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Are You Happy Now - by Hanna Jameson

£14.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241515075 | ISBN 10: 0241515076

'Jameson channels the righteous anger of a generation' Luzia Sauma 'An eerie, fascinating, nihilistic triumph' Heather Darwent At a New York City wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to be happy. Yun ha ... more
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections - by Eva Jurczyk

£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781728238593 | ISBN 10: 1728238595

Anxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soon she has to ask: what holds more secrets in the library — the ancien ... more
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Everything Under - by Daisy Johnson

£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784702113 | ISBN 10: 1784702110

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 It’s been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on the canals. But a phone call will soon reunite them, and bring those wild years flooding back: t ... more
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Everything Under - by Daisy Johnson

£14.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910702345 | ISBN 10: 191070234x

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** 'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction.' Lauren Groff Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and t ... more
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Be Frank With Me - by Julia Claiborne Johnson

£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782399209 | ISBN 10: 1782399208

For some boys fitting in means standing out. Meet Frank – he isn’t like other kids. Intrepid explorer, sartorial connoisseur; he’s as strange as he is brilliant. But Frank discovers the hard way that people don’t like brilliant and t ... more
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About My Mother - by Tahar Ben Jelloun

£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592010 | ISBN 10: 1846592011

Since she�s been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she�s in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are l ... more
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In the Dark - by Mai Jia

£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141391458 | ISBN 10: 0141391456

'Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the death...' Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillanc ... more
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The Outcast - by Sadie Jones

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784700799 | ISBN 10: 1784700797

The bestselling novel behind the major new BBC drama starring Jessica Brown Findlay, George Mackay, Greg Wise and Hattie Morahan Sussex, 1957. Lewis is nineteen, straight out of jail, and stands alone at a railway station. Only one person is t ... more
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All Woman and Springtime - by B.W. Jones

£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780222912 | ISBN 10: 1780222912

Gi lives behind North Korea's iron curtain under the watchful eye of Dear Leader. As an orphan, growing up on a diet of thin soup and propaganda, life is a constant struggle against hunger and fear. But when she meets headstrong Il-sun, tender Gi fin ... more
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When Nights Were Cold - by Susanna Jones

£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780330544849 | ISBN 10: 0330544845

A gripping tale of ambition and rivalry, madness and revenge - in the vein of Sarah Waters and Beryl Bainbridge. As Queen Victoria�s reign reaches its end, Grace Farringdon dreams of polar explorations and of escape from her stifling home wi ... more
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The Finkler Question - by Howard Jacobson

£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809938 | ISBN 10: 1408809931

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010.� �He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...� � Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio produ ... more
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How Many Miles to Babylon? - by Jennifer Johnston

£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141046969 | ISBN 10: 0141046961

Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them.� Wh ... more
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War Trash - by Ha Jin

£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141023960 | ISBN 10: 0141023961

North-East China, 1951. Yu Yuan, a fresh-faced cadet straight out of university, finds himself attached to a corps of 'volunteers' sent by Mao to help shore up the communist side in Korea at the outset of the 1951-3 War. Poorly armed and unprepared f ... more
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The Limits of Enchantment - by Graham Joyce

£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780753819296 | ISBN 10: 0753819295

This is the story of a young woman growing up in the Midlands in 1966 - a woman who may be a witch. �As a baby, Fern was taken in by Mammy Cullen who schooled her in the art of old hedgerow medicine, of traditional midwifery, herbs, folk songs and ta ... more
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This Blinding Absence of Light. - by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Linda Coverdale translator)

£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141022826 | ISBN 10: 0141022825

In 1971 disaffected student Salim took part in a failed coup to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others he was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccon desert; they were to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly elo ... more
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