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£16.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780861546459 | ISBN 10: 0861546458
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZEÂ
A mother faces a terrible choice in Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s propulsive and confronting portrait of a society on the brink. Â
This fiercely imaginative novel is set in a near-future Ireland, a nation caug ... more
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£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...Â
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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£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.Â
Georgina has a strict routine:Â
1) teach piano to bored children
2) schedule dates w ... more
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£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.Â
'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li ... more
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£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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£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786091161 | ISBN 10: 178609116x
When it is no longer safe to be a witch, they call themselves cunning.
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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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£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
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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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£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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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784706562 | ISBN 10: 1784706566
'The best lives leave a mark.'
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A bewitching tale of first love, shattering grief, and the dangerous magic that draws us home.Â
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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£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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£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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£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
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Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tou ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141044958 | ISBN 10: 0141044950
From the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
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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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£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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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241968031 | ISBN 10: 0241968038
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016
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Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home.
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Two women arrive in a village on th ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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