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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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...

Author: Joanna KavennaFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 197mm, 234g, 288 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2008Rosa Lane is a fashionable journalist in her thirties, already the picture of a kind...

'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...

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...

1996, London. Nicola , tall and gorgeous, has re-birthed herself. She has landed a breakthrough role and her star is rising - she can feel herself blossoming, can see it...

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...

Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her...

What I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we going to be on her side?Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready...

Author: Oana Aristide Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A book of insight and foresight, lit with wit and gorgeous with intelligence', Jay Griffiths, author of Wild: An Elemental Journey...

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...

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....

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...

Do you struggle with having honest and open conversations with your child? Do you find yourself not knowing what to say when faced with a tricky topic? From homework hassles...

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,...

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,...

Both a love song to Italy and a criticism of class and patriarchy in England at the time, this young adult illustrated edition is an exquisite, tumultuous romance. 'One doesn't...

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...

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...

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...

I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read...

Author: Joanna Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A husband's redemption...a second chance at love? Nathaniel Honeywell returns from being presumed dead expecting to be welcomed home with open...

Beautifully illustrated by Alice Tye, this is a cornerstone of modernist fiction and an incisive critique of wealth, class and the inescapable heartache of lost love. In his blue gardens...

Author: John OsborneBinding: HardbackPublished: FABER AND FABER, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe book presents the screenplay for the acclaimed 1963...

Author: John CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography offers a profound examination of John Donne, one of England's most...

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....

'One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century.' - Lauren Groff 'An extraordinary, savage novel.' - Olivia Laing 'I love this novel.' - Patricia Lockwood She would...

Author: Nick StaffordFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 196mm, 78g, 96 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2004The need for love is intensified by grief. When the last guests leave Vince's wake,...

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...

The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they...

Author: Samantha Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'So much fun!' - Lilly Wachowski 'Horrifying and delightful' - Kristen Arnett Renee has made it: she's in the final four....

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A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy. Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman...

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...

'This wove a spell on me' Marian Keyes 'F***ing brilliant' Daisy May Cooper ___________Meet Gosia.She's a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy.Between shifts in a well-lit...

Showroom Sample Parenting & Childcare Bargain Book Box This collection of eighteen parenting and childcare books offers expert advice on every stage of early parenthood, from fertility and pregnancy to...