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  • Cover image of book A Stranger in Baghdad by Elizabeth Loudon
    A Stranger in Baghdad - by Elizabeth Loudon

    £0.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781649032850 | ISBN 10: 1649032854

    NAMED ONE OF '51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023' (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS) LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD   In beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this interge ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
    The Factory - by Hiroko Oyamada

    £12.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781803510538 | ISBN 10: 1803510536

    Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is nothing.  Within the sprawling industrial complex, three employees are assigned to different departments. There, each must focus on a specific task: one shreds paper, one proofre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kurdistan +100: Stories from a Future State by Orsola Casagrande & Mustafa Gundogdu (Editors)
    Kurdistan +100: Stories from a Future State - by Orsola Casagrande & Mustafa Gundogdu (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781912697366 | ISBN 10: 191269736x

    Featuring: Qadir Agid, Yildiz Cakar, Selahattin Demirtas, Omer Dilsoz, Muharrem Erbey, Nariman Evdike, Ava Homa, Hüseyin Karabey, Karzan Kardozi, Sema Kaygusuz, Meral Simsek, Jahangir Mahmoudveysi & Jîl Şwanî   Winner of a PEN Translates A ... more

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  • Cover image of book Julia by Sandra Newman
    Julia - by Sandra Newman

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783789153 | ISBN 10: 1783789158

    London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It’s 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and ... more

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  • Cover image of book It Can
    It Can't Happen Here - by Sinclair Lewis

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804470091 | ISBN 10: 1804470090

    It's 1935 and discontent is rife in America. From the political margins appears Buzz Windrip, charismatic presidential candidate and 'inspired guesser at what political doctrines the people would like'.  Sweeping to power amid mass elation, he promi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nothing is Lost by Cloe Mehdi
    Nothing is Lost - by Cloe Mehdi

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787704350 | ISBN 10: 1787704351

    In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Saïd, was fifteen years old. And now he is dead.   Mattia is just eleven years old, and witnesses the hatred and sadness felt by those around him. While he d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson
    Neon Roses - by Rachel Dawson

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399801928 | ISBN 10: 1399801929

    ‘A BIG-HEARTED STORY ABOUT FINDING YOUR FEET AND FOLLOWING YOUR HEART’ SARAH WATERS  ‘JOYFULLY QUEER, FILTHY AND FUN’ CHLOE TIMMS  ‘A HUG AND A SNOG OF A BOOK’ SO MAYER  Eluned Hughes is stuck. It’s 1984 in a val ... more

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  • Cover image of book What You Need From The Night by Laurent Petitmangin
    What You Need From The Night - by Laurent Petitmangin

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529063509 | ISBN 10: 1529063507

    'One of the most exquisite debuts I've read for some time' Daily Telegraph   'Affecting and haunting' Observer   After the death of his wife, a father raises his two sons alone. His bond with Fus, the eldest, and Gillou, the youngest, i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisterhood by Katherine Bradley
    The Sisterhood - by Katherine Bradley

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398519114 | ISBN 10: 1398519111

    ‘Frightening and timely, Bradley’s The Sisterhood is the book everyone should read this year. If you thought it ended with Orwell, think again...' CHRISTINA DALCHER  Vox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist reimagining of 1984.&nb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love, Politics and Possibly Murder by Jane Ions
    Love, Politics and Possibly Murder - by Jane Ions

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910422656 | ISBN 10: 1910422657

    "I loved your book which brightened up my life no end. I laughed out loud so hard that I frightened the cat. I think you are a wonderful writer and your book is magnificent."(Cathy Rentzenbrink) Sally lives with husband Bill, adult son Dan, and fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Half-Life of Snails by Philippa Holloway
    The Half-Life of Snails - by Philippa Holloway

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914595523 | ISBN 10: 1914595521

    A note from Parthian Books: "This novel is partly set in Ukraine circa 2014. The writer travelled to Ukraine and was made very welcome by lots of people in the course of her research work. We are supporting the Red Cross Appeal for Ukraine by donatin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Constant Maud
    Constant Maud's No Surrender: A Graphic Novel - by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard

    £18.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914224065 | ISBN 10: 191422406x

    Constance Maud was at the heart of the British campaign for women’s votes. Her novel No Surrender was published at the height of that struggle and used as a persuasive tool by suffragists. Hailed by Emily Wilding-Davison as “a book which breathes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
    The Republic of False Truths - by Alaa Al Aswany

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571347612 | ISBN 10: 0571347614

    ‘Glorious’ Observer ‘Amazing‘ André Aciman ‘Masterly‘ Sunday Times ‘Blistering‘ Financial Times  General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.  Under the regime ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Walls Collapse: Stories of Separation by Sarah Cleave and Will Forrester (editors)
    All Walls Collapse: Stories of Separation - by Sarah Cleave and Will Forrester (editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912697571 | ISBN 10: 1912697572

    The history of walls – as a way to keep people in or out – is also the history of people managing to get around, over and under them. From the Berlin Wall to the U.S.-Mexico border, the short stories in this collection take place across thousands ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Place That Place by Nandita Dinesh
    This Place That Place - by Nandita Dinesh

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781612199498 | ISBN 10: 1612199496

    An impassioned and inventive debut novel about two people earnestly searching for a way to preserve their friendship across seemingly insurmountable political divides.  This Place|That Place centers on two characters from opposing sides of an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin
    The Night Always Comes - by Willy Vlautin

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571361915 | ISBN 10: 0571361919

    ‘Pacey and visceral.’ Sunday Times ‘Imbued with the noirish urgency of a page-turning thriller.’ Irish Times ‘Terrific.’ Richard Russo ‘A revelation.’ Megan Abbott  Between looking after her brother, attending night classes ... 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 The Wonders by Elena Medel
    The Wonders - by Elena Medel

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782276586 | ISBN 10: 1782276580

    "A poet’s novel, delicate but strong"(Hilary Mantel) María and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of work and independence. María, scraping together a living as a cleaner and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mad Girls Of New York by Maya Rodale
    The Mad Girls Of New York - by Maya Rodale

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780593436752 | ISBN 10: 059343675x

    An exciting novel based on the fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who would stop at nothing to expose injustices against women in 19th century New York, even at the risk of her own life and freedom.  In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
    Trespasses - by Louise Kennedy

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526623324 | ISBN 10: 1526623323

    * AN OBSERVER DEBUT NOVELIST FOR 2022 *  'A compulsively readable love story' EMMA DONOGHUE 'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES 'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER 'A beautiful, devastating novel' N ... 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 We are Made of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner
    We are Made of Diamond Stuff - by Isabel Waidner

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913512088 | ISBN 10: 1913512088

    Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize  Polar bears emerge from t-shirts. Reeboks come to life. Nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal.  In Isabel Waidner’s second novel, we follow an unn ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Rooms by Jo Hamya
    Three Rooms - by Jo Hamya

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529114416 | ISBN 10: 1529114411

    Something about your generation I've noticed, she said not unkindly once I had fallen silent, is that you give up very easily.  Autumn 2018. A young woman starts a job as a research assistant at Oxford. But she can't shake the feeling that re ... more

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  • Cover image of book A River Called Time by Courttia Newland
    A River Called Time - by Courttia Newland

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786897084 | ISBN 10: 1786897083

    A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in parallel Londons.  The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years afte ... 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 Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers
    The Captain and the Glory - by Dave Eggers

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241989296 | ISBN 10: 0241989299

    A hilarious, biting satire of the United States and its unpredictable leader from the best-selling author of The Circle.  The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new ... more

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  • Cover image of book Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carre
    Agent Running in the Field - by John Le Carre

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241986547 | ISBN 10: 0241986540

    Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resist: Stories of Uprising 2 by Ra Page (Editor)
    Resist: Stories of Uprising 2 - by Ra Page (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912697311 | ISBN 10: 1912697319

    Featuring Julia Bell, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, David Lambert, Anna Lewis, Irfan Master, Donny O'Rourke, Kamila Shamsie, Bidisha SK Mamata, Kim Squi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resist: Stories of Uprising by Ra Page (Editor)
    Resist: Stories of Uprising - by Ra Page (Editor)

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912697076 | ISBN 10: 1912697076

    Featuring Julia Bell, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, Zoe Lambert, Anna Lewis, Irfan Master, Donny O'Rourke, Kamila Shamsie, Bidisha SK Mamata, Karline Sm ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Friends of Harry Perkins by Chris Mullin
    The Friends of Harry Perkins - by Chris Mullin

    £12.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781471182488 | ISBN 10: 1471182487

    'Harry Perkins was buried on the day that America declared war on China.'   'Brexit Britain was a gloomy place. True, the Armageddon that some had prophesied had not occurred, but neither had economic miracle promised by the Brexiteers. Inst ... more

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  • Cover image of book History of Violence by Edouard Louis
    History of Violence - by Edouard Louis

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784706074 | ISBN 10: 1784706078

    The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy – a personal and powerful story of violence.  I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Middle England by Jonathan Coe
    Middle England - by Jonathan Coe

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241983683 | ISBN 10: 0241983681

    Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disruption in Britain. There are the early married years of Sophie and Ian who disagree about t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    Friday Black - by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787476004 | ISBN 10: 1787476006

    Racism, but “managed” through virtual reality  Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng  Happiness, but pharmacological  Love, despite everything  Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
    Red Birds - by Mohammed Hanif

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408897164 | ISBN 10: 1408897164

    A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR "A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy … Red Birds is an incisive, unsparing critique of war and of America's role in the destruction of the Middle East. It combines modern and ancient farcical tradit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Red Moon - by Kim Stanley Robinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780356508825 | ISBN 10: 035650882x

    IT IS THIRTY YEARS FROM NOW, AND WE HAVE COLONISED THE MOON.   American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Accidental Agent by Alan Judd
    Accidental Agent - by Alan Judd

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781471150685 | ISBN 10: 1471150682

    Brexit looms and Charles Thoroughgood, Chief of MI6, is forbidden for political reasons from spying on the EU. But when an EU official volunteers the EU’s negotiating bottom lines to one of his officers, Charles has to report it.   Whiteh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
    The Freedom Artist - by Ben Okri

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788549615 | ISBN 10: 1788549619

    One of 2019's most anticipated novels in The Times, Irish Times and Guardian. "Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace and uncommon power"(Marlon James, ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Dream by Ma Jian
    China Dream - by Ma Jian

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784708696 | ISBN 10: 1784708690

    Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism.  After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crudo by Olivia Laing
    Crudo - by Olivia Laing

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509892846 | ISBN 10: 1509892842

    Shortlisted for the Goldsmith's Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the James Tait Black Award.  Dive in to a tale of love and loathing with the beach read of the summer.   Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
    The Shape of the Ruins - by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857056610 | ISBN 10: 0857056611

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019.   It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations – the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired García Márquez’s General B ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie
    The Sewing Machine - by Natalie Fergie

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527489 | ISBN 10: 178352748x

    3 secrets. 27 notebooks. 4 generations. 1 blog. Millions of stitches.  The star of this novel is a vintage sewing machine.  Millions of these efficient black workhorses were made in Clydebank and then shipped all over the world to be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Melody by Jim Crace
    The Melody - by Jim Crace

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509841387 | ISBN 10: 1509841385

    From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest.   Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days in the large villa he has always called home. Then one night Busi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Checkpoint by David Albahari
    Checkpoint - by David Albahari

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781632061928 | ISBN 10: 1632061929

    From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating, darkly funny Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
    Bottled Goods - by Sophie van Llewyn

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912054305 | ISBN 10: 1912054302

    Longlisted for The People’s Book Prize.   Alina’s life was on the right track, until the secret service knocked on her door.   When Alina’s brother-in-law defects to the West, she and her husband become persons of interest ... 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 Zero Hours (The Manchester Trilogy, Book Two) by Neil Campbell
    Zero Hours (The Manchester Trilogy, Book Two) - by Neil Campbell

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784631482 | ISBN 10: 1784631485

    n this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of menial work and the attitudes of his colleagues. Only after rescuing and acquiring ... more

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  • Cover image of book Madness is Better than Defeat by Ned Beauman
    Madness is Better than Defeat - by Ned Beauman

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473613614 | ISBN 10: 1473613612

    The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman.  In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
    Old Baggage - by Lissa Evans

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784161217 | ISBN 10: 1784161217

    What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world?  It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade.  Mattie is a woman with a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Workers
    Workers' Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain - by Michael Rosen (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780691175348 | ISBN 10: 0691175349

    A collection of political tales — first published in British workers’ magazines — selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen.  In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ironopolis by Glen James Brown
    Ironopolis - by Glen James Brown

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912681099 | ISBN 10: 1912681099

    Stranded on the outskirts of Ironopolis — nickname to a lost industrial Middlesbrough — the Burn Council Estate is about to be torn down to make way for regeneration. For the future ... But these streets know many stories, some hide secrets... ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Litten Path by James Clarke
    The Litten Path - by James Clarke

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784631468 | ISBN 10: 1784631469

    March, 1984. Britain’s miners face political opposition. Soon, the State will confront them, violent forces will be unleashed and the country will change forever.  The Newmans have enough on their plate without a strike to contend with. Art ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
    The Talented Ribkins - by Ladee Hubbard

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781612197289 | ISBN 10: 1612197280

    "For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard’s original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself."(Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Song of Solomon) At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn’t have ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Impostor by Javier Cercas
    The Impostor - by Javier Cercas

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857056528 | ISBN 10: 0857056522

    Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.   But who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice, and a survivor of the Nazi death camps? Or, is he simply an old man wit ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
    The Division Bell Mystery - by Ellen Wilkinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780712352413 | ISBN 10: 0712352414

    Originally published in 1932, this is the first Crime Classic novel written by an MP. And fittingly, the crime scene is within the House of Commons itself, in which a financier has been shot dead.   Entreated by the financier’s daughter, a y ... more

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  • Cover image of book The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton
    The City Always Wins - by Omar Robert Hamilton

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571332663 | ISBN 10: 0571332668

    *** Winner of the the Betty Trask Prize 2018 ***   Egypt, 2011: this is a revolution. On the streets of Cairo, a violent uprising is transforming the course of history. Mariam and Khalil, two young activists, are swept up in the fervour. Their ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi
    A Good Country - by Laleh Khadivi

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408876039 | ISBN 10: 1408876035

    The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism.   Laguna Beach, California, 2 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
    Walkaway - by Cory Doctorow

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786693075 | ISBN 10: 1786693070

    In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do.   But there is another way. After all, now tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
    The Golden House - by Salman Rushdie

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784707095 | ISBN 10: 1784707090

    **New York Times bestseller**   When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in dow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dunbar: King Lear Retold by Edward St Aubyn
    Dunbar: King Lear Retold - by Edward St Aubyn

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784701697 | ISBN 10: 1784701696

    ‘I really did have an empire, you know,’ said Dunbar. ‘Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?’   Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over ... more

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  • Cover image of book 24 Stories of Hope for Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire by Kathy Burke (Editor)
    24 Stories of Hope for Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire - by Kathy Burke (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783525867 | ISBN 10: 178352586x

    On the night of 14 June 2017, a fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London, killing at least 72 people and injuring many more. An entire community was destroyed. For many people affected by this tragedy, the psychological scars may nev ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Greek Wall by Nicolas Verdan
    The Greek Wall - by Nicolas Verdan

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908524850 | ISBN 10: 1908524855

    A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey.  The novel is based on the true story of a ten mile wall built in 2012 to put an end to illegal immigration flooding int ... more

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  • Cover image of book Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong
    Petals of Blood - by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784873363 | ISBN 10: 1784873365

    After decades of British rule Kenya has declared its independence, but drought and poor harvests still govern the village of Ilmorog. Undeterred, Munira, Karega, Wanja and Abdulla each move to Ilmorog in search of a more provincial life, only to find ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Devils
    The Devils' Dance - by Hamid Ismailov

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911284130 | ISBN 10: 1911284134

    On New Year’s Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boat People by Sharon Bala
    The Boat People - by Sharon Bala

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780385544023 | ISBN 10: 0385544022

    Globe and Mail bestseller, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism.   When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Protest! Stories of Resistance by Ra Page (Editor)
    Protest! Stories of Resistance - by Ra Page (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910974438 | ISBN 10: 1910974439

    Whatever happened to British protest?  For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power.   ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Please Don
    Please Don't Come Back from the Moon - by Dean Bakopoulos

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784162276 | ISBN 10: 1784162272

    When Michael was sixteen his father left home. He wasn't the first to go. One by one other men in the blue-collar neighbourhood outside Detroit where Michael lives vanish. One props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. 'I'm going to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nix by Nathan Hill
    The Nix - by Nathan Hill

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509807857 | ISBN 10: 1509807853

    Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committe ... more

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  • Cover image of book King Goshawk and the Birds by Eimar O
    King Goshawk and the Birds - by Eimar O'Duffy

    £14.50   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781943150205 | ISBN 10: 1943150206

    Originally published in 1926, King Goshawk and the Birds is the first installment of O’Duffy’s Cuanduine trilogy, which also included The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street (1928) and Asses in Clover (1933).  Set in a future wor ... 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 When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola
    When We Speak of Nothing - by Olumide Popoola

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911115458 | ISBN 10: 1911115456

    Best mates Karl and Abu are both 17 and live near Kings Cross. It’s 2011 and racial tensions are set to explode across London. Abu is infatuated with gorgeous classmate Nalini but dares not speak to her. Meanwhile, Karl is the target of the local ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
    Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile - by Adelle Stripe

    £12.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781903110560 | ISBN 10: 1903110564

    “You write what’s said, you don’t lie. Or say it didn’t happen when it did all the time...”   Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is a novel inspired by the life and work of the Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.   Best know ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guest by SJ Bradley
    Guest - by SJ Bradley

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911585053 | ISBN 10: 1911585053

    Samhain is a young, angry and bewildered squatter living in an abandoned hotel in the North of England. One day he receives a message: his father – a man he never knew – was an undercover policeman infiltrating the Green movement of the 80s. What ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bickford Fuse by Andrey Kurkov
    The Bickford Fuse - by Andrey Kurkov

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781848666061 | ISBN 10: 1848666063

    A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin.  Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era.  The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time of Lies: A Political Satire by Douglas Board
    Time of Lies: A Political Satire - by Douglas Board

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785630347 | ISBN 10: 1785630342

    In 2020 the United Kingdom elects its own Donald Trump.   Bob Grant, former football hooligan, now the charismatic leader of the Britain’s Great party, has swept to power on a populist tide. With his itchy finger hovering over the nuclear tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cinico: Travels with a Good Professor at the Time of the Scottish Referendum by Allan Cameron
    Cinico: Travels with a Good Professor at the Time of the Scottish Referendum - by Allan Cameron

    £10.95   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908251824 | ISBN 10: 1908251824

    With a Scottish professor of politics as his guide, a London-based Italian journalist traverses Scotland seeking a “big story” on the independence referendum. What he gets instead are small stories from myriad points of view: a Ukrainian national ... more

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  • Cover image of book 2020 by Kenneth Steven
    2020 - by Kenneth Steven

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910192559 | ISBN 10: 1910192554

    In 2020, Britain is at breaking point... In a country sorely divided, what happens to empathy and tolerance, to generosity of spirit? And can hope survive?   In 2020, years of economic turmoil, bitter debates over immigration, and anger at the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Death of the Perfect Sentence by Rein Raud, translated by Matthew Hyde
    The Death of the Perfect Sentence - by Rein Raud, translated by Matthew Hyde

    £11.95   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908251701 | ISBN 10: 1908251700

    This thoughtful spy novel cum love story is set mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland and Sweden. A group of young pro-independence dissidents devise an elaborate scheme for smuggling copies of KGB f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sellout by Paul Beatty
    The Sellout - by Paul Beatty

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071460 | ISBN 10: 1786071460

    **WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016**   ‘Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times ‘The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian ‘The most badass first 100 pages of an American ... 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 Senility of Vladimir P by Michael Honig
    The Senility of Vladimir P - by Michael Honig

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782398097 | ISBN 10: 1782398090

    As a former president of Russia loses his marbles, those around him get down to losing their morals.   Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
    The Vanishing Futurist - by Charlotte Hobson

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571234875 | ISBN 10: 0571234879

    When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic inventor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller
    The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - by Herta Müller

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846274770 | ISBN 10: 184627477x

    Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi
    The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea - by Bandi

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781257548 | ISBN 10: 178125754x

    In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime.  Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 20 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Someone Always Robs the Poor by Carl MacDougall
    Someone Always Robs the Poor - by Carl MacDougall

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911332138 | ISBN 10: 1911332139

    A long-awaited new collection of stories from one of Scotland’s most acclaimed writers.   A young man returns from London, facing the prospect of reunion with a young daughter he’s never met. A woman recounts her family’s doomed attempt ... more

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  • Cover image of book 2084: The End of the World by Boualem Sansal
    2084: The End of the World - by Boualem Sansal

    £11.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781609453664 | ISBN 10: 1609453662

    WINNER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY GRAND PRIX   A tribute to George Orwell's 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which religious extremists have established an oppressive cali ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lovers by Rod Nordland
    The Lovers - by Rod Nordland

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473607026 | ISBN 10: 1473607027

    A story of forbidden love.   Zakia and Mohammad Ali are a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Two young Afghan lovers - he a Shia, she a Sunni - who defied their families risking their lives in order to be together. "...a heartbreaking tale of ill ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
    Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist - by Sunil Yapa

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349141428 | ISBN 10: 0349141428

    A heart-stopping debut about protest and riot...   1999. Victor, homeless after a family tragedy, finds himself pounding the streets of Seattle with little meaning or purpose. He is the estranged son of the police chief of the city, and today ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guapa by Saleem Haddad
    Guapa - by Saleem Haddad

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781609454135 | ISBN 10: 1609454138

    A Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring.  A day in the life of a young man disillusioned with both East and West and struggling to find a place for himself in a society ruled by hypocrisy and contradictions. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fear of Mirrors by Tariq Ali
    Fear of Mirrors - by Tariq Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786939 | ISBN 10: 1784786934

    The story of a family whose life mirrors the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.  With the fall of Communism, East German dissident Vlady Meyer’s life begins to fall apart. As the German nation unifies, his wife splits up with him. He loses hi ... 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 China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
    China Mountain Zhang - by Maureen F. McHugh

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473214620 | ISBN 10: 1473214629

    The extraordinary James Tiptree Memorial Award-winning novel.   'I am Zhang, alone with my light, and in that light I think for a moment that I am free.'  Imagine a world where Chinese Marxism has vanquished the values of capitalism an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Human Acts by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
    Human Acts - by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846275975 | ISBN 10: 1846275970

    Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnecte ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution by Boris Dralyuk (Translated and selected by)
    1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution - by Boris Dralyuk (Translated and selected by)

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782272144 | ISBN 10: 1782272143

    'This is the last of you, old world - soon we'll smash you to bits.'  The passionate voices of radicals, dreamers, workers, aristocrats, satirists and romantics fill these electrifying poems and prose pieces, written between 1917 and 1919 in ... 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 All Involved by Ryan Gattis
    All Involved - by Ryan Gattis

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447283171 | ISBN 10: 1447283171

    That's when it hits me. I'm staring at a war zone. In South Central.   On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older brother has been stabbed to death, his body left out in the road to rot. He was never involved. He was innocent. He ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Another Jihadi Jane by Tabish Khair
    Just Another Jihadi Jane - by Tabish Khair

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781902932545 | ISBN 10: 1902932544

    At first glance, Jamilla and Ameena couldn’t be more different. Both are Yorkshire-born teenage girls of South Asian descent; but whereas Jamilla lives with her conservative Muslim family and is quiet, religious and academically bright, the more wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Stared at the Night of the City by Bakhtiyar Ali, translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman
    I Stared at the Night of the City - by Bakhtiyar Ali, translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781859641255 | ISBN 10: 1859641253

    Iraqi Kurdistan at the turn of the twenty-first century is a territory ruled by strongmen, revolutionaries, fixers, bureaucrats and the “Barons” who control everything from livestock and land to Kurdish cultural life.   Defying the absolut ... 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 Road to Corbyn: A Modern Day Pilgrim
    The Road to Corbyn: A Modern Day Pilgrim's Progress - by Rob Donovan

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785892912 | ISBN 10: 1785892916

    Following the style of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Road to Corbyn begins with the conceit of a dream in which Pilgrim, a contemporary seeker after truth, is introduced to the characters Hope, Charity, and the Interpreter. The Interpreter ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Days by Gillian Slovo
    Ten Days - by Gillian Slovo

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782116400 | ISBN 10: 1782116400

    It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire.  In this gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author ... more

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  • Cover image of book Submission by Michel Houellebecq
    Submission - by Michel Houellebecq

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784702052 | ISBN 10: 1784702056

    As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political lef ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Body in Barcelona by Jason Webster
    A Body in Barcelona - by Jason Webster

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099598268 | ISBN 10: 0099598264

    Tensions in Spain are rising: political violence and social unrest have suddenly re-emerged. Madrid is trying to keep a tight leash on Catalonia, where the call for independence is getting louder by the day. The last time Barcelona moved to break awa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sitting Ducks by Lisa Blower
    Sitting Ducks - by Lisa Blower

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781911048015 | ISBN 10: 1911048015

    Meagre in build. Mouthy in nature. One good owner and pottery trained: Josiah Totty Minton is bang out of sick notes and harbouring the dream of a three-bed semi with bay windows, fully-fitted carpets and enough of a garden to stretch his legs. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Numero Zero by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon
    Numero Zero - by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784701826 | ISBN 10: 1784701823

    The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose. 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duces death remain shrouded in confusio ... 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 Refugee Tales by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Editors)
    Refugee Tales - by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910974230 | ISBN 10: 1910974234

    Featuring Patience Agbabi, Jade Amoli-Jackson, Chris Cleave, Stephen Collis, Inua Ellams, Abdulrazak Gurnah, David Herd, Marina Lewycka, Avaes Mohammad, Hubert Moore, Ali Smith, Dragan Todorovic, Carol Watts & Michael Zand.   Two unaccompanied ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers
    Beijing Comrades - by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781558619074 | ISBN 10: 1558619070

    When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a nave, working-class architectural student the attraction is all consuming.   Arrogant and privileged, Handong is unsettled by this desire, while Lan Yu quietly sub ... 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 Number 11 by Jonathan Coe
    Number 11 - by Jonathan Coe

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241967010 | ISBN 10: 0241967015

    This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
    Damnificados - by JJ Amaworo Wilson

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781629631172 | ISBN 10: 1629631175

    Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred damnificados vagabonds and misfits take over an abandoned urban tower and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Will Happen, You
    Something Will Happen, You'll See A Tale of Polygamy - by Christos Ikonomou, translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780914671350 | ISBN 10: 0914671359

    Something Will Happen, Youll See is a heart-wrenching elegy on the impoverished working-class Greeks populating the neighborhoods around Piraeus, the large port southwest of Athens. Ikonomous luminous and poignant short stories center around laid- ... more

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  • Cover image of book Party Headquarters by Georgi Tenev, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
    Party Headquarters - by Georgi Tenev, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781940953267 | ISBN 10: 194095326x

    Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the 80s and 90s, during Bulgarias transition from communist rule to democracy. The book which is a love story, a parody, and a thriller about a poli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pleasantville by Attica Locke
    Pleasantville - by Attica Locke

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846689499 | ISBN 10: 184668949x

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE 2016  It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville -- the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has sw ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jimfish by Christopher Hope
    Jimfish - by Christopher Hope

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857898074 | ISBN 10: 0857898078

    In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Manager by John le Carr
    The Night Manager - by John le Carr

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241247525 | ISBN 10: 0241247527

    A special edition of le Carr's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, with a new afterword by the author.  At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray
    The Mark and the Void - by Paul Murray

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241953860 | ISBN 10: 0241953863

    A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies.  What links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Lov ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Big Short by Michael Lewis
    The Big Short - by Michael Lewis

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141982946 | ISBN 10: 0141982942

    From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the outrageous story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lightning Tree by Emily Woof
    The Lightning Tree - by Emily Woof

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571254026 | ISBN 10: 0571254020

    This is a story of two young people who fall in love - and then life gets in the way. Ursula is part-dreamer, part-radical in the making. Raised in a matriarchal household by a CND-loving activist, she is impatient to begin a life of adventure. B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin by Oleg Kashin
    Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin - by Oleg Kashin

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781632060396 | ISBN 10: 1632060396

    When a scientist experimenting on a humans in a sanatorium near Moscow gives growth serum to a dwarf oil mogul, the newly heightened businessman runs off with the experimenters wife, and a series of mysterious deaths and crimes begins. Fantastical a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feast of the Innocents by Evelio Rosero
    Feast of the Innocents - by Evelio Rosero

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848662322 | ISBN 10: 1848662327

    A beguiling, surreal and controversial novel by Colombia's greatest writer since Gabriel Garca Mrquez.  Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lpez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Activist by Alec Connon
    The Activist - by Alec Connon

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781901514254 | ISBN 10: 1901514250

    Unfulfilled by student life, Thomas Durant and two friends decide to cycle the length of Britain during their summer holidays, dressed as superheroes. The experience of their short trip is enough to whet Thomass appetite for further travel and set i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stealing the Future: An East German Spy Thriller by Max Hertzberg
    Stealing the Future: An East German Spy Thriller - by Max Hertzberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993324703 | ISBN 10: 0993324703

    Behind the Berlin Wall, dissident turned investigator Martin Grobe is on the trail of a killer - but is there something bigger at stake?   After forty years of dictatorship it's time for a change. The 1989 revolution in East Germany led to eco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis
    Haifa Fragments - by Khulud Khamis

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262598 | ISBN 10: 1780262590

    Jewellery designer, Maisoon, wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isnt easy for a tradition-defying, activist, Palestinian citizen of Israel, who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors ... more

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

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

    Dan Jackson and Craig Davison share the same tragic secret. One cant catch a break but remains honest, law-abiding and sincere. The other is the British Prime Minister.   Dans luck changes for the worse when he stumbles upon Cromwells Hamme ... 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 Kauthar by Meike Ziervogel
    Kauthar - by Meike Ziervogel

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784630294 | ISBN 10: 1784630292

    Lydia, a woman in her early thirties, lives in London. She lacks a purpose and loses herself in a string of affairs. When she meets Rabia, a convert to Islam, the Moslem rituals and the Arabic language offer her a new beginning. Lydia becomes Kauthar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Windswept by Adam Rakunas
    Windswept - by Adam Rakunas

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857664778 | ISBN 10: 0857664778

    Padma Mehta has to save her city, her planet, and Occupied Space from a devastating crop-killing plague all before Happy Hour.  Labor organizer Padma Mehta is on the edge of space and the edge of burnout. All she wants is to buy out a little ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Ismail Kadare
    Twilight of the Eastern Gods - by Ismail Kadare

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857866196 | ISBN 10: 0857866192

    1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am China by Xiaolu Guo
    I Am China - by Xiaolu Guo

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099583738 | ISBN 10: 0099583739

    Two lovers, separated by oceans and an oppressive political regime, desperate to find their way back to each other.  Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize   In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero
    The Neruda Case - by Roberto Ampuero

    £12.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780285643123 | ISBN 10: 0285643126

    In 1970s Chile Pablo Neruda, the Nobel-prize winning poet, is close to death, and he senses the end of an era in Chilean politics but there is one final secret he must resolve.   He recruits Cayetano Brul, a young Cuban rogue, as his own pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Confessions of a Terrorist by Richard Jackson
    Confessions of a Terrorist - by Richard Jackson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783600038 | ISBN 10: 1783600039

    In a claustrophobic concrete cell, two men face each other across a bare table. One is a wanted terrorist, the other a British intelligence officer. But this is no ordinary interrogation, and as they talk deep into the night and violent secrets are r ... 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 Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
    Dust - by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783781317 | ISBN 10: 1783781319

    Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya. But the peace they seek is hard to find: the mur ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - by David Shafer

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241972762 | ISBN 10: 0241972760

    David Shafer's acclaimed Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A brilliant, visionary and deeply human cyber-thriller.   Deep in the forest near Burma's border with China, a young woman sees something she wasn't supposed to see.   In Portland, Oregon, ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani
    Children of the Jacaranda Tree - by Sahar Delijani

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780224619 | ISBN 10: 1780224613

    Iran. Amidst one country's tragedy, three mothers are united by love.  Includes reading group notes.  Tehran, 1983. A city paralysed by fear, its people silenced. And the beating heart of the regime is Evin prison. Yet even within its wall ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fallout by Paul Thomas
    Fallout - by Paul Thomas

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908524492 | ISBN 10: 1908524499

    Tito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of 17 year old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka is also embroile ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of Journalists by Tim Finch
    The House of Journalists - by Tim Finch

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784700232 | ISBN 10: 1784700231

    Welcome to the House of Journalists. Who are you and what is your story?  A fashionable house in a London terrace, the House of Journalists is renowned around the world as a place of refuge for exiled writers who have fallen foul of oppressive ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth of Our Power by Victor Serge
    Birth of Our Power - by Victor Serge

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629630304 | ISBN 10: 1629630306

    Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 19171919. Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
    In the Light of What We Know - by Zia Haider Rahman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447231233 | ISBN 10: 1447231236

    A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surpr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
    The General in His Labyrinth - by Gabriel García Márquez

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241968727 | ISBN 10: 0241968720

    The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simón Bolívar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson
    The Banner of the Passing Clouds - by Anthea Nicholson

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847087430 | ISBN 10: 1847087434

    Iosif Dzhugashvili is born on the day Stalin dies and is given his name by a zealous hospital official. Young Iosif grows up haunted by his great namesake, convinced that the dictator has found a new dwelling place within his chest, behind his heart. ... 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 Sausage Hall by Christina James
    Sausage Hall - by Christina James

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907773822 | ISBN 10: 1907773827

    Sausage Hall is home to millionaire Kevan de Vries, grandson of a Dutch immigrant farmer. De Vries has built up a huge farming and food packing empire which extends, via the banana trade, to the West Indies. Sleazy MD, Tony Sentance, persuades de Vri ... 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 Futures by John Barker
    Futures - by John Barker

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781604869613 | ISBN 10: 1604869615

    Carol is a small-time cocaine dealer in 1987 London. On her own with a young daughter, she is a good mother who is especially careful in her working life. For some punters, this involves being Simone. One of these customers is Phil, a financial analy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Butterfly Wings: An Egyptian Novel by Mohamed Salmawy, translated by Raphael Cohen
    Butterfly Wings: An Egyptian Novel - by Mohamed Salmawy, translated by Raphael Cohen

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9789774166426 | ISBN 10: 9774166426

    The prescient Egyptian novel that described the January 2011 Revolution before it happened.   A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an a ... 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 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 La Vida Doble: A Novel by Arturo Fontaine, translated by Megan McDowell
    La Vida Doble: A Novel - by Arturo Fontaine, translated by Megan McDowell

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205763 | ISBN 10: 0300205767

    Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point when every choice she confronts is impossible. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, with ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Busker by Liam Murray Bell
    The Busker - by Liam Murray Bell

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908434371 | ISBN 10: 1908434376

    SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST 2014 PICK OF THE YEAR Three cities, two years, one chance: from the author of the critically acclaimed debut So It Is shortlisted for best first book at the Scottish Book Awards 2013 comes the hard-hitting story of a young ... more

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  • Cover image of book Until Our Blood is Dry by Kit Habianic
    Until Our Blood is Dry - by Kit Habianic

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909844537 | ISBN 10: 1909844535

    Up ahead, Helen saw the police line harden into a barricade of bodies and shields. Resin batons thudded on Perspex shields; slow, thuggish, brutal. Goosebumps studded her arms and legs. Her pace slowed to the truncheons beat. Mary halted a yard from ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Delicate Truth by John le Carr
    A Delicate Truth - by John le Carr

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241965184 | ISBN 10: 0241965187

    "When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carr ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind. "(Aung San Suu Kyi) A ... 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 How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright
    How I Killed Margaret Thatcher - by Anthony Cartwright

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781251577 | ISBN 10: 1781251576

    Judas Iscariots here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot   Nine-year-old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silence and the Roar by Nihad Sirees
    The Silence and the Roar - by Nihad Sirees

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908968296 | ISBN 10: 190896829x

    With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria.   Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
    Pirate Cinema - by Cory Doctorow

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781167465 | ISBN 10: 178116746x

    Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illega ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lethal Profit by Alex Blackmore
    Lethal Profit - by Alex Blackmore

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781843440635 | ISBN 10: 1843440636

    Inspired by the ordered and logical approach of Henning Mankell's heroes, combined with the action of a Harlan Coben thriller and the conspiracy undertones of a Robert Ludlum plot.   She is caught up in a tangle of deception he left behind, fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
    Ways of Going Home - by Alejandro Zambra

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847086273 | ISBN 10: 1847086276

    A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet's regime.   Then one night a mysterious girl appears in his neighbourhood and makes a life-changing re ... more

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  • Cover image of book Homeland by Cory Doctorow
    Homeland - by Cory Doctorow

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781167489 | ISBN 10: 1781167486

    Two years after the events of Little Brother and Marcus has new problems to deal with: California's economy has collapsed, taking his parents jobs and his university tuition with it. On his return from the Burning Man festival with his girlfriend An ... 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 Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
    The Dream of the Celt - by Mario Vargas Llosa

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275755 | ISBN 10: 0571275753

    As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught aft ... 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 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 Eddie the Kid by Leo Zeilig
    Eddie the Kid - by Leo Zeilig

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780993676 | ISBN 10: 1780993676

    Eddie Bereskin wants to change the world and stop the war, instead his life unravels after he is arrested on a Halloween protest in 2002.  An incredible story about loss and hope set in London, Eddie the Kid takes us to the anti-war movement a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Animal Farm by George Orwell
    Animal Farm - by George Orwell

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141393056 | ISBN 10: 014139305x

    "All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others" When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
    Nineteen Eighty-Four - by George Orwell

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141393049 | ISBN 10: 0141393041

    "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardl ... 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 Apricot Jam and Other Stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy
    Apricot Jam and Other Stories - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857863195 | ISBN 10: 0857863193

    'No matter what, you cannot change human nature,' exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism.'   Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and a ... 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 Three by Annemarie Monahan
    Three - by Annemarie Monahan

    £14.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604866315 | ISBN 10: 1604866314

    As a radical feminist, Antonia has never believed in band-aid political solutions. After years of planning, she and her lover the charismatic and bipolar Josephine found an independent nation for women on an abandoned oil rig. At first, they thri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bloodland by Alan Glynn
    Bloodland - by Alan Glynn

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571275441 | ISBN 10: 0571275443

    CONGO: A private security contractor loses it, with deadly consequences. IRELAND: An ex-prime minister struggles to contain a dark secret from his time in office. NEW YORK: A dramatic news story breaks in Paris just as a US senator be ... 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 The Submission by Amy Waldman
    The Submission - by Amy Waldman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099528241 | ISBN 10: 009952824x

    Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath. A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the enve ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini, Preface by Antonio Negri, Translated by Liz Heron
    The Unseen - by Nanni Balestrini, Preface by Antonio Negri, Translated by Liz Heron

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677672 | ISBN 10: 1844677672

    An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion. For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italys cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Au ... 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 The Prince
    The Prince's Pen - by Horatio Clare

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781854115522 | ISBN 10: 1854115529

    "...an epic tale of conflict, faith and banishment...this reworked tale provides a graphic depiction of the cruelty of war and torture"(The Guardian 2011) The Invaders drones hear everything and see all. England is now a defeated archipelago ... 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 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 Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
    The Wild Girls - by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader
    Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! - by Ralph Nader

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781583229231 | ISBN 10: 158322923x

    "In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005...On the fourth day, he beheld in d ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Room and the Chair by Lorraine Adams
    The Room and the Chair - by Lorraine Adams

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846272387 | ISBN 10: 1846272386

    A jet aircraft falls straight out of the sky into an island park in the heart of Washington, DC. But no-one seems to have noticed. Well, almost no-one...   At the capital's paper, the staff are in a frenzy, and the news, and ambition, can ... 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 Can the Gods Cry? by Allan Cameron
    Can the Gods Cry? - by Allan Cameron

    £11.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908251008 | ISBN 10: 190825100x

    With one exception, these short stories were written for this collection, and they tentatively look at different themes such as compassion, passivity and their opposites, which are not, of course, original themes, as none exist. The stories are told ... more

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  • Cover image of book Collected Stories by Hanif Kureishi
    Collected Stories - by Hanif Kureishi

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571249824 | ISBN 10: 0571249825

    Over the course of the last 12 years, Hanif Kureishi has written short fiction. The stories are, by turns, provocative, erotic, tender, funny and charming as they deal with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
    Freedom - by Jonathan Franzen

    £14.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007318520 | ISBN 10: 0007318529

    The new novel from the author of The Corrections.  Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Quite White by Simon Thirsk
    Not Quite White - by Simon Thirsk

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848511996 | ISBN 10: 184851199x

    The young Jon Bull is sent by Westminster to Wales's last remaining Welsh-speaking town to see why all attempts to bring it into the twenty-first century have failed. Waiting for him is the beautiful but embittered Gwalia...   Not Quite White ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov, translated by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
    The Foundation Pit - by Andrey Platonov, translated by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099529743 | ISBN 10: 0099529742

    Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. As they work harder and dig deeper, their optimism turns to violence and it becomes clear that what is being ... more

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  • Cover image of book Meltdown by Ben Elton
    Meltdown - by Ben Elton

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780552775106 | ISBN 10: 055277510x

    For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadnt met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab.  But Jimmy was as luck ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
    The Invisible Mountain - by Carolina De Robertis

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007302833 | ISBN 10: 0007302835

    The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again.  As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women are emancipated, Che Guevara ... more

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  • Cover image of book Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar
    Needle in a Haystack - by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781904738565 | ISBN 10: 1904738567

    Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Two are clearly t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky
    The Cowards - by Josef Skvorecky

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141047676 | ISBN 10: 0141047674

    The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication.  In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just ... 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 The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
    The Left Left Behind - by Terry Bisson

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860863 | ISBN 10: 1604860863

    Hugo and Nebula award-winner Terry Bisson is best known for his short stories, which range from the southern sweetness of Bears Discover Fire to the alienated aliens of Theyre Made Out of Meat. He is also a 1960s New Left vet with a history of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harare North by Brian Chikwava
    Harare North - by Brian Chikwava

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099526759 | ISBN 10: 0099526751

    When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and an email address for his childhood friend, Shingi. Finessing his way through immigration, he spends a few restless weeks as the very ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Good Land by Nada Awar Jarrar
    A Good Land - by Nada Awar Jarrar

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007221981 | ISBN 10: 0007221983

    The old neighbourhood block in Beirut was home to an ever- changing population as the fighting intensified and lessened. But three people were almost always there.The older Polish woman, Margo, refugee from her past, her country and family after anot ... 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 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 To Kill a Mockingbird (50th Anniversary edition) by Harper Lee
    To Kill a Mockingbird (50th Anniversary edition) - by Harper Lee

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099549482 | ISBN 10: 0099549484

    'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' This book presents a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
    Fire on the Mountain - by Terry Bisson

    £14.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781604860870 | ISBN 10: 1604860871

    It's 1959 in Socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet and a pregant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great grandfath ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eclipse by Richard North Patterson
    Eclipse - by Richard North Patterson

    £6.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780330454872 | ISBN 10: 0330454870

    In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the countrys corrupt and autocratic leader. Complicating matters further is Okari ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
    The Vagrants - by Yiyun Li

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007196654 | ISBN 10: 0007196652

    The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.  In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty- ... more

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  • Cover image of book By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
    By Night in Chile - by Roberto Bolano

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099459392 | ISBN 10: 0099459396

    During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish ... more

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  • Cover image of book Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
    Distant Star - by Roberto Bolano

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099461722 | ISBN 10: 0099461722

    An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After ... more

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  • Cover image of book America America by Ethan Canin
    America America - by Ethan Canin

    £19.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747598725 | ISBN 10: 074759872x

    It is 1971. Nixon is in the White House, the war in Vietnam shows no sign of ending, and Corey Sifter, the young son of working-class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York polit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
    Chicago - by Alaa Al Aswany

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007286249 | ISBN 10: 0007286244

    Sex, money and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany.  A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book Human Love by Andrei Makine
    Human Love - by Andrei Makine

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340936788 | ISBN 10: 0340936789

    As a child, Elias Almeida loses both his parents during the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. As an adult and professional revolutionary, he bears witness to mankind at its pitiless worst. Yet he continues to believe in a better world and in th ... more

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  • Cover image of book One of Us by Melissa Benn
    One of Us - by Melissa Benn

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099507994 | ISBN 10: 0099507994

    It is March, 2003, and a leading political journalist and a 42-year-old woman meet at a dingy London cafe in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. Anna Adams has a story to tell - one that goes right to the top of the Cabinet. It involves her adored ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger by John Berger
    From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger - by John Berger

    £13.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844673612 | ISBN 10: 1844673618

    In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants who ... 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 V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
    V for Vendetta - by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

    £15.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781401208417 | ISBN 10: 140120841x

    Originally published in 1990, V for Vendetta is a frightening and powerful story about the loss of freedom in a totalitarian England. Written against a background of third term Thatcherism and tabloid rants against minorites, this is a work of start ... 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 Psyclone by Shyam Mael
    Psyclone - by Shyam Mael

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780956018106 | ISBN 10: 0956018106

    Captured and tortured by the anti-terrorist squad, Jared's life will never be the same. Rescued by a shadowy group of revolutionary freedom fighters he begins a journey that uncovers the hidden workings of a disturbingly familiar dystopia, and reveal ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - by Robert Tressell

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199537471 | ISBN 10: 019953747x

    'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!'   Tressell's novel is about survival on the und ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cranks and Revolutions by Mark Gold
    Cranks and Revolutions - by Mark Gold

    £9.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781854250971 | ISBN 10: 1854250973

    Cranks and Revolutions tells the story of two brothers from a family for whom protest has always been a way of life. Brought up in the 1960s on CND marches, fund raising events for the victims of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war and rescuing oiled sea bi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
    Diary of a Bad Year - by J.M. Coetzee

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099516224 | ISBN 10: 0099516225

    An eminent, aging Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black by Nadine Gordimer
    Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black - by Nadine Gordimer

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593843 | ISBN 10: 0747593841

    The latest collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer.  This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimers countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imagi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power by Edited by Gary Phillips
    Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power - by Edited by Gary Phillips

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844671618 | ISBN 10: 1844671615

    They seek power at any price, and pay with the devil's own coin! All new stories from... Black Artemis...Ken Bruen...Mike Davis...Robert Greer...Pete Hautman...Darrell James...Jake Lamar...Michelle Martinez...Sujata Massey...Twist Phelan...Gary P ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blind Faith by Ben Elton
    Blind Faith - by Ben Elton

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780552773904 | ISBN 10: 0552773905

    Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.  Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
    The Lizard Cage - by Karen Connelly

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099502470 | ISBN 10: 009950247x

    Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement, cut off from his fami ... 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 Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
    Absurdistan - by Gary Shteyngart

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080066 | ISBN 10: 1847080065

    Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (translator: Carol Brown Janeway)
    The Reader - by Bernhard Schlink (translator: Carol Brown Janeway)

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753823293 | ISBN 10: 0753823292

    For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and co ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge
    The Unforgiving Years - by Victor Serge

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781590172476 | ISBN 10: 1590172477

    Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mission Song by John le Carre
    The Mission Song - by John le Carre

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340921999 | ISBN 10: 0340921994

    Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is not stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked to change his identity - and, worse still, his clothes - in service o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Men by Matthew De Abaitua
    The Red Men - by Matthew De Abaitua

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905005581 | ISBN 10: 190500558x

    Nelson used to be a radical journalist, but now he works for Monad, one of the world's leading corporations. Monad make the Dr Easys, the androids which patrol London's streets: assisting police, easing tensions, calming the populace. But Monad also ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anarchipelago by Jay Griffiths
    Anarchipelago - by Jay Griffiths

    £5.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904263234 | ISBN 10: 1904263232

    A young man's search for freedom, leaving the confines of Wimbly and finding himself living in a treehouse, a partner in grime with the road protesters of Newbury.   A sharp green tale from the multiple award-winning author of Pip Pip: A Side ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
    Kalooki Nights - by Howard Jacobson

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099501367 | ISBN 10: 0099501368

    Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whiteman by Tony D
    Whiteman - by Tony D'Souza

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846270505 | ISBN 10: 1846270502

    Young, American, and idealistic, the Whiteman bounds into the Ivory Coast with a deep desire to Make a Difference. But then the NGO's funding dries up and he's stranded, unable to establish a water supply for the village and with plenty of time on hi ... 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 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 Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua
    Let It Be Morning - by Sayed Kashua

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781843545439 | ISBN 10: 1843545438

    A young journalist, recently married and with a new baby, is seeking a quieter life away from the city and has bought a large house in his parent's hometown, an Arab village in Israel. Nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people pet ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Eagle
    The Eagle's Throne - by Carlos Fuentes

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747579373 | ISBN 10: 0747579377

    The year is 2020. In a fit of ill-advised independence, the Mexican President has incurred the double wrath of the United States by calling for the removal of US troops from Colombia and demanding higher prices for Mexico's oil. Unfortunately for him ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
    The Constant Gardener - by John le Carre

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780340937723 | ISBN 10: 0340937726

    Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, The Constant Gardener is a profoundly moving story of a man enobled by his wife's tragic murder, and a magnificent exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism. "Another classic narrative ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stark by Ben Elton
    Stark - by Ben Elton

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780552773553 | ISBN 10: 0552773557

    Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying. Deep in Western Australia where the Aboriginals used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot is tak ... more

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  • Cover image of book George and Martha by Karen Finley
    George and Martha - by Karen Finley

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844670642 | ISBN 10: 1844670643

    George and Martha meet in a seedy motel room on the night before the Republican National Convention. Their affair goes way back, before George stole the election, before Martha built an empire on fascist domesticity. As usual, George numbs his pain o ... 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 Amina by Mohammed Umar
    Amina - by Mohammed Umar

    £17.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781592214044 | ISBN 10: 1592214045

    This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction - the legal status of Muslim women, the limitation ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan
    Big Breasts and Wide Hips - by Mo Yan

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780413771551 | ISBN 10: 0413771555

    In 1900, as the Boxer Rebellion rages in China, baby Shangguan Lu is hidden in a flour vat while her parents are slain by invading German forces.Ninety-three years later, having survived the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Grear Leap Forward ... 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 Qissat; Short Stories by Palestinian Women by Jo Glanville (Ed)
    Qissat; Short Stories by Palestinian Women - by Jo Glanville (Ed)

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846590122 | ISBN 10: 1846590124

    These fascinating and diverse stories reflect the everyday concerns of Palestinians living under occupation. Writers who were children during the first intifada appear alongside those who remember the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war. They offer co ... more

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  • Cover image of book War Trash by Ha Jin
    War Trash - by Ha Jin

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan
    The Garlic Ballads - by Mo Yan

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780413775313 | ISBN 10: 0413775313

    By China's greatest living novelist, an unforgettable story of politics, love, loyalty and retribution - between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend.In China's Paradise Coutny, the peasants have grown their famous garlic crop for hund ... more

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  • Cover image of book
    '54 - by Wu Ming

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099472339 | ISBN 10: 0099472333

    The year: 1954, the height of the Cold War. The world is divided into East and West. In Naples, Lucky Luciano and his minions are busy fixing horse races, and overseeing the creation of the global heroin trade.  In Hollywood, members o ... 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 Saturday by Ian McEwan
    Saturday - by Ian McEwan

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099469681 | ISBN 10: 0099469685

    Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Children of Men by P D James
    The Children of Men - by P D James

    £6.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571228522 | ISBN 10: 0571228526

    The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a so ... more

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  • Cover image of book Island by Aldous Huxley
    Island - by Aldous Huxley

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099477778 | ISBN 10: 0099477777

    For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise ... 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 Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh
    Wild Thorns - by Sahar Khalifeh

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565373 | ISBN 10: 0863565379

    A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement. His mission is to blow up buses transporting Palestinian workers to Israel. Shocked to discover that many of his fellow citizens have adjusted t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende
    Forest of the Pygmies - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007199648 | ISBN 10: 0007199643

    From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When National Geographic commissions ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man Who Killed Durruti by Pedro de Paz
    The Man Who Killed Durruti - by Pedro de Paz

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781873976265 | ISBN 10: 1873976267

    A former policeman, now a Major in the Spanish Republican Army, is sent to Madrid to investigate the circumstances in which the legendary anarchist was killed. In his search for the truth he interviews the key witnesses and uncovers a number of contr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sticks and Stones by Peter Kuper
    Sticks and Stones - by Peter Kuper

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781400052578 | ISBN 10: 1400052572

    In a barren landscape, an empire is about to rise and an epic struggle is about to unfold. Sticks and Stones illuminates this earth-shaking tale without a single word. It is as elemental as hieroglyphics, a timeless story for all ages.In Sticks and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Women in One by Nawal El-Saadawi
    Two Women in One - by Nawal El-Saadawi

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565625 | ISBN 10: 086356562x

    Bahiah Shaheen, an 18-year old medical student and daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hard-working, well-behav ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brick Lane by Monica Ali
    Brick Lane - by Monica Ali

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780552771153 | ISBN 10: 0552771155

    At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years he elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can b ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Name is Light by Elsa Osorio
    My Name is Light - by Elsa Osorio

    £14.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780747561613 | ISBN 10: 0747561613

    Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinian, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and new-born son. But secretly she has a mission - to find her father. Carlos was a 'desaparecido', one of the many political activists in Argentina who literally disa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
    Nineteen Eighty-Four - by George Orwell

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141187761 | ISBN 10: 014118776x

    Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.  Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedien ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
    Bitter Fruit - by Achmat Dangor

    £7.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781843542643 | ISBN 10: 1843542641

    The last time Silas Ali encountered the Lieutenant, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the Lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Lydia, his wife. When Silas sees him again, by chance, crimes from the past erupt into the present ... 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 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 Adama by Turki al-Hamad
    Adama - by Turki al-Hamad

    £9.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780863563119 | ISBN 10: 0863563112

    Turki al-Hamad's explosive novel Adama Became an unlikely bestseller in the Middle East, selling more than 20,000 copies despite being officially banned in several countries, including the author's native Saudi Arabia. A compelling coming-of-age stor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Broken Dreams by Jideofor Adibe
    Broken Dreams - by Jideofor Adibe

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780954503703 | ISBN 10: 0954503708

    Amid the smouldering tension of impending civil war, Pete Ogwu an his wife Teresa are forced to flee their home in western Nigeria, leaving behind a baby son and their housemaid. Adpoted by Madam Cash, Femi grows upto be an idealistic socialist write ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fountain at the Centre of the World by Robert Newman
    The Fountain at the Centre of the World - by Robert Newman

    £7.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781859845738 | ISBN 10: 1859845738

    Chano Salgado goes on the run just as the brother he's never met comes looking for him, and the son he thought he'd lost for ever reappears...An extraordinary epic novel about loss and hope set in Britain, Mexico and the United States, The Fountain ... more

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  • Cover image of book Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
    Doctor Zhivago - by Boris Pasternak, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099448426 | ISBN 10: 0099448424

    From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the e ... 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 Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Herland - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    £6.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780704347007 | ISBN 10: 0704347008

    Written in 1915, this text is about three male explorers and the utopian female society they stumble upon. This is a community where war, famine and other "man-made" disasters do not exist. An early feminist classic. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
    Anthills of the Savannah - by Chinua Achebe

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186900 | ISBN 10: 0141186909

    'Worshipping a dictator is such a pain in the ass.' Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppressi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Giovanni
    Giovanni's Room - by James Baldwin

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186351 | ISBN 10: 0141186356

    David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsom Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancee returns, and, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pig Earth by John Berger
    Pig Earth - by John Berger

    £7.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780747543039 | ISBN 10: 0747543038

    Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women.  This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing. ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The 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 News from Nowhere and Other Writings by William Morris
    News from Nowhere and Other Writings - by William Morris

    £9.99   paperback   (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780140433302 | ISBN 10: 0140433309

    Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth.   News From Nowhere, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
    Possessing the Secret of Joy - by Alice Walker

    £9.99   paperback   (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780099224112 | ISBN 10: 0099224119

    When Alice Walker finshed writing The Color Purple she realised that she needed to tell the story of Tashi, a minor character, who had "left Africa but had taken her wound with her to America".  This is Tashi's story, told in her words and the v ... 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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  • Cover image of book Red Star - The First Bolshevik Utopia and Engineer Menni by Alexander Bogdanov
    Red Star - The First Bolshevik Utopia and Engineer Menni - by Alexander Bogdanov

    £14.99   paperback   (1984) - ISBN 13: 9780253203175 | ISBN 10: 0253203171

    A communist society on Mars, the Russian Revolution, and class struggle on two planets are the subjects of two remarkable science fiction novels by Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928), one of the early organisers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik Part ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Iron Heel by Jack London
    The Iron Heel - by Jack London

    £12.99   paperback   (1907) - ISBN 13: 9781556520716 | ISBN 10: 1556520719

    From the Introduction The Iron Heel appeared in 1908. By 1947, Philip Foner was calling it 'probably the most amazingly prophetic work of the twentieth century.' To us, looking backward from the closing decades of the century, this claim does not ... more

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