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Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of the 2023 Women's Prize for FictionTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORAN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK'Extraordinary.' - OPRAH'Electrifying. . . Every sentence here...
The Kind Worth Killing
Author: Peter Swanson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Hello there.' I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to...
The Bell Jar
Author: Sylvia Plath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'This terse account of an American girl's breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
Author: Bob Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...
On the Calculation of Volume I: Shortlisted for the International
'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgaard 'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Di az 'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo 'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor 'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff ** A NEW YORKER AND...
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Author: Justin Fenton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in...
Small Things Like These: An Oprah Book Club Pick
A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ONE...
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
Author: Claire Keegan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut 'Masterly.' The Times 'Miraculous.' Herald 'Astonishing.' Colm Toibin 'Stunning.' Sunday Independent 'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart A Book of...
Never Let Me Go
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...
Small Things Like These: An Oprah Book Club Pick
'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and...
The Lock-Up: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery
Author: John Banville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But...
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age
Author: Professor Stephen Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera,...
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass...
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...
The Remains of the Day
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go . In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...
The Tale of Truthwater Lake: 'Absolutely gorgeous.' Hilary McKay
Author: Emma Carroll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house... It's beautifulhere, and eerie, a lost kingdom, a...
On the Calculation of Volume II
'Fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgard 'Miraculous.' The Cut 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Di az 'Wonderful.' K Patrick 'A total explosion: a new dimension.' Nicole Krauss The second volume of the landmark European masterpiece...
A Fine Balance: The epic modern classic
Author: Rohinton Mistry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of...
On the Calculation of Volume III: 'Thrilling . . . humming with new
I have met someone who remembers. Yesterday. That is to say, I met him yesterday. But he remembers yesterday, too. He remembers that we met yesterday. Tara Selter has lived...
An Artist of the Floating World
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji...
The Bell Jar
'I was supposed to be having the time of my life.' When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she...
Lord of the Flies
A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land...
Rebel of the Sands
Author: Alwyn Hamilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This phenomenal novel is the first in a trilogy packed with shooting contests, train robberies, festivals under the stars,...
A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. Painfully honest in its...
Big Swiss: 'Incredible book. . . I couldn't put it down.' Jodie Comer
SOON TO BE A MAJOR HBO SERIES STARRING JODIE COMER 'Made me laugh and think too much (the right amount?) about sex and death and honesty.' - MONICA HEISEY 'Utterly...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
Mr Salary: Faber Stories
Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 'My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly...
Prodigal Summer: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off...
Beowulf
'The whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual...
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to...
Second Place: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.' - Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan)
In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped...
A Pale View of Hills
In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman no wliving alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide...
On the Calculation of Volume IV: 'The greatest literary work of the
Tara Selter is one of many. In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her...
A Bird in Winter: 'Nail-bitingly tense and compelling' Paula Hawkins
OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD 'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail 'A page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID 'Pacey and propulsive.' Guardian...
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch.' In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the...
The Unconsoled
Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by...
Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers , often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. Here is the darker...
Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships
A rebellious new history of female friendship and timely reclamation of the 'bad friend'. Move over idealised BFFs, glossy gal pals and indestructible work wives. Meet the bad friends. The...
The Museum of Innocence
The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive...
The Night of Baba Yaga: Kill Bill meets Thelma and Louise in this gripping Japanese cult thriller
*A Telegraph Thriller of the Year* 'The epitome of the female-led revenge thriller.' CRIME FICTION LOVER 'Enraging, funny and exciting.' THE TIMES 'A fantastically brutal gore fest, this was WILD!...
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics
Ariel , first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as...
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler: BBC R4 Book of the Week
'Pomerantsev is emerging as the pre-eminent war reporter of our time'- Observer From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten...
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and...
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Author: P. D. James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her...
How to Write One Song
Author: Jeff Tweedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR There are few artistic acts more mysterious than writing a song. But what if...
Kudos
A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night...