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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 274 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    Take My Hand - by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

    £8.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781474622691 | ISBN 10: 1474622690

    AS SEEN ON BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS   Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. She wants to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies.   ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
    If I Survive You - by Jonathan Escoffery

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008501211 | ISBN 10: 0008501211

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE  'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES 'An absolute delight to read' DIANA EVANS 'Superb … A strong, much needed new voice in our literature' PERCIVAL EVERETT 'A compelling hurrica ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trust by Hernan Diaz
    Trust - by Hernan Diaz

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529074529 | ISBN 10: 1529074525

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2022  Trust is a sweeping puzzle of a novel about power, greed, love and a search for t ... 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 The Halfways by Nilopar Uddin
    The Halfways - by Nilopar Uddin

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008478742 | ISBN 10: 0008478740

    ‘I loved this sweeping family drama. Moving and unforgettable’ Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestselling author   ‘A moving, atmospheric and engrossing family saga. Its characters will stay with you long after you have finished the book’ Dee ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book None But The Righteous by Chantal James
    None But The Righteous - by Chantal James

    £15.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781640095625 | ISBN 10: 1640095624

    Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction   “[A] profound debut novel... James captures the simple kin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
    Demon Copperhead - by Barbara Kingsolver

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571376483 | ISBN 10: 0571376487

    A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour.  LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHOR BOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4 AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK WITH OVER 1 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
    The Sentence - by Louise Erdrich

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472157010 | ISBN 10: 147215701x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN   In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny gh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
    The Call-Out - by Cat Fitzpatrick

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781644212332 | ISBN 10: 1644212331

    A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking.   Aashvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vera Kelly Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht
    Vera Kelly Lost and Found - by Rosalie Knecht

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857308283 | ISBN 10: 0857308289

    Everyone's favourite sleuth - Vera Kelly - is back and put to the test as she searches for her missing girlfriend.  Spring 1971. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cosy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bad Immigrant by Sefi Atta
    The Bad Immigrant - by Sefi Atta

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781623718442 | ISBN 10: 1623718449

    “Atta is unflinching in her portrayal... This is a trenchant and notable take on the immigrant experience.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review   An account of an immigrant family's struggle and the lessons learned about diversity.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Fear My Pain Interests You by Stephanie LaCava
    I Fear My Pain Interests You - by Stephanie LaCava

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839766022 | ISBN 10: 1839766026

    An absurdist novel about fame, culture and connections, bodies and breakdowns from the author of The Superrationals.  Margot’s on her way to Montana, with blood on her face and a jeweled cigarette case full of pills. She’s fresh from a ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pride And Protest by Nikki Payne
    Pride And Protest - by Nikki Payne

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780593440940 | ISBN 10: 0593440943

    A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.   Liza B.—the only DJ who gives a jam—wants to take her ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Trees by Percival Everett
    The Trees - by Percival Everett

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914391170 | ISBN 10: 1914391179

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022  The brand new novel from American master Percival Everett.  ‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.’ – New York Times  ‘A powerful wake-up call, a ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Fugitivities by Jesse McCarthy
    The Fugitivities - by Jesse McCarthy

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781612199771 | ISBN 10: 1612199771

    A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one.  Like most recent college graduates, Jonah Winters is unsure of what’s next. ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
    My Monticello - by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529115055 | ISBN 10: 1529115051

    'Riveting' Guardian 'Electrifying' Colson Whitehead  When the world collapses, where will you run?  After rolling blackouts and epic storms engulf America, the neighbourhood of First Street, Charlottesville comes under attack by viol ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dalva by Jim Harrison
    Dalva - by Jim Harrison

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781611854305 | ISBN 10: 161185430x

    New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was one of America’s most beloved writers, and Dalva, now in a Grove edition for the first time, is considered among his finest novels.   Beautiful and fearless, at forty-five Dal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ruin by Cara Hoffman
    Ruin - by Cara Hoffman

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781629639291 | ISBN 10: 162963929x

    A little girl who disguises herself as an old man, an addict who collects dollhouse furniture, a crime reporter confronted by a talking dog, a painter trying to prove the non-existence of god, and lovers in a penal colony who communicate through tech ... more

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  • Cover image of book Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman
    Monkey Boy - by Francisco Goldman

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781611854428 | ISBN 10: 1611854423

    A novel of enormous achievement, Monkey Boy tells the tale of Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer who grapples with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up Guatemalan and Jewish in America.  FINALI ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story by John Freeman (Editor)
    The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story - by John Freeman (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781984877826 | ISBN 10: 1984877828

    A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor a ... 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 Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
    Faces in the Crowd - by Valeria Luiselli

    £10.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787630 | ISBN 10: 1783787635

    Translated by Christina MacSweeney.   In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about her past. She has decided to write a novel about her days at a publishing house i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
    Transcendent Kingdom - by Yaa Gyasi

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241988657 | ISBN 10: 0241988659

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021.   From the bestselling author of Homegoing.  As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. W ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
    Sorrowland - by Rivers Solomon

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529118759 | ISBN 10: 1529118751

    A triumphant, genre-bending novel, following a young woman through a nightmarish yet recognisable landscape as she attempts to create a new life for herself and her children.   Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zainab Takes New York by Ayesha Harruna Attah
    Zainab Takes New York - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472288394 | ISBN 10: 1472288394

    ***INCLUDED IN THE AFRICA CENTER’S ROUND-UP OF 50 NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2021***   Zainab Sekyi is on a quest to find herself...  She’s moving to New York City to pursue her lifelong dream to become an illustrator, but she does ... more

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  • Cover image of book Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
    Run Rose Run - by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529135671 | ISBN 10: 1529135672

    The most eagerly anticipated novel of 2022   FIND A FUTURE. LOSE A PAST.  She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.   She's also on the run.  Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny.& ... more

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  • Cover image of book Firekeeper
    Firekeeper's Daughter - by Angeline Boulley

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786079060 | ISBN 10: 1786079062

    A ground-breaking YA thriller about a Native American teen who must root out the corruption in her community.  A Time magazine pick for Best YA of All Time Soon to be a Netflix series with the Obamas' Higher Ground Production Company Reese ... more

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  • Cover image of book Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
    Practical Magic - by Alice Hoffman

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781398515512 | ISBN 10: 1398515515

    The beloved classic novel, the basis of the classic film starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.  As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of mag ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
    The Vanishing Half - by Brit Bennett

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349701479 | ISBN 10: 0349701474

    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE  The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, south ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
    The Once and Future Witches - by Alix E. Harrow

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780356512471 | ISBN 10: 0356512479

    In 1893, there's no such thing as witches.  There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
    Quichotte - by Salman Rushdie

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529111989 | ISBN 10: 1529111986

    ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***  In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dominicana by Angie Cruz
    Dominicana - by Angie Cruz

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529304886 | ISBN 10: 1529304881

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION   'A thrilling, necessary, and unforgettable portrait of what it means to be an immigrant' ~ Patricia Engel  Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
    The Nickel Boys - by Colson Whitehead

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780708899427 | ISBN 10: 0708899420

    ** Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. **   Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Fl ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
    Patsy - by Nicole Dennis-Benn

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077103 | ISBN 10: 1786077108

    From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice A TIME MAGAZINE 'MUST READ BOOK OF 2019'  LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020   Patsy yearns to es ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
    Stone Junction - by Jim Dodge

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786893970 | ISBN 10: 1786893975

    Jim Dodge’s unforgettable outlaw epic. Introduced by Thomas Pynchon.   When Daniel’s mother dies, he is brought under the protection of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an introduction to a world of revenge, revolution and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
    Where the Crawdads Sing - by Delia Owens

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472154668 | ISBN 10: 1472154665

    For years, rumors of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast.   So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. B ... more

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  • Cover image of book An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
    An American Marriage - by Tayari Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786075192 | ISBN 10: 1786075199

    LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION, 2019   'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama   Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the Americ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
    Ducks, Newburyport - by Lucy Ellmann

    £14.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910296967 | ISBN 10: 1910296961

    *** SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE ***   ‘... I dreamt last night about somebody complaining that he owned a “lesser Cézanne” while I was tearing heartshaped buttons off a shirt, and something about a ferret, the fact that my dre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
    The Red Word - by Sarah Henstra

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781999700874 | ISBN 10: 1999700872

    The myths don’t have a clue what to do with women. They have nothing to say about us whatsoever. We need to build our own fucking mythology.   The battle of the sexes goes to college in this smart, thrilling debut by university English pro ... more

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  • Cover image of book All City by Alex DiFrancesco
    All City - by Alex DiFrancesco

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781609809393 | ISBN 10: 1609809394

    All City is more than a novel, it's a foreshadowing of a world to come.   In a near-future New York City ravaged by climate change and economic inequality, a superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to g ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Elevation by Stephen King
    Elevation - by Stephen King

    £14.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473691520 | ISBN 10: 1473691524

    Set in Castle Rock, Elevation is moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together.  Castle Rock is a small town, where word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey wants to confide only in his friend Docto ... 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 In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
    In the Midst of Winter - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471166907 | ISBN 10: 1471166902

    New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds.   Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
    Sour Heart - by Jenny Zhang

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408892374 | ISBN 10: 1408892375

    Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017  Centred on a community of immigrants precariously balanced on the edge of poverty in 19 ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Refuge by Dina Nayeri
    Refuge - by Dina Nayeri

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780399573255 | ISBN 10: 0399573259

    The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience.   An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty y ... 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 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 New Boy: Othello Retold by Tracy Chevalier
    New Boy: Othello Retold - by Tracy Chevalier

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784700249 | ISBN 10: 178470024x

    From the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway.   Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day – so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black No More by George S. Schuyler
    Black No More - by George S. Schuyler

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780143131885 | ISBN 10: 0143131885

    The landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”  It’s New Year’s Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius Crookman ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
    Anything is Possible - by Elizabeth Strout

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241248799 | ISBN 10: 0241248795

    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017  Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018    An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of M ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Evening Road by Laird Hunt
    The Evening Road - by Laird Hunt

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784703646 | ISBN 10: 1784703648

    Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw. Quick of mind and pleasing to the eye, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration.  Meet Calla ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Idiot by Elif Batuman
    The Idiot - by Elif Batuman

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099583172 | ISBN 10: 0099583178

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018   Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies ling ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Tears by Hari Kunzru
    White Tears - by Hari Kunzru

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241977873 | ISBN 10: 0241977878

    A feverish new tale from the bestselling author of The Impressionist: two ambitious young musicians are drawn into a dark underworld, haunted by the ghosts of a repressive past.  Two twenty-something New Yorkers: Seth, awkward and shy, and Carter ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
    The Patriots - by Sana Krasikov

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783781829 | ISBN 10: 1783781823

    Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about a ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
    Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? - by Kathleen Collins

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783783410 | ISBN 10: 1783783419

    It is the long, hot summer of 1963 and New York is filled with lovers, dreamers and protestors. Young African-American women grow out their hair and discover the taste of new freedoms. Young men, white and black, travel south to fight against segrega ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Castle Cross The Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron
    The Castle Cross The Magnet Carter - by Kia Corthron

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781609808075 | ISBN 10: 160980807x

    Winner of the Center for Fiction's 2016 First Novel Prize   The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first ce ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
    A Book of American Martyrs - by Joyce Carol Oates

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008221713 | ISBN 10: 0008221715

    Two families.   Two faces of America.   One violent crime that will bitterly divide them and yet bind them together forever. "A magnificent story of two broken families"(Independent) "Page-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twi ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
    Homegoing - by Yaa Gyasi

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241975237 | ISBN 10: 0241975239

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Book   Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
    4 3 2 1 - by Paul Auster

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571324651 | ISBN 10: 0571324657

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017   On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will ... 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 The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
    The Angel of History - by Rabih Alameddine

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472152381 | ISBN 10: 1472152387

    Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval.   Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Harvest of Thorns by Corban Addison
    A Harvest of Thorns - by Corban Addison

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784295257 | ISBN 10: 1784295256

    A gripping new thriller that blends the nailbiting courtroom drama of John Grisham with the moral heart of Khaled Kosseini,   A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dirt Road by James Kelman
    Dirt Road - by James Kelman

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118251 | ISBN 10: 178211825x

    Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2016 "A celebration of what it is to be human"(Spectator) Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, terri ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O
    The Lonely Hearts Hotel - by Heather O'Neill

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
    Here I Am - by Jonathan Safran Foer

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241966389 | ISBN 10: 0241966388

    Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested...   By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home. By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading. By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled. And by the sexting affair ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
    The Sport of Kings - by C. E. Morgan

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008173319 | ISBN 10: 0008173311

    Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Fiction Prize Winner of the Kirkus fiction prize  'You and I ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
    Heroes of the Frontier - by Dave Eggers

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241979044 | ISBN 10: 0241979048

    From the bestselling author of The Circle, a hilarious and heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it's time for the family vacation...   Josie's life is falling apart - lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain and a feckl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
    Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

    £15.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781419709470 | ISBN 10: 141970947x

    Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format.  More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss o ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan
    All the Rivers - by Dorit Rabinyan

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781257647 | ISBN 10: 1781257647

    A chance encounter in New York brings two strangers together: Liat is an idealistic translation student, Hilmi a talented young painter. Together they explore the city, share fantasies, jokes and homemade meals, and fall in love. There is only one pr ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
    The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto - by Mitch Albom

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780751541212 | ISBN 10: 0751541214

    From number one New York Times bestseller, Mitch Albom, author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays With Morrie, comes his latest inspirational, moving and heart-warming novel.   At nine years old, Frankie Presto is sent to Ameri ... 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 Dirt Road by James Kelman
    Dirt Road - by James Kelman

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782118220 | ISBN 10: 1782118225

    'The truth is he didn't care how long he was going away. Forever would have suited him. It didn't matter it was America.' Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, wishes for a life beyond the constraints of his Scottish island home and dreams of be ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Gap of Time: The Winter
    The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold - by Jeanette Winterson

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099598190 | ISBN 10: 0099598191

    "All of us have talismanic texts that we have carried around and that carry us around. I have worked with The Winters Tale in many disguises for many years... And I love cover versions "(Jeanette Winterson) The Winters Tale is one of Shakespear ... more

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  • Cover image of book Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
    Go Set A Watchman - by Harper Lee

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784752460 | ISBN 10: 1784752460

    Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapp ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Boxcar of Fun by Chris England
    The Boxcar of Fun - by Chris England

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910400272 | ISBN 10: 1910400270

    Its 1910. Arthur Dandoe is heading for the brave New World of American vaudeville with the famous Karno music hall company, along with his great rival, Charlie Chaplin, and Tilly Beckett, the girl who has captured both their hearts. And what better ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book New Orleans Noir: The Classics by Julie Smith (Editor)
    New Orleans Noir: The Classics - by Julie Smith (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753848 | ISBN 10: 161775384x

    This sequel to the original best-selling New Orleans Noir takes a literary tour through some of the darkest writing in New Orleans history. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brook ... 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 Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
    Church of Marvels - by Leslie Parry

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

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

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  • Cover image of book A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
    A Little Life - by Hanya Yanagihara

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447294832 | ISBN 10: 1447294831

    A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory. Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting and profoundly moving ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shore by Sara Taylor
    The Shore - by Sara Taylor

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099591887 | ISBN 10: 009959188x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015   SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PETERS FRASER & DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD  LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015   The Shore. A collection of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Neverhome by Laird Hunt
    Neverhome - by Laird Hunt

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592921 | ISBN 10: 0099592924

    I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into Ohio. Twenty dollars, two salt-pork sandwiches, and I took jerky, biscuits, six old apples, fresh underthings and a blanket t ... 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 Don
    Don't Let Him Know - by Sandip Roy

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408856666 | ISBN 10: 1408856662

    In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds the l ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - by Katarina Bivald

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780701189068 | ISBN 10: 0701189061

    Warning: once you let books into your life, the most unexpected things can happen...  The International Bestseller   Sara is 28 and has never been outside Sweden except in the (many) books she reads. When her elderly penfriend Amy inv ... more

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

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781844088829 | ISBN 10: 1844088820

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story about a girl who lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
    Station Eleven - by Emily St. John Mandel

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447268970 | ISBN 10: 1447268970

    The New York Times Bestseller WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2015 Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 2014 National Book Awards Finalist 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist   What was lost in the collapse: almost every ... more

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  • Cover image of book 10:04 by Ben Lerner
    10:04 - by Ben Lerner

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847088932 | ISBN 10: 1847088937

    In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent supe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today
    Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York - by John Freeman (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780143128304 | ISBN 10: 0143128302

    Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York   In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our ent ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    £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 The Thrill of it All by Joseph O
    The Thrill of it All - by Joseph O'Connor

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099481539 | ISBN 10: 0099481537

    A captivating novel filled with music, friendship and teenage dreams, from the bestselling author of Ghost Light and Star of the Sea.  At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orpha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee
    Virginia Woolf in Manhattan - by Maggie Gee

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846591990 | ISBN 10: 1846591996

    NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015   What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?   Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding schoo ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
    A Lesson Before Dying - by Ernest J. Gaines

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846687860 | ISBN 10: 1846687861

    Award-winning classic novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South. In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are kill ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
    Ham on Rye - by Charles Bukowski

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782116660 | ISBN 10: 1782116664

    Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, first published in 1982, is probably the most autobiographical and moving of all his books, dealing in particular with his difficult relationship with his father and his early childhood in LA.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
    On Such a Full Sea - by Chang-Rae Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349140148 | ISBN 10: 0349140146

    From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America.  On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Liberty Bazaar by David Chadwick
    Liberty Bazaar - by David Chadwick

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781906582920 | ISBN 10: 1906582920

    Liverpool, 1863: Newly arrived in England, wealthy liberals enlist Trinity, an escaped slave girl, in their campaign to abolish slavery and support Abraham Lincolns Union. Jubal, a high-ranking Confederate officer, has arrived to find supporters and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
    The Country of Ice Cream Star - by Sandra Newman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099554653 | ISBN 10: 0099554658

    Meet Ice Cream Star: the spirited fifteen-year-old heroine of this mind-poppingly inventive post-apocalyptic adventure story and parable of modern America.  My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Family Life by Akhil Sharma
    Family Life - by Akhil Sharma

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571224548 | ISBN 10: 0571224547

    For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Delhi in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet, everything changes when their father finds a j ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
    Frog Music - by Emma Donoghue

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447249764 | ISBN 10: 1447249763

    Frog Music is the new novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Lenny Abrahamson.  San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the C ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book No Country by Kalyan Ray
    No Country - by Kalyan Ray

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408843345 | ISBN 10: 140884334x

    In November 1989, an Indian couple are discovered murdered in a small town in upstate New York. They lie together as though just disengaged from a long embrace. Yet their murder has been two centuries in the making.   County Sligo, Ireland, 18 ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
    The Blazing World - by Siri Hustvedt

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444779660 | ISBN 10: 1444779664

    The devilishly playful, intellectually inspiring, emotionally involving new novel from Siri Hustvedt, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.   The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, cond ... more

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  • Cover image of book Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
    Signs Preceding the End of the World - by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908276421 | ISBN 10: 1908276428

    Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores th ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
    The First Phone Call from Heaven - by Mitch Albom

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780751541199 | ISBN 10: 0751541192

    One last chance.   What would you say?   When the residents of a small town on Lake Michigan start receiving phone calls from the afterlife, they all become the subject of widespread attention. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a mas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Martin and John by Dale Peck
    Martin and John - by Dale Peck

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781616954840 | ISBN 10: 1616954841

    Dale Pecks debut is a tour de force of shifting identities in which Martin and John find each other again and again: in a trailer park, a highend jewelry store, a Kansas barn, and later, in New York City, living under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book 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 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 Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
    The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! - by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447274902 | ISBN 10: 1447274903

    You're never too old to have some fun...  The little old lady is back! This time, Martha Andersson and her friends - the League of Pensioners - have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and are enjoying the bright lights of Las Vegas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
    Happiness, Like Water - by Chinelo Okparanta

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847088314 | ISBN 10: 1847088317

    In this debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. Here, we meet a childless couple with very different desires; a college professor comforting a troubled student; a mother seeking refug ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
    The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving - by Jonathan Evison

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781851777 | ISBN 10: 1781851778

    Ben was once a stay-at-home dad. Now, after a tragic accident left him with no home and no family, he is trying to rebuild his life with a career in caregiving. His first client is Trev, a sarcastic teenager with muscular dystrophy. In the mornings, ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Little Green by Walter Mosley
    Little Green - by Walter Mosley

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780226057 | ISBN 10: 1780226055

    Easy Rawlins is back. The iconic detective who leapt to fame in Devil in a Blue Dress returns.  We thought we'd seen the last of Easy Rawlins at the end of Blonde Faith. But it takes more than an oncoming car to stop LA's finest PI.   ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
    Trout Fishing in America - by Richard Brautigan

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782113805 | ISBN 10: 1782113800

    Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America.   Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the won ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
    To Rise Again at a Decent Hour - by Joshua Ferris

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141047386 | ISBN 10: 0141047380

    'There's nothing like a dental chair to remind a man that he's alone in the world'   Paul O'Rourke, 40 year-old slightly curmudgeonly dentist, runs a thriving practice in New York. Yet he is discovering he needs more in his life than a steady ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
    Girlchild - by Tupelo Hassman

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780874432 | ISBN 10: 178087443x

    Rory Dawn Hendrix is in a Girl Scout troop of one.   She lives in a trailer park called the Calle de las Flores near Reno.   Shes determined to leave, childless, before her sixteenth birthday.   Easier said than done. ... 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 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    The Grapes of Wrath - by John Steinbeck

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
    The Goldfinch - by Donna Tartt

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349139630 | ISBN 10: 0349139636

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014   Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are Water by Wally Lamb
    We Are Water - by Wally Lamb

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007532865 | ISBN 10: 0007532865

    From New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, this is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy. As Annie Ohs wedding day approaches, she finds herself at the mercy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sketcher by Roland Watson-Grant
    Sketcher - by Roland Watson-Grant

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846883125 | ISBN 10: 1846883121

    Nine-year-old Skid Beaumonts family is stuck in the mud. Following his fathers decision to relocate and build a new home, based on a drunken vision that New Orleans would rapidly expand eastwards into the wetlands as a result of the Seventies oil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
    Big Brother - by Lionel Shriver

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007271108 | ISBN 10: 0007271107

    The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.  Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were children. Now she revels in the anonymity of her suburban Iowa life, while her brother bas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
    Ghana Must Go - by Taiye Selasi

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780670919888 | ISBN 10: 0670919888

    Electric, exhilarating, and beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go introduces the world to Taiye Selasi, a novelist of extraordinary talent. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from Accra to Lagos to London to New York, it is at once a portrait of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
    The Fault in Our Stars - by John Green

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141345659 | ISBN 10: 0141345659

    "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once."   Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But whe ... more

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

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447209508 | ISBN 10: 1447209508

    With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy
    Brooklyn Heights - by Miral al-Tahawy

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571280056 | ISBN 10: 0571280056

    A novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices.   Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight-year-old son after the painful bre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
    Calling Me Home - by Julie Kibler

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447212560 | ISBN 10: 1447212568

    In a time of hate, would you stand up for love?  Shalerville, Kentucky, 1939. A world where black maids and handymen are trusted to raise white children and tend to white houses, but from which they are banished after dark.  Sixteen-year- ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snapper by Brian Kimberling
    Snapper - by Brian Kimberling

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780755396214 | ISBN 10: 0755396219

    With wry humour and real freshness, Snappercharts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him. Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana, 'the bastard son of the Midwest', Snapper is ... more

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  • Cover image of book American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
    American Dervish - by Ayad Akhtar

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780220710 | ISBN 10: 1780220715

    A stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family's struggling with faith and belonging.  Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant friend is a family legend. When he learns t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Round House by Louise Erdrich
    The Round House - by Louise Erdrich

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781472108142 | ISBN 10: 1472108140

    Hailed in the US as a Native-American To Kill A Mockingbird, and winner of the US National Book Award, The Round House is Louise Erdrich's undeniable - and unmissable - masterpiece.   A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakot ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
    The Last Runaway - by Tracy Chevalier

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007350353 | ISBN 10: 000735035x

    The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.  Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines an ... more

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

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

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

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  • Cover image of book The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
    The Yellow Birds - by Kevin Powers

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444756142 | ISBN 10: 1444756141

    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.  WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012 WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breakdown by Sara Paretsky
    Breakdown - by Sara Paretsky

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780340994153 | ISBN 10: 0340994150

    Sara Paretsky's new bestseller and the fifteenth in the series pits V.I. Warshawski against a right-wing political pundit with powerful connections in a riveting novel that combines contemporary issues and suspense in Paretsky's unique way.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hard Time by Sara Paretsky
    Hard Time - by Sara Paretsky

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444761542 | ISBN 10: 1444761544

    The ninth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers, combining contemporary issues, social injustice and fast-paced suspense.  While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Penumbra
    Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - by Robin Sloan

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781782391197 | ISBN 10: 1782391193

    Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a Web-design drone and serendipity coupled with sheer curiosity has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.  And it doesn't take long for Clay to rea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hard Twisted by C. Joseph Greaves
    Hard Twisted - by C. Joseph Greaves

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408831113 | ISBN 10: 1408831112

    Lucile Garrett is just thirteen when she meets Clint Palmer, a charismatic stranger who will forever change her life. The year is 1934, and as the windblown dust of the Great Depression rakes the Oklahoma plains, Palmer offers Lucile and her father, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
    The Street Sweeper - by Elliot Perlman

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571236855 | ISBN 10: 0571236855

    On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day ... only some of these stories survive to become history.   Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a ... more

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  • Cover image of book May We Be Forgiven by A.M Homes
    May We Be Forgiven - by A.M Homes

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847083234 | ISBN 10: 1847083234

    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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  • Cover image of book Stoner by John Williams
    Stoner - by John Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099561545 | ISBN 10: 0099561549

    Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
    The Art of Fielding - by Chad Harbach

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007374458 | ISBN 10: 0007374453

    A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice.   Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for baseball that borders on genius. But sometimes it seems that his only friend is big Mike Schwar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Trouble I
    The Trouble I've Seen - by Martha Gellhorn

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781906011628 | ISBN 10: 1906011621

    With a new introduction from her acclaimed biographer, Caroline Moorehead.   These four interlinked stories encapsulate Martha Gellhorn's first-hand observation of the Great Depression. Fiction crafted with documentary accuracy, they vividly r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
    The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress - by Beryl Bainbridge

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780349121468 | ISBN 10: 034912146x

    In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book America Pacifica by Anna North
    America Pacifica - by Anna North

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844086917 | ISBN 10: 1844086917

    America Pacifica is an island hundreds of miles off the coast of California - the only warm place left in a world in the grip of a new ice age. Darcy Pern is seventeen; her mother has gone missing, and the novel details her quest to find out the trut ... more

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  • Cover image of book Untold Story by Monica Ali
    Untold Story - by Monica Ali

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781471100086 | ISBN 10: 1471100081

    An Englishwoman named Lydia is living in a small, nondescript town somewhere in the American Midwest. She has a circle of friends: one owns a dress shop; another sells houses; another is a frenzied stay-at-home mother. Lydia works at an animal shelte ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Great Night by Chris Adrian
    The Great Night - by Chris Adrian

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847083210 | ISBN 10: 1847083218

    On Midsummer's Eve three heartsick lovers are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park. Ill met by moonlight, they are stalked by a psychopathic Puck, in thrall to a beautiful Titania, and ambushed by a homeless musical theatre troupe. Together th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
    Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - by Jamie Ford

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780749010720 | ISBN 10: 074901072x

    1986, The Panama Hotel.   The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during W ... more

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  • Cover image of book 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 Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
    Visions of Cody - by Jack Kerouac

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141198224 | ISBN 10: 0141198222

    An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays.   Transcribing taped conversations between ... more

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  • Cover image of book Open City by Teju Cole
    Open City - by Teju Cole

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571279432 | ISBN 10: 0571279430

    Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Emerald City and Other Stories by Jennifer Egan
    Emerald City and Other Stories - by Jennifer Egan

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780331218 | ISBN 10: 1780331215

    From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Visit From the Goon Squad. These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
    How to Read the Air - by Dinaw Mengestu

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099521037 | ISBN 10: 0099521032

    Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, Children of the Revolution, earned him comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald and Naipaul, garnered ecstatic critical praise and won the Guardian First Book Award for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience in Amer ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
    The Sisters Brothers - by Patrick deWitt

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847083197 | ISBN 10: 1847083196

    Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The 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 Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
    Gods Without Men - by Hari Kunzru

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141020211 | ISBN 10: 0141020210

    2008. The California desert. A four-year-old boy disappears in the wilderness and his parents find themselves at the centre of a media witch-hunt. A British rock star hides out at a run-down motel. A teenage Iraqi refugee lives a surreal life as a ro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective by Alexei Maxim Russell
    Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective - by Alexei Maxim Russell

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849052627 | ISBN 10: 184905262x

    Trueman Bradley is a genius detective with a difference, he has Asperger's Syndrome (AS).  Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrives in New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming a private detective, like ... more

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

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007269761 | ISBN 10: 0007269765

    An international bestseller and the novel of the year, Freedom is an epic of contemporary love and marriage.  This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use ... more

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  • Cover image of book Home Boy by H. M. Naqvi
    Home Boy - by H. M. Naqvi

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241961506 | ISBN 10: 0241961505

    Meet the Metrostanis, three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn-of-the- millennium: AC, a gangsta rap spouting academic; Jimbo, a hulking Pushtun deejay from the streets of Jersey City; and Chuck, a wide-eyed, off-the-boat kid, searching ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hellhound Sample by Charles Shaar Murray
    The Hellhound Sample - by Charles Shaar Murray

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781900486781 | ISBN 10: 1900486784

    You don't need to go to the crossroads to make a deal with the devil. The crossroads will come to you.  James 'Blue' Moon, the greatest living bluesman, was ten years old when he saw Robert Johnson playing on a street corner. Now, more than ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
    The Summer Without Men - by Siri Hustvedt

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444720259 | ISBN 10: 1444720252

    After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up 'briefly', rages 'deeply', then decamps to her prairie childhood home.  There, gradually, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
    Girl in Translation - by Jean Kwok

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141042749 | ISBN 10: 0141042745

    Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken- windowed Brooklyn apartment. The only heating is an unreliable oven. They are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
    Island Beneath the Sea - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007348657 | ISBN 10: 0007348657

    From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chattering by Louise Stern
    Chattering - by Louise Stern

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847081773 | ISBN 10: 1847081770

    Louise Stern's stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out from their peers is that they have grown up deaf. They communicate with the outside world via a complic ... 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 Big Machine by Victor LaValle
    Big Machine - by Victor LaValle

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781842433645 | ISBN 10: 1842433644

    Ricky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter arrives, remind ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin
    Mary Ann in Autumn - by Armistead Maupin

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780552777063 | ISBN 10: 0552777064

    Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
    The Catcher in the Rye - by J. D. Salinger

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780241950432 | ISBN 10: 0241950430

    The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the ... more

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  • Cover image of book An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    An American Tragedy - by Theodore Dreiser

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780451531551 | ISBN 10: 0451531558

    Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule
    Desert of the Heart - by Jane Rule

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086788 | ISBN 10: 184408678x

    Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage.   While staying at a boarding house to establish her six-week residency req ... 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 Yield by Lee Houck
    Yield - by Lee Houck

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780758242655 | ISBN 10: 0758242654

    In his evocative and mesmerizing debut novel, Lee Houck depicts a contemporary Manhattan thrumming with sex and violence as seen through the eyes of Simon a twenty-something part-time hustler with a cadre of loyal, sometimes floundering friends. As ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hardball by Sara Paretsky
    Hardball - by Sara Paretsky

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781444707113 | ISBN 10: 1444707116

    When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she thought would be futile turns lethal. Old skeletons from the city`s racially charged history rise up to force her back with a vengeance a nun who mar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by Glenn Taylor
    The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart - by Glenn Taylor

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007339549 | ISBN 10: 0007339542

    Theres little room in this world for a moral man. Meet Early Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teache ... more

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  • Cover image of book Repeat After Me by Rachel DeWoskin
    Repeat After Me - by Rachel DeWoskin

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780715638996 | ISBN 10: 0715638998

    Aysha, a twenty-two-year-old New Yorker, is beginning to put the pieces of her life back in place after a nervous breakdown. Teaching an adult education class, she meets a young Chinese student named Da Ge - tortured, charismatic and just as unstable ... more

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  • Cover image of book Indian Country Noir by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez (Editors)
    Indian Country Noir - by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781936070053 | ISBN 10: 1936070057

    Brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O'Neil De Noux, A.A. HedgeCoke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martinez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melissa Yi.&nbs ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Help by Kathryn Stockett
    The Help - by Kathryn Stockett

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039282 | ISBN 10: 0141039280

    Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...  There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manituana by Wu Ming, translated by Shaun Whiteside
    Manituana - by Wu Ming, translated by Shaun Whiteside

    £28.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844676248 | ISBN 10: 1844676242

    From the authors of Q and '54, a genre-breaking reimagining of the American Revolutionary War.  1775. The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Rebels and loyalists to the British Crown compete f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn
    Acts of Violence - by Ryan David Jahn

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330517331 | ISBN 10: 0330517333

    Katrina Marino is about to become Americas most infamous murder victim. This is Katrinas story, and the story of her killer. It is also the story of Katrinas neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietn ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
    Let the Great World Spin - by Colum McCann

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801185 | ISBN 10: 1408801183

    Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller.  New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air.  Far below, the lives of complete strangers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
    Shanghai Girls - by Lisa See

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801123 | ISBN 10: 1408801124

    Two sisters, a world at war and one life-changing secret.  Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason
    Mammoths of the Great Plains - by Eleanor Arnason

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860757 | ISBN 10: 1604860758

    When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected - he hoped! - that they might still roam the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
    The Writing on My Forehead - by Nafisa Haji

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099536741 | ISBN 10: 0099536749

    Free-spirited and rebellious, Saira has grown up in California with her beautiful, obedient sister Ameena. From childhood, she has broken the boundaries between her desire for independence and her familys traditions in particular, her Bombay-bred ... more

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  • Cover image of book Carol by Patricia Highsmith
    Carol - by Patricia Highsmith

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408808979 | ISBN 10: 1408808978

    "Some books change lives. This is one of them."(Val McDermid) A haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published.  With a new foreword by Val McDermid.  Therese is just an ordinary sales assis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Glorious by Bernice McFadden
    Glorious - by Bernice McFadden

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781936070114 | ISBN 10: 1936070111

    Award-winning novelist Bernice L. McFadden's highly anticipated new historical novel set amidst the Harlem Renaissance. Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era. Blending fact a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Songs of the Dead by Derrick Jensen
    Songs of the Dead - by Derrick Jensen

    £17.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860443 | ISBN 10: 1604860448

    A serial killer stalks the streets of Spokane, acting out a misogynist script from the dark heart of this culture. Across town, a writer named Derrick has spent his life tracking the reasons - political, psychological, spiritual - for the sadism of m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trouble Down the Road by Bettye Griffin
    Trouble Down the Road - by Bettye Griffin

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780758231628 | ISBN 10: 0758231628

    From the author of The People Next Door comes a smart, sexy new novel that peeks behind the curtains of one very complicated Florida cul-de-sac, where the neighbors are a little too close for comfort...  Suzanne and Brad Betancourt have a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Gods by Anna Richards
    Little Gods - by Anna Richards

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330464413 | ISBN 10: 0330464418

    A glorious, towering triumph of a novel from the author Ali Smith called 'a huge new talent'.   An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challe ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
    A Gate at the Stairs - by Lorrie Moore

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571249466 | ISBN 10: 0571249469

    In her dazzling new novel - her first in over a decade - Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America.  With her government quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Precious (Based on the novel
    Precious (Based on the novel 'Push') - by Sapphire

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099548720 | ISBN 10: 0099548720

    This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternat ... 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 Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
    Brooklyn - by Colm Toibin

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141041742 | ISBN 10: 0141041749

    In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
    The Lacuna - by Barbara Kingsolver

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571252671 | ISBN 10: 0571252672

    The Lacuna is the story of a mans search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. Born in the US, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harr ... more

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  • Cover image of book 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 I, Tituba: Black Witch Of Salem by Maryse Conde, translated by Richard Philcox
    I, Tituba: Black Witch Of Salem - by Maryse Conde, translated by Richard Philcox

    £17.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780813927671 | ISBN 10: 0813927676

    This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later.  Ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Group by Mary McCarthy
    The Group - by Mary McCarthy

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085934 | ISBN 10: 1844085937

    The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan.   The Group can be seen as the original Sex and the City. It is the first novel to frankly ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
    Burnt Shadows - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781408800874 | ISBN 10: 140880087x

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009, this is a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents. In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantnamo Bay. How did it come ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beantown Cubans by Johnny Diaz
    Beantown Cubans - by Johnny Diaz

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780758234254 | ISBN 10: 0758234252

    From the acclaimed author of Miami Manhunt and Boston Boys Club, comes a witty, new, warmhearted novel of friendship, familia, and finding a place to call home even in a city where its almost impossible to get an authentic Cuban sandwich...  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Other by David Gutterson
    The Other - by David Gutterson

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596202 | ISBN 10: 0747596204

    A powerful story of the choices we must make in a flawed world, by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars.  Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
    Unaccustomed Earth - by Jhumpa Lahiri

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596592 | ISBN 10: 074759659x

    The Number One New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake.  Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book.  Beginning in America, and spilling back over m ... 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 Home by Marilynne Robinson
    Home - by Marilynne Robinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085507 | ISBN 10: 1844085503

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009. Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinsons Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes Home, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Personal Days by Ed Park
    Personal Days - by Ed Park

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099520580 | ISBN 10: 0099520583

    Ever wondered what your boss does all day? Or if there is a higher perhaps an existential significance to Microsoft Word malfunctions?  This astonishing debut is a scathingly funny look at a group of office workers who have no idea what t ... 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 The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
    The Sorrows of an American - by Siri Hustvedt

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340897089 | ISBN 10: 0340897082

    After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from a woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets about reading ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
    The Hour I First Believed - by Wally Lamb

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007290802 | ISBN 10: 0007290802

    From the author of the international number one bestseller I Know This Much Is True comes a magnificent novel of a life turned upside-down by tragedy - and the search for a way to carry on in the aftermath. Caelum Quirk is a middle-aged schooltea ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of Night by John Rechy
    City of Night - by John Rechy

    £12.00   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780285638372 | ISBN 10: 0285638378

    Acclaimed as one of the great novels of the twentieth century, City of Night created a new era in gay writing.   Bold and inventive in its portrayal of an urban underworld of prostitution and its unflinching description of the hustling youngm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
    Revolutionary Road - by Richard Yates

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099518785 | ISBN 10: 0099518783

    Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
    Miles from Nowhere - by Nami Mun

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085446 | ISBN 10: 1844085449

    Joon is a young Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s, Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she's bet ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085583 | ISBN 10: 1844085589

    'It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches ...The colour is repellent ...In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about...' Based on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - by Junot Diaz

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571239733 | ISBN 10: 0571239730

    Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, hes sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Mercy by Toni Morrison
    A Mercy - by Toni Morrison

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099502548 | ISBN 10: 0099502542

    In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. J ... more

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  • Cover image of book Firmin by Sam Savage
    Firmin - by Sam Savage

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823392 | ISBN 10: 075382339x

    Firmin is the runt of a litter of rats born in the basement of Pembroke Books, a ramshakle old bookshop run by the equally shambolic owner, Norman Shine. Forced to compete for food, Firmin ends up chewing on the books that surround him. Thanks to his ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, edited by Emory Elliott
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain, edited by Emory Elliott

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536559 | ISBN 10: 0199536554

    You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter.   So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The TV President by Elise Valmorbida
    The TV President - by Elise Valmorbida

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780955728570 | ISBN 10: 0955728576

    In a re-enactment of the 1963 Dallas motorcade for a reality TV show, one JFK lookalike is killed and another injured. The unhinged widow and the wounded survivor, both disguised in black burqahs, drive from Dallas to Detroit in a gold SUV to hear a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
    The Almost Moon - by Alice Sebold

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780330451352 | ISBN 10: 0330451359

    A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.   Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist - by Mohsin Hamid

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141029542 | ISBN 10: 0141029544

    At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting...  Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Slow Fix by Ivan E Coyote
    The Slow Fix - by Ivan E Coyote

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781551522470 | ISBN 10: 1551522470

    The first three story collections by Ivan E. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about gender, identity, and community, based on her own experiences. Ivan's most recent book, Bow Grip, was her first novel; it also won the ReLit Award, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book What is the What by Dave Eggers
    What is the What - by Dave Eggers

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141015743 | ISBN 10: 0141015748

    This is the story of a man who, as a boy, was separated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived aerial bombardment and attacks by militias and wild a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Granta Book of the American Short Story - Volume 2 by Edited and introduced by Richard Ford
    The Granta Book of the American Short Story - Volume 2 - by Edited and introduced by Richard Ford

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080400 | ISBN 10: 1847080405

    In 1992 Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century.  In the fifteen years since, Ford ha ... 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 Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
    Rat Bohemia - by Sarah Schulman

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781551522357 | ISBN 10: 1551522357

    Winner, Ferro-Grumley Award for Women's Fiction. Written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis in the 1990s, Rat Bohemia is a bold, achingly honest story set in the "rat bohemia" of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anomalies by Joey Goebel
    The Anomalies - by Joey Goebel

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905847365 | ISBN 10: 190584736x

    Luster (vocals) wants to be a rock star despite living in the ghetto with his crack-dealing brothers. Eighty-year-old Opal (guitar) is a sex-crazed party machine who has no intention of going into a home just yet. Ember (bass) loathes the world and w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin
    Michael Tolliver Lives - by Armistead Maupin

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780552772938 | ISBN 10: 0552772933

    Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupins classic Tales of the City series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin ... 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 Cinder by Albert French
    Cinder - by Albert French

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099273271 | ISBN 10: 0099273276

    Banes, Mississippi, 1938. The Catfish creek separates the Patch from the town, black from white. These worlds and their prejudices are hauntingly evoked in the rich accents of the American South. Cinder is a woman who belongs to neither, her beauty m ... 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 The Queen is in the Garbage by Lila Karp
    The Queen is in the Garbage - by Lila Karp

    £14.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615380 | ISBN 10: 1558615385

    This is a startling stream-of-consciousness novel that engages questions of feminism which are as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1969. Shifting beautifully between past and present, consciousness and dreams, Lila Karp explor ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
    This Book Will Save Your Life - by A.M. Homes

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781862079335 | ISBN 10: 1862079331

    An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he ne ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red River by Lalita Tademy
    Red River - by Lalita Tademy

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780755332700 | ISBN 10: 0755332709

    The sequel to Lalita Tademy`s bestselling Cane River, the heartbreaking and compelling story of her family's experiences of slavery and the American Civil War. Now, in Red River, she takes readers on a new journey: that of her father's family, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pressl
    Special Topics in Calamity Physics - by Marisha Pressl

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141024325 | ISBN 10: 0141024321

    She found her teacher dead - hanging by a piece of electrical cord. The North Carolina police think it was suicide. Her former friends - the Bluebloods - blame her for being there. And her father tells her to leave it alone. But Blue van Meer is ... more

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  • Cover image of book As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    As I Lay Dying - by William Faulkner

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099479314 | ISBN 10: 0099479311

    The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.  And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacula ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
    The Ballad of Lee Cotton - by Christopher Wilson

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780349118482 | ISBN 10: 0349118485

    Born to an Icelandic father and a black mother, Lee Cotton grows up an extraordinary boy, with extraordinary gifts. His story is one of the most unusual you will ever read..."Make sure you lay your hands on a copy of The Ballad of Lee Cotton. You're ... more

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  • Cover image of book How the Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland
    How the Light Gets In - by M.J. Hyland

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841956114 | ISBN 10: 1841956112

    A powerful debut from an Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction. Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The System of the World (Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    The System of the World (Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099463368 | ISBN 10: 0099463369

    The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs.  As Daniel and Newton c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    The Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099410690 | ISBN 10: 0099410699

    Neal Stephenson continues his extraordinary Baroque Cycle in this sequel to his bestselling Quicksilver, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery.   It is the late 1600s on the high se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
    Not Fade Away - by Jim Dodge

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781841954868 | ISBN 10: 1841954861

    Floorboard George Gastin is part of an insurance scam to wreck a pure white, mint condition '59 Cadillac originally intended for The Big Bopper as a token of an admirer's love. But Floorboard George has other ideas and when he disappears with the car ... more

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  • Cover image of book Common Sense by Thomas Paine
    Common Sense - by Thomas Paine

    £4.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141018904 | ISBN 10: 0141018909

    The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
    Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle) - by Neal Stephenson

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099410683 | ISBN 10: 0099410680

    In this richly imagined follow-up to his bestseller Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery, men and women whose exploits defined the age of the High Baroque...&n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everything Happens for a Reason by Kavita Daswani
    Everything Happens for a Reason - by Kavita Daswani

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007160631 | ISBN 10: 0007160631

    What if you were offered something you thought you couldn't have? Like the life you really want...Priya has married a handsome young Indian man living in America. Though she has moved from Delhi to Los Angeles - a land of Hollywood excess and celebr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
    The Secret Life of Bees - by Sue Monk Kidd

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780747266839 | ISBN 10: 0747266832

    Lily has grown up believing she has accidentally killed her mother when she was just four years old. Now, at fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh and unyielding father, she ... more

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  • Cover image of book Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
    Go Tell it on the Mountain - by James Baldwin

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141185910 | ISBN 10: 0141185910

    "Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"   First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Caucasia, With Love by Danzy Senna
    From Caucasia, With Love - by Danzy Senna

    £6.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780747557500 | ISBN 10: 0747557500

    Growing up amidst the power politics of 1970s America, Birdie and her older sister Cole are so close they speak their own language. Daughters of a white activist mother and a black academic father, Birdie appears white, Cole black, their relationship ... more

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  • Cover image of book Morte D by J.F. Powers
    Morte D - by J.F. Powers

    £9.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780940322233 | ISBN 10: 0940322234

    Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Collected Stories by Tennessee Williams
    Collected Stories - by Tennessee Williams

    £12.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780749395810 | ISBN 10: 0749395818

    Acclaimed as one of America's most distinguished and successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories. In Collected Stories , these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Awakening by Kate Chopin
    The Awakening - by Kate Chopin

    £2.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780486277868 | ISBN 10: 0486277860

    First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity.   Poignant and lyrical, it tells the story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marria ... more

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