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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785033780 | ISBN 10: 1785033786
Hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time will speak to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141046389 | ISBN 10: 0141046384
Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780755322329 | ISBN 10: 0755322320
A genuinely funny and original novel about mental illness, growing up and parental breakdown from much-loved comedienne Jo Brand. Alice is five, and convinced she needs five personalities to cope. Her family, tucked in a cottage in deep ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099532446 | ISBN 10: 0099532441
Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2009. Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, The Quickening Maze centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, criti ... more
View book details£15.00 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847479334 | ISBN 10: 1847479332
This felt like the ultimate bad acid trip. One moment I was lounging on my bed, gawking at a Siouxsie and the Banshees poster. Next I was screaming my lungs raw while head-butting Siouxsie Sioux. BrainBomb is a novel telling the lurid sto ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141187884 | ISBN 10: 0141187883
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Â Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inh ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099450252 | ISBN 10: 0099450259
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective - and narrator - is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a great deal about maths and very little ab ... more
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