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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 42 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
    Prophet Song - by Paul Lynch

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780861546459 | ISBN 10: 0861546458

    WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE  A mother faces a terrible choice in Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s propulsive and confronting portrait of a society on the brink.   This fiercely imaginative novel is set in a near-future Ireland, a nation caug ... more

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  • Cover image of book Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan
    Now She is Witch - by Kirsty Logan

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529116113 | ISBN 10: 1529116112

    She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden...  From the snowy winter woods to the bright midnight sun; from lost and powerless to finding your path, Now She is Witch conjures a world of violence and beauty - a world w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Double Booked by Lily Lindon
    Double Booked - by Lily Lindon

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781801107587 | ISBN 10: 1801107580

    Gina is about to marry her boyfriend. George is about to join a lesbian pop band. Gina and George are the same person. No wonder Georgina is DOUBLE BOOKED.  Georgina has a strict routine:  1) teach piano to bored children 2) schedule dates w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Silverview by John le Carre
    Silverview - by John le Carre

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241994535 | ISBN 10: 0241994535

    Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish émigré, shows up at his door with a very k ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl: A Novel by Camille Laurens
    Girl: A Novel - by Camille Laurens

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781635421019 | ISBN 10: 1635421012

    From the acclaimed author of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than.  Born in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Must I Go by Yiyun Li
    Must I Go - by Yiyun Li

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241978689 | ISBN 10: 0241978688

    Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have.  'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li ... more

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  • Cover image of book Long Division by Kiese Laymon
    Long Division - by Kiese Laymon

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781982174828 | ISBN 10: 198217482x

    From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a "funny, astute, searching" (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and comin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee
    Cunning Women - by Elizabeth Lee

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786091161 | ISBN 10: 178609116x

    When it is no longer safe to be a witch, they call themselves cunning.   1620s Lancashire. Away from the village lies a small hamlet, abandoned since the Plague, where only one family dwells amongst its ruins. Young Sarah Haworth, her mother, brot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
    Heaven, My Home - by Attica Locke

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781781257708 | ISBN 10: 1781257701

    Waterstones' Thriller of the Month June 2020 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2020 A Sunday Times Book of the Year   Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; instead he found himself all alone, adrift on the vastness ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
    Where Reasons End - by Yiyun Li

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241985182 | ISBN 10: 0241985188

    From the critically acclaimed author of The Vagrants, a devastating and utterly original novel on grief and motherhood.  'Days: the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak, with t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan
    The Gloaming - by Kirsty Logan

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784706562 | ISBN 10: 1784706566

    'The best lives leave a mark.'   A bewitching tale of first love, shattering grief, and the dangerous magic that draws us home.  Mara’s island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
    The End of Eddy - by Edouard Louis

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099598466 | ISBN 10: 0099598469

    ‘Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism and brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame and even disgust fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Draw the Line by Laurent Linn
    Draw the Line - by Laurent Linn

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781481452816 | ISBN 10: 1481452819

    After a hate crime occurs in his small Texas town, Adrian Piper must discover his own power, decide how to use it, and know where to draw the line in this powerful debut novel exquisitely illustrated by the author.  Adrian Piper is used t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
    Dark Chapter - by Winnie M Li

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785079061 | ISBN 10: 1785079069

    Highly Commended for the CWA Debut Dagger 2015 Shortlisted for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize 2015 Runner-up in the SI Leeds Literary Prize   Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Dark Tales: Jack Squat and The Niche by Charles Lambert
    Two Dark Tales: Jack Squat and The Niche - by Charles Lambert

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910709290 | ISBN 10: 1910709298

    There are four ways in but no way out...   In ‘Jack Squat’, unemployed Gordon and his partner Omar see a money-making opportunity helping expats buy homes in southern Italy. But their scheme catches up with them after the first home they s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka
    The Lubetkin Legacy - by Marina Lewycka

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141044958 | ISBN 10: 0141044950

    From the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.   North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trinidad Noir: The Classics by Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni (Editors)
    Trinidad Noir: The Classics - by Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781617754357 | ISBN 10: 1617754358

    Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. Now, ... more

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  • Cover image of book How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee
    How I Became a North Korean - by Krys Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571276233 | ISBN 10: 0571276237

    At the lawless border between North Korea and China, three young lives converge in the hope of a better future.   Yongju is an accomplished student from a prominent but recently disgraced family; Jangmi has had to fend for herself since childh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolf Moon by Julio Llamazares
    Wolf Moon - by Julio Llamazares

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780720619454 | ISBN 10: 0720619459

    Defeated by the Nationalists, four Republican fugitives flee into the Cantabrian mountains at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They are on the run, skirmishing with the Guardia Civil, knowing that surrender means death. Wounded and hungry they are f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
    Hot Milk - by Deborah Levy

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241968031 | ISBN 10: 0241968038

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016   Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home.   Two women arrive in a village on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Four Books by Yan Lianke
    The Four Books - by Yan Lianke

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099569497 | ISBN 10: 0099569493

    In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this proc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
    The Gracekeepers - by Kirsty Logan

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784700133 | ISBN 10: 1784700134

    The magical story of a floating circus and two young women in search of a home.  The sea has flooded the earth. North lives on a circus boat, floating between the scattered islands that remain. She dances with her beloved bear, while the rest of t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Losing It by Helen Lederer
    Losing It - by Helen Lederer

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447267645 | ISBN 10: 1447267648

    Millie was at one time quite well known for various TV and radio appearances. However, she now has no money, a best friend with a better sex life than her, a daughter in Papua New Guinea and too much weight in places she really doesn't want it. &nbs ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capital by John Lanchester
    Capital - by John Lanchester

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571327362 | ISBN 10: 0571327362

    Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cromwell Factor by David George Lawrence
    The Cromwell Factor - by David George Lawrence

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993378201 | ISBN 10: 099337820x

    Dan Jackson and Craig Davison share the same tragic secret. One can’t catch a break but remains honest, law-abiding and sincere. The other is the British Prime Minister.   Dan’s luck changes for the worse when he stumbles upon Cromwell’s Hamme ... more

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  • Cover image of book Six Stories and an Essay by Andrea Levy
    Six Stories and an Essay - by Andrea Levy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472222695 | ISBN 10: 1472222695

    A superb collection of writing from multi-award-winning, million-copy bestseller Andrea Levy.  Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Following Girls by Louise Levene
    The Following Girls - by Louise Levene

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408842904 | ISBN 10: 1408842904

    When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child: 'Dear Jeremy' it began 'or Amanda...'. Now Baker is sixteen and sick of her lot as she moves miserably between lessons, her only solace her fifth form gang ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
    The Word for World is Forest - by Ursula K. Le Guin

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473205789 | ISBN 10: 1473205786

    Grand Master Ursula K. Le Guin's HUGO AWARD-winning tale of colonisation and oppression.  When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Aths ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Human Flies by Hans Olav Lahlum
    The Human Flies - by Hans Olav Lahlum

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447232766 | ISBN 10: 1447232763

    The first mystery in the hugely compelling, bestselling international crime series from Norway's answer to Agatha Christie  Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best Gay Romance 2014 by Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane (Editors)
    Best Gay Romance 2014 - by Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781627780117 | ISBN 10: 1627780114

    Passion and Possibility...   The best part of romance is what might happen next...that pivotal moment where we stop and realize, This is wonderful. Romance can be many things: thrilling, inspiring, passionate and life altering. But most of all ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Village by Nikita Lalwani
    The Village - by Nikita Lalwani

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141030401 | ISBN 10: 0141030402

    The Village by Nikita Lalwani is a disturbing and utterly gripping modern morality tale set in contemporary India.   On a winter morning Ray Bhullar arrives at the gates of an Indian village. She is here to make a film. But this will be no o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amy
    Amy's Diary - by Maureen Lee

    £1.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781409137382 | ISBN 10: 1409137384

    Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a brand new Maureen Lee - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.  On 3rd September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start writing a diary. It was a momentous day ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
    Two Caravans - by Marina Lewycka

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241961841 | ISBN 10: 024196184x

    An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday.  But who picks our strawberries these days? The U ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
    The Wild Girls - by Ursula K. Le Guin

    £13.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781604864038 | ISBN 10: 1604864036

    Ursula K. Le Guin is the one modern science fiction author who truly needs no introduction. In the forty years since The Left Hand of Darkness, her works have changed not only the face but the tone and the agenda of SF, introducing themes of gender, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stillness of the Sea by Nicol Ljubic
    Stillness of the Sea - by Nicol Ljubic

    £11.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908251015 | ISBN 10: 1908251018

    The still surface of a sea is both menacing and calmly beautiful: a perfect metaphor for this reflective novel. The narrator’s unassuming, thoughtful voice dampens but cannot conceal the forces driving his story of love and war and the boundless suff ... 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 Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
    The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam - by Lauren Liebenberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844084685 | ISBN 10: 184408468x

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers.  Nyree and Cia live on a remote farm in the east of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Vumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfath ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
    A Most Wanted Man - by John Le Carre

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340977088 | ISBN 10: 0340977086

    A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.  Annabel, an id ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - by Yiyun Li

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007196630 | ISBN 10: 0007196636

    Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2006.Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.Shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers.  In this prize-winning collection of short stories, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best of Gay Erotica 2 by Richard Labonte (Editor)
    Best of Gay Erotica 2 - by Richard Labonte (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781573442138 | ISBN 10: 1573442135

    Beautiful bodies, searing male-male action, and wickedly inventive writing: all the things that make you read and re-read your gay erotic books until the covers curl and the pages drop open to your favourite scenes. Chances are a few volumes of Best ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
    The Dispossessed - by Ursula Le Guin

    £8.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781857988826 | ISBN 10: 1857988825

    Shevek is a brilliant physicist from the austerely isolationist and anarchic planet Anarres working on the Principle of Simultaneity which could revolutionize interstellar civilization by making instantaneous communication possible.  But Shevek' ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Slow Mirror and Other Stories: New Fiction by Jewish Writers by Sonja Lyndon & Sulvia Paskin (ed)
    The Slow Mirror and Other Stories: New Fiction by Jewish Writers - by Sonja Lyndon & Sulvia Paskin (ed)

    £9.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780907123811 | ISBN 10: 0907123813

    A collection of contemporary fiction by British, American and South African Jewish writers. Stories describe the new South Africa, the erotic possibilities of shoes, the lost Jews of outer space and the search for Kafka in Bronte country. This book r ... more

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