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The Temporary Gentleman
Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never...
The Secret Scripture: A BBC2 'Between the Covers' Booker Gem 2021
Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best...
The Pear Affair: 'Absolutely sparkling, enchanting storytelling.' Hilary McKay
Author: Judith Eagle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Penelope Magnificent's awful parents tell her they're taking a trip to Paris, she surprises them by begging to go along....
The Little Red Chairs
Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village,...
The Girl She Was: 'I absolutely love Alafair Burke - she's one of my favourite authors.' Karin Slaughter
Author: Alafair Burke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Hope can be a dangerous thing... 'I absolutely love Alafair Burke - she's one of my favourite authors.' - Karin Slaughter...
The Feast: The Summer Holiday Seaside Crime Classic
Author: Margaret Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny, The Feast is a feast indeed.' - Elizabeth Bowen Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Reverend Seddon is...
The Double Tongue: Introduced by Bettany Hughes
Author: William Golding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Did I believe in what I was doing? Or rather, since I was doing nothing, did I believe in what someone,...
The Death of Vivek Oji
Author: Akwaeke Emezi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find...
The Death of Francis Bacon
Author: Max Porter (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 'A little masterpiece.' - Irish Times 'Luminous.' - Observer 'One of our most exciting writers.' - The Spectator Madrid. Unfinished....
The Children of Men
Author: P. D. James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic...
The Children of Castle Rock: Costa Award-Winning Author
Author: Natasha Farrant (Literary scout) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Like many girls, Alice Mistlethwaite idolises her father, Byron. He is a hero: brave, kind and impossibly funny. It's...
The Book of Not
Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies' College of the Sacred Heart....
The Black Tower: Now a Major TV Series - Dalgliesh
Author: P. D. James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who...
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...
The Accidental Stowaway: 'A rollicking, salty, breath of fresh air.' Hilary McKay
Author: Judith Eagle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Patch runs up the gangway of steamship, The Pride and Glory, she isn't planning to hang around. But if she...
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...
Sleepless Nights
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'A series of fleeting images and memories ... united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.' - Sally Rooney...
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Author: Helen Castor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the...
Shakespeare in a Divided America
Author: James Shapiro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Excellent.' - New Statesman 'Outstanding.' - Irish Times 'Enthralling.' - Guardian 'Shapiro at his best.' - Daily Telegraph From the author...
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West
Author: Luke Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of COLLUSION 'Luke Harding is one of the best reporters...
Sex Power Money: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Sara Pascoe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'I've never read a book so fast and laughed so loudly while learning so much....
Secrets of a Sun King: 'THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION' Guardian
Author: Emma Carroll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's November, 1922. In a valley in Egypt the tomb of a long dead pharaoh is about to be discovered. The...
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...
Saving Agnes
Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her...
QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition
Author: John Lloyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 An indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. From the bestselling authors...
QI: Advanced Banter
Author: John Lloyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A compendium of wise one-liners, laugh out loud jokes, and inspirational quotes of truth and beauty, compiled by the creators of...
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The classic story of a society that controls your every move and...
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...
Mayflies: 'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton
Author: Andrew O'Hagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'An immensely engaging writer: wry and witty, and insightful.' - Sunday Times 'A vivid and meticulous writer.' - Observer Everyone has...
Lullaby: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after...
Long Way Down: 'A masterpiece.' Angie Thomas
Author: Jason Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight. Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the...
Like Punk Never Happened: New expanded edition
Author: Dave Rimmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A story of money, sex, stardom, screaming fans and forgotten ideals, Like Punk Never Happened is Dave Rimmer's witty, authoritative, fast-moving...
Light Perpetual: 'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
Author: Francis Spufford (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures...
Lean on Pete
Author: Willy Vlautin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of...
Justine: Introduced by Andre Aciman
Author: Lawrence Durrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Walking slowly home through the dark avenue of trees, tasting the brackish harbour wind, I remembered Justine saying harshly as she...
Indiana Bones
Author: Harry Heape Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Indiana Bones is a shaggy dog with a difference. He's got superpowers and can sniff out criminals and - with his...
Harsh Times
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever.' - Financial Times Guatemala,...
Girl in Landscape
Author: Jonathan Lethem Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes...
Girl
Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard...
From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
Author: Paul Morley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 'Reading From Manchester With Love I feel I understand the times we've lived through differently, better, and from new angles. The...
Flight Behaviour: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Author: Barbara Kingsolver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world...
Explorers on Witch Mountain
Author: Alex Bell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Stella Starflake Pearl is eagerly anticipating her next expedition. Suddenly disaster strikes when Stella's father, Felix, is snatched by a fearsome...
Drown
Author: Junot Diaz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Junot Diaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the...
Conversations with Friends: 'Brilliant, funny and startling.' GUARDIAN
Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From the bestselling author of Normal People, now a major TV series screening on Stan. Frances is a cool-headed and darkly...
Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery
Author: John Banville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether...
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...