-all-trades recent ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bookseller
    The Bookseller's Notebooks - by Jalal Barjas

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781623718206 | ISBN 10: 1623718201

    Winner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel explores themes of loneliness, homelessness, and mental illness.   After losing his job and refuge, Ibrahim al-Warraq, a bookseller, decides to live with the homeless peopl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor
    Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives - by Helen Taylor

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780198827696 | ISBN 10: 0198827695

    Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
    Novelist as a Vocation - by Haruki Murakami

    £18.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911215387 | ISBN 10: 1911215388

    A unique look into the mind and craft of a master storyteller.  Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
    The Cat Who Saved Books - by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529081480 | ISBN 10: 1529081483

    Grandpa used to say it all the time: books have tremendous power. But what is that power really?  Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book Lover
    The Book Lover's Joke Book - by Alex Johnson

    £9.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780712354516 | ISBN 10: 0712354514

    I slipped over in the library this morning. It was the non-friction section.  The Book Lover’s Joke Book is the funniest book about books you’ll ever read. You’ll find jokes about writers, agents, publishers, librarians, grammar, poet ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive
    Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain - by Robin Ince

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838957698 | ISBN 10: 1838957693

    ‘A unique, funny picture of Britain... A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.’ Richard Osman  Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince’s stadium tour with Professor Brian Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld
    Revenge of the Librarians - by Tom Gauld

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838858216 | ISBN 10: 1838858210

    A hilarious new comics collection from the New York Times bestselling cartoonist and illustrator – the perfect gift for all book lovers.  Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the aut ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
    The Personal Librarian - by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780593101544 | ISBN 10: 0593101545

    The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!  Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post!  “Historical fiction at its best!”*  A remarka ... more

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  • Cover image of book NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce by Nuala O
    NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce - by Nuala O'Connor

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781848408500 | ISBN 10: 1848408501

    ‘Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honourable barnacle goose.... “Nora,” Jim sa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
    Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read - by Terry Eagleton

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300264487 | ISBN 10: 0300264488

    Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature.  Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years followin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Banned Books by Dorling Kindersley Ltd
    Banned Books - by Dorling Kindersley Ltd

    £12.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241536391 | ISBN 10: 0241536391

    Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published!  Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed "acceptable" in published works ... 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 A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Orange Hippo
    A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life - by Orange Hippo

    £5.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800691742 | ISBN 10: 1800691742

    The world of books in one little book.  It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise.   For bibliophiles, they'll enjoy recog ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
    The Book of Form and Emptiness - by Ruth Ozeki

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838855277 | ISBN 10: 1838855270

    A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being.  WINNER OF THE 2022 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION  When a book and a reader are meant fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
    The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections - by Eva Jurczyk

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781728238593 | ISBN 10: 1728238595

    Anxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soon she has to ask: what holds more secrets in the library — the ancien ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors by Laura Portwood-Stacer
    The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors - by Laura Portwood-Stacer

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780691209678 | ISBN 10: 0691209677

    A step-by-step guide to crafting a compelling scholarly book proposal—and seeing your book through to successful publication.  The scholarly book proposal may be academia’s most mysterious genre. You have to write one to get published, bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Library of Misremembered Books: When We
    A Library of Misremembered Books: When We're Searching for a Book but Have Forgotten the Title - by Marina Luz

    £9.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781452171593 | ISBN 10: 1452171599

    How do you find a book when you can't recall the title... or the author? This homage to a common reader's dilemma is a gift the booklover in your life won't soon forget.   Readers know all too well the comedy and tragedy of forgetting the name of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gifts of Reading: Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Various authors, Curated by Jennie Orchard
    The Gifts of Reading: Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books - by Various authors, Curated by Jennie Orchard

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474624930 | ISBN 10: 1474624936

    With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Literary Almanac: A Year of Seasonal Reading by Francesca Beauman
    The Literary Almanac: A Year of Seasonal Reading - by Francesca Beauman

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529412918 | ISBN 10: 1529412919

    Spanning the dreary, cold days of January to the first flushes of spring and then the blazing August heat, bibliophile Francesca Beauman offers up a wealth of book recommendations.   From The Count of Monte Cristo to Elena Ferrante’s Neapol ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bowie
    Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life - by John O'Connell

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526605818 | ISBN 10: 1526605813

    'What is your idea of perfect happiness?' 'Reading.' 'What is the quality you most like in a man?' 'The ability to return books.'  Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Librarian: A Memoir by Allie Morgan
    The Librarian: A Memoir - by Allie Morgan

    £16.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529107425 | ISBN 10: 1529107423

    The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library.  I'm a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
    Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack - by Richard Ovenden

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529378771 | ISBN 10: 152937877x

    An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
    The Dickens Boy - by Thomas Keneally

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529345100 | ISBN 10: 1529345103

    By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.   In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Austr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements by Kimberley Kinder
    The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements - by Kimberley Kinder

    £20.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781517909185 | ISBN 10: 151790918x

    How does social change happen? It requires an identified problem, an impassioned and committed group, a catalyst, and a plan.  In this deeply researched consideration of seventy-seven stores and establishments, Kimberley Kinder argues that activ ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
    The Midnight Library - by Matt Haig

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786892737 | ISBN 10: 1786892731

    Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret.  She feels she has let everyone down, including her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino
    Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History - by Lauren Marino

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781419746239 | ISBN 10: 1419746235

    A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers.  Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women da ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell
    The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 - by Dorian Lynskey

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509890750 | ISBN 10: 1509890750

    Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020   George Orwell's 1984 has become a defining narrative of the modern world. Its cultural influence can be observed in so ... more

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  • Cover image of book Syria
    Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope - by Mike Thomson

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474605922 | ISBN 10: 1474605923

    Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Besieged by government forces since 2011, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by bombs and missiles, and shot at by snipers. But while the streets above echoed with ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is My Bookstore: 100 Postcards of Beautiful Shops around the World by Chronicle Books
    This Is My Bookstore: 100 Postcards of Beautiful Shops around the World - by Chronicle Books

    £19.99   card deck   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781452177939 | ISBN 10: 1452177937

    These are the bookshops of your dreams: charming, cozy, quirky, gorgeous, and full of books (and bookstore cats, of course). Take yourself on a tour around the literary world, from London to Tokyo, and from Mexico City to NYC. Then send a note to a f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
    Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops - by Shaun Bythell

    £7.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788166584 | ISBN 10: 1788166582

    In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People Y ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookshop Tours of Britain by Louise Boland
    Bookshop Tours of Britain - by Louise Boland

    £16.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912054473 | ISBN 10: 1912054477

    Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop.  Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England's industrial hear ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book Lover
    The Book Lover's Quiz Book: Novel Conundrums - by Gary Wigglesworth

    £12.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781472145291 | ISBN 10: 1472145291

    This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover's Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary's live quizzes, at the Betsey Trotwood in London and elsewhere. So, there are lots of multiple-choice questions ... more

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  • Cover image of book Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
    Quichotte - by Salman Rushdie

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529111989 | ISBN 10: 1529111986

    ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***  In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
    Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee - by Casey Cep

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780099510598 | ISBN 10: 0099510596

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YE ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling by Philip Pullman
    Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling - by Philip Pullman

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781910989548 | ISBN 10: 1910989541

    In over thirty essays, written over twenty years, one of the world’s great storytellers meditates on storytelling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O
    In Love with George Eliot - by Kathy O'Shaughnessy

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912854752 | ISBN 10: 1912854759

    A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR.   Who was the real George Eliot?   In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman novelist as you've never read it before.   Marian Evans has scanda ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
    The Starless Sea - by Erin Morgenstern

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784702861 | ISBN 10: 1784702862

    **SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**   Are you lost or are you exploring?   When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider
    I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf - by Grant Snider

    £11.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781419737114 | ISBN 10: 1419737112

    A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from beloved New York Times illustrator Grant Snider.  It's no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
    A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago - by Lennie Goodings

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780198828754 | ISBN 10: 0198828756

    'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then - only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain - that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Can
    I Can't Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue - by Elias Greig, illustrated by Phillip Marsden

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781760529451 | ISBN 10: 1760529451

    Hilarious, unpredictable and, at times, touching, this compilation is the perfect gift for fans of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops and The Diary of a Bookseller.  As any retail or service worker will tell you, customers can be irrational, d ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book Quiz: From The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses by James Walton
    The Penguin Book Quiz: From The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses - by James Walton

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241986035 | ISBN 10: 0241986036

    Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie's surname? What is heavy-drinking Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller? And what do you g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bowie
    Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life - by John O'Connell

    £15.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781982112547 | ISBN 10: 1982112549

    Part epic reading guide and part biography of a music legend, this work is a collection of mini-essays exploring David Bowie's list of 100 favorite books in the context of the artist's life and work.   Three years before David Bowie died, he s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now by Susheila Nasta (Editor)
    Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now - by Susheila Nasta (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912408207 | ISBN 10: 1912408201

    Fifteen specially commissioned essays from distinguished authors explore the value of critical thinking, the power of the written word, and the resonance of literature in the twenty-first century.  Each explores the crucial place of the writer, p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Judith Kerr by Joanna Carey
    Judith Kerr - by Joanna Carey

    £18.95   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780500022153 | ISBN 10: 0500022151

    This volume in Thames and Hudson's Illustrators series showcases the work of the late Judith Kerr, one of the world's most beloved authors and illustrators.  Joanna Carey, who had unrestricted access to Judith Kerr and her archive, explores the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
    The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted - by Robert Hillman

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571349784 | ISBN 10: 0571349781

    The perfect book for anyone who's ever had their heart broken, anyone who's ever had their broken heart mended, and anyone who's ever visited a bookshop...  Tom Hope doesn’t chase rainbows. He does his best on the farm – he milks the cows ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why You Should Read Children
    Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise - by Katherine Rundell

    £5.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526610072 | ISBN 10: 1526610078

    Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playf ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words by Ella Berthoud
    The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words - by Ella Berthoud

    £10.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781782407683 | ISBN 10: 1782407685

    The healing power of reading has been renowned since Aristotle; focus, flow and enlightenment can all be discovered through this universal act.   The Art of Mindful Reading embraces the joy of absorbing words on a page, encouraging a state of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
    The Librarian of Auschwitz - by Antonio Iturbe

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529104776 | ISBN 10: 1529104777

    For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world – and the most dangerous.   'It wasn’t an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan
    Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading - by Lucy Mangan

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784709228 | ISBN 10: 1784709220

    When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.   She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Librarian by Salley Vickers
    The Librarian - by Salley Vickers

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241330234 | ISBN 10: 0241330238

    In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole.   Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Writer
    Writer's Game: The Modern Authors (Card Game) - by Alex Johnson, with illustrations by Carla Fuentes

    £12.99   card deck   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786272553 | ISBN 10: 1786272555

    Who had the most commercial success in their lifetime, Ernest Hemingway or Agatha Christie? Whose work has the most adaptations, F. Scott Fitzgerald or Franz Kafka? Who courted the most scandal, Colette or James Joyce?  Pit 32 of the world’s great ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
    In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein - by Fiona Sampson

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296

    Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World by Henry Hitchings (Editor)
    Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World - by Henry Hitchings (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782272960 | ISBN 10: 1782272968

    A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove – we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The All Night Bookshop by David Belbin
    The All Night Bookshop - by David Belbin

    £4.95   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781907598760 | ISBN 10: 1907598766

    An elusive owner who lives on the top floor but is never seen… customers who turn up after midnight in slippers and dressing gown, driven by an urgent desire for a book about Icelandic myths or pottery… a beautiful and insomniac shop manager who ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards by Tom Gauld
    The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards - by Tom Gauld

    £12.99   card deck   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786891525 | ISBN 10: 1786891522

    A hilarious collection of fifty postcards celebrating multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld’s iconic Guardian comics – the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.  Tom Gauld has created countless iconic strips for the Guardian over th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
    The Diary of a Bookseller - by Shaun Bythell

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781258637 | ISBN 10: 1781258635

    Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookshops by Jorge Carrión
    Bookshops - by Jorge Carrión

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857054463 | ISBN 10: 0857054465

    Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature?   In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare ... more

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  • Cover image of book Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy (Editor)
    Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse - by Carol Ann Duffy (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509897087 | ISBN 10: 1509897089

    In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops - the worlds they hold, the freedoms ... more

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  • Cover image of book Larchfield by Polly Clark
    Larchfield - by Polly Clark

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786481955 | ISBN 10: 1786481952

    Winner of the MsLexia Prize, a beautiful novel about a woman's struggle with isolation and sanity woven with the story of the poet W. H. Auden.   It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Sco ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Virago Story: Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon by Catherine Riley
    The Virago Story: Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon - by Catherine Riley

    £19.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785338557 | ISBN 10: 1785338552

    The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women’s print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the second-wave women’s movement. At four decades’ remove from that heady era, however, the landscape looks dramatically diff ... more

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  • Cover image of book Economic Science Fictions by William Davies
    Economic Science Fictions - by William Davies

    £24.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781906897680 | ISBN 10: 1906897689

    From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley’s consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures by Charlie English
    The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures - by Charlie English

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008126650 | ISBN 10: 0008126658

    Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda ... more

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  • Cover image of book For the Love of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word by Graham Tarrant
    For the Love of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word - by Graham Tarrant

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786852700 | ISBN 10: 1786852705

    Do you know...  Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?   Banned books, feuding au ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
    Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life - by Yiyun Li

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241978665 | ISBN 10: 0241978661

    A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.  'What a long way it is from one life to another. Yet why write if not for that distance?'  Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisd ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World by Joshua Hammer
    The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World - by Joshua Hammer

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781476777412 | ISBN 10: 1476777411

    To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.   In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nemo
    Nemo's Almanac: A Quiz for Book Lovers - by Ian Patterson

    £9.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781259504 | ISBN 10: 178125950x

    A literary quiz full of quotes that will challenge, cheer and enlighten book buffs.  Which bestselling novelist wrote about a tumble at the seaside? Do you know the poet who penned lines in praise of frogs? And who had strong opinions on Apri ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Read Aloud by Francesco Dimitri
    To Read Aloud - by Francesco Dimitri

    £14.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786693259 | ISBN 10: 1786693259

    Reading a story to another person creates a bond between two people. It is often assumed that reading aloud is only for children, but the practice was once a common pleasure for adults too. The time has come to rediscover it. This simple yet powerful ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile
    A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium - by Alex Johnson

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780712352253 | ISBN 10: 0712352252

    This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways.  From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Man in Europe: A Novel by Dennis Glover
    The Last Man in Europe: A Novel - by Dennis Glover

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781863959377 | ISBN 10: 1863959378

    April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four.   Forty-four years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, O ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin
    The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies - by Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786891044 | ISBN 10: 1786891042

    “A good book, read at the right moment, should leave you uplifted, inspired, energized and eager for more. With so many books to choose from, what’s the point of reading even one more that leaves you cold?”   A quirky popular reference b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Story Cure: An A-Z of Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise by Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin
    The Story Cure: An A-Z of Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise - by Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782115298 | ISBN 10: 1782115293

    “The best way to help a child through a challenging moment is to give them a story about it, whether they’re being bullied, have fallen in love for the first time, or the tooth-fairy failed to show up”   The stories that shape our children ... more

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  • Cover image of book Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control by Matthew Fellion, and Katherine Inglis
    Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control - by Matthew Fellion, and Katherine Inglis

    £25.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780712356893 | ISBN 10: 0712356894

    The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld
    Baking with Kafka - by Tom Gauld

    £12.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786891501 | ISBN 10: 1786891506

    The new collection from multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld - the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.   In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get publ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Orwell
    Orwell's Nose: A Pathological Biography - by John Sutherland

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780238265 | ISBN 10: 1780238266

    In 2012 John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time he embarked on a re-reading of George Orwell’s works, and his lack of olfactory sense cast an entirely new light on the re-evaluation. What he now noticed was just ... 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 Art of Reading by Damon Young
    The Art of Reading - by Damon Young

    £9.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911344186 | ISBN 10: 1911344188

    "For Damon Young, writers are like secret agents gone rogue, grabbing us by the lapels and inviting us into a realm of delicious ambiguity. The Art of Reading is an intimately conspiratorial book — erudite, surprising, and persuasive."(Henry Hitchi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Lose Dad in the Garden Centre by Bruno Vincent
    Five Lose Dad in the Garden Centre - by Bruno Vincent

    £7.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786487551 | ISBN 10: 1786487551

    Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans.   Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy are keen to show Uncle Quentin what ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scribbles in the Margins: 50 Eternal Delights of Books by Daniel Gray
    Scribbles in the Margins: 50 Eternal Delights of Books - by Daniel Gray

    £9.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408883945 | ISBN 10: 1408883945

    We lead increasingly time-poor lifestyles, bombarded 24/7 by petrifying news bulletins, internet trolls and endless noises. Where has the joy and relaxation gone from our daily lives? Scribbles in the Margins offers a glorious antidote to that relent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction by Erika Janik
    Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction - by Erika Janik

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780807047880 | ISBN 10: 0807047880

    A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years.   In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold by Anne Tyler
    Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold - by Anne Tyler

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099589877 | ISBN 10: 0099589877

    *** As read on Radio 4 ***   ‘You can’t get around Kate Battista as easily as all that’   Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
    The Book Thief - by Markus Zusak

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784162122 | ISBN 10: 1784162124

    It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading by Nilanjana Roy
    The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading - by Nilanjana Roy

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789350297117 | ISBN 10: 9350297116

    From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy – voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics – has taken stock of it all.   On ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Brontesaurus: An A-Z of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte (and Branwell) by John Sutherland and John Crace
    The Brontesaurus: An A-Z of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte (and Branwell) - by John Sutherland and John Crace

    £9.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785781438 | ISBN 10: 178578143x

    Did Charlotte Brontë take opium? Did the Reverend Brontë carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does ‘wuthering’ mean?   Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontës, from the bum ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five on Brexit Island by Bruno Vincent
    Five on Brexit Island - by Bruno Vincent

    £7.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786483843 | ISBN 10: 178648384x

    Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, can George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy survive the ultimate test of their friend ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Go Gluten-Free by Bruno Vincent
    Five Go Gluten-Free - by Bruno Vincent

    £7.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786482228 | ISBN 10: 1786482223

    Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy confront a new challenge: is it possible to g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Go on a Strategy Away Day by Bruno Vincent
    Five Go on a Strategy Away Day - by Bruno Vincent

    £7.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786482242 | ISBN 10: 178648224x

    Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy confront a new challenge: what exactly is thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Go Parenting by Bruno Vincent
    Five Go Parenting - by Bruno Vincent

    £7.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786482280 | ISBN 10: 1786482282

    Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy confront possibly their toughest challenge ye ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book Lover
    The Book Lover's Treasury of Quotations: An Inspired Collection on Reading, Writing and Literature - by Jo Brielyn

    £9.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781578266302 | ISBN 10: 1578266300

    Rich with meaningful quotes, heartfelt humor and witty one-liners, The Book Lover's Treasury of Quotations brings together the best and brightest to speak on all that books have to offer.   Whether it s their ability to transport us to exciti ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
    The Prison Book Club - by Ann Walmsley

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780748634 | ISBN 10: 1780748639

    After Ann Walmsley was mugged near her house in Hampstead, she found she was unable to walk alone down the street and it shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. In Canada a few years later, when her friend Carol asked her to participa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookshops by Jorge Carrión
    Bookshops - by Jorge Carrión

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857054449 | ISBN 10: 0857054449

    A journey around the world by way of its best bookshops - the perfect present for book-lovers   Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold by Howard Jacobson
    Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold - by Howard Jacobson

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099593287 | ISBN 10: 0099593289

    Winner of the Booker Prize AS SEEN ON BBC IMAGINE   �Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?�  With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Reading, Writing and Living with Books by The London Library
    On Reading, Writing and Living with Books - by The London Library

    £4.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782272519 | ISBN 10: 1782272518

    "This little body of thought, that lies before me in the shape of a book, has existed thousands of years, nor since the invention of the press can anything short of an universal convulsion of nature abolish it"   On Reading, Writing and Living ... more

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  • Cover image of book Soft in the Head by Marie-Sabine Roger
    Soft in the Head - by Marie-Sabine Roger

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782271581 | ISBN 10: 1782271589

    An international bestseller, Marie Sabine-Roger's heartwarming novel is a touching and comic tale about the power of books. For fans of The Uncommon Reader and The President's Hat. His mother called him a worthless halfwit while his fellow drunks ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death and Mr Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis
    Death and Mr Pickwick - by Stephen Jarvis

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099593485 | ISBN 10: 0099593483

    On 31 March 1836 the publishers Chapman & Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly periodical entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contained four of his illustrations; the w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women Who Read are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann
    Women Who Read are Dangerous - by Stefan Bollmann

    £14.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780789212566 | ISBN 10: 0789212560

    What is it about a woman reading that has captivated hundreds of artists over the centuries? Stefan Bollmanns Women Who Read Are Dangerous explores this popular subject in more than 70 artworks drawings, paintings, photographs, and printsby iconi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
    Public Library and Other Stories - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241974599 | ISBN 10: 0241974593

    A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.   Why are books so very powerful?   What do t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance by Patricia Duncker
    Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance - by Patricia Duncker

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408860557 | ISBN 10: 1408860554

    Berlin, September 1872. The Duncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business in the city. Clever, irresponsible Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as the older, wiser, Wolfgang is of making a profit. When Max's bad habits g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favourite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg
    Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favourite Literary Characters - by Mallory Ortberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472150752 | ISBN 10: 1472150759

    What if the greatest characters in literary history all carried around smartphones and typed out messages to each other? From the passive-aggressive to the clever, the strange, and the downright inappropriate, magnificent Mallory Ortberg gets to grip ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nelly Dean by Alison Case
    Nelly Dean - by Alison Case

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008123420 | ISBN 10: 000812342x

    A gripping and heartbreaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws loyal servant, Nelly Dean.  Young Nelly Dean has been Hindleys closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Adeline by Norah Vincent
    Adeline - by Norah Vincent

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349005676 | ISBN 10: 0349005672

    A captivating novel of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group.   On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mobile Library by David Whitehouse
    Mobile Library - by David Whitehouse

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447274711 | ISBN 10: 1447274717

    Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life and waits for her to return home.   Bobby thinks that he's been left to face the world alone until he meets lonely single mother Val and her daughter R ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - by Katarina Bivald

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780701189068 | ISBN 10: 0701189061

    Warning: once you let books into your life, the most unexpected things can happen...  The International Bestseller   Sara is 28 and has never been outside Sweden except in the (many) books she reads. When her elderly penfriend Amy inv ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
    The Little Paris Bookshop - by Nina George

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349140377 | ISBN 10: 0349140375

    The international bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop is a delightful, bittersweet tale about the distance one man will travel for the sake of love and friendship.   On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book Collector by Alice Thompson
    The Book Collector - by Alice Thompson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784630430 | ISBN 10: 1784630438

    Alice Thompsons new novel is a Gothic story of book collecting, mutilation and madness.  Violet is obsessed with the books of fairy tales her husband acquires, but her growing delusions see her confined in an asylum. As she recovers and is rele ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life from Elsewhere: Journeys Through World Literature by Various authors
    Life from Elsewhere: Journeys Through World Literature - by Various authors

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782271895 | ISBN 10: 1782271899

    Writers in Translation, established in 2005 and supported by Bloomberg and Arts Council England, champions the best literature from around the world.  To mark the programme's tenth anniversary, ten leading writers from around the world, many of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Teenager Who Came to Tea: A Parody by Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd, illustrated by Gillian Johnson
    The Teenager Who Came to Tea: A Parody - by Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd, illustrated by Gillian Johnson

    £9.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472121769 | ISBN 10: 1472121767

    But the teenager didn't take just one Pringle. He took a selfie of himself pouring a whole tube of them into his mouth, before sending it to his best mate, along with the letters LOL!   The bestselling authors of We're Going on a Bar Hunt and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff
    Plotted: A Literary Atlas - by Andrew DeGraff

    £16.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781936976867 | ISBN 10: 1936976862

    This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps all inspired by literary classics offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds.   Andrew DeGraffs stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscape ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Literary Christmas: An Anthology by Various authors
    A Literary Christmas: An Anthology - by Various authors

    £10.00   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780712356138 | ISBN 10: 0712356134

    For as long as Christmas has been celebrated, poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect of it, whether the story of the Nativity or the festive traditions that have grown up over the centuries. A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology ... 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 The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud
    The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies - by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857864215 | ISBN 10: 0857864211

    Are you weary in Brain and Body? Do you desire a Positive Cure for your Pessimism? Do you require Bront to re-boot your Broken Heart? Do you despair of your Nose? Can Fielding open your Flood Gates? Or Pynchon purge your Paranoia? May we administer ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
    The Lost Child - by Caryl Phillips

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780747989 | ISBN 10: 1780747985

    Caryl Phillipss The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its centre is Monica Johnson, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her bi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Latest Readings by Clive James
    Latest Readings - by Clive James

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300213195 | ISBN 10: 0300213190

    In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that if you dont know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do, James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would live, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
    The Republic of Imagination - by Azar Nafisi

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099558934 | ISBN 10: 0099558939

    From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miss Emily by Nuala O
    Miss Emily - by Nuala O'Connor

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124550 | ISBN 10: 1910124559

    The Dickinson household is saved from domestic chaos with the arrival of Ada Concannon, a "neat little Irish person, fresh off the boat". Amherst in the 1800's is a pastoral environment for the homesick young maid who finds in the gifted middle chil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Ismail Kadare
    Twilight of the Eastern Gods - by Ismail Kadare

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857866196 | ISBN 10: 0857866192

    1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
    Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - by Azar Nafisi

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241246238 | ISBN 10: 0241246237

    'That room for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was! Sitting around the large coffee table covered with bouquets of flowers - We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life coul ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon
    The Word Exchange - by Alena Graedon

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780225623 | ISBN 10: 1780225628

    For fans of Alice in Wonderland, Shadow of the Wind and booklovers everywhere, a literary thriller and a love story set in a world threatened by the disappearance of language.  Words are under threat. It's time to fights back...  Imagine ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
    My Salinger Year - by Joanna Rakoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408833971 | ISBN 10: 1408833972

    At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelle ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy (Editor)
    Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a Mockingbird - by Mary McDonagh Murphy (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784753054 | ISBN 10: 178475305x

    "You come away from Murphys book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novel"(Entertainment Weekly) First published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a beloved classic, but also a touchstone in li ... more

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  • Cover image of book Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee
    Virginia Woolf in Manhattan - by Maggie Gee

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846591990 | ISBN 10: 1846591996

    NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015   What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?   Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding schoo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
    The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee - by Marja Mills

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780143127666 | ISBN 10: 0143127667

    To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. Yet for the last fifty years, the novels celebrated author, Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has said almost nothing on the record.   But in 2001, Nell ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser (Editor)
    The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them - by Antonia Fraser (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408859629 | ISBN 10: 1408859629

    In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Mar ... 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 Poets
    The Poets' Wives - by David Park

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408846360 | ISBN 10: 1408846365

    Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian po ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
    The Forty Rules of Love - by Elif Shafak

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241972939 | ISBN 10: 0241972930

    Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
    The End of the Story - by Lydia Davis

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241205457 | ISBN 10: 024120545x

    The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.   'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, ... more

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  • Cover image of book History of the Rain by Niall Williams
    History of the Rain - by Niall Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408852057 | ISBN 10: 1408852055

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story... Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling ra ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi
    The Last Word - by Hanif Kureishi

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571277551 | ISBN 10: 0571277551

    Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste.   Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biog ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where the Wild Mums Are by Katie Blackburn, illustrated by Sholto Walker
    Where the Wild Mums Are - by Katie Blackburn, illustrated by Sholto Walker

    £10.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571321513 | ISBN 10: 0571321518

    In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy in the Book by Nathan Penlington
    The Boy in the Book - by Nathan Penlington

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780755365708 | ISBN 10: 0755365704

    As a boy, Nathan Penlington had loved 'Choose Your Own Adventures', the bestselling phenomenon of the 1980s which thrust the reader into the role of main character and compelled them to make decisions and direct the flow of the story.   When N ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
    The Silkworm - by Robert Galbraith

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780751549263 | ISBN 10: 0751549266

    The second book in the highly acclaimed crime fiction series by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce
    The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses - by Kevin Birmingham

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784080730 | ISBN 10: 178408073x

    THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014.   THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014.   For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel in the English language was illegal to sell, advertise or im ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
    Arctic Summer - by Damon Galgut

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782391593 | ISBN 10: 1782391592

    In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to be a Heroine: Or, What I
    How to be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much - by Samantha Ellis

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099575566 | ISBN 10: 0099575566

    Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre? Petrova or Posy? Scarlett or Melanie? Lace or Valley of the Dolls? On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Ea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drawn from the Archive: Hidden Histories of Illustration by Sarah Lawrence
    Drawn from the Archive: Hidden Histories of Illustration - by Sarah Lawrence

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992882709 | ISBN 10: 0992882702

    Discover the creative process of some of our most celebrated illustrators in this stunning new collection from Seven Stories.  A beautiful book to treasure ~ Jacqueline Wilson   Seven Stories, The National Centre for Childrens Books ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading by Heather Reyes
    An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading - by Heather Reyes

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992636401 | ISBN 10: 099263640x

    "I have so much enjoyed An Everywhere. It is a brilliant travel guide to the city of books: the city we hold within us, and the one we share with all its other citizens. I love Heather's passion for reading and the blend of erudition and intimacy tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking the Literary Landscape: 20 Classic Walks for Book-Lovers in Northern England by Ian Hamilton & Diane Roberts
    Walking the Literary Landscape: 20 Classic Walks for Book-Lovers in Northern England - by Ian Hamilton & Diane Roberts

    £12.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781906148782 | ISBN 10: 1906148783

    Literature and a love of the English countryside are natural companions. Walking the Literary Landscape brings the two together in a collection of 20 circular routes in the north of England, all between 3 and 9 miles (5 and 15 kilometres) in length. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island by Ashwin Desai
    Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island - by Ashwin Desai

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781608462728 | ISBN 10: 1608462722

    "Somehow, Shakespeare always seems to have something to say to us."(Nelson Mandela) The prison authorities on apartheid South Africa's Robben Island strictly censored the reading materials inmates received from the outside world. Yet, the prisoner ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookworms, Dog-Ears and Squashy Big Armchairs: A Book Lover
    Bookworms, Dog-Ears and Squashy Big Armchairs: A Book Lover's Alphabet - by Heather Reyes

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992636463 | ISBN 10: 0992636469

    Are you an xenophile?  Which book dedications make us cry?  What were the author events of Ancient Rome like?  Why did the U.S post ban Chaucer?  Why do we like reading books in the loo?   Are your books 'slight ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where I
    Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books - by Tim Parks

    £12.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846559037 | ISBN 10: 1846559030

    What do books mean to you? A lively and enjoyable book about books, from bestselling writer Tim Parks.  Should you finish every book you start?  How has your family influenced the way you read?  What is literary style?  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose by Wendy Cope
    Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose - by Wendy Cope

    £16.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444795363 | ISBN 10: 1444795368

    Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dubliners 100: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original by Thomas Morris (Editor)
    Dubliners 100: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original - by Thomas Morris (Editor)

    £12.00   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992817015 | ISBN 10: 0992817013

    Thomas Morriss Dubliners 100 invites new and established Irish writers to create cover versions of their favourite stories from James Joyces Dubliners. Dubliners 100 is a timely conversation with Joyces classic short story collection one hun ... more

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  • Cover image of book Francis Plug: How to be a Public Author by Paul Ewen
    Francis Plug: How to be a Public Author - by Paul Ewen

    £11.00   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781910296141 | ISBN 10: 1910296147

    In the most controversial year in the history of the Man Booker Prize comes a book certain to add fuel to the fire. How to be a Public Author will take the debate to another level. It will get everyone talking and laughing even more about Britain ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
    The Bookshop Book - by Jen Campbell

    £12.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472116666 | ISBN 10: 1472116666

    Every bookshop has a story.  We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.  We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old ru ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
    A Little History of Literature - by John Sutherland

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205312 | ISBN 10: 0300205317

    This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written ... more

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  • Cover image of book American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light by Iain Sinclair
    American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light - by Iain Sinclair

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241955819 | ISBN 10: 0241955815

    Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke.   Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke, his first full engagement with the memory- filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow tra ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw
    The Bookshop That Floated Away - by Sarah Henshaw

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472108050 | ISBN 10: 1472108051

    The story of an extraordinary bookshop... and everything its owner did to keep it afloat.  In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archa ... more

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  • Cover image of book If I Were a Book by Jos Jorge Letria, illustrated by Andr Letria
    If I Were a Book - by Jos Jorge Letria, illustrated by Andr Letria

    £8.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781452121444 | ISBN 10: 1452121443

    This sweet celebration of the magic and wonder of books will delight readers of all ages through Andr Letrias whimsical illustrations of a book as a kite, a tent, a ship, and more are paired with Jos Jorge Letrias thoughtful musings on the joys o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
    Alif the Unseen - by G. Willow Wilson

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857895691 | ISBN 10: 0857895699

    'I will tell you a story, but it comes with a warning; when you hear it, you will become someone else.'  He calls himself Alif - few people know his real name - a young man born in a Middle Eastern city that straddles the ancient and modern wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox
    Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets - by Jessica A. Fox

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780721712 | ISBN 10: 1780721714

    This is a book for anyone who has ever thought What if?   Jessica Fox is living in Hollywood, a 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she is seized by a moment of inspiration and ... more

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  • Cover image of book When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
    When I Was a Child I Read Books - by Marilynne Robinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844087723 | ISBN 10: 1844087727

    From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels Gilead and Home comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading.   Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Among Others by Jo Walton
    Among Others - by Jo Walton

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781472106537 | ISBN 10: 1472106539

    Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel.   Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled c ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell, illustrated by the Brothers McLeod
    More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - by Jen Campbell, illustrated by the Brothers McLeod

    £9.99   hardback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781472106339 | ISBN 10: 1472106334

    A follow up to the bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country. The response to the book from ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
    The End of Your Life Book Club - by Will Schwalbe

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444706383 | ISBN 10: 1444706381

    The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a 'book club' that brings them together as her life comes to a close. For fans of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Last Lecture.  Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Penumbra
    Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - by Robin Sloan

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781782391197 | ISBN 10: 1782391193

    Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a Web-design drone and serendipity coupled with sheer curiosity has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.  And it doesn't take long for Clay to rea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde
    The Woman Who Died a Lot - by Jasper Fforde

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780340963135 | ISBN 10: 0340963131

    The seventh Thursday Next novel from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.   The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home ... 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 Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
    Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights - by Marina Warner

    £30.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099437697 | ISBN 10: 0099437694

    A dazzling history of magical thinking, exploring the power of the Arabian Nights and its impact in the West, and retelling some of its wondrous tales. Lavishly illustrated throughout.  Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beautiful Child by Emma Tennant
    The Beautiful Child - by Emma Tennant

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780720614817 | ISBN 10: 0720614813

    Part detective story, part analysis of a writers urge to place real people in his fiction, this is a Christmas fireside tale that examines the horrors of The Turn of the Screw while revealing those of today.   We read Henry Jamess unfinishe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James
    Death Comes to Pemberley - by P. D. James

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571288007 | ISBN 10: 0571288006

    The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, the ordered and se ... more

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  • Cover image of book 101 Uses of a Dead Kindle by Adrian Searle and Judith Hastie
    101 Uses of a Dead Kindle - by Adrian Searle and Judith Hastie

    £6.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908754073 | ISBN 10: 1908754079

    In a few short years the Kindle e-reader has become one of the most iconic objects of our contemporary culture. But what happens when a Kindle dies? Estimates suggest over 2m Kindles have been sold in the UK over the last three years. The Kindle ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philosophy and the Hitchhiker
    Philosophy and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - by Nicholas Joll (Editor)

    £15.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780230291126 | ISBN 10: 0230291120

    This is the 'philosophy and. .' book that really needed to be written because it is about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For (to paraphrase the great man himself) Hitchhiker's is not above a little philosophy in the same way that the sea is ... more

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  • Cover image of book This is Not the End of the Book: A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe De Tonnac by Umberto Eco
    This is Not the End of the Book: A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe De Tonnac - by Umberto Eco

    £11.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099552451 | ISBN 10: 0099552450

    The perfect gift for book lovers: two of the world's great men have a delightfully rambling conversation about the future of the book in the digital era, and decide it is here to stay. "The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
    Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - by Jen Campbell

    £8.99   hardback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780334837 | ISBN 10: 1780334834

    From the hugely popular blog, a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments. 'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['Wha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stieg: From Activist to Author by Jan-Erik Pettersson, translated by Tom Geddes
    Stieg: From Activist to Author - by Jan-Erik Pettersson, translated by Tom Geddes

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781849165013 | ISBN 10: 1849165017

    Until the posthumous publication of the Millennium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson was probably best known for his commitment to left-wing causes, and his tireless work as an anti-fascist activist. Horrified by the rise of far-right extremism in Sweden, he th ... more

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  • Cover image of book One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
    One of Our Thursdays is Missing - by Jasper Fforde

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780340963098 | ISBN 10: 0340963093

    Thursday Next returns in another inventive, funny and fantastical adventure by the comic and creative genius, Jasper Fforde.   It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
    Mr Fox - by Helen Oyeyemi

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780330534697 | ISBN 10: 0330534696

    An exhilarating new direction for Helen Oyeyemi with a mischievous story of love, lies and inspiration. Its an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home unti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
    Charles Dickens: A Life - by Claire Tomalin

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141036939 | ISBN 10: 0141036931

    Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonically hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortall ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
    Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? - by Jeanette Winterson

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099556091 | ISBN 10: 009955609x

    The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.   In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jane Austen for Beginners by Robert Dryden, Illustrated by Joe Lee
    Jane Austen for Beginners - by Robert Dryden, Illustrated by Joe Lee

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781934389614 | ISBN 10: 1934389617

    Jane Austen's novels are classics. They have never been out of print, and have continuously been turned into countless movies and TV series, yet her works still remain largely misunderstood. On their surface, Austen's novels all involve characters ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
    Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century - by John Crace

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099505457 | ISBN 10: 0099505452

    John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearf ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queering the Gothic by William Hughes & Andrew Smith (Editors)
    Queering the Gothic - by William Hughes & Andrew Smith (Editors)

    £15.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780719086434 | ISBN 10: 0719086434

    Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, the contributors expl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion by Jack Zipes
    Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion - by Jack Zipes

    £18.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780415610254 | ISBN 10: 0415610257

    The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and col ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lineup: The World
    The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives - by Otto Penzler (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849165228 | ISBN 10: 184916522x

    The great recurring characters in the mystery series we love become like old friends. Our favourite cops and sleuths earn our respect and we follow their antics with baited breath from one instalment to the next. But where do some of the most fascina ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stop What You
    Stop What You're Doing and Read This! - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099565949 | ISBN 10: 0099565943

    A mission statement about the transformative power of reading; about the way it inspires us, the tangible impact it can have on our wellbeing, the importance it holds for us now and will continue to hold in the future.   In any 24 hours th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
    The Night Bookmobile - by Audrey Niffenegger

    £16.99   hardback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780224089524 | ISBN 10: 0224089528

    Audrey Niffenegger's two novels, The Time Traveller's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, have made her one of the most popular writers in the world. She is also the author of two extraordinary novels-in-pictures, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maps by Ross Bradshaw (Editor)
    Maps - by Ross Bradshaw (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907869242 | ISBN 10: 1907869247

    A quirky compendium of essays on maps, places and people, many by leading writers including Iain Sinclair and The Guardian's David McKie and Chris Arnot as well as writers from the London Review of Books, academic journals, a journalist from the Worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For... by Andrew Laties
    Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For... - by Andrew Laties

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781609801397 | ISBN 10: 1609801393

    Andy Laties has launched five bookselling companies in the past thirty years. In 1987 he won the Women's National Book Association's Pannell Award for his innovative community outreach work at The Children's Bookstore in Chicago. After ten years as a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by David Seed
    Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction - by David Seed

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199557455 | ISBN 10: 0199557454

    Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and histo ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
    A Reader on Reading - by Alberto Manguel

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780300172089 | ISBN 10: 0300172087

    In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called the Casanova of reading, argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. We come into the world intent on finding narrative in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Reading Promise: 3,218 Nights of Reading with My Father by Alice Ozma
    The Reading Promise: 3,218 Nights of Reading with My Father - by Alice Ozma

    £16.99   hardback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444715248 | ISBN 10: 1444715240

    When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go ... 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 Teaching the Short Story by Ailsa Cox (Editor)
    Teaching the Short Story - by Ailsa Cox (Editor)

    £39.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780230573703 | ISBN 10: 0230573703

    The short story is moving from relative neglect to a more central position in the literary curriculum. As a teaching tool, its accessibility offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature by Paolo Coelho (editor)
    Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature - by Paolo Coelho (editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141442495 | ISBN 10: 0141442492

    'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind the colour & fragrance of the fields, of a season. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison
    Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - by Barbara Foley

    £23.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780822348290 | ISBN 10: 0822348292

    In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellisons celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
    Dhalgren - by Samuel R. Delany

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780575090996 | ISBN 10: 0575090995

    A counter-culture classic and a classic of SF - a young man arrives in a near future US and writes a book that may be Dhalgren.  A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA. This world has two moons but could other ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tennyson
    Tennyson's Gift - by Lynne Truss

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007355273 | ISBN 10: 0007355270

    From the bestselling author of Eats Shoots & Leaves, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.   In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Playing with Books: Upcycling, Deconstructing and Reimagining the Book by Jason Thompson
    Playing with Books: Upcycling, Deconstructing and Reimagining the Book - by Jason Thompson

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781592536009 | ISBN 10: 159253600x

    In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated an extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art. &n ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
    The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction - by Alan Jacobs

    £12.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199747498 | ISBN 10: 0199747490

    In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way.   In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Read This Next: And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark
    Read This Next: And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books - by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846143724 | ISBN 10: 1846143721

    In 2009 it was How NOT to Write a Novel ('A hilarious, wickedly observed and deeply useful guide' Observer). In 2010 it's Read This Next - Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark have written the perfect book for anyone who has ever struggled to choose w ... 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 Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children
    Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature - by Julia L. Mickenberg and Philip Nel (editors)

    £21.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780814757215 | ISBN 10: 0814757219

    In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, Strike down the wall! and liberates itself from the egg state. In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a gender and is happy about it. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage
    The Cry of the Sloth - by Sam Savage

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780753826553 | ISBN 10: 0753826550

    Surviving on a diet of fried Spam and vodka, Andrew Whittaker is the editor of a small and slightly dingy literary magazine - Soap: A Journal of the Arts. Through this journal, he hopes to fan the flames of literary excellence, publishing such debuts ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Day of the Jack Russell by Bateman
    The Day of the Jack Russell - by Bateman

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780755346783 | ISBN 10: 0755346785

    Black Books meets Lead Balloon meets Gavin and Stacey in this hugely entertaining follow-up to Mystery Man, from acclaimed author Bateman.   The Small Shop Keeper With No Name is back. Hired to find the vandals responsible for spraying graffi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
    Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands - by Michael Chabon

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007289875 | ISBN 10: 0007289871

    A collection of essays on books and why they matter, by the Pulitzer-award winning writer of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union.   Michael Chabon's sparkling book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rhyming Life and Death by Amoz Oz, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
    Rhyming Life and Death - by Amoz Oz, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099521020 | ISBN 10: 0099521024

    An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Poetry for Beginners by Margaret Chapman and Kathleen Welton, illustrated by Reuben Negron
    Poetry for Beginners - by Margaret Chapman and Kathleen Welton, illustrated by Reuben Negron

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781934389461 | ISBN 10: 1934389463

    Poetry is one of those subjects almost impossible to define as it can be so many things at once. It can be: kids whispering limericks on the playground; secret languages used by revolutionaries and spies; or the written strength of oppressed people. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Children
    The Children's Book - by A.S. Byatt

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099535454 | ISBN 10: 0099535459

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.  Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world but thei ... 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 Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies
    Grimoires: A History of Magic Books - by Owen Davies

    £18.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199590049 | ISBN 10: 0199590044

    What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twitterature: The World
    Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter - by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141047713 | ISBN 10: 0141047712

    Perhaps you once asked yourself, What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub? No doubt such troubling questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Den ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature & Society... by Johah Raskin
    The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature & Society... - by Johah Raskin

    £15.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781583671863 | ISBN 10: 1583671862

    We, the readers and students of literature, have been hijacked. The literary critics, our teachers, those assassins of culture, have put us up against the wall and held us captive. So begins Jonah Raskins The Mythology of Imperialism. When fi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - by Laurence Sterne

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199532896 | ISBN 10: 0199532893

    Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corpor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
    Books v. Cigarettes - by George Orwell

    £4.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141036618 | ISBN 10: 0141036613

    Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leviathan, or The Whale by Philip Hoare
    Leviathan, or The Whale - by Philip Hoare

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007230143 | ISBN 10: 0007230141

    The story of a mans obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
    The Incredible Book Eating Boy - by Oliver Jeffers

    £6.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007182312 | ISBN 10: 0007182317

    The mouth-wateringly irresistible tale of a boys insatiable hunger!  Henry loves books... but not like you and I. He loves to EAT books! This exciting new story follows the trials and tribulations of a boy with a voracious appetite for books ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
    The Library at Night - by Alberto Manguel

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780300151305 | ISBN 10: 0300151306

    Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. Libraries, he says, have always seemed to me ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean)
    The Informers - by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean)

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596516 | ISBN 10: 0747596514

    When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does ... more

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  • Cover image of book How NOT to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs If You Ever Want to Get Published by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark
    How NOT to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs If You Ever Want to Get Published - by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141038544 | ISBN 10: 0141038543

    There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of unpublishable drivel; ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Savage by David Amond, illustrated by Dave McKean
    The Savage - by David Amond, illustrated by Dave McKean

    £6.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781406319859 | ISBN 10: 1406319856

    "There was a wild kid living in Burgess Woods. He had no famly and he had no pals and he didn't know where he came from and he culdn't talk. His wepons were old kitchen nives and forks and an ax. He was savage. He was truely wild."Blue Baker is writ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War by Dang Thuy Tram
    Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War - by Dang Thuy Tram

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846040764 | ISBN 10: 1846040760

    'I've been up since 4 a.m, preparing for the enemy's attack...'  On June 22 1970, Dang Thuy Tram was killed by an American patrol in South Vietnam. She was an idealistic young doctor trying to defend her patients and, discovered amongst her p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Firmin by Sam Savage
    Firmin - by Sam Savage

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823392 | ISBN 10: 075382339x

    Firmin is the runt of a litter of rats born in the basement of Pembroke Books, a ramshakle old bookshop run by the equally shambolic owner, Norman Shine. Forced to compete for food, Firmin ends up chewing on the books that surround him. Thanks to his ... more

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  • Cover image of book 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form by Steve Miller
    500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form - by Steve Miller

    £19.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781579908775 | ISBN 10: 1579908772

    Interest in bookbinding and the related arts has exploded in the past decade, inspiring artists to explore the unlimited possibilities of the form.  This title showcases a beautiful range from the intricacies of an exotic Ethiopian binding with ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Victorian Literature Still Matters by Philip Davis
    Why Victorian Literature Still Matters - by Philip Davis

    £21.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781405135795 | ISBN 10: 1405135794

    Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literatures enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking.   * Explores the prominence ... more

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  • Cover image of book Library Lion by Michelle Knudson
    Library Lion - by Michelle Knudson

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781406305678 | ISBN 10: 1406305677

    A charming picture book about the joy of discovering the library and making new friends.   When a lion visits the library, no one knows what to do: there are no rules about lions in the library. But soon he's indispensable "What a helpful lio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book by Edited by Ellen Lupton
    Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book - by Edited by Ellen Lupton

    £16.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781568987606 | ISBN 10: 1568987609

    Perhaps you need a full-color catalog for your first exhibition at a local gallery. Maybe you're inspired to publish your grandfather's war diaries, or you're obsessed with documenting every Star Wars action figure ever produced. Indie Publishing pre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
    The Uncommon Reader - by Alan Bennett

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846681332 | ISBN 10: 1846681332

    The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace.   She reads widely (JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classi ... 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 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 Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
    Days of Reading - by Marcel Proust

    £4.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141036731 | ISBN 10: 0141036737

    Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriche ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
    The End of Mr. Y - by Scarlett Thomas

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847670700 | ISBN 10: 1847670709

    When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are exceedingly rare. And, some say, c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra by James McConnachie
    The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra - by James McConnachie

    £20.00   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843543749 | ISBN 10: 1843543745

    The Kamasutra was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. The Book of Love is a unique portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dirty Bits - For Girls by India Knight
    The Dirty Bits - For Girls - by India Knight

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844082285 | ISBN 10: 1844082288

    Edited and introduced by India Knight, The Dirty Bits - For Girls is an unmissable collection. From zipless action in Fear of Flying to jolly romps with Jilly Cooper; from transgressions with a priest in The Thorn Birds to mischief with Mellors; from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lee Raven, Boy Thief by Zizou Corder
    Lee Raven, Boy Thief - by Zizou Corder

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141322902 | ISBN 10: 014132290x

    Lee Raven, boy thief, has stolen something he really didn't mean to. Now he faces a perilous flight through London (and the murky sewers below) as he tries to escape capture - because Lee has stolen the Book of Nebo, a book that has existed for thous ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
    Mister Pip - by Lloyd Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719569944 | ISBN 10: 071956994x

    'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bookaholics
    The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs - by Compiled by Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarrif

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780714531519 | ISBN 10: 0714531510

    Comprehensive guide to the top book bloggers on the internet which asks who are these people, what are they writing about and why? With some book bloggers gaining hundreds of hits a day, this book aims to show all book lovers that these blogs are an ... more

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  • Cover image of book You
    You've GOT to Read This Book! 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life - by Jack Canfield

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780060891756 | ISBN 10: 0060891750

    There's nothing better than a book you can't put down - or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Dave by Will Self
    The Book of Dave - by Will Self

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141014548 | ISBN 10: 0141014547

    What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned ... more

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  • Cover image of book Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pressl
    Special Topics in Calamity Physics - by Marisha Pressl

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141024325 | ISBN 10: 0141024321

    She found her teacher dead - hanging by a piece of electrical cord. The North Carolina police think it was suicide. Her former friends - the Bluebloods - blame her for being there. And her father tells her to leave it alone. But Blue van Meer is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment by Bryan Talbot
    Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment - by Bryan Talbot

    £22.50   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780224080767 | ISBN 10: 0224080768

    Alice in Sunderland is a graphic novel like no other. Bryan Talbot takes the city of Sunderland and the story of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell (the real Alice) as the spine of his story and around them spins a spectacularly diverse range of diffe ... more

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  • Cover image of book How I Write: The Secret Life of Authors by Edited by Dan Crowe
    How I Write: The Secret Life of Authors - by Edited by Dan Crowe

    £10.00   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780847829422 | ISBN 10: 0847829421

    Have you ever wondered about the creative process of your favorite authors? Ever wondered who loves money more than life? What doors do the secret keys unlock? What old lady wears fur jackets? Who needs to punch a boxing ball before work?  With ... 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 The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac, illustrated by Quentin Blake
    The Rights of the Reader - by Daniel Pennac, illustrated by Quentin Blake

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781406300918 | ISBN 10: 1406300918

    Humane, humorous and deeply felt, this is a unique book about reading.  The Rights of the Reader, which has sold over a million copies in France, grew from celebrated French writer Daniel Pennac's experiences of teaching in "challenging" school ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ultimate Teen Book Guide by Daniel Hahn and Leonie Flynn
    The Ultimate Teen Book Guide - by Daniel Hahn and Leonie Flynn

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780713673302 | ISBN 10: 0713673303

    Stuck for something to read? Whether you're searching for a book to blow your mind and change your life, or a light read for the beach, The Ultimate Teen Book Guide is the perfect place to start.Many of your favourite authors have recommended over 7 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens by Brenda Knight
    Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens - by Brenda Knight

    £14.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781573242714 | ISBN 10: 1573242713

    Wild Women and Books is a celebration of perhaps the most revered and radical women writers of history. Beginning with the first recorded writer of either gender to date, Enheduanna of Sumeria, and ending with acclaimed authors of today, including To ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji
    The Book of Secrets - by M.G. Vassanji

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781841956862 | ISBN 10: 1841956864

    When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern-day Dar es Salaam, discovers the diary of a British colonial administrator from 1913, he is drawn into a provocative account of East Africa and the liasons, feelings and secrets of its peo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
    The History of Love - by Nicole Krauss

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141019970 | ISBN 10: 0141019972

    'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love...' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
    The Jane Austen Book Club - by Karen Joy Fowler

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141020266 | ISBN 10: 0141020261

    Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Outwitting History: How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation by Aaron Lansky
    Outwitting History: How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation - by Aaron Lansky

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780285637528 | ISBN 10: 0285637525

    In 1980, an entire body of Jewish literature - the physical remnant of Yiddish culture - was on the verge of extinction. Previous volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    Fahrenheit 451 - by Ray Bradbury

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780006546061 | ISBN 10: 0006546064

    The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. ... more

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  • Cover image of book 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
    84 Charing Cross Road - by Helene Hanff

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781860498503 | ISBN 10: 1860498507

    The true story of the 20-year correspondence between Helene Hanff, an American writer living in New York, and Frank Doel, the Manager of Messrs Marks and Co., a bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road. The story is told in the couple's letters. "This ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
    The Eyre Affair - by Jasper Fforde

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780340733561 | ISBN 10: 034073356x

    There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or compute ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell
    The Freedom Writers Diary - by The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell

    £12.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780385494229 | ISBN 10: 038549422x

    Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students whose ranks included substance abus ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - by Michael Chabon

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781841154930 | ISBN 10: 1841154938

    One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his arduous and nerve-wracking escape from Prague finally achieved - with the help of his mentor, the master illusionist Kornblum. But little does he real ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
    The Night Listener - by Armistead Maupin

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780552142403 | ISBN 10: 0552142409

    Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late-night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years, when a publisher sends him the memoir of a 13 year old boy who suffered h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
    The Map of Love - by Ahdaf Soueif

    £9.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780747545637 | ISBN 10: 0747545634

    In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, an Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause.  A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, and American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sha ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Introduction to Children
    An Introduction to Children's Literature - by Peter Hunt

    £37.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780192892430 | ISBN 10: 0192892436

    Children's literature is a remarkable area of writing and a growing area of study. Its characters - Pooh Bear, the Wizard of Oz, the Famous Five, Peter Rabbit - are part of most people's psyche and have strong links to basic myth and archetypes. They ... more

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  • Cover image of book If On a Winter
    If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - by Italo Calvino

    £8.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780099430896 | ISBN 10: 0099430894

    Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any book, but the latest Calvino, the book you are holding in your hands. Or is i ... more

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