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  • Cover image of book The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant
    The Story of the Forest - by Linda Grant

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349014104 | ISBN 10: 0349014108

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023  ‘Epic and marvellously entertaining… There’s a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back’ FINANCIAL TIMES  ‘ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    Main Street - by Sinclair Lewis

    £7.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781847498960 | ISBN 10: 1847498965

    Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes.   Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of redes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke
    The Ghost Woods - by C.J. Cooke

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008515942 | ISBN 10: 0008515948

    ‘Haunting’ Sara Sheridan  ‘Intriguing, atmospheric, thought-provoking’ Alexandra Bell   ‘Beautifully crafted, thrilling and atmospheric’ Rebecca Netley   In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall.   This pla ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
    After Sappho - by Selby Wynn Schwartz

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913111397 | ISBN 10: 1913111393

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022  “What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.”   It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wind Knows My Name by Isabelle Allende
    The Wind Knows My Name - by Isabelle Allende

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526660312 | ISBN 10: 1526660318

    THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A grand storyteller' - KHALED HOSSEINI 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' - DAILY MAIL 'What a joy it must be to come upon Allende ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
    Lapvona - by Ottessa Moshfegh

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529115727 | ISBN 10: 1529115728

    Welcome to Lapvona. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself at the centre of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test...  Discover the Sunday Times bests ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
    Stone Blind - by Natalie Haynes

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529061512 | ISBN 10: 1529061512

    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.  In Stone Blind, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before.  'Witty, gripping, ruthless' – Margaret Atwood via ... more

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  • Cover image of book Haven by Emma Donoghue
    Haven - by Emma Donoghue

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529091168 | ISBN 10: 1529091160

    A story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room.  'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Don ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs
    The Language of Food - by Annabel Abbs

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398502253 | ISBN 10: 1398502251

    ‘Exhilarating to read - thoughtful, heart-warming and poignant, with a quiet intelligence and elegance that does its heroine proud’ Bridget Collins  Two women Ten years A recipe for success  Eliza Acton, despite never having boi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O
    The Marriage Portrait - by Maggie O'Farrell

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472223883 | ISBN 10: 1472223888

    Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 A Reese’s Bookclub December Pick (2022) An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022) A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)   ‘Ever ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chase Of The Wild Goose by Mary Gordon
    Chase Of The Wild Goose - by Mary Gordon

    £12.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739744106 | ISBN 10: 1739744101

    The story of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, known as the Ladies of Llangollen  “Gordon’s spirited, romantic account of the lives of the Ladies of Llangollen is a fascinating piece of queer literary history in its own right. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery
    Nothing Special - by Nicole Flattery

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526612120 | ISBN 10: 1526612127

    A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: THE TIMES * TELEGRAPH * STYLIST * GQ * GUARDIAN * HARPER'S BAZAAR * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING * WATERSTONES * i-D * IRISH TIMES * HUFFINGTON POST UK   'A blade-sharp coming-of-age novel' SPECTATOR   'Confirms Flattery as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Elektra by Jennifer Saint
    Elektra - by Jennifer Saint

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472273956 | ISBN 10: 1472273958

    **The spellbinding new retelling of the Trojan War drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all.**  ‘The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ R ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
    Cuddy - by Benjamin Myers

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526631503 | ISBN 10: 1526631504

    **Chosen as a book to watch out for in 2023 by The Times, Observer, Guardian, Irish TImes and Scotsman**  'An epic the north has long deserved' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A sensational piece of storytelling... A singular and significant achievement' G ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler
    Lady MacBethad - by Isabelle Schuler

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526647252 | ISBN 10: 1526647257

    'Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that Isabelle Schuler conjures up where only the most ruthless can survive' - Jennifer Saint  'Dazzlingly clever and difficult to put down' i  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Violeta by Isabel Allende
    Violeta - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526648365 | ISBN 10: 1526648369

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   'Epic, beautifully crafted... Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN ... more

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  • Cover image of book Medusa by Jessie Burton
    Medusa - by Jessie Burton

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662408 | ISBN 10: 152666240x

    'A beautiful and profound retelling' - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe 'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra   If I told you tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Seamstress Of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno
    The Seamstress Of Sardinia - by Bianca Pitzorno

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781922330536 | ISBN 10: 1922330531

    The irresistible story of a young woman seeking freedom and happiness.   Born into poverty, the seamstress spends her days sewing in the houses of wealthy families. Her work is simple and honest; taught by her nonna, she skilfully prepares nig ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blood Flower by Alex Reeve
    The Blood Flower - by Alex Reeve

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526612755 | ISBN 10: 1526612755

    'Exceptional' Sarah Hilary  'Don't be ordinary, Leo. Passion has its price.'  1883. Two young people have been killed near Portsmouth's docks. When journalist and amateur detective Leo Stanhope arrives, the police have already dismissed the v ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola
    The Clockwork Girl - by Anna Mazzola

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398703803 | ISBN 10: 139870380x

    ‘Historical fiction with a fantastical twist, done with verve and skill’ IAN RANKIN ‘An atmospheric and constantly surprising thriller’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Kept me guessing until the end. An absolute masterpiece’ JENNIFER SAINT ‘A deliciou ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prentice-Boy by Ray Rumsby
    The Prentice-Boy - by Ray Rumsby

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910461600 | ISBN 10: 1910461601

    I was genuinely sorry to finish this book. It had me completely engaged… and I loved the clever surprise in the middle of it. ~ Louis de Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin   Ray Rumsby takes a historical figure, the maestr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Attic Child by Lola Jaye
    The Attic Child - by Lola Jaye

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529064582 | ISBN 10: 1529064589

    ‘An incredibly important book... a beautifully crafted, compelling story... which will undoubtedly break your heart but also make it sing’ - Mike Gayle   Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret. & ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
    The Personal Librarian - by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780593101544 | ISBN 10: 0593101545

    The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!  Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post!  “Historical fiction at its best!”*  A remarka ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
    The Lincoln Highway - by Amor Towles

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529157642 | ISBN 10: 1529157641

    THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW  'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER  'An absolute beauty of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
    Daughters of Sparta - by Claire Heywood

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529333695 | ISBN 10: 1529333695

    ‘Required reading for fans of Circe... a remarkable, thrilling debut‘ – Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue   Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed.   For millennia, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey
    The Horse of Selene - by Juanita Casey

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781915290007 | ISBN 10: 1915290007

    ‘A remarkable first novel by a remarkable woman.’ The New York Times  ‘Extraordinary... The Horse of Selene is at once irreverently comic, philosophical and lyrical.’ The Irish Times  Holy Mother who knows so much. Help me for I’m d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Learwife by J.R. Thorp
    Learwife - by J.R. Thorp

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838852849 | ISBN 10: 1838852840

    “I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl, mother of three small animals, now gone. I am fifty-five years old. I am Lear’s wife. I am here.”   Inspired by Shakespeare’s King ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
    China Room - by Sunjeev Sahota

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784706364 | ISBN 10: 1784706361

    A story of forbidden love that echoes across generations - from the prize-winning author of The Year of the Runaways.  'A gorgeous, gripping read' Kamila Shamsie 'A multi-generational masterpiece' Daily Mail  * A Book of the Year for The Tim ... more

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  • Cover image of book Matrix by Lauren Groff
    Matrix - by Lauren Groff

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529157864 | ISBN 10: 1529157862

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021  Seventeen-year-old Marie, too wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning, expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey. Marie is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great Circle by Transworld Publishers Ltd
    Great Circle - by Transworld Publishers Ltd

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529176643 | ISBN 10: 1529176646

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR  'A gripping historical adventure that feels sharp, fresh and modern' STYLIST  'So beaut ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palace Of Flies by Walter Kappacher
    Palace Of Flies - by Walter Kappacher

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781954404021 | ISBN 10: 1954404026

    This absorbing, sensitive novel portrays a famed author in a moment of crisis: an aging Hugo von Hofmannsthal returns to a summer resort outside of Salzburg that he visited as a child.  But in the spa town where he once thrilled to the joys of y ... more

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  • Cover image of book Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
    Utopia Avenue - by David Mitchell

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781444799477 | ISBN 10: 1444799479

    ‘A stand-out triumph’ – Sunday Times  The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, ‘one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country’ (Independent).  Utopia Avenue mi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
    The Country of Others - by Leila Slimani

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571361632 | ISBN 10: 0571361633

    1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here is unrecognisable to this brave and passionate young woman.  Her life is now that of a farmer's wife - with all the sacrifices and vexations that bri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
    The Fortune Men - by Nadifa Mohamed

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241466957 | ISBN 10: 0241466954

    Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph
    Children of Sugarcane - by Joanne Joseph

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781776191864 | ISBN 10: 1776191862

    Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching picture of indenture told from a woman’s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisters Mao by Gavin McCrea
    The Sisters Mao - by Gavin McCrea

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913348939 | ISBN 10: 1913348938

    ‘McCrea’s portrait of Jiang Qing is a masterpiece of characterisation: at once monstrous and pitiable. The Sisters Mao is dazzlingly clever and original.’ Antonia Senior, The Times  A Sunday Independent Book of the Year  Against the ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini
    We Want Everything - by Nanni Balestrini

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784783693 | ISBN 10: 1784783692

    The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969.  It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
    Libertie - by Kaitlyn Greenidge

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788169004 | ISBN 10: 178816900x

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD  A Times Book of the Month  One of Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Picks  'A feat of monumental thematic imagination' - The New York Times Bo ... more

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

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529156805 | ISBN 10: 1529156807

    ONE OF GRAZIA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021   Lancashire, 1620. Young Sarah Haworth and her family live as outcasts. They are 'cunning folk', feared by the local villagers by day, but called upon under cover of darkness for healing balms and spells. & ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
    Daughters of Night - by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781509880843 | ISBN 10: 1509880844

    From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget.. ... more

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  • Cover image of book China: An Epic Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
    China: An Epic Novel - by Edward Rutherfurd

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781444787801 | ISBN 10: 1444787802

    The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China, The Novel.  China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all o ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
    All Among the Barley - by Melissa Harrison

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408897973 | ISBN 10: 1408897970

    'A masterpiece' JON MCGREGOR 'Impossible to forget' THE TIMES 'Astonishing' GUARDIAN 'Startling' FINANCIAL TIMES  WINNER OF THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE  'BOOK OF THE YEAR' NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAG ... more

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  • Cover image of book Karolina, or The Torn Curtain by Maryla Szymiczkowa
    Karolina, or The Torn Curtain - by Maryla Szymiczkowa

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786079299 | ISBN 10: 1786079291

    A thrilling sequel to the critically-acclaimed Mrs Mohr Goes Missing.  Easter, 1895. The biggest event in the Catholic calendar is a disaster in Zofia Turbotynska's household. Her maid Karolina has handed in her notice and worse, gone missing ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
    A Room Made of Leaves - by Kate Grenville

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838851248 | ISBN 10: 1838851240

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION - the new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction winner and Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River.  It is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
    The Devil and the Dark Water - by Stuart Turton

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408889534 | ISBN 10: 1408889536

    CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS AND i PAPER   Three impossible crimes Two unlikely detectives One deadly voyage   It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest dete ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
    The Dickens Boy - by Thomas Keneally

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529345100 | ISBN 10: 1529345103

    By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.   In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Austr ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Book of Secrets by Kate Morrison
    A Book of Secrets - by Kate Morrison

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913090678 | ISBN 10: 1913090671

    A Book of Secrets is the story of a woman named Susan Charlewood living in Elizabethan England. Born in what is now Ghana, Susan is enslaved by the Portuguese but later rescued by British sailors, who bring her to England. Once in England, she is rai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jack by Marilynne Robinson
    Jack - by Marilynne Robinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349011790 | ISBN 10: 0349011796

    Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.   Jack tells the story of John Ames B ... 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 Hamnet by Maggie O
    Hamnet - by Maggie O'Farrell

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472223821 | ISBN 10: 1472223829

    WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020   TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.  On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fev ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
    How Much of These Hills is Gold - by C Pam Zhang

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349011455 | ISBN 10: 0349011451

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021   America.  In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs...  Ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
    The Dictionary of Lost Words - by Pip Williams

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784743864 | ISBN 10: 1784743860

    Discover the internationally bestselling debut, Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.   In 1901, the word 'bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
    The Book of Longings - by Sue Monk Kidd

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472232519 | ISBN 10: 1472232518

    The New York Times Bestseller.  An inspiring story set in the first century AD about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings.  Ana is born in Galilee at a time whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
    Last Night at the Telegraph Club - by Malinda Lo

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529366587 | ISBN 10: 1529366585

    From the award winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s.  Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
    The Night Watchman - by Louise Erdrich

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472155368 | ISBN 10: 147215536x

    It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before C ... more

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  • Cover image of book Midnight Atlanta by Thomas Mullen
    Midnight Atlanta - by Thomas Mullen

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349144207 | ISBN 10: 0349144206

    Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence.   Atlanta, 1956. Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd
    The Year Without Summer - by Guinevere Glasfurd

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781473672338 | ISBN 10: 1473672333

    1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia  Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, ship surgeon Henry Hoggcan barely believe his eyes. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
    Good Citizens Need Not Fear - by Maria Reva

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349012681 | ISBN 10: 0349012687

    This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine, heralds the arrival of a major new talent. A cast of unforgettable characters--citizens of the small industrial town of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Foundling by Stacey Halls
    The Foundling - by Stacey Halls

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838771409 | ISBN 10: 1838771409

    The new Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Familiars.  Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything...  London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling ... more

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  • Cover image of book Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
    Katalin Street - by Magda Szabo

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857058478 | ISBN 10: 0857058479

    BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF NYTBR'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015 WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019   In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Stre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
    The Island of Sea Women - by Lisa See

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471183836 | ISBN 10: 1471183831

    A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.   Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O
    In Love with George Eliot - by Kathy O'Shaughnessy

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912854752 | ISBN 10: 1912854759

    A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR.   Who was the real George Eliot?   In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman novelist as you've never read it before.   Marian Evans has scanda ... more

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  • Cover image of book The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
    The World That We Knew - by Alice Hoffman

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471185854 | ISBN 10: 1471185850

    * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL *  In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blackbird by Claire Allen
    The Blackbird - by Claire Allen

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999797409 | ISBN 10: 199979740x

    It is 1941. Hope’s father, Jenner, builds Liverpool Cathedral while the Luftwaffe’s bombs fall. It is 2014, and Hope cares for her husband Robert as Alzheimer’s destroys his personality.   Hope’s husband Robert is a retired civic sculpto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
    Tidelands - by Philippa Gregory

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471172755 | ISBN 10: 1471172759

    England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different.   Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament.  The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to th ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
    City of Girls - by Elizabeth Gilbert

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781408867068 | ISBN 10: 1408867060

    A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER   New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play – that's what makes it so fun, and so da ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pursuit Of William Abbey by Claire North
    The Pursuit Of William Abbey - by Claire North

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780356507446 | ISBN 10: 0356507440

    ‘I was cursed in Natal, in 1884. Cursed by truth and by blood. The shadow took to me, and we have been together since.’  From the bestselling and award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K comes a powerful new ... more

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  • Cover image of book Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank by David Gillham
    Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank - by David Gillham

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241367667 | ISBN 10: 0241367662

    A breathtaking new novel that asks the question: what if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust?   In 1945, aged sixteen, Anne Frank walks out of the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and into a new life as a survivor of the Holocaust. Ret ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
    Pachinko - by Min Jin Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838930509 | ISBN 10: 1838930507

    Yeongdo, Korea 1911.   In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
    Things in Jars - by Jess Kidd

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786893772 | ISBN 10: 1786893770

    The gripping Victorian detective novel from the Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author.  The case of the extraordinary child...  London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
    Bring Up the Bodies - by Hilary Mantel

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780008381684 | ISBN 10: 0008381682

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction.   With this historic win for Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cilka
    Cilka's Journey - by Heather Morris

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785769047 | ISBN 10: 1785769049

    Based on the heart-breaking true story of Cilka Klein, Cilka's Journey is the sequel to the internationally No.1 bestselling phenomenon, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.  'She was the bravest person I ever met' Lale Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff
    The Mannequin Makers - by Craig Cliff

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911545293 | ISBN 10: 1911545299

    A stunning historical debut novel of gothic proportions, telling the tale of a father’s obsession and the dark consequences.   “The skin was smooth and bright as porcelain, but looked as if it would give to the touch. What manner of wood h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
    The Confessions of Frannie Langton - by Sara Collins

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241984017 | ISBN 10: 0241984017

    'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?'   1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Circe by Madeline Miller
    Circe - by Madeline Miller

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408890042 | ISBN 10: 1408890046

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019   Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE.   In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Familiars by Stacey Halls
    The Familiars - by Stacey Halls

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785766145 | ISBN 10: 1785766147

    The Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick   To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life...  Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
    Once Upon a River - by Diane Setterfield

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784163631 | ISBN 10: 1784163635

    Some say the river drowned her...Some say it brought her back to life.   On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open and in steps an i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Godley
    Mr Godley's Phantom - by Mal Peet

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910989524 | ISBN 10: 1910989525

    This novel is a masterpiece and something of an enigma. Part ghost story, part detective story and part something else entirely...  It's 1945 and Martin Heath, like many men at that time, is struggling to settle, to find his place again after ... more

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  • Cover image of book Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
    Swan Song - by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090188 | ISBN 10: 178609018x

    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE McKITTERICK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD   To the outside world, they were the icons of high society - the most glamorous and influential women of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman
    Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen - by Alix Kates Shulman

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788163408 | ISBN 10: 1788163400

    The cult classic that defined a generation - first UK publication in 47 years.  Sasha Davis has everything a girl in 1950s suburbia could want: beauty, intelligence and an all-star sports captain boyfriend. All she needs to succeed is to keep ... more

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  • Cover image of book Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
    Warlight - by Michael Ondaatje

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784708344 | ISBN 10: 1784708348

    **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** **FINALIST FOR THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE**  It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, ... more

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  • Cover image of book A River in the Trees by Jacqueline O’Mahony
    A River in the Trees - by Jacqueline O’Mahony

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787473553 | ISBN 10: 1787473554

    Two women. Two stories. One hundred years of secrets.  A sweeping novel of love, loss, family and history for readers who love Maggie O’Farrell, John Boyne and Donal Ryan.   1919 Ireland is about to be torn apart by the War of ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Houses by Amy Bloom
    White Houses - by Amy Bloom

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783781744 | ISBN 10: 1783781742

    In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
    The Silence of the Girls - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241983201 | ISBN 10: 0241983207

    "A very good, very raw rendition of the Trojan war from the point of view of the women."(Kate Atkinson) There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now.  Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
    Unsheltered - by Barbara Kingsolver

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571347025 | ISBN 10: 0571347029

    THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORANGE PRIZE WINNER AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BARBARA KINGSOLVER  2016 Vineland Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against an upended world that seems to hold no mercy for her shattered life and family – or the cr ... 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 Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
    Washington Black - by Esi Edugyan

    £6.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846689604 | ISBN 10: 1846689600

    A stunning new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker and Orange Prize shortlisted Half Blood Blues.   When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
    The Librarian of Auschwitz - by Antonio Iturbe

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529104776 | ISBN 10: 1529104777

    For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world – and the most dangerous.   'It wasn’t an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H. Winthrop
    The Mercy Seat - by Elizabeth H. Winthrop

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781473672529 | ISBN 10: 147367252x

    An unforgettable novel - a riveting, heart-wrenching story of injustice and racism in 1940s Louisiana that is as powerful and profound as it is timely.  As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces ... more

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  • Cover image of book Horseman
    Horseman's Song - by Ben Pastor

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912242115 | ISBN 10: 1912242117

    The sixth in the Martin Bora WWII mystery series.   Spain, July 1937. The tragic prelude to World War II is played out in the Spanish Civil War. Among Franco’s troops is Martin Bora, the young German officer and detective, assigned to the Sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
    The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - by Imogen Hermes Gowar

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784705992 | ISBN 10: 1784705993

    A Sunday Times bestseller. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE. Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018.   THIS VOYAGE IS SPECIAL. IT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING.   One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
    Never Anyone But You - by Rupert Thomson

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472153487 | ISBN 10: 1472153480

    Based on actual events, Never Anyone But You is the gripping, beautifully written story of a love affair between two revolutionary female artists who challenged the conventions of art and gender during the long twentieth century.  A small cit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Lily by Philippa Stockley
    Black Lily - by Philippa Stockley

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910258095 | ISBN 10: 1910258091

    In late seventeenth century London two women, one white, one black, stake everything to prevent a manipulative mogul destroying them. Zenobia, born in poverty, grasps that her only hope of controlling her own life is to capitalise on her looks; Lily, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Librarian by Salley Vickers
    The Librarian - by Salley Vickers

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241330234 | ISBN 10: 0241330238

    In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole.   Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer
    The Outcasts of Time - by Ian Mortimer

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471146589 | ISBN 10: 1471146588

    December 1348. With the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die and go to Hell. But as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
    The Last Ballad - by Wiley Cash

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571340705 | ISBN 10: 0571340709

    Ella May Wiggins’ husband has run off again, and she must keep her four young children alive with the only work she can find -- the night shift at a North Carolina mill. When union leaflets begin to circulate, she yearns for the better life the or ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
    The Tattooist of Auschwitz - by Heather Morris

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785763670 | ISBN 10: 1785763679

    Heart-breaking – a tale of love and survival amidst the horrors of Auschwitz Human – the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust – the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners' arms Inspirational – the very best of human ... more

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  • Cover image of book The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
    The People in the Trees - by Hanya Yanagihara

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509892983 | ISBN 10: 1509892982

    The stunning debut novel, from the author of A Little Life.  It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Devil
    The Devil's Highway - by Gregory Norminton

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008243791 | ISBN 10: 0008243794

    Three journeys. Three thousand years. One destination. The Devil’s Highway is a thrilling, epic and timely tale of love, loss, fanaticism, heroism and sacrifice.  His fingers fastened about Her stone. He brought it to the light and held i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Roots by Alex Haley
    Roots - by Alex Haley

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784873387 | ISBN 10: 1784873381

    The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature.   WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID OLUSOGA Win ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lust For Life by Irving Stone
    Lust For Life - by Irving Stone

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787461390 | ISBN 10: 1787461394

    Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh.   “Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world… He was a co ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sealwoman
    The Sealwoman's Gift - by Sally Magnusson

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473638983 | ISBN 10: 1473638984

    1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among them a pastor, his wife, and their children.   In her acclaimed debut novel Sally Magnusson imagines what history ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
    The Which Way Tree - by Elizabeth Crook

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617167 | ISBN 10: 1911617168

    ‘It was a few months later on, when Samantha was twelve years old, and I was fourteen, and winter come on, and the wind was blowing a gale, and dark was a thing we dreaded, that the panther called on us again.’   In the remote hill country ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grace by Paul Lynch
    Grace - by Paul Lynch

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073464 | ISBN 10: 1786073463

    An epic story of a young girl on a life-changing odyssey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine.   SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION & THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Watch House by Bernie McGill
    The Watch House - by Bernie McGill

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472239587 | ISBN 10: 147223958x

    A story of infidelity, secrets and murder in a small Irish island community, inspired by Marconi's experiments in wireless telegraphy in the late nineteenth century.   In the vein of Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, The Watch House by Bernie McGill ... more

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  • Cover image of book House of Names by Colm Tóibín
    House of Names - by Colm Tóibín

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241257692 | ISBN 10: 0241257697

    'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'   On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agam ... more

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  • Cover image of book Seas of Snow by Kerensa Jennings
    Seas of Snow - by Kerensa Jennings

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783525669 | ISBN 10: 1783525665

    1950s England. Five-year-old Gracie Scott lives with her Mam and next door to her best friend Billy. An only child, she has never known her Da. When her Uncle Joe moves in, his physical abuse of Gracie’s mother starts almost immediately. But when h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
    The Bedlam Stacks - by Natasha Pulley

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408878477 | ISBN 10: 140887847x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE'S ENCORE AWARD 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018   'A sheer fantastical delight' The Times 'Epic' New York Times 'An immense treat' Observer Books of the Year 'A fast-paced adve ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Brother by Rosie Garland
    The Night Brother - by Rosie Garland

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008166137 | ISBN 10: 0008166137

    Late nineteenth-century Manchester is a city of charms and dangers the perfect playground for young siblings, Edie and Gnome. But as they grow up, they grow apart, and while Gnome revels in the night-time, Edie wakes each morning, exhausted and uneas ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
    The Penelopiad - by Margaret Atwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786892485 | ISBN 10: 1786892480

    For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan war was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away due to the shocking behaviour of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope mus ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blacker the Berry... by Wallace Thurman
    The Blacker the Berry... - by Wallace Thurman

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780143131878 | ISBN 10: 0143131877

    The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community.  Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Id ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
    Lincoln in the Bardo - by George Saunders

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408871775 | ISBN 10: 1408871777

    A NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  'It would be an understatement to call this novel an extraordinary tour de force' Sunday Times  The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
    Under a Pole Star - by Stef Penney

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786481191 | ISBN 10: 1786481197

    Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Novel Award   Costa winning author Stef Penney returns to the wild Arctic setting she brought so vividly to life in The Tenderness of Wolves, in an epic story of ambition, perseverance and love against the odds. Perf ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mischling by Affinity Konar
    Mischling - by Affinity Konar

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786494030 | ISBN 10: 1786494035

    Mischling by Affinity Konar is a special novel. Braiding the lyricism and historical sweep of All the Light We Cannot See with the psychological intensity of Room, it’s a spell-binding story of survival and resilience in Mengele’s zoo in Auschwit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thin Air by Michelle Paver
    Thin Air - by Michelle Paver

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781409163367 | ISBN 10: 1409163369

    A terrifying tale of a dark and deadly secret, beautifully told by million-copy bestseller, Michelle Paver.   The Himalayas, 1935.   Kangchenjunga. The sacred mountain. Biggest killer of them all.   Five Englishmen set out to conquer it. But ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
    Mudbound - by Hillary Jordan

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786090232 | ISBN 10: 1786090236

    Now a Netflix original movie, starring Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell & Mary J. Blige.  When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
    The Essex Serpent - by Sarah Perry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781255452 | ISBN 10: 1781255458

    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER   Overall Book of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2017 (Nibbies) Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction The Waterstones Book of the Year 2016 S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada, translated by Allan Blunden
    Nightmare in Berlin - by Hans Fallada, translated by Allan Blunden

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911344506 | ISBN 10: 1911344501

    Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler’s war.   Late April, 1945. The war is over yet Dr Doll, a loner and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spy by Paolo Coelho
    The Spy - by Paolo Coelho

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784756789 | ISBN 10: 1784756784

    When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city.   A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
    Birdcage Walk - by Helen Dunmore

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099592761 | ISBN 10: 0099592762

    It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence.   Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jews Queers Germans by Martin Duberman
    Jews Queers Germans - by Martin Duberman

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781609807382 | ISBN 10: 1609807383

    A historical novel about Kaiser Wilhelm’s closest circle of friends — all of them gay — at the dawn of the 20th century by the author of Stonewall.   A breathtaking historical novel by Martin Duberman that recreates the intimate milieu arou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
    Langrishe, Go Down - by Aidan Higgins

    £10.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786695208 | ISBN 10: 1786695200

    The lights in the bus burned dim, orange-hued behind opaque bevelled glass; ranged below the luggage racks they lit up the advertisement panels with repeated circles of bilious light. A white face that never seemed to turn away was watching her in th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
    The Dark Circle - by Linda Grant

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349006789 | ISBN 10: 0349006784

    The Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended.  Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient, they find ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
    The Fortunes - by Peter Ho Davies

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780340980255 | ISBN 10: 0340980257

    By the author of the Booker longlisted The Welsh Girl, a vibrant, powerful and iconoclastic novel telling the little-known story of the Chinese in America, and of America through its Chinese.   Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', ... 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 The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O
    The Lonely Hearts Hotel - by Heather O'Neill

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849163354 | ISBN 10: 1849163359

    A novel about childhood damage and the redemptive power of art from an author twice listed for the Women's Prize and the Giller Prize.   The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with a difference. Set throughout the roaring twenties, it is a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
    The Underground Railroad - by Colson Whitehead

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780708898406 | ISBN 10: 0708898408

    From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.   NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cry Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre
    Cry Mother Spain - by Lydie Salvayre

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857054524 | ISBN 10: 085705452x

    A powerful account of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of a young girl.  Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard ... more

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  • Cover image of book To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
    To the Bright Edge of the World - by Eowyn Ivey

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472208620 | ISBN 10: 1472208625

    From the internationally bestselling author of The Snow Child comes an extraordinary story of discovery, adventure, and a husband and wife tested by the different paths their society expects them to tread.  SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila
    The Ultimate Tragedy - by Abdulai Sila

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910213544 | ISBN 10: 1910213543

    The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule.  Ndani leaves her village to seek a better ... more

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  • Cover image of book Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
    Work Like Any Other - by Virginia Reeves

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781471152238 | ISBN 10: 1471152235

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016  Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and JM Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Devotion by Louisa Young
    Devotion - by Louisa Young

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780007532902 | ISBN 10: 0007532903

    From the bestselling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes’ Welcome, Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the 1930s. Tom loves Nenna. Nenna loves her father. Her f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
    The Wonder - by Emma Donoghue

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509818402 | ISBN 10: 1509818405

    An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story.   Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Segu by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray
    Segu - by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241293515 | ISBN 10: 0241293510

    The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty.  It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes
    The Countenance Divine - by Michael Hughes

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473636514 | ISBN 10: 1473636515

    In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something.   In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master.   I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon
    Leaving Lucy Pear - by Anna Solomon

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349134475 | ISBN 10: 0349134472

    Through the near trees she could see the far ones in the orchard down below. Slowly, her eyes adjusted, and she saw the pears themselves, their waxy orbs glowing greenly in the three-quarter dark. Her mouth watered and Bea, embarrassed by this bodily ... more

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  • Cover image of book Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
    Do Not Say We Have Nothing - by Madeleine Thien

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783782673 | ISBN 10: 1783782676

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016   In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming.   As her re ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray
    The Lost Time Accidents - by John Wray

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781847672322 | ISBN 10: 1847672329

    The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.   Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy' Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he h ... more

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  • Cover image of book London Lies Beneath by Stella Duffy
    London Lies Beneath - by Stella Duffy

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349007830 | ISBN 10: 0349007837

    A compelling historical novel set in south London 1912 - based on a true story.  In August 1912, three friends set out on an adventure. Two of them come home.  Tom, Jimmy and Itzhak have grown up together in the crowded slums of Walwo ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
    A Country Road, A Tree - by Jo Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780552779524 | ISBN 10: 0552779520

    Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
    Days Without End - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571333899 | ISBN 10: 0571333893

    'I am thinking of the days without end of my life...'   After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
    The Gustav Sonata - by Rose Tremain

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784700201 | ISBN 10: 1784700207

    ***Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award***   ** The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **   What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in 'neutral' Switze ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Own Dear Brother by Holly Müller
    My Own Dear Brother - by Holly Müller

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408866795 | ISBN 10: 140886679x

    It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, idly thieving from the village shop, enl ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Month of the Midnight Sun by Cecilia Ekbäck
    In the Month of the Midnight Sun - by Cecilia Ekbäck

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444789973 | ISBN 10: 144478997x

    From the acclaimed author of Wolf Winter comes a second brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolv ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Speech by Andrew Smith
    The Speech - by Andrew Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781911129516 | ISBN 10: 1911129511

    His words threatened rivers of blood... and they fought him with hope...   On April 20th, 1968 Enoch Powell, Member of Parliament in the English town of Wolverhampton, made a speech that shook Britain to its core. The ramifications of wha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The History of a Town by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
    The History of a Town - by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

    £10.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784975425 | ISBN 10: 1784975427

    The town governors... all flogged the inhabitants, but the first flogged them pure and simple, the second explained their zeal by referring to the needs of civilization, and the third asked only that in all matters the inhabitants should trust in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance by Owen Sheers
    Resistance - by Owen Sheers

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571326129 | ISBN 10: 0571326129

    Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley.  In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
    The Sympathizer - by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472151360 | ISBN 10: 1472151364

    A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, offering a unique perspective on the Vietnam war. Destined to become a modern classic.   WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    Where My Heart Used to Beat - by Sebastian Faulks

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099549246 | ISBN 10: 0099549247

    A haunting tale of war, love and loss from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December.   The Sunday Times bestseller   On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks – an English doctor who has seen the best and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
    Mrs Engels - by Gavin McCrea

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781925228229 | ISBN 10: 1925228223

    Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction   Love is a bygone idea, centuries-worn. There are things we can go without, and love is among them ... more

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  • Cover image of book Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg
    Now is the Time - by Melvyn Bragg

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473614550 | ISBN 10: 1473614554

    A thrilling fictional recreation of the biggest rebellion in English history - the so-called Peasants' Revolt.   In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.   At the end ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballroom by Anna Hope
    The Ballroom - by Anna Hope

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780552779470 | ISBN 10: 0552779474

    A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AUTUMN 2016 "Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read."(DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife) "Compelling, elegant and insightful"(Observer) 1911: Inside an asylum at ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine
    The Prophets of Eternal Fjord - by Kim Leine

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857897930 | ISBN 10: 0857897934

    Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. A rugged outpost battered by harsh winters, Sukkertoppen is overshadowed by the threat of dissent; natives from neig ... more

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  • Cover image of book In a Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie
    In a Land of Paper Gods - by Rebecca Mackenzie

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472224224 | ISBN 10: 1472224221

    A gorgeous literary debut in the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible about a school for the children of British missionaries in China, at the top of a mountain, at the edge of the Second World War  Jiangxi Province, China, 1941  Atop th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Striking Murder by A. J. Wright
    Striking Murder - by A. J. Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780749019440 | ISBN 10: 0749019441

    Longlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger   1893. Wigan is in the grip of a devastating national miners strike and a harsh winter. Arthur Morris, a wealthy colliery owner whose intransigence on miners pay is the main cause of the st ... more

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  • Cover image of book City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
    City on Fire - by Garth Risk Hallberg

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099597476 | ISBN 10: 0099597470

    The New York Times bestseller "Extraordinary... dazzling... a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York."(Observer) Midnight, New Years Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever.   Regan and William Hamilton ... more

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  • 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

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  • Cover image of book Irmina by Barbara Yelin
    Irmina - by Barbara Yelin

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910593103 | ISBN 10: 1910593109

    In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
    The Japanese Lover - by Isabel Allende

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471152191 | ISBN 10: 1471152197

    From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kind One by Laird Hunt
    Kind One - by Laird Hunt

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784703660 | ISBN 10: 1784703664

    An unforgettable tale of slavery in the American South. Once I lived in a place where demons dwelled. I was one of them. Ginny lives on her husbands pig farm ninety miles from nowhere. Far from the paradise she was promised, this is a bleak ... more

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  • Cover image of book Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
    Signs for Lost Children - by Sarah Moss

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847089137 | ISBN 10: 1847089135

    Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the ins ... more

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  • Cover image of book Despite the Falling Snow by Shamim Sarif
    Despite the Falling Snow - by Shamim Sarif

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786061072 | ISBN 10: 1786061074

    The enthralling narrative of Shamim Sarif's powerful second novel moves between present day Boston and 1950s Moscow.  After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has built a successful business in the S ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernires
    The Dust That Falls from Dreams - by Louis de Bernires

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099597834 | ISBN 10: 0099597837

    In the brief golden years of King Edward VIIs reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Noonday by Pat Barker
    Noonday - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241966037 | ISBN 10: 0241966035

    In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII. 'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tightrope by Simon Mawer
    Tightrope - by Simon Mawer

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349140742 | ISBN 10: 034914074x

    A brilliant Cold War spy story from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Glass Room.  Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life.   Returned to an Engla ... more

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  • Cover image of book La Place de l
    La Place de l'Etoile - by Patrick Modiano

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408867952 | ISBN 10: 1408867958

    Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation.   We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphal Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement ... more

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  • Cover image of book Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
    Church of Marvels - by Leslie Parry

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473605657 | ISBN 10: 1473605652

    New York, 1895. It's late on a warm city night when Sylvan Threadgill, a young night soiler who cleans out the privies behind the tenement houses, pulls a terrible secret out from the filthy hollows: an abandoned newborn baby. An orphan himself, Sylv ... 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 Awakening by Kate Chopin
    The Awakening - by Kate Chopin

    £6.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782117131 | ISBN 10: 178211713x

    Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature begins to drop Edna succumbs to Robert's devotion. But in the thrall of this ever-stren ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nelly Dean by Alison Case
    Nelly Dean - by Alison Case

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008123420 | ISBN 10: 000812342x

    A gripping and heartbreaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws loyal servant, Nelly Dean.  Young Nelly Dean has been Hindleys closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Adeline by Norah Vincent
    Adeline - by Norah Vincent

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349005676 | ISBN 10: 0349005672

    A captivating novel of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group.   On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    Where My Heart Used to Beat - by Sebastian Faulks

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780091936853 | ISBN 10: 0091936853

    On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.  His host, and antagonist, is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Sisters by Marita Conlon-McKenna
    Rebel Sisters - by Marita Conlon-McKenna

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848271999 | ISBN 10: 1848271999

    With the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers under the surface of Ireland.  Growing up in the privileged confines of Dublins leafy Rathmines, the bright, beautiful Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and Nellie kick against the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
    The Buried Giant - by Kazuo Ishiguro

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571315079 | ISBN 10: 0571315070

    'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay ...' The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declinin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock
    Blood Relatives - by Stevan Alcock

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780007580866 | ISBN 10: 000758086x

    An incredible debut novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders, full of daring, authenticity and wit (Rachel Cusk).  'The milkman found her. On Prince Philip Playing Fields. He crossed the dew-soake ... more

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  • Cover image of book Perfidia by James Ellroy
    Perfidia - by James Ellroy

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099537755 | ISBN 10: 0099537753

    Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans begins.  Following the hellish murder of a Japanese fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
    The Danish Girl - by David Ebershoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781474601573 | ISBN 10: 147460157x

    The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper. Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
    The Book of Aron - by Jim Shepard

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784290320 | ISBN 10: 1784290327

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD** 'Powerful . . . shattering . . . a masterpiece' The Times 'Testament of love and sacrifice . . . a masterpiece' Joshua Ferris, Guardian 'Transcendent and timeless . . . masterpiece' Washington Post Aron ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
    A Place Called Winter - by Patrick Gale

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472205315 | ISBN 10: 1472205316

    Picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club   To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.   A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Harlequin by Nina Allen
    The Harlequin - by Nina Allen

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124383 | ISBN 10: 1910124389

    Winner of the Novella Award 2015  The armistice is months past but the memories wont go away.  A harlequin, leaning against a tree stump and with a goblet of ale clasped in one outstretched hand. Beaumont felt chilled suddenly, in ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Servant of the Governor by Paul Duthie
    A Servant of the Governor - by Paul Duthie

    £7.95   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784611453 | ISBN 10: 178461145x

    Hampshire, England, 1830. A wave of rural protest, fuelled by grinding poverty and falling wages among agricultural workers, is sweeping across southern England. Known as the Swing Riots after the mythical Captain Swing, author of the protesters' thr ... more

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  • Cover image of book X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon;
    X: A Novel - by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon;

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780763669676 | ISBN 10: 0763669679

    I am Malcolm. I am my fathers son. But to be my fathers son means that they will always come for me. They will always come for me, and I will always succumb. Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Moor
    The Moor's Account - by Laila Lalami

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781859644270 | ISBN 10: 1859644279

    In 1527 the Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, dise ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Death
    The Death's Head Chess Club - by John Donoghue

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782393139 | ISBN 10: 1782393137

    Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?  In 1962, Emil Clment comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clment, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fires of Autumn by Irne Nmirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith
    The Fires of Autumn - by Irne Nmirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099520368 | ISBN 10: 0099520362

    The prequel to the internationally bestselling novel Suite Franaise: a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war.  The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irne Nmirovskys life, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miss Emily by Nuala O
    Miss Emily - by Nuala O'Connor

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124550 | ISBN 10: 1910124559

    The Dickinson household is saved from domestic chaos with the arrival of Ada Concannon, a "neat little Irish person, fresh off the boat". Amherst in the 1800's is a pastoral environment for the homesick young maid who finds in the gifted middle chil ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
    A Brief History of Seven Killings - by Marlon James

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780746357 | ISBN 10: 1780746350

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:  WIRED GQ BBC CULTURE NEW YORK TIMES, Michiko Kakutani WASHINGTON POST ELECTRIC LITERATURE TIME PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AMAZON HUFFING ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
    Time and Time Again - by Ben Elton

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552779999 | ISBN 10: 0552779997

    Its the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.   Stanton knows that a great a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skylight by Jose Saramago
    Skylight - by Jose Saramago

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099581826 | ISBN 10: 0099581825

    In 1953, Jos Saramago submitted a novel to his publishers. Thirty-six years later, he heard back.  Called the book lost and found in time by its author, Skylight is one of Saramagos earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
    Upstairs at the Party - by Linda Grant

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781844087518 | ISBN 10: 1844087514

    The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Clothes on Their Backs. 'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leonora: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Leonora Carrington by Elena Poniatowska
    Leonora: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Leonora Carrington - by Elena Poniatowska

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846688553 | ISBN 10: 1846688558

    A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington, a great Surrealist painter utterly possessed by her art, Leonora is The Girl with the Pearl Earring meets Patrick White's The Vivisector. Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud
    Mr Mac and Me - by Esther Freud

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408857212 | ISBN 10: 1408857219

    Thomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast in 1914. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming and the summer ... more

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  • 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

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  • Cover image of book The Outcast by Sadie Jones
    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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  • Cover image of book The Land Agent by J. David Simons
    The Land Agent - by J. David Simons

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908643964 | ISBN 10: 190864396x

    Set in 1902s Palestine, this compelling novel by the author of bestseller An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful tells a haunting tale of love and finding a home in the world.   Palestine, 1920s. Working as an agent for one of the riches ... more

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  • Cover image of book See Out the Crazy Times by Sylvia Hikins
    See Out the Crazy Times - by Sylvia Hikins

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784622831 | ISBN 10: 1784622834

    Winter, 1939. Edna and Lucy, along with new-born babies Jack and Lily, return to London during the war to a world gone mad. Forced to live underground, sleeping on the dark and dingy platforms of the Underground, they emerge each day to be confronted ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Petticoat Men by Barbara Ewing
    The Petticoat Men - by Barbara Ewing

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781859834 | ISBN 10: 1781859833

    The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to young Mattie Stacey they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. She doesn't care that they dress up in sparkling gowns to attend society balls as 'Fanny and Stella'. She only c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Savage Seasons by Kettly Mars, translated by Jeanine Herman. Afterword by Madison Smartt Bell
    Savage Seasons - by Kettly Mars, translated by Jeanine Herman. Afterword by Madison Smartt Bell

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780803271487 | ISBN 10: 0803271484

    Port-au-Prince, the 1960s: Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visit ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
    The Paying Guests - by Sarah Waters

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349004600 | ISBN 10: 0349004609

    The extraordinary bestselling author, who wrote three astonishing Victorian novels before moving to the 1940s with The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, now turns to the 1920s. It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
    Lucky Us - by Amy Bloom

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847089397 | ISBN 10: 1847089399

    When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Iris and Eva ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
    Sister Noon - by Karen Joy Fowler

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781255490 | ISBN 10: 1781255490

    By the bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Sister Noon is the story of Lizzie Hayes, whose dull life is about to be shaken up by a mysterious and powerful woman.  'Words were invented so lies could be told' ~ Mary El ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Architect
    The Architect's Apprentice - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241970942 | ISBN 10: 0241970946

    When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift of a white elephant for the sultan, little does he know the journey on which he is about to embark.   As he settles into life in Istanbul, Jahan's fortunes are shaped ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Poets
    The Poets' Wives - by David Park

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408846360 | ISBN 10: 1408846365

    Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian po ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
    The Narrow Road to the Deep North - by Richard Flanagan

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099593584 | ISBN 10: 0099593580

    A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.  ***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***   Forever after, there were for the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    Far from the Madding Crowd - by Thomas Hardy

    £4.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141395012 | ISBN 10: 014139501x

    A special edition of Hardy's brilliant novel to tie in with the major new film starring Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenaerts, based on David Nicholls' screenplay.   Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Poldark: Demelza by Winston Graham
    Poldark: Demelza - by Winston Graham

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447281535 | ISBN 10: 1447281535

    A reissue of the second book in the legendary Poldark series, to tie in with the new BBC series.  Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner's daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But the events of these turbulent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Academy Street by Mary Costello
    Academy Street - by Mary Costello

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782114208 | ISBN 10: 1782114203

    AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME   WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2014   SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2014   Tess Lohan appears to be a quiet child. But within lies a heart of fire. A fire ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
    A Man Lies Dreaming - by Lavie Tidhar

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444762945 | ISBN 10: 144476294x

    The next novel from Lavie Tidhar, the award-winning author of The Violent Century.  Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
    The Museum of Extraordinary Things - by Alice Hoffman

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471112157 | ISBN 10: 1471112152

    From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a spectacularly imaginative and moving new novel in the vein of The Night Circus that has been acclaimed by Jodi Picoult as 'truly stunning: part love story, part mystery, part history, and all bea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shame and the Captives by Thomas Keneally
    Shame and the Captives - by Thomas Keneally

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444781274 | ISBN 10: 1444781278

    A dramatic and fascinating novel based on a notorious breakout by Japanese prisoners from an Australian POW camp in 1944, encapsulating the impact of war on ordinary lives.  On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
    The Temporary Gentleman - by Sebastian Barry

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571276998 | ISBN 10: 0571276997

    A stunning return from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Secret Scripture. Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Some Luck by Jane Smiley
    Some Luck - by Jane Smiley

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447275602 | ISBN 10: 1447275608

    The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.  1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
    Dissident Gardens - by Jonathan Lethem

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099563426 | ISBN 10: 0099563428

    A dazzling novel from one of America's finest writers the story of three generations of a radical New York family  Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award  In 1955, Rose Zimmer got sc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Awakening by Stevie Davies
    Awakening - by Stevie Davies

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909844704 | ISBN 10: 1909844705

    Wiltshire 1860: One year after Darwin's explosive publication of The Origin of Species, sisters Anna and Beatrice Pentecost awaken to a world shattered by science, radicalism and the stirrings of feminist rebellion; a world of charismatic religious m ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
    All Our Names - by Dinaw Mengestu

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444793758 | ISBN 10: 1444793756

    An unforgettable tale of love, friendship and revolution set between Africa and America, by the winner of the Guardian First Book Award.  LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015  Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda's corrupt r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
    The Miniaturist - by Jessie Burton

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447250937 | ISBN 10: 1447250931

    There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed...   On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rest Just Follows by Glenn Patterson
    The Rest Just Follows - by Glenn Patterson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571305230 | ISBN 10: 0571305237

    First of September 1974. Craig Robinson is starting secondary school. Instinct tells him he needs to keep his head down. The last thing he needs, therefore, is someone carrying the name St John Nimmo to be sent to sit beside him, but that is what he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nora Webster by Colm Tibn
    Nora Webster - by Colm Tibn

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141041759 | ISBN 10: 0141041757

    * * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester
    The Hourglass Factory - by Lucy Ribchester

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471139307 | ISBN 10: 1471139301

    1912 and London is in turmoil...  The suffragette movement is reaching fever pitch but for broke Fleet Street tomboy Frankie George, just getting by in the cut-throat world of newspapers is hard enough. Sent to interview trapeze artist Ebony Di ... more

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  • Cover image of book After the Bombing by Clare Morrall
    After the Bombing - by Clare Morrall

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444736465 | ISBN 10: 1444736469

    By the author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, an ambitious and moving exploration of the lasting impact of the Second World War.  Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942. Twenty-one years later, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss
    Bodies of Light - by Sarah Moss

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847089090 | ISBN 10: 1847089097

    Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement.   Ally (older sister of May in Night Waking), is intellig ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gloria by Kerry Young
    Gloria - by Kerry Young

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843369 | ISBN 10: 1408843366

    Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Glori ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liveforever by Andrs Caicedo
    Liveforever - by Andrs Caicedo

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141196688 | ISBN 10: 0141196688

    Andrs Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music.   Mara del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she misses class, and discovers she cannot ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Amanada Love Darragh
    The Gardener from Ochakov - by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Amanada Love Darragh

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099571872 | ISBN 10: 0099571870

    When Igor accidentally travels back to 1957, he finds out that the past isn't as rosy as it seems. In fact it's positively dangerous.  Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman's uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn't gone fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
    Kindred - by Octavia E. Butler

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472214812 | ISBN 10: 1472214811

    A modern black woman is transported to 19th century Maryland, where she faces the cruel realities of slavery. Kindred, Octavia E. Butler's masterpiece, is an essential read and 'a shattering work of art' (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner). On her 26th b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant
    Blood & Beauty - by Sarah Dunant

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844087457 | ISBN 10: 184408745x

    Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant now takes on the era's most infamous family: the Borgias.  By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When ... more

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  • Cover image of book Will by Christopher Rush
    Will - by Christopher Rush

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846972782 | ISBN 10: 1846972787

    For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. Christopher Rush's extraordinary novel takes as its dramatic theme the deathbed meeting between William Shakespeare and his lawyer, as t ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the City of Gold and Silver by Keniz Mourad
    In the City of Gold and Silver - by Keniz Mourad

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781609452278 | ISBN 10: 1609452275

    Here is the long-forgotten story of Begum Hazrat Mahal, Queen of Awadh and the soul of the Indian revolt against the British, brought to vivid life by a writer whose own story reads like a novel. Begum was an orphan and a poetess who captured th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Night Boat by Alan Spence
    Night Boat - by Alan Spence

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857868541 | ISBN 10: 0857868543

    On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amistad by David Pesci
    Amistad - by David Pesci

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780749015978 | ISBN 10: 0749015977

    The gripping novel based on a true story of slavery  Please make court understand we free men who want be free again. We want go home. We pray you to win our case. You our friend. We trust you.   In 1839, fifty-three African slaves ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
    The Man Who Loved Dogs - by Leonardo Padura

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908524447 | ISBN 10: 1908524448

    Cuban writer Ivn Crdenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him the man who loved dogs. The man eventually confesses that he is actually Ramn Mercade ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
    The Two Hotel Francforts - by David Leavitt

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843215 | ISBN 10: 1408843218

    It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe a city filled with spies, crowned heads and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Trade Secret by Robert Newman
    The Trade Secret - by Robert Newman

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908885906 | ISBN 10: 1908885904

    When an oil shortage plunges Isfahan into darkness, renegade English servant Nat and eccentric Persian poet Darius set out for secret oil wells said to lie under the abandoned Temple of Mithras. Darius hopes the oil will give him a chance to marry mu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Joan by Jennie Rooney
    Red Joan - by Jennie Rooney

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575733 | ISBN 10: 0099575736

    Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists to unworldly Joan it is dazzling.  After a chance meeting with Russian-born Sonya and Leo, Joan is swept up in the glamour and energy of the duo, and finds herself growing close ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
    The Invention of Wings - by Sue Monk Kidd

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472212771 | ISBN 10: 1472212770

    From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.   Sarah Grimk is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkab ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
    The Undertaking - by Audrey Magee

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782391050 | ISBN 10: 1782391053

    Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of busi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
    The Orenda - by Joseph Boyden

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780744407 | ISBN 10: 1780744404

    1640s, The New World   In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girls captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nations great warriors and s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burmese Days by George Orwell
    Burmese Days - by George Orwell

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141395432 | ISBN 10: 0141395435

    Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a "subject" people, an inferior p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
    The Fixer - by Bernard Malamud

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857890948 | ISBN 10: 0857890948

    Kiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews. Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-Semitic employer - is first ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge
    In Times of Fading Light - by Eugen Ruge

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571288588 | ISBN 10: 0571288588

    A sweeping story of one family over fifty years and four generations in East Germany.  In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to ... more

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  • Cover image of book GB84 by David Peace
    GB84 - by David Peace

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571314874 | ISBN 10: 0571314872

    Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people.   David Peace's sweeping, bloody and dramatic fictional portrait of the year that left an indel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feeding the Ghosts by Fred D
    Feeding the Ghosts - by Fred D'Aguiar

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847088642 | ISBN 10: 1847088643

    'The sea is slavery.'   Inspired by a true story, this suspenseful and moving book chronicles an incident of courage and rebellion that took place aboard a disease-riddled slave ship, the Zong, returning from Africa. When illness threatens to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean-Michel Guenassia
    The Incorrigible Optimists Club - by Jean-Michel Guenassia

    £16.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848875418 | ISBN 10: 184887541x

    Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Longbourn by Jo Baker
    Longbourn - by Jo Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780552779517 | ISBN 10: 0552779512

    'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.'   It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
    Burial Rites - by Hannah Kent

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447233176 | ISBN 10: 1447233174

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD. Northern Iceland, 1829. A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover. A family forced to take her in. A priest tasked with ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    The Grapes of Wrath - by John Steinbeck

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141394886 | ISBN 10: 0141394889

    'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'   Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to trave ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
    The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker

    £16.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241969144 | ISBN 10: 024196914x

    The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker's sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction.   1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the fron ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dark Side of the River by Brian Formby
    Dark Side of the River - by Brian Formby

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781783061303 | ISBN 10: 1783061308

    Dark Side of the River is an edgy crime thriller, full of strong characters and set in 1930s Liverpool.   Detective Sergeant John Bridle thought the dockland bare-knuckle fight would be hard training for his police club boxers, but its a cas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strumpet City by James Plunkett with an introduction by Fintan O
    Strumpet City - by James Plunkett with an introduction by Fintan O

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780717156108 | ISBN 10: 0717156109

    This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. It has been chosen as Dublin City Libraries One City, One Book for 2013. First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novel ... more

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  • Cover image of book San Miguel by T.C. Boyle
    San Miguel - by T.C. Boyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408831373 | ISBN 10: 1408831376

    The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year's Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the firs ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
    The Movement of Stars - by Amy Brill

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780718159924 | ISBN 10: 0718159926

    Amy Brill's The Movement of Stars tells a story of illicit love and extraordinary ambition.   It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price dreams of a world infinitely larger than the small Quaker community where she has lived all 25 years of her li ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
    The Sound of Things Falling - by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408831618 | ISBN 10: 1408831619

    No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogota than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarke ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Sky, Black Sea by Izzet Celasin
    Black Sky, Black Sea - by Izzet Celasin

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781906694838 | ISBN 10: 1906694834

    1977. Poised between the secular values of socialism and the conservatism of a tenuously balanced government, Istanbul is a fractured city haunted by demons of its own making.   Along with thousands of other left-wing activists, Oaks interest ... more

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  • Cover image of book HHhH by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
    HHhH - by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555643 | ISBN 10: 0099555646

    An astonishing, unforgettable novel: a thrilling Second World War assassination plot told with rare literary brilliance.  Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovak ... more

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  • Cover image of book Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
    Her Privates We - by Frederic Manning

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846687877 | ISBN 10: 184668787x

    A new edition of a classic First World War novel, a brilliant and bitter picture of human conflict. First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspect ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
    The Daughters of Mars - by Thomas Keneally

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780340951880 | ISBN 10: 0340951885

    By the author of Schindler's Ark, a profoundly affecting tale of love, courage and sacrifice and a searing evocation of the First World War from a fresh, female perspective.  In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nur ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    All Quiet on the Western Front - by Erich Maria Remarque

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099532811 | ISBN 10: 0099532816

    All Quiet on the Western Front is the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'gl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan
    Worthless Men - by Andrew Cowan

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444759426 | ISBN 10: 1444759426

    A novel about the First World War that is as mesmerising as it is unusual, a triumphant new work by one of the most acclaimed writers of the 90s.   It's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Home by Toni Morrison
    Home - by Toni Morrison

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555940 | ISBN 10: 0099555948

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved comes a dazzling new novel set in 1950s America in the aftermath of the Korean War.  It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
    Sweet Tooth - by Ian McEwan

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099578789 | ISBN 10: 0099578786

    The Number One bestseller from the author of Atonement and Enduring Love: Sweet Tooth is a story of love and espionage in 1970s Britain.   The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and te ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
    The Garden of Evening Mists - by Tan Twan Eng

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781782110187 | ISBN 10: 1782110186

    The International Bestseller Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2013 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 "With ravishing sensuousness, it conjures up the lush landscapes and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Silver by Andrew Motion
    Silver - by Andrew Motion

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099552659 | ISBN 10: 0099552655

    The thrilling follow-up to Treasure Island, as told by one of England's greatest contemporary writers. Think of the fortune waiting for you... July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silvers daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon
    The Colour of Milk - by Nell Leyshon

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241959541 | ISBN 10: 0241959543

    The Colour of Milk is the new novel by Orange longlisted author and playwright Nell Leyshon.   'this is my book and i am writing it by my own hand'   The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the di ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Liars
    The Liars' Gospel - by Naomi Alderman

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780670919918 | ISBN 10: 0670919918

    Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story - the story of Jesus - entirely new. 'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.' Now, a year after Yehoshuah ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toby
    Toby's Room - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141042206 | ISBN 10: 0141042206

    Pat Barker returns to the First World War in Toby's Room, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship.   When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prisoner of Paradise by Romesh Gunesekera
    The Prisoner of Paradise - by Romesh Gunesekera

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408830376 | ISBN 10: 140883037x

    Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand plantation house. Under the surface of this beautiful island paradise, poised between India and Africa, there is unease, and Lucy cannot help but feel disc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philida by Andr Brink
    Philida - by Andr Brink

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099578758 | ISBN 10: 0099578751

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012. An unforgettable story of a woman determined to find her freedom - set in South Africa in 1830s, as slavery was about to be abolished. The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the libera ... more

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  • Cover image of book Konstantin by Tom Bullough
    Konstantin - by Tom Bullough

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780670920938 | ISBN 10: 0670920932

    Tom Bullough's Konstantin is a mesmerising novel about how the imagination can inspire the individual to greatness.   1867, Ryazan, a Russian city in winter. Ten-year-old Konstantin, deafened by scarlet fever, dreams of flight - escaping to M ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Way Of Wyrd by Brian Bates
    The Way Of Wyrd - by Brian Bates

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781800171 | ISBN 10: 1781800170

    The compelling cult classic, now reissued in a brand new edition with a new introduction by Brian Bates. This bestselling fictionalized account of an Anglo-Saxon sorcerer and mystic is based on years of research by psychologist and university profess ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Nights Were Cold by Susanna Jones
    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 Victorias reign reaches its end, Grace Farringdon dreams of polar explorations and of escape from her stifling home wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mill for Grinding Old People Young by Glenn Patterson
    The Mill for Grinding Old People Young - by Glenn Patterson

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571281855 | ISBN 10: 0571281850

    In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85-years-old and in failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change.   Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an incr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Assassin
    The Assassin's Mark - by David Ebsworth

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781321003 | ISBN 10: 1781321000

    September 1938. Spain's Civil War has been raging for two years, the outcome still in the balance. But rebel General Francisco Franco y Bahamonde is so confident of winning that he has opened up battlefield tourism along the country's north coast. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    The Prisoner of Heaven - by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780222851 | ISBN 10: 1780222858

    You've read The Shadow of the Wind - now read what happens next ... Includes Reading Group Notes. The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas ... more

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  • Cover image of book After the Lockout by Darran McCann
    After the Lockout - by Darran McCann

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007429493 | ISBN 10: 0007429495

    An ambitious and compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history.   November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile. Radicalised by his ex ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucinda Sly: A Woman Hanged by Maidhc Dainn  S, translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice
    Lucinda Sly: A Woman Hanged - by Maidhc Dainn S, translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907593581 | ISBN 10: 1907593586

    The year is 1835 and local woman Lucinda Singleton is publicly hanged alongside her lover, John Dempsey, in front of Carlow Gaol. This, the first ever translation of Maidhc Dainn Ss historical novel, tells the story of the last woman to be hange ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sentinel by Mark Oldfield
    The Sentinel - by Mark Oldfield

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908800671 | ISBN 10: 1908800674

    1936, Badajoz: His unit defeated, his ammunition spent, a boy-soldier flees into the hills pursued by Franco's shock-troops. He will need more than luck to survive the day.   1953, Madrid: Amid snow-bound streets, the head of Franco's secret p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
    The Testament of Mary - by Colm Toibin

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241962978 | ISBN 10: 0241962978

    In a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to pie ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo
    An Honourable Man - by Gillian Slovo

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086658 | ISBN 10: 1844086658

    From one of Britains most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England. Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy I Love by Marion Husband
    The Boy I Love - by Marion Husband

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908262721 | ISBN 10: 1908262729

    The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his fathers home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiance of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
    Beware of Pity - by Stefan Zweig

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908968371 | ISBN 10: 1908968370

    Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked he ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Trouble I
    The Trouble I've Seen - by Martha Gellhorn

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781906011628 | ISBN 10: 1906011621

    With a new introduction from her acclaimed biographer, Caroline Moorehead.   These four interlinked stories encapsulate Martha Gellhorn's first-hand observation of the Great Depression. Fiction crafted with documentary accuracy, they vividly r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Hawthorn Tree by Ai Mi
    Under the Hawthorn Tree - by Ai Mi

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844087037 | ISBN 10: 1844087034

    A tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, and a major film from the director of House of Flying Daggers.   Jingqiu, an innocent young woman from a politically questionable family in the city, is selected as one o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unpierced Heart by Katy Darby
    The Unpierced Heart - by Katy Darby

    £11.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241954225 | ISBN 10: 0241954223

    'Love is a disease; and one which has proved mortal to many men down the ages.'   Oxford, 1887: brilliant medical student Stephen Chapman volunteers at a shelter devoted to reforming fallen women, where he meets and falls for Diana, a girl ... more

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  • 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

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  • Cover image of book The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
    The Song of Achilles - by Madeline Miller

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408821985 | ISBN 10: 1408821982

    WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012   Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
    The Sealed Letter - by Emma Donoghue

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781447205982 | ISBN 10: 1447205987

    From the bestselling author of Room comes a delicious tale of secrets, betrayal and forbidden love.  Helen Codrington is unhappily married. Emily Fido Faithfull hasnt seen her once-dear friend for years. Suddenly, after bumping into Helen ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw
    An Unsocial Socialist - by George Bernard Shaw

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848547292 | ISBN 10: 1848547293

    Witty, exuberant and irresistibly entertaining, Shaw's fifth and most ambitious novel is a brilliant satire on social prejudice.  Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a so ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadowstory by Jennifer Johnston
    Shadowstory - by Jennifer Johnston

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755383498 | ISBN 10: 0755383494

    A compelling novel of complicated love, from one of Ireland's greatest living writers.  It is the Second World War, and tragedy strikes many families in Ireland. But it is also a thrilling time in which to be a child and Polly, spending month ... 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 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
    Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - by Jamie Ford

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780749010720 | ISBN 10: 074901072x

    1986, The Panama Hotel.   The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during W ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
    My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You - by Louisa Young

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007361441 | ISBN 10: 0007361440

    While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Picture Book by Jo Baker
    The Picture Book - by Jo Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846273827 | ISBN 10: 184627382x

    Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is an intimate family portrait captured in snapshots.   First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
    The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles - by Giorgio Bassani

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141192154 | ISBN 10: 0141192151

    Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the townsfolk discover his homosexuality, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hemispheres by Stephen Baker
    Hemispheres - by Stephen Baker

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848872219 | ISBN 10: 1848872216

    Moving from the gas-flares of Teesside, to marine adventures in the South Atlantic, Hemispheres is a salutary and searing debut novel for anyone who enjoyed Kes and The Northern Clemency.  Growing up in a family of pub landlords, Danny sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein
    From the Land of the Moon - by Milena Agus, translated by Ann Goldstein

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781609450014 | ISBN 10: 1609450019

    An young unnamed woman reflects the life of her grandmother, a bewitching and eccentric figure whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century.   In 1943, as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari, the young womans gra ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor
    The Marrowbone Marble Company - by Glenn Taylor

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007359080 | ISBN 10: 000735908x

    A powerful novel of love and war, righteousness and redemption, and the triumph of the human spirit. From the author of the critically-acclaimed The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart comes this sweeping novel of love and war, power and oppression ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas
    The Anatomy of a Moment - by Javier Cercas

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408822104 | ISBN 10: 1408822105

    In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond the Bounty by Tony Parsons
    Beyond the Bounty - by Tony Parsons

    £1.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007449132 | ISBN 10: 0007449135

    From the number one bestselling author comes a swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder in paradise...   Even Paradise can turn into a nightmare...  The Mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous uprising in naval history. Le ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
    The Sisters Brothers - by Patrick deWitt

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847083197 | ISBN 10: 1847083196

    Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat
    The Cat's Table - by Michael Ondaatje

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099554424 | ISBN 10: 0099554429

    In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Stranger
    The Stranger's Child - by Alan Hollinghurst

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780330483278 | ISBN 10: 0330483277

    Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lady Chatterley
    Lady Chatterley's Lover - by D H Lawrence

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099541653 | ISBN 10: 0099541653

    Subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century.  With an introduction by Blake Morrison.  Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Lies by Lynn Michell
    White Lies - by Lynn Michell

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780955961830 | ISBN 10: 0955961831

    By 1950, Kenya was on the verge of one of the bloodiest wars of decolonisation fought in Britains twentieth century empire. Britains Gulag.   Eve is dutifully typing her fathers dictated memoirs of his time as a soldier in WWII and in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
    Nicholas Nickleby - by Charles Dickens

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099540793 | ISBN 10: 0099540797

    When Nicholas's father dies he, his mother and sister, Kate, are left penniless. To earn his keep, Nicholas becomes a tutor at Dotheboys Hall but soon discovers that the headmaster, Wackford Squeers, is a one eyed tyrant who insists on a harsh regime ... more

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  • Cover image of book Case of the Russian Chessboard: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Only Now Revealed by Charlie Roxburgh
    Case of the Russian Chessboard: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Only Now Revealed - by Charlie Roxburgh

    £6.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781780922164 | ISBN 10: 1780922167

    Late on a foggy November afternoon, a desperate young woman arrives at Baker Street, imploring Sherlock Holmes to help her. She is terrified about what may be going on inside a secretive London refuge for Russian exiles, where her sister works. Thus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
    Dark Matter - by Michelle Paver

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781409121183 | ISBN 10: 1409121186

    January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Tim Dolin
    Ruth - by Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Tim Dolin

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199581955 | ISBN 10: 0199581959

    'I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.'   Elizabeth Gaskell's second novel challenged contemporary social attitudes by taking as its heroine a fallen woman. Ruth Hilton is an orphan a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rome Tales by Helen Constantine and Hugh Shankland (Editors)
    Rome Tales - by Helen Constantine and Hugh Shankland (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199572465 | ISBN 10: 0199572461

    In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paris Metro Tales by Helen Constantine  (Editor and translator)
    Paris Metro Tales - by Helen Constantine (Editor and translator)

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199579808 | ISBN 10: 0199579806

    Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Budapest Protocol by Adam LeBor
    The Budapest Protocol - by Adam LeBor

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908238191 | ISBN 10: 1908238194

    Nazi-occupied Budapest, winter 1944. Miklos Farkas is handed a stolen copy of The Budapest Protocol, detailing the Nazis post-war plans. 65 years later, as the European Union launches the election campaign for the first President of Europe, Farkas is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Angel by Merle Collins
    Angel - by Merle Collins

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781845231859 | ISBN 10: 1845231856

    Angel covers the turbulent years during which Grenada both found and lost itself, from 1951, when workers revolted against the power of the white owners of the sugar and cocoa estates, to 1983 when the US invasion put an end to a bold social experime ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil
    Mendelssohn is on the Roof - by Jiri Weil

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907970016 | ISBN 10: 1907970010

    The third Daunt Books publication is a deeply moving novel by a remarkable yet neglected chronicler of the Holocaust.   Full of dark humour and bitter irony, Weil's novel traces the transformation of ordinary lives during the Nazi occupation ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wrong Blood by Manuel De Lope, translated by John Cullen
    The Wrong Blood - by Manuel De Lope, translated by John Cullen

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099551850 | ISBN 10: 0099551853

    An hypnotic read from a master storyteller about a secret pact between two women during the Spanish Civil War.  On the cusp of the Spanish Civil War in a coastal village in the Basque country, three men stop off at Extarris bar on their ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Appointment by Herta Muller
    The Appointment - by Herta Muller

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846273766 | ISBN 10: 1846273765

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she k ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Newgate Jig by Ann Featherstone
    The Newgate Jig - by Ann Featherstone

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848542051 | ISBN 10: 1848542054

    A hanging always draws a crowd. But not everyone there has come to jeer at the condemned man. George Kevill's young son Barney is in the front row, and he knows his father is innocent. There are others there who know George is innocent, too - and th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
    Absolute Beginners - by Colin MacInnes

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780749009984 | ISBN 10: 0749009985

    London, 1958 - Soho, Notting Hill... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless the absolute beginners were creating a world as different as they dared from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
    Island Beneath the Sea - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007348657 | ISBN 10: 0007348657

    From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ladies are Upstairs by Merle Collins
    The Ladies are Upstairs - by Merle Collins

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781845231798 | ISBN 10: 1845231791

    From the 1930s to the new century, Doux Thibaut, one of Merle Collins most memorable characters, negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz. As a child there is the shame of poverty and illegitimacy, and there are the hazards of sectarian ... more

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  • Cover image of book South Riding by Winifred Holtby
    South Riding - by Winifred Holtby

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849902038 | ISBN 10: 1849902038

    The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change.  Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sara ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strike for a Kingdom by Menna Gallie
    Strike for a Kingdom - by Menna Gallie

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906784201 | ISBN 10: 1906784205

    First published in 1959, and set in the fictional valleys town of Cilhendre at the time of the 1926 miners' strike.   August arrives and the village Carnival is going ahead. In the heightened carnival atmosphere, more sinister undertones ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
    The Dead Republic - by Roddy Doyle

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099546894 | ISBN 10: 0099546892

    A magnificent, epic novel that explores the history of modern Ireland - the sequel to the bestselling A Star Called Henry and Oh, Play That Thing. We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Ut ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
    The Pregnant Widow - by Martin Amis

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099488736 | ISBN 10: 0099488736

    Amis on top form. An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.  An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyones mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on ac ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghost Light by Joseph O
    Ghost Light - by Joseph O'Connor

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099481546 | ISBN 10: 0099481545

    A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation - and of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms.  Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwri ... more

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  • Cover image of book K: the Art of Love by Hong Ying
    K: the Art of Love - by Hong Ying

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241950692 | ISBN 10: 0241950694

    China, 1930s. Julian Bell, son of the Bloomsbury set's Vanessa, is newly arrived in Peking. In search of fresh experiences, he encounters the beautiful, intelligent and deeply erotic Lin Cheng. Though Lin is wife to a university professor, their pass ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
    The Shadow Lines - by Amitav Ghosh

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848544178 | ISBN 10: 1848544170

    A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives are intertwined with his.& ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada, translated by Martha Tennent
    The Auschwitz Violin - by Maria Angels Anglada, translated by Martha Tennent

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849019811 | ISBN 10: 1849019819

    An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The Auschwitz Violin is the unforgettable story of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history's greatest atrocity. In the winter of 1991, at a concert in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore by Stella Duffy
    Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore - by Stella Duffy

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844082117 | ISBN 10: 1844082113

    "Justinian took a wife: and the manner she was born and bred, and wedded to this man, tore up the Roman Empire by the very roots"(Procopius) Charming, charismatic, heroic - Theodora of Constantinople rose from nothing to become the most powe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Stray Sod Country by Patrick McCabe
    The Stray Sod Country - by Patrick McCabe

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809983 | ISBN 10: 1408809982

    Strangely elegiac, gloriously operatic and driven by Patrick McCabes wild and savage imagination, The Stray Sod Country is an eerie folk tale that chronicles the passing of a generation. It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog is launched ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long Song by Andrea Levy
    The Long Song - by Andrea Levy

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780755359424 | ISBN 10: 0755359429

    You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    The Kite Runner - by Khaled Hosseini

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408824856 | ISBN 10: 140882485x

    Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to gain the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tennyson
    Tennyson's Gift - by Lynne Truss

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007355273 | ISBN 10: 0007355270

    From the bestselling author of Eats Shoots & Leaves, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.   In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creat ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beekeeper
    The Beekeeper's Apprentice - by Laurie R King

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780749008529 | ISBN 10: 0749008520

    The long-awaited reissue of the very first book in the New York Times bestselling Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series.   In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
    Martin Chuzzlewit - by Charles Dickens

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099540854 | ISBN 10: 0099540851

    Martin Chuzzlewit is a comic masterpiece which courted controversy on publication with its scathing portrayal of nineteenth-century America.  With an introduction by Simon Callow.  Wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit is surrounded b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Small Mine by Menna Gallie
    The Small Mine - by Menna Gallie

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906784218 | ISBN 10: 1906784213

    First published in 1962, this novel tells the tale of a young collier's death in a mining accident in Cilhendre, a fictional industrial village in the south Wales Valleys. The story vividly and sympathetically portrays how the Valley community, and i ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell
    All the Nice Girls - by Joan Bakewell

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844085316 | ISBN 10: 1844085317

    It is 1942 and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls signs up for the Merchant Navy's Ship Adoption Scheme. The headmistress, the lovely, essentially serious Cynthia Maitland, who lost her lover i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of John Clare by Hugh Lupton
    The Ballad of John Clare - by Hugh Lupton

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781907650000 | ISBN 10: 1907650008

    A bitter-sweet tale which evokes both the splendour and the harshness of life in rural England at the beginning of the 19th century and deals with the events which would lead to tragedy for the peasant poet. It is novel which will have a universal ap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
    Black Mamba Boy - by Nadifa Mohamed

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007315772 | ISBN 10: 0007315775

    For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world. Aden, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
    The Age of Orphans - by Laleh Khadivi

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408802533 | ISBN 10: 1408802538

    A nine-year-old Kurdish boy plays in his village in the Persian mountains, gazing over the land of his fathers and forefathers. But when messengers from the hills bring whispers of war and rumours that the Shah's army is on the march, he must stand a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Oscar Wilde

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141192642 | ISBN 10: 014119264x

    Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Help by Kathryn Stockett
    The Help - by Kathryn Stockett

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039282 | ISBN 10: 0141039280

    Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...  There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her o ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Kind of Loving by Sam Barstow
    A Kind of Loving - by Sam Barstow

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906998356 | ISBN 10: 1906998353

    Originally published in 1960, Stan Barstow's debut novel became a cult classic.   A tale of love, lust and loneliness, it tells the story of Vic Brown a young working-class Yorkshireman. Vic is attracted to the beautiful but demanding Ingrid. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
    Sweetsmoke - by David Fuller

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349121536 | ISBN 10: 0349121532

    The American Civil War is in full flame, and tobacco plantation slave Cassius Howard finds he must risk everything to learn the brutal truth concerning the murder of Emoline Justice, the freed black woman who secretly taught him to read and who once ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
    Let the Great World Spin - by Colum McCann

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801185 | ISBN 10: 1408801183

    Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller.  New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air.  Far below, the lives of complete strangers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
    Shanghai Girls - by Lisa See

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801123 | ISBN 10: 1408801124

    Two sisters, a world at war and one life-changing secret.  Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true ... more

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  • Cover image of book Carol by Patricia Highsmith
    Carol - by Patricia Highsmith

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408808979 | ISBN 10: 1408808978

    "Some books change lives. This is one of them."(Val McDermid) A haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published.  With a new foreword by Val McDermid.  Therese is just an ordinary sales assis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Day After Night by Anita Diamant
    Day After Night - by Anita Diamant

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847398611 | ISBN 10: 1847398618

    Atlit is a holding camp for "illegal" immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Glorious by Bernice McFadden
    Glorious - by Bernice McFadden

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781936070114 | ISBN 10: 1936070111

    Award-winning novelist Bernice L. McFadden's highly anticipated new historical novel set amidst the Harlem Renaissance. Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era. Blending fact a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
    The Winter Vault - by Anne Michaels

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801086 | ISBN 10: 1408801086

    The long-awaited novel from the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces.   Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This ... more

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  • Cover image of book The People
    The People's Train - by Thomas Keneally

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780340951866 | ISBN 10: 0340951869

    After a long, dangerous escape from Tsarist Russia, Artem Samsurov might have reached sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia, but that doesn't stop him trying to create a socialist paradise with his fellow emigres and workmates. And despite getting entangl ... more

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  • Cover image of book May Day by John Sommerfield
    May Day - by John Sommerfield

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780955185182 | ISBN 10: 0955185181

    The country is in turmoil the people are angry at the excesses and corruption of the ruling class; workers are told to increase production for less pay; bosses meet to discuss ways of increasing their profit margins; unions mobilise the masses; a m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Falling to Heaven by Jeanne Peterson
    Falling to Heaven - by Jeanne Peterson

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781851687367 | ISBN 10: 185168736x

    Tibet, 1954. The highest pass of the Himalayas is enveloped in silence save the flapping of prayer flags. Seven thousand feet below, two Americans travellingon foot arrive in the remote town of Shigatse, intending to make it their new home. Steeped i ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Jew Must Die: A novel based on a true story by Jacques Chessex
    A Jew Must Die: A novel based on a true story - by Jacques Chessex

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781904738510 | ISBN 10: 1904738516

    On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitlers birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him with an iron bar. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Children
    The Children's Book - by A.S. Byatt

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099535454 | ISBN 10: 0099535459

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.  Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world but thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Love Children by Marilyn French
    The Love Children - by Marilyn French

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781558616066 | ISBN 10: 1558616063

    Marilyn French's 1977 novel The Women's Room epitomized the feminist movement and became one of the most influential books of our time. Now she has captured the complexities of life for the daughters of The Women's Room generation in her highly antic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Outlander by Gil Adamson
    The Outlander - by Gil Adamson

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780747598770 | ISBN 10: 0747598770

    A brooding, compelling, fugitive-on-the-run story.   Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers Dashiell Hammett Prize, Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
    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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  • Cover image of book Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
    Brooklyn - by Colm Toibin

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141041742 | ISBN 10: 0141041749

    In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eating Air by Pauline Melville
    Eating Air - by Pauline Melville

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846590818 | ISBN 10: 1846590817

    An attraction to danger prompts Ella de Vries, a stunning obsidian-eyed beauty who dances with the Royal Ballet, to fall in love with Donny McLeod, the Dionysiac rebel and free spirit who 'believes in nothing'. It is the 1970s. They move into a house ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
    The Lacuna - by Barbara Kingsolver

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571252671 | ISBN 10: 0571252672

    The Lacuna is the story of a mans search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. Born in the US, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
    Wolf Hall - by Hilary Mantel

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007230204 | ISBN 10: 0007230206

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009. 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
    Summertime - by J.M. Coetzee

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099540540 | ISBN 10: 0099540541

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers. A young English biographer is worki ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
    The Glass Room - by Simon Mawer

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349121321 | ISBN 10: 034912132x

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
    Remarkable Creatures - by Tracy Chevalier

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007178384 | ISBN 10: 0007178387

    In the year of the 150th anniversary of Origin of Species, set in a town where Jane Austen was a frequent visitor, Tracy Chevalier once again shows her uncanny sense for the topical. In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the En ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
    The Little Stranger - by Sarah Waters

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086061 | ISBN 10: 1844086062

    After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote The Night Watch, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straig ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
    The Rescue Man - by Anthony Quinn

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099531937 | ISBN 10: 0099531933

    Summer, 1939. Historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of Liverpool's architectural past. His mood, like the rest of the country's, is distracted by the ominous rumblings from Europe; if war should come, will the buildings and streets that he docum ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
    My Name is Red - by Orhan Pamuk

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571268832 | ISBN 10: 0571268838

    In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book I, Tituba: Black Witch Of Salem by Maryse Conde, translated by Richard Philcox
    I, Tituba: Black Witch Of Salem - by Maryse Conde, translated by Richard Philcox

    £17.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780813927671 | ISBN 10: 0813927676

    This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later.  Ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood - by Charles Dickens

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099518891 | ISBN 10: 0099518899

    Featuring an introduction by Matthew Pearl.  The story of the fate of Edwin Drood is a mystery within a mystery. When young Edwin disappears after dinner on Christmas Eve and his watch and chain are later found in the nearby river, everyo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
    Sea of Poppies - by Amitav Ghosh

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719568978 | ISBN 10: 0719568978

    At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonia ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Group by Mary McCarthy
    The Group - by Mary McCarthy

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085934 | ISBN 10: 1844085937

    The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan.   The Group can be seen as the original Sex and the City. It is the first novel to frankly ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - by Laurence Sterne

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199532896 | ISBN 10: 0199532893

    Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corpor ... more

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  • Cover image of book See How Much I Love You by Luis Leante
    See How Much I Love You - by Luis Leante

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780714531540 | ISBN 10: 0714531545

    When Montse and Santiago meet as teenagers in 70s Barcelona they have little idea where their summer romance will lead. After they break up, in spite of Montse's pregnancy, Santiago decides to spend his military service as far away from her as p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strange Music by Laura Fish
    Strange Music - by Laura Fish

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099507987 | ISBN 10: 0099507986

    In Laura Fishs ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her famil ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Other by David Gutterson
    The Other - by David Gutterson

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596202 | ISBN 10: 0747596204

    A powerful story of the choices we must make in a flawed world, by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars.  Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guernica by Dave Boling
    Guernica - by Dave Boling

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780330460668 | ISBN 10: 0330460668

    An extraordinary epic of love, family, and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War.   In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the S ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Witch
    The Witch's Trinity - by Erika Mailman

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340962213 | ISBN 10: 0340962216

    Witch. Some words can kill.  Germany, 1507. In a time when famine is rife and panic spreading, people resort to desperate measures in order to survive.  When a visiting friar suggests that witchcraft is to blame for their failing crop ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
    The Northern Clemency - by Philip Hensher

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007174805 | ISBN 10: 0007174802

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher' ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
    The Secret Scripture - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571215294 | ISBN 10: 0571215297

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Costa Book of the Year 2008.   Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her one-hundredth birthday - no one is quite sure - faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where she's sp ... 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 Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann
    Child of All Nations - by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141188454 | ISBN 10: 0141188456

    "Nothing short of a revelation... I am still haunted by it."(Evening Standard) Because Kully's father has written the wrong things about his country, and because there might be a war coming (Kully's heard of some of the men involved, like Hitler, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
    Miles from Nowhere - by Nami Mun

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085446 | ISBN 10: 1844085449

    Joon is a young Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s, Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she's bet ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Troubled Dream by Jacques Compton
    A Troubled Dream - by Jacques Compton

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906190132 | ISBN 10: 1906190135

    In the years after the Second World War, many West Indians came to live and work in Britain following the recruitment drives of such institutions as London Transport and the National Health Service. Many had also served in the British Armed Forces du ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo
    Blonde Roots - by Bernadine Evaristo

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141031521 | ISBN 10: 0141031522

    Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World. ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Mercy by Toni Morrison
    A Mercy - by Toni Morrison

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099502548 | ISBN 10: 0099502542

    In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. J ... more

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  • Cover image of book News from Nowhere by William Morris
    News from Nowhere - by William Morris

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199539192 | ISBN 10: 0199539197

    'The only English utopia since More's that deserves to be remembered as literature.' News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Gu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Germinal by mile Zola, translated and edited by Peter Collier
    Germinal - by mile Zola, translated and edited by Peter Collier

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536894 | ISBN 10: 0199536899

    Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which ga ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ulysses by James Joyce
    Ulysses - by James Joyce

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511199 | ISBN 10: 0099511193

    The edited version of Ulysses that caused so much controversy on its first publication. This edition is the accepted reference text for James Joyce studies.  Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daeda ... more

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  • Cover image of book Regeneration by Pat Barker
    Regeneration - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030937 | ISBN 10: 0141030933

    Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by me ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
    The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030951 | ISBN 10: 014103095x

    1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Class by Pat Barker
    Life Class - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141019475 | ISBN 10: 0141019476

    In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville himself not long out of the Slade bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    A Tale of Two Cities - by Charles Dickens

    £5.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511854 | ISBN 10: 0099511851

    'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'   Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes beco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bleak House by Charles Dickens
    Bleak House - by Charles Dickens

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511458 | ISBN 10: 0099511452

    'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself'   'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books - by Charles Dickens

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536306 | ISBN 10: 0199536309

    'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'   Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
    Our Mutual Friend - by Charles Dickens

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536252 | ISBN 10: 0199536252

    Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boff ... more

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  • Cover image of book The TV President by Elise Valmorbida
    The TV President - by Elise Valmorbida

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780955728570 | ISBN 10: 0955728576

    In a re-enactment of the 1963 Dallas motorcade for a reality TV show, one JFK lookalike is killed and another injured. The unhinged widow and the wounded survivor, both disguised in black burqahs, drive from Dallas to Detroit in a gold SUV to hear a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where
    Where's My Money? - by Mike Manson

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906477035 | ISBN 10: 1906477035

    The cry of 'I want my money' invariably means that something is about to blow.   Max doesn't work. Now he's been offered a job at the dole office.   It's the hot summer of 1976. Mega-flares. The dole office. Cider. And a riot. &nbs ... more

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  • Cover image of book Redemption Falls by Joseph O
    Redemption Falls - by Joseph O'Connor

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099481522 | ISBN 10: 0099481529

    1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong
    Binu and the Great Wall - by Su Tong

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847670625 | ISBN 10: 1847670628

    Binu and the Great Wall tells an unforgettable story of passion, hardship and magical adventure.  When her husband disappears from their home, Binu knows that he has been taken against his will. She decides that she must save him.  W ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crooked Pieces by Sarah Grazebrook
    Crooked Pieces - by Sarah Grazebrook

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780749080945 | ISBN 10: 0749080949

    Beautifully written and evocative, Crooked Pieces brings the past magically to life...  London, 1905. Maggie's new position as a maid lifts her from East End poverty and brings her into the world of the suffragettes, in particular the Pankhur ... more

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  • Cover image of book Day by A.L. Kennedy
    Day - by A.L. Kennedy

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099494058 | ISBN 10: 0099494051

    Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett
    Zugzwang - by Ronan Bennett

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747587293 | ISBN 10: 0747587299

    Zugzwang: Used in chess to describe a deadly position in which a player is obliged to move, but every move only makes his position even worse.   St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blue Fox by Sjon
    The Blue Fox - by Sjon

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846590375 | ISBN 10: 184659037x

    The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox.  We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
    Something to Tell You - by Hanif Kureishi

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571238767 | ISBN 10: 0571238769

    Something to Tell You follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who, as the book opens, is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia, on his first love (a relationship that continues to haunt him), and on a brutal act of violence fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sarah
    Sarah's Key - by Tatiana de Rosay

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719524523 | ISBN 10: 0719524520

    Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promises to come back for hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Adam by Caroline Smailes
    In Search of Adam - by Caroline Smailes

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906321024 | ISBN 10: 1906321027

    Motherless, rootless and unprotected, Jude Williams' childhood is fractured by the horror and experience of sexual abuse, forcing her to exist somewhere and nowhere in-between childhood and adulthood.  Caught within the limitations of her own la ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beloved by Toni Morrison
    Beloved - by Toni Morrison

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099511656 | ISBN 10: 0099511657

    It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
    Confessions of a Mask - by Yukio Mishima

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780720612851 | ISBN 10: 0720612853

    This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishimas finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boys development toward a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War.   Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood thro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lust, Caution: And Other Stories by Eileen Chang
    Lust, Caution: And Other Stories - by Eileen Chang

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141034386 | ISBN 10: 0141034386

    In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhis life is a front. A pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Atonement by Ian McEwan
    Atonement - by Ian McEwan

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099507383 | ISBN 10: 0099507382

    On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.  Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
    Thirteen Moons - by Charles Frazier

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340826638 | ISBN 10: 0340826630

    At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red River by Lalita Tademy
    Red River - by Lalita Tademy

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780755332700 | ISBN 10: 0755332709

    The sequel to Lalita Tademy`s bestselling Cane River, the heartbreaking and compelling story of her family's experiences of slavery and the American Civil War. Now, in Red River, she takes readers on a new journey: that of her father's family, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment by Bryan Talbot
    Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment - by Bryan Talbot

    £22.50   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780224080767 | ISBN 10: 0224080768

    Alice in Sunderland is a graphic novel like no other. Bryan Talbot takes the city of Sunderland and the story of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell (the real Alice) as the spine of his story and around them spins a spectacularly diverse range of diffe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
    Black Swan Green - by David Mitchell

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340822807 | ISBN 10: 0340822805

    January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Tyler - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullis, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster
    Keeping the World Away - by Margaret Forster

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099496861 | ISBN 10: 0099496860

    Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the adventures of an early-twentieth century painting and the women whose lives it touches.It begins with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Half of a Yellow Sun - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007200283 | ISBN 10: 0007200285

    The highly anticipated new novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of the vicious Nigeria-Biafra war in which more than a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.During this turbulen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Johnny Come Home by Jake Arnott
    Johnny Come Home - by Jake Arnott

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340818596 | ISBN 10: 034081859x

    It's 1972 and as the dreams of the Sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O'Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson amd fellow squatter Nina to try and make sense of what has happened.Enter Sw ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - by John Boyne

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552773805 | ISBN 10: 0552773808

    What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he kno ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - by Lisa See

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747583004 | ISBN 10: 0747583005

    Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are to be bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Candide, or Optimism by Franois Voltaire, translated by Theo Cuffe
    Candide, or Optimism - by Franois Voltaire, translated by Theo Cuffe

    £5.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780140455106 | ISBN 10: 0140455108

    Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'.   But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, ... more

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  • Cover image of book As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    As I Lay Dying - by William Faulkner

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099479314 | ISBN 10: 0099479311

    The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.  And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacula ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Family on Paradise Pier by Dermot Bolger
    The Family on Paradise Pier - by Dermot Bolger

    £15.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007154104 | ISBN 10: 0007154100

    This is a stunning historical saga, set in the early decades of the twentieth century, which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family.   We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
    Nights at the Circus - by Angela Carter

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099388616 | ISBN 10: 0099388618

    Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
    Chicken with Plums - by Marjane Satrapi

    £14.99   hardback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780224080453 | ISBN 10: 0224080458

    In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that li ... more

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  • Cover image of book The First Casualty by Ben Elton
    The First Casualty - by Ben Elton

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780552771306 | ISBN 10: 0552771309

    Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lazy Eye by Donna Daley-Clarke
    Lazy Eye - by Donna Daley-Clarke

    £6.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781416522515 | ISBN 10: 1416522514

    At nineteen, Geoffhurst is getting along just fine - he's got his own flat away from his family, his eight jars to divide his dole cheque (one for each day, one for saving), his standing order at Madame Wong's Chinese Restaurant. Then a reporter from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex Wars by Marge Piercy
    Sex Wars - by Marge Piercy

    £17.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780749936334 | ISBN 10: 0749936339

    Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream: an era of vast fortunes and crushing poverty. Though life is hard, the promise of change is in the air. Women are agitating for the vote and other civil rights. Immigrants are po ... more

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  • Cover image of book East of Acre Lane by Alex Wheatle
    East of Acre Lane - by Alex Wheatle

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007225620 | ISBN 10: 0007225628

    A searing account of a young man's attempt to do the right thing set against the backdrop of the Brixton Riots.It is 1981. Biscuit lives with his mother, brother and sister. He helps out by hustling on the frontline for the South London badman, Nunc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hill Road by Patrick O
    The Hill Road - by Patrick O'Keeffe

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747579403 | ISBN 10: 0747579407

    The townland of Kilroan in the 1970s is at risk of being trapped for ever in an earlier version of itself, a time when shell-shocked soldiers returned from the trenches, and convent orphans could be billeted as servants on poor farmers; a time when a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Desertion - by Abdulrazak Gurnah

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747578956 | ISBN 10: 0747578958

    Early one morning in 1889, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet.  That man is Martin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji
    The Book of Secrets - by M.G. Vassanji

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781841956862 | ISBN 10: 1841956864

    When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern-day Dar es Salaam, discovers the diary of a British colonial administrator from 1913, he is drawn into a provocative account of East Africa and the liasons, feelings and secrets of its peo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
    Three Day Road - by Joseph Boyden

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780753820810 | ISBN 10: 0753820811

    It is 1919 and Niska, the last Canadian medicine woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relative, is gravely wounded and addicted to the army's mo ... 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 The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce
    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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  • Cover image of book Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
    Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - by Susanna Clarke

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747579885 | ISBN 10: 0747579881

    Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me ... The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nati ... more

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  • Cover image of book The System of the World (Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    The System of the World (Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099463368 | ISBN 10: 0099463369

    The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs.  As Daniel and Newton c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099410690 | ISBN 10: 0099410699

    Neal Stephenson continues his extraordinary Baroque Cycle in this sequel to his bestselling Quicksilver, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery.   It is the late 1600s on the high se ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - by Robert Tressell

    £16.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007204502 | ISBN 10: 0007204507

    Originally published in 1914, is a timeless story of socialism, political awakenings and class struggle, told with a volatile mix of heartfelt rage and sly humour.   The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shumaisi by Turki al-Hamad
    Shumaisi - by Turki al-Hamad

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863569111 | ISBN 10: 0863569110

    The second volume in al-Hamad's explosive coming-of-age trilogy.  The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he's enrolled at university to study po ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Blinding Absence of Light. by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Linda Coverdale translator)
    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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  • Cover image of book Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099410683 | ISBN 10: 0099410680

    In this richly imagined follow-up to his bestseller Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery, men and women whose exploits defined the age of the High Baroque...&n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lizard Tails by Juan Marse
    Lizard Tails - by Juan Marse

    £6.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099455172 | ISBN 10: 009945517x

    In this masterly and unforgettable evocation of childhood and adolescence, Marse paints a picture of family life in a suburb of Barcelona at the end of World War II and in the aftermath of Spain's harrowing Civil War. David's alcoholic father, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Small Island by Andrea Levy
    Small Island - by Andrea Levy

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780755307500 | ISBN 10: 075530750x

    Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, what else can she do?  Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
    The Dreamers - by Gilbert Adair

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571216260 | ISBN 10: 0571216269

    Gilbert Adair's novel is set in Paris in the Spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Theo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, and American student th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    Oliver Twist - by Charles Dickens

    £6.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780141439747 | ISBN 10: 0141439742

    Let him feel that he is one of us; once fill his mind with the idea that he has been a thief, and hes ours, ours for his life! The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angry Gods by Wendy Brandmark
    The Angry Gods - by Wendy Brandmark

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781899235940 | ISBN 10: 1899235949

    New York City in the depths of the 1950s. Schoolchildren cower under their desks during atom bomb drills. McCarthy has been humiliated but the witch-hunts continue. Sonia, a thirty-year-old Jewish school teacher living at home, resists her brothers' ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
    The Secret Life of Bees - by Sue Monk Kidd

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780747266839 | ISBN 10: 0747266832

    Lily has grown up believing she has accidentally killed her mother when she was just four years old. Now, at fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh and unyielding father, she ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens

    £5.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141439563 | ISBN 10: 0141439564

    It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me   Great Expectations by Charles Dickens begins with a terrifying encounter with an escaped convic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
    Carter Beats the Devil - by Glen David Gold

    £10.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780340794999 | ISBN 10: 0340794992

    They shook hands yet again, and Houdini settled into the cab. As it pulled away from the curb, Carter waved, and Houdini rolled the window down, yelling 'And remember - from now on, you're Carter the Great'. Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
    The Dark Room - by Rachel Seiffert

    £9.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099287179 | ISBN 10: 009928717x

    The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans : Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastate ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill
    The Rat-Pit - by Patrick MacGill

    £7.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781902602554 | ISBN 10: 1902602552

    Both a sequel and a parallel to Children of the Dead End, The Rat-Pit tells the tragic story of the struggle of Donegal girl Norah Ryan against poverty at the turn of the century. The name is taken from a lodging house in Glasgow 'where human ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Ralph Parker
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Ralph Parker

    £7.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780141184746 | ISBN 10: 0141184744

    This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Morte D by J.F. Powers
    Morte D - by J.F. Powers

    £9.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780940322233 | ISBN 10: 0940322234

    Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
    Wide Sargasso Sea - by Jean Rhys

    £7.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780141185422 | ISBN 10: 0141185422

    In her brilliant novel, Jean Rhys rescues the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and brings her to life as the beautiful and tragic Antoinette Cosway. The story takes us to Antoinette's beguiling Caribbean island, a lush and rav ... more

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  • Cover image of book For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
    For Whom the Bell Tolls - by Ernest Hemingway

    £8.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099289821 | ISBN 10: 0099289822

    High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comr ... more

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  • 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

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  • Cover image of book Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
    Barnaby Rudge - by Charles Dickens

    £2.50   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853267390 | ISBN 10: 1853267392

    This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fer ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Troubles by J.G. Farrell
    The Troubles - by J.G. Farrell

    £9.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781857990188 | ISBN 10: 1857990188

    Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ventriloquist
    The Ventriloquist's Tale - by Pauline Melville

    £12.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780747535140 | ISBN 10: 0747535140

    Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1997. Orange Prize Shortlist 1998. With relish and consumate skill, Pauline Melville conjures vivid pictures of both savannah, forest and city life in South America, where love is often trumped by desir ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
    The Bluest Eye - by Toni Morrison

    £8.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780099759911 | ISBN 10: 0099759918

    The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her fam ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strandloper by Alan Garner
    Strandloper - by Alan Garner

    £8.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9781860461613 | ISBN 10: 1860461611

    Based on the true story of William Buckley, Strandloper begins in the rural Cheshire of the 1790s. Where young William and Het are preparing for the annual festival known as Shick-Shack Day. William has been chosen as the village's Shick-Shack, an an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Awakening by Kate Chopin
    The Awakening - by Kate Chopin

    £2.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780486277868 | ISBN 10: 0486277860

    First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity.   Poignant and lyrical, it tells the story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marria ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley
    Daughter of Earth - by Agnes Smedley

    £14.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780935312683 | ISBN 10: 0935312684

    In this gritty autobiographical novel (1929) revered writer and activist Agnes Smedley describes her first 33 years, growing up in a mixed-race family on the wrong side of the tracks, teaching at fifteen, going to college at Berkeley, discovering dou ... more

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