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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 45 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    Main Street - by Sinclair Lewis

    £7.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781847498960 | ISBN 10: 1847498965

    Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes.   Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of redes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vera Kelly Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht
    Vera Kelly Lost and Found - by Rosalie Knecht

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857308283 | ISBN 10: 0857308289

    Everyone's favourite sleuth - Vera Kelly - is back and put to the test as she searches for her missing girlfriend.  Spring 1971. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cosy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fugitivities by Jesse McCarthy
    The Fugitivities - by Jesse McCarthy

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781612199771 | ISBN 10: 1612199771

    A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one.  Like most recent college graduates, Jonah Winters is unsure of what’s next. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story by John Freeman (Editor)
    The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story - by John Freeman (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781984877826 | ISBN 10: 1984877828

    A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
    Sorrowland - by Rivers Solomon

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529118759 | ISBN 10: 1529118751

    A triumphant, genre-bending novel, following a young woman through a nightmarish yet recognisable landscape as she attempts to create a new life for herself and her children.   Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zainab Takes New York by Ayesha Harruna Attah
    Zainab Takes New York - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472288394 | ISBN 10: 1472288394

    ***INCLUDED IN THE AFRICA CENTER’S ROUND-UP OF 50 NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2021***   Zainab Sekyi is on a quest to find herself...  She’s moving to New York City to pursue her lifelong dream to become an illustrator, but she does ... more

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  • Cover image of book Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
    Run Rose Run - by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529135671 | ISBN 10: 1529135672

    The most eagerly anticipated novel of 2022   FIND A FUTURE. LOSE A PAST.  She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.   She's also on the run.  Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny.& ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
    The Once and Future Witches - by Alix E. Harrow

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780356512471 | ISBN 10: 0356512479

    In 1893, there's no such thing as witches.  There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
    Patsy - by Nicole Dennis-Benn

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077103 | ISBN 10: 1786077108

    From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice A TIME MAGAZINE 'MUST READ BOOK OF 2019'  LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020   Patsy yearns to es ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
    City of Girls - by Elizabeth Gilbert

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781408867068 | ISBN 10: 1408867060

    A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER   New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play – that's what makes it so fun, and so da ... more

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  • Cover image of book An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
    An American Marriage - by Tayari Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786075192 | ISBN 10: 1786075199

    LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION, 2019   'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama   Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the Americ ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
    In the Midst of Winter - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471166907 | ISBN 10: 1471166902

    New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds.   Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
    Anything is Possible - by Elizabeth Strout

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241248799 | ISBN 10: 0241248795

    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017  Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018    An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of M ... 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 Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
    Mudbound - by Hillary Jordan

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786090232 | ISBN 10: 1786090236

    Now a Netflix original movie, starring Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell & Mary J. Blige.  When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both ... more

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  • Cover image of book Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
    Homegoing - by Yaa Gyasi

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241975237 | ISBN 10: 0241975239

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Book   Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
    Go Set A Watchman - by Harper Lee

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784752460 | ISBN 10: 1784752460

    Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later.  Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapp ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Moor
    The Moor's Account - by Laila Lalami

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781859644270 | ISBN 10: 1859644279

    In 1527 the Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, dise ... more

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  • Cover image of book Some Luck by Jane Smiley
    Some Luck - by Jane Smiley

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447275602 | ISBN 10: 1447275608

    The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.  1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
    The First Phone Call from Heaven - by Mitch Albom

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780751541199 | ISBN 10: 0751541192

    One last chance.   What would you say?   When the residents of a small town on Lake Michigan start receiving phone calls from the afterlife, they all become the subject of widespread attention. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a mas ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
    In the Light of What We Know - by Zia Haider Rahman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447231233 | ISBN 10: 1447231236

    A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century.  One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surpr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
    Girlchild - by Tupelo Hassman

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780874432 | ISBN 10: 178087443x

    Rory Dawn Hendrix is in a Girl Scout troop of one.   She lives in a trailer park called the Calle de las Flores near Reno.   She’s determined to leave, childless, before her sixteenth birthday.   Easier said than done. ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are Water by Wally Lamb
    We Are Water - by Wally Lamb

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007532865 | ISBN 10: 0007532865

    From New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, this is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy.  As Annie Oh’s wedding day approaches, she finds herself at the mercy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
    Big Brother - by Lionel Shriver

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007271108 | ISBN 10: 0007271107

    The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.  Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were children. Now she revels in the anonymity of her suburban Iowa life, while her brother bas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
    Calling Me Home - by Julie Kibler

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447212560 | ISBN 10: 1447212568

    In a time of hate, would you stand up for love?  Shalerville, Kentucky, 1939. A world where black maids and handymen are trusted to raise white children and tend to white houses, but from which they are banished after dark.  Sixteen-year- ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snapper by Brian Kimberling
    Snapper - by Brian Kimberling

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780755396214 | ISBN 10: 0755396219

    With wry humour and real freshness, Snappercharts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him.   Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana, 'the bastard son of the Midwest', Snapper is ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Round House by Louise Erdrich
    The Round House - by Louise Erdrich

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781472108142 | ISBN 10: 1472108140

    Hailed in the US as a Native-American To Kill A Mockingbird, and winner of the US National Book Award, The Round House is Louise Erdrich's undeniable - and unmissable - masterpiece.   A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hard Time by Sara Paretsky
    Hard Time - by Sara Paretsky

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444761542 | ISBN 10: 1444761544

    The ninth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers, combining contemporary issues, social injustice and fast-paced suspense.  While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stoner by John Williams
    Stoner - by John Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099561545 | ISBN 10: 0099561549

    Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer – in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
    Girl in Translation - by Jean Kwok

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141042749 | ISBN 10: 0141042745

    Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken- windowed Brooklyn apartment. The only heating is an unreliable oven. They are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader
    Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! - by Ralph Nader

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781583229231 | ISBN 10: 158322923x

    "In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005...On the fourth day, he beheld in d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Machine by Victor LaValle
    Big Machine - by Victor LaValle

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781842433645 | ISBN 10: 1842433644

    Ricky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter arrives, remind ... 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 Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn
    Acts of Violence - by Ryan David Jahn

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330517331 | ISBN 10: 0330517333

    Katrina Marino is about to become America’s most infamous murder victim.   This is Katrina’s story, and the story of her killer.   It is also the story of Katrina’s neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietn ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason
    Mammoths of the Great Plains - by Eleanor Arnason

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860757 | ISBN 10: 1604860758

    When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected - he hoped! - that they might still roam the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Carol by Patricia Highsmith
    Carol - by Patricia Highsmith

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408808979 | ISBN 10: 1408808978

    "Some books change lives. This is one of them."(Val McDermid) A haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published.  With a new foreword by Val McDermid.  Therese is just an ordinary sales assis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Gods by Anna Richards
    Little Gods - by Anna Richards

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330464413 | ISBN 10: 0330464418

    A glorious, towering triumph of a novel from the author Ali Smith called 'a huge new talent'.   An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Slow Fix by Ivan E Coyote
    The Slow Fix - by Ivan E Coyote

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781551522470 | ISBN 10: 1551522470

    The first three story collections by Ivan E. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about gender, identity, and community, based on her own experiences. Ivan's most recent book, Bow Grip, was her first novel; it also won the ReLit Award, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diablerie by Walter Mosley
    Diablerie - by Walter Mosley

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747591870 | ISBN 10: 0747591873

    Who doesn't wonder about how different their life might have been? Who doesn't dream of a more interesting, more dangerous past they could have had?  Ben Dibbuk is married to the beautiful Mona, has a lovely daughter and a well-paid job in NY ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cinder by Albert French
    Cinder - by Albert French

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099273271 | ISBN 10: 0099273276

    Banes, Mississippi, 1938. The Catfish creek separates the Patch from the town, black from white. These worlds and their prejudices are hauntingly evoked in the rich accents of the American South. Cinder is a woman who belongs to neither, her beauty m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beloved by Toni Morrison
    Beloved - by Toni Morrison

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099511656 | ISBN 10: 0099511657

    It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists.  The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn f ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099410690 | ISBN 10: 0099410699

    Neal Stephenson continues his extraordinary Baroque Cycle in this sequel to his bestselling Quicksilver, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery.   It is the late 1600s on the high se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Collected Stories by Tennessee Williams
    Collected Stories - by Tennessee Williams

    £12.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780749395810 | ISBN 10: 0749395818

    Acclaimed as one of America's most distinguished and successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories. In Collected Stories , these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging ... more

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