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Here in the After
Two damaged people, one unlikely friendship and a way to find hope in the darkness. Anna has survived the worst. So has Nat. Two broken souls, struggling to find a...
Run
'Enthralling' Observer 'A spectacular read' Sunday Express 'An award-winning writer at the top of her game' Telegraph A moving story of overlapping lives from the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel...
The Memory Stones
Buenos Aires. 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters,...
Bad Influence
When Carl moves into Ben and Olly's street, things instantly get more exciting. His games are strange, unpredictable, and thrillingly violent. But why is he so fearless? Why are they...
We Were Never Here
A Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick and set to be a major summer paperback. Your best friend killed a man. Now she needs your help. But can you really trust her...
Down to the River
When residents of small country town, Dungowan, discover that a convicted paedophile is living in their midst, there's an uproar. Local journalist Joni Miller is sent to report on the...
Nightwatch
A web of terrorism spins its way across the continents when the U.S. naval vessel Mayfield is sunk in the Strait of Hormuz, and a child has been kidnapped in...
Gilgamesh
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This is a magnificent book, a story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance. It is full of sparely depicted but fully fleshed characters and...
The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose
The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose is a brilliantly original and poignant novel for our time. Harriet Rose, like any other teenager, is naive, overconfident and has always felt she...
Not That Kind of Girl
Henrietta Tate has always taken her role as a full-time mother and home-maker very seriously. She s never had time for anything else. But now she and her family have...
Mefisto
This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how philosophical discussion can...
Guppies for Tea
Amelia Lindsey is an exceptional young woman. She shares her days between a grandmother whom she loves, a mother whom she tolerates with patient fortitude, and Gerald. They had fallen...
My Lover's Lover
A compulsive tale of betrayal and its impact upon a group of flatmates and lovers, Maggie O'Farrell's second novel does not disappoint. With the sensuality, passion and emotional acuteness which...
New Cardiff
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As a discerning reader of nineteenth-century American fiction, Englishman Colin Ware is familiar with the tradition of transcending disastrous love affairs by booking the next ocean liner to Europe. Now...
Degrees of Connection
A Scobie Malone mystery set in the world of shady financial deals and desperate dreams.
Dead and Kicking
Alby Murdoch is back in the saddle and sweating it out in the jungles of Vietnam and the bars of Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Darwin on the trail of...
Hard Yards
A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he...
Common People
In this unforgettable collection, Tony Birch introduces a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories capture common people caught up in the everyday business...
Somebody to Love
A provocative novel about love and death and the narrow line between them. Over one weekend in a small Tasmanian town, a transsexual mortician prepares three bodies for burial at...
The Bone Flute
This subtle, intelligent novel soothes as well as disturbs, like the undulating music of the flute that flows through it. This mesmerising novel draws us in to a life that...
Callender Papers
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Think carefully... Thats the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jeans guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. Its advice that proves valuable...
The Falconer
'A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence.' - Ann Patchett 'An electric debut' - New York Times 'Exhilarating' - Claire Messud 'Deeply affecting' - Salman Rushdie A new coming-of-age...
The Knives
'The knives are out for you, always. But that is the mission you accepted, David. So you have to face the knives, with fortitude. Just as we ask of the...
Life is Elsewhere
A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man's fantasies and love affairs...
Normals
Twenty-eight-year-old Harvard-educated Billy Schine finds himself suddenly without prospects - a balled-up bit of litter riding the boom of New York in the nineties. His classmates make millions on Wall...
One Night At The Call Centre
Work. Romance. Life itself .... Now everything's on the line! ix friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. They have serious issues of...
This Age We're Living In
Funny, affecting and life-affirming novel for everyone who has ever felt that sometimes life really is pants... 'Only two big facts are known for certain- you are on a large...
Another Kind of Life (TPB)
Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further North,...
People of the Silence
By A.D. 1150 the Anasazi had created an empire in the Southwest that would never again be equaled in North America. Master astronomers, traders, and architects, they built extraordinary roads...
Beachglass
Self-deprecating and bitingly smart, Delia, a recovering addict, forges her own brand of hard-won wisdom on her journey in sobriety. When Delia entered treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at...
True Light
While still in darkness, the Brannings help to start a government system in their neighbourhood, & establish a church & a school, but a new outbreak of murders threatens their...
Night Light
In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice. Will they hoard their possessions to survive-or...
The Doll
"A heroine every bit as provocative as Stieg Larssons Lisbeth Salander." - The Dallas Morning News b>They took her. Then they took her family. Now shes coming for retribution. amp;#160;...
Merciless
The latest serial-killer-thriller masterpiece from America's dark mistress of crime First you beg. Then you die . . . No Pity Each skeleton is flawless - gleaming white and perfectly...
I Served the King of England OBE/R
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Ditie, a waiter, loves money, because he is short and money makes him feel six feet tall. So he follows his star from adventure to adventure, until he becomes a...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
New to Penguin Modern Classics, Calvino's first novel Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs...
The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
Nan, in her early twenties, goes to work for the wealthy X family to help put herself through college, and is shocked by their antics. Between raising the X's son...
Making It Up
'Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed...
Crossing the Paradise Line
A holiday in the sun with your family - just what you want, or the last thing you need? For single parent Tessa, it's going to be a perfect time...