Capital by John Lanchester - £7.99
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want ... more
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The Mill for Grinding Old People Young by Glenn Patterson - £7.99
In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85-years-old and in failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change.   Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an incr ... more
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The Crow Road by Iain Banks - £8.99
From its bravura opening onwards, The Crow Road is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel.   'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mas ... more
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - £7.99
When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other.   He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or ... more
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A Small Fortune by Rosie Dastgir - £7.99
Harris Anwar is a British Pakistani who longs to do well by those closest to him. Yet his Muslim sense of responsibility and obligation seems increasingly incompatible with the modern British way of life they have chosen. As a consequence, his best i ... more
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Best European Fiction 2013 by Aleksandar Hemon (Editor), with a Preface by John Banville - £11.99
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fa ... more
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Bear Witness by Mandy Haggith - £8.99
The brutal shooting of a bear cub galvanises ecologist Callis MacArthur into becoming an activist. Dreaming of bears roaming free, she finds herself exploring Europe’s remotest forests and meeting colourful characters who are as passionate about natu ... more
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Master Georgie (Abacus 40th Anniversary edition) by Beryl Bainbridge - £8.99
The book that only she could have written: This brilliant novel about one family's experiences in the Crimean war is now being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in their 40th Anniversary year with a new int ... more
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - £20.00
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.   As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if t ... more
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The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - £7.99
You've read The Shadow of the Wind - now read what happens next ... Includes Reading Group Notes.  The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop.   It begins just before Christmas ... more
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The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez - £7.99
The internationally bestselling novel about a little cafe in Kabul, and the five extraordinary women who meet there - as if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner.   In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, f ... more
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Kingdom of Strangers by Zoe Ferraris - £7.99
The thrilling new novel from the author of The Night of the Mi'raj and City of Veils, a mystery set in Saudia Arabia's underworld.  Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad. But for the past year, ... more
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Mountains of the Moon by I J Kay - £8.99
A woman in her thirties is released from prison, with a new name and not much else. She begins to make a fresh start but the present is soon invaded by fragments from her past.   Unsettling, hallucinatory and without precedent, Mountains of the Mo ... more
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A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths - £14.99
Sixteen-year-old Grace may be from a small coastal village but she's not staying there. She has huge dreams, and knows from television and magazines that she can get to the big city, she can be a star, simply by changing from a duckling to a swan. It ... more
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Rhumba by Elaine Proctor - £8.99
Ten-year-old Flambeau waits for his young mother to arrive from the Congo, along the same dangerous route that the human traffickers smuggled him. Homesick and pining for love, he sees a glimpse of life in his young neighbor, Eleanor, and her gangste ... more
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Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan - £8.99
Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church. The monk, Hypa, embarks on a journey both physical and ... more
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Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver - £7.99
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary es ... more
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May We Be Forgiven by A.M Homes - £8.99
Harry has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother George - a taller, smarter and more successful, high-flying TV executive - acquire a covetable wife, two kids and a beautiful home. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George ha ... more
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Ship of Fools: Stories from the Mental Health Front Line by Rod Madocks - £8.99
"It's not the patients you should worry about. It's the staff you should watch out for."   Ship of Fools comprises twenty short stories, one for each year the author worked in the mental health system. These stories are fiction, but they are b ... more
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Lucinda Sly: A Woman Hanged by Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé, translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice - £10.99
The year is 1835 and local woman Lucinda Singleton is publicly hanged alongside her lover, John Dempsey, in front of Carlow Gaol. This, the first ever translation of Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé’s historical novel, tells the story of the last woman to be hange ... more
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After the Lockout by Darran McCann - £8.99
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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Ancient Light by John Banville - £8.99
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'   In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown c ... more
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A Welsh Witch: A Romance of Rough Places by Allen Raine - £10.99
They say she's a real witch,' says Goronwy Hughes' grandmother, warning him of Catrin Rees, the heroine of A Welsh Witch: 'Don't speak to her or let her eyes fall upon thee.'   The sea-side village of Treswnd has elected Catrin as its scapegoat ... more
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The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland - £14.99
A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A magical realism delight.   Before Eve is born, her mother ... more
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The Bug by Ellen Ullman - £8.99
"Ethan Levin, programmer at a database start-up in the mid 1980s, has a serious bug to find, one that freezes the whole program. However, the elusive bug cannot be reliably reproduced; it seems to rear its ugly head only during high-stakes demonstrat ... more
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The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness - £14.99
One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches ... more
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Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron - £8.99
Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction   Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in whic ... more
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Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi - £14.99
A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.   This is the story of a family -- of the simpl ... more
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The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N Murari - £7.99
A soaring novel of resilience, hope, strength and tenderness, The Taliban Cricket Club reveals how love can overcome, and outwit, even the power of tyrants.  Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in Kabul, is summoned to the infamous Ministry for th ... more
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The Sentinel by Mark Oldfield - £7.99
1936, Badajoz: His unit defeated, his ammunition spent, a boy-soldier flees into the hills pursued by Franco's shock-troops. He will need more than luck to survive the day.   1953, Madrid: Amid snow-bound streets, the head of Franco's secret p ... more
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Eddie the Kid by Leo Zeilig - £10.99
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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The Killing Pool by Kevin Sampson - £12.99
Detective Chief Inspector Billy McCartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit – a message from the underworld to snitches, cops and rival gangs.   One mile a ... more
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The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson - £7.99
GOOD FRIDAY, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire.   A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell.   Is this a witches' Sabbat?   Two notorious Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting t ... more
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An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo - £7.99
From one of Britain’s 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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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - £7.99
"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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Animal Farm by George Orwell - £7.99
"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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A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers - £18.99
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.   In A Hologram for ... more
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Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil - £7.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE.   Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick and potent. A beautiful young woman leans to hold a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her dark eyes. Around h ... more
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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts - £9.99
A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. "In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian ... more
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Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig - £8.99
Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity.   In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked he ... more
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Two Pints by Roddy Doyle - £6.99
A collection of sublimely funny dialogues inspired by a year’s worth of news.  Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss… They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids’ pets, their foo ... more
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Genie and Paul by Natasha Soobramanien - £8.99
SHORTLISTED FOR AMAZON'S RISING STARS  SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANOBII FIRST BOOK AWARD  GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012   FOYLES BEST FICTION OF 2012  One morning in May 2003, on the cyclone-ravaged island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean, the ... more
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The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac - £9.99
The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942.   Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and brotherhood and a meditation on the desire to escape ... more
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Canada by Richard Ford - £12.99
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.   In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war. His father, Bev, wa ... more
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Purgatory by Tomás Eloy Martínez - £8.99
Simón Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simón had been one of the thousands of victims of Argentina's military regime, executed for being a 'subversive'; ye ... more
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The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women by Marie O'Regan (Editor) - £7.99
25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers.  Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', publ ... more
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State of Wonder by Ann Patchett - £7.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012  There were people on the banks of the river.   Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter ... more
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Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson - £12.99
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2012, Tony Hogan introduces an irresistible new Scottish voice...  Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Y ... more
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It's Fine By Me by Per Petterson, translated by Don Bartlett - £7.99
The brilliant and moving story of a young man's life from the author of the prizewinning Out Stealing Horses.  Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school a ... more
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Dangerous Score by Michael Bearcroft - £8.99
In one week a footballer goes from hero to zero. After scoring the goal that takes his club into the league for the first time. After claiming to have dated a girl who has been missing for a year, he is pilloried by media and fans alike. Fighting to ... more
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The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers - £14.99
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012  An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, The Yellow Birds is already being hailed as a modern classic.   Everywhere John looks, he se ... more
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