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The Henry Williamson Animal Saga: Tarka The Otter And Other Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew works of English nature writing have captured the raw, unsentimental beauty of the wild as powerfully as Henry Williamson's...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
Author: Mary TrevelyanFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling ....
Tarka the Otter
For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics In the wild there is no safety. The otter cub Tarka grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim, catch...
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)
Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Paris as it fell to the Nazis London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland...
Sakina's Kiss
From a master of contemporary Indian fiction, an expertly crafted and taut family drama, set over the course of four days. 'Extraordinary.' Geetanjali Shree 'A writer of rare and wonderful...
The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions): 'Extraordinary.' Lucy Ellmann
Author: Emily Holmes Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight. Coleman shows howwomen might write if we were free - and how murderous we'd...
The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions): 'A wonderful noir thriller and
'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish, and left me with so much to brood on that I felt giddy ... A fascinating, morally complex, deeply unsettling...
William Wordsworth
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
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...
Cahokia Jazz: From the prizewinning author of Golden Hill 'the best book of the century' Richard Osman
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the best-selling author of Golden Hill . 'Utterly immersive.' Spectator 'Thrilling.'...
A Deadly Inheritance
Two murders. One will. A family full of secrets. Detective Caius Beauchamp is dispatched to a double murder in a South London townhouse. It looks like a simple botched burglary,...
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...
The Bell Jar: The Illustrated Edition
Author: Sylvia Plath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle...
Normal People: One million copies sold
Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'THE LITERARY PHENOMENON OF THE DECADE' - Guardian NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES WHICH WILL PREMIERE IN AUSTRALIA ON STAN ON...
Orange Laughter
'Powerful.' DAILY TELEGRAPH '[Ross] is a master of detail.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A literary rollercoaster.' PEOPLE 'Chillingly real . . . unforgettable.' BOOKLIST From a singular voice: a gripping and...
Death Comes to Pemberley
Author: P. D. James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Two great literary minds-master of suspense P.D. James and literary icon Jane Austen-come together in Death Comes to Pemberley, a...
The Temporary
Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party....
The Lowlife (Faber Editions): 'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and
The day they moved in was a memorable one for me. Not because of them, for I couldn't know what they were to bring into my life, but because of...
Mistletoe Malice: 'Christmas literary comfort and joy' (Meg Mason,
A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.'Literary comfort and joy....
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings
Author: Sylvia Plath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other...
They (Faber Editions): The Lost Dystopian 'Masterpiece' (Emily St. John Mandel)
Author: Kay Dick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'I remembered how they began, a parody for the newspapers. No one wrote about them now.' The Sussex coast. Sunsets paint...
Boy Parts: From the author of PENANCE
Irina is in a rut. She obsessively takes explicit photographs of average-looking men she scouts from the streets of Newcastle while her dead-end bar job slips away; she's more interested...
Ex-Wife (Faber Editions): 'I was floored: truly brilliant.' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss)
'A forgotten classic: darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.' (Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually ). Lord, I have been...
Dear Little Corpses: 'Genius.' The Times
Author: Nicola Upson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 It takes a village to bury a child . . . 'Genius . . . A standout series.' - The Times...
Sylvia Plath's Tomato Soup Cake: Nigella Lawson: 'Absolutely ideal
Dine with beloved writers in this 'utterly charming' (Nina Stibbe) new anthology of their very own favourite recipes, introduced by Bee Wilson. Agatha Christie's hot bean salad. Jack Kerouac's green...
Maud Martha (Faber Editions): 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 What, what, am I to do with all of this life? Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on...
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...
Queen (Faber Editions): Introduced by Sarah Moss
Lose yourself in this tumultuous Swedish family saga, introduced by Sarah Moss ('a masterpiece') In these parts, they called her Queen. And she was queen of rags, of sagging mouldering...
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...
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...
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...
Rules for Perfect Murders: The 'fiendishly good' Richard and Judy Book Club pick
Author: Peter Swanson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Fiendish good fun' - ANTHONY HOROWITZ If you want to get away with murder, play by the rules... Years...
Parasol against the Axe
The new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is effortlessly unique. Get lost in 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...
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: Winner of the Baillie
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented writer of comedies and histories to become one of the greatest writers of tragedies who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year...
Beautiful World, Where Are You: from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is...
Rain
A twelve-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The days are long and hot and while the parents entertain their friends the two children...
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 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 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...
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber Stories
Author: Milan Kundera Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen...
The Republic of False Truths
Author: Alaa Al Aswany Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Glorious' Observer 'Amazing' Andre Aciman 'Masterly' Sunday Times 'Blistering' Financial Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his...