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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Between The Trees by Fiona Barnett
    The Dark Between The Trees - by Fiona Barnett

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786187147 | ISBN 10: 1786187140

    1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood… unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatura ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
    The Christmas Jigsaw Murders - by Alexandra Benedict

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398525375 | ISBN 10: 1398525375

    THIS CHRISTMAS, A KILLER TAKES FAMILY GAMES TO A MURDEROUS NEW LEVEL.   On 19th of December, renowned puzzle setter, loner and Christmas sceptic Edie O’Sullivan finds a hand-delivered present on her doorstep. Unwrapping it, she finds a jigsa ... 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 Murder On The Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict
    Murder On The Christmas Express - by Alexandra Benedict

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398519855 | ISBN 10: 1398519855

    CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE?   'Whatever you unwrap for Christmas, you had better hope it’s this book. This is 21st-century cosy Christmas crime that doesn’t shy away from the darkness. Eighteen passengers, seven stops, one killer Christmas rea ... 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 Hope & Glory by Jendella Benson
    Hope & Glory - by Jendella Benson

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398702318 | ISBN 10: 1398702315

    ‘So deliciously South London.’ – Yomi Adegoke, author of SLAY IN YOUR LANE   ‘A sweeping, rich tale that explores family, secrets, loss, love and redemption within the context of a tessellation of cultures – written with a beautiful ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radical Love by Neil Blackmore
    Radical Love - by Neil Blackmore

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529152074 | ISBN 10: 1529152070

    Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by soaring prices and political tensions.   By day, John Church preaches on the radical possibilities of love to a multicultural, working-class congre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction Writers by Various authors, edited by Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun
    Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction Writers - by Various authors, edited by Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun

    £12.95   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787588158 | ISBN 10: 1787588157

    Authors: Patrick Parrinder, Yao Haijun, Leah Cypess, Ronald D. Ferguson, Russell James, Alex Shvartsman, Amdi Silvestri, Allen Stroud, Eleanor R. Wood, Bao Shu, Zhao Haihong, Chen Zijun, Han Song, Wang Jinkang, He Xi   An impressive joint projec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadow Girls by Carol Birch
    Shadow Girls - by Carol Birch

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838939472 | ISBN 10: 1838939474

    Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie.   Manchester, 1960s. Sally, a cynical fifteen-year-old scho ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sharing Economy by Sophie Berrebi
    The Sharing Economy - by Sophie Berrebi

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398515567 | ISBN 10: 1398515566

    Three Women meets Crudo: a frank and fresh literary debut about the dawn of dating apps in Amsterdam.  ‘Sexual infidelity is unavoidable, for whatever reasons, in long monogamous relationships, so why not give the other sexual freedom, as a ges ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisterhood by Katherine Bradley
    The Sisterhood - by Katherine Bradley

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398519114 | ISBN 10: 1398519111

    ‘Frightening and timely, Bradley’s The Sisterhood is the book everyone should read this year. If you thought it ended with Orwell, think again...' CHRISTINA DALCHER  Vox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist reimagining of 1984.&nb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
    Glory - by NoViolet Bulawayo

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114225 | ISBN 10: 1529114225

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023  "You thought you were getting a novel as good as We Need New Names, tholukuthi Bulawayo's second is even more dazzling"(Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Guardian) Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyrid ... more

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  • Cover image of book Book of Night by Holly Black
    Book of Night - by Holly Black

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529102390 | ISBN 10: 1529102391

    'Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists, Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black.' Leigh Bardugo, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House  'If Neil Gaiman channelled Stephen King, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood by Candice Brathwaite (Editor)
    Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood - by Candice Brathwaite (Editor)

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784878313 | ISBN 10: 1784878316

    A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.   'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow' MAYA ... more

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  • Cover image of book Medusa by Jessie Burton
    Medusa - by Jessie Burton

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662408 | ISBN 10: 152666240x

    'A beautiful and profound retelling' - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe 'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra   If I told you tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer Square Mile: Queer Short Stories from Wales by Kirsti Bohata, Mihangel Morgan and Huw Osborne (Editors)
    Queer Square Mile: Queer Short Stories from Wales - by Kirsti Bohata, Mihangel Morgan and Huw Osborne (Editors)

    £15.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914595585 | ISBN 10: 1914595580

    This ground-breaking volume makes visible a long and diverse tradition of queer writing from Wales. Spanning genres from ghost stories and science fiction to industrial literature and surrealist modernism, these are stories of love, loss and transfor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Salt Crystals by Cristina Bendek
    Salt Crystals - by Cristina Bendek

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913867331 | ISBN 10: 1913867331

    Translated by Robin Myers  San Andrés rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab trade ... 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 Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
    Case Study - by Graeme Macrae Burnet

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913393441 | ISBN 10: 1913393445

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2022  “A page-turning blast, funny, sinister and perfectly plotted … Rarely has being constantly wrong-footed been so much fun.” James Walton, The Times   “Ver ... more

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  • Cover image of book Murder On The Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict
    Murder On The Christmas Express - by Alexandra Benedict

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398519824 | ISBN 10: 1398519820

    CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE?   ‘It’s wonderful! A page-turning homage to the Golden Age, with a dash of Poirot and a dark, modern heart’ S J BENNETT  ‘Magnificent! A smart, suspenseful and snow-covered mystery with plenty of heart and more ... 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 The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman
    The Very Nice Box - by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857308269 | ISBN 10: 0857308262

    Ava Simon designs storage boxes for STAEDA, a slick Brooklyn-based furniture company. She's hard-working, obsessive and heartbroken from a tragedy that killed her girlfriend and upended her life. It's been years since she's let anyone in.  Bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women and Love by Miriam Burke
    Women and Love - by Miriam Burke

    £10.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913724818 | ISBN 10: 1913724816

    'I couldn’t sleep that night; our conversation was like a trapped bird flying around inside my head. The next morning, I texted to say I wouldn’t be coming back. I lied about having to return to my country to nurse a sick relative. I couldn’t b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
    Lucky Breaks - by Yevgenia Belorusets

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782278726 | ISBN 10: 1782278729

    In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins of Ukrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. A woman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative; a beautiful florist su ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living Pictures by Polina Barskova
    Living Pictures - by Polina Barskova

    £20.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782277606 | ISBN 10: 1782277609

    Growing up in Leningrad, Polina Barskova saw no trace of the estimated million people who died in the city during the Nazi blockade of 1941-44. As one of Russia’s most admired and controversial contemporary writers, she has repeatedly returned to t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Either / Or by Elif Batuman
    Either / Or - by Elif Batuman

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787333864 | ISBN 10: 1787333868

    SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY:  The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of ev ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
    The Echo Chamber - by John Boyne

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529176742 | ISBN 10: 1529176743

    'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin 'A fearless romp with big laughs along the way' Graham Norton 'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian' The Observer 'His relish is infectious' Times   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
    The Women of Troy - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241988336 | ISBN 10: 0241988330

    Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.   Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - al ... more

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  • Cover image of book Category Unknown by Koushik Banerjea
    Category Unknown - by Koushik Banerjea

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780995721784 | ISBN 10: 0995721785

    Life on a London council estate leads the entrepreneurial Conrad on a conflicted journey between his ambition, his loyalty to his Jamaican nan and his need to redeem himself.   The suppressed scars of a life under the Spanish dictator Franco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ceremony of Innocence by Madeleine Bunting
    Ceremony of Innocence - by Madeleine Bunting

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787500 | ISBN 10: 1783787503

    A Cambridge PhD student called Reem has gone missing in Egypt. Those close to her fear that her investigation into her family”s history in the Gulf has put her in danger. The trail leads back to Tehran in 1969, when diplomat Martin Wilcox Smith, fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
    Blackass - by A. Igoni Barrett

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780099587446 | ISBN 10: 0099587440

    'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon James  White skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASS  Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has tu ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini
    We Want Everything - by Nanni Balestrini

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784783693 | ISBN 10: 1784783692

    The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969.  It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Outrageous Horizon by Adrien Bosc
    Outrageous Horizon - by Adrien Bosc

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788162746 | ISBN 10: 1788162749

    An intellectually star-studded and dreamy document, Outrageous Horizon leads the reader irresistibly along, and leaves a lingering sense of amazement in its wake.  Two hundred and fifty members of a new society, floating, stranded at sea, hea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Delilah Green Doesn
    Delilah Green Doesn't Care - by Ashley Herring Blake

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349432564 | ISBN 10: 0349432562

    A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love – with all its complications. Perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur, Casey McQuiston and Rosie Danan.  Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Brig ... more

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  • Cover image of book Come Join Our Disease by Sam Byers
    Come Join Our Disease - by Sam Byers

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571360093 | ISBN 10: 0571360092

    Why be healthy when the world is so sick? From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Across the Water: The Liverpool Mystery Series, Book Two by Jack Byrne
    Across the Water: The Liverpool Mystery Series, Book Two - by Jack Byrne

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781915179012 | ISBN 10: 1915179017

    Following the events of Under the Bridge, Vinny and Anne travel to Ireland in search of Vinny's father, Paddy, who mysteriously disappeared not long after returning to his homeland in 1974.   We piece Paddy's story together as he returns to W ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Day I Fell Off My Island by Yvonne Bailey-Smith
    The Day I Fell Off My Island - by Yvonne Bailey-Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838386047 | ISBN 10: 1838386041

    Irish Times Books to watch out for in 2021 Sunday Times The five hot new books to read on your post-vax vacation Culture Fly Must-read books for summer Glasgow Herald 25 best books to read this summer  Jamaica, 1968: Erna Mullings’ life ... more

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  • Cover image of book Assembly by Natasha Brown
    Assembly - by Natasha Brown

    £12.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241515709 | ISBN 10: 024151570x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION AWARD 2021  The acclaimed word-of-mouth hit and break-out debut of the year.  Selected as a Book of the Year 2021 by booksellers, writers and read ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
    A Thousand Moons - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571333394 | ISBN 10: 0571333397

    From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End.   Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live...  Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and J ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
    The Manningtree Witches - by A.K. Blakemore

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781783786442 | ISBN 10: 1783786442

    WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE  Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling debut.  England, 1643. Parliament is battling the King; the war bet ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World Retold by Bolu Babalola
    Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World Retold - by Bolu Babalola

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472268884 | ISBN 10: 1472268881

    Time was constructed with love in mind. Time and love are intertwined, they are both measures of life, two clocks. And, for love to operate as it should, it is imperative that the timing should be right. Just as it is in these stories.  Bolu Ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui
    All Men Want to Know - by Nina Bouraoui

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241447734 | ISBN 10: 0241447739

    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD   All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley
    The Cat and The City - by Nick Bradley

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786499912 | ISBN 10: 1786499916

    In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Bridge: A Liverpool Mystery by Jack Byrne
    Under the Bridge: A Liverpool Mystery - by Jack Byrne

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838343002 | ISBN 10: 1838343008

    WHEN SECRETS RESURFACE THE PAST REACHES OUT...   2004: The discovery of a body in the Liverpool docklands unearths long forgotten secrets. Reporter Anne McCarthy is keen to prove herself and dives into the case with abandon. There she fin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
    Wild Seed - by Octavia E. Butler

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472280992 | ISBN 10: 1472280997

    A PATTERNIST NOVEL: BOOK ONE  It begins when two immortals meet in an African forest.  Doro is an ancient spirit who, for thousands of years, has cultivated a small village of people in search of perfection. He steals from their bodie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler
    Mind of My Mind - by Octavia E. Butler

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472281005 | ISBN 10: 1472281004

    A PATTERNIST NOVEL: BOOK TWO The baby's name is Mary, and her father is immortal.  For thousands of years, Doro has pursued perfection, experimenting with humanity and seeking out rare - and powerful - talents. His finest creation is Mary, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Clay
    Clay's Ark - by Octavia E. Butler

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472281029 | ISBN 10: 1472281020

    A PATTERNIST NOVEL: BOOK THREE  Blake Maslin is a doctor. In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, he and his twin daughters are taken captive by armed men demanding urgent medical care.  In an isolated desert compound, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler
    Patternmaster - by Octavia E. Butler

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472281043 | ISBN 10: 1472281047

    A PATTERNIST NOVEL: BOOK FOUR The Patternmaster is all powerful.  His every thought can control, heal or destroy. The only threat to his command are the Clayarks, a society of people born out of terrible disease, who now live enslaved by ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
    Remembered - by Yvonne Battle-Felton

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349700489 | ISBN 10: 0349700486

    From the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist and the Northern Writer's Award Winner comes...  REMEMBERED  It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning...  The last place Spring wants to be is in the rundown, coloured section of a hos ... more

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  • Cover image of book God 99 by Hassan Blasim
    God 99 - by Hassan Blasim

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781905583775 | ISBN 10: 190558377x

    Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous storytellers...  The characters in Hassan Blasim’s debut novel are not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy Made the Difference by Matt Bishop
    The Boy Made the Difference - by Matt Bishop

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838594879 | ISBN 10: 1838594876

    Rex, a husband and father, makes an unintentional error. Will Rex get away with his terrible, taboo-busting mistake?   This opening premise is the starting gun to a rollicking ride through London of the late 1980s and early 1990s, in a literary n ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Confession by Jessie Burton
    The Confession - by Jessie Burton

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509886197 | ISBN 10: 1509886192

    The sensational Sunday Times bestseller from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.   When Elise Morceau meets the writer Constance Holden, she quickly falls under her spell. Connie is sophisticated, b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
    Night Boat to Tangier - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781782116202 | ISBN 10: 1782116206

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 THE NUMBER ONE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER   It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone mi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism & Dragons by Elly Blue (Editor)
    Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism & Dragons - by Elly Blue (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781621060475 | ISBN 10: 1621060470

    From the great, winged, fire-breathing lizards of the west to the wise, flying serpents of the east, dragons play a powerful role in our myths and imaginations.  In these fourteen stories and one comic, bicyclists encounter a diversity of dragon ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Moss House by Clara Barley
    The Moss House - by Clara Barley

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910422496 | ISBN 10: 1910422495

    Two hundred years ago, neighbouring Yorkshire landowners Miss Lister and Miss Walker find their lives become entwined in a passionate, forbidden relationship and retreat to the Moss House, their private sanctuary away from an unaccepting world. Their ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle
    A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself - by William Boyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857301307 | ISBN 10: 0857301306

    Thelma and Louise meets Goodfellas when an unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of violent figures from their pasts.  After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbour ... more

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  • Cover image of book The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 by Nikki Bedi (Editor)
    The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 - by Nikki Bedi (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912697229 | ISBN 10: 191269722x

    Featuring Lucy Caldwell, Lynda Clark, Jacqueline Crooks, Tamsin Grey & Jo Lloyd.  Including the winning story, 'The Invisible' by Jo Lloyd!  A young boy takes delight in his mother’s ability to shapeshift from one animal to another, only real ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
    My Sister, the Serial Killer - by Oyinkan Braithwaite

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786495983 | ISBN 10: 1786495988

    Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 Winner of the LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller, 2019   When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola ... more

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  • Cover image of book It
    It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's - by Lisa Blower

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912408160 | ISBN 10: 1912408163

    With a sharp eye and tough warmth, Lisa Blower strikes a new chord in regional and working-class fiction.  This fabulous collection of her award-winning short stories is dominated by the working-class matriarch. From the wise, witty and outsp ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Houses by Amy Bloom
    White Houses - by Amy Bloom

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783781744 | ISBN 10: 1783781742

    In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
    The Silence of the Girls - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241983201 | ISBN 10: 0241983207

    "A very good, very raw rendition of the Trojan war from the point of view of the women."(Kate Atkinson) There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now.  Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Home by Amanda Berriman
    Home - by Amanda Berriman

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784163136 | ISBN 10: 1784163139

    Jesika is four and a half. She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother and she knows a lot.  She knows their flat is high up and the stairs are smelly. She knows she should not draw on the wall where the wallpaper is peeling or touch ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky
    The Wolf in the Whale - by Jordanna Max Brodsky

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780356512600 | ISBN 10: 0356512606

    Interweaving Inuit and Norse mythology, The Wolf in The Whale is a magical coming-of-age tale featuring an unforgettable narrator ready to confront the gods themselves.  THERE IS A VERY OLD STORY, RARELY TOLD, OF A WOLF THAT RUNS INTO THE OCEAN A ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
    Girls Made of Snow and Glass - by Melissa Bashardoust

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781250134691 | ISBN 10: 1250134692

    Sixteen-year-old Mina is motherless, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone—has never beat at all, in fact, but she’d always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Census by Jesse Ball
    Census - by Jesse Ball

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783783779 | ISBN 10: 178378377x

    "Census is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches."(David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas) "A humane, surreal novel that in terms of its own art form embraces, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dune Song by Anissa M Bouziane
    Dune Song - by Anissa M Bouziane

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912240357 | ISBN 10: 1912240351

    Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Prix Littéraire Sofitel Tour Blanche   'I came to the Sahara to be buried.'   After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
    Zoo City - by Lauren Beukes

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781405924054 | ISBN 10: 1405924055

    Lauren Beukes' Arthur C Clarke Award-winning tale of a young woman trapped in a brutal city but looking for a way out...   'A major, major talent' George R. R. Martin   Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent ... more

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  • Cover image of book London Rocks by Brenda Lee Browne
    London Rocks - by Brenda Lee Browne

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910553725 | ISBN 10: 1910553727

    This is the story of Dante Brookes, a young man growing up in London in the late seventies and early eighties when sound systems ruled the party scene for young, Black British youths of Caribbean heritage.  He navigates the loss of friends, poli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
    Cassandra at the Wedding - by Dorothy Baker

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911547297 | ISBN 10: 1911547291

    ‘I am not, at heart, a jumper. I think I knew all the time I was sizing up the bridge that the strong possibility was I’d attend my sister’s wedding.’   Cassandra Edwards is driving home to her family’s Californian ranch to attend th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The More You Ignore Me by Jo Brand
    The More You Ignore Me - by Jo Brand

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472254993 | ISBN 10: 1472254996

    The new hilarious, poignant and darkly comic novel by the Queen of Comedy.  A genuinely funny and original novel about mental illness, growing up and parental breakdown from much-loved comedienne Jo Brand.   Alice is five, and convince ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snap by Belinda Bauer
    Snap - by Belinda Bauer

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784160852 | ISBN 10: 1784160857

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row   'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMID   SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS...  On a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tell Me How Long the Train
    Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - by James Baldwin

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241342039 | ISBN 10: 0241342031

    In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself.   'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it'   At the height of his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Milkman by Anna Burns
    Milkman - by Anna Burns

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571338757 | ISBN 10: 0571338755

    WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018. "Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time."(Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies) ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Pages for Her by Sylvia Brownrigg
    Pages for Her - by Sylvia Brownrigg

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509831081 | ISBN 10: 1509831088

    Flannery, a writer with one well-known rather racy book to her name, is, by her own admission, in a situation she never thought she'd be: married to a man who overshadows her and defined by her primary relationships as wife and mother. When Flannery ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Idiot by Elif Batuman
    The Idiot - by Elif Batuman

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099583172 | ISBN 10: 0099583178

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018   Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies ling ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boat People by Sharon Bala
    The Boat People - by Sharon Bala

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780385544023 | ISBN 10: 0385544022

    Globe and Mail bestseller, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism.   When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ashland & Vine by John Burnside
    Ashland & Vine - by John Burnside

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099554936 | ISBN 10: 0099554933

    Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. If she can sta ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
    A Line Made By Walking - by Sara Baume

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099592754 | ISBN 10: 0099592754

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017 "When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agility, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Please Don
    Please Don't Come Back from the Moon - by Dean Bakopoulos

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784162276 | ISBN 10: 1784162272

    When Michael was sixteen his father left home. He wasn't the first to go. One by one other men in the blue-collar neighbourhood outside Detroit where Michael lives vanish. One props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. 'I'm going to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Heart
    The Heart's Invisible Furies - by John Boyne

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784161002 | ISBN 10: 1784161004

    Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?  Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adop ... more

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  • Cover image of book H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
    H(A)PPY - by Nicola Barker

    £20.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785151149 | ISBN 10: 1785151142

    *WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017* A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR   From the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker-shortlisted Nicola Barker comes a new novel, a post-post apocalyptic story that overflows with pu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories In Extreme Futures by Elly Blue
    Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories In Extreme Futures - by Elly Blue

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781621062066 | ISBN 10: 1621062066

    In a world with an uncertain future, do you imagine for the best or for the worst case scenario?   Twelve writers tackle extreme solarpunk utopias and apocalyptic or political dystopias — and the grey areas in between — in Biketopia, the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guest by SJ Bradley
    Guest - by SJ Bradley

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911585053 | ISBN 10: 1911585053

    Samhain is a young, angry and bewildered squatter living in an abandoned hotel in the North of England. One day he receives a message: his father – a man he never knew – was an undercover policeman infiltrating the Green movement of the 80s. What ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time of Lies: A Political Satire by Douglas Board
    Time of Lies: A Political Satire - by Douglas Board

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785630347 | ISBN 10: 1785630342

    In 2020 the United Kingdom elects its own Donald Trump.   Bob Grant, former football hooligan, now the charismatic leader of the Britain’s Great party, has swept to power on a populist tide. With his itchy finger hovering over the nuclear tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett
    Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall - by Neil Bartlett

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781259313 | ISBN 10: 1781259313

    It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair.   Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, and 'O': the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery
    The Life of Elves - by Muriel Barbery

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910477335 | ISBN 10: 1910477338

    The highly anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.  The villagers had never seen anything like it: dense white curtains of snow that instantly transformed the landscape. Not in autumn, not here in Burg ... more

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  • Cover image of book There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry
    There Are Little Kingdoms - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786890177 | ISBN 10: 1786890178

    This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reache ... more

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  • Cover image of book Orphans of the Carnival by Carol Birch
    Orphans of the Carnival - by Carol Birch

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782116561 | ISBN 10: 1782116567

    A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden.   Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico. She is heralded across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her unusual looks. Yet few can see past her freakis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
    Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

    £15.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781419709470 | ISBN 10: 141970947x

    Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format.  More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sellout by Paul Beatty
    The Sellout - by Paul Beatty

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071460 | ISBN 10: 1786071460

    **WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016**   ‘Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times ‘The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian ‘The most badass first 100 pages of an American ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi
    The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea - by Bandi

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781257548 | ISBN 10: 178125754x

    In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime.  Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 20 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Octavio
    Octavio's Journey - by Miguel Bonnefoy

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910477311 | ISBN 10: 1910477311

    A compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition.   “His body might have been hewn from a tree trunk; his heart would last for a hundred years. And, like a tree, he was one of those me ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
    A Country Road, A Tree - by Jo Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780552779524 | ISBN 10: 0552779520

    Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
    Days Without End - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571333899 | ISBN 10: 0571333893

    'I am thinking of the days without end of my life...'   After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker
    The Cauliflower - by Nicola Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099510529 | ISBN 10: 0099510529

    FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR NICOLA BARKER   To the world he is Sri Ramakrishna - godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To temple owner, Rani Rashmoni, he is the Brahmin fated to defy tradition. But to Hriday, his ne ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
    The Noise of Time - by Julian Barnes

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784703325 | ISBN 10: 178470332x

    In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who ... more

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  • Cover image of book Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg
    Now is the Time - by Melvyn Bragg

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473614550 | ISBN 10: 1473614554

    A thrilling fictional recreation of the biggest rebellion in English history - the so-called Peasants' Revolt.   In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.   At the end ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
    Beatlebone - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782116165 | ISBN 10: 1782116168

    WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015  He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks... John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.  John ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sitting Ducks by Lisa Blower
    Sitting Ducks - by Lisa Blower

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781911048015 | ISBN 10: 1911048015

    Meagre in build. Mouthy in nature. One good owner and pottery trained: Josiah Totty Minton is bang out of sick notes and harbouring the dream of a three-bed semi with bay windows, fully-fitted carpets and enough of a garden to stretch his legs. ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy
    A Few of the Girls - by Maeve Binchy

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781409161448 | ISBN 10: 1409161447

    "The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
    My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - by Fredrik Backman

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444775853 | ISBN 10: 1444775855

    The hilarious, heart-breaking novel by the author of the international bestseller A Man Called Ove.  A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette.  Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Noonday by Pat Barker
    Noonday - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241966037 | ISBN 10: 0241966035

    In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII. 'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolao
    A Little Lumpen Novelita - by Roberto Bolao

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447292913 | ISBN 10: 144729291x

    'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita.   Orphaned overnight as a teenager - 'our parents died in a car crash on ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Siege of Bitterns: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows
    A Siege of Bitterns: A Birder Murder Mystery - by Steve Burrows

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780748436 | ISBN 10: 1780748434

    Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesnt mind ruffling a few feathers. Indeed his success has elevated him into a poster boy for the police. The problem is Jejeune doesnt really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
    A Long Long Way - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571320233 | ISBN 10: 0571320236

    One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself c ... 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 Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories by E. Blue, A. Greenhall, J. Kwak, G. Lair, M. Spencer and E. J. Street
    Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories - by E. Blue, A. Greenhall, J. Kwak, G. Lair, M. Spencer and E. J. Street

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781621065623 | ISBN 10: 1621065626

    In the not-so-distant future, when gasoline is no longer available, humans turn to two-wheeled vehicles to transport goods, seek glory, and defend their remaining communities. In another version of the future, those with the zombie virus are able to ... more

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  • Cover image of book A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
    A History of Loneliness - by John Boyne

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552778435 | ISBN 10: 0552778435

    Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends.   Forty years later, Odrans devotion ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
    Spill Simmer Falter Wither - by Sara Baume

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099592747 | ISBN 10: 0099592746

    LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015   You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Disappearance Boy by Neil Bartlett
    The Disappearance Boy - by Neil Bartlett

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408850473 | ISBN 10: 1408850478

    Reggie Rainbow has found the perfect profession for someone who likes to keep himself to himself: it's his job to make sure that some things stay out of sight and out of mind. Reggie Rainbow is an angry young man who treads the backstage corridors of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
    Blackass - by A. Igoni Barrett

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780701188566 | ISBN 10: 0701188561

    White skin, green eyes, red hair black ass. Furo Wariboko born and bred in Lagos wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the streets of Lagos running, Furo finds the dead ends of hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
    The Secret Scripture - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571323951 | ISBN 10: 0571323952

    Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Perfidy by Mark Bowman
    Perfidy - by Mark Bowman

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781906407308 | ISBN 10: 1906407304

    Book Two of The Verity Trilogy.   While hiding on Mars, Nomia embarks on an audacious plan to free her brothers and sisters from the organic computer of the Nexus, and to cripple MynCorp's hold over humanity. To succeed she will need to forge ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano
    The Secret of Evil - by Roberto Bolano

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780330510660 | ISBN 10: 0330510665

    Roberto Bolao confirmed his place as a giant of Latin American literature with his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003.   A North Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
    Rubyfruit Jungle - by Rita Mae Brown

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784870515 | ISBN 10: 178487051x

    Molly Bolt is a young lady with a big character.  Beautiful, funny and bright, Molly figures out at a young age that she will have to be tough to stay true to herself in 1950s America. In her dealings with boyfriends and girlfriends, in the rock ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
    Chestnut Street - by Maeve Binchy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781409151814 | ISBN 10: 1409151816

    A delightful collection of linked stories from No. 1 bestselling author of A Week in Winter.   Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in Minding Frankie) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
    Lucky Us - by Amy Bloom

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847089397 | ISBN 10: 1847089399

    When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Iris and Eva ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
    Ham on Rye - by Charles Bukowski

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782116660 | ISBN 10: 1782116664

    Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, first published in 1982, is probably the most autobiographical and moving of all his books, dealing in particular with his difficult relationship with his father and his early childhood in LA.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Pasta to Pigfoot by Frances Mensah Williams
    From Pasta to Pigfoot - by Frances Mensah Williams

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909762206 | ISBN 10: 1909762202

    From Pasta to Pigfoot is a contemporary, multi-cultural novel that tells the story of Faye Bonsu, a pasta-loving, underachieving PA whose upbringing in leafy Hampstead, London has given her little opportunity to understand her African heritage.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
    A Man Called Ove - by Fredrik Backman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444775815 | ISBN 10: 1444775812

    The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny, A Man Called Ove is a life-affirming fable for our times.  At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Incarnations by Susan Barker
    The Incarnations - by Susan Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784160005 | ISBN 10: 1784160008

    Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the citys congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. Someone is watching him. Someone w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Munich Airport by Greg Baxter
    Munich Airport - by Greg Baxter

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241969984 | ISBN 10: 0241969980

    An American expat in London takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman, and the news she has to convey to him is almost incomprehensible: his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvation.   Three weeks late ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Glow by Ned Beauman
    Glow - by Ned Beauman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444765533 | ISBN 10: 1444765531

    From the prizewinning author of Boxer, Beetle and the Booker-longlisted The Teleportation Accident comes Ned Beauman's third and most thrilling novel to date.   With Glow, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost Runner by Parker Bilal
    The Ghost Runner - by Parker Bilal

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408841136 | ISBN 10: 1408841134

    It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prince
    The Prince's Boy - by Paul Bailey

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408851951 | ISBN 10: 1408851954

    In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the uniq ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
    The Temporary Gentleman - by Sebastian Barry

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571276998 | ISBN 10: 0571276997

    A stunning return from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Secret Scripture. Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
    Radiance of Tomorrow - by Ishmael Beah

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780374535032 | ISBN 10: 0374535035

    A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone  When Ishmael Beahs A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Le ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
    The Miniaturist - by Jessie Burton

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447250937 | ISBN 10: 1447250931

    There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed...   On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
    Under Fire - by Henri Barbusse

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393438 | ISBN 10: 0141393432

    'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down' Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
    Kindred - by Octavia E. Butler

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472214812 | ISBN 10: 1472214811

    A modern black woman is transported to 19th century Maryland, where she faces the cruel realities of slavery. Kindred, Octavia E. Butler's masterpiece, is an essential read and 'a shattering work of art' (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner). On her 26th b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Like Happy by John Burnside
    Something Like Happy - by John Burnside

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575597 | ISBN 10: 0099575590

    A collection of masterpieces in short fiction in praise of hope, from prize-winning author John Burnside.  In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by ... more

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  • Cover image of book 2 a.m. at The Cat
    2 a.m. at The Cat's Pajamas - by Marie-Helene Bertino

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447254447 | ISBN 10: 1447254449

    A sparkling, enchanting, one-of-a-kind novel about one day in the lives of three unforgettable characters  Madeleine Altimari is a sassy, smart-mouthed nine-year-old and an aspiring jazz singer, inwardly mourning the recent death of her mother. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hidden Knowledge by Bernardine Bishop
    Hidden Knowledge - by Bernardine Bishop

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444789270 | ISBN 10: 1444789279

    Accused of child abuse, Father Roger Tree confesses at once; it masks a darker secret. Meanwhile his sister Romola faces a future without their beloved brother, the novelist Hereward Tree. Can she live with the ending of his last book? And then there ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
    We Need New Names - by Noviolet Bulawayo

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099581888 | ISBN 10: 0099581884

    * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013*   * US National Book Award 5 Under 35 *   * Winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014*  * Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2014*   * Winner of a Betty Trask Award 2014* &n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Futures by John Barker
    Futures - by John Barker

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781604869613 | ISBN 10: 1604869615

    Carol is a small-time cocaine dealer in 1987 London. On her own with a young daughter, she is a good mother who is especially careful in her working life. For some punters, this involves being Simone. One of these customers is Phil, a financial analy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beggar
    Beggar's Feast - by Randy Boyagoda

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241001547 | ISBN 10: 0241001544

    Randy Boyagoda's Beggar's Feast is a tour de force of a novel set in Sri Lanka about a man living in defiance of fate.   Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in the heart of Ceylon and abandoned by his family ten years later at the gates ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
    Trout Fishing in America - by Richard Brautigan

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782113805 | ISBN 10: 1782113800

    Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America.   Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the won ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
    The Orenda - by Joseph Boyden

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
    Woes of the True Policeman - by Roberto Bolano

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447233305 | ISBN 10: 1447233301

    Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor scar Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa a Mexican city close to the US border.  In this sprawling town, where women are being killed in staggering numbers, Amalfitano begins an a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
    The Shadow of the Crescent Moon - by Fatima Bhutto

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241965627 | ISBN 10: 0241965624

    Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut novel The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border.   Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon aft ... more

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  • Cover image of book Longbourn by Jo Baker
    Longbourn - by Jo Baker

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

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

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  • Cover image of book All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke
    All Day and a Night - by Alafair Burke

    £10.00   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571302314 | ISBN 10: 0571302319

    When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick is murdered in her Park Slope office, the entire city suspects her estranged husband - until the District Attorney's Office receives an anonymous letter. The letter's author knows a detail that police have kept se ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Busker by Liam Murray Bell
    The Busker - by Liam Murray Bell

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908434371 | ISBN 10: 1908434376

    SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST 2014 PICK OF THE YEAR Three cities, two years, one chance: from the author of the critically acclaimed debut So It Is shortlisted for best first book at the Scottish Book Awards 2013 comes the hard-hitting story of a young ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
    The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker

    £16.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241969144 | ISBN 10: 024196914x

    The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker's sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction.   1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the fron ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
    Rubbernecker - by Belinda Bauer

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780552779494 | ISBN 10: 0552779490

    Patrick didnt care what made people work. He was only interested in what happened when they stopped.   Life is strange for Patrick Fort - being a medical student with Aspergers Syndrome doesnt come without its challenges. And thats before ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Quarry by Iain Banks
    The Quarry - by Iain Banks

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349138596 | ISBN 10: 0349138591

    The new novel from Iain Banks, the bestselling author of The Wasp Factory. Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest ... more

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  • Cover image of book San Miguel by T.C. Boyle
    San Miguel - by T.C. Boyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408831373 | ISBN 10: 1408831376

    The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year's Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the firs ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
    The Movement of Stars - by Amy Brill

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780718159924 | ISBN 10: 0718159926

    Amy Brill's The Movement of Stars tells a story of illicit love and extraordinary ambition.   It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price dreams of a world infinitely larger than the small Quaker community where she has lived all 25 years of her li ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
    The Hydrogen Sonata - by Iain M. Banks

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780356501499 | ISBN 10: 0356501493

    The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.   An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier ... more

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  • Cover image of book Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories by Kevin Barry (Editor)
    Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories - by Kevin Barry (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571297047 | ISBN 10: 0571297048

    After previous volumes, edited by Joseph O'Connor and the late David Marcus, Faber and Faber are delighted to present a fourth collection of all new Irish short stories.   Edited by novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, whose story, 'Be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Twyning by Terence Blacker
    The Twyning - by Terence Blacker

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781850725 | ISBN 10: 1781850720

    Imagine a city. A place where respectable men and women rub shoulders with thieves and madmen. A place where two runaway children can easily be lost among the smoke and grime.   But beneath this city there is another world. A world of Courts a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maid of the Mist by Bateman
    Maid of the Mist - by Bateman

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781472201317 | ISBN 10: 1472201310

    Not a lot happens in Niagara Falls. It's a sleepy Canadian town full of honeymooners and tourists, and that's how Inspector Frank Corrigan likes it. He saw enough trouble as a cop in Northern Ireland. Now he's happy dealing with parking offences and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Complicity by Iain Banks
    Complicity - by Iain Banks

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780349139135 | ISBN 10: 034913913x

    COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - i ... more

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  • Cover image of book HHhH by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
    HHhH - by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555643 | ISBN 10: 0099555646

    An astonishing, unforgettable novel: a thrilling Second World War assassination plot told with rare literary brilliance.  Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovak ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blue Blood by Sara Blaedel
    Blue Blood - by Sara Blaedel

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780751551211 | ISBN 10: 075155121x

    The UK debut from the million copy Danish No.1 crime bestseller and international smash-hit.  In an idyllic neighbourhood of Copenhagen, a young woman, Susanne Hansson, is discovered in her apartment bound and gagged, the victim of an extraordi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lethal Profit by Alex Blackmore
    Lethal Profit - by Alex Blackmore

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781843440635 | ISBN 10: 1843440636

    Inspired by the ordered and logical approach of Henning Mankell's heroes, combined with the action of a Harlan Coben thriller and the conspiracy undertones of a Robert Ludlum plot.   She is caught up in a tangle of deception he left behind, fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
    A Week in Winter - by Maeve Binchy

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781409117940 | ISBN 10: 1409117944

    High on the cliffs of the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic ocean, is Stone House. Once falling into disrepair, it is now a beautiful hotel specialising in winter holidays. With a big, warm kitchen, log fires and understated, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stonemouth by Iain Banks
    Stonemouth - by Iain Banks

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780349000206 | ISBN 10: 0349000204

    Iain Banks at his very best - his funniest, grittiest and most exciting novel yet.  Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toby
    Toby's Room - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141042206 | ISBN 10: 0141042206

    Pat Barker returns to the First World War in Toby's Room, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship.   When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery by Parker Bilal
    The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery - by Parker Bilal

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408830369 | ISBN 10: 1408830361

    Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a da ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philida by Andr Brink
    Philida - by Andr Brink

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099578758 | ISBN 10: 0099578751

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012. An unforgettable story of a woman determined to find her freedom - set in South Africa in 1830s, as slavery was about to be abolished. The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the libera ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Way Of Wyrd by Brian Bates
    The Way Of Wyrd - by Brian Bates

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781800171 | ISBN 10: 1781800170

    The compelling cult classic, now reissued in a brand new edition with a new introduction by Brian Bates. This bestselling fictionalized account of an Anglo-Saxon sorcerer and mystic is based on years of research by psychologist and university profess ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ancient Light by John Banville
    Ancient Light - by John Banville

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241955406 | ISBN 10: 0241955408

    'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'   In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
    Running the Rift - by Naomi Benaron

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689040 | ISBN 10: 1851689044

    Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in whic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vulture Peak by John Burdett
    Vulture Peak - by John Burdett

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781472100986 | ISBN 10: 1472100980

    The fifth Bangkok novel featuring Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the former Buddhist monk.   Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police offic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
    The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress - by Beryl Bainbridge

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780349121468 | ISBN 10: 034912146x

    In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Absolutist by John Boyne
    The Absolutist - by John Boyne

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780552775403 | ISBN 10: 0552775401

    September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together. ... more

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  • Cover image of book So It Is by Liam Murray Bell
    So It Is - by Liam Murray Bell

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908434142 | ISBN 10: 1908434147

    Spanning the decades that saw Northern Ireland move from brutal conflict to uncertain peace in the 1990s, this powerful new take on the literature of the Troubles is both a political coming-of-age novel and a fast-paced literary thriller. Aoife, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Africa Junction by Ginny Baily
    Africa Junction - by Ginny Baily

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099552727 | ISBN 10: 0099552728

    A brilliantly constructed first novel following a young woman's quest for redemption set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of modern Africa.  Adele is in a mess. On her own with her young son, struggling to cope with her job as a teacher ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nine Inches by Bateman
    Nine Inches - by Bateman

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755378654 | ISBN 10: 0755378652

    Dan Starkey, the ducking and diving hapless investigator, takes centre stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime.   Radio shock-jock and self-styled people's champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy - bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Picture Book by Jo Baker
    The Picture Book - by Jo Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846273827 | ISBN 10: 184627382x

    Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is an intimate family portrait captured in snapshots.   First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his s ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
    City of Bohane - by Kevin Barry

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099549154 | ISBN 10: 0099549158

    Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award - this is a cool, comic, violent and lyrical debut novel from one of Ireland's most talented new writers.   Forty years in the future. The once ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hemispheres by Stephen Baker
    Hemispheres - by Stephen Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848872219 | ISBN 10: 1848872216

    Moving from the gas-flares of Teesside, to marine adventures in the South Atlantic, Hemispheres is a salutary and searing debut novel for anyone who enjoyed Kes and The Northern Clemency.  Growing up in a family of pub landlords, Danny sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Canaan
    On Canaan's Side - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571226542 | ISBN 10: 057122654x

    'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things'.   Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dubl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Turbulent Priests by Bateman
    Turbulent Priests - by Bateman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755378753 | ISBN 10: 075537875x

    Is she the new Messiah, or just a very naughty girl?   Dan Starkey arrives on Wrathlin Island - meteorogically wet but alcoholically dry - to investigate the residents' belief that the Messiah is alive, female, and about to start school th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Full House by Maeve Binchy
    Full House - by Maeve Binchy

    £2.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781409136613 | ISBN 10: 1409136612

    A brand new Maeve Binchy - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.  Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home?  Rosie moved out when she got married, but i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
    Smut: Two Unseemly Stories - by Alan Bennett

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846685262 | ISBN 10: 1846685265

    Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
    A Clockwork Orange - by Anthony Burgess

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241951446 | ISBN 10: 0241951445

    'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'   In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquen ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini, Preface by Antonio Negri, Translated by Liz Heron
    The Unseen - by Nanni Balestrini, Preface by Antonio Negri, Translated by Liz Heron

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677672 | ISBN 10: 1844677672

    An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion. For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italys cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Au ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jamrach
    Jamrach's Menagerie - by Carol Birch

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847676573 | ISBN 10: 184767657x

    Young Jaffy Brown never expects to escape the slums of Victorian London. Then, aged eight, a chance encounter with Mr Jamrach changes Jaffy's stars. And before he knows it, he finds himself at the docks waving goodbye to his beloved Ishbel and boardi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Made in Britain by Gavin James Bower
    Made in Britain - by Gavin James Bower

    £10.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780704372290 | ISBN 10: 0704372290

    Welcome to Every Town in Britain, an awesome abyss where cultures and communities come together, but only with the help of riot gear, and where drugs aren't a trendy cliche but a necessary evil, consumed not just to get off but to get by. Post-indust ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Obscure Logic of the Heart by Priya Basil
    The Obscure Logic of the Heart - by Priya Basil

    £13.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780552773850 | ISBN 10: 0552773859

    A devoted daughter; a secret love; an impossible dilemma...  Lina has always been the apple of her fathers strict eye. When she meets Anil, a wealthy, cultured and decidedly liberal student of architecture from Kenyas Asian community, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Men & Women by Paul Burston (Editor)
    Men & Women - by Paul Burston (Editor)

    £10.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907536113 | ISBN 10: 1907536116

    More fabulous stories of Gay & Lesbian love. After the hugely popular Boys & Girls, Paul Burston returns with a new anthology of stories about Gay and Lesbian love. From the vantage point of middle age there are 10 unique stories about the tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heart of Tango by Elia Barcel, translated by David Frye
    Heart of Tango - by Elia Barcel, translated by David Frye

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849164078 | ISBN 10: 184916407x

    Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades her on the eve of the ceremony, Natalia's father unw ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beuman
    Boxer, Beetle - by Ned Beuman

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780340998410 | ISBN 10: 0340998415

    This is a novel for people with breeding.   Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those th ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Love Is: The Second Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories by Peter Burton (Editor)
    What Love Is: The Second Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories - by Peter Burton (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906413835 | ISBN 10: 1906413835

    What Love Is is a new collection of short stories by writers that show the rich diversity of contemporary gay fiction.  With contributors from America, Australia, Britain and Canada and contributors from Royston Ellis who is based in Sri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Corker
    Corker's Freedom - by John Berger

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844676415 | ISBN 10: 1844676412

    A powerfully unsettling, mordantly witty story about the pitfalls of free will.  In the course of a day, the ageing owner of an employment agency is propelled into a fantasy world through his romantic yearnings and inarticulate dreams, seeking a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer (25th Anniversary edition) by William S. Burroughs
    Queer (25th Anniversary edition) - by William S. Burroughs

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141189918 | ISBN 10: 0141189916

    Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Birth Machine by Elizabeth Baines
    The Birth Machine - by Elizabeth Baines

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781907773020 | ISBN 10: 1907773029

    Tucked up on the ward and secure in the latest technology, Zelda is about to give birth to her baby. But things dont go to plan, and as her labour progresses and the drugs take over, Zelda enters a surreal world. Here, past and present become confus ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell
    All the Nice Girls - by Joan Bakewell

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844085316 | ISBN 10: 1844085317

    It is 1942 and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls signs up for the Merchant Navy's Ship Adoption Scheme. The headmistress, the lovely, essentially serious Cynthia Maitland, who lost her lover i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kings of the Water by Mark Behr
    Kings of the Water - by Mark Behr

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349122649 | ISBN 10: 0349122644

    When Michiel Steyn returns to South Africa for his beloved mothers funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Para ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boys & Girls by Paul Burston (editor)
    Boys & Girls - by Paul Burston (editor)

    £10.00   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781907536090 | ISBN 10: 1907536094

    Stories of young love featuring writing from new and established Gay and Lesbian authors.   The book also tells the heart-rending and heart-warming true stories of young men and women helped by The Albert Kennedy Trust, and published with a u ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Kind of Loving by Sam Barstow
    A Kind of Loving - by Sam Barstow

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906998356 | ISBN 10: 1906998353

    Originally published in 1960, Stan Barstow's debut novel became a cult classic.   A tale of love, lust and loneliness, it tells the story of Vic Brown a young working-class Yorkshireman. Vic is attracted to the beautiful but demanding Ingrid. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
    Two Serious Ladies - by Jane Bowles

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780956003850 | ISBN 10: 0956003850

    I am going on a trip. Wait until I tell you about it. Its terrible.   Eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, Christina Goering meets the anxious but equally unpredictable Mrs Copperfield at a party. Two serious ladies, for whom nothing is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goree: Point of Departure by Angela Barry
    Goree: Point of Departure - by Angela Barry

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845231255 | ISBN 10: 1845231252

    A chance encounter at Kennedy Airport with her ex-husband, Saliou Wade, takes Magdalene and their now adult daughter, Khadi, on a visit to him and his new family in Senegal. Magdalene is understandably nervous about the return, remembering the pain o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
    Old Masters - by Thomas Bernhard

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141192710 | ISBN 10: 0141192712

    Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.   For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Painter of Our Time by John Berger
    A Painter of Our Time - by John Berger

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844676392 | ISBN 10: 1844676390

    Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why.  John Berger's first novel is a passionate exploration of the artistic process ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre
    Pandaemonium - by Christopher Brookmyre

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349120508 | ISBN 10: 0349120501

    The senior pupils of St Peters High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you would expect: counselling, contemplation, candid discussion and even prayer - no ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
    The Left Left Behind - by Terry Bisson

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860863 | ISBN 10: 1604860863

    Hugo and Nebula award-winner Terry Bisson is best known for his short stories, which range from the southern sweetness of Bears Discover Fire to the alienated aliens of Theyre Made Out of Meat. He is also a 1960s New Left vet with a history of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gay Love Stories: An Anthology of Erotica by Hank Brooks
    Gay Love Stories: An Anthology of Erotica - by Hank Brooks

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781935509240 | ISBN 10: 1935509241

    "These stories were written by a hopeless romantic. I believe everyone should be in love; young, old, and in between; men and women. Consequently, every story has a Hollywood ending and all my live happily ever after.  Almost every love st ... 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 Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
    Through Black Spruce - by Joseph Boyden

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780753823323 | ISBN 10: 0753823322

    Fifteen years after the death of their patriarch, the Bird Clan finds itself struggling to survive on the hardscrabble reservation they call home. On Christmas Day, the youngest of the clan, Suzanne, leaves with her boyfriend Gus Netmaker, against bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The More You Ignore Me by Jo Brand
    The More You Ignore Me - by Jo Brand

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780755322329 | ISBN 10: 0755322320

    A genuinely funny and original novel about mental illness, growing up and parental breakdown from much-loved comedienne Jo Brand.   Alice is five, and convinced she needs five personalities to cope. Her family, tucked in a cottage in deep ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne
    Ghosts and Lightning - by Trevor Byrne

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847673305 | ISBN 10: 1847673309

    Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a life for himself when a call from his sister brings him back to Dublin, city of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Peace by Richard Bausch
    Peace - by Richard Bausch

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848870857 | ISBN 10: 184887085x

    Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. Dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of World War II. Haunted by the col ... more

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  • Cover image of book To the Wedding by John Berger
    To the Wedding - by John Berger

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747599395 | ISBN 10: 0747599394

    A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has fallen in love with the young Italian Gino. She is twenty-three years old - and she is dying of AIDS.   As their wed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
    Fire on the Mountain - by Terry Bisson

    £14.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781604860870 | ISBN 10: 1604860871

    It's 1959 in Socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet and a pregant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great grandfath ... more

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  • Cover image of book True Murder by Yaba Badoe
    True Murder - by Yaba Badoe

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099523321 | ISBN 10: 0099523329

    Eleven year old Ajuba has been abandoned at a Devon boarding school by her Ghanaian father.Haunted by the circumstances of her mother's breakdown and the ghosts of the life she left behind in Ghana, she falls under the spell of new girl Polly Venus a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Glister by John Burnside
    Glister - by John Burnside

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099507840 | ISBN 10: 0099507846

    The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead, and wit ... more

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  • Cover image of book 2666 by Roberto Bolano
    2666 - by Roberto Bolano

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780330447430 | ISBN 10: 0330447432

    One of the most talked-about novels of 2008: the visionary epic from a Latin American genius.  Written with burning intesity in the last years of Roberto Bolaos life, 2666 has been greeted across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eunoia by Christian Bk
    Eunoia - by Christian Bk

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847672445 | ISBN 10: 1847672442

    Eunoia, which means beautiful thinking, is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, but never at the same time. Each of Eunoias five chapters is univocalic: that is, each chapter uses ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
    The Madman of Freedom Square - by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905583256 | ISBN 10: 1905583257

    From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam... Blasims stories present an uncompromising ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Class by Francois Begaudeau
    The Class - by Francois Begaudeau

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781583228852 | ISBN 10: 1583228853

    Winner of the Prix France Culture/Tlrama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (L ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
    Heart and Soul - by Maeve Binchy

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752884646 | ISBN 10: 0752884646

    Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farm ... more

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  • Cover image of book By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
    By Night in Chile - by Roberto Bolano

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099459392 | ISBN 10: 0099459396

    During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish ... more

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  • Cover image of book Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
    Distant Star - by Roberto Bolano

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099461722 | ISBN 10: 0099461722

    An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guernica by Dave Boling
    Guernica - by Dave Boling

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780330460668 | ISBN 10: 0330460668

    An extraordinary epic of love, family, and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War.   In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the S ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry
    The Elegance of the Hedgehog - by Muriel Barberry

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906040185 | ISBN 10: 1906040184

    "Resistance is futile...You might as well buy it before someone recommends it for your book group. It's charm will make you say yes."(The Guardian) Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank. To the residents sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
    The Secret Scripture - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571215294 | ISBN 10: 0571215297

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Costa Book of the Year 2008.   Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her one-hundredth birthday - no one is quite sure - faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where she's sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book One of Us by Melissa Benn
    One of Us - by Melissa Benn

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099507994 | ISBN 10: 0099507994

    It is March, 2003, and a leading political journalist and a 42-year-old woman meet at a dingy London cafe in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. Anna Adams has a story to tell - one that goes right to the top of the Cabinet. It involves her adored ... more

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  • Cover image of book From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger by John Berger
    From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger - by John Berger

    £13.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844673612 | ISBN 10: 1844673618

    In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants who ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories by Edited by Peter Burton
    A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories - by Edited by Peter Burton

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906413316 | ISBN 10: 1906413312

    In this new anthology of gay-themed short stories, readers will find themselves consumed in a whirlwind of enthusiasm over these carefully-selected and arresting works about the conflicts of war.   The title story follows the actions of a sma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Regeneration by Pat Barker
    Regeneration - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030937 | ISBN 10: 0141030933

    Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by me ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
    The Eye in the Door - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030944 | ISBN 10: 0141030941

    London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men pacifists, objectors, homosexuals conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of hims ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
    The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030951 | ISBN 10: 014103095x

    1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Class by Pat Barker
    Life Class - by Pat Barker

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
    Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks - by Christopher Brookmyre

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780349118819 | ISBN 10: 0349118817

    Do you believe in ghosts? Do we really live on in some conscious form after we die, capable of communicating with the world of the living?   Aye, right.  That was Jack Parlabane's stance on the matter, anyway. But this was before he fo ... 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 Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
    The Law of Dreams - by Peter Behrens

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847670854 | ISBN 10: 1847670857

    It is 1846, the height of the Great Hunger, and young Fergus is forced to grow up fast. Following the destruction of his home, he loses not only his family but everything he has ever loved. So begins an epic journey from innocence to experience ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thirteen by Sebastian Beaumont
    Thirteen - by Sebastian Beaumont

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905802128 | ISBN 10: 1905802129

    Thirteen is the story of Stephen Bardot, a taxi driver working on the night shift in Brighton. He works such long shifts that he is often driving while exhausted, and it is then that he starts to experience major alterations to his perception of real ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett
    Zugzwang - by Ronan Bennett

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747587293 | ISBN 10: 0747587299

    Zugzwang: Used in chess to describe a deadly position in which a player is obliged to move, but every move only makes his position even worse.   St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Other Useful Numbers by Sarah Broughton
    Other Useful Numbers - by Sarah Broughton

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781902638508 | ISBN 10: 1902638506

    Tracy is a kleptomaniac and a compulsive liar. A lost soul, she drifts fecklessly about, sponging off her friends with a high turnover of menial jobs as she searches for Anita. Tracy's thinks that if Anita's disappeared out of her life, then she must ... more

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  • Cover image of book Darkmans by Nicola Barker
    Darkmans - by Nicola Barker

    £16.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007193639 | ISBN 10: 0007193637

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Darkmans is an exhilarating, extraordinary examination of the ways in which history can play jokes on us all...  If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be tell ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lorestone by Carol Browne
    The Lorestone - by Carol Browne

    £17.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844264322 | ISBN 10: 1844264327

    Being banished from Elvendom is bad enough, taking refuge among the Saxons seems even worse, but life is not destined to improve for young Elgiva when she reluctantly embarks upon the quest for the legendary Lorestone - the only thing with the power ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cambridge Curry Club by Saumya Balsari
    The Cambridge Curry Club - by Saumya Balsari

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905147694 | ISBN 10: 1905147694

    An ironic postcolonial romp that has little to do with British curry, takes a potshot at everything and keeps you laughing until it hurts.  It's Cambridge. Not college or chapel, but the shop 'IndiaNeed' on colourful Mill Road. Nothing should ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Predict a Riot: Murder, Extortion and Carrot Cake by Colin Bateman
    I Predict a Riot: Murder, Extortion and Carrot Cake - by Colin Bateman

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780755334674 | ISBN 10: 0755334671

    Bateman's back with a fast-paced, unforgettable story of murder, intrigue and reincarnation on the streets of Belfast.  Walter has a rubbish job but so has Margaret, a security guard at Primark, and when they meet through a dating agency, neithe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
    Whitethorn Woods - by Maeve Binchy

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780752881478 | ISBN 10: 0752881477

    The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character and charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories and traffic problems ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dancing with the Two-Headed Tigress by Tina Biswas
    Dancing with the Two-Headed Tigress - by Tina Biswas

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552773232 | ISBN 10: 0552773239

    Fat, unsophisticated Mousumi is on her way to visit her cosmopolitan relations in London.   She is welcomed by the Majumdar family: Prakash, a doctor with too much heart, who is married to Tuhina, a steely investment banker. But it is Darshin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Claude Glass by Tom Bullough
    The Claude Glass - by Tom Bullough

    £6.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954899516 | ISBN 10: 0954899512

    Set in the Welsh Borders in 1980, The Claude Glass charts an unlikely friendship between two neighbours; Robin, the seven-year-old son of English hippie sheep farmers, and Andrew, a child so neglected by his impoverished parents that he is left almos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black
    Murder in Montmartre - by Cara Black

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781569474457 | ISBN 10: 1569474451

    The sixth Aimee Leduc Investigation set in Paris by two-time Anthony Award nominee Cara Black.   Trying to save a childhood friend, now a policewoman, from being charged with murder, Aimee crosses the paths of Corsican Separatists, gangsters a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
    Nightwood - by Djuna Barnes

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571235285 | ISBN 10: 057123528x

    Djuna Barnes's extraordinary novel Nightwood documents the lives of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the decadent Roaring Twenties. The novel's rich, evocative language, exquisite craftsmanship and penetrating insight into obsessive passion h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - by John Boyne

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552773805 | ISBN 10: 0552773808

    What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he kno ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
    The Brief History of the Dead - by Kevin Brockmeier

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780719568305 | ISBN 10: 0719568307

    'Remember me when I'm gone` just took on a whole new meaning... Laura Byrd is in trouble. Three weeks ago she and her friends found themselves alone in one of the coldest, most remote places on earth. Her friends set out in search of help, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Star Sullivan by Maeve Binchy
    Star Sullivan - by Maeve Binchy

    £3.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780752879543 | ISBN 10: 0752879545

    Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling...so she became known as Star.  Star Sullivan just wanted everyone to be happy - her father to stop gambling, her mother not to work ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Family on Paradise Pier by Dermot Bolger
    The Family on Paradise Pier - by Dermot Bolger

    £15.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007154104 | ISBN 10: 0007154100

    This is a stunning historical saga, set in the early decades of the twentieth century, which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family.   We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
    A Long Long Way - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571218011 | ISBN 10: 0571218016

    One of the most vivid and realised charcaters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Four Stories by Alan Bennett
    Four Stories - by Alan Bennett

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781861978196 | ISBN 10: 1861978197

    Brought together here for the first time, Alan Bennett's four hugely admired short stories are playful, perceptive and immensely funny. All are modern classics. The Laying on of Hands - The painfully observant account of a memorial service for a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
    The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571230143 | ISBN 10: 0571230148

    Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belfast Confidential by Colin Bateman
    Belfast Confidential - by Colin Bateman

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780755309276 | ISBN 10: 0755309278

    They say moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do. Well, as far as Dan Starkey's concerned, 'they' can stick it because right now unpacking is the least of his worries... No sooner has Dan moved house, than his best mate, Mous ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
    Three Day Road - by Joseph Boyden

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780753820810 | ISBN 10: 0753820811

    It is 1919 and Niska, the last Canadian medicine woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relative, is gravely wounded and addicted to the army's mo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sea by John Banville
    The Sea - by John Banville

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780330483292 | ISBN 10: 0330483293

    When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Gay Utopia by John Butler
    This Gay Utopia - by John Butler

    £11.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781891855566 | ISBN 10: 1891855565

    Imagine a small town where an all-male university and a Naval station are the only major components of activity in the isolated community. A university where the school's longtime-honored attitude towards homosexuality is so tolerant it almosts const ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
    Nights of Rain and Stars - by Maeve Binchy

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780752865362 | ISBN 10: 0752865366

    Four strangers meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly togther. Fiona i ... 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 The Child of an Ancient People by Anour Benmalek
    The Child of an Ancient People - by Anour Benmalek

    £6.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099453697 | ISBN 10: 009945369x

    It is 1872. Lislei is a young French woman escaping from the bloody turmoil of the Paris commune; Kader is an Arab prince fleeing from the revolt of the Saharan tribesmen in Algeria. Together they succeed in boarding an old sailing ship bound for Aus ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
    An Awfully Big Adventure - by Beryl Bainbridge

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780349116150 | ISBN 10: 0349116156

    It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss.   Stella has been taken on as an assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Me ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angry Gods by Wendy Brandmark
    The Angry Gods - by Wendy Brandmark

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781899235940 | ISBN 10: 1899235949

    New York City in the depths of the 1950s. Schoolchildren cower under their desks during atom bomb drills. McCarthy has been humiliated but the witch-hunts continue. Sonia, a thirty-year-old Jewish school teacher living at home, resists her brothers' ... more

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  • Cover image of book According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
    According to Queeney - by Beryl Bainbridge

    £9.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780349114477 | ISBN 10: 0349114471

    In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius, unparalleled wit and toast of all society, is plagued by ill health and has become jaded by his bickering dependants. Suffering from a bout of melancholy, he accepts an invitation to the table ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cherries in the Icebox: Contemporary Hebrew Short Stories by Marion Baraitser & Haya Hoffman (ed)
    Cherries in the Icebox: Contemporary Hebrew Short Stories - by Marion Baraitser & Haya Hoffman (ed)

    £11.50   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780952942658 | ISBN 10: 0952942658

    A unique collection of twelve of the best daring young multicultural voices. The authors write in Hebrew (here translated) but their families originate as far afield as Russia, Egypt and Afghanistan. These stories encapsulate, with wry wit and hope, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women in the Shadows by Ann Bannon
    Women in the Shadows - by Ann Bannon

    £11.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781573441490 | ISBN 10: 157344149x

    The classic 1950s novel from the Queen of lesbian pulp... "Originally published in 1959, Women in the Shadows broke from the formula of 1950s lesbian pulp fiction...The women in this novel were tied to convention, but they were still ahead of their ... more

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  • Cover image of book Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
    Go Tell it on the Mountain - by James Baldwin

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141185910 | ISBN 10: 0141185910

    "Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"   First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shameless by Paul Burston
    Shameless - by Paul Burston

    £10.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780349114798 | ISBN 10: 034911479x

    Martin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help - John prefers infamy to sympathy and Caroline is too busy trying to work ... more

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  • Cover image of book Giovanni
    Giovanni's Room - by James Baldwin

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186351 | ISBN 10: 0141186356

    David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsom Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancee returns, and, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once in Europa by John Berger
    Once in Europa - by John Berger

    £12.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780747545484 | ISBN 10: 0747545480

    A collection of interwoven stories, this is a portrait of two worlds - a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it - at their moment of collision.  The instrument of entrapm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pig Earth by John Berger
    Pig Earth - by John Berger

    £7.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780747543039 | ISBN 10: 0747543038

    Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women.  This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lilac and Flag by John Berger
    Lilac and Flag - by John Berger

    £8.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780747545217 | ISBN 10: 0747545219

    In the mythic city of Troy, amidst the shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meagre livings as best they can. And two young lovers embark upon a passion ... more

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  • Cover image of book Prozac Highway by Persimmon Blackbridge
    Prozac Highway - by Persimmon Blackbridge

    £8.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780714530598 | ISBN 10: 071453059x

    "When your car is spinning out of control heading for the guard rail, you have all the time in the world." Losing her nerve and burning out fast, hardcore lesbian performance artists Jam has trouble coping with the outside world. Her best friend ... more

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  • Cover image of book Photocopies by John Berger
    Photocopies - by John Berger

    £12.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780747531722 | ISBN 10: 0747531722

    This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket.  The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and country ... more

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  • Cover image of book Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
    Every Man for Himself - by Beryl Bainbridge

    £8.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780349108704 | ISBN 10: 0349108706

    Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageway ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Star - The First Bolshevik Utopia and Engineer Menni by Alexander Bogdanov
    Red Star - The First Bolshevik Utopia and Engineer Menni - by Alexander Bogdanov

    £14.99   paperback   (1984) - ISBN 13: 9780253203175 | ISBN 10: 0253203171

    A communist society on Mars, the Russian Revolution, and class struggle on two planets are the subjects of two remarkable science fiction novels by Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928), one of the early organisers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik Part ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
    The Good Earth - by Pearl S. Buck

    £8.99   paperback   (1931) - ISBN 13: 9781416511106 | ISBN 10: 1416511105

    O-lan is a homely servant girl in the village's greatest house. When she is taken as a wife by Wang Lung, a simple Chinese farmer, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is hope ... more

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