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  • Cover image of book The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer
    The Hotel Avocado - by Bob Mortimer

    £22.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781398529625 | ISBN 10: 1398529621

    'As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like nobody else, and this is a rollicking old-school yarn' The Guardian  ‘Mortimer’s verbal specificity and off-kilter humour will keep his fans chuckling’ The Times  WARNIN ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin
    Mona of the Manor - by Armistead Maupin

    £20.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780857527073 | ISBN 10: 085752707x

    'A breeze' The Times ‘Delightful comedy of manners' iPaper ‘A welcome tenth instalment of his iconic Tales of the City saga’ Mail on Sunday ‘A witty novel about identity and finding a family in 1980s England’ Woman&Home 'The message sti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
    Cereus Blooms at Night - by Shani Mootoo

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784878320 | ISBN 10: 1784878324

    EVERYONE THINKS MALA IS A MURDERER  'A Caribbean classic' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch   Everyone in Paradise thinks Mala Ramchandin is a murderer. But with no body, no evidence and no witnesses, Mala is sent to an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of Marvellous Books by Fiona Vigo Marshall
    The House of Marvellous Books - by Fiona Vigo Marshall

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914148231 | ISBN 10: 1914148231

    Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the centre of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra
    Run And Hide - by Pankaj Mishra

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529158106 | ISBN 10: 1529158109

    FROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION  'A book that demands to be read' MOHSIN HAMID  'Terrific... deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIE  Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529418019 | ISBN 10: 1529418011

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.  ‘ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 20 ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
    Life Ceremony - by Sayaka Murata

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787371 | ISBN 10: 1783787376

    From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you’ve read before.  An engaged couple falls out over the husband’s dislike of clothes and ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Khan by Saima Mir
    The Khan - by Saima Mir

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780861540891 | ISBN 10: 0861540891

    A Times & Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Year   ‘Bold, addictive and brilliant.’ Stylist, best fiction 2021   A Times Bestseller  A Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021  A Waterstones Best Crime & Thriller of 2021 ... 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 Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
    Utopia Avenue - by David Mitchell

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Exile and the Mapmaker by Emma Musty
    The Exile and the Mapmaker - by Emma Musty

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781800319431 | ISBN 10: 1800319436

    Theo, an aging Parisian cartographer, is desperately searching for the woman he once loved before Alzheimer’s takes his memories of her.   Elise, his estranged daughter, moves in to take care of him. She still blames him for the tragic los ... more

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  • Cover image of book Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
    Earthlings - by Sayaka Murata

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781783785698 | ISBN 10: 1783785691

    Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet.  Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of othe ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
    Blood Grove - by Walter Mosley

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474616560 | ISBN 10: 1474616569

    Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles. But when Easy is approached by a shel ... 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 Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
    Rainbow Milk - by Paul Mendez

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349700588 | ISBN 10: 0349700583

    "When did you last read a novel about a young, black, gay, Jehovah Witness man from Wolverhampton who flees his community to make his way in London as a prostitute? This might be a debut, but Mendez is an exciting, accomplished and daring storyteller ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
    Hurricane Season - by Fernanda Melchor

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781913097097 | ISBN 10: 1913097099

    The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred.  As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Car Burning by Helen Mort
    Black Car Burning - by Helen Mort

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784706630 | ISBN 10: 1784706639

    How do we trust each other?   Alexa is a young police community support officer whose world feels unstable. Her father is estranged and her girlfriend is increasingly distant. Their polyamorous relationship – which for years felt so natural – ... more

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  • Cover image of book Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written by Paul Merton (Editor)
    Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written - by Paul Merton (Editor)

    £15.00   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838939021 | ISBN 10: 1838939024

    The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year.   80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Manchester Happened - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077769 | ISBN 10: 1786077760

    A stunning new story collection from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, acclaimed author of Kintu and winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014 and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018.  If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Mak ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton
    Where The Wild Ladies Are - by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911284383 | ISBN 10: 191128438x

    Winner of an English PEN Award Named a ‘new book you need to read in 2020‘ by i-D Named a ‘best book of the year so far‘ by Tatler  Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
    She Would Be King - by Wayétu Moore

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911590132 | ISBN 10: 1911590138

    In the west African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she survives to discover a new life with a group of African American settlers in the colony of Mon ... more

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  • Cover image of book How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid
    How the Dead Speak - by Val McDermid

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780751576931 | ISBN 10: 075157693x

    The eleventh book in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, from No. 1 bestselling author Val McDermid.  ‘We are all creatures of habit. Even murderers...’   When human remains are discovered in the grounds of an old convent, i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not So Stories by David Thomas Moore (Editor)
    Not So Stories - by David Thomas Moore (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781781087800 | ISBN 10: 1781087806

    Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His Throat or H ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Manchester Happened - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786075895 | ISBN 10: 178607589x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEARST BIG BOOK AWARDS 2019  AN AMBITIOUS AND ASSURED COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF KINTU.  If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi's stories know, it's ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
    Killing Commendatore - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784707330 | ISBN 10: 1784707333

    The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84.   In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous art ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
    The Forest of Wool and Steel - by Natsu Miyashita

    £9.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857525185 | ISBN 10: 0857525182

    What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing... It was life-making.   Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
    Ghost Wall - by Sarah Moss

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783784455 | ISBN 10: 1783784458

    Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. Haunting Silvie's narrative is the st ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
    How Saints Die - by Carmen Marcus

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784705510 | ISBN 10: 1784705519

    Ellie Fleck has a question for everything, except the one she cannot ask. Where have they taken her mother?   Ten years old and irrepressibly curious, Ellie lives with her fisherman father, Peter, on the wild North Yorkshire coast. It’s the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
    Midwinter Break - by Bernard MacLaverty

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784704919 | ISBN 10: 1784704911

    A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year   A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refres ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
    Black Moses - by Alain Mabanckou

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781256749 | ISBN 10: 1781256748

    Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017.  The new novel from the outstanding figure of French and African literature, Man Booker International shortlisted novelist Alain Mabanckou.  It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
    The Lesser Bohemians - by Eimear McBride

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571327881 | ISBN 10: 0571327885

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016   From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years.   An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man ... more

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  • Cover image of book Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
    Solar Bones - by Mike McCormack

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786891297 | ISBN 10: 1786891298

    Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 and BGE Irish Book of the Year 2016.  Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life.  Considering with his engineer's mind how thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Census-Taker by China Miéville
    This Census-Taker - by China Miéville

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509812134 | ISBN 10: 150981213x

    In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event. He tries - and fails - to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape.   When at ... 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 The Killing Room by Peter May
    The Killing Room - by Peter May

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784291686 | ISBN 10: 1784291684

    Li Yan and Margaret Campbell travel to Shanghai: where a new ally, and a new enemy, await.   THE THIRD CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA THRILLER, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE.   THE NEW CASE  Whe ... more

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

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784701468 | ISBN 10: 1784701467

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016   Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Whispering Swarm by Michael Moorcock
    The Whispering Swarm - by Michael Moorcock

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473213333 | ISBN 10: 1473213339

    The grand master of fantasy returns to London and the fantastical for his first independent novel in almost ten years!   With his first full novel in almost ten years (not counting his Doctor Who book), Michael Moorcock - the most influential ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville
    Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories - by China Miéville

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447235002 | ISBN 10: 1447235002

    The multi-award-winning China Miéville has been called 'the equal of David Mitchell or Zadie Smith' (Scotland on Sunday), a writer whose 'inventiveness and precision is awesome' (Independent), and who writes with 'an imagination of immense power' (Gu ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Don
    We Don't Know What We're Doing - by Thomas Morris

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571317028 | ISBN 10: 0571317022

    A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dub ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin
    Sea Lovers - by Valerie Martin

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781255551 | ISBN 10: 1781255555

    Wondrous beings and everyday monsters walk the pages of Orange Prize winner Valerie Martin's kaleidoscopic collection of stories.   Each of these twelve stories is a complete world, where ordinary lives are transformed, myths bloom into realit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arab Jazz by Karim Miské
    Arab Jazz - by Karim Miské

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848664395 | ISBN 10: 1848664397

    A ritualistic murder threatens to destabilise the turbulent multicultural melting pot of suburban Paris.   Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan district where multicultural ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rose Gold by Walter Mosely
    Rose Gold - by Walter Mosely

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780227856 | ISBN 10: 178022785x

    Easy Rawlins is back - and this time its personal...   When four armed policemen turn up at Easy Rawlins's door, he thinks he's in trouble. He is. They want him to find Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a millionaire arms dealer. And Easy can't a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
    Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - by Haruki Murakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099590378 | ISBN 10: 0099590379

    A mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestseller author of Norwegian Wood.   Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’ ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Calligraphy of Dreams by Juan Marsé
    The Calligraphy of Dreams - by Juan Marsé

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782064886 | ISBN 10: 1782064885

    Young minds meet adult passions in a Spanish counterpart to L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between - by the winner of the Cervantes Prize  When Señora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Ki ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Solace by Emily Mackie
    In Search of Solace - by Emily Mackie

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780340992531 | ISBN 10: 0340992530

    LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015 AND THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE 2014   Jacob Little is in trouble - existential trouble. Over ten years, he has tried out such a range of identities that he has lost all sense of who he is. Convinced that only ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, Book 9) by Armistead Maupin
    The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, Book 9) - by Armistead Maupin

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552778831 | ISBN 10: 0552778834

    The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin’s bestselling “Tales of the City” series, follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary trans ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
    The Woman Upstairs - by Claire Messud

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844087334 | ISBN 10: 1844087336

    Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen. One day Reza Sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed
    The Orchard of Lost Souls - by Nadifa Mohamed

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781471115301 | ISBN 10: 1471115305

    It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall.   Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp she was ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Son by Philipp Meyer
    The Son - by Philipp Meyer

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857209443 | ISBN 10: 0857209442

    Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fields by Kevin Maher
    The Fields - by Kevin Maher

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349138671 | ISBN 10: 0349138672

    The launch of a major new literary voice in Irish/British fiction: set in 1980s Dublin and London, The Fields tells the vividly evocative story of Jim Finnegan's unfairly interrupted adolescence.  We'd never seen anything like that around our p ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
    A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - by Anthony Marra

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575573 | ISBN 10: 0099575574

    When everything else seems lost, watch out for the unexpected ties that bind us together...  Longlisted for the National Book Award 2013  In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father i ... 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 Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N Murari
    The Taliban Cricket Club - by Timeri N Murari

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781743311479 | ISBN 10: 1743311478

    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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  • Cover image of book 1Q84: Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami
    1Q84: Books 1 and 2 - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099549062 | ISBN 10: 0099549069

    The year is 1Q84.  This is the real world, there is no doubt about that.   But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.   In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
    The Song of Achilles - by Madeline Miller

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408821985 | ISBN 10: 1408821982

    WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012   Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed p ... more

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  • Cover image of book 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 The Gendarme by Mark Musitian
    The Gendarme - by Mark Musitian

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851688395 | ISBN 10: 1851688390

    An extraordinarily haunting novel of identity and remembrance, love and forgiveness.  Emet Conn is an old man on the verge of senility, a feisty World War 1 veteran who suffered amnesia during the war. Now at the end of his life, he suddenly f ... more

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  • Cover image of book King Rat by China Mieville
    King Rat - by China Mieville

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780330534215 | ISBN 10: 0330534211

    Something is stirring in London’s dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul’s father, and left Saul to pay for the crime.   But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into his prison cell and lea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
    Skippy Dies - by Paul Murray

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141009957 | ISBN 10: 0141009950

    'Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his ...'   And so begins Skippy Dies - an epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kraken by China Mieville
    Kraken - by China Mieville

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330492324 | ISBN 10: 0330492322

    A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre.  Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perf ... 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 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 Diablerie by Walter Mosley
    Diablerie - by Walter Mosley

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747591870 | ISBN 10: 0747591873

    Who doesn't wonder about how different their life might have been? Who doesn't dream of a more interesting, more dangerous past they could have had?  Ben Dibbuk is married to the beautiful Mona, has a lovely daughter and a well-paid job in NY ... more

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  • Cover image of book Children of the Revolution by Dinaw Mengestu
    Children of the Revolution - by Dinaw Mengestu

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099502739 | ISBN 10: 0099502739

    Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man caught between two existences: the one he left behind aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington DC.  Sepha spends ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
    On Chesil Beach - by Ian McEwan

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099512790 | ISBN 10: 0099512793

    It is June, 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to c ... more

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

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099511656 | ISBN 10: 0099511657

    It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists.  The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Coconut by Kopano Matlwa
    Coconut - by Kopano Matlwa

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781770093362 | ISBN 10: 1770093362

    An exciting young voice has emerged that reflects the idiosyncratic nature of our young democracy.  Coconut is a story that deals with growing up as a black child in a white world. It is the story of black youth who grow up in white neighbourhoo ... 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 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099448792 | ISBN 10: 0099448793

    Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving.  As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy subur ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
    More Tales of the City - by Armistead Maupin

    £8.99   paperback   (1989) - ISBN 13: 9780552998772 | ISBN 10: 055299877x

    The divinely human comedy that began with 'Tales of the City' rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amn ... more

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