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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...
Slowness
Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by...
The Joke: 'A very beautiful novel.' (Salman Rushdie)
The Joke , Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely...
The Great Philosophers
The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and in chronological order the best from our hugely successful series: Anthony Gottlieb on Socrates; Bernard Williams on Plato; John Cottingham on...
Tongueless
'Tongueless is a slow-burn social horror that deftly captures the way human cruelty always returns to destroy its originator.' Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are KindWai and Ling...
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of...
The Fire Within Them
Set in a world of ancient myth and dangerous magic, The Fire Within Them continues a heart-pounding adventure where a thief dares to seek vengeance - and finds herself on...
A Natural Curiosity
January 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London to Yorkshire. There, she regularly visits a mass-murderer in a high-security prison. But has her natural curiosity in his motives and...
Aliens: Science Asks: Is There Anyone Out There?
The ALIENS invasion is coming ...It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of humans: do aliens exist? If they did, what would they look like?...
Jellicle Cats
Author: T. S. EliotFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 250mm, 198g, 32 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2017Jellicle Cats come one and all. Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.Join the Jellicle...
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the First World War poets
Author: Rupert Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever...
The Bone Shard War: The epic conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling Drowning Empire series
Author: Andrea Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 ***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time...This book is truly special'...
Every Day is for the Thief
Author: Teju Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. Like him, his childhood country has grown up quickly:...
Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas
Author: Emily Gowers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 488 The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and culture An unelected...
Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think
Author: Helen De Cruz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world Wonder and awe lie at the...
The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea
Author: David N. LivingstoneFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 552 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity.Scientists, journalists, and...
The Afterlife of Mal Caldera
Author: Nadi Reed Perez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Mal's life is over. Her afterlife is only just beginning... By turns irreverently funny and deeply moving, this debut contemporary...
ABC Origami: Learn Your Alphabet and Numbers Through Origami! (80 Cute & Easy Paper Models!)
Author: Naoko Ishibashi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Age range 5 to 8 Learn your letters and numbers by folding cute paper origami models! Naoko Ishibashi is Japan's #1...
Hello Korean Volume 1: A Language Study Guide for K-Pop and K-Drama Fans with Online Audio Recordings by K-Drama Star Lee Joon-gi!: Volume 1
Author: Jiyoung Park Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 K-Drama Star teams up with Language Learning Experts to bring you this all-in-one guide for beginners who want to learn Korean...
Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future
Author: Stephen Porder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of...
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
Author: Verity Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A humanist manifesto for the age of AI. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's...
Whites Can Dance Too
Author: Kalaf Epalanga Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 It took being caught at a border without proper documents for me to realise I'd always been a prisoner of sorts....
Freedom Song
Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a...
A New World
Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young...
Golden Child: Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019
Author: Claire Adam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARD It's dark now; the bats are...
Elsewhere: 'Wonderful writing' Sarah Hall
Author: Yan Ge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Full of depth. . . wonderful writing.' - SARAH HALL 'Dazzlingly good. . . crackling with playfulness and intelligence.' - DANIELLE...
Weasels in the Attic
Author: Hiroko Oyamada Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss...
On Canaan's Side
Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.' Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side...
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...
Night Waking
Author: Sarah Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Anna hasn't slept in months. Stranded on a Hebridean island with two smallchildren, she struggles to write or think without a...
Jerusalem the Golden
Author: Margaret Drabble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and...
The Ikessar Falcon: Chronicles of the Wolf Queen: Book Two
Author: K. S. Villoso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The Bitch Queen returns in The Ikessar Falcon, the action-packed sequel to K. S. Villoso's acclaimed fantasy debut, The Wolf...
The Sapphire Altar
Author: David Dalglish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 ?Cyrus wants out. Trained to be an assassin in order to oust the invading Empire from his kingdom, Cyrus is now...
A Land More Kind Than Home: 'Southern gothic at its finest.' John Grisham
Author: Wiley Cash Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger and a New York Times Notable Book, 2012 They said Pastor Chamblis...
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. #1 New York Times bestseller \"This brilliant book will...
Spies of the Balkans
Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the back rooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the...
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
Author: David Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What's wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in...
Ender's Game: Book 1 of the Ender Saga
Author: Orson Scott Card Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ender Wiggin is Battle School's latest recruit. His teachers reckon he could become a great leader. And they need one....