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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 38 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Half-Life Of A Stolen Sister by Rachel Cantor
    Half-Life Of A Stolen Sister - by Rachel Cantor

    £16.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781641296014 | ISBN 10: 1641296011

    Reimagines the lives of the Brontë siblings—Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and brother Branwell—from their precocious childhoods, to the writing of their great novels, to their early deaths.  A form-shattering novel by an author praised as “l ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529378771 | ISBN 10: 152937877x

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Hotel Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse
    Hotel Bosphorus - by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781904738688 | ISBN 10: 1904738680

    Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbuls only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own maverick inv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Teaching the Short Story by Ailsa Cox (Editor)
    Teaching the Short Story - by Ailsa Cox (Editor)

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book A Mysterious Affair of Style by Gilbert Adair
    A Mysterious Affair of Style - by Gilbert Adair

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571239474 | ISBN 10: 0571239471

    London, 1946: An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive.Luckily, Evadne Mount, the irrespressible autho ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac, illustrated by Quentin Blake
    The Rights of the Reader - by Daniel Pennac, illustrated by Quentin Blake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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