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In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...

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...

A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night...

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'Look Caithleen, will you give up the nonsense? We're eighteen and we're bored to death.' Baba lit a cigarette and puffed vigorously. She went on 'We want to live. Drink...

Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station...

'Haunting.' Nylon'Riveting.' Elle'Brilliant.' Sophie Mackintosh'Glittering.' Marie Claire'Enthralling.' New York Times'Manages to bottle up that chaotic and messy feeling of girlhood.' StylistHuddled at a bedroom window, a group of teenagers peer...

'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...

Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is...

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...

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....

Author: Peter Swanson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Hello there.' I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to...

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...

Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc. On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two...

Author: Chris Power Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller.' - Sunday Times 'Gripping.' - Financial Times 'A delicate snare of a novel . Alluring...

Author: Rosamund Young Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' - James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life Cows...

The dramatic narrative account of the 1938 Munich appeasement conference, in which Britain agreed to Adolf Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland in return for his promise never to go to...

In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the...

Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is...

'The whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual...

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...

Author: Lucas RijneveldFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 288 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2020*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020*'One of the best debut novels I have ever...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. ex-library In this definitive account of a...

Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would...

Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Laughter has long been the secret weapon of English poetry,...

David Lan evokes a unique theatre of life. Sometimes hilarious, always deeply felt we travel with him to Peter Brook's Paris, to Chekhov's Yalta, to Lithuania in search of his...

A literary jeu d'esprit, a modern-day Tristram Shandy, a hilarious satire on false scholarship, Wilson is David Mamet at his best and most mischievous. When the internet - and the...

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Author: David Stubbs (Associate Editor) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 They don't make comedy like they used to . . .From the slapstick comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Stan...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Anna Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of...

This illustrated young adult edition of a bold novel is one of defiance and bravery. As beautifully crafted as it is heartwrenching, this love story transcends time and generations. People...

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....

A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his...

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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...

Richard Scarry's classic book that takes readers all around town!Join Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, and other beloved characters for a day in Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town. Visit the school,...

Author: David Stubbs (Associate Editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 West Germany after the Second World War was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of the 2023 Women's Prize for FictionTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORAN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK'Extraordinary.' - OPRAH'Electrifying. . . Every sentence here...