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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story by Tony Fairweather
    Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story - by Tony Fairweather

    £11.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913109196 | ISBN 10: 1913109194

    After World War Two England was on her knees, so the call went out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the ‘Mother Country’.   Young men and women from different Caribbean islands were quick to respond, paying the consider ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diamond Hill by Kit Fan
    Diamond Hill - by Kit Fan

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349701684 | ISBN 10: 0349701687

    "A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering beauty."(Naoise Dolan) "A vivid, powerful portrait of a vanishing world."(David Nicholls) Diamond Hill was once t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
    Unsettled Ground - by Claire Fuller

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241457467 | ISBN 10: 0241457467

    WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021  When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks.  Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 5 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Searcher by Tana French
    The Searcher - by Tana French

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241990100 | ISBN 10: 0241990106

    A DISAPPEARANCE. A SMALL TOWN. A QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERING...  Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher
    The Conjure-Man Dies - by Rudolph Fisher

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008216474 | ISBN 10: 0008216479

    A unique crime classic: the very first detective novel written by an African-American, set in 1930s New York with only Black characters.   When the body of N'Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man, is discovered in his consultation room, Perry ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
    My Brilliant Friend - by Elena Ferrante

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787702226 | ISBN 10: 1787702227

    OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDE  OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK  14 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE  NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES  GUARDIAN 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY  58 WEEKS ON THE BOOKSELLER'S TOP 20 ORIGINAL FICTIO ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett
    Gender Swapped Fairy Tales - by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett

    £20.00   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571360185 | ISBN 10: 0571360181

    Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before...  Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Little Boy - by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571351022 | ISBN 10: 0571351026

    Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from... Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him.  From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D- ... more

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  • Cover image of book Happiness by Aminatta Forna
    Happiness - by Aminatta Forna

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408893289 | ISBN 10: 1408893282

    Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city, numerous moments of connections span out a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance by Julián Fuks
    Resistance - by Julián Fuks

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999859329 | ISBN 10: 1999859324

    Translated by Daniel Hahn   ‘My brother is adopted, but I can’t say and don’t want to say that my brother is adopted. If I say this, if I speak these words that I have long taken care to silence, I reduce my brother to a single categoric ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
    Let Me Be Frank With You - by Richard Ford

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408853597 | ISBN 10: 1408853590

    Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe.   Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived – seemingly but not utterly – amidst the devastat ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of Journalists by Tim Finch
    The House of Journalists - by Tim Finch

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784700232 | ISBN 10: 1784700231

    Welcome to the House of Journalists. Who are you and what is your story?  A fashionable house in a London terrace, the House of Journalists is renowned around the world as a place of refuge for exiled writers who have fallen foul of oppressive ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mrs Fox by Sarah Hall
    Mrs Fox - by Sarah Hall

    £4.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571315673 | ISBN 10: 0571315674

    Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2013   Mrs Fox is the story of a suburban couple. She is smart and successful; he adores his beautiful, unknowable wife. But the illusion of domestic bliss is laid bare when she undergoes an extraor ... more

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  • Cover image of book OxCrimes by Peter Florence, Mark Ellingham (Editors), with an introduction by Ian Rankin
    OxCrimes - by Peter Florence, Mark Ellingham (Editors), with an introduction by Ian Rankin

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781250648 | ISBN 10: 1781250642

    Following the success of OxTales and OxTravels, this collection of crime writing is the latest Oxfam fundraiser, introduced by Britain's greatest crime writer, Ian Rankin, and featuring a compelling cast of suspects.   For 2014, Oxfam and Prof ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
    The Shock of the Fall - by Nathan Filer

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007491452 | ISBN 10: 000749145x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2013  ‘I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he’ll be dead. And ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
    The Panopticon - by Jenni Fagan

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099558644 | ISBN 10: 0099558645

    JENNI FAGAN HAS BEEN NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2013   SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2013  Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny a ... more

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  • Cover image of book All That I Am by Anna Funder
    All That I Am - by Anna Funder

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780670920426 | ISBN 10: 0670920428

    When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the grea ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman
    A Disobedient Girl - by Ru Freeman

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141040073 | ISBN 10: 0141040076

    Since her days in the orphanage, Latha has been a companion and servant to Thara, a more fortunate girl her own age. But since her trip to the hill country when she caught her first glimpse of a rose, Latha has known she was destined for a better lif ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
    Ancestor Stones - by Aminatta Forna

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747585923 | ISBN 10: 074758592x

    A stunning debut novel by the author of The Devil that Danced on the Water.  Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains ... more

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  • Cover image of book Young Turk by Moris Farhi
    Young Turk - by Moris Farhi

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846590283 | ISBN 10: 1846590280

    Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Trukey giving sancturay to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescen ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
    The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank - by Ellen Feldman

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780330440004 | ISBN 10: 0330440004

    Imagine if the boy in hiding with Anne Frank had survived the war... On 16 February 1944, Peter, Anne Frank's closest confidant in the Secret Annex, declared that if he got out alive he would reinvent himself entirely; no one would ever know who ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maurice by E.M Forster
    Maurice - by E.M Forster

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141441139 | ISBN 10: 0141441135

    Born into a priviledged way of life, Maurice grows up confident in status, precise in social ritual. Yet although priggish and conforming, he finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and thr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Other Side by Sandra Freeman
    The Other Side - by Sandra Freeman

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780906500811 | ISBN 10: 0906500818

    Europeans gay and straight, as well as those of every class populate a novel no-one can put down. Charlie is not quite - actually not at all - declasse as an English aristocrat but she is also very much a playwright and, indeed, a Parisian. Known as ... more

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