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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 129 books in this booklist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
    After Sappho - by Selby Wynn Schwartz

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913111397 | ISBN 10: 1913111393

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022  “What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.�   It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wind Knows My Name by Isabelle Allende
    The Wind Knows My Name - by Isabelle Allende

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526660312 | ISBN 10: 1526660318

    THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' - KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' - DAILY MAIL 'What a joy it must be to come upon Allende ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
    The Half Life of Valery K - by Natasha Pulley

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781408885154 | ISBN 10: 1408885158

    The Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month   The truth must come out.  In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola
    The Clockwork Girl - by Anna Mazzola

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398703803 | ISBN 10: 139870380x

    ‘Historical fiction with a fantastical twist, done with verve and skill’ IAN RANKIN ‘An atmospheric and constantly surprising thriller’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Kept me guessing until the end. An absolute masterpiece’ JENNIFER SAINT ‘A deliciou ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
    The Forest of Vanishing Stars - by Kristin Harmel

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781802793628 | ISBN 10: 1802793623

    Yona has used her knowledge of the wilderness to help hundreds of Jews escape the Nazis. But what happens when a secret from her past emerges and threatens everything?  After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great Circle by Transworld Publishers Ltd
    Great Circle - by Transworld Publishers Ltd

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529176643 | ISBN 10: 1529176646

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR  'A gripping historical adventure that feels sharp, fresh and modern' STYLIST  'So beaut ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
    The Country of Others - by Leila Slimani

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571361632 | ISBN 10: 0571361633

    1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here is unrecognisable to this brave and passionate young woman.  Her life is now that of a farmer's wife - with all the sacrifices and vexations that bri ... 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 China: An Epic Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
    China: An Epic Novel - by Edward Rutherfurd

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781444787801 | ISBN 10: 1444787802

    The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China, The Novel.  China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jack by Marilynne Robinson
    Jack - by Marilynne Robinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349011790 | ISBN 10: 0349011796

    Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.   Jack tells the story of John Ames B ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
    The Animals at Lockwood Manor - by Jane Healey

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529014198 | ISBN 10: 1529014190

    Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable...   August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum's collection of mammals.  Once she and her exhibits arrive a ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
    A Thousand Ships - by Natalie Haynes

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509836215 | ISBN 10: 1509836217

    Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 One of the Guardian's and TLS's 'Best Books of 2019'   In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fan ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
    A Golden Age - by Tahmima Anam

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786898623 | ISBN 10: 1786898624

    A mother struggles to protect her children as Bangladesh fights for independence; winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.   Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
    The Night Tiger - by Yangsze Choo

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787470477 | ISBN 10: 1787470474

    They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk among us...  In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old ... 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 The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff
    The Mannequin Makers - by Craig Cliff

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911545293 | ISBN 10: 1911545299

    A stunning historical debut novel of gothic proportions, telling the tale of a father’s obsession and the dark consequences.   “The skin was smooth and bright as porcelain, but looked as if it would give to the touch. What manner of wood h ... more

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  • Cover image of book People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman
    People in Trouble - by Sarah Schulman

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
    Washington Black - by Esi Edugyan

    £6.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846689604 | ISBN 10: 1846689600

    A stunning new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker and Orange Prize shortlisted Half Blood Blues.   When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
    The People in the Trees - by Hanya Yanagihara

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509892983 | ISBN 10: 1509892982

    The stunning debut novel, from the author of A Little Life.  It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest ... more

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  • Cover image of book Roots by Alex Haley
    Roots - by Alex Haley

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784873387 | ISBN 10: 1784873381

    The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature.   WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID OLUSOGA Win ... 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 To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
    To Die in Spring - by Ralf Rothmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509812868 | ISBN 10: 1509812865

    "[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Günter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership."(Guardian) Walter Urban and Friedrich ‘Fiete’ Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Devils
    The Devils' Dance - by Hamid Ismailov

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911284130 | ISBN 10: 1911284134

    On New Year’s Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Blacker the Berry... by Wallace Thurman
    The Blacker the Berry... - by Wallace Thurman

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780143131878 | ISBN 10: 0143131877

    The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community.  Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Id ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
    Lincoln in the Bardo - by George Saunders

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408871775 | ISBN 10: 1408871777

    A NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  'It would be an understatement to call this novel an extraordinary tour de force' Sunday Times  The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George S ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Castle Cross The Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron
    The Castle Cross The Magnet Carter - by Kia Corthron

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781609808075 | ISBN 10: 160980807x

    Winner of the Center for Fiction's 2016 First Novel Prize   The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first ce ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thin Air by Michelle Paver
    Thin Air - by Michelle Paver

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781409163367 | ISBN 10: 1409163369

    A terrifying tale of a dark and deadly secret, beautifully told by million-copy bestseller, Michelle Paver.   The Himalayas, 1935.   Kangchenjunga. The sacred mountain. Biggest killer of them all.   Five Englishmen set out to conquer it. But ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Wolf Moon by Julio Llamazares
    Wolf Moon - by Julio Llamazares

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780720619454 | ISBN 10: 0720619459

    Defeated by the Nationalists, four Republican fugitives flee into the Cantabrian mountains at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They are on the run, skirmishing with the Guardia Civil, knowing that surrender means death. Wounded and hungry they are f ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Segu by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray
    Segu - by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
    Do Not Say We Have Nothing - by Madeleine Thien

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783782673 | ISBN 10: 1783782676

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016   In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming.   As her re ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
    The Vanishing Futurist - by Charlotte Hobson

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

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

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  • Cover image of book My Own Dear Brother by Holly Müller
    My Own Dear Brother - by Holly Müller

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408866795 | ISBN 10: 140886679x

    It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, idly thieving from the village shop, enl ... more

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  • Cover image of book The History of a Town by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
    The History of a Town - by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

    £10.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784975425 | ISBN 10: 1784975427

    The town governors... all flogged the inhabitants, but the first flogged them pure and simple, the second explained their zeal by referring to the needs of civilization, and the third asked only that in all matters the inhabitants should trust in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution by Boris Dralyuk (Translated and selected by)
    1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution - by Boris Dralyuk (Translated and selected by)

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782272144 | ISBN 10: 1782272143

    'This is the last of you, old world - soon we'll smash you to bits.'  The passionate voices of radicals, dreamers, workers, aristocrats, satirists and romantics fill these electrifying poems and prose pieces, written between 1917 and 1919 in ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Irmina by Barbara Yelin
    Irmina - by Barbara Yelin

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910593103 | ISBN 10: 1910593109

    In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship c ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Blood Brothers by Ernst Haffner, translated by Michael Hofmann
    Blood Brothers - by Ernst Haffner, translated by Michael Hofmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099594048 | ISBN 10: 0099594048

    Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of the Second World War.   Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the ill ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
    The Danish Girl - by David Ebershoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781474601573 | ISBN 10: 147460157x

    The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper.  Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?   ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Harlequin by Nina Allen
    The Harlequin - by Nina Allen

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124383 | ISBN 10: 1910124389

    Winner of the Novella Award 2015  The armistice is months past but the memories won’t go away.  ‘A harlequin, leaning against a tree stump and with a goblet of ale clasped in one outstretched hand. Beaumont felt chilled suddenly, in ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Savage Seasons by Kettly Mars, translated by Jeanine Herman. Afterword by Madison Smartt Bell
    Savage Seasons - by Kettly Mars, translated by Jeanine Herman. Afterword by Madison Smartt Bell

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780803271487 | ISBN 10: 0803271484

    Port-au-Prince, the 1960s: Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visit ... 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 Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
    Sister Noon - by Karen Joy Fowler

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781255490 | ISBN 10: 1781255490

    By the bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Sister Noon is the story of Lizzie Hayes, whose dull life is about to be shaken up by a mysterious and powerful woman.  'Words were invented so lies could be told' ~ Mary El ... 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 city’s 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 The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
    The Wives of Los Alamos - by TaraShea Nesbit

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408845899 | ISBN 10: 140884589x

    Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where every ... more

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  • Cover image of book Poldark: Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
    Poldark: Ross Poldark - by Winston Graham

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447281528 | ISBN 10: 1447281527

    A reissue of the first book in the legendary Poldark series, to tie in with the new BBC series.  Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
    Frog Music - by Emma Donoghue

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447249764 | ISBN 10: 1447249763

    Frog Music is the new novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Lenny Abrahamson.  San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the C ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Musseque by José Luandino Vieira, translated by Robin Patterson
    Our Musseque - by José Luandino Vieira, translated by Robin Patterson

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910213070 | ISBN 10: 1910213071

    Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, sho ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
    All Our Names - by Dinaw Mengestu

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444793758 | ISBN 10: 1444793756

    An unforgettable tale of love, friendship and revolution set between Africa and America, by the winner of the Guardian First Book Award.  LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015  Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda's corrupt r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
    Nora Webster - by Colm Tóibín

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141041759 | ISBN 10: 0141041757

    * * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards * * *   Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.   It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gloria by Kerry Young
    Gloria - by Kerry Young

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843369 | ISBN 10: 1408843366

    Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Glori ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liveforever by Andrés Caicedo
    Liveforever - by Andrés Caicedo

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141196688 | ISBN 10: 0141196688

    Andrés Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music.   María del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she misses class, and discovers she cannot ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Amanada Love Darragh
    The Gardener from Ochakov - by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Amanada Love Darragh

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099571872 | ISBN 10: 0099571870

    When Igor accidentally travels back to 1957, he finds out that the past isn't as rosy as it seems. In fact it's positively dangerous.  Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman's uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn't gone fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amistad by David Pesci
    Amistad - by David Pesci

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780749015978 | ISBN 10: 0749015977

    The gripping novel based on a true story of slavery  Please make court understand we free men who want be free again. We want go home. We pray you to win our case. You our friend. We trust you.   In 1839, fifty-three African slaves ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
    The Man Who Loved Dogs - by Leonardo Padura

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908524447 | ISBN 10: 1908524448

    Cuban writer Iván Cárdenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him “the man who loved dogs”. The man eventually confesses that he is actually Ramón Mercade ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Burmese Days by George Orwell
    Burmese Days - by George Orwell

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141395432 | ISBN 10: 0141395435

    Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a "subject" people, an inferior p ... more

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  • Cover image of book GB84 by David Peace
    GB84 - by David Peace

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571314874 | ISBN 10: 0571314872

    Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people.   David Peace's sweeping, bloody and dramatic fictional portrait of the year that left an indel ... 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 Black Sky, Black Sea by Izzet Celasin
    Black Sky, Black Sea - by Izzet Celasin

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781906694838 | ISBN 10: 1906694834

    1977. Poised between the secular values of socialism and the conservatism of a tenuously balanced government, Istanbul is a fractured city haunted by demons of its own making.   Along with thousands of other left-wing activists, Oak’s interest ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington
    Death of a Hero - by Richard Aldington

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780143106876 | ISBN 10: 0143106872

    One of the great World War I antiwar novels — honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical.   Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
    The Last Runaway - by Tracy Chevalier

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Valentine Grey by Sandi Toksvig
    Valentine Grey - by Sandi Toksvig

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
    Our Spoons Came from Woolworths - by Barbara Comyns

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844089277 | ISBN 10: 1844089274

    Barbara Comyns' delightful classic novel set in bohemian 1930s London, with a new introduction by Maggie O'Farrell.  Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Liars
    The Liars' Gospel - by Naomi Alderman

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780670919918 | ISBN 10: 0670919918

    Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story - the story of Jesus - entirely new.   'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.'   Now, a year after Yehoshuah ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan
    Azazeel - by Youssef Ziedan

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848874299 | ISBN 10: 1848874294

    Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church. The monk, Hypa, embarks on a journey both physical and ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
    The Magician of Lublin - by Isaac Bashevis Singer

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141197609 | ISBN 10: 0141197609

    Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assis ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein
    From the Land of the Moon - by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781609450014 | ISBN 10: 1609450019

    An young unnamed woman reflects the life of her grandmother, a bewitching and eccentric figure whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century.   In 1943, as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari, the young woman’s gra ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
    The Night Circus - by Erin Morgenstern

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099554790 | ISBN 10: 0099554798

    In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Reves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire.   Alth ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
    The Sisters Brothers - by Patrick deWitt

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847083197 | ISBN 10: 1847083196

    Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat
    The Cat's Table - by Michael Ondaatje

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099554424 | ISBN 10: 0099554429

    In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadh ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Beneath the Lion
    Beneath the Lion's Gaze - by Maaza Mengiste

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539926 | ISBN 10: 0099539926

    An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution.  Beneath the Lion’s Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his m ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Stray Sod Country by Patrick McCabe
    The Stray Sod Country - by Patrick McCabe

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809983 | ISBN 10: 1408809982

    Strangely elegiac, gloriously operatic and driven by Patrick McCabe’s wild and savage imagination, The Stray Sod Country is an eerie folk tale that chronicles the passing of a generation.  It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog is launched ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
    The Catcher in the Rye - by J. D. Salinger

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780241950432 | ISBN 10: 0241950430

    The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Help by Kathryn Stockett
    The Help - by Kathryn Stockett

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039282 | ISBN 10: 0141039280

    Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...  There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her o ... 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 Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
    Shanghai Girls - by Lisa See

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book A Jew Must Die: A novel based on a true story by Jacques Chessex
    A Jew Must Die: A novel based on a true story - by Jacques Chessex

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781904738510 | ISBN 10: 1904738516

    On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitler’s birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him with an iron bar. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural m ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
    The Glass Room - by Simon Mawer

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349121321 | ISBN 10: 034912132x

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.  Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room.   High on a Czechos ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
    The Rescue Man - by Anthony Quinn

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099531937 | ISBN 10: 0099531933

    Summer, 1939. Historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of Liverpool's architectural past. His mood, like the rest of the country's, is distracted by the ominous rumblings from Europe; if war should come, will the buildings and streets that he docum ... more

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  • Cover image of book I, Tituba: Black Witch Of Salem by Maryse Conde, translated by Richard Philcox
    I, Tituba: Black Witch Of Salem - by Maryse Conde, translated by Richard Philcox

    £17.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780813927671 | ISBN 10: 0813927676

    This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later.  Ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
    The Vagrants - by Yiyun Li

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Other by David Gutterson
    The Other - by David Gutterson

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596202 | ISBN 10: 0747596204

    A powerful story of the choices we must make in a flawed world, by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars.  Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start ... more

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  • Cover image of book America America by Ethan Canin
    America America - by Ethan Canin

    £19.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747598725 | ISBN 10: 074759872x

    It is 1971. Nixon is in the White House, the war in Vietnam shows no sign of ending, and Corey Sifter, the young son of working-class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York polit ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Their Father
    In Their Father's Country - by Anne-Marie Drosso

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846590597 | ISBN 10: 1846590590

    Claire and Gabrielle Sahli are sisters growing up in 1920s Cairo. Of Levantine descent, they occupy a precarious position in Egypt's increasingly nationalist world. With the early death of their father, the sisters find themselves dependent on others ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book 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 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 Blue Fox by Sjon
    The Blue Fox - by Sjon

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846590375 | ISBN 10: 184659037x

    The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox.  We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
    Black Swan Green - by David Mitchell

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340822807 | ISBN 10: 0340822805

    January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Tyler - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullis, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy ... more

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  • Cover image of book The First Casualty by Ben Elton
    The First Casualty - by Ben Elton

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780552771306 | ISBN 10: 0552771309

    Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Desertion - by Abdulrazak Gurnah

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747578956 | ISBN 10: 0747578958

    Early one morning in 1889, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet.  That man is Martin ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Shumaisi by Turki al-Hamad
    Shumaisi - by Turki al-Hamad

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863569111 | ISBN 10: 0863569110

    The second volume in al-Hamad's explosive coming-of-age trilogy.  The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he's enrolled at university to study po ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
    The Dreamers - by Gilbert Adair

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571216260 | ISBN 10: 0571216269

    Gilbert Adair's novel is set in Paris in the Spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Theo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, and American student th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    Oliver Twist - by Charles Dickens

    £6.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780141439747 | ISBN 10: 0141439742

    ‘Let him feel that he is one of us; once fill his mind with the idea that he has been a thief, and he’s ours, – ours for his life!’   The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill
    The Rat-Pit - by Patrick MacGill

    £7.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781902602554 | ISBN 10: 1902602552

    Both a sequel and a parallel to Children of the Dead End, The Rat-Pit tells the tragic story of the struggle of Donegal girl Norah Ryan against poverty at the turn of the century.  The name is taken from a lodging house in Glasgow 'where human ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Iron Heel by Jack London
    The Iron Heel - by Jack London

    £12.99   paperback   (1907) - ISBN 13: 9781556520716 | ISBN 10: 1556520719

    From the Introduction  The Iron Heel appeared in 1908. By 1947, Philip Foner was calling it 'probably the most amazingly prophetic work of the twentieth century.' To us, looking backward from the closing decades of the century, this claim does not ... more

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