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Unnatural Causes: The classic murder mystery from the 'Queen of English crime' (Guardian)
Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing...
Death of an Expert Witness: The classic murder mystery from the 'Queen of English crime' (Guardian)
When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But...
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...
Erasure: now a major motion picture 'American Fiction'
'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books'A classic.' The Times'A remarkable novel.' Wall Street JournalWith your book sales at an all-time low, your family falling apart, and your agent telling...
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...
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,...
Uki and the Outcasts: BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
Author: Kieran Larwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'EXCELLENT,' says the bard. 'It's probably a good idea for you to know about him.' 'Wait . . . him? Who's...
Ignorance
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a...
Squishy McFluff: The Invisible Cat!
Author: Pip Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Can you see him? My kitten? Close your eyes tight His fur is so soft and all silvery white Imagine him...
Out of Egypt
Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from...
Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having...
Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life
Author: William Sieghart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity,...
Wow, No Thank You.: The #1 New York Times Bestseller
Author: Samantha Irby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days...
Leopoldstadt
Author: Tom Stoppard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Vienna in 1900 was the most vibrant city in Europe, humming with artistic and intellectual excitement and a genius for enjoying...
By Horror Haunted: 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith'
'Her Number On It' is a compelling portrait of kleptomania; the 'Unsuspected Talent' of a dissatisfied wife has dangerous consequences; and 'Don't Tell Cissie' upends our expectations of a ghost...
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...
Sojourn
Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'A mysterious, subtle, haunting novel.' - Chris Power An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a...
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...
Penance: The 'unmissable banger' ALICE SLATER from the author of BOY
A Guardian Best Book of the Year A Dazed Best Novel of 2023 'An unmissable banger.' ALICE SLATER 'A meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.' TOM BENN...
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference
Author: Dr William MacAskill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Almost all of us want to make a difference. So we volunteer, donate to charity, recycle or try to cut...
Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By
Author: David Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Mitchell is an exceptionally clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. We should be grateful for him.' - Daily Mail David Mitchell's 2014...
Winter in the Air: 'Masterpieces: hand yourself over to be enchanted.' (Guardian)
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past100 years.'...
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...
Another Day in the Death of America
Author: Gary Younge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Saturday, November 23rd, 2013. It was just another day in America; an unremarkable Saturday on which ten children and teens were...
Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
Author: Luke Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russiawas about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was...
You Goddess!: Life Lessons from Awesome Immortals
Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.' - Olivia Colman Channel the feminist...
4 3 2 1
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...
Meesh the Bad Demon
Author: Michelle Lam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Skandar and the Unicorn Thief meets Bunny vs Monkey in this joyous epic fantasy graphic novel where twelve-year-old Meesh and her...
Geneva: 'A sensational debut.' CLARE MACKINTOSH
Author: Richard Armitage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An outstanding debut - ingenious, fast-paced and unpredictable.' - HARLAN COBEN 'Geneva is one of the best thrillers I've ever read....
Boy Parts: From the author of PENANCE
FROM THE AUTHOR OF SHE'S ALWAYS HUNGRY AND PENANCE A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023 ** INCLUDES THE SHORT STORY GOTH GF ** 'Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp.' JESSICA...
Fight Night: 'A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering'
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD'Go Grandma Elvira!' - Margaret Atwood'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' - The New Yorker'Glorious.' - Sarah MossYou are a small thing, and you...
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...
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
Author: Michael Broers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkable man to...
The Owl and the Nightingale
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY 'It is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in...
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
Author: Katherine Rundell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford...
Sasha and the Wolf
Author: Ann Jungman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Long ago and far away, on the great snow-covered steppe of Russia . . . Sasha and his family are excited...
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
Author: Hugh Brody Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory...
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...
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at...
Meanwhile in Dopamine City: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020
Author: DBC Pierre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF VERNON GOD LITTLE 'Pierre's high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of...
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...
Woody Guthrie: A Life: 'A really great book.' Bruce Springsteen
Author: Joe Klein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A really great book.' - Bruce Springsteen With a foreword by Billy Bragg. Few artists have captured the American experience of...
Lord of the Flies: adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams
William Golding's first novel is a modern classic. 'Golding knows exactly what boys are like; he has a compelling imagination; and the vivid realism with which he describes the disintegration...
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,...
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...
Property: The myth that built the world
Author: Rowan Moore (Architecture Critic) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also...
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Life Murder Mystery from the Birth of the Movies
Author: Paul Fischer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid . . . has fascinated cineastes for years.' - Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times'Illuminating and...
Indiana Bones and the Invisible City
Author: Harry Heape Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Dive into the deep and join Indiana and Aisha in their twistiest adventure yet!As the slithery Serpent reveals his plan to...