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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 34 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
    People Person - by Candice Carty-Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781409180128 | ISBN 10: 1409180123

    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Queenie comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming.  People Person is a triumph. Caleb Azumah Nelson  Wonderful. Marian Keyes  I loved it. Sara Collins  It’s as warm and infec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spectrum of Colours by Claudia Cadette
    Spectrum of Colours - by Claudia Cadette

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781837940028 | ISBN 10: 1837940029

    At twenty-something, Sophia spends six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. Spectrum of Colours follows her story as to how she ended up there.   Despite her dreams of a life onstage, Sophia's lifelong struggles are caused by a complexity of issue ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
    Fire Rush - by Jacqueline Crooks

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787333635 | ISBN 10: 1787333639

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR  It’s time to dance, to love, to be free…  ‘Mesmerising’ BERNARDINE EVARI ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin
    Rainbow Rainbow - by Lydia Conklin

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398508576 | ISBN 10: 1398508578

    A collection of stories that celebrate the humour, darkness and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that’s not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception and queer joy.   In this delightful debut coll ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
    Birnam Wood - by Eleanor Catton

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783784257 | ISBN 10: 1783784253

    FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE  Birnam Wood is on the move...  A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm aband ... more

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  • Cover image of book These Days by Lucy Caldwell
    These Days - by Lucy Caldwell

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571313570 | ISBN 10: 0571313574

    From ‘one of Ireland’s most essential writers’ (Sunday Times) comes the exquisite story of two sisters trying to survive in life and love against the backdrop of the Belfast Blitz.  From the Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
    The Lighthouse Witches - by C.J. Cooke

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008455446 | ISBN 10: 0008455449

    Don’t miss the brand-new chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author...  ’Cooke has creatively interwoven the darkness of reality with a magical realism that will truly have you gripped’ Woman & Home ‘Fascinating and enthral ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Censor
    The Censor's Notebook - by Liliana Corobca, translated by Monica Cure

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838415938 | ISBN 10: 1838415939

    A fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship.  The Censor’s Notebook opens with an exchange of letters between “Liliana Corobca” and Emilia Codrescu, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dominicana by Angie Cruz
    Dominicana - by Angie Cruz

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529304886 | ISBN 10: 1529304881

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION   'A thrilling, necessary, and unforgettable portrait of what it means to be an immigrant' ~ Patricia Engel  Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins
    The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) - by Suzanne Collins

    £18.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780702300172 | ISBN 10: 0702300179

    Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price.  It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot a ... 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 Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction by Ralph Cormack (Editor)
    The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction - by Ralph Cormack (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910974254 | ISBN 10: 1910974250

    Featuring Hassan Abdel Mawgoud, Eman Abdelrahim, Nael Eltoukhy, Areej Gamal, Hatem Hafez, Hend Jaʿfar, Nahla Karam, Mohamed Kheir, Ahmed Naji & Mohamed Salah al-Azab.   A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Litten Path by James Clarke
    The Litten Path - by James Clarke

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784631468 | ISBN 10: 1784631469

    March, 1984. Britain’s miners face political opposition. Soon, the State will confront them, violent forces will be unleashed and the country will change forever.  The Newmans have enough on their plate without a strike to contend with. Art ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
    The Which Way Tree - by Elizabeth Crook

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617167 | ISBN 10: 1911617168

    ‘It was a few months later on, when Samantha was twelve years old, and I was fourteen, and winter come on, and the wind was blowing a gale, and dark was a thing we dreaded, that the panther called on us again.’   In the remote hill country ... 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 Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa by Efemia Chela (Editor)
    Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa - by Efemia Chela (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780264059 | ISBN 10: 1780264054

    Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop and discuss stories. This is the fourth in the SSDA collection of anthologies whic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Tell Me You're Afraid - by Giuseppe Catozzella

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571322695 | ISBN 10: 0571322697

    Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope.   Samia Omar grows up in war-torn Somalia, dreaming of being a world-class sprinter. She sleeps with a photo of Mo Farah by her ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction by Raph Cormack & Max Shmookler (Editors)
    The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction - by Raph Cormack & Max Shmookler (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583720 | ISBN 10: 1905583729

    Featuring Bushra al-Fadil, Isa al-Hilu, Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin, Arthur Gabriel Yak, Hammour Ziada, Ahmed al-Malik, Bawadir Bashir, Mamoun Eltlib, Rania Mamoun & Ali al-Makk  Translated by Thoraya El-Rayyes, Raph Cormack, Mohammed Ghalayeini, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Warrior by Giuseppe Catozzella
    Little Warrior - by Giuseppe Catozzella

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571322688 | ISBN 10: 0571322689

    A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner.   Little Warrior is based on the life of Samia Omar, a girl who grows up in war-tor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Sisters by Marita Conlon-McKenna
    Rebel Sisters - by Marita Conlon-McKenna

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848271999 | ISBN 10: 1848271999

    With the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers under the surface of Ireland.  Growing up in the privileged confines of Dublins leafy Rathmines, the bright, beautiful Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and Nellie kick against the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Too Good to be True (Quick Reads) by Ann Cleeves
    Too Good to be True (Quick Reads) - by Ann Cleeves

    £1.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781509806119 | ISBN 10: 1509806113

    Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series.   When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home, the police think her death was suicid ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
    The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - by Becky Chambers

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473619814 | ISBN 10: 1473619815

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION   The beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanity.  When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The ship, which has seen better days ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Activist by Alec Connon
    The Activist - by Alec Connon

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781901514254 | ISBN 10: 1901514250

    Unfulfilled by student life, Thomas Durant and two friends decide to cycle the length of Britain during their summer holidays, dressed as superheroes. The experience of their short trip is enough to whet Thomass appetite for further travel and set i ... 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, Oaks interest ... more

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  • Cover image of book 98 Wounds by Justin Chin
    98 Wounds - by Justin Chin

    £13.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781933149578 | ISBN 10: 1933149574

    98 Wounds is a series of improbably linked stories that reimagines and reconciles the abject, the outlaw, the ostracized, the misfits, and the cranky contrarians among us.  Gay people have never been as free or divided as in today's s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prince
    The Prince's Pen - by Horatio Clare

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781854115522 | ISBN 10: 1854115529

    "...an epic tale of conflict, faith and banishment...this reworked tale provides a graphic depiction of the cruelty of war and torture"(The Guardian 2011) The Invaders drones hear everything and see all. England is now a defeated archipelago ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse by Lonely Christopher
    The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse - by Lonely Christopher

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781936070800 | ISBN 10: 1936070804

    Two boys lie on a bed, one of them is already dead; they listen to Glenn Gould playing Bach and talk about suicide and love. A lonely narrator mourns the end of a relationship and the disappearance of a mysterious object as a frustrated artist jumps ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
    The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - by Angela Carter

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141192390 | ISBN 10: 0141192399

    Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his ... 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 Hitlers 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 Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
    Summertime - by J.M. Coetzee

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099540540 | ISBN 10: 0099540541

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers. A young English biographer is worki ... 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 Murder Most Fab by Julian Clary
    Murder Most Fab - by Julian Clary

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780091914486 | ISBN 10: 0091914485

    Hello, I'm Johnny Debonair and this is my book - Murder Most Fab. Buy it. You won't regret it. Everything that has happened so publicly is explained.   Of course, I'd prefer it if you remember me as I was at my height, before the past c ... 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 If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
    If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho - by Anne Carson

    £15.00   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781844080816 | ISBN 10: 1844080811

    The complete extant work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630BC. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyric ... more

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