Back to home page - News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

not-for-profit - a workers'co-op - committed to social justice | 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY - 0151 708 7270

Writers by Surname - H - Looking for books by a particular author? Use www.newsfromnowhere.co.uk instead - it's a complete database of ALL books in print in the UK.

Related category: Fiction

This website can't tell you if a book is in our shop right now or not. Most books can be ordered within 7-10 days, subject to availability. You can always call us or use the enquiry links to ask if a book is in stock or how long it would take to order. (Note: we do our best to keep information up to date, but occasionally prices may have changed.)

Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 36 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
    We Do What We Do in the Dark - by Michelle Hart

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472296450 | ISBN 10: 1472296451

    A beautiful book so filled with sharp longing and perfectly phrased vulnerability that I read it in a reverent hush’ Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby  ‘Exceptional... has flashes of Sally Rooney’s CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS, ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Riambel by Priya Hein
    Riambel - by Priya Hein

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781911648499 | ISBN 10: 1911648497

    Winner of the Jean Fanchette Prize 2021  Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Three Rooms by Jo Hamya
    Three Rooms - by Jo Hamya

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529114416 | ISBN 10: 1529114411

    Something about your generation I've noticed, she said not unkindly once I had fallen silent, is that you give up very easily.  Autumn 2018. A young woman starts a job as a research assistant at Oxford. But she can't shake the feeling that re ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book One August Night by Victoria Hislop
    One August Night - by Victoria Hislop

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472278449 | ISBN 10: 1472278445

    Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island.  25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has d ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
    The Midnight Library - by Matt Haig

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786892737 | ISBN 10: 1786892731

    Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret.  She feels she has let everyone down, including her ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez
    Slash and Burn - by Claudia Hernandez

    £11.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911508823 | ISBN 10: 1911508822

    Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe.  Like peasants through the ages, she desperately slashes and burns in order to make a place for her children to return to. A country girl sees her village sacked and ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Guapa by Saleem Haddad
    Guapa - by Saleem Haddad

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787702059 | ISBN 10: 1787702057

    A novel of the Arab Spring  Winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2017  A Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring. A day in the life of a young man disillusioned with both East and West and struggling to fin ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Travellers by Helon Habila
    Travellers - by Helon Habila

    £12.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241394502 | ISBN 10: 0241394503

    "Once I started reading Travellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not only refugees hungering for the north, pushing their way through the b ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
    The Sparsholt Affair - by Alan Hollinghurst

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447208228 | ISBN 10: 1447208226

    In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others – particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destin ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Years She Stole by Jonathan Harvey
    The Years She Stole - by Jonathan Harvey

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447298229 | ISBN 10: 1447298225

    2017   Pregnant Rachel Taylor is enjoying a holiday in Morocco when she gets the phone call to say her mother hasn’t got much time left to live. With a head of mixed emotions she returns to the village where she grew up to say her last goodb ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
    Exit West - by Mohsin Hamid

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241979068 | ISBN 10: 0241979064

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017  *One of Barack Obama's top ten books of 2017*  The Times Top 10 Bestseller Guardian Top 10 Bestseller The New York Times Top 5 Bestseller   Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Senility of Vladimir P by Michael Honig
    The Senility of Vladimir P - by Michael Honig

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782398097 | ISBN 10: 1782398090

    As a former president of Russia loses his marbles, those around him get down to losing their morals.   Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, h ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys
    The Evening Chorus - by Helen Humphreys

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781253038 | ISBN 10: 178125303x

    Shot down on his first RAF mission, James Hunter spends his war in a German prison camp. The other captive soldiers busy themselves planning their escapes, but James dedicates himself to a detailed study of the redstarts nesting just beyond the camp ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
    The Girl on the Train - by Paula Hawkins

    £7.90   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780552779777 | ISBN 10: 0552779776

    YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.   Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller. "Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read"(S J WATSON, bestselling author of 'Before I Go T ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction by Torsten Højer (Editor)
    Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction - by Torsten Højer (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472119971 | ISBN 10: 1472119975

    An outstanding anthology of gay literary fiction  'There is something special about literature . . . that addresses our innermost sexual and amatory selves. Gay stories offer us vindication, fellowship, validation and a sense of shared identi ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Thirst by Kerry Hudson
    Thirst - by Kerry Hudson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099589891 | ISBN 10: 0099589893

    An unconventional, will-they-won’t-they love story, that takes us from London to Siberia, and from hope to heartbreak, and back again.   The beginning of a relationship is usually all about getting to know each other, sharing stories far into t ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
    The Emperor Waltz - by Philip Hensher

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007459599 | ISBN 10: 0007459599

    The Emperor Waltz is a single novel with three narrative strands: fourth-century Rome, 1920s Germany, and 1980s London. In each place, a small coterie is closely connected and separated from the larger world. In each story, the larger world regards t ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
    The Marrying of Chani Kaufman - by Eve Harris

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908737434 | ISBN 10: 1908737433

    19 year-old Chani lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, but is bound to marry a stranger. The rabbi’s wife teaches her what it means to be a Jewish wife, but Rivka has her ow ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Death of the Demon by Anne Holt
    Death of the Demon - by Anne Holt

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857892270 | ISBN 10: 0857892274

    In an orphanage outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's ageing director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk late at night, stabbed in the n ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
    The Dog Stars - by Peter Heller

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780755392629 | ISBN 10: 0755392620

    A novel about the end of the world which makes you happy to be alive.   The Road - but with hope.   Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Just Like Proper Grown-ups by Christina Hopkinson
    Just Like Proper Grown-ups - by Christina Hopkinson

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444710465 | ISBN 10: 144471046x

    Do growing up and growing old go hand in hand? An entertaining expos? of messy relationships, modern life, and our preoccupation with youth and beauty, from the author of The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs.   'You don't really grow up un ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
    Scenes from Early Life - by Philip Hensher

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007450107 | ISBN 10: 0007450109

    Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency.   “I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my au ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
    The Dovekeepers - by Alice Hoffman

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857205445 | ISBN 10: 0857205447

    The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets - about w ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book All the Beauty of the Sun by Marion Husband
    All the Beauty of the Sun - by Marion Husband

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908262011 | ISBN 10: 190826201x

    Soho 1925.  Two young men meet – for one of them this is love at first sight, for the other only lust and guilt...  In 1925 Paul Harris returns to England from self-imposed exile in Tangiers for an exhibition of his paintings. He leaves behind ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
    The Summer Without Men - by Siri Hustvedt

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444720259 | ISBN 10: 1444720252

    After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up 'briefly', rages 'deeply', then decamps to her prairie childhood home.  There, gradually, ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Yield by Lee Houck
    Yield - by Lee Houck

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780758242655 | ISBN 10: 0758242654

    In his evocative and mesmerizing debut novel, Lee Houck depicts a contemporary Manhattan thrumming with sex and violence as seen through the eyes of Simon — a twenty-something part-time hustler with a cadre of loyal, sometimes floundering friends. As ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book A New Omnibus of Crime by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert (editors)
    A New Omnibus of Crime - by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert (editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780195370713 | ISBN 10: 0195370716

    This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers left off, bringing together monumental, important,and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of the Great Depression to the first years of the ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
    The Writing on My Forehead - by Nafisa Haji

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099536741 | ISBN 10: 0099536749

    Free-spirited and rebellious, Saira has grown up in California with her beautiful, obedient sister Ameena. From childhood, she has broken the boundaries between her desire for independence and her family’s traditions – in particular, her Bombay-bred ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
    The Book of Negroes - by Lawrence Hill

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780552775489 | ISBN 10: 0552775487

    Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom – and of finding her way home again. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she pass ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
    A Case of Exploding Mangoes - by Mohammed Hanif

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099516743 | ISBN 10: 0099516748

    There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Measuring Time by Helon Habila
    Measuring Time - by Helon Habila

    £15.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141010076 | ISBN 10: 014101007x

    In the small Nigerian village of Keti live Mamo and LaMamo, twin sons of a domineering father. When one day the boys try and escape the village, only LaMamo succeeds – and in time becomes a soldier well-versed in the ways of life and death.   ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
    A Spot of Bother - by Mark Haddon

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099506928 | ISBN 10: 0099506920

    George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling d ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Island by Aldous Huxley
    Island - by Aldous Huxley

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099477778 | ISBN 10: 0099477777

    For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
    The Line of Beauty - by Alan Hollinghurst

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780330483216 | ISBN 10: 0330483218

    It is the summer of 1983 and young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, bu ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
    A Farewell to Arms - by Ernest Hemingway

    £8.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099273974 | ISBN 10: 0099273977

    Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written.  In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was woun ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    Brave New World - by Aldous Huxley

    £8.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780099518471 | ISBN 10: 0099518473

    Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined lo ... more

    View book details    

© News From Nowhere Co-operative Ltd IP24524R 2004-2024 | Privacy policy | Contact | return to top of page